Born 2/1/2010, 7lbs 12 oz. I'll make a more detailed post once we finally get home. We had to stay a bit longer in hospital due to some post-birth blood loss from Naomi (She's much better now) but here is a little pic of our lovely daughter swaddled in my shemagh. :)


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Serious contractions started at 2am. At hospital now. Still in labor. Will update more when I can. So far so good!

I'm alive! I swear! Naomi just hit 39 weeks so it could be any time now :) I will defenitely keep an update here as well as my Facebook account :) Wish us luck! Thundercats are almost go!

So, after more than a month off from working out, I went to the gym for a bit today. I knew it was waiting to welcome me back with a kick in the ass, but man, it warmed the boot. I feel like all the progress I made strength wise is gone. Stamina was ok, though my knee was bitching at me about 30 minutes into my running. I knew I was being bad, but ( Read more... )

Kij won her WFC award!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! We'll be celebrating tonight! Parades and drinks!

This is what work feels like some mornings:


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It was one year ago today that I married my lovely wife, and three years ago today she swept through my door. In that time we have never spent a night apart and each morning has been better than the one before. I love her so dearly and could not have imagined being so lucky to have had her come into my life. I love you Naomi :)


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So I finally got around to getting another tattoo. Since my last one...15 years ago *cough* I hadn't done more because of taiko. Upon getting back around to it the place I wanted to go back to had closed (Erno Tattoo in SF) so I asked around. 2wanda has a friend who is an artist by the name of Mez Love. She's in Denver currently so she recommended Brian ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Still alive. Been busy and I usually lame out and just blurb to Facebook (I know point and laugh) these days. Things are still rolling along on this end of the world. Naomi is at 21 weeks so we're on the countdown rather than the count up part of the pregnancy. It's all wonderfully exciting and I'm finally having the nervous stomach ( Read more... )

A friend who works at the CDC posted about how Westboro's travelling looney roadshow was protesting outside the other day because the CDC is pro-homosexuality. Apparently making a statement that circumcised persons are less likely to contract HIV. She explained as follows:

The connection (Westboro is a church) seems to be related to the MMWR ( Read more... )