It's Personal...

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:39 am

Yay!!!

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:07 am

Wow... I feel... so young.

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:25 am

Congrats, 2 is like a whole new experience than 1.

Although I say this with 2 boys. Not sure what 2 girls works out to

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:28 am

sabs wrote:Congrats, 2 is like a whole new experience than 1.

Although I say this with 2 boys. Not sure what 2 girls works out to

About the same....I have 1 boy, 3 girls. So far, kids is kids. I'm told to wait until they hit the teenage years.

Congrats, Robby.

K · Post by K » Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:38 am

RobbyPants wrote:My second daughter was just born this morning. She was a couple weeks early, but is quite healthy. It was fun watching my older daughter get to meet her today. I think it's still setting in for her, and it probably won't be real for her until my wife and newborn come home from the hospital.

Time to prepare for a lack of sleep and abundance of dirty diapers!

Congrats!

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:04 pm

Thanks everyone!

sabs wrote:Congrats, 2 is like a whole new experience than 1.

Although I say this with 2 boys. Not sure what 2 girls works out to

Yeah, that's what I've been hearing from everyone. I think it will actually set in when they come home from the hospital. Right now, I'm at home most of the time watching my older daughter.

Although we did decide to stop at two, so at least we won't be outnumbered!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:37 pm

I know it's a little late, but congratulations!

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 4:25 pm

You're not late. Thanks!

Here's a pic, by the way. My camera is still at the hospital, but my parents took this one:

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:51 pm

Congrats and she's a cutey. =-)

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:58 pm

Congrats, now to just teach your daughter to change her diapers

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:01 am

ishy wrote:Congrats, now to just teach your daughter to change her diapers

I've had success with eliminating the need to change diapers. Invented some 5,000 years ago, they're colloquially referred to as "toilets."

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:03 am

Cute baby, was always a wee bit jealous of people who were able to start families. But I'm happy for you, Robby.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:33 pm

Congrats, Robby.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:17 am

Congrats, very cute!

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:08 am

So, my linksys router died. I've only had it for 6 months. However because I was being a cheap stingy buyer, I bought a refurb instead of a new one. The refurb apparently only had 90 day warranty. Apparently if I wanted to extend my warranty for about 2 weeks, I had to pay 29.99. You know 2/3 of what I paid for it in the first place.

Any good recommendations for a decent wireless n router. Preferably dual band. Gigabit ethernet is a plus but I can live without it.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:26 am

I'm now doing a job that I don't (currently) find soulcrushing. Flipping burgers is a nice change from backbreaking (literally) labour in the dishroom lugging 50+ lb bags of trash.

My trainer is a bitch and isn't giving me training on thing other than cleaning, but the job is fucking easy and it doesn't cause me constant pain. Naturally I don't want this job forever, but I'd say it's good enough for now.

Also, congrats Robby.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:57 am

I caught my son on the upper shelf in a closet today, then later on top of a 6' bookcase... Naked and covered in purple and red glitter and trying to get into the "dude box" - a shoe box full of assorted Lego people parts that he loves to play with.

It's moments like this that make me [have a heart attack and] wonder about what he's going to grow up into. My first instinct is gay mountain climber.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:06 am

Maj wrote: My first instinct is gay mountain climber.

So basically Graham Chapman in this scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdMV42czPCI

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:30 am

Grats, Robby, that's a big huge deal.

Post by **fbmf** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:37 am

Best wishes, Robby!

Game On,
fbmf

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:53 pm

I am down to 265 for the first time in a while. The goal is to break 260 by the end of the month, and push the hell out of December to get to 250.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:20 am

Maj wrote:I caught my son on the upper shelf in a closet today, then later on top of a 6' bookcase... Naked and covered in purple and red glitter and trying to get into the "dude box" - a shoe box full of assorted Lego people parts that he loves to play with.

It's moments like this that make me [have a heart attack and] wonder about what he's going to grow up into. My first instinct is gay mountain climber.

Heh, my parents have their horror stories of me climbing bookshelves at an early age. I apparently did similar feats to that before I could walk around age 1. Who expects a tiny crawling baby to climb to the top of a book case?

No word on being naked, covered in glitter tho.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:25 am

I climbed a lot as a kid.

Mom has a whole highlight reel of stories, including, when Mom was 8 months pregnant with my 5-years-younger sister, me climbing forty feet up a magnolia tree. And the deciding I'm stuck, and she had to climb up there (remember, 8 months pregnant), and talk me down from the spot I was stuck at.

While her best friend was on the ground and rolling around laughing.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:35 am

Yeah, my climbing antics lasted all through childhood. I climbed trees a lot as a kid. Never got stuck anywhere though.

I weighed almost nothing (27 pounds as a 5 year old) so even with my non-existent upper body strength I could pull myself up from anywhere my fingers could touch and even latch onto tree trunks that I could not wrap my arms around. I would climb to the very tops of trees where the trunk was only a skinny switch, and sway it back and forth.

And on the way down I could happily drop/jump 10' down without hurting myself.

Heh, I loved when we got big swings at the school playground and I would swing as high as possible and jump out at the apex. Those were easily 15-20' drops (granted, landing onto soft earth or woodchips). That stuff would cripple me now.

Most harsh tree climbing experience was in highschool going near the top of a 30-40' pine tree (I think to retrieve a frisbee, or someone's bookbag... we put a lot of stuff up there). I never figured out a way to do that without getting bloody all over.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:05 pm

Believe it or not, I used to climb. And I can get up in very surprising areas considering how bulky I am.

I'm irritated. One of the chicks I was chatting with online recognized me from seeing me at work, and said she didn't want to date a guy that works in retail. Bitch, at least I have a job and support myself.