Wishin' and Hopin'

So,... I know we are about the have our third baby so you think I would know that contractions coming 30 minutes apart for a whole day doesn't mean the baby is coming. We have been thinking the baby was going to come since last weekend, but no luck. I even came home from work on Tuesday to 1) fix a GFCI outlet that blew up and 2) all I could think about was the baby coming so I wasn't getting much done at work. M and I went to the doctor's to get her checked, but there wasn't much progression since last Thursday. The bonus of that disappointing afternoon was holding our friend's month-old son. He fell asleep on me and that made me even more excited for our baby to come.

What else... I walked out to my car this morning to go to work and I heard a pounding on my car! It was parked under a large black walnut tree and there was a squirrel ripping the nuts open and dropping them down onto my car. Not cool...

(...I think I am becoming a huge fan of ellipses...)

We saw Batman Returns at the the IMAX a couple of weeks ago and it was awesome! The sound was one of the best parts. Also, part of the movie was shot with IMAX cameras so those scenes were VERY impressive. They also played The Watchmen trailer and I am pretty excited about that movie. (Check out the song from the trailer at the left under "featured songs".) It's from a graphic novel (that is a way of saying "comic book" when one is an adult) that I read last year. It really helped me get in touch with my "inner geek".

Speaking of "inner geek"... that is one thing I miss. When I was in college, I managed a computer lab so access to people with similar interests (ie: computers, graphic novels, video games, etc.) was fairly easy. When I needed people who understood obscure movie references, could identify indie music, or knew what a Kandinksy was, I had my art friends. You would think that being surrounded by engineers all day, I could find some people like that, but most of the people at work don't even know what a podcast is! (Not that I don't enjoy the people I work with...) I gotta say that I appreciate M for knowing what a Chocolate Rain is, sitting through Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and indulging me while I ran network cable throughout the house instead of just setting up a wireless network (but I did that too). Thanks, M!