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Here, for posterity’s sake, is how I liveblogged my wife’s labour and baby girl’s delivery using Facebook status updates:

September 28

John is timing contractions! 9:36pm

John is finding the iPod perfect for timing contractions. 9:56pm

John is watching his wife updating a Calc spreadsheet during labour. Amazing. 10:28pm

John is realizing that using an iPod to time contractions officially qualifies him as a GeekDad. 10:50pm

John is boiling water (for tea) and resisting the urge to tear up old sheets. 11:08pm

John is off to bed. Maybe Ella will come overnight. 11:14pm

September 29

John is having breakfast and then it’s off to the hospital. Updates from my cellphone when I can. 10:06am

John is at the hospital. We have our room. Everything going well. 12:56pm

John is having lunch. Ella’s birthday could be today or tomorrow. 3:06pm

John is glad Laurie is getting some pain relief and some sleep. Epidurals are great. 8:41pm

September 30

John is a daddy to Ella Faith Bowman, 8 lbs. 3 oz., born at 10:31 last night. 7:46am

John is home with Ella and Laurie and is going to bed. 2:31pm

So, I’m riding my bike to work today, and it broke.

Not “it broke down.” Not “the chain broke” or “the tire broke.” The bike broke.

The frame cracked right through the bracket that holds the rear wheel in place.

I was surprised. Don’t get me wrong. The bike was a piece of crap. But I was sure the derailleurs or the chain or something would go before the frame broke.

So, I used my house key as a screwdriver and removed all the useful bits. And then I abandoned my bike on Queen St. E, just east of the Don Valley bridge, and caught a streetcar to work.

I was thinking of taking the same streetcar home to see if it was still there.

I’ve imported (what I think is) the last back-up I made of my blog. There’s about a year missing, which, at the rate I’ve been blogging, could mean as many as a half a dozen posts.

I’ll see if I can retreive some of the missing posts from Google cache or archive.org or something.

The guy in the t-shirt here?

My thoughts exactly.

Maybe migrating to Movable Type wasn’t such a great idea after all. My blog is swarming with spambots leaving links to online pharmacy sites and degree mills in my comments.

I’m spending most of my time on this blog just deleting the comment spam.

I should install that Blacklist thingy. Or just take it all down and stick to Livejournal.

Soon I’ll be 30, I don’t want to be 30
I’ve got some big plans, Goodwill has some big hands
With each new computer screen, the world tells me I’m more green
Buy a new Game Boy!

Hey, that sounds like an idea!

Mleh. I have a Palm with Bejeweling on it. I’m fine.

My 30th birthday is Thursday, and I would like to do a “party” kinda thing. Except I have a midterm that night and the following weekend is the July SD event.

Sooo, I figured I’d go to the Epoch meeting after my test to catch up with some folks, and arrange a party for the 24th or thereabouts.

Watch for invites. Or e-vites. Or sumpin’.

Wow. This is like every day for me.

(Found on Joey’s blog.)

If there’s something that will keep me away from my blog more effectively than the beginning of the month, it’s being sick. I took two days off work last week with a sore throat, but I’m much better now.

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon playing games at a friend’s place, including Puerto Rico, a colonial economy game, and an excellent time-travel game called Chrononauts.

And on Saturday, I saw Dawn of the Dead (along with millions and millions of other people, apparently). And, because I went to the middle of nowhere to see it, I only paid $7.50 for my ticket.

Which is cheaper than my ticket for Love, Sex and Eating the Bones on Friday night, and that was with a $6-off coupon. Ouch.

I just got an e-mail from someone asking me to appear at Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington, KY. Apparently they were impressed with my last appearance there in 1999.

I can only assume they meant this guy.