Post 5

Hey there!

Sorry we've been away a while.

You see, out at the dirt farm, we aren't served by the "normal" internet providers like AT&T, Verizon, nor "Insert Cable Company Name of the Week Here". We have SATELLITE internet service. That's right, if you thought your DSL switch was too far away and your service was slow....try having your internet service coming from SPACE! Space is very far away from my computer at home...that being said....our internet service is absolutely the worst internet service on the planet bar none. I'd venture to say that it's the worst internet service in the Universe...yes, it SUCKS big time! Now I would never mention WildBlue Internet Services LLC outright as our provider (if you call something that works about once a week "providing") because they would probably be angry with me that I am telling my audience of 4 how terrible they are, but I must say....they truly truly are the worst internet provider ever!

Big Breath.....man that felt great! I still hate them though.

I'm not dissing the idea that space is a great place to receive media from. At the dirt farm, we receive all of our media from space. Yes, we are highly advanced dirt farmers.

We have DirectTV (or DirecTV...I don't know which way to spell it but I do advocate saving as many T's as possible) and we have XM Radio at home and in the Sweetness and in K-Dog's giganto Tahoe. Personally I love XM Radio with all my heart....it is one of the finest inventions of the 21st century (well we're only 7 years into it but still...it's greatness). So one would think....why not internet service from space too? Space has a lot of upside...I mean, we are surrounded by it so you would think that no matter where you are on the earth, you can look up and see space and thus be able to get all kinds of media. Well, it doesn't work that way....and we are ever so aware of the limitations of space-based internet service at the dirt farm...CUZ IT DON'T WORKY NO MORE.

That being said....we have been delayed in getting a post up because we have no mo' internet at home. And YES, we have been made aware that numerous individuals, and you know who you are, have missed us. Sorry for the gap in coverage folks....we will resume broadcasting immediately.

So...how's Kelli doing?

Well, she's doing great! We have some funny puke moments I'd like to share with you (man, she is a puking machine) but first, I gotta tell you about the HIGH-RES Sonogram we had last Friday.

Now I know from past experience that looking at sonogram pictures is not usually the highlight of your week. I've seen friends' sonogram pictures and I'm always wondering "Jeez that looks like an alien blob...how do you know what is the head and what is the butt...and how do they know that's a foot?...and why is the arm all curvy?...and AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO THINKS THESE THINGS AND AM I GOING TO HELL FOR THINKING THEM?" I mean, it's black and white and blurry and frankly, you need to have an eye for these things to understand what you are looking at. So, when I sat down to watch LIVE Kelli's sonogram, I was fully prepared to crank out a bunch of ooh's and ahh's and earnest looks of concern when really I had no idea what I was looking at. (Now that I think about it, I do this a lot anyway)...BUT...it was truly amazing.

Watching it "Live from New York" was so cool. I mean, you can see them both moving around and jumping and jumping....jeez they jumped a lot...and moving their arms...it was Boogie Fever time in K-Dog's belly. (well it was Friday and almost Miller Time...). It was amazing to say the least, especially considering that Kelli and I had seen those two little jumping beans when they had about 8 cells each. That was back in the old days. Now they had bones and hands and feets and lips and little eye holes...it totally freaked me out....and they were MOVING!

God is awesome. Whoever says that we all came from mud out of a swamp and that all this miracle of life just "happened" naturally has never seen what I saw Friday. What a miracle. Chokes me up thinking about it ( I know I'm a sap....sorry).

We have a video of the entire deal too, and as soon as I figure out how to convert the video to MPEG I will post it on the blog (maybe not in its gripping 10 minute entirety but maybe the Reader's Digest version). Awww technology. Great when it works.

So...like I said, Kelli is doing very well. The other day she had left the house early to go to work so she could run by the store to buy her friend at work a birthday cake (or cupcakes or something like that) (isn't she so nice!) so she SKIPPED BREAKFAST (gasp!) and headed out the door. Well onthe way to the office she got the cake and headed over to Whataburger (fine purveyors of natural healthy food for pregnant women and babies) and then headed to work. On the way from WB to work, the dreaded puke monster snuck up on her...and well, having nothing to puke in while driving, she had to puke in the WB bag full of yummy breakfast treats....NICE!!! Needless to say, she skipped WB and grabbed something else for breaky.

There have been other entertaining (for me) puke events but I will leave those for another post. Here's a cute one....in the middle of a contract negotiation meeting last week I looked down at my buzzing Blackberry and read the following message from Kellli (this is verbatim): "Well I wasz leaving work for lunch and threw up. Urgh! Good thing I had a place to pull over and was by myself. Then I nearly peed my pants from hurling so hard." Poor little devil....I was the only person laughing in my meeting..... That still makes me smile but makes me sad too....good grief she deserves a medal.

I will wrap up for now. Will promise to do better with posting more often.

Hope we made your day a little brighter. Say a prayer for Kelli and the Deuce. They need all the help we can give them.

Thanks for stopping by.