h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pack lots of granola bars and stuff, and start hitching now. You ought to arrive early ... in time to wait the mandatory 3 hours for a .

On the upside, you might find a PowerBall ticket, and have more money that any 600 people know what to do with. If so, my phone number is ...

Amy, you're lucky to be in the middle of nowhere, rather than on the edge of nowhere. People on the edge have even fewer services than you have.

congratulations Amy Thats wonderful news

Well, on the upside, my last pregnancy went perfectly, so I'm not worried on that score. Plus, if there are cancellations, everyone moves up. Only problem is that, barring moving out of the county, I can't really think of *good* reasons for OB appointments to be cancelled, can you (keeping in mind that this is the *only* OB)... Unless a baby's a few days early (as opposed to premature)...

If a baby comes early at birth, is it always on time the rest of its life?

My brother-in-law was a month early and according to family members, hasn't been on time since!

I was nearly a month late, and I'm only on time if there is some (usually financial) incentive.

Oh, I don't know--you were on time just last month, before you had to try to follow directions from someone who follows that route automatically because there's sidewalks the whole way and therefore that's the easiest way to get the stroller downtown

*note to self--see if it would be cheaper to get replacement parts or just get a new one of the same model, since the thing held up well with 3.5 years of almost daily use...*

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I figured I would do it properly on this thread

So I will have another person to meet on my next visit (now I just have to sign up for another school up in sacramento)

Or in Portland, Oregon--it's about the same driving time

How far is it if you putt all the way?

I can't really see tac just putting along, can you, Paul?

You do have a point, Amy.

I drive a nice and safe speed
I did like the fact that the rental GPS unit I had gave an ETA for my trip and as I was driving it kept updating so instead of ariving at 8pm like it first said I was there much earlier

Yippieee Amy! What does Faith think about all this? Interesting if they are about five years apart! My sister and I are a bit over two years apart ... friends of ours have two daughters that are about ten years apart ... anyways all the best to you all!

But tac, you were about 3 or 4 hours earlier* than we expected

Willem, she is very excited She doesn't want to wait until after Valentine's Day, but seems to be accepting that she has to She has offered many suggestions for girls names--mostly names of her friends















OK, so that was because you left Sacto around 1 instead of 5ish

I hope some of her friends have names like Leslie, Dana, or Robin, which can be used for a boy if that's the gender that the baby arrives with.

Actually, one of her friends' name is Sydney (which I don't like, anyway--and Faith would insist it's only a girl's name)

I've always liked the name Cuthbert - but I'm odd

Yes, you are, oh-my-older-twin

A boy will have Edmund as a middle name--it was my dad's middle name. Why don't I use his first name? For one, neither Tom nor I are very fond of the name Kenneth, and for another, since my dad had an Uncle Ken and a cousin named Ken, he went by Ed anyway. A tribute for my mom will be a bit tougher--her first name, Charmaigne, is one that I'm not too fond of (neither was she) and her middle name was just D--like Harry Truman's was S. I suppose I could just pick a name that starts with D *shrug*

See, Tom and I agreed to alternate namings last time I was pregnant--with the not-chooser having a veto if they absolutely can't stand a name. Tom got to choose first