News
February 4th 2010 -
There are some kinds of news that are globally interesting but individually distant – scientific advances, world politics, and the like. I don’t usually write about these kind of things because, well, I don’t usually have much to add that others haven’t. I tend to stick with more personal kind of news. Things that have directly affected me. The sphere of interest for these items is probably pretty small, but that’s OK.
For example: Veronica is, as of yesterday, three months pregnant. She is very sick of having morning/afternoon/all-day sickness and is greatly looking forward to phase 2 of the pregnancy.
This is wonderful news for us, and it’s been very difficult not blabbing since we found out just before christmas. It’s funny to think that while this is a huge, life-changing event on a personal level, on the broader scheme of things, this is a very normal and happens to people all the time.
Anyway. Wooooooo! Also, a quick message for when you’re old enough to read this: Greetings from Dad-of-the-past! I hope you’ve finished your homework, and have cleaned your room, ’cause reading weblog entries from years and years ago is clearly an act of stupendous procrastination :-)
By the way, the previous sentence contained a “smiley”. This is an archaic punctuation expression from before you were were born.
Also! Have you ever heard of the “iPad”? Is that still around? It was announced a few weeks ago, so that’d be about six months before you were born. When *I* was born, six months previously, people had just landed on the moon for the first time. Also, I should note that the US just cancelled their new land-on-the-moon plans.
And now I’m talking about globally interesting events, and I finally have a reason.
Dave Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
I wondered if you were one of the friends that JB inadvertently outed, as it were, on Livejournal the other day.
Wonderful news for both of you (and you, future blog-comment-reading champion of procrastination)! I will phone with more effusive and marginally less coherent congratulations as soon as I recover my wits.
Dave
PS: Fi sez gratz
Owen Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Woooo! Congrats! Wishing you both a smooth pregnancy, easy birth and obedient child. (not too obedient though)
Iain Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Congratulations, both of you!
(I suspected as much from JB’s LJ as well.)
Jen Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 9:03 am
Hoorah! I can blab freely now! Glad all’s going swimmingly…. expect a parcel in the post… birthday/ congrats to be had- Sofia and Sara are impressed (and phew that takes the pressure off us!)