So much for the Beetle Bot project. Oh, I still plan on finishing it, but it keeps getting pushed back. One-day-project my skinny white behind.
I did give it another go after I got proper motors, but my mounting solution for the motors failed miserably. I have a solution ready to go, but just haven’t found the time.
Instead, I’ve been putting together furniture. Two nightstands, a large dresser, a small dresser, attached a baby-changing station to the smaller dresser, removed the wooden frame from our bed, attached a metal frame, re-attached the metal frame after modifying the foot-board to accommodate the metal frame without being too wide (all this to lower the bed three or four inches to make the bed level with the baby’s co-sleeper and allow the dog to jump on the bed without worrying for ten minutes if she’ll be able to make it) … And I still have an end table and computer desk to put together, and we should really be purchasing a new TV stand. And some more book shelves. And we’re still waiting on the crib we want to become available.
As much as I hate IKEA right now, I have to grudge them some respect. Pretty much all of that fit in our tiny Chevy Aveo with room for the same amount again. (The main reason we’re getting it all now is so that we can get it all home while there’s no baby seat in the car, so we don’t have to find a sitter to get a dresser.)
I’ve definitely lost the baby naming battle. My wife will now take over all the naming duties, as I’ve been declared unreliable in this field. Here is a (very small) partial list of names that have been vetoed:
- Pwnz (my personal favorite, but I suspect it was vetoed because I initially submitted this name for the dog)
- Razor
- Rocker
- Shadow
- Blade
- Westminster
- Chopper
- Thoreau
- Sawyer (My high school buddy named one of his kids Finn. How awesome would this be?)
- Gemmo (pronounced Jem-Mo)
- Kal El
- Kirk
And a few broken down into categories:
Titles as first names:
- Doctor
- Mister
- Professor
- Major
- Captain
- Chief
- President
- Ambassador
- Father
Middle names:
- Danger (every guy since Austin Powers came out has tried to sneak this one in)
- Trouble
- Son-Of
- Tiberius
Traditional names which should have been a lock:
- Zebediah
- Ezekiel
- Judas
- Brother of Jared (for any Mormon readers)
- Thor
She even vetoed Thomas Christopher as the baby’s name. This is half because a co-worker friend of mine recently named his son Thomas Christopher, and half because his initials would be TCB. Which was the whole point, anyway.
Long story short-ish, I don’t get any say. At least not for this child. For the next baby, I’m hoping for a girl so I can try out Fluffypoo and Killer.
Gotta side with Gem on this one: I’d veto all of those, too.
Though, TCB is pretty cool as far as initials go. Good initials are half the reason I refuse to ever change my last name if I get married. I mean, really, mine are pretty great.
I don’t know how NONE of those are any good. I also submitted Chewbacca, but I understand why she wouldn’t want that. It’s kind of a girl’s name.
We just had a baby (Ruby) so I know how you feel. While I wanted the middle name to be Doobie (I liked the sound of Ruby Doobie Dembo), it got vetoed.
HOWEVER, in a moment of weakness, I got her to give me middle-naming rights to baby #3, IF there ever is a baby #3 (there likely won’t). Leading the list right now “Of Doom”. I don’t care what the first name of, following it with “of Doom” seems pretty badass to me. For example: Jimmy of Doom, Connor of Doom, Angelina of Doom, and so on.
So hold strong. You may catch her in a moment of weakness 🙂