September 6, 2008: Tropical Storm Hanna Comes to Newark

76 Days to Baby Day! (29 Weeks and One Day Pregnant) I left work around a quarter after seven last night.  It had cooled down a bit but was still very humid.  The tropical storm is pushing up in our direction pushing water laden air in front of it.  Tomorrow is going to be very …

September 5, 2008: Rochester IHOP is Famous

77 Days to Baby Day! (29 Weeks Pregnant) In today’s XKCD, one of the most important comics on the web and a staple of Internet culture, makes mention of the Rochester IHOP where Dominica and I have eaten many times!  Very cool.  I feel that much more connected to XKCD now. I discovered today that …

September 4, 2008: Maebiewahnapoopie

78 Days to Baby Day! (28 Weeks and 6 Days Pregnant) We are now under six weeks, just over a month, until the proposed closing date on the house in Peekskill!  The bank’s appraisal is scheduled for today.  I hope that that means that we will have a definite yay or nay by tomorrow.  We …

September 3, 2008: Learning About Trains

79 Days to Baby Day! (28 Weeks and 5 Days Pregnant) I looked in on my Wikipedia entry on Blam (meaning “Comment Spam”) which is a term that I coined and added to Wikipedia many years ago in the hopes of it becoming a standard term.  My definition remains the top definition for the word …

September 2, 2008: Starting My Fall Class at RIT

80 Days to Baby Day! (28 Weeks and 4 Days Pregnant) Boy were we all tired this morning.  Dominica got up at six and called into work.  There was no way that she, being over 28 1/2 weeks pregnant, was going to be able to go into work on that little sleep – even having …