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The setup
So I’ve always wanted to name my spawn after a number. I think that “Five” just has a nice, pleasant feminine ring to it. Granted, this was years before Battlestar Galactica took my idea and popularized it, but I still like it. The lady thinks it is a terrible idea.

The hook
The current name we’ve been tossing around is “Veronica.” As part of our name-hunt we’ve vetted each name for the inevitable fifth-grade teasing options (reasonably clean) as well as the possible nick-names. Veronica could shorten pretty easily to “V” which I think is a neat diminuitive.

The punchline
Now here’s the kicker: V is the Roman numeral for five. I think we’ve got a winner!

Behold, the first images of our daughter *INSERT NAME HERE*

The following conversation is real, only the names were changed to protect the innocent:

Me: “So I thought I’d broken my toe wakeboarding, but turns out it was only sprained.”

M*tt: “Wait, how’d you sprain your toe playing the PlayStation?”

Me: “No, I was wakeboa…wait a minute…”

M*tt: *impish grin*

Me: *fist of doom to the face, dealing 99,999 damage*

See below for photographic documentary evidence that I was in fact on the river.

Your pleas were heard by the lady. Behold, the bump!

Now, to settle on a name. Hadley, Inara, Francesca, Isabella, and X are leading the pack. So far we’ve discarded roughly 30,000 (yes, thousand) other options.

Milestone: bought gas today and it cost over $50. The world is ending!

So the first trial of a “detainee” at Guantanamo Bay has begun. Read more here to be either stunned at how low our country has fallen (or if you roll that way, see justice in action, your pick).

The prosecution called this “the most just war crimes trial that anybody has ever seen,” but I’m skeptical. Confessions given while being tortured are being accepted as evidence and even if acquitted, the Bush administration still reserves the right to just make him disappear for the rest of his life.

From the article:

Mr. Wizner [from the ACLU] said there was a more fundamental contradiction underlying the trial. The Bush administration insists that even if a detainee is acquitted, officials could hold him indefinitely.

“Where else in the world,” Mr. Wizner said after court one day, “is someone being prosecuted for a crime who is already serving a life sentence and will continue to serve one if he’s acquitted”

Hopefully Barack Obama will stand by his pledge to close Guantanamo.

Miniblogs: like twitter but different!

Safeway’s new style of asiago bagels are much better than old style.

Got lots of great emulators going on hacked Wii. New Homebrew Download channel makes installation of new apps painless.

New iPhone 2.0 firmware good. A bit buggy, but new Exchange support totally worth it.

Getting OS X going on the Dell has ended in failure. Will need to buy “hackintosh”-ready hardware.

Sharebuilder.com is a great way to jump into buying stock. Low costs targeted to longer-term investors (I.e me)

Been playing volleyball lately. Good to get more physical activity in my life. Had an awesome “King Kong” spike last week so I think my muscle memory is returning.

J is in the house (quite literally!) Glad to have his clan back in the northwest.

And I’m spent!

Nursery project is coming along well but in the interim I’ve been particularly bad about responding to email, hanging out, blogging and calling people. If I haven’t communicated lately, it’s not that I hate you–I’ve just been crazy busy! And to make things better,work has been nuts, too.

The to-do list project is starting to shrink a bit, but there’s still a lot to do before as-of-yet-unnamed progeny arrives. So I think this busyness is the beginning of a trend. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s the beginning of a great adventure!

Sitting on a bench downtown with the lady. Life is good!

(post made from iPhone using new Wordpress app. It’s shiny)

Went with the lady to the doc today and got to hear the baby’s heartbeat. Life is amazing.

We’re knee-deep in carving a nursery out of the office and still not very far on names, but slowly and steadily we’re getting things ready.

Anyone interested in seeing pictures of her cute bumping belly? Post in the comments and I’ll see if together we can sway her mind.