I love my wife with all my heart. That is why I am here watching The Bachelor: The Final Rose.









also I love this show...










....It makes me feel like a superior human being.

I've had a headache all day.

I ran a 4.5 hour meeting of 11 men discussing wildlife population dynamics and optimization routines as they relate to the Delaware Bay. This was unrelated to the headache.

I am debating whether or not I should buy an M. Ward album on I-Tunes. This was/is also unrelated to the headache.

We are about 8 weeks from having a second baby in our family. This actually might be related to the headache.

We had a prenatal appointment on Monday and the Midwife after conducting a very exciting, unscientific and inconclusive test, told us that we are either having a baby boy that is in touch with its feminine side or a transgendered child...this also might be related to the headache.

Today

Today I sat through a 3.5 hour presentation by a dude on partially observable Markovian decision analysis, hoping not to say something stupid and that he would offer me a job at the end.

Jesus H.! Its February already? How did that happen? Nu-Baby is due in 11 weeks! Yikes!

I guess its not that scary. I've already raised one kid to the age of two, so I already know a few things about kids, like diaper changing (do it quickly), how to feed them (hand them over to mom), how to sing them songs (its all about the Flaming Lips). I think the tricky part is going to be doing this for two kids at once. I worry about not having them same depth of bond with this nu child as I do with Eva. I just foresee that I'll be Eva's daddy and the Hot Librarian will be Nu-baby's mommy and I won't have much chance to get to know the new kid. My practical brain says that thats a ridiculous sentiment because I have like 18 years to establish a bond, right? At the very least when Eva goes to college in 2024 I'll have two years at home with the nu-kid as my only kid...so I have that to look forward to. Anyway, we bought some new equipment for Nu-baby, on Saturday after noon, and we are getting our cloth diaper supplies organized. In short the eminence of this baby's arrival is becoming more evident to me daily.

Music notes:

- So I flipped through the album reviews section of the latest issue of Spin Magazine this morning. I was a bit sad. The only Artists reviewed that I had ever listened to before were Bruce Springsteen, Morrissey, and Lisa "Left eye" Lopez. I fear I am getting old and becoming out of touch.

- Apparently the Silver Jews are calling a quits. I would have thought that this news would affect me much more that it does. The Natural Bridge and American Water, are two of my favorite albums ever. 3 years ago, I drove 8 hours one way and through tornado spawning thunder storms to see them perform live in Wisconsin. But when I heard the news, I just sort of felt like shrugging. It was not all together surprising to me. I guess the Joos served their purpose for me 10 years ago and will always hold a special place in my heart, but I have grown away from them. The Joos, message has also changed in recent albums with Berman become a religious man. You might know that religion doesn't really do it for me. The final album "lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea," had some good tunes and turned a clever phrase to two, but I'd be surprised If I have listened to it more than 15 times in full. Anyway, I am grateful for the music they have given me and the world...it doesn't get much better in modern rock and roll than "Black and Brown Blues" or "Wild Kindness."

- I am kind of addicted to the Mountain Goats these days. They have been around along time, but I only just started listening to them in 2008. The album "We shall all be Healed" is the complete package and I can just listen to it over and over again. The music reminds me of Neutral Milk hotel but with choruses and hooks embedded in the songs. I think you should go listen to them...all five of you.

I like that most of the news coverage I've read and listened to in recent days has been positive stories about Barack Obama and his inauguration. The media has decided to just forget about the nightmare of W's presidency and think about the future rather than do a shit ton of retrospective stories about our national embarrassment.

Having said that I think this clip from David Letterman is pretty awesome:

I am a little weirded out by all the people from high school that have requested my friendship on Facebook. Don't these people remember what a self righteous asshole I was. I still am for the most part by the way. Today I got a request from one girl that I was just horrid to for a couple years. I still feel bad about it sometimes. It's cool and all to see what these people are up to 13 years later, I've even sought out some folks my self, but these random requests that take me a few minutes to figure out who they are...like I said its weird.

You know what else is weird...the spelling of the word weird.