Today is a day of two very different stories…

Here’s a nice story:

Sometime, I believe it was early afternoon, on Wednesday I recieved a text message from gilgrim saying that he and APril were on the way to the hospital. A bit later a second text message came in, saying that, no they weren’t headed to the hospital, that gilgrim was an idiot, and all further text messages would be approved by APril (as a sidenote, I didn’t actually receive these until Thursday, but that’s another story…).

The wife told me earlier on the phone that she recieved a text stating that while pre-labor has been going on since Wednesday, the actual post-pre-labor…or labor, if you will…hadn’t yet started. So at some point soon (hopefully today) we’ll get to welcome Salem into this confusing/exhilarating place we call “the world.”

Here’s one that is (I believe) less nice:

The daughter has had, essentially, a non-stop ear infection since right around her first birthday. Today she is 20 months old and the whole family (well, the wife and I) got to wake up at 3:30 to head down to the hospital (we had to be there at 5) so that the kid could get tubes put in her ears. The placing of tubes in ears is, I’m told, the most common (in this country, at least) surgical procedure performed on children under the age of 7. The whole thing took less then five minutes. Well, that’s great, and hopefully there is no permanent ear damage to the kid. The doctor said she already had some scar tissue in there, but he didn’t anticipate it would cause her any problems later in life.

So that’s not bad, really, so much as annoying to wake up that early. Of course, I also got into work late, and while my hour drive home is never appealing, it is even less so at 6 pm. Again, still just annoying. But today’s fun doesn’t stop there, oh no! The wife called a few hours ago to tell me that there was a swarm of gnat like bugs flying around our porch, and that some had gotten in the house. I’ll not bore you with the details, so…WE HAVE FUCKING TERMITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just yesterday we had a very nice gentleman come out to the house to give us an estimate on some work we wanted done to the house, and we’ve been researching what vacation we might take this summer. All possible because of the nice tax return we got this year…guess what…no home improvement or vacation for us, oh on….BECAUSE WE HAVE FUCKING TERMITES!

Can you tell I’m a bit upset?

And you know, I had planned on writing two very good posts today. They were totally informative and engaging and covered topics important to my readers…or not, whatever…

While I can’t, with 100 percent certainty, confirm this. Reports have come in stating that, in fact, a male baby, named Salem Ezra Gray was indeed born yesterday afternoon. Initial numbers are 7.47 lbs., and 20 inches.

I know you all join me in wishing the parents and baby well.