March 25, 2008
Well, here it is. The day the second edition to the Walsh clan arrives. Ethan McKinley begins his journey OUT and into this great life. This blog is just a documentation of the day’s events
We arrived at Lutheran Medical Center at 12AM on March 24, 2008. Carol has had some initila problems getting the IV’s to stile. The first nurse ‘burst’ one of her veins and we’ve had 4 other attmpts to make it right. All is well. Mommy is tired but good, Ethan has a good strong heart beat.
3/24/08 10AM: Petocin has been introduced to induce the labor. Carol’s been experiencing mild contractions, but nothing significant.
3/24/08 2PM: Good news. The epideral took with no complication. The last time we did this with Jack, Carol had 3 attempts at the epidural and none of it took all that well. Leave it to the Brits. This time we got a nice Englishman to do it and he did a SMASHING job. We’ll have to write the Queen a letter. Dr. Harrison is sweet!
3/24/08 330PM: We’re ONLY 4cm dilated and its been 15 hours since we’ve been here! Dr. Day broke the water and upped the pitocin. So, we’re expecting contractions to get more frequent. If I were a betting man, I’d bet this kid doesn’t get here unitl the 25th…but we’ll see.
3/24/08 834PM: We’re getting there is about all I can update. We think we’re 9cm dilated and they are going to start bringing in the birth table…for some reason I don’t remember that part of Jack’s birth but oh well. Its a possibility “E-Mac” might get here by the end of the day! Mommy is doing quite well. She’s very relaxed and sleeping right now. We’ve pre-ordered pizza for her to have after the baby gets here and we also bought the nurses a few pizzas. They’ve been exceptionally cooperative and VERY attentive. It’s been a blessing to have such a great group of ladies helping us with this. I know Carols’ very please and happy.
3/24/08 9PM: It began…Carol was 10cm dilated by this time so we started the pushing process. Although we’ve technically been in labor since 1AM, the real work has just begun. We shall see! Baby is good, mommy is doing even better.
3/24/08 1010PM: WOW. He’s here! 6lbs, 8oz, 20 inches long. This was by far so much easier than with Jackson. Carol has been calm and un-stressed the entire time. She basically pushed him all the way and by the time Dr. Day got in, she pushed maybe 2 more times and he was out! He is a cute little guy and healthy.
…what an experience. Its a good life!!!
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September 3, 2007
I can’t help but wonder what drives men (and women) to do harmful things to themselves. The question is probably better served with trying to explain self destructive behavior. It absolutely amazes me…
So, I had to let an employee go about 2 weeks ago. She was your classic “C” player in the company. By that I mean she was just mediocre and replacing her job, wouldn’t be very difficult. She routinely showed up late to work, always had an excuse for not contacting a customer and was generally not very attentive to detail. Anyway, about a month ago, I addressed her routine tardyness and asked her to start coming in on time as well as not leaving at 4pm. She agreed, and there was some marked improvement in her attendence. Then the fateful day came where we had to address a discipline issue in which she performed some tasks that she was first told not to do, and when confronted, lied about it. We let her go about 4 hours later (first destructive behavior)/
This is the part that gets me though….so, she writes an email to a former employee whose emails were being forwarded to me. In the email, she explains that Im a total “Dick” and that she hoped I would get hit by a car so my son, Jackson, wouldn’t have to grow up with a ‘bastard father’. WHOA!!!!!!!!!!! the capper is, she signed it “peace and love”. heh…
I won’t go into the details of her (hippie, liberal, lazy ass) political affiliation, but to wish death upon someone and then say peace and love is absolutely baffling. What’s even more baffling are the continual miscues in judgement and character that continue.
My point is here, that first, this person did something that, well, in technology we could find out she did. There are ways of tracking your every movement on a network and…well, when you do stuff you shouldn’t be doing at work….hmmmm. Maybe you don’t want to do STUFF you can be tracked on. Secondly, she not only lost her job because she did something she was told not to do, she literally ruined ANY chance of redemption- career wise that is 
- in my eyes and WILL NEVER get a good reference from me OR Data393.
So…I guess my ultimate question is why do folks like this person- and there are many- do things that are harmful (physically, mentally and spiritually) to others- but MORE importantly to themselves? Where did these people go wrong in terms of logic and reasoning? Was it something that they weren’t taught by their parents? Is it chemically induced stupidity?
Well, what I can say is that its all the above. I think the parents are somewhat to blame in the upbrining of the child, and certainly chemical abuse (drugs and alcohol) contribute to this very common lack of common sense. All in all, I belive that we all live a life in which we’re faced with life altering decisions. These ’decisions’ happen everyday- and at times they are VERY subtle choices- and each choice is that little ’shove’ in the overall direction we’ve chosen, long ago when we were little kids.
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August 12, 2007
You know, life is funny in ways. Just when you think you know “it”, something comes up that proves you wrong or makes you feel behind the ball. Web site development and technology is exactly like that for me. Just when I think I know about something- Web coding/design- Something comes up that makes me feel like I don’t know a darn thing about anything technical.
As you can tell, Ive been playing around with video streaming techniques and what not. Really, the only driver behind this is Jackson. I really want to have a customized video and picture website along with ramblings and what not, but it has been absolutely a BEAR to figure out. I guess it doesn’t help that I have a PC and not a MAC (YET!!!) but Ill tell you, converting from WMV/MPEG3/4 to FLV or SWV is ANNOYING! Hopefully the MAC will make this an easier endeavor for me…we’ll see.
Anyway, have a look at the videos I’ve converted as well as the youTube page. This is a link to my favorite youTube videos. All this stuff is just something I’m playing around with right now,so keep a look out for cool stuff! One piece of advice that I took long ago was, “if you know more than 1% than the next guy, he probably thinks you’re an expert”.
PEACE
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