Rest in peace, Molly. You were a good girl. Sorry about the tutu thing; it was Mommy’s idea.

I never thought I’d see anything as beautiful as Anna.

I was wrong.

Abby arrived Monday, and she is her sister’s equal in beauty, intelligence, and overall sweetness. Kathy and I are blessed beyond words.

We were scheduled to have labor induced Monday morning at 6am. However, Kathy began having labor pains very early Sunday morning. They were not evenly spaced (some were 5 minutes apart, others 8-12), but they were more intense than any she had experienced with Anna, so we went to the hospital.

After being monitored for about an hour and a half, they sent us home saying we were not ready yet. For the next 24 hours the pains continued and gradually became more regular. By Monday morning at 5am, they had become practically unbearable. We got to the hospital at 5:15, 45 minutes before we were scheduled to be there anyway. From the look on the receptionists face, you’d think we had gotten there 4 hours early for no reason at all.

We soon found out that there was a reason the pains were so bad; Kathy was 8cm dilated already! We got there just in time for her to still be able to get an epidural, for which she is profoundly thankful… two hours after being taken back to the room, Abby was born.

Abby Lauren Wright was born at 7:43 am, weighed in at 9lbs, 11 oz. (yes, that’s right), and was 22 inches long. So far she has been an excellent eater and sleeper; she slept 4 hours at a time at night in the hospital, allowing us to get some rest. Since getting home that has shortened a bit, but she’s still doing pretty well. She’s eating like a champ; when Anna was a newborn she had a lot of trouble getting latched on to Mommy. With Abby, she usually gets on on the first try.

Anna has posted some pictures of her new sister at her blog; surf over and check it out! Here’s one to tide you over:

Finished my MBA program last night…

No more 4-hour lectures on Thursday nights.
No more 75 page papers.
No more case study presentations.
And most importantly, no more waiting until 11pm to watch The Apprentice…

Speaking of The Apprentice, that show has been my little MBA buddy the past two years. It premiered the same week as my first night of class; it was cool to go learn about business for 4 hours, then come home and watch a show based on a similar pursuit each week.

I do not like David Ortiz. I hate the Boston Red Sox. I don’t think a DH should ever win the MVP. But if I had a vote for MVP, I’d cast it for Big Poopi.

Why?

Because after last night, I don’t want Alex Rodriguez to get it. Scratch that; after the last week, I don’t want Alex Rodriguez to get it. In the regular season, Rodriguez was more valuable than Ortiz. Their offensive stats were almost identical, but Rodriguez also played an outstanding third base, while Ortiz sat in the dugout, presumably eating donuts.

But the New York Yankees are not about the regular season. They are about winning the World Series, or at least they used to be. But that is hard to do when your $250,000,000-MVP-candidate-third-baseman goes .133 for the series and does not drive in a single run. Grounding into a double play when you are the tying run at the plate in the 9th inning of an elimination game is inexcusable.

Thanks to Justin, I was able to import the Haloscan comments into Wordpress. Thanks for the help!

“Lounge Against the Machine” is my new favorite band. Clicky-clicky for mp3 goodness.

You don’t need an upgraded account to use Haloscan with WordPress, but you do need an upgraded account if you want to export the Haloscan comments and import them into the WordPress commenting tool.

The problem with continuing to use Haloscan is that the old comments are tied to the post ID numbers that were used by Blogger. When I installed WordPress, it imported my old posts into a new database and blew away the Blogger ID numbers. So now I have a bunch of Haloscan comments that are not tied to the correct posts anymore. I’m sure there’s probably some way to fix this, but I have neither the knowledge nor the desire to figure it out.

Upgraded the site to use WordPress today, and am still playing with the look and feel. Haven’t migrated the comments from the old site yet, and am not sure if I’m going to because I think Haloscan will make me purchase the upgraded service before it will let me export the data.

He’s done it again. Top of the 8th, no outs, Yankees down 6-5 at Fenway. Posada leads off with a double, and Torre sends Tony Womack in to run for him.

Why???

It’s a desperation move to get a single run that will only tie the game. If that is the only run they score, we’re now stuck in a situation with possible extra innings coming up and our all-star catcher is no longer available. This is going to bite us in the behind–you just know his spot is going to come up again, and we’ll be stuck with a scrub hitting in it. Same thing with Giambi; Torre pulled him in the last inning for Tino’s defense at 1st. Now his spot will come up again and instead of a guy who has been hitting home runs in every game for almost a week will be on the bench. It’s driving me crazy.

EDIT: Well, we got our tying run, and that’s it. Middle of the 8th, tie game, and Giambi and Posada are on the bench and we’re stuck with Womack and Martinez.

EDIT #2: Martinez and Womack are now a combined 0-2. Luckily for Torre, A-Rod hit a 2-run shot before they came up. Now it’s up to Skeletor Mariano Rivera to retire the top of the BoSox order in the bottom of the 9th.

EDIT #3: Skeletor comes through again, striking out Johnny “The Passion of the Centerfielder” Damon, Edgar “I couldn’t think of a nickname” Renteria, and David “Big Poopy” Ortiz. Yankees win! TTTTHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN!