So today was a good day, Dr. said he was gaining good weight and the bili test came back at 12, which means we can stop using the bili blanket..which is a huge huge pain in the butt. Remember that movie The Electric Grandmother...it was kinda like that. I felt like I was plugging my cyborg baby in to recharge off the hive net and he even glowed blue. I could have just super glued some parts to him and called him baby borg.

See for yourself:

The bili bed at the hospital...god I wish they rented these!

The bili blanket they do rent, which really kinda suck. Notice the glow on the 2nd pic

Oh and you know those yellow things get peed on...don't know why they only gave us like 5 of them.

Anyways now that he's not tethered to a 4' fiber optic cord we can actually sleep in the bedroom tonight (we've been making base camp in the family room). So we'll see how tonight goes. Other than that it's just normal baby stuff....he summon's the dark gooey evil of the deepest pits of hell via his bowels and we clean them up....while occasionally chasing Jen throughout the house with them. And of course taking massive amounts of pictures...not of the poo, of the baby...you sick people I swear.

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Well they finally let us go late yesterday afternoon, even though Connor has slight jaundice, and I don't think we've slept much since then....this crazy light thing has to be on him pretty much 24x7 for right now and it makes all the simple things a total pain.

Then again, oh well, as long as he's healthy ya know....here are some pics I took when we left:

Now if you'll excuse me, I suddenly find there are a thousand things I need to be doing...

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It's amazing to Jen and I that as we sit here it's been less than 24 hours since our son was born. So much has happened and Jen's done so much that it feels like much much longer.

All of Connor's test's have come back and everything is clear. So we are pretty happy about that. Plus hopefully Jen will be off the IV here soon so she can get back to feeling like her old self.

Check that...they're removing it now. Gotta go, but you have to love a hospital that offers WiFi don't ya?

Basically, things are going great and Jen did a super job with everything. You can't ask for much more than that in the end.

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This morning, at 3:01am CST, our son Connor Mervin Judd was brought into this world with a lot of hard work and pushing :)

Technically he was only 37 1/2 weeks along, but he already weighted 8.5lbs and was 20" long. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had left him in there? Yipes.....

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More information to come, but things are looking to be moving a little quicker than originally though.

I'll post more when it's over.

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It's taken a while but we've finally finished uploading the wedding photos, the whole gallery of 130+ is here (hint: the slideshow feature is useful if you want to see them all), but here's a few highlights:

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In the odd chance you haven't seen this yet...the other guy in the video is actually the one who wrote Anchorman and Talladega Nights....go figure:

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Time seems to be playing cruel jokes on me lately. There just isn't enough of it in a day to get everything done I want, and of course it doesn't help I'm not the most motivated person at times.

Anybody remember that Metric Time sketch from SNL back in the 70's? That's what I need :)

Whole lot of hurry up and wait going on here with the kid. I think it's safe to say we (meaning Jen) have officially entered the "OK, this was great...is it over yet?" phase of pregnancy. Meanwhile, I've been keeping busy working on a laptop for a friend of hers. It's this super small Compaq Armada M300 that had a failing 6GB hard drive in it, I was able to slap a 40GB in it and reinstall XP Home on it after a few days of scratching my head on how to do it legally so I could squeeze SP2 into it. I gotta say, now that I'm all done, I'm really happy with how it turned out. You'd never think it's a 333Mhz while using it. I also make a bios battery for it using some batteries I had lying around from the wedding floral decorations....go figure.

Funny thing, since the bios battery was dead, the clock obviously was way off (dec 1, 1999)....so here's the rub. I kept trying to register the copy of XP over the Internet, and it wouldn't let me do it. I was online, everything else worked fine, but it just couldn't connect to the server. I think it was giving me error message 32777. The fix turned out to be setting the clock to the correct date. Isn't that a kick? I have no idea why the clock being wrong should cause that, but hey I kinda get it....I mean XP didn't exist back in 1999. It was just kinda weird.

Oh yeah, and while we're at it, why doesn't anyone update bios's anymore? I mean, the thing still had the bios on it from 1999...version 1. At least if your going to slap a new OS on it take the time to update the bios. It was kinda cool because I used to do that all the time, and had a hell of a time finding an actual floppydisk and drive to make the update disk. Ahhh...the memories.

In other computer news I'm officially becoming old. I had to set the DPI of my monitors to 120 from 96 due to my eyesight getting worse. Doc said I have the eyes of a 43 year old and of course it only has to do with the excessive amount of time I spend on a computer. Of course it doesn't help that I have always maxed out my resolution to get the most real estate on my monitor (currently 1680x1050). Getting old sucks.

On the bright side, free stuff doesn't suck :P Friends of ours (Rick and Kristin) gave us this awesome basket full of baby stuff (Kristin just gave birth, so she knows all the must have's), and one of their parents even went so far to make a quilt for us that matched some of the Fischer Price stuff we've bought (rainforst pack and play). I mean, how nice is all that? I couldn't even make a napkin for somebody if I had a gun to my head. I hope this doesn't mean we have to keep one upping each other, and like 5 years from now I'll be posting about how hard marble is to chisle or something. :0

Off to work, but real quick I just got this:

- Pat (NSFW) sent me this, For Sale: One Useless Cat.

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Introducing the StopSaw.

What makes it so amazing? Well when it detects contact with human flesh it stops in 1/200th of a second. Isn't that unbelievable? It's the difference between buying gloves and mittens for some people.

Watch the hot dog video on their site, it's amazing.

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This morning I went to start my car, but the battery was dead for some reason. I have no idea why, and I assume that maybe the door was just left open abit or something. So I missed my eye doctors appointment of course, which kinda pissed me off.

So, I finally get my car started after putting a charger on it for a while (boy I hope it starts when I go to head home). And as I'm heading into work I notice a car half on and half off the road on rt. 62 right before 68 and 59. Figuring I'd be helpful I pull over in a driveway and head back, thinking we could at least push the car off onto the side of the road so people aren't blocked from the lane until the other lane is empty. I mean seriously you couldn't go around him until traffic died down on the other side.

So I pull over and walk up to his Chevy Tahoe.....large truck. Trying to push it uphill with just the two of us wasn't working, and trying to explain to him the concept of letting it roll backwards down the hill, and turning the wheel just seemed beyond his grasp. Meanwhile his wife is the car, but she doesn't know how to drive one (she was sitting in the back) and I'm trying to push a truck uphill in the mud.

Finally another guy pulls over, and he steers the car while I push it backwards and we get it out of harm's way. The guy then bugs out and as I'm trying to leave (to get to work remember), this guy I was trying to help starts asking me if I can drop his wife off for him...in Streamwood. He keeps asking and asking and I'm like "No, I have to get to work, it's to far away". Then the lady who I can only guess lives in the house connected to the driveway I'm in front of starts getting mad at me because my car is blocking her. So I yell to her "Just one second please, I'm just trying to help" while i have this guy following me trying to turn me into a fucking taxi, and then when I do get close enough to her I say "I just pulled over to help this guy"...I mean I literally couldn't have been blocking her for more than a minute. Her response..."well i guess I'll call and cancel the police".

I turn around, tell the guy one more time I am not a taxi, and hop in my car (hoping it starts itself) and leave.

no good deed goes unpunished.

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The very very nice people at Jen's work were kind enough to throw an impromptu little surprise baby shower for her the other day.

I mean really, what else can you say about people you hardly know when they take the time to celebrate the birth of your child. At the very least it's a smart way to guarantee free tech support for a few good years :)

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Yeah, it's a little crazy up here in the Chicago 'burbs. I just snapped these pics...

/good excuse to use 16:9 mode on my camera

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It seems that I just can't win.

Growing up, no matter what I did Juliet just didn't seem to like me. But now, It seems I just can't get rid of her at certain times. It's like something in her brain just says "I need attention now!".....who am I to say no.

Why no, it's not comfortable or easy to pull off a Quickening chain like this

In more important news, baby update time. Jen's at 34 weeks now I think, and when you compare the picture of her at 27 weeks you can see why her back is hurting her.

Which reminds me, we're still going through the wedding photo's. It takes a long time to put them in sequential order and rename them.

- In the meantime, enjoy this free Peep Show. Marshmellow peep of course, there was a contest for best peep diorama, and of course there are pics in the link.

- There are 2 people in the world probably who will think this is cool. Square-Enix is offering Slime themed silverware. Dragon Quest fans rejoice!

- The great Tennessee marijuana cave. I don't care who you are that's cool, it's like whoever built Webster's house went all evil and stuff. Now I want a pneumatic rock escape hatch... :(

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If your answer is "hump various items" then you win a prize:

However, you might want to wash your prize off when you get home....just sayin'.

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So I've been using dual monitors for a while now, and wanted to upgrade. So I picked up 2 dell monitors when they were on sale, to replace my old Kogi shown below:

So this is what my desk looked like before, two kogi's and a dell 17" I inherited:

And here we are after:

My eyes just aren't what they used to be anymore, plus these new screens have thinner bezels and can go to higher resolutions.

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So there's been this stray that stops by our house that I've posted pictures of, well it turns out she has a friend...or most probably baby daddy that she brings along.

I've never seen a cat with pumpkin eyes before

Also caught a picture of Moxie being cute, playing with a catnip filled moose:

And of course Gizmo is a camera whore, posing and doing all sorts of cute things any chance he can get just for a shot to be online. I hope he enjoys this role of dominance over the kid for now, cause it's sure not gonna last long:

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This was making the rounds on the sites lately, so I present you with the most evil thing you will see

Otters holding hands.

Something that cute, must truly be evil.

turns out, it's pretty typical behaviour....but man talk about perfect first date material if your looking to score :)

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