Day: September 5, 2007

Categories
...And Little E Makes 3

Baby news

Okay, after Jan spent a night not sleeping because her blood pressure was all over the map, she went to the doctor this morning. Here’s the game plan:

1. Have a baby.
2. ???
3. Profit!

No, seriously, if we don’t have a baby on the ground by Monday (on the ground? okay, that’s proof right there that I’ve spent way too much time with baby horses and not enough with baby humans), then Thursday of next week will be scheduled for induction, and I only wish that meant “into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame”. We had been aiming for natural childbirth, no C-sections, etc. etc., but if I’ve learned anything, it seems to be that even attempting to aim for these things almost guarantees that they’ll never, ever happen.

So there you have it. Sometime in the next eight days, I’m going to be a daddy. Oh, and we’ll open that whole seventh seal thing around that time too. Just FYI. It’ll be a busy day.… Read more

Categories
Toiling In The Pixel Mines

Gagging on Cox

(Sorry for the post title, I couldn’t resist.)

So here we go again – the old 40/29 vs. Cox Cable feud is coming to a head. Of course I’m rooting for my 40/29 homies, or ex-homies as the case may be, but at the same time, from the responses already posted on the unusually subdued Arkansas TV News Blog (by five responses, it’s normally a lot nastier and bitchier than that – seriously, these people waste no time, well, relatively speaking, since most of them read and respond to that blog while on the clock, but anyway…), you can already see the logic that you know has to be running through the minds of most viewers who are aware of the problem: “oh well, we’ll just watch KTUL out of Tulsa.” Bit of a double-edged sword there, that Tulsa feed. (From my understanding, the reason the KTUL feed has never been syndexed – i.e. blacked out for syndication exclusivity – is because the feed from the National Weather Service in Tulsa comes in on an audio subchannel from that feed. Whether or not that’s accurate is another matter entirely.) I’ve been known to switch over to KTUL myself on such occasions as Lost being pre-empted by an Arkansas basketball game that I wasn’t particularly interested in. You can bet that others have done the same too. Question is – how much hardball can the station really play when the end result would be everyone just shrugging and changing channels?

Good luck with that, guys. For what it’s worth, it reminds me of one time, back at our rental house, when Cox called repeatedly, insisting that we were behind on payments (we actually weren’t). My wife handed me the portable phone and said “Guess who’s calling again? It’s Cox.”

“No dear,” I replied, “it’s pricks.”… Read more

Categories
Music

Who says men can’t have odd cravings during pregnancy?

Case in point – my strange cravings tonight consisted of “Fire!” by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, and “Humans Being” by Van Halen (preferably the version from the movie Twister that has that huge kick-ass orchestral intro on it). It’s an odd double case of Mystery Melody Malady. Consider it the musical equivalent of a midnight run for rocky road ice cream and pickles. I must have them.

Apologies to any and all concerned for the lack of replies to voice mail, e-mail, snail mail, grail mail (holy…) and flail mail (hey, kinky). To say that the amount of sleep I get in every night, and my mental acuity, are dwindling would be a vast understatement. Any reply from me right now is likely to be “I like mittens” or “stand back, or I shall ignite homo sapiens!” or “Doctor Chandra, will I dream?” – i.e. incoherent, and only if you’re lucky will it even be relevant.

And keep in mind, this is before the baby gets here. Shine on! Shine on! :mrgreen: I know, I know, probably oughtta stop blogging before I start to sound completely ludicr…oh. Never mind.… Read more