Here comes another year, and it looks like this one might be the most event-filled yet. As a brief cryptic comment posted from the cameraphone last week announced, my wife and I are expecting our first child, due in very early August. We’ve been looking for a care provider for us who can help us acheive a natural birth, and we have a promising candidate across the state line in South Carolina. We’d wanted a home birth, but those are illegal in Georgia. There is a network of “underground” midwives in the state, but none were close enough to us to be comfortable accepting us as patients, so we adapted the plan a bit. In South Carolina, midwives are legal and state licensed, so there is no sculking around needed. I’m really excited, and more so since my fellow former junta leader Jason is going through the same thing, and only a week or two behind.

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As the phone photos suggest, we went up to Missouri a week and a half ago for my sister A’s wedding. While there we both managed to pick up the nasty flu that is going around. A word to the wise - avoid that stuff like, well, the plague. We each had a 102 fever for four days or more, and had to in back to childhood diseases to remember when we’d felt as bad. Now, ten days later, we have recovered, save for the gallons of goo still in our lungs.

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It’s not everyday I get mentioned in Wired.