Ever since I was an embryo waiting to shape up and ship out…

I want to thank Ludacris for the awesome post title.

Erica and I heard Wiggler’s heartbeat on Monday. That was pretty cool. It’s [Wiggler] is about 5 inches long now and making itself noticeable. This weekend, we’re painting the room that will house said Wiggler when it arrives. Erica has some crazy plans for the paint and then attaching stuff to the wall. We also have the crib in, it got delivered the other day; once the paint is dry, that is getting assembled.

I am on the third Harry Potter book. It’s good stuff. Erica finished the last book in a total of 14 hours.

Hopefully I can start working on my novel sometime.

I also got to drive a gator (upscaled golf cart with 4 wheel drive) around at Erica’s service sorority thing last night. That was exciting and have completed that goal; I have always wanted to drive one.

The Merge

So today I learned about the merge going into a guns only dog fight from a former F-14 radar intercept officer (RIO). It was an interesting conversation and I picked up some good tips, especially since his last 3 years in the Navy were teaching new pilots air combat maneuvering (ACM). I now have the urge to play lots of Flanker tonight just to fly around.

Last night was the most amazing thunderstorm in a while out here and then restarted itself this morning. Thought about going to get pictures, but I didn’t want to subject the camera to sheets of rain.

I started Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the attempt to read all the books since I have run out of reading material. I’m about halfway done with the book and that only took about 3 hours. Definitely a fast read.

Dinner is probably done, so I’m out.

This is not Nam, there are rules…

I forgot to count mullets yesterday at Farmers’ Day. I am dissapointed in myself, but it happens. I took the Pentax with the intention of getting lots of pictures since I realized I put in a roll that has 36 exposures. I got one of the parade, as the honor guard walked by. The interesting thing they had this year was the Stihl lumberjack competition. I got two pictures of a guy making a stool and then 3 of the log rolling. Some lame person moved into a shot on one of the log rolling pictures, so there is going to be a brown blur in the foreground. These pictures will suck because I didn’t get close to avoid the crowd. I got two pictures of the railroad track that goes on for miles in a straight line. Those should be cool.

In all, Farmers’ Day was a good time. Hung out with Erica’s cousins and got them excited for the America’s Cup race, which wasn’t on the television. That upset me and got me thinking that the race is over; I need to figure out who won.

Eat, Shoots & Leaves is a good book. Definitely talks more about British grammar and punctuation, but most of it can be applied to us in the US. I have now moved on to The Basic Book of Photography: The Classic Guide in hopes of learning some secrets to photography that Erica picked up in the class she took. I should read the Harry Potter series.

The garage door broke last night with a loud bang. We had no clue what happened, so we wandered around the inside and outside of the house looking for things out of place. Erica is smart, so she tries the garage door from the outside and sure enough, it goes up 8 inches. Need to figure out the spring tension for the current garage door, so I can replace them, or get a new garage door opener system. Home Depot allows one to get springs, whereas Lowe’s doesn’t.

Just when I thought I couldn’t get iTunes working again, I do a software update on the Mac and there are new downloads for QuickTime and iTunes. Maybe the program will work again!

I really enjoy the Soundscapes music channel; it is nice and soothing.

Restart required!