New PC: If you build it...you will have fun.

Mad scientist I am not but slightly irritated I was as it took an insane amount of time to get the new Hughes super-computer together and working properly. After 2 weeks of tweaking, "Deep Hughes" is now up and running and it has already re-tallied the 2000 Bush-Gore Florida votes, balanced the national budget, found oil in Oshkosh Wisconsin, and challenged Kevin Luther to a game of Chess. Overall this beauty is lightning fast like my wife Stephanie's wit and it will probably take over the world once it starts mass producing robots covered in skin that resembles the Governor of California.

Now why would I build a computer of this caliber for home use? Its not like I need to write the next "Million Little Pieces" novel at the speed of light,( I would never go on Oprah if I did!) and its not like the Hughes Week family blog is getting mad hits like Google or Amazon.com, (does anyone read this thing?) but rather I blame Microsoft. I could have purchased an Xbox 360 and have been plenty satisfied to play video games on it. Let's face it though, I would sooner find Osama Bin Laden at the Stillwater Wal-Mart than an Xbox 360 for sale inside the lower 48. So I built this new PC to play games and escape the real world a few hours a week. And what’s the fun of being a guy and building something if you can't OVER build it! Oh well, I hear it will be obsolete by next Tuesday....[sigh]

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Baby News: Nursery Progress

The baby room is well on its way! To be honest the toughest part of this remodel has been the color debate. Though I am not a huge fan of green, Steph found a great set of samples and we finally picked one out. Overall the Nursery is getting closer to complete. The furniture and carpet has been ordered so we have very little time to finish up the dirty work. Come back soon for the full before and after Nursery posting.

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Baby News: Third Trimester

That's right, we've started the third trimester! Time is flying by and the baby will be here before we know it. I'm still getting the "but you don't look pregnant" comments from family and friends. What can I say except... HA HA HA... less weight to lose later :) As long as karate kid is healthy, I'm happy. That's right we've nicknamed the baby "karate kid". No such thing as gentle movements with this little guy (or girl).

We've met all but one of the midwives now. There are five on rotation at the clinic. Blood pressure is a little high, but that seems to fluctuate depending on the stress level at work. Passed my glucose screening yesterday...yeah! Now I know what it's like to down a can of orange soda in 2 minutes ~ good times. We also opted to do a "quad-screening" for any abnormalities and everything came back negative. So far, each of midwives tells me I'm a text-book pregnancy.

Not much else is new. We're working hard on getting the nursery ready so keep checking back for pictures.

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