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More on that New Little Maniac…

DeaconTim — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:17:00 +0000

Actually found this out not long after the last post, but it’s been busy, what with hand therapy, kids being out of school, etc. etc….

We are having a BOY!!!!!!

Woooooooo-Hoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not that I wouldn’t love another girl at all. Absolutely I would. But I am like every guy out there. We want a boy. A buddy. Someone who we can use to justify the purchase of war toys with. Luckily my girls are already into comic books so I was covered there. But now a whole different world is opened up.

So far the little guy is extremely active according to Mrs. Fric. He’s constantly on the move. I could feel his movements through Mom’s belly some time ago. Way earlier than the girls.

We are all excited about it too. The girls are happy to have a brother on the way.

Names are still an issue. At one time I wanted to name a boy after me… William Timothy. Since becoming Catholic, that doesn’t seem so important anymore. Not sure why, but I think my ego doesn’t need to be stroked that way anymore. Mrs. Fric still likes William though with Will for short. We are thinking William David to include her father. She also likes Patrick, Elijah and others. Not sure myself. She’s way more into it than I am right now. We’ve got time, right?

Please pray for a healthy baby and a safe delivery. Thanks!

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That New Little Maniac…

DeaconTim — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:17:00 +0000

Still on the way. Mom and baby are doing great so far.

Got to feel the baby move for the first time last weekend. Could barely tell, but definitely there. Way cool stuff.

Next week we find out if we are having a boy or girl.

God knows I will love the baby no matter what, but I gotta say that a boy and the extra testosterone in the house would be welcome. Outnumbered 3 to 1 now. The dog is male but fixed. And a wuss. No help there.

Ah well… Let it be done according to thy word, Lord.

Can’t wait til October.

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Back to Two Hands

DeaconTim — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:45:00 +0000

Back to two hands… Six weeks ago today I had surgery on my right ring finger to set a fractured bone at the very tip and to reattach the tendon at that point. Had my hand in a cast for all that time since and got the cast and the final suture (down through the nail, around the bone, back out the nail and tied off) removed. My right hand is my dominant hand and I’ve had no (OK, a little… I cheated now and then) use of it for six weeks.

Ever tried to use your non-dominant hand and ONLY that hand to brush your teeth?

Eat?

Tie your shoes?

Put on pants?

Take pants off?

Type?

Mouse?

OK. I know it sounds like I am whining. Not intended. After all I got the use of it back. It was just kind of eye opening how much you don’t use the non-dominant hand you you are forced to use it as the dominant. Everything was backwards and weird.

My hand is stiff and sore. And I have a ton of new therapy exercises. Yay. At least I can type again. Maybe I can blog if I can get my brain unstuck.

We’ll see.

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New Little Maniac Coming in October!

DeaconTim — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:13:00 +0000

Greetings Fellow Maniacs!

Been busy obviously of late. No posting and all.

But I return with awesome news!

Mrs. Fric and I have been blessed with the impending arrival of a new little Maniac! This is our third child and the older two are actually excited rather than mortified. Considering the age differences (9 and 12 years when the baby gets here), that is pretty good. Samantha, our now middle child, keeps proclaiming that she is now the middle child. Apparently Emma, the oldest, has been oppressing her mightily and she is looking forward to some of that rolling down hill a little farther.

We are all excited about this. We will be finding out the gender when the time comes and will do some of those really cool 3-D pics in July. Can’t wait for that.

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Sorry for the Lack of Posting Lately…

DeaconTim — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:42:00 +0000

But been busy with the new job and the old side work. Also moving the CM stuff to a new server. So that should be interesting. We have been getting a lot of hits on our site from search engines on things like “lutherism” (I accidentally misspelled LutherAnism), Fr. Corapi and more. It will be interesting to see if that dries up. Search engines tend to penalize new sites for a year or so as potential spammers. I have seen that myself on a colleague’s sites. So will we lose the random surfers now?

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What never changes

Guvnur — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:13:00 +0000

Its hard to believe I have now been out of Louisville KY for a year and a half. In fact I have not seen any of the Maniacs since the Christmas of 04 though we do converse by email often. Some things a person would like to think are unchangable but the older I get and the more time goes by I have to reevaluate my opinions of things and sometimes it takes acceptance that things have evolved into things different then when they started or the changes are more subdued. I myself did not stop to consider that a year would have went by since I had seen the other Maniacs in a face to face visit and to be honest I cannot say when it may occur.

Life has been very good this last year and a half though I cannot say it was what I expected or had planned but that is always the great thing that a person cannot predict nor always plan thier course. I cannot claim these days to be an example of the by the book Catholic though it is also very true that my faith is still present and strong.

In short I hope to make the time to start posting and responding again but these postings and responses will most likely not mirror what I would have written a year ago. Of course that gets back to the title “What never changes”. This I am sure would have a different responsive from everyone for life is ever changing and presenting new information that we use to form ourselves.

I want to wish everyone a Happy and Blessed New Year to come and I hope that everyone has the faith to let the changes of life make them stronger

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Hope Everyone Had a Happy New Year!

DeaconTim — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:42:00 +0000

Happy 2006 everyone!

I know I am late with those well wishes… Ah well. Too busy yesterday with trying to get some work done on the old job so I can move on to the new job. Hopefully I can get that done ASAP and have some time off before I must start the new gig.

Worst part about being a contract tech nerd. No paid time off.

Soon.

Very soon.

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