Expectant father quiz

Just add milk
Just add milk | Photo by Brenda Welcome

Laurie’s been sharing a great Q&A over on her blog through most of the pregnancy… thought I should share my answers as well (although the questions don’t all fit an expectant dad as well as they do an expectant mom).

How Far Along: Less than 80 hours to go

Total Weight Gained/Loss: 10-15 pounds… although I’ve started watching what I’m eating again and I’ve lost 7 or 8 pounds in the last few weeks… so a net gain of 4-7 as of today.

Sleep: No real changes for me.

Best Moment of the Week: seeing Laurie get excited as we countdown the days and hours till the boys arrive.

Movement: Laurie says they’re still moving fairly regularly but not as much as before. It’s amazing to feel them move and squirm from time to time — especially when you can feel something recognizable like a foot, hand or a knee.

Food Craving: Chinese food and Mexican food.

Labor Signs: We haven’t worked out our signals yet… but I’m keeping my phone near me at all times just in case. Luckily unless something changes drastically in the next 70 hours or so we won’t be making any rush trips in the middle of the night to the hospital.

Belly Button: Mine hasn’t changed in the last 31 years or so that I can tell.

Stretch Marks: Those appeared in college when I took on my “freshman 50.”

Wedding rings: It’s scuffed up and scratched up but still fits like it did the day we bought it.

What I miss: Walks at night with Laurie and her being able to go where she wants with me.

What I’m looking forward to: Getting to meet my baby boys in less than 4 days!

Other NEW news this week: My co-workers threw me a surprise baby shower this past week. It was very sweet to have everyone there and their presence (and gifts of diapers and wipes) were so greatly appreciated!

97 hours without Twitter?

This morning I was checking in on Twitter and realized I’ve posted 19,998 Tweets since I joined Twitter in October 2007.

I posed the question… does this make me an oversharer?

19,999th tweet
19,999th tweet

To which my brother-in-law posed the response… go on a tweet holiday and use the 20,000 to announce the birth! Unless you’ve already passed it by now!

Twitter challenge
Twitter challenge

Sounds like a reasonable enough challenge… 97 hours or so without Twitter (well at least without posting to my main Twitter account @jdblundell :-))

So we’ll see if I can do it.

Granted my biggest worry is the various online accounts that automatically post to Twitter for me (probably one of the reasons I’ve reached 19,999 tweets). I think I’ve disabled all the connections, but we’ll see.

Thankfully, Twitter’s started using OAauth, so hopefully I’ve disconnected all these services (check https://twitter.com/settings/connections) to see what sites/applications have rights to your Twitter account).

So there you have it… no Twitter for 97 hours… but I’m betting that may lead to more blog posts, video updates and posts to Facebook.

And for those of you who don’t have Twitter… you can still get the big announcement via a SMS text message.

Simply send a text with the following message to 40404:

follow jdblundell

You’ll likely get a response asking for a username. Simply pick a random username, send it as a reply to the same account and you’ll get the big announcement as a text message on your phone.

And in case you didn’t know…

I also tweet from @sbpodcast @welivesimply @orangenoise @stpetersbrew @blundybabies @travisranch

Yeah, I’m probably an oversharer.

Gary Cole joins the Good Guys

Gary Cole
Gary Cole | Via Wikipedia

Gary Cole will dawn a new stache and join Bradley Whitford and Collin Hanks on the The Good Guys for this week’s episode.

Cole will play the role of Dan Stark’s (Whitford) former partner.

I’ve really been enjoying this series — if for nothing else than trying to pick out the locations of a lot of the scenes in the movie — which primarily take place near mine and Laurie’s offices — just outside downtown Dallas.

It’s also been fun to see how they re-purpose buildings and locations at Fair Park throughout the series.

Plus Bradley Whitford and Collin Hanks are a lot of fun together.

Here’s to another fun episode with Cole — and hoping the chief doesn’t turn him into a paper-pusher filling out TPS reports all day.

G1 vs iPhone 3G: Comparing video

As I continue using my “new” iPhone, I thought it would be interesting to compare the video quality of my mobile phones… the G1 I used up until a week or so ago and the iPhone 3G I’ve been using since.

Granted, these aren’t the phones you’ll be buying in the stores anymore but if you’re looking for a re-furbished/used phone on ebay or elsewhere, this might help you make your decision. Last check showed an unlocked G1 for $75 on ebay or an 8GB iPhone 3G for $160.

These videos were recorded on the phones (I had to download a camcorder app for the iPhone) and uploaded straight to the web.

The video quality is comparable but the iPhone has the weird screen ratio. That may bother some – may not bother others.

G1:

iPhone:

Like my still photography, I still like having a dedicated device for video (at least until I get a phone with better video quality) but appreciate having video on my phone for spur of the moment things.

Do you use video on your phone or do you use a video specific device like the Flip UltraHD Cam?

Prayer for Porcelain Dolls

Porcelain Dolls

Received a dreadful email this morning from my good friend Kari who’s heading up Porcelain Dolls in the Waco area…

I have some awful news. Out of respect for the girl involved I am leaving her name out, but tonight one of our girls was raped at the club in the high roller room. She came out screaming and crying with bruises on her neck and arms. The club apprehended the guy until the cops got there and he has been arrested and charged. I tell you this because we need your prayers more than anything right now. Please pray for this girl who is scarred for life. She will need our prayers and our help. Obviously she wont be able to work for a while and she will need money. Now I know we have been hitting you pretty hard for donations for the Thanksgiving meal, but honestly – this is way more important. Lasagna’s can wait. Im asking you to please hit your knees for this young girl, that God will be able to restore her faith through this awful tragedy and give her the comfort and peace that she needs to get through this situation. If you want to write her a note of encouragement please email it here and I will be happy to see that it gets to her. Thank you so much for your faithfulness to this ministry and your devotion to prayer that we cherish so much. Be blessed guys and remember to pray for our girl.

If you can donate – please do.

Or perhaps folks can rally and send out some grace bombs to this girl via Kari.

If you’d like to send a voice message – call the something beautiful podcast listener line – 972-535-8980 or if you’d like to send a video message, post it to YouTube or Vimeo and send me the link. We’ll be sure they get to the right place.