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Thanks y'all! My son is due in April, our first. Been with my wife for almost 10 years and married for 3. She's a keeper!

I just put in a custom order actually, for a good luck khuk to commemorate his birth.
 
Philll-congrats. That's a fine thing.
My first granddaughter was born Feb. 1, and as soon as it's not -10F in the shop I'm going to start a billet for a little something for her when she's old enough.
 
philllll said:
Thanks y'all! My son is due in April, our first. Been with my wife for almost 10 years and married for 3. She's a keeper!

I just put in a custom order actually, for a good luck khuk to commemorate his birth.
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Grats phillll! April eh! Thats awesome! Start him off with the Reti and move on up to the Bamboo cutter or the phillllager.:thumbup:
 
Well, if we're discussing our lives, might as well explain the last three weeks of my life. So as I've mentioned I do AFROTC. Well last year I should have gone to Field Training (sort of like basic for cadets) but I was ineligible even to apply due to grades. So I manage to extend my graduation by adding a second major so that I can try again this year. Well last semester ends and once again my grades are too low. I know this at Christmas and I say to myself that I should take online courses from my college. Well after a month of school I actually find out how many credits of what grade I need in order to be eligible, and I find out that the deadline is just over two weeks later. Now I should have gotten to work on it much sooner, but I didn't. So when I found out the grades I began a frantic investigation of my school's online courses and sing up for three of them, as well as a two week long seminar that was for a grade. I work on all that, and I manage to get an A in the seminar, but then I discover that even though it's done, the grade won't post on my transcript until too late. I also am having to work very hard to finish all the online courses. So after discovering that I can't get the grade from the seminar posted I take my first finals anyway. That fact was weighing heavily on my mind, but I get the A's I need anyway. Then I take the last final and I get an A- in it, just barely below what I had to have. I thought I was done, gone, kaput, insert other ways of expressing that sentiment here. So over the weekend I'm stewing on that, meanwhile I also am in charge of the dealers room at a writers symposium. Yesterday I decide to talk to the people running the online courses and see if there's any option left to me. That's when I discover that I can retake the final. No where in the materials did it say I could retake that final. But I retake it today, after spending all day studying, and I did it! I got the A in the course that I needed. And it turns out that I literally could not have gotten even one more question wrong on the final and still get the A. In fact, it turns out that I came just five questions short of an A the first time I took it.

And if you're wondering, there was still schoolwork to do beyond the online courses, however I did manage to get some leniency of due dates due to my situation.

So now, I have to get to my schoolwork, but I have a huge burden of worry lifted off my shoulders. And things have conspired to be great for me since I got out of the test. There's a carillon right by the testing center, and as I walked by it it started playing a favorite hymn of mine, I saw some friends who knew my situation and got to tell them, I got congratulated by a captain, major and a colonel, and I had a pretty good lunch.

I think I may buy myself something sharp and pointy to celebrate, but I have work to do so that can wait a little bit.
 
philllll said:
Thanks y'all! My son is due in April, our first. Been with my wife for almost 10 years and married for 3. She's a keeper!

I just put in a custom order actually, for a good luck khuk to commemorate his birth.
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This year marks 30 years for my first and last wife. Engaged for near 13 before that.

Got a granddaughter that just turned 5 months. Life is good.

Congrats philllllllll, it's alife changing event, probably the most life changing event you'll ever experience.
And one that stays with you as long as your drawing air into your lungs.

It's a good life changing event, really nothing better except maybe grandkids which you can play with and spoil rotten and then send em home.

I wish you and momma and the new son all the best. Your gonna have a blast. Once you get to sleeping a full night that is.
 
Good job, Scara! Hard work pays off.

Thanks Jim, Danny, and Joe for the well wishes :)
 
Scara said:
Well, if we're discussing our lives, might as well explain the last three weeks of my life. So as I've mentioned I do AFROTC. Well last year I should have gone to Field Training (sort of like basic for cadets) but I was ineligible even to apply due to grades. So I manage to extend my graduation by adding a second major so that I can try again this year. Well last semester ends and once again my grades are too low. I know this at Christmas and I say to myself that I should take online courses from my college. Well after a month of school I actually find out how many credits of what grade I need in order to be eligible, and I find out that the deadline is just over two weeks later. Now I should have gotten to work on it much sooner, but I didn't. So when I found out the grades I began a frantic investigation of my school's online courses and sing up for three of them, as well as a two week long seminar that was for a grade. I work on all that, and I manage to get an A in the seminar, but then I discover that even though it's done, the grade won't post on my transcript until too late. I also am having to work very hard to finish all the online courses. So after discovering that I can't get the grade from the seminar posted I take my first finals anyway. That fact was weighing heavily on my mind, but I get the A's I need anyway. Then I take the last final and I get an A- in it, just barely below what I had to have. I thought I was done, gone, kaput, insert other ways of expressing that sentiment here. So over the weekend I'm stewing on that, meanwhile I also am in charge of the dealers room at a writers symposium. Yesterday I decide to talk to the people running the online courses and see if there's any option left to me. That's when I discover that I can retake the final. No where in the materials did it say I could retake that final. But I retake it today, after spending all day studying, and I did it! I got the A in the course that I needed. And it turns out that I literally could not have gotten even one more question wrong on the final and still get the A. In fact, it turns out that I came just five questions short of an A the first time I took it.

And if you're wondering, there was still schoolwork to do beyond the online courses, however I did manage to get some leniency of due dates due to my situation.

So now, I have to get to my schoolwork, but I have a huge burden of worry lifted off my shoulders. And things have conspired to be great for me since I got out of the test. There's a carillon right by the testing center, and as I walked by it it started playing a favorite hymn of mine, I saw some friends who knew my situation and got to tell them, I got congratulated by a captain, major and a colonel, and I had a pretty good lunch.

I think I may buy myself something sharp and pointy to celebrate, but I have work to do so that can wait a little bit.
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Congratulations, one of those feel-good stories!
 
I bought my kids! They were two and four years old when I got them so i missed all the baby years. I had one of them buy one get one free deals. They turned out to be pretty dang good anyway and they came with a wife too so that was a bonus. I now have a passel of grandkids. I did get to play with them from day one and the first one i even got to help deliver....Dont think that will ever happen again:rolleyes: Here grandpa hold this leg and grandma get the other one. What:eek:!!! Too late. They asked me to cut the cord! What:eek:.!!!..what ju talking about? What cord:confused:. By now I know the ritual but grandpa stays outside the room and babysits the siblings where he belongs:D
They grow up so fast philllll! Enjoy them while their home!

Grats Scara! I know how that feels! I finally passed British Literature after about four times and I think that was the most booze i drank in my whole life. We had a party after that and when I woke up the next morning all my friends got the crap beat out of them. I was the only one without injuries. I wished I was dead tho. My buddies yelled across the street at a bunch of dudes leaving a redneck bar at 3:00 in the morning...BAD IDEA! I passed Brit Lit with a "B" and recovered a day later unlike my friends.
 
Bawanna said:
This year marks 30 years for my first and last wife. Engaged for near 13 before that.

Got a granddaughter that just turned 5 months. Life is good.

Congrats philllllllll, it's alife changing event, probably the most life changing event you'll ever experience.
And one that stays with you as long as your drawing air into your lungs.

It's a good life changing event, really nothing better except maybe grandkids which you can play with and spoil rotten and then send em home.

I wish you and momma and the new son all the best. Your gonna have a blast. Once you get to sleeping a full night that is.
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Wow, Bawanna, congratulations, you really meant those marriage vows! (Is she that beauty that appears in the background of just about every picture of your workbench (the two framed pictures) or just some celebrity posters she lets you keep around? :D)

GOOD JOB! And a happy grandfather to top everything! Indeed, you have quite a few blessings to count.
 
ndoghouse said:
Here grandpa hold this leg and grandma get the other one. What:eek:!!! Too late. They asked me to cut the cord! What:eek:.!!!..what ju talking about? What cord:confused:. By now I know the ritual but grandpa stays outside the room and babysits the siblings where he belongs:D
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:p Oooh boy, they put so much pressure on grandparents today!
 
ndoghouse said:
They grow up so fast philllll! Enjoy them while their home!
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Dude I can't emphasize this statement enough. 3 years is like 3 minutes. At my daughters wedding I even mentioned it in my father of the bride speech. It's like one minute they are carry on and the next you have to check the driveway to see if their car is there and then wedding and now baby.

Makes you wonder when did all this happen and where the heck did the time go.

Don't waste a single second of it. When work and child calls, hang up on work everytime, you'll miss something good if you don't.
 
This "Cantina" space can be addictive as well. Along with these knives, it seems it's all a big conspiration going on!!
 
Moonw said:
Wow, Bawanna, congratulations, you really meant those marriage vows! (Is she that beauty that appears in the background of just about every picture of your workbench (the two framed pictures) or just some celebrity posters she lets you keep around? :D)

GOOD JOB! And a happy grandfather to top everything! Indeed, you have quite a few blessings to count.
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Yes to all of the above. Not a celebrity poster, that would get me a beat down for sure. I'm truly blessed, cept for that one day back in May of 95, that was an off day by any standards.

Conspiration? I'll have to look that one up, I heard of conspiracy, I heard of constipation, but not conspiration.
 
Bawanna said:
Yes to all of the above. Not a celebrity poster, that would get me a beat down for sure. I'm truly blessed, cept for that one day back in May of 95, that was an off day by any standards.

Conspiration? I'll have to look that one up, I heard of conspiracy, I heard of constipation, but not conspiration.
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Gotcha, now that's a healthy approach in preserving one's...health ;). I am not going to ask anything about any particular day, some stones are better left unturned :D.

"Cospiracy" might be indeed...I'm making up words sometimes, told ya from the get-go ;), but Google still doesn't complain about it, maybe it's an old form but still accepted?
 
ndoghouse said:
Grats Scara! I know how that feels! I finally passed British Literature after about four times and I think that was the most booze i drank in my whole life. We had a party after that and when I woke up the next morning all my friends got the crap beat out of them. I was the only one without injuries. I wished I was dead tho. My buddies yelled across the street at a bunch of dudes leaving a redneck bar at 3:00 in the morning...BAD IDEA! I passed Brit Lit with a "B" and recovered a day later unlike my friends.
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Suddenly I'm glad I don't drink.
 
The Devil's Kool Aid without moderation can have far reaching effects. I know this to be true too. From what I can remember anyhow.
 
Bawanna said:
...Congrats philllllllll, it's alife changing event, probably the most life changing event you'll ever experience...
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This really hit me when my wife and I were driving home from the hospital with our firstborn.

Marriage didn't require so much adjustment.
And the first child was easy compared to having two little ones with different sleeping schedules.
 
Amen Brother. That first trip home in the car is a game changer, never forget it. I can't imagine folks with twins or perish the thought more. Definitely hired help needed.

When our first was born, my sister had a baby within a few days, and then 3 or our friends all at the same hospital and all within a two week period. I thought it was something in the water or something.

I got to know all the nurses day and night shift by name and they all knew me.

I was visiting so many new moms and holding so many new babies that they sometimes would get really busy and just hand off a baby to me after they of course taught me the right stuff to do of course so they could deal with something else.

Some were babies of women I didn't even know. One asked me if I was a doctor, I told her no I was just a baby holder. Nurse told her the whole story and surprisingly especially with her first baby she was ok with it. Nurse was a little more careful after that with what she handed me.

phillllll, we're available for babysitting anytime. Wife loves kids and I do too. Enjoy watching my granddaughter immensely.
 
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