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Pirate Bard's Blog – February 2010 Archive (4)

One Son vs Many Suns

I just finished watching an hour-long lecture entitled "A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss:

(Sorry, couldn't embed the video, but here's the link.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&feature=player_embedded

Anyway, He mentions in it something that is mentioned actually rather often by scientists of note including Carl Sagan and Neil Degrasse Tyson, which is that we are all… Continue

Added by Pirate Bard on February 28, 2010 at 10:23pm — 1 Comment

Anxiously* awaiting baby...

*But not patiently.

So here we sit after yet another visit with the midwife, with no baby yet born and our hopes of breaking waters tomorrow as an induction shattered. She's not dilated enough to even attempt to break waters, and we're running low on time. Financially speaking my wife is the sole bread-winner of our household right now (as I JUST finished school and finding a job in this area, in this economy, is not going well to say the least!) and as such she only has a finite… Continue

Added by Pirate Bard on February 25, 2010 at 11:01pm — 5 Comments

Another Day Goes By...

And no baby yet.

Wife was technically due the 16th, but she carries longer. Law of averages and all that (in order for the "average" woman to carry to 40 weeks then it stands to reason that for every woman who labors at 38 weeks there must be one who labors at 42 weeks... or something like that. I'm not great at the maths). Our first was induced at 6 days past "due," and our second at 17 days past "due," and this one doesn't look like she's going to break the mold in that respect. We… Continue

Added by Pirate Bard on February 18, 2010 at 11:03pm — 4 Comments

What have I been up to?

Not that I expect anyone to really care, but here it is anyway, the reasons I've been away for so long:

1. Making my way through my last semester and student internship so that I can get my teaching license.

2. Procreating yet again with my lovely wife. Child #3 is due any day now.

3. Volunteering at a local school that is sadly lacking a Theatre department, yet has an AWESOME facility for it.

Note: Above mentioned volunteering is not entirely altruistic. I do so in… Continue

Added by Pirate Bard on February 1, 2010 at 8:55pm — 2 Comments