Best laptop carrying case…ever!

What you see is a picture of my laptop bag I got for Christmas. It’s made by BBP Bags (BBP stands for Bum Bak Paks) and it’s one from their “Hamptons Collection.” It’s actually a convertible bag. It can be used as both a backpack or a messenger bag and switching it between the two “modes” is very easy. One of the nicest things is that when it’s in backpack mode, it hangs lower (near your “bum” – hence the company name) which is better for your back. Anyway, I really like this bag and as if the product itself weren’t enough to make me recommend this product, I recently had a great customer service experience. There is a small strap on the bag which I (admittedly) think I broke myself so I contacted the company to see if I could purchase a replacement. I received a friendly response back stating they would send me a replacement strap at no charge! Granted, it’s probably not breaking their back to send me this part for free, but their willingness to do so instead of nickel and diming a customer says a lot to me. These bags come in all shapes and sizes for all different laptops and I would highly recommend them to anyone. Check out their website, www.bbpbags.com, to see more of their products.

You’ve got to be kidding me…

So I was reading my email in my G-mail account and there was an ad across the top for some stupid “Professional Essays” website. Their tag-line says “Let professionals write custom for you.” So basically you pay them an exorbitant amount of money if you’re too lazy to write your own paper and they’ll spit back a “quality” piece of literary work. Here’s my favorite part – under their “quality guarantee” they assure that their work is plagiarism free. Well isn’t that great? But wait a minute – explain to me how it’s not plagiarism if I use an entire paper written by someone else and claim it’s my own work. What, because they didn’t rip it off that makes it okay? What kind of a professor would accept that? “Well…I paid good money for it. And the person who wrote it for me didn’t plagiarize it.” Yeah – I’m sure that’d go over really well. NOT! I’m pretty sure this is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen…ever. Hmm…I wonder what would happen if I asked them to write a Sermon for me…

Holy Moly!

So there we were, changing Rome’s diaper and doing our best to avoid getting peed on. We should have been paying closer attention to the other end of his body because no sooner did his dirty diaper come off, he starts screaming and the next thing I know – laser beams shooting from his eyes! Who woulda thunk it? I guess we should have been tipped off by the Superman insignia showing up on every piece of clothing.

Okay, so he didn’t really have laser beams shooting out of his eyes. This is a picture my friend, Michael Henn, doctored up. I asked him to help fix it for the announcements and thought “hey, he’s just staring so intently – see what it looks like if you make lasers come out of his eyes.” So he did. If you haven’t seen it yet, you have to check out Michael’s depiction of Rome as the Pope, it’s pretty funny: http://michaelhenn.com/blog/?p=74

It’s showtime!

So there we were, taking a nap and when we woke up, Kris discovered that her water had broken! Needless to say, we headed to the hospital which is where we are right now. Labor is progressing and the contractions are getting stronger. So far, everything looks good and is going smoothly. We’ll keep you posted.

Almost There!

As you can see, Kris’ tummy continues to grow as Rome gets bigger. Not only that, but her mood swings are increasing too. In fact, yesterday she broke the all-time world record for number of times crying in one day – 47, to be exact. The previous record was held by Salieva Tsevetkovsky from Bukhara, Uzbekistan at 43 times in one day.

Moving is Awesome!

Okay, not really. In fact, I really don’t care for it much at all. Packing – moving – unpacking. Good thing we’ll get to do it at least 3 more times in the next 3 years. It could be a lot worse. I’ve got some great friends who were kind enough to help me out which made things go by really fast. Now the real fun begins: trying to figure out what stuff is in what box. Kris said she actually enjoys that part. It must be the pregnancy horomone imbalance.