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December 31 New ultrasound photos!Today was a really good news day at the doctor. New Year's Day will mark our little girl's 30th week in the womb, and at this point our doctor is quite confident she'll go to term. There was a lot of fear at the beginning of the pregnancy that she might come early due to Jenny's uturus being how it is (read more about that here). What's more, if we continue to have a smooth pregnancy, that bodes well for a second kid down the road.
Here are today's photos:
December 29 New column about the baby over at the MissourianI have a new column up at ColumbiaMissourian.com today, which is all about our hunt for a baby name. Click here to check it out.  Powered by ScribeFire. December 25 Merry Christmas 2007For those who didn't get to spend Christmas with us, here's a glimpse into our day:
All in all, it was a great day. I love all the presents I received, including the new clothes Jenny bought for me. Really, I don't even bothering to dress myself anymore. It's all her. And she does a good job of making dumb old me look kind of smart and fashionable. I also really like the new printer/copier/scanner I got for my home office, as well as the new paper shredder (I can't help it; I'm just paranoid about identity theft, plus paper shredders are just cool). I also received some video editing software so that I may finally graduate from iMovie. I also received a host of cool stocking stuffers from Santa, including a "Funny Tales of Fatherhood" calendar, a new pocket calendar, picture frames and coaster frames (we're very photo-centric in this house). We also ate like kings today, all thanks to Jenny's efforts in the kitchen. She cooked up a feast for just the 2 1/2 of us, including turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole and two pies -- pumpkin and cherry. Needless to say, we're still a ways away from enjoying pie. I'm pretty stuffed right now. All in all, it was a wonderful Christmas. I hope everyone else's Christmas was as wonderful as mind. Thanks everyone!!!! Powered by ScribeFire. December 18 Another ultrasound, another good day for babyWe had a good day at the doctor again this week. Everything continues to look fine for the baby, and she's really starting to grow. She weighed in this week at 2 pounds, 10 ounces, up nearly a pound from her last weight measurement on Nov. 20. The doctor said she's in the 70th percentile as far as weight, which is bigger than average. I had originally written bigger than normal in my notebook, but the nurse -- who happens to be the mother of one of my MU students -- corrected me. No surprise, that she'd be bigger than average. After all, look who her daddy is. Today marks 28 weeks. Sometime in the next 12 weeks, we'll have a new person living at our house. She'll probably look at least a little like this: December 17 Best graduation speaker EVERLast Friday, the Missouri School of Journalism held its annual winter graduation ceremony for December graduates. We had the good fortune of having John Anderson, a Mizzou graduate and anchor for ESPN SportsCenter, as the keynote speaker. Like I said -- best graduation speaker ever. I've been unable to find any video or audio from it, but the J School has posted the text of his speech here. (Scroll down the page a little bit) And if you don't know who John Anderson is, you can view him in this ESPN commercial: Powered by ScribeFire. December 14 Feelings ... nothing more than feelings ...Random thoughts in my head on a Friday night:
-- I'm so lucky to have Jenny. She's just so amazing. If I'm running late in the morning, she pulls clothes out for me so I can dress and dash to work. She even went out and started my truck for me this morning -- and she's 6 months-plus pregnant! I felt guilty about that one. I try to take care of her a bunch too; it's not just a one-way street. Ask her, she'll tell ya.
-- I'm going to really miss my December graduates. Sallie has been a superstar on the copy desk for quite a while now, and losing her is like having Brett Favre retire. She's had an amazing couple of weeks, finishing school, getting engaged, landing a job with a really good opening salary. I'm very happy for her. At the same time, I'll miss Ashley, Greg, Debrin, Nate and others as well -- I wish them all the best. Ashley, who will likely be back for grad school in the fall, was nice enough to give me a $15 gift card to Starbucks for graduation. And she was the one graduating!!!! How awesome is that?
-- I really need a stress-free weekend. It was a busy week at the old job, but we did some really good stuff this week, including our football issue. My No. 1 goal this weekend is to start/finish my Christmas shopping. And watch football on Sunday.
-- I can't wait for my baby to be born. Soon, soon. December 12 If you're the type of person who says the media never reports good news on the wars, this post is for youThe next time I get an e-mail about how the media "fails to cover the good news that happens in Iraq and Afghanistan," I'm going to joyfully tell the sender: "I would love to, but the Army won't let me." Did you know the Army won't let the media tell certain tales of bravery by our soldiers? Pretty interesting report from the Baltimore Sun is available by clicking here. I really do dream of the day when we stop using the media as scapegoats and only blame those outlets that truly do bad by the principles of Walter Williams. Powered by ScribeFire. December 07 Stop blaming the media for everythingIt is so damn annoying when people blame the media for, well, anything and everything.
It's such an asinine argument. How do you blame a conglomeration that includes:
Just think about the sheer number of media outlets that entails. There are thousands of TV stations, and hundreds of thousands of blogs and news Web sites. Now, do you really think you can pull all of those outlets together to push one agenda? Honestly, if you can't find parity in today's media landscape, you aren't looking -- at all. So please, quit using that tired old argument. Powered by ScribeFire. December 06 Final cut of the Shakespeare's videoWell, I finally have my Shakespeare's video ready for publication. Here's the video that I did: And if you click here, you can see the full flash presentation our team did on Shakespeare's. Powered by ScribeFire. December 04 Our latest ultrasoundToday was our last ultrasound at Dr. Grant's old office.
The baby is still doing great. I'll post pictures soon. Work is kicking my butt right now, but I hope to be dug out soon.
At our next one on Dec. 17, we'll be at his new office one building over. We'll also have some insurance crap I have to remember to deal with. MU is switching to a different provider, and Dr. Grant is dropping the current provider. The only problem is, he's dropping the current provider before MU switches me to the new provider, who Grant works with. Confused? So am I.
Anyway, I have to beg our current insurance to pony up the money for medically necessary ultrasounds even though they're technically off the hook because of poor timing. That's going to be fun.
It's late, I'm pooped. Not much of a blog, but the good news is the baby is healthy. And we only have about three months to go. December 02 My first big multimedia project.This is the first cut of a video I made for multimedia training at the Missourian. We were under the direction of Jane Stevens from UC-Berkley (shameless name drop). Anyway, our team of Isabelle Roughol, Greg Bowers and Keith Claxton made an entire Flash presentation, which I'll link here once we get it up and running. In the meantime, here is my contribution -- I cut this video together. Greg did the interview, Isabelle ran the camera, I took the stills, and Keith ran the audio.
For the full Flash version, Isabelle cut the second video, Keith built the map and the Flash presentation, I copy edited the presentation, and Greg wrote the narrative. Jake
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