Wasted Electrons

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The Beloved Spousal Unit and I are going to be grandparents. Next January apparently. There's been a ultrasound exam to confirm the circumstance already.

But we're NOT READY! Nevermind if the parents-to-be are ready or not- we're not ready! Yikes! Being grandparents means being old- doesn't it? It does to me.

I am the oldest of my siblings and two of my younger brothers are both grandparents already. I take great pleasure in hassling both of them about being old because they are grandpas and now that bit of smug superiority has been stripped from me. I will have to admit that I too am old, over the hill, just waiting for a chance to spoil my first grand child.

Everyone I know that has access to their grandkids tells me they are great. Spoil them, play with them, then send them home with the parents. I have been teasing the BSU for some time now that we need to buying a DVD player and stocking up on all the cartoon movies that come out just so we would have them when the grandkids came for a visit. I guess I was foretelling just a bit too accurately.

Anyway, congratulations to Son Kye and daughter-in-law Sara, they are the expectant parents. Kye called with the news last night. We're shocked. They are too. A new generation begins.
Nate 10:29 AM - [Link] |
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this is a test...
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I DO NOT have a problem! Honest, I just do it recreationally! I can stop- anytime, really! For Some, the Blogging Never Stops

Sometimes, too, the realization that no one is reading sets in. A few blogs have thousands of readers, but never have so many people written so much to be read by so few. By Jupiter Research's estimate, only 4 percent of online users read blogs.

Indeed, if a blog is likened to a conversation between a writer and readers, bloggers like Mr. Wiggins are having conversations largely with themselves.

Yup, that would be me. And now that 17 months of archives have gone lost into the ozone of a crashed harddrive someplace I must admit to feeling a little lost myself. But why? Except for a small number of posts with links to car pictures and some about my guns, there's really not much missing that anybody ever referred back to or cared about. Except me. And its all about me isn't it?

Thanks for the link to Acidman who also had a catastrophic archive failure this week.


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Well, this is disturbing. Wasted Electrons is back live on the web but bunches of my posts seem to be missing. No word from the host on what happened or where my previous posts might be. Maybe they will wander back in on their own later. If not, this looks like post number 2...

I sure hope everything before today isn't lost forever...
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Testing, testing, testing. Can you hear me in the back?
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Test Post
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