Brady, Evan, _________!!! Come up for dinner!!!

Listen,

The baby is due in less than 2 weeks… yes, less than 2 weeks.  If I were hand-writing this blog post, you would see how badly my hands are shaking right now.  I am nearly in full panic mode… maybe about 85% of capacity.

Let's go through my list of things to get done before the baby is born:

- Trade in the X-terra (and my soul) for a  minivan…check*

- Move easy-E into Brady's room…check

- Buy a new carseat…check

- Get baby clothes and stuff out of storage…check (Hana did most of this)

- Figure out the work situation…check

- Decide on a name for the baby… … … …D'oh!

What to name him… that is a tough one.  Brady's name was decided on within an hour of the ultrasound when we found out we were having a boy.  Evan took a little longer, but I'm pretty sure we knew at least 2 or 3 months before he arrived.  This child, this poor nameless child…

Hana and I have been going back and forth and side to side and up and down on names for this baby.  We've scoured the interweb, read dozens of baby name books (well, Hana has anyway).  We've had it narrowed down to 2 names at least 10 times, but without fail, one of us decides to veto one or both names and we start all over.  I am getting desperate…I am open to suggestions, but don't want anything stupid or lame, so go ahead and share your thoughts.  Who knows, if we end up using your idea, you could maybe even win a prize**.

 

* I am actually quite surprised how much I like our minivan.  I have been meaning to write more about it, but have not yet.  For all you guys (and ladies) out there who hate the idea of a minivan let me tell you, I love it.  I am not ashamed to say it, I love my minivan.  Never thought you'd hear that come out of me did you!?!

 

**Prize limited to the change I have in my pocket or the value of the empty soda cans sitting on my desk at work if you were to take them to be recycled, whichever is more.  I do drink a lot of soda and I am lazy about crushing the cans, so they tend to pile up.  This could be a real money making opportunity for you.

 

 

Diet Mountain Dew

Listen,
So I was just about ready to go to bed tonight when I decided to add up how many ounces of Diet Mountain Dew I drank today.  For the rest of this post, I will refer to Diet Mountain Dew as DMD.  I do not usually call DMD "DMD," but I am now for the sake of saving precious energy on keystrokes.  Though now that I think about it, I probably will spend more keystrokes and energy explaining this than if I had just typed out "Diet Mountain Dew" several more times.  So, here is my list:
8:30 am: I had a 44 ounce fountain DMD from the gas station near where I work. 
11:30 am: I drank one 12 ounce can of DMD.  I had finished off my first DMD and I had a Coke Zero after that, so I was back to the DMD at 11:30.
1:30 pm:  I drank 1 can of DMD
6:00 pm: I drank a glass of milk with dinner, but had a can of DMD for dessert

8:30 pm: I played ward softball tonight from 7 pm until 8:23pm.  Hana was nice enough to buy me a 52 ounce Diet Coke at the gas station near the softball field which I drank during the game (the Diet Coke, not the softball field).  When I got home, I filled up my cup with 2 cans of DMD and drank them as well.  It was hot outside.  In case you were wondering we won 22 to 10.

It is now officially Wednesday, so I can tally my fluid ounces of DMD:
44+12+12+12+24=104.  Not too bad eh?

For those of you keeping track at home, I used 262 keystrokes to right out my explanation of using DMD instead of just writing out Diet Mountain Dew.  I am not sure if when you capitalize a letter it counts as one or 5 two keystrokes, but for the sake of this blog, I am only counting it as one.  "Diet Mountain Dew" takes 17 key strokes (as I count them) without the quotation marks of course, and DMD takes only 3 (as I count them).  This is a savings of 14 keystrokes.  I used the abbreviation "DMD" 12 times after my explanation of why I was using "DMD" in place of DMD.  This includes the one time used during the explanation and two times since adding up my total.  I am not counting the times I placed quotation marks around the letters because in those instances, I was not abbreviating DMD as "DMD."  Crap, that makes 14 times now I think.  Why am I writing this at 1:00am?  So, by my calculations, which are slightly impaired at this hour, I

saved 196 keystrokes by using the abbreviation.  If you recall, I spent 262 keystrokes writing my explanation so I wasted 66 keystrokes by using the stupid abbreviation.  What a freaking waste.

Hey look its Mario Lemieux, the greatest #66 of all time.


I actually had other stuff I was going to include in this post, but lucky for you I am going to stop now.  I am really going to regret this tomorrow.

The following is an image of Mathman as seen on Square One TV.  I don't belive that this is the real Mathman, but rather an artist's portrayal of Mathman... I hope that will suffice.

T-minus 2 months...

Listen,

Today is June 11, 2010.  You may be asking yourself, "What is the significance of this day?" or "why would Bob blog today of all days?"  Let me remind you that in 2 months, we are scheduled to receive another "bundle of joy" into our little family.  Yes, only 2 months until the new baby boy is due for delivery.  The other day, Brady asked Hana how the baby gets out of her belly.  He thought maybe through her mouth.  Hana told him it is kind of like magic.  Now, I have been by Hana's side during the birth of both Brady (C-section) and Evan (the old fashioned way) … never mind I am not going to go any further with that train of thought.

 

So with only two months to go I am kinda freaking out a little… just a general low-grade freaking out with occasional exacerbations. 

 

In other happenings…

The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup.  I am surprised I didn't blog at all during the playoffs.  It was great to watch some games with my dad.  I had Brady watch with us when they handed the Stanley Cup to the Blackhawk's captain Jonathan Toews (rhymes with haze and phase).  He thought it was a cool trophy and asked if anybody ever ate out of the top bowl.  From my understanding that has happened on many occations.  One member of the Blackhawks, Duncan Keith, lost 7 teeth in a game against the San Jose Sharks during the playoffs.  That is just cool.

 

The cherry tree in my backyard fell over when it snowed back on May 24^th.  It was crazy.  Our backyard feels bigger now without the tree taking up all the space it did.  Don't get me wrong, I really liked the tree, but part of me really likes that it is gone. 

 

The World Cup starts today.  I always get a big nostalgic during the World Cup.  I was in Brazil for the 1998 World Cup.  That was an amazing time to be there.  Them folks really like soccer (futebol). 

 

I am tired

 

Right now I have 8 empty soda cans and 1 unopened soda can on my desk right now.  Here is the breakdown:

4 – Coke Zero (empty)

3 – Diet Mountain Dew (empty)

1 – Diet Mountain Dew: Code Red (empty)

1 – Coke Zero (unopened)

 

I will stop wasting your time.