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A while back, I took my car into the dealer for service. Since Carolyn gave her car back to her parents, we have just the one vehicle. I dropped her off at work, then dropped the car off at the dealer. I had to use the courtesy shuttle to get back home. I told the driver where I lived, and off we went. Soon, he turned off of the route that I expected him to take.

About a month ago, I misplaced my pocket knife. Were I still living under my dad’s roof, this would have been cause for great concern. “A man without his pocketknife is a man without his pants,” he would say. But I wasn’t too worried. I was pretty sure it was still in the house, I also carry a leatherman tool on my belt, and I have a backup pocketknife. I found that I didn’t carry the backup pocketknife though because it was too heavy; Too much weight bouncing around in my pocket.

We’re putting together a birth notebook to take with us to the delivery room filled with things from the practical (contact numbers, insurance information) to the baby-specific (birth plan, notes from Bradley class) to the relaxing (to help Carolyn through the experience without medication.) One of the things Carolyn picked out for me to potentially read to her were some passages from the Tao Te Ching. She picked a couple of my favorites.

My current favorite mixed drink is the Irish Monk — at least the recipe found in the “Ultimate Bartender’s Guide”. It’s a simple drink, which is part of why I like it. Easy to mix means less time screwing around, and more time drinking. 2 oz. Jameson Irish Whiskey 2 oz. Frangelico Pour Whiskey and Frangelico into glass filled with ice. Stir. It goes down smooth with the Frangelico cutting the whiskey and giving its own nutty flavor to the drink.

For reasons that I won’t go into here (If you’re lucky, maybe I’ll tell you later. If you’re really lucky, maybe you can guess.) I Googled on “PBF NSFW”. (OK, Actually, I A9’ed. I like saving money at Amazon). Anyway, the first link was just PBF archive. I went. I saw that “PBF” stood for “Perry Bible Fellowship”, and I stopped right there. After all, I had just done a Google (and yes, this time I mean Google) blogsearch on Altoona, and found the top entry was the Altoona First Southern Baptist Church Men’s Ministry Blog.

I’m quite accustomed to “Nigerian Scam Letters” I’ve been getting them for a long time. I’ve even played with the idea of taking the bait and toying with the scammers a-la those at 419 eaters. But in wasting their time, I’d also be wasting my own. Today, however, I received a variant of the letter appealing to my desire to help Katrina victims: From: graham Beale <grabeale66 @bembang.com> Reply-To: grabeal31@yahoo.

Gallery 2.0 was released yesterday. At least, I got mail about it at 11:04 PM yesterday. Generally, I’m not a “dot-oh” person. I’m a pretty strong believer in letting others live on the bleeding edge. And while Gallery 2.0, is certainly a “dot-oh”, I suspect it’s pretty well tested having been in design and development for 3 years through through 4 alpha releases, 4 beta releases and 2 release candidates. So, I’ve created gallery2.

Reviewing links on Choicy White Boy, I noticed that there’s a link to the blog of the Author of the WordPress Theme I’m using (journalized-winter). I checked it out, and saw that he had a “nerd score” of 92. Pretty nerdy, I thought. So, I took the quiz. I should learn not to take quizes. In other online quizes, I learned that I was a satanist, who my “inner rock star” was (Chris Isaac?

Now that Carolyn’s 36 weeks pregnant, we get to go to the OB/GYN twice a week. Today was “just” a non-stress test – almost a half hour, and an office visit. The office visit was interesting in that we met the doctor for the first time. Up until now, we’ve only been seeing the midwives. Dr. Littlejohn was an interesting character. We learned that he is a HAM radio enthusiast and that he went war-driving around Altoona with his son, finding hundreds of open wireless networks.

My Dad was recognized by the Raleigh News and Observer as their Tar Heel of the Week this week. From the article, I enjoyed the quotes most because I can really hear his voice in some of those phrases. Things like “You enter into a whole new concept by going back to what used to be.” I assure you his hands were parallel and up by his head as he was saying that.