Pics Are Up

Dax
I have posted some pics of the birth and Gray’s first visit with his new lit­tle brother in Gallery 11 — Dax is Born.

I came home to get Gray today and take him to see Dax and mommy. On the way there, I was telling Gray about his new brother, and he asked me, “Does he have feet? I want him to walk”.

Once we got there, Gray imme­di­ately took to Dax, want­ing to hold him and giv­ing him lots of hugs. It was great, as you will see in the pics.

 

Birthday

At 9:42 pm, Tues­day, Novem­ber 15, 2005, baby William Dax Chatham was born!

Dax weighed a hefty 9lbs 12oz, and was 19.5 inches long. Ali­cia did it all nat­u­rally. How, I am still try­ing to fig­ure out. But it was great!

Sorry, I have no pics yet. Stay tuned!

 

Progress

No news in the baby depart­ment yet. Alicia’s due date is this Sat­ur­day the 12th. You dear read­ers will be among the first to know. In fact, I am con­sid­er­ing a live web­cast from the deliv­ery room, with a cha­t­room where you all can ask ques­tions and com­ment on the pro­ceed­ings. Ok now I have con­sid­ered it.

I have still been busy on side web work, near­ing com­ple­tion on MikeSnipesForJudge.com and MiramarSeafood.com. Still work­ing on my brother’s site for is polit­i­cal cam­paign, as well as the larger book store project. I have employed the help of June because of her Zen Cart exper­tise. And I just posted a link to her site so that she will feel the pres­sure to do some­thing with it.

I bought a brand new drum set for the first time in my life. These suck­ers are baaaaaad. This is what they look like:
My New Drums
They are DW Pacific CX’s.

So if any­one is in the mar­ket, I have a 6-piece set of Pearl World Series drums from 1990. These are the same drums used to record Speed.

Why did I buy new drums? I have been play­ing music in a band again. More on that later.

 

Today

Alicia and Gray

 

Blog Groupies

As I read through the Blogs of the Rich and Famous (aka the blogs of the ‘elite’ web design­ers and devel­op­ers), I have dis­cov­ered a recur­ring theme from site to site that relates to the peo­ple who post com­ments on said blogs.

I don’t know what to call it. It’s like a cult of blog groupies. Per­haps it is the “Blog­gie” phe­nom­e­non. If you fre­quent any pop­u­lar blog, you have seen it too. It goes some­thing like this:

Blog Entry By Cool Blog­ster
Today I decided to clean my cat lit­ter box, and boy, did it smell.

Response by Blog­gie 1
Hey Cool Per­son! What a coin­ci­dence! I just blogged about the same thing! Check it out (www.wannabeblog.com).

Next com­ment by Blog­gie 2
Oh hey Cool Per­son! How is it that you always nail it right on the head? I mean, who would have thought that cat lit­ter boxes smell?

Next com­ment by Blog­gie 3
LOL — keep it up Cool Per­son! lolroflmfao.

Next com­ment by Blog­gie 4
I agree with you com­pletely, Cool Person.

If you want to see some prime exam­ples, look at a recent post on the web site of Matt Mul­let­some­thing, the cre­ator of WordPress:

http://photomatt.net/2005/10/31/paper-shredder/

Now are these peo­ple really on a first name basis with this guy? Is it their ulti­mate goal to get Matt Mul­let­some­thing to actu­ally click their link? Is this the mod­ern day ver­sion of name­drop­ping? Or is it just peo­ple search­ing to val­i­date their exis­tence (and their web log).

Granted, there are cer­tainly plenty of wor­thy com­ments posted on these sites, but a bunch of them always stick out to me as “hey look at me, I wanna be cool too” types of posts.

I’m not claim­ing to be a Cool blog­ger or any­thing — the 8 peo­ple total who ever visit here should be evi­dence of that I am stuck on the level of Blog Medi­oc­rity (Hi, mom). I’m just a lit­tle irked for what­ever reason.