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The new car is working out well, it is a real pleasure to drive.  It is also nice not having to worry about your car as well.
Tiff is feeling pretty good, and she did a really nice job on the nursery.  I am glad we got all the house work done ahead of even finding out she was pregnant.
Looking at the nursery really makes me realize I really am going to be a daddy, that and my expanding wife.  We finally were able to find some maternity clothes that fix and look nice.  I about a week, we should find out if it will be a boy or a girl.

No updates to the photo section, haven’t seen anything that really catches my eye.  The photo I took of the rusted sign for the bar will outlast the sign, apparently.  The sign is gone, but the bar is still there.
My brother Ron seems to be having a decent time in PR.   He has been down there for a few months now, and seems to be doing ok.  It’s funny, I know more about his life now than ever.  The power of blogs.  I didn’t talk to my family for a few years, when I was 18 and thought I knew everything 😛  Now, I do think about everyone more, and my own family to be.  Ahh, being an adult.

They say when you have a new baby, you buy a new car.  I guess that is true, since we bought a new car yesterday!  It is my first new car.  For my whole life, the “newest” car I have owned has been about 5 years old, and averaging about 10 to 15 years old.  Yep, I buy beaters.  Well, no more, bought a 2006 Hyundai Elantra, in electric red.  It’s a very nice car.  I can’t believe the build quality of Hyundai’s now.  I remember when they first came to America, they were Korean Yugos.  (Is that really possible?)  Now, they are rated above every other car brand, except for Lexus.  Needless to say, they cost a bit less than Lexuses.  So, I am happy about that.

This blog is being typed from an old Pentium 200MMX with a whopping 40 megabytes of RAM!

I always wanted to get Linux running on an old compuer to see how it is, with the right distribution, it is not bad at all!
I decided to try Damn Small Linux, and installed to a small partition on the hard drive (less than 500MB).  It boots up in about 1.5 minutes to X.  The package manager is really top knotch.  Packages are downloaded and installed as needed.  Performance is pretty good, on par with Windows 98 for most tasks, and much better then Windows for video/audio playback.  So, if you want to bring life back to a machine built 8 to 10 years ago, give it a try.
In other news, saw an old, white guy with a long, grey beard, rapping in front of a White Castle  .  The things you see when you take a different route home.

Heard our baby’s heartbeat for the first time 2 days ago!
It is really amazing, and really sinking in.  I wonder if everyone feels like this when thier first one is on the way.  I think it is an experience that really is part of being human and ties us all together.
In other news, if anyone is looking for a good movie to rent, I highly recommend Grizzly Man.  It is a documentary about Timothy Treadwell, the…kinda crazy guy who lived with Grizzly bears for years, until he was eaten by one in 2003.
Very interesting.
Work is going well.  Got a decent raise and just in time for the baby.  It is good to be appreciated.

The new year is almost here.  I have a four day weekend off.  Tiffany is feeling better, and can almost eat real food again.
We got two new fish today, little Mickey Mouse Platys.  They have what looks like a Mickey Mouse marking close to the base of their tails.  I will try to take a picture later.

The house is almost back to normal, since Tiffany can actually  move again.  We took down the Christmas decorations already, since we put them up right after Thanksgiving.  Our living room looks huge now.
Not much to do this weekend.  Just relax, set up the den again, and eat.