So here I am, just 2 weeks away from instant fatherhood. Not that I wasn’t a father before. Now it’s going to be a full time deal. To be honest, I am not even that nervous about it. I have made all the arrangements as far as school and such. We have a full week after he gets here to take care of signing up and registering. (I asked and they told me he needed to be living in the area before registering.) I know Andrew is excited about the move. Of course I realize that this is probably going to be the toughest time period to raise a child. He is just getting ready to hit 13 which means I get to face all of the teenage years. This would be where my dad gets to sit back and watch me while laughing because he knows what I did to him. It’s going to be an interesting time to read the blog soon.
In other news, I am not sure if I had mentioned it here yet but it looks like there will not be a DragonCon for me and Amy this year. If you were reading last year at this time you know that we were ramping up for the big DragonCon. DragonCon is THE convention for costuming and the like. The 501st play a big roll there, and it also allows us to play around with other costumes. Last year you may recall I did the Alien Spiderman and Spike. Well, this year it just doesn’t seem feasible to have Andrew come in on the 29th of Aug. and then the 2nd of September head to the Con and then back here to have him start school on the 6th. It’s just not going to happen. I don’t think it would be right to jump start Andrew into the Con scene with DC anyways. It’s a little much to be a first con. The current plan is for his first big Con to be Farpoint in Feb. I am sure we will be having different garrison events he can attend as well.
You may have noticed a slight decline in posting to the blog in the last few weeks. This is mostly because of an increase in workload at work. We have had a few problems with servers and a number of new projects that have kept me busily tapping away at my keyboard and pulling out my hair. I am somewhat surprised that I have been able to post today. What I don’t find surprising is that I started this post at about 10am and it’s getting finished up at 6pm. I really hope to be able to post more through the week. We’ll see if we can’t ramp this baby back up.
BTW, the past few weekends weren’t all that action packed. Mostly they have been filled with cleaning and getting the place ready for Andrew’s arrival. Still no gloves yet.
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