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I took 19 days (technically I was 19 days late, my mom actually only went through ten minutes of labor when I was born, thankfully I was born at work and my mom worked at the hospital.
Good luck!
Crookshanks was 23 hours of labor, Tiny T-Rex 38 hours.
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38 hours... Your poor wife. Are you sure he should be known as Tiny. jeez.
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He wasn't that big, 7 pounds or so.
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Huh Just didn't wanna come out. I can vaguely relate to that.
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He likes to take his time, that is true!
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Anyway, all that to say - I feel ya, my dude!
And you'll be tired and mad and exhausted and crazy: but it's worth it. Keep calm and carry on! Love you, brother! And congratulations!
Everyone says that.
But then everyone says New Zealand is beautiful. Lewis Black has a standup bit where he points out he doesn't know if it really is, cause after 14 hours flying anything is, and he would have performed at an iceberg for 2 penguins by then.
It's been 27 hours.
I'm pretty sure parenthood is New Zealand.
1) Everything I've seen from New Zealand is beautiful. That includes urban and heavily-traffic'd areas, albeit from camera lenses. I am, however, certain that there are parts of New Zealand (much like everything that exists) that is not beautiful. But whatever Black's bit, the country looks gorgeous in many places and from many angles.
2) Parenthood is not beautiful because of what you suggest. That's youre cynicism talking. The bad parts are also beautiful, though they don't feel good to go through at the time. It's part of the over-all tapestry of life that weaves itself into a complex and lovely whole. You won't like all of it. That's okay. Demanding (or expecting) that every step of your life is gonna be pleasant - with or without a child - is nonsensical. So don't do that! Instead know that the struggles and trials you face as a parent are different than those you face as a non-parent and any fear or grump you feel is both normal, and exactly the same kind of emotion that comes with any big change that entirely changes your life.
3) Babies aren't magic. Your emotions aren't just gonna click into place and everything suddenly become rainbows and bunnies. That's not how humans work and it's not how you work. You might have emotional experiences, but that's only a permanent thing if you use the memory of that to drive you - the emotion itself is fleeting, as with all things. What is required - just like in marriage, just like in everything else - is effort, commitment, and work. Often, those aren't easy. But it's worth it. Because when you choose to love someone, the rewards are worthwhile, and usually emotions eventually come with.
4) Labor always sucks. Good luck, and God bless you both, my dude! I know how sucky that can be! As I said, mine was in labor until after the drugs wore off, which was a ludicrous number of hours (I no longer recall how long - I fell asleep), and only then did the baby actually come. So, yeah - it's rough and takes forever, but keep on keepin' on!
EDIT: for clarity and hopefully more truthfulness in advertising.
(I posted those picture links in DaWtL - obviously this forum doesn't display them; they're a funny card to a daughter from a Dad. Also, I didn't find those myself, for the record - a friend of mine posted them elsewhere, unrelated to anything, so I looked them up, copied the links, and here we are. :D)
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Bad Dint. Bad.
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Bad Dint. Bad.** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **
I mean, she is evil, what did you expect?
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So I've only actually seen the very first chapter of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, via a review done by a Youtuber I follow, before the series came out on Netflix. So watching it now was my first exposure to villains other than Dio.
I wonder what it says about me that the first thing I thought about The Pillar Men was "oh they're the Hulks of Zoretha from Elder Evils, but with 80s hair and a vulnerability to sunlight".
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The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
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Thanks guys. :-)
I was a month late, as was my brother (9lbs 14oz and 10lbs respectively). Baby girl is taking after her daddy - which is exactly why we scheduled induction.
I know Tala is gonna have enough oxytocin in her to kill a small hippopotamus with love hormone, so while now sucks, she will be relieved at the end. I question the same with me. I'm technically aut spectrum, according to my two latest shrinks, as well as bipolar and I don't react emotionally the same as most folks I know. It's feast or famine, and the feast is almost always negative emotions, with an extreme difficulty in social situations even with biological family, so...I'm seriously anxious that when people say "it's like this for everyone" - it won't be. When it comes to emotion, it usually isn't.
I mean I'll be happy, I know; I'm so excited to see her. But everyone is day 1, right? But what about life when the initial joy fades?
I think Tac's most recent post helped give me a lot of perspective, though. Especially the part about the bad being part of what IS good ...I think I kinda understand. Sorta. Vaguely.
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The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.
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Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
Same. I'd heard stuff from... the powers that be, but everyone I've encountered at least believes it exists.
Granted, most of the people I'm in contact with are students who are just here for the "OH, DEATH, THANK GOD" meme aspect of it, so I'm just dealing with a different flavor in the overarching Baskin Robbins of stupid we call life.
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Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
Really?
You know what they say in Wisconsin, if it didn't happen here it's obviously made up!
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Same. I'd heard stuff from... the powers that be, but everyone I've encountered at least believes it exists.Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
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The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.
Same.
Same. I'd heard stuff from... the powers that be, but everyone I've encountered at least believes it exists.
Granted, most of the people I'm in contact with are students who are just here for the "OH, DEATH, THANK GOD" meme aspect of it, so I'm just dealing with a different flavor in the overarching Baskin Robbins of stupid we call life.
I helped!
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The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
Wow. I haven't even heard that level of BS from my friends who are *literally* Berkeley communists. Congratulations, Wisconsin!
As for the right gibberish, well, the I've been avoiding conversation with the one coworker who would probably spout such nonsense, so my ears are safe.
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Same. I'd heard stuff from... the powers that be, but everyone I've encountered at least believes it exists.Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
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Counting today, I have a shortened work day today thanks to the broken water main, two more classroom days, and a day attending the AMS conference on the school's dime, and then I get Spring Break.
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Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
Really?
You know what they say in Wisconsin, if it didn't happen here it's obviously made up!
Wisconsin tends to be my proof that evolution can and will go backwards. ;) You're doing well, Cap. You even have your opposable thumbs!
Honestly though, the worst I've heard around here are just people with their head in the sand. Granted, those people have high titles in my company, but at least they aren't actively spouting extremism.
Hey - Devolution is a great band and/or song!
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One of my techs is on the phone with a user. The user is insisting that some of her shortcuts will only work if they're positioned next to other shortcuts.
I know nothing of computers. The technology has completely passed me by. This user, however, is on the bleeding edge of it.
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** spoiler omitted **Same. I'd heard stuff from... the powers that be, but everyone I've encountered at least believes it exists.Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
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One of my techs is on the phone with a user. The user is insisting that some of her shortcuts will only work if they're positioned next to other shortcuts.
I know nothing of computers. The technology has completely passed me by. This user, however, is on the bleeding edge of it.
...ask to be paid in internets.
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Yesterday I received a copy of our building emergency procedures from the building management.
I learned something.
I learned that the people who call in bomb threats have a wide variety of accents. "Local", "Foreign", "New England", "Southern", and "Other". That's it. Those are the options.
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Yesterday I received a copy of our building emergency procedures from the building management.
I learned something.
I learned that the people who call in bomb threats have a wide variety of accents. "Local", "Foreign", "New England", "Southern", and "Other". That's it. Those are the options.
...this has just made me realize how badly I need a valley girl megalomaniac character.
I lost interest in the second season halfway through, the constant level of crises got annoying.That is a danger, and I've seen hints of it possibly becoming a problem, so I can see what you mean. That's one of the reasons I eventually dropped The Walking Dead - just too much one thing after another. (Because it never felt like they ever made any progress, and whenever they did it was just undone the next season anyway.)
Though I also dropped that one because the people became less and less likable as time went on.
Also, also: I think the constant, "This Week in Peril" that LiS has going for it, is an attempt at a more dramatic version of the nonsense the original LiS had; I do hope they have at least one or two "downtime" episodes, though, because it'll be rough and exhausting, otherwise.
<snip>
Gotta say - I like that there are other people in this. It really helps the series a lot.
In the original, there were three seasons, 89 episodes, that's 89 hours of content from the original; 29 episodes for season 1, 54 split between seasons 2 and 3.
Compare to 10 Episodes a Season, you've got about nine seasons of content for the new version. That said, I think they can skip some of the content, like the one with rebelling vegetables. On the other hand, if they could make that semi-reasonable and actually dramatic, that would... magical. I'm not recommending it, of course.
... unless...?
EDIT: But seriously, I love this family.
EDIT 2: Ooh!
DinosaursAlien dinosaurs!EDIT 3: Uuuuuuuuugggghhhh I'm such a saaaaaap. *sniff-sniff*
(That dramatic pause wasn't necessary, tho, LiS. ಠ_ಠ )
Okay, so the constant crisis thing can be frustrating... but I'm still over-all enjoying the series! A lot! It helps that there are a lot of good people that I actually, you know, like! Next to last episode - let's hope it keeps up!
EDIT: and there are enough "down moments" that aren't all super-depressing and unhappy (and accomplishments that aren't just immediately undone afterwords) that it gives enough of a break for me to keep enjoying the crises.
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...this has just made me realize how badly I need a valley girl megalomaniac character.Yesterday I received a copy of our building emergency procedures from the building management.
I learned something.
I learned that the people who call in bomb threats have a wide variety of accents. "Local", "Foreign", "New England", "Southern", and "Other". That's it. Those are the options.
Ew! But that's, like, totally against the rules, or whatever!
()
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Is the overall dismissive attitude of those who feel, "If you do anything at all different from your normal routine, then you're a fearmonger and should be ashamed of yourself," which, combined with the typical American attitude of, "If it inconveniences me in any way, shape, or form, then I'm not doing it," produces an amazingly robust breeding ground for any virus.
As part of a society, I get inconvenienced with great regularity: They may close parking on my street to repair the sewer lines, or shut off my power to repair the power lines. Every week I have to put out my trash because the trash collectors won't come into my yard, and every month I have to move my car for street sweeping. Being mildly inconvenienced is a prerequisite for living in a society.
So, replace "novel coronavirus" with "unusually deadly flu with double the normal fatality rate". What should you do?
- Avoid unnecessary travel.
- Avoid large crowds.
- Be meticulous about hand-washing and avoiding touching your face.
But, if you do that for the coronavirus, you're a fearmonger and should be ashamed.
Such an attitude incenses me, because it's turning what should be a relatively minor viral event into a major upheaval.
Guess what? If you refuse to change your routine in any way in response to a viral outbreak, you are personally helping that virus to spread. Good job!
/rant
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Not touching my face is haaaarrrrrrrrrrd
(no lie)
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Not touching my face is haaaarrrrrrrrrrd
(no lie)
It is hard, not touching your face.
It must be the moisturizer you're using.
Not touching my face is haaaarrrrrrrrrrd
(no lie)
It is hard, not touching your face.
It must be the moisturizer you're using.
Nah, it's just Neosporin for the scratch I got.
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I think I was a relatively quick birth, but I was premature, weighing 3-4lbs, I believe.
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I was 18 days late and breech. According to Granny, I was the seventh straight of male breech babies going up my paternal line.
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Wow. I haven't heard any actual, real-life people on either side of the spectrum spout that level of nonsense.The people I know on the right are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to tank the economy.
The people I know on the left are convinced the other side is making up the corona virus to suppress voter turnout.
This is why I hate the Midwest sometimes.
Really?
You know what they say in Wisconsin, if it didn't happen here it's obviously made up!
Wisconsin tends to be my proof that evolution can and will go backwards. ;) You're doing well, Cap. You even have your opposable thumbs!
Honestly though, the worst I've heard around here are just people with their head in the sand. Granted, those people have high titles in my company, but at least they aren't actively spouting extremism.
Due to some disgusting, poorly reported attacks on asians, people around here are on high alert, but still Brooklyn- no mass panic as of yet, a fair amount of masks and hand sanitizer, and the idiots who dare attack other people are cooling their heels in lockup, looking at assault charges.
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Our national leaders are being reckless, too.
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/rant
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/rant
... but not touching my face is haaaaarrrrrrrrrd
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... but not touching my face is haaaaarrrrrrrrrd** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **
/rant
as I just finished shaving this morning, yes, yes it is.
Right?
I mean, with the beard I gotta clean it.
With the eye stuff I gotta wipe it out.
With bumps I gotta wash 'em.
Touching my face is a thing that happens all the daggum time.
It's tough to figure out because it seems like a super-simple thing.
"Hey! Don't touch your face!" makes sense.
But there are a ton of little things that make it difficult or impossible not to.
I am using a glib tone (insomuch as I can), but it's also an honest statement. It's hard not to touch my face!
My kids are fit to be tied - every time they cough or sneeze or blow their nose or anything whatsoever, I enforce a strict "wash it now" policy. They're pretty done with it, but they're obedient and awesome in every way and keep doing so no matter how 'over' the whole thing they are.
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So. Strange dreams last night.
First dream was me visiting Captain Yesterday for some reason. We were driving around in his car, and he was a MASTER DRIVER. He made perfect turns at high speeds, spun the car around into reverse to go backwards up steep hills, and even drove the car sideways. We talked about Pathfinder all the while. No milkmaids or dairy queens in the dream, though.
Second dream was about the end of the world. Everyone was leaving the earth to go back to heaven, for some reason. There was a massive line for admission, and everyone had to give up their earthly body to return to their heavenly ones. It turns out there were multiple heavenly races, including a race of bird-people, heavenly humans(like regular humans, but...otherworldly somehow), and a race of adorable bear people, like the cyber bears in Thundercats all those years ago. I got up in line and it seems that I was some kind of cute bear person, and was escorted to an area to wait for my body to return to its original form. I remember being peeved about that- I didnt want to be a bear person, adorable though it might be, I wanted to be able to fly! I grumbled that I wouldn't be able to fly and was instead adorable, and hing out with my other bear-folk. Some of them were happy, others wanted to go back to earth, and everyone was talking. I actually ran into someone who remembered me from before, and they were a full adorabear, and enthusiastically talking to me about how delicious heaven fruit or whatever we were supposed to eat was, and how it wasn't SO bad being a bear person, but then I woke up.
I really need to stop eating so late at night.
I love the idea of adorabear Freehold.
Also, looking for "cyberbear thundercats" yielded this amazing screen I've honestly never seen from Google.
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WHAT THE WHAT
I didn't even know that was possible for Google.
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I am using a glib tone (insomuch as I can), but it's also an honest statement. It's hard not to touch my face!
My kids are fit to be tied - every time they cough or sneeze or blow their nose or anything whatsoever, I enforce a strict "wash it now" policy. They're pretty done with it, but they're obedient and awesome in every way and keep doing so no matter how 'over' the whole thing they are.
Well, you're in Florida. You're all doomed anyway. I wouldn't be concerned. [/light-hearted sarcasm]
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Well we just got our first, reported, official case of it here in Lousy-Anna.
So its all downhill from here!
(Have you SEEN images/videos of the insanity that is Mardi Gras? 'Sanitation' means picking up TONS of garbage left over afterwords!!)
;P
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Hey - Devolution is a great band and/or song!
Hey don't have song "Devolution"...
Also, stop poking at my youth!
So as it turns out, I was thinking of Devo, not "Devolution" - my bad!
But, apparently, Devolution is also a song (though, of course, it's not by Hey, and it's rather repetitive... uh... is that... "drone rock?"... "cyber wave?"... something that sounds cyber-punk-y, anwyay... so your tastes may vary).
I might have to check on "Hey" at some point, though.
I didn't know they existed - like some other bands, it's kind of a 'roundabout' name, you know?
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So. Strange dreams last night.
First dream was me visiting Captain Yesterday for some reason. We were driving around in his car, and he was a MASTER DRIVER. He made perfect turns at high speeds, spun the car around into reverse to go backwards up steep hills, and even drove the car sideways. We talked about Pathfinder all the while. No milkmaids or dairy queens in the dream, though.
Second dream was about the end of the world. Everyone was leaving the earth to go back to heaven, for some reason. There was a massive line for admission, and everyone had to give up their earthly body to return to their heavenly ones. It turns out there were multiple heavenly races, including a race of bird-people, heavenly humans(like regular humans, but...otherworldly somehow), and a race of adorable bear people, like the cyber bears in Thundercats all those years ago. I got up in line and it seems that I was some kind of cute bear person, and was escorted to an area to wait for my body to return to its original form. I remember being peeved about that- I didnt want to be a bear person, adorable though it might be, I wanted to be able to fly! I grumbled that I wouldn't be able to fly and was instead adorable, and hing out with my other bear-folk. Some of them were happy, others wanted to go back to earth, and everyone was talking. I actually ran into someone who remembered me from before, and they were a full adorabear, and enthusiastically talking to me about how delicious heaven fruit or whatever we were supposed to eat was, and how it wasn't SO bad being a bear person, but then I woke up.
I really need to stop eating so late at night.
I love the idea of adorabear Freehold.
Also, looking for "cyberbear thundercats" yielded this amazing screen I've honestly never seen from Google.
...It looks like there aren't any great matches for your search
Tip: Try using words that might appear on the page you’re looking for. For example, "cake
Weren't the robotic bears in Thundercats called Berbils, or similar?