Nick Postagulous
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Like That BlockBuster Ad
I'm not sure if you've heard that radio ad for Blockbuster where people describe what or when they like their movies. Examples are "Fast food, late night, and westerns" or "Coffee, a crossant, and romance". I actually made that second one up, since I can't remember any of the others besides the fast food one, which, man, I don't want to hang out with that guy. But...
Chinese takout, Diet Tang, and techno-occult action.
The Sockets Are Pressuring Me
Ok, I wasn't able to change the transmission and differential fluid in my car because I didn't have the right sockets. I was planning on buying some, but they are $6 each, so I decided to ask TC and Labman if they had the odd and quite large 23mm and 24mm sockets. They own no tools. They are non-tool users.
However, I was told to ask Tommy. So I did, and in the presence of Shorty, just in case he had different ones. Well, Tommy and Shorty were going to let me borrow their work sockets (they're fix-all type maint guys). But, they didn't have a 23 or 24, so they're going to ask Bruce. So, basically, they might show up and hand me two sockets today.
But I wasn't going to do it today. I'm busy today. I've got things to do, like sit around and relax before we have to go to that baby class.
Baby Class
And I know I mentioned the Baby Class before, but I'm not sure how much I mentioned how it's informative, but in ways we might never need. It's all situated around babies who are just born. I'm sure that at least 20 minutes of the 2 hrs class last week was about umbilical cords. Hey, our baby was done with that crap nearly a year ago.
The best information out of the class so far is that the $8 baby bottles are pointless. You're going to burp the baby anyhow. The hospital uses the kind that you get three of for $3 at Wal-Mart. But, then again, our baby will be around one year old, and will probably still eat from a bottle, but a modified one, as they will have been mixing formula with rice since she was around six months old.
Oh, and big news of sorts, we got our Pre-Placemnt document. It's 22 pages of making sure we understand the next step. And the next step is referral and acceptance. If we're completely average, according to the new April 1 statistics, we'll get that referral on the 22nd of May (which won't happen as that's a Saturday) and we'd fly out on the 6th of July.
