"For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where though art not, desolation."

Happy Birthday, Kim.

Also, Happy Birthday to my Dad for today is his birthday as well.

It's been quiet around here...too quiet. Kim and I continue to plan for the impending attack on our lives, and with such planning comes the stockpiling of weapons. We have gear being delivered to the house daily with the promise of abating some of the damage, but we refuse to be lulled into a false sense of security. We know full well that there really is no victory to be had, but rather the hope that we can survive the siege. Now comes the waiting. We expect the initial assualt to come in the middle of next week, but there are no forces massing at the gates as of yet. For all we know, we could be weeks away from contact with the enemy.

This is my last week of work for a while. Starting the Tuesday after Labor Day I will officially be on leave. You see, the state of California awards fathers up to six weeks of partial-paid leave from their job for the purpose of bonding with a new baby. Even if the baby is not born right on time, the extra time will allow me to finish some of the projects we have going on in the house, so it will not be all movies and Warcraft, I assure you.

posted by Travis at 10:24 AM

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Friday, August 11, 2006

We've been going to some classes at the hospital on baby stuff over the last few days, and I'm pretty amazed at my level of ignorance. To my defense, I'm not sure in what scenario I would learn these things other than the one I currently find myself, but none the less, there is a lot about this I did not know. I never fooled myself into thinking I did know anything, but now faced with the amount of stuff I did not know, it is intimidating. It makes me wonder what else I don't know that I don't even know I don't know.

With education comes confidence, but there is still trepidation. We took a nice tour of the maternity ward of Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank where we will be delivering Titan, and they also took us through the different steps of the process. All of this is helping to ease the panic I was expecting. Mike (father of 2) compared the process to raiding in World of Warcraft. He said (paraphrasing), "Before you go on a raid, you read the strat (*short for strategy*), right? You don't want to be the guy in the raid who doesn't know what will happen and get called a noob." I said, "So the doctors will call me a noob if I don't learn the strat?" He thought for a minute, and said, "Yes."

So, with two classes taken and the all day class to go, I feel confident that Kim and I will have the strat down for the raid in early September. I'm just glad she is tanking and not me.

posted by Travis at 1:51 PM

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Monday, August 07, 2006

We're still alive and everything's fine; weather cooling off, baby arrival still looming, baby registry in the works, repairs on house scheduled (sort of), and new tires on car today.

posted by Travis at 9:01 AM

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