Fatherly advise

Irony

Ever go to Menard's or Home Depot and check out how people park? They are all over the parking lot without much regard to proximity to the store. Now go to the healthclub. Everybody parks as close as possible to the club. People wait minutes to get a better spot. What the heck?!! Drive around the parking lot to get a closer spot so, God forbid, you will have to walk any distance to go "workout."

Best sports comment of the year

Steve Nash on Carmelo "biggest punk loser on a block full of punk losers" Anthony describing the gutless sucker punch and immediate pussy backpedal that earned bploabfopl a 14 game suspension.

“Typical NBA punch,” Nash told the Toronto Globe and Mail. “In hockey, your own team would beat you up for that.”

Top ten most annoying people

Troy Hudson The stress of both worlds....of which you suck at. From Ole defense to his rifleman offensive personality, he annoys the crap out of me.

Charles Schwab (for those commercials) Those partially animated spots where the person is talking about their financial annoying crap. I mean, how could you go from this to stupid animated people.

W: I thought I had GERD, but it was only when W would give that little smug smile after he had "answered" a question.

Kevin Mchale Let's quickly refer back to the place in our minds where we've stored the nightmares that are the Minnesota draft picks during the Kevin Garnett era. Two good picks, three bad picks, one mediocre pick, and one unknown. Let's see one of those drafts had two picks and.........there it is! It's the elephant in the room. What happened to all of those other draft picks? Well, we know that one was traded away in order to acquire Bobby Jackson, but the others are still unaccounted for. Here's what I'm getting at: Joe Smith and "debacle" aren't grouped together because they sound good. Apparently, the Minnesota brass, namely Kevin McHale and Owner, Glen Taylor, thought that it would be wise to put the "secret" illegal contract in writing. Brilliant! About a year later, the league somehow got a copy of the agreement and that was precisely the moment when Joe Smith went from "Ordinary Joe" to "Joe Smith Debacle." The Minnesota organization was fined a large sum of money, Taylor was suspended, McHale involuntarily took a "leave of absence" from his front office post, and the team was forced to forfeit five future first-round picks. So five first rounders for Joe Smith...One for Bobby Jackson (who we just decided not to sign) one for 1/2 a season with Marcus Banks and one for letting the Clippers take all-star Sam Cassell for something called Marco Jaric. So all in all, that is 8 first round draft picks for Bobby, Marco, Joe and 1/2 of Marcus. Now, people say to trade Kevin to rebuild....but I disagree. Not when McHale has control of the ship. We will probably get 1 first rounder and a couple more guards that are decent back-ups.

Chris Hawkey: Anyone who tries to act more dumb than the star on the morning show should be taken out back and beaten.

Bill Walton: enough of bill, please.

Puffy: How many weight loss progams that you "eat all you want and don't exercise" can a guy tout?

Any lifetime achievement award winner at any celeb award show (chewbacca excluded): Those 15 minutes I will never get back. No, I don't think you are a genius, you just try to act like one.

Jack Black: What other character does he play.

Tom Cruise:

In no particular order

dishonorable mention...sam jackson: narcissus

Days that blur

It is about time for me to go back to work again. The last 8-10 days have just been a blur. I usually get up and do the 4:00am feeding time with Bella, change her and then try to get her to calm down again and go to sleep. I am sleeping again, maybe, by 4:45am. It is a strange night now that there is a newborn in the house. I think neither Anita or I may get sleep in patches of about 4 hours at a time. I seem to be o.k. during the day, but mornings are a killer. Never enough things to worry about with the little one as well....is she pooping enough, too much, what is the color....yes most of the worry comes with the amount and color of poop these days.....what a life ey? But I wouldn't change it for anything....fatherhood is amazing!
here she is helping me blog

Bella

Bella's site

We finally got to bring Bella home today. She had been in the level 2 nursery for a few days. first because her white blood cell count was high and the docs were concerned with infection, so they put an IV in her head to give her antibiotics and fluids. Her blood culture was negative after 48 hours (thank goodness as she then would have been in the nursery for 10 more days), but her bilirubin count was up, so she was placed in the photo booth/box to help her with that. She then was weened off of the IV and has been feeding pretty well since. It is late, Anita is sleeping, or trying, and I am watching my little Bella until her 11:00 feeding time. Ta.
Byron is still adjusting.

Happy family

pic of Isabella

BABY!

Isabella Pearl Severt was born today, Jan 6th at 12:03am. She is 6 lbs 6 oz and 19 inches. It was a very long day for mom and baby. I think my jaw will recover from clenching it together on every push. All in all, though, very exciting. More later....

The pit of despair

We had some plumbing issues with our house. Apparently the mainline had sunk into a cesspool about 40 years ago and basically created a trap in the line. You find these things out when your sewage starts backing up.....ugh. Anyway, it was repaired today along with changing the main water line from lead (which I hear is bad, but I have a hard time remembering) to copper.

byron smiling

Misty monday

Well, we are almost ready for winter. Yard is all cleaned up with two trips to the compost site. I still have to get a snowblower, however. I really want a fairly small two stage honda. Byron is very tired today and yesterday as he had a visitor on saturday night. Carol and Daryl brought over their dog, Isaac, to play with our B. They battled for about four hours. We also got our crib put together over the weekend. It was a bit of a trial, but I think it came out fine. Not much else new....vikes offense is offensive

Fall

Not much new today other than my mom broke both her ankles.....not playing basketball. We took some pics of out pup out in the yard with mixed success. I ran a 10k today around the lakes. I use an ipod with the nike+ adapter. I like it although at the moment it is about 75 yards off in a 5k distance.

Ahh, it's been awhile.
Interesting day today at work....had a meth head completely high and drunk. I called the police and had him escorted out after he threatened me for not rx'ing him drugs.
We just got back from visiting Elo and Turtle and Siena in Chicago. We had a good time.
I have been running with my new ipod and nike+ accessories. It allows me to see how I am improving and log it into nike+.com which graphs my runs out and lets me track goals and such....pretty cool. Here we are at Wrigley Field on sunday. I am the master of left handed shots.

Still Running

Slightly less dubay. Scratched my cornea today. That is just about as much fun as a sharp stick in the eye.

Fat

Since my close call with the augmentin, I have not been able to excercise much and am fat. They say the end of the summer, so today, I went out for a run.... I ran about a mile and 1/2. 4 laps around the track......almost keeled. I am hoping to extend 1 lap every other day or so, so I will look less like this.......

Isaac

Carol B brought over her French Mastiff puppy, Isaac. He is just 14 pounds and will get to about 140. Byron almost ate him....

dogs and ultrasounds

Byron's brother, Parker, came over when it was a million degrees out and they played until almost dead. Our house has no air, so we go up north whenever possible during the heatwaves.

We went in to see my bro for some ultrasound pics of the baby....
going over to Enge's tonight for some grilling eats...

Caio

funny stuff

lots of swearing for you with tender ears.

http://www.maximmag.co.uk/stupidfun/videoclips/4306/silly_stuff.html

The way home

Linda, my new nurse came in the next morning and started taking off some of the devices placed on me the night before. Off came the oxygen mask, off came one of the IV's and blessedly, off came the bp cuff that had swelled my right arm up huge and made it look like their were purple flames running up from the elbow. Anita couldn't stand the sight of my arm. I was just happy to have some of the restraints off. I still had the art line in my left wrist, the foley and the central line out of my chest. That was enough. My fever never seemed to rise above 102 much, so I didn't have to don the blanket again. Now it was up to many docs comming in to give their opinions. Internal med docs, hematologists, dermatologists, infectious disease docs. They all came to one opinion. That it is very unlikely that this is anything but a severe drug reaction to the Augmentin. This is good news for me...that endotoxins were out of the equation. I spent the rest of the day into the next in the ICU with mostly just me and Anita. My parents were very relieved when they returned to find me stronger and getting better. Linda had brought Anita a more comfortable chair to recline on and that made me feel a lot better.
So now it was recovery. Lots of steroids and saline. I even started to eat some although the hospital food was really terrible. I mean a sandwich was two slices of white bread and a slab of processed turkey....that is it. Happy lunch. Steriods made me crazy at night. I woke up hallucinating like Russell Crowe. I was certain that things were happening for about 5 minutes each time. It was scary once I was trying to rip out my iv's.
I did find that once they moved me out of ICU, I needed to go. I needed good food and rest and this was not the place. Anita may have needed these things more than me at this point as well. There was a lot of worry about her health now as well.
We ended up going up north, and as would be expected, my mother gave us all the r and r we could handle.