I just can’t stay awake for raids anymore. Pregnancy is tiring. Also, the PVP class balance is still off, and without resilience gear at level 80, you’re just bursting each other down. I’m all for smack downs, but where’s the skill in that? You don’t even have time to turn people into sheep. (Or, since the patch, into penguins or pigs.)
It’s a great game, a nice cost-saver (when you’re flying around a virtual world grinding reputation for a shiny new enchant, you don’t spend much on real life entertainment), and a great diet plan (hard to eat pizza when your hands are busy strafing and shooting frostfire bolts), and I’ll probably be back. But for now, I’m enjoying having my evenings to myself.
All this free time has led to new hobbies. Jon has purchased a Nikon D40 (I’m sure he’ll be talking all about it on his blog) soon. I’ve started learning a programming language that will facilitate my world takeover. I’m waiting until I come across a script with a command that creates minions. I swear it’s out there, I just have to find it. But anyway, more on my new hobby later.
We had another photo shoot with the baby. He’s just shy of 6 months old, and the pictures were a lot more satisfying than the ones from our last trip. In fact, he’s so much more interesting that I’m thinking of installing a webcam in my uterus.
The scary thing is, someone on Youtube has probably done this.
Anyway, this time we could see his profile and his facial features. Also, he had fingers. And, when the doctor told us that it was a boy, we didn’t have to just smile and nod, we could actually tell this was the case.
While we were watching him, he turned his face towards the camera and opened and closed his mouth repeatedly in a clear “om nom nom!”
I suspect he’s telling us to get the cheeseburgers ready – he’s on his way and he’s already hungry.
Best news of all – he’s at the right growth for his age, and he has all those important parts, like a brain and a heart and a liver.
I swear he was also waving around a little scepter, in preparation for his world takeover, but the doctor claimed that it was just his femur.
Well, doctor, we will just have to agree to disagree.
I’ve been working on a couple big projects this week. Unfortunately, every time I started working on one, a bunch of small tasks would crop up and need to be addressed. You know how it is. Nothing unmanageable, just enough to keep my hands out of their regular mischief.
Anyway, I like to keep logs of everything in a text file, something I’ve picked up from a clever coworker in Tech Systems, Dave. But this week, I’ve been too busy to keep up with my usual organizational methods.
As a result, I was looking for a place to stick a post-it note with a reminder written on it when I noticed that the baby makes a pretty decent shelf. The aforementioned Dave caught me walking by and snapped a picture, which I’ve posted for your amusement.
Tomorrow should be easier – I’ve caught up, to a degree, and while I do have two interruptions to my day tomorrow, they are good ones. We’re doing another photo shoot with the Spawn (our third ultrasound) and then in the afternoon, we’re having a company event which largely consists on us eating burritos.
To explain – I don’t ever get any real phone calls at work (I’ve trained the world well), but last week someone freaked out our office administrator by calling our company and asking for me.
Turns out, it was a woman named Mary who wanted to give me 10 burritos from Chipotle. Apparently, if you drop your business card in their fishbowl, they really do call you and try to feed you.
The baby is already pretty darn excited about this. He likes burritos, or, you know, food in any form. Should I get back from my appointment in time to take a picture of that beautiful mound of burrito goodness, I will certainly post it tomorrow.
If you haven’t seen these series, check them out. They are original, quirky and fun. If you like them, thank Jon for introducing them to me in the first place. If you don’t, please don’t take it out on Jon by egging his house, because I live there, too.
Stella
Originally a live comedy act with 3 guys in suits. We made lights in their honor, and hung them up in our hallway. Sometimes we leave one of them off to encourage in-fighting.
Doogie Howser, MD trying to take over the world. There is no need for any other incentive to watch this. For further nerd joy, Felicia Day (The Guild) and Nathan Fillion (Firefly) co-star.
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On Friday, Jon, Kate & I went to a sundae smorgasbord. It was a beautiful thing. Although I don’t recommend indulging every weekend, once in awhile you should definitely throw all moderation aside and just gorge on something awesome.
This is a bowl of chocolate with hot fudge and whipped cream and candy and more chocolate on top. Also, sprinkles. Possibly there is some melted butterscotch in there as well.
In the words of Jon Heller, I don’t really remember, I was in an ice cream topping fugue.
The ice cream itself was important, so I could claim I ate it for the calcium value. The baby (who is reported to be the size of a small bag of sugar) needs more calcium lately.
We were in the same building as a candy store, so I got my parents some candy (they deserve it – after all, these are the people who had to teach me how to drive) and I picked up a bag for myself as well.
Unfortunately, I have just consumed more than a reasonable share of jelly beans and may shortly expire. Lesson learned: Buddhism works for candy, but may be deviated from in regards to ice cream smorgasbords.
