We have decided on a name for this little-one. Here are her first “photos” taken since the decision has been made. It is amazing to watch her development occur. The 3d images at the bottom are specectacular in the detail they provide…and just think, she is just over 1.5 pounds at this point. Enjoy.
It’s A GIRL!
When I asked the Doc if we could FINALLY find out what the sex was, this is her response ”Either you should contact Guinesses book of world records for the worlds smallest boy parts or it’s a girl”.
Now knowing my parts, there is still a remote possibility that we’ll be making that call, but we are assuming the latter. LOL
See if you are any better about determining what your looking at in this Ultrasound below than I was. I needed an explanation from the Doc, so I’ve provided that in the second pic. I don’t know how they do it…I suppose it’s experience.
It is OK to announce the BIG news now. Barb and I decided to wait until after the first trimester to announce publicly. We told our parents at Christmas but have waited till now to tell the world. So if you are reading this and are surprised…you probably know me and have heard me say more than once Barbara and I aren’t going to have children. WELL as you can see things change. We did in fact plan this…we didn’t have to wait long once we started “trying”…I suppose that’s from all the previous years of practice.
Enjoy the ultrasound pics…I’ll keep you posted!
Until today, my appreciation for airbag technology was merely hypothetical. Now however it is firmly planted in first hand experience. First things first, everyone is ok to include the other driver that insists the accident was my fault. We’ll get to that later.
So…there I was (that was for you CSM Thompson) on my couch getting ready to watch my first Redskins game in a couple of weeks, I thank the National Guard for keeping my weekends occupied, and I’m pretty excited about the prospect of being a couch potato when my wife gives me a call.
So you know, Barbara has been out of town all weekend and is due back home this afternoon. She left Friday night after work to participate in an organized shopping trip in Atlanta with my sister, who lives in Tennessee.
She informs me she is at a gas station near an exit off of Interstate 75 about 30 miles south of Lexington (2 hours from home) and she believes she needs a tow truck. After a brief discussion, I concur. It appears her clutch has gone out and she can’t get the transmission into ANY gear. I do my best to instill a sense of calm and control. I tell her…give me a few minutes; I’ll get a hold of a towing company and be on my way to get you. After a few phone calls to arrange for her car to be policed up I head out.
I stop and top off my car with fuel (go figure) and I start towards the interstate. I get about 5 miles down the road and a car makes a left turn in front of me. Maybe I didn’t say that loud enough. I said…a car turns left RIGHT in front of me. Squealing breaks, a loud crash, bent metal, broken glass and plastic ensued. My car went airborne, when it came down it was on its side. It slid into a telephone pole and junction box as it came to rest. What a mess.
I pulled myself out of the car by climbing out the driver side door. That was a little tricky given the telephone pole and lines leaning against it, but thankfully a man came by to help. He held the wires out of the way while I pushed the door straight into the air.
The first call I made was to Barbara to inform her I wasn’t going to be able to come get her. She surprisingly (he says facetiously) wasn’t too concerned about herself, but more so the state of my car (again facetiously stated). No really she was great…she said she would find a way home, and indeed my industrious little lady did. The tow truck driver drove her to the airport in Lexington were she was able to rent a car. She has since made it home and I was brought home by the sheriffs department.
Back to the other driver. She said “I never saw you”. I said “I know, otherwise you wouldn’t have made a left turn in front of me.”. She asked me I can’t tell you how many times “Why did you hit me?”. My only response was, “Because you made a left turn right in front of me. I tried avoid you by slamming on my breaks and veering left, but you kept turning. There was nothing I could do to avoid it.” Apparently she told the sherrif it was my fault and I should have not ran into her. Needless to say, the cops assign fault to her. I had the right-of-way and she failed to yield. We’ll see what the insurance has to say once the police report is finished on Tuesday. I’ll keep you posted.
Take a look at these pictures.
It looks like the house in PA is sold. We accepted a very good offer this weekend and are hopeful the inspections scheduled for next week go well.
One inspection is radon for example. I have never had the house tested…lets hope it’s fine. I would hate to find out now that first; we lived in an “Unsafe” house for the past year and a half and second; I need to dump a bunch of money in the property to “Mitigate” the effect of high radon readings.
I’ll announce some more good news while I’m at it….
Barbara had an interview for a job last Friday and received an offer for the position on Tuesday. She should start work on July 1st, she would start sooner but has a trip to Maryland already scheduled to see my little brother, his wife and their new baby (first grandchild) between now and then.
The new parents are flying in from Germany and the whole family (minus me) is converging on my parents house to get a first glimpse. I wish I could attend, but new job….no vacation. IT SUCKS I have to miss this. I so badly want to go.
More later.
Quack
Well….the deed is done. Barbara and I are officially new home owners (again). Now we are soooo poor it isn’t even funny. Lets hope the house in Pennsylvania sells quickly. The weight of two mortgages will be heavy. Not too heavy we can’t carry the weight, but heavy enough the trips to the movies will have to be put on hold for awhile.
We love the house and are excited that this move back to Kentucky is going really smooth. Things are falling in place nicely. The movers arrive Saturday morning with our stuff…that should be fun (not), but better them than me. I expect the first piece of furniture off the truck will be a sofa…I will need something comfortable to supervise from.
Until then, we plan on staying where we have the necessities, a bed and broadband (corporate apartment). Don’t get me wrong, we coordinated for these necessities in the new house too. Broadband is being turned on tomorrow morning…can’t even think of going without that!
Enough for now…
We need to take a trip out to OUR house and drop off a load of crap from the apartment.
Quack
All subscribers –
I am sure you are wondering why you are getting what seems to be duplicate rss updates from my feed. Well…I moved my blog from one blogging tool to another. It was a little tedious, but I moved what I perceived to be the important or good entries. This tool is much easier to use and customize. I recommend WordPress over the other tool (unnamed on purpose). I am sure there are plenty of folks using the other one and are quite happy with it, and I am not trying to invite comments about who thinks what is better and why. If you feel the need to tell me what you use and why you think it is GREAT, then please do so. I am open to suggestions. My parents taught me (probably the same lesson you learned) long ago, “How do you know you don’t like it if you don’t try it”. Well I tried it. I didn’t like it. Enough said.
Again,
Apologies for the spam.
Quack
I know I haven’t posted in awhile, but if you know my situation, I think you’ll understand.
I have been in a state of transition. I quit my job with the toothpaste company in New Jersey and started a new job in Louisville, KY. I have been staying in temp housing since the 25th of March and was without a personal machine at the apartment until my wife came down for a visit on the 18th of April. We have been very busy in the last month or so. To say the least!
Some of the events that have taken up my time: traveling back and forth to New Jersey for visits, filling weekends with house hunting and National Guard training. In all of that, we found a house. I took some time to plot out the map to the house so I can refer people to one spot (here) for Ky Home and a Google Map for directions.
I hope you enjoy and look forward to seeing you all this summer at the house warming party!
Quack
end of one chapter
Well, I suppose all things must come to an end. Good, bad or indifferent! I certainly have learned a lot while working with some really good people at this diverse and robust company. The knowledge shared and experience gained will undoubtedly prove invaluable. Thanks so much to the other pieces of the “Fab four”(not a self assigned label), in no certain order: Phil Young, Ed Herrmann and dan mcweeney…you guys rock.
beginning of another
Louisville here I come! Some old colleagues from days gone by and some new friends I have yet to meet. I look forward to some really good times of collaboration and technological WOW moments. Let’s NOT stop short of amazing.
Quack
