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I wish they would just lose already.

Pros: There is no one else on the course, so you can play at your own pace and take a few extra swings here and there.

Cons: It is a little wet.

Looks like I’ll finally be starting a new job with Wachovia as a architect/developer on 01/14/2008. They’ll probably give me some obscure title and stick me in a cubicle, but here is to hoping for an office and a title w/ “Architect” in it. After years of calling Bank of America “The Bank” now I’ll be referring to the fellows on the other side of Trade St, as “The Bank”.

Apparently my wife has a different spelling than this and I’ve lost the spelling battle.

Today we had the Week 18 checkup and lo and behold it’s a girl, despite pretty much everyone’s prediction that it would be a boy. Here’s the latest set of pictures, including a “3D” view which makes my future daughter look like an amorphous blob and/or an alien. Regardless, enjoy the pics!

So, the Panthers’ season is over. I’m not sure if I should be depressed that we ended 7-9 or ecstatic that we won any games considering the fact that our star defensive player (Peppers) was non-existent for the majority of the season and that we started a shell-shocked never-was and a guy who was around when they invented the forward pass for 10 of the 16 games this year. Matt Moore was definitely a diamond in the rough and Steve Smith proved he’s pound for pound the baddest man on the planet, managing to put together 1000 yards receiving again.

I do hope John Fox is kept another year; on the other hand, I hope that Special (in this context, Retarded) Teams coach Danny Crossman is bundled together with Keary “No Hands” Colbert and David “Good God I Suck But Look At My Hair” Carr and shoved into a cannon and fired off into the moon. We need to figure out what’s going on at OT (resign Gross, wish Wharton well), find a replacement for Rucker at DE, and find someone who has a clue who can play Free Safety. Hopefully we’ll see DeAngelo Williams as the feature back next year; I like Foster as much or more than the next guy, but Williams has a little more of that something special.

I just returned from the birth of a new life, that being the son of my cousin, Missy. Jaden was 7lbs, 4oz and born at 5:35PM EST. Apparently the labor process started at 2am and involved all sorts of shenanigans including a umbilical cord choking (everything turned out ok) and an accidental epidural self overdose. A lot of the family got together and we polished off a bottle of Booker’s bourbon in the waiting area. Mom looked exhausted, dad looked ecstatic, and baby looked healthy.

We’ve got 2 more babies on the way – my cousin Brad’s wife and my own wife are both due in the first half of June. It’s going to be a interesting 5 months.

I decided to read some of the stuff all self respecting geeks have read, namely some of the stuff by William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. So I picked up Neuromancer and Cryptomicon, and I started the former first, namely because it was the shorter of the two.

One one hand, I found the concepts proffered in Neuromancer to be fantastic – it really is the “archetypal cyberpunk work”. On the other hand, I found it to be a slightly unpleasant read – it was rather disjointed, occasionally confusing and it lacked much flow. While the ideas and the plot are great, the execution didn’t really appeal to me. It’s importance as a literary work in undeniable though.

Conversely, while I’ve just started Cryptomicon, I find it’s writing style to be absolutely fantastic. I’ve not gotten far enough to actually judge it on it’s merit of plot.

New pictures of the parasite baby are up.

Week 13

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