December 14, 2010
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1 So here’s some wonderful news.
2 I swear to you.
3 And I love it!
4 Let me begin with yesterday. Yesterday, I came home proud that I had beat down the entire planet with all the grading and stuff I have put in to nail this first semester.
5 Somehow, through massive work and effort, I finally caught up with everything I could possibly catch up with.
6 At least in my work world.
7 I came home and celebrated like crazy. I made an simple dinner, had two glasses of chocolate milk, and took my shoes off.
8 At around eight, I settled in to writing the DN. I felt like Santa Claus. Not a creature was stirring.
9 I relaxed, began writing, when suddenly…
10 Fonts started changing to huge Comic Sans fonts, and nothing worked properly. The letters came alive and started having swordfights with each other. Well, not THAT bad, but sizes and styles of fonts kept changing for no apparent reason. It was like my computer suddenly got buzzed on catnip.
11 Ya gotta love computers.
12 So I did what I usually do in situations like that.
13 I tried to change things, and when met with still more font wars, fell asleep at the computer mid-DN. I just wasn’t ready to deal with it.
14 Happens.
15 But I awakened a few hours later only to find that nothing had changed. I still had a step up on my week, but the DN was still empty of pertinent items.
16 I started a new one, but the fonts STILL kept jumping around.
17 As I tap out these words, I’m still experiencing weird font wars and buffering, and all the rest.
18 I decided to pull back, and had the good sense to hit my emails and Facebook and all.
19 In the midst of this, an actual WAY cool email danced across my screen.
20 It was a notification from Ponch.
21 I’ll bet by now you’ve guessed what was in it.
22 He wrote that he had news that is now officially public.
23 It was a GREAT email and… ah, I’ll let him announce it. Here’s his email; it was sent to The Goof-Off Club, of which I am the flounding father. Here go:
Hello fellow goofs:
For the life of me I can not recall whether I have shared this news with you folks yet or not, so here goes. Vicki and I have baby girl on the way! With any luck at all she will be making her grand appearance late February. After that, all hell is going to break loose in the Ponticelli household, but I say BRING IT!Like Cabal I am surrounded by wimins! It’s all good! I know I don’t stand a chance, but I’ll give it my best shot.
As far as I can tell, having that many females in one house translates into a shit load of shoes. Christ, I’m already tripping over everyone’s shoes, and I have another female on the way! Hell, even the cat (who is female) has shoes. Swear to God, I am going to build an additional room on the house just for everyone’s shoes.Like I said, It’s all good!Anyway, hope all is well with you all. Feel free to spread the word to anyone you think might care to hear the news.Happy Holidays!Kenny the “P”24 Now I knew this already for several months, but I had no idea whether or not he had told me it was okay to announce. Cabal, by the way, is one of my CIA handles.
25 Anyway, he had no idea if he had told any of us either.
26 That’s life in the twenty-first century, ain’t it?
27 It totally made my night.
28 Awesome!
29 The very beautiful and wonderful Vicki Ponticelli is pregnant with a baby girl, and she is due in late February!
30 How cool is THAT?
31 And HE will now be surrounded by still more wimminz!
32 And SHOES. Been there pal.
33 Last night he reminded me, and all me loved ones, and I wrote back asking if it was okay to send it out to all of you.
34 He wrote back and said that it was quite okay. Heck, he probably told me a month ago, but I got way overloaded with grading papers and all. It’s lightened considerably in the past week, because I didn’t want to spend Christmas wrestling with all of that.
35 So I am now officially happy to bring this news to all the DN crowd!
36 And it was so nice to blast through all the weird font stuff and to bring a miracle to the DN.
37 So there ya go!
38 Congrats to my best buddy, and to his beautiful wife!
39 Love you guys!
40 That’s the only news today. Can anything top that?
41 Ah, nope!
42 Even though I already knew this, it is still an absolute miracle, and a wonderful thing to share with the world.
43 Lovely, powerful news!
44 Good luck to my best friend and his lovely wife!
45 May you have years of happiness. Best news ever!
46 And may you share this with all your friends, and to your expanded family:
47 Live life.
48 Love life. There is no other news, and there is no better news to share. That is going to be a beaufiful child.
49 A princess is on the horizon.
50 Raise the roof.
51 I’m lovin’ it, and that I can officially share it with the world!
52 Congratulations to the best people I know. There is no better news out there. I’m lovin’ it.
53 Peace.
~H~
