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Life Moves On

Can it be? Nine whole months since I last wrote something here. I admit I haven’t been inspired (code words for lazy), and I’ve been preocupied as well. There was still a month left before MDF was born when I last wrote an entry. Now MDF is eight months old (as of yesterday!) and crawling of all things! It seems almost impossible to catalogue all the firsts we’ve had over the past year, but I feel it’s worth a try.

As a musing to myself, I wonder what it would take to publish this on friant.org… probably just dollar signs ($$). Do I really want my thoughts/ramblings/personal life out for people to read? How can I balance privacy with the urge to publish this mishmash. Stuff to think on.

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Meeting Old Friends

At the hospital today CDF ran into a girl she knew from Sunday School… back when she was in Middle or High school.

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Meeting People

On Friday, while CDF and I were waiting for the nurse to complete the glucose test (by drawing blood), a pregnant lady, followd by her family, sat down beside us — apparently about ready to go into labor. I didn’t reconize any of them, but as they were leaving, the mother came back into where we were (down the hall from the waiting room) and asked if my name was [jModule]. It turned out that our families had been friends many years ago, at Plaza Manor Apts. The mother name was Terry Dyer, and the daughter who was pregnant was Jennifer.

Unfortunately my memories are vague. I know the name, and the mother’s face is familiar. But I was only 3 or 4 years old when our famlies were neighbors. I do remember visiting them here in Wilmington when I was older (but I don’t know how old), and I have a mental picture of walking down a street with Dom, Ruth and Jennifer leading the way (maybe with her sister too). Also I think they had a waterbed. :-/ But that’s about it.

The really amazing part about the whole meeting is that Jennifer was the one to recognize me. I’m sorry that I couldn’t say the same (though I did remember her name after a while).

Anyway, Terry was very nice and introduced herself to CDF, asking how far along she was. We talked for a minute or two before she had to leave.

I close before I end up making comments about small worlds and such.

[corrected spelling of name, 7/17/03]

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Welcome

I’m going to try to start a diary on my wife’s pregnancy and the birth of our first child. Actually it could be the process of becoming a father. The thing is, I’m not really sure how to classify this process, and so I thought I’d write out my feelings.

Hopefully I can be consistant with this. I’ve never really done anything with a diary before, for lack of persistance if anything. Maybe the fact it’s on a computer will help, especially since that makes it much easier to ramble now that my hand won’t cramp from gripping a pen.

So to wrap this first entry up, I think I’ll spend a little while getting the interface to look right and maybe add a few more entries (see I’m rambling already).