First time dad, foreverything

Erm what, the pills are kicking in kids.

2011-06-15T08:59:00.000-07:00

Sorry I have not been around in a while everyone. When I was walking to the store about 2 weeks ago I was hit by a drunk driver. It was like 1PM I was like really? Regardless the accident took out my right knee and I had to have reconstructive sugary on it. I am going to try to update soon just been so tired. Iris seems interested in my brace just hurts when she pokes it.

Iris First Lemon, and I am surprised by reaction

2011-06-04T00:09:00.000-07:00

50 Followers!

2011-06-02T19:22:00.000-07:00

I want to thank everyone who has supported this blog! Without you guys this blog would be me just ranting to myself! A little extra thanks to Jandro! He is number 50! So with all that out of my system I would like everyone to know it is not necessarily to follow my other blog it is just there to share wallpapers with you guys. And also I would like to ask what you my readers would like to see more of, stuff about my babies or more on gaming , or the way I have it now a little bit of everything. This picture is for everyone!

Hello everyone! Starcraft 2 Thursday!

2011-06-02T09:27:00.000-07:00

I am getting closer to 50 followers and I am excited about it. I will be sure to make a special milestone post about it. Today I have been thinking about adding more of a gaming aspect to my blog. I am going to try this out, the plan is that every Tuesday and Thursday I will be posting something about gaming, more than likely Starcraft 2.

I have been playing as Zerg a lot as of late but last night I broke down and went down to my Terran roots. I was messing around and I found a nice timing push inspired by EGLZGamer.

The opening is pretty basic

10/11 Supply - Supply Depot
11/19 Supply - Barracks
12/19 Supply - Refinery (3 On Soon As It Is Complete)
15/19 Supply - Orbital Command
15/19 Supply - Reactor Core On Barracks
18/19 Supply - Supply Depot
19/19 Supply - Refinery
19/27 Supply - Factory

25/27 Supply - If you have enough for build a Command Center build one in your base and upgrade it to orbital command.

I wish I had kept track of supply but I will be sure to update.

From here you want to always have SCVs and 2 marines in production. With the first factory build a Hellion then add a tech lab. Do some additional scouting with the Hellion. Add another Factory when you can and attach a reactor core to it. From here you are going to want to have a SCV constantly making supply depots. Research blue flame and pump out tanks and hellions and marines. Around the 8:30 / 9:00 mark you should have a good sized army and 2 tanks. Use your Hellions as your meat shield for marines and tanks. Based on this first push you would want to add another barracks with a techlab and research stim and combat shied. Now this is not a ALL in build. If you noticed you are losing the first push back off and save what you can. Go a head and expand. From here you need to just keep scouting and build your army composition to what you need.

Let me know what you guys think and GOOD LUCK!

I let Iris go her first google search, result... wtf?

2011-06-01T14:41:00.001-07:00

holy moly! and a PS3

2011-05-31T23:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry I have not been able to get online in a few days. Landscaping this house we bought in January. It was cheap but it is a fixer. On top of all that Iris has caught a cold which makes getting online a little more difficult. Regardless we just got around to unpacking all of my things, mostly due to renovating the downstairs into a complete gaming room. I unpacked one of my boxed and BAM! There was my PS3 looking at me with all its bulky glory. IT reminded me when my six axxis controller broke and I was strapped for cash so I bought one of them light up ones from Game Stop. Iris absolutely loved the thing and would not let go of it. She even back handed me and tried to put me in a arm bar ( which I had taught her how to do). Good times.

At the moment she is trying to play Street Fighter 4 as Cody. It was amazing that she survived the first round. So I will be able to get online more and I cannot wait to read everyone's blogs! Thank you for comments and follows I appreciate you all very much! Next time I will try to post the video of her eating a Wii mote.

Going to be busy today here the midnight post!

2011-05-28T00:35:00.000-07:00

Today I am going to be writing about two of my other low maintenance children. Spunky the Betta and Gary the Mystery Snail.

Thank you everyone for comments! As always if I come across something I like I will make a mention of it.I found Silk's comment about reading ff7 funny. Here it is.

Gary

Spunky is a betta just a fish no more no less. He likes to swim up when its feeding time and other than that he likes to hide. I like to change his tank up every 3 weeks or so, that way he doesn't get board(if that is even possible). His tank mate is Gary the snail. Now if it has not clicked yet both these names come from cartoons. Gary being the most obvious. Spunky for those who might not know or have forgotten comes from rocko's modern life, its the brain dead puppy. Other than that nothing really special just some aqua life. I feel bad because my mother in laws good tank was busted, its a 50Gal and we were originally going to use that. For the time being they are in a 2Gal tank. My mother in law said she was going to pick a new one up for us. At that time I am going to be adding around 15 Neon Tetras, 2 more snails , and some other stuff.

Week 1

2011-05-27T11:06:00.000-07:00

The first week was rough I will not lie but we were soon rotating shifts for sleep and my wife and I were back to normal. I learned much this first week about child care and other things. Did you guys know there exits such a product as nipple balm? This completely shocked me like I would never thought I would know of let alone purchase such a product. Not only was there a balm there were creams and butter. I still remember the look on the cashiers face when I rolled through Safeway and had these products. I think it was the fact he was like 17.

I guess it did not help that I was alone and started asking him the proper way to attach the nursing pads to ones self while having the lip balm applied.

"Hey, um so if I put the nipple balm on my nipple the pads shouldn't have any problems with leakage right?"

It made me feel better to see him squirm. Also just want you guys to know trying to feed your 4 day old Poptarts is not a good idea and gets you in trouble with your significant other. My wife was also mad that I had thought Iris how to latch on nose and try to feed. That aside this was the day I got her to pass out while I was playing Final Fantasy 7 on my PSP. Any RPG game I play with her I do read out loud all the dialog. I figure since I don't like reading children's books that the epic FF7 story would be just as good.

We also had 1 week photos taken. I will post them laster because ermm.... yeah the pics are on my old hard drive that I left at a friends house :(. But this picture here was taken at 1 week.

Week 1 over all was crying and cleaning up after messes and sleeping. Nothing too special.

Small change to blog and more.

2011-05-26T08:14:00.001-07:00

If anyone tried to come to my blog and could not I am sorry, I have it redirected my blog to a subdomain on a old clan url I own. I still have not decided what I want to do with the URL but for now I will use it for subdomains. If anyone has any suggestions they are more than welcome!

I am going to take a moment to talk about myself today. I know, I know I am sorry but hey it is a part of this blog. Before I had Iris I enjoyed my freedom being able to go out with friends or the wife on the drop of a hat. I was able to smoke in my car without any worry or fear. Waking up at noon was awesome after gaming all night. Even if I did have to wake up the morning it would be like this.

After Iris was born not only did my way of life needed to change but so did I. Old habits die hard though. There are time I will admit I am too interested at am task at hand and lose track of her. Waking up at 5 - 7 AM ha become a daily thing. I do miss being able to do things by myself and being able to go out. I still do but very rarely as of late. This also has cut down on gaming. I take a look at all these activities I enjoyed doing and then I look at Iris. These sacrifices are worth it in my eyes. As she gets older and if I have done my job right her and I will be friends, and on top of that I can wish she will be a gamer too. The down side is that my mornings have become more like this

Thank you all! Next time we talk about Gibbs the puppy!

One of my other children.

2011-05-25T10:56:00.000-07:00

I am going to take a very short break to write about one of my other children that I am a first time dad to.

This is Mango

Mango is a rescue, he was locked up because he is an Alpha and his previous owners had put him in a cage full of Betas. He was deemed anti social because he would pick on other birds and show he is dominate even though the other birds would easily submit to him. My wife fell in love with this bird and to find out that he was going to be put down in a few days was the icing on the cake.

Now Mango is not high maintenance at all which makes it easy for me to provide for him. He likes to attack anything shiny and like to screech at things. I screech back, my wife says that we are playing dinosaur. Pretty much all I need to do is make sure he has water/food and his cage is clean. The only thing I am iffy about at times is when I need to trim his feathers.

Mango is fearless, he picked a fight with our 10 week old Chocolate Lab puppy Gibbs, and our cat Bob. Other than that he likes to poop on people which I guess is normal. We have had him for 3 months now and things are looking good, he gets to finish off the rest of his days in a loving home and not locked up.

Gamer's Lullaby

2011-05-24T19:26:00.000-07:00

This is my own remake of the Hush Little Baby Lullaby I sing to Iris.

Hush little Iris don’t say a word daddy is going to buy you a mocking bird.

And if that mocking bird don’t sing daddy is going to buy you a diamond ring.

And if that diamond ring don’t shine daddy is going to buy you XBOX Live.

And when that live account is banned daddy is going to buy you a console named Jag.

Now daddy knows that those disks won’t read so daddy is going to steal you a PSP.

If that PSP isn’t it don’t worry honey daddy didn’t pay for it.

Daddy is going to kick uncle Alex in the balls, take his PSP to the mall.

And at the mall what dad will do is trade it in for a Game Cube.

I know that the system looks kind of strange but uncle Henry says its ok.

When you’re bored of that what we shall do is replace it with a PS2

I have not completed the song but you guys get the idea.

Someone mentioned it would be good for a GameStop advertisement. Agree or Disagree?

Finally home!

2011-05-24T02:54:00.000-07:00

Internet is back finally! I want to thank everyone for their comments thus far. I actually do read all comments and was inspired by Pappa Püllï 's comment about the real life achievement. So here it is!

The overnight turned into a two night stay as I mentioned earlier. The wait felt like the load times while playing Zelda on the CDI. The bright side is that because my wife’s birthday is the day after my daughter’s the hospital sent two complimentary cakes to our room. I welcomed this because their obligation was to keep my wife and baby fed not me.

Once we got home my two best friends were sitting on our porch waiting for us. Apparently they had been there 5 hours waiting and drinking. It made unloading everything so much easier, I had spent two days sleeping/sitting in the guest chair. Iris (my baby) had been sleeping most of her time and I thought that it was going to be smooth sailing. We cracked open a bottle of wine that I had received from the Vice President of ASUS and put on The Hangover in the DVD player. My friends Ghost-Cell and Natural Furcoat offered to spend the night and help with some chores in the morning, as if they knew the shit storm that was coming.

2AM rolled along and Iris started crying and crying and would not stop. Tired and cranky my wife and I were getting agitated. We were up all night/morning trying to sooth her back to sleep. Like the N64 version of Superman we failed. Around 8AM my mother came to visit and took over as both of us exhausted ended up passing out in front of our bedroom door. When we awoke it as 1PM and to our shock my friends had cleaned the kitchen, done our laundry, and mowed our yard. I was thankful because I didn’t think I had it in me to complete the chores. That night my mother made us all Miyeok Guk a Korean seaweed soup said to be healthy for a family after having a baby.

Miyeok Guk

Iris did not want to go to sleep, the second night was looking to be a repeat of the night before. Shy short of wanting to blow my head off I did the only thing I knew would make me feel better, I played video games. I put Iris in my lap all swaddled up and turned on CODMW2. After 5 minutes she was passed out. I had found the key to making my baby sleep.

To be continued.

Oh no not my internet!

2011-05-23T20:28:00.000-07:00

I am posting this real quick, some kid in his car tried to drift his car around the corner and hit a power box ripping it out of the ground. This in return caused the power to go out and also destroyed the cable pipe line coming into my neighborhood. The power is back but no internet. I remember a free dial up service and am using that, though it keeps booting me off every 2 minuets or so. Soon as I get my cable back I will be posting on topic again. I can't wait to read your guy's blogs. Thanks everyone!

The big day

2011-05-22T03:02:00.000-07:00

I wrote about this on a earlier post, but I think I deleted by mistake =(. but here it is.

My daughter was born January of 2010. The day she was born I had only 5 minutes of sleep. The gamers curse, I was up all night playing CODMW2. 4 AM rolled along and I decided that it was a good time for bed. I closed my eyes and soon as I felt the sandman’s touch I was woken up by my wife telling me to get dressed. I responded by asking her why. It did not take long before it clicked and I shot to my feet.

Two hours later I was a father, I was glad it only took three hours I have heard horror stories about labor lasting 6 – 10 hours. I watched the whole birth and when she came out I almost feinted, now all those dad feinting scenes in movies were no longer funny to me.

10 Min Old

The hospital we were staying at forced us to do an overnight to make sure my wife wouldn’t go all crazy and try to kill the baby. It turned into 2 days because her OBGYN had to clear her to go home and he had to go deliver another baby. Two hours after birth we were moved to a room where we could rest. A nurse came in and bathed the baby in the sink that was in the room. I asked if we had to give the baby a bath in the sink every time because the sink at our house was pretty small. They both gave me a weird look, and I knew I was wrong. The nurse also went over how to breast feed our child and how it was natural for both of them to fall asleep during this process. When they both passed out I was playing my DS and took the time to entertain myself by poking their heads with the stylist.

Because of Swine Flu only people cleared with a
"VIP" paper bracelet were allowed in. Yay I'm a VIP

To be continued

Oh no! Rapture! No kidding, just found it ironic.

2011-05-21T13:49:00.000-07:00

Msn World News

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland's most active volcano erupted Saturday, with a white plume shooting 18,000 feet into the air, scientists said.

There was a similar eruption at the same volcano in 2004.The eruption was followed by around 50 small earthquakes, the largest of which measured 3.7 on the Richter Scale, according to Iceland's meteorological office.

Follow link to source.

2011-05-21T10:25:00.000-07:00

I just thought I would share a photo in my collection of my daughter. This picture is from when she was 5months old. Indeed it made me laugh. How do you guys feel about the picture?

On a side note.

2011-05-20T23:51:00.001-07:00

RIP Macho Man Randy Savage :(

My wife says no to Saints Row 2

2011-05-19T12:48:00.000-07:00

I really am thankful for my wife, she understands how I grew up and knows I do not understand some things of fatherhood. Apparently trying to teach my 15 month old daughter how to play Saints Row 2 is on the naughty list. It is a shame too because she really seems to get into the driving around like a lunatic thing. Thinking about it I suppose there is a lot of things on the game that is not considered kid friendly. I guess I can go back to teaching her how to play the Wii. Also to any of you Starcraft 2 players out there, when you ask my daughter "honey what do you say to the nublets?" she responds by saying G - G!

Because my child is 15 months old now starting on my next post I will talk about things I have done and was confused about from day 1.

New focus!

2011-05-18T22:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a quick intro about everything I will be writing about.

I grew up gaming, most my friends that I spoke to on a daily basis were online. As an only child I was usually left alone and did not have to worry about anything at all. I got video games I left my parents alone, we were all happy.

Not to say I didn't party or go out a lot, I just preferred my video games.

25 years later now I am married and with a daughter. Along with being a dad to my offspring we have a bird, cat, dog, fish, and a snail.

I have had no experience in life other than taking care of myself. So hopefully if you're like me but without any of these you might learn? If you do have kids or pets you might even laugh at me.

it has been a while hasnt it!

2011-05-18T21:39:00.001-07:00

It has been a long time since I posted. I will be honest, I have forgotten what my password was and started a family in the time I was gone. Regardless you folks are not here to read about this.

Sales is sales as ever, you know kids running around screaming their heads off while putting their sticky hands on products that I will have to clean up later. This is why I am going to teach my daughter respect for things that don't belong to her.

Lets do a quick update. SC2 is out now, Starcraft 2, instead of sales I might just write about games. Who know, till I think of something more permanent I shall be on my way.

Phillip - I like pie.