January 5 has come and passed, and with it my resignation from Trailer Park became official. It was definitely weird. I worked with a lot of the folks there for about five years give or take a few months in either direction. At the end of the day, there was cake & I was actually left speechless when asked to say a few words.

The weekend was one of celebration.

Dinner with Matt & Kathy on Friday.

A surprise costume birthday for Mitch on Saturday. I went as Professor Chaos — Mitch, I need a picture of it.

And then we topped it off with Theresa, JJ & I going to Disneyland for JJ’s first trip there. The weather was perfect, traffic was minimal & crowds were likewise. Overall, I think JJ’s favorite ride was the Monster’s Inc. (there is a small 4×5 tv screen in the car which brought a big smile to his face). He was not so fond of the Pirates ride and seemed indifferent about the Winnie the Pooh ride as he was more infatuated with the fact that there were doors that swung than the ride itself. Adding a nice topper to the day, James & Weena joined us for dinner in Downtown Disney.

That’s it for the moment. There are some pics of the Disneyland trip in my gallery for anyone who cares to check them out.

So for about — oh let’s say — eight months, Theresa has been harassing me to set up a blog for her to talk about raising her first child. And for about 8 months, I put it off.

Alas, I could delay no longer. So check it out:

http://www.andyandtheweb.com/jjblog

The day after JJ was born, I took a brief trek home to clean myself up, take care of a few things & grab Theresa’s laptop. The reason for her laptop was 2-fold. First, so I could pull down all the photos from my camera to free up more memory on the flashcard & the second was that I wanted to write something down.

The following was written around 6pm on December 29th. I never got a chance to finish it & now feel that finishing it would do injustice to the moment that it was written.

“It’s just past 5:37 on Dec 29th marking the end of JJ’s first day out of the womb. JJ celebrates his 25th hour with a nap, while his mom has her eyes closed to relax, but not too heavily lest JJ stir from his slumber for the occasional cry. Fear not though, a quick loving shush or belly rub usually stills the waters quickly without incident.

By the time it was all over I was exhausted and covered with sweat. I would love to try to describe Theresa’s physical, mental and emotional state immediately following the birth, but I cannot even come close to finding the genuine words to describe what I saw. All I will say is this. After more than 10 hours of labor, drugs, food deprivation & sheer pain on a level that I really now think we men will never fully comprehend, the moment she held JJ, it was all gone. All that was left was pure, unadulterated joy & love. It was like the entire rest of the day didn’t even exist to her anymore.”

Many of you are already aware of this, and those who aren’t have probably guessed it by now. Nonetheless, I wanted to formalize the announcement.

Photos have been added to my gallery for everyone to enjoy.

All bets are on hold. We are not going to know the sex of the future ruler of the world for 2 more weeks or so.

That’s the day we find out if my spawn is a boy, a girl or other. Place your bets!

Thusfar as many of you know, we chose the name if its a girl real easily, but have been struggling for a boy’s name for quite sometime.

Since we were having such a hard time, I suggested to Theresa that we sell the rights to name our child on ebay, but she was afraid some jerk ass would outbid everyone and we would end up with a kid named something like “Microsoft Sucks Schlossberg” or much more crass. I amended the idea to being the winner can have the child named after him or her, but Theresa still would not fold.

Since then, our friends have been very helpful offering their own — uhhhmm — shall we say “creative” names. My favorite suggestion by far right now is Chris Lee’s, Turbo Schlossberg.

I will return to my usual mindless blogging in a day or two once I get other things sorted out!