Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
We saw pancakes!
Ok, let me explain. No, it would take too long, let me sum up:
Tonya and I went for our first major ultrasound appointment today at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, which is where we are going to have the baby. Well, she will have the baby, Kristen will be the coach, and I'll be there to get yelled at so neither the nurses, doctors, nor Kristen have to be berated by my wife. Back to the story. So we went for our ultrasound this morning. They baby is healthy and looks fine. 5 fingers, all major organs, and brain parts were visiable. The spine looked fine so did her tib/fib and rad/ulna and femur and humerous on both sides. It was a little wierd to see bones with no Ti reinforcement.
So on to the pancakes. When they sex a baby using ultrasound you either see a boy, and we all know what a boy looks like (if you don't, go to google and type the word: penis into the search terms, make sure to turn off the google content protection and click away). On a girl what you see is three bright lines where the penis isn't. It looks sort of like a short stack of pancakes.
Its actually a good thing we are having a girl. Tonya and I were having a hard time with boys names. Now we can save that battle for later. Her name is: Kathryn (after my mom's mom) Willow (after my middle name) Deutsch (our last name). Tonya actually formulated the name, my initial suggestion was Kathryn Margaret. It was reject for sounding too nun like.
Some of you may have heard that we had a rat in garage. It attacked our food stuffs and destroyed an isulated lunch box that must have smelled of the food that once leaked in it. It also left rat crap everywhere. The rat won round 1. You may want to stop here if you are against killing vermin.
Round 2: The rat traps part 1 (Sunday night). After removing all food from the garage we bought some old fashoned rat traps. You know just like old fashioned mouse traps but MUCH bigger. Tonya and I were eating dinner with my sister when we heard a loud thunk. We both assumed that cat had knocked something to the floor and neither wanted to know just yet, what it was. After dinner we were both walking to the garage to let my sister out. As we got to the door it occured to both of us, that nothing was out of place and we hadn't heard Zoe scramble for a hiding place. (She hides if she knocks something over.) In unison we both realized that we had heard a rat trap in the garage. I went out to check it out. We in deed had the signs of a rat. We had cleanly taken off the foreleg of a large rodent. This convinced me that this wan't a family of field mice. It was definatly a rat or something similar in size. I disposed of the leg and reset the trap with more peanut butter. Round 1 winner: Will
Round 3: Last night while Tonya dozed on my chest and I watch modern marvels (Edwards Air Force Base) on the history channel with Zoe cuddled between us. I heard it again. The loud banging wap of the rat trap going off. I was wondering if I was going to find a no armed rat hiding on the garage in the morning, as I wasn't going to get dressed to check it out at that moment. It seems this time. The rat didn't try to use its arms (I couldn't see if it had all of them this morning when I checked the trap) but instead dove in head first with the expected results of a rat putting its head in a rat trap. Mr. Sniffles is dead. Tonight, I have the joy of disposing of Mr. Sniffles and deploying the remaing traps for better coverage. Round 3 goes to Will.
We still haven't determined if Mr. Sniffles is alone but due to the second round wounding we had a blood trail to follow. We now know where the rats are coming and going from.
So it turns out that there are at least two Mr. Sniffles. The one that lost the leg and the one that got gacked by the trap... In the extended is a picture of Mr. Sniffles.
This is a set of photos from a beach on Kauai. Tonya and I took our rental jeep out along a dirt road to get there. The beach is cut off from the rest of the world by private property but there is an easement for beach access. I removed the people that were polluting my images in all but one shot. See if you can find where they were.
I haven't really had time to do this. All is well. First trimester problems are all over and have been for a while. Since the end of July or so. I had a dr.'s app. a week ago and got to listen to the heartbeat. A perfect 150 beats per minute. She couldn't find it at first so they brought out the little ultrasound machine again. The baby was laying at the very bottom (I no longer wonder why I frequent the bathroom so often) So she pulled out the doppler thing to try for the heartbeat again and found it no problem. I'm now 18 weeks. My ultrasound is next wednesday. I'm so excited!!! Will has agreed to find out the gender. He says only because he can't say no to me....but I think he's secretly excited to find out on wednesday. Now watch the baby won't cooperate. I'm also waiting to get back the results of a blood test. It should take another week or so. It looks for problems with the baby like downs and a couple other things. I'm not worried....I'm young and neither of us have a family history of genetic problems so everything should be fine. So hopefully everything at the ultrasound goes well and we have a healthy baby. And maybe wednesday there will be a post of "It's a ..........." I'm so clueless as to what it is that I had a dream that we had twins and one was a girl and the other was a boy. Or maybe I should say nightmare :-)
Evolution debate creates monster | LJWorld.com
"Clearly, these are just supreme satirists. What they are doing is pointing out that there is no more sense to intelligent design than there is to a Flying Spaghetti Monster," Wagnon said.
Intelligent design posits that some aspects of biology are so complex, they point toward an intelligent creator.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The struggle over science
"Science relies on freedom of inquiry, and one of the hallmarks of that freedom is objectivity - government relies on the impartial perspective of science for guidance..." Those are the words of President Bush in 1990 - George Herbert Walker.
I just don't even know what to say. It will be interesting to see how long the country takes to recover from the systematic plundering that is happening. Our white house makes policy to suck the dick of those that keep them in power even going against proven fact, both scientific and otherwise. The education system and the nations intelectual capital are paying the price. I don't think either will bounce back quickly.
Newsday.com: NCAA Will Let Fla. St. Use 'Seminoles'
When you make a mistake it's important to realize it and move on," Bush said.
I just wish the correct bush said this... This is from Jeb, about someone else's mistake.
World markets, TAB, 3rd Writethru
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reports its second-quarter earnings rose almost six per cent to $2.8 billion US, which beat Wall Street's profit expectations.
Sales ran up 10.2 per cent to $76.8 billion US.
However, the world's largest retailer came short of revenue expectations because of high gasoline prices and its shares declined $1.55 to $47.55 US.
"I worry about the effect of higher oil prices," Wal-Mart chief executive Lee Scott said. Scott said higher prices at the pump could erase economic gains for a portion of Wal-Mart's customer base.
I think we are starting to see the limits to the elasticity in the world markets. The cost of fuel is going to trigger a surge of inflation as companies need to take operating costs into account.
Travel is getting ready to snap. Operating costs for airlines are now mostly fuel costs by percentage.
The used car market is probably going to get interesting. Soccer moms are going to have to dump SUVs soon as they will be too expensive to drive.
Oh, and OPEC is trying to keep the OIL teet wet and attractive:
World Tribune.com -- OPEC sees threat from 'alternative energy'
It seems OPEC doesn't like the fact that the world is starting to tire of being gouged by them, then the oil companies, and the government. (The governement give the oil companies HUGE tax breaks then taxes the "consumer" good produced by the oil companies.)
USATODAY.com - Scientists find errors in global warming data
Satellite and weather-balloon research released Friday removes a last bastion of scientific doubt about global warming, researchers say.
The key to this statement is scientific doubt. This won't stop the administration or the oil industry from claiming that global warming doesn't exist. Further it won't stop the sheeple that follow this broken adminstration from following blindly.
US News Article | Reuters.com
Kansas moves to stem role of evolution in teaching
People in the center of this country dislike that coastal people view them as backwards religeous idiots. Then they go and prove it over and over and over again.
I propose the teaching of godly attraction to replace gravity. My theory is that there is no gravity, just gods will pushing matter together. If go evergets distracted there will be no "gravity". Physics still can't completely explain gravity at least not in small enough words for someone who doesn't understand evolution.
It a wonder skilled jobs are leaving this country. The stupid people are just insuring that people that come after them are stupider and stupider. While there are people dumping money into the education system trying to save science and math other people are doing far more damage by destroying them. Joy! I really hope every job in Kansas moves to India and China.
