A New Helper!

[Rob Z]

Well, after a looonngg wait, little Robert Jr. was born on Sunday night. He has a happy big sister and a very happy Mommy and Daddy.

The vitals: Born April 21 at 11:30 PM, 6 lbs. 15 ozs., 19" long, and big hands that look very capable of holding power tools and trowels someday. :)

Baby and Mommy are very sleepy, but otherwise doing just fine.

I'll see everyone in a week or two.

John, time to upgrade my handle to "Proud Papa". :D

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[Cami A]

http://greetings.soficom.net/images/baby1.jpg
Glad to hear the whole family is doing well! Little boys are great.... :D

[flatfloor]

Start him early! Congratulations.http://www.hallo-spass.de/gif/baby/baby007.gif

[JC]

Don't forget to add some portland to the his sandbox and give him small screeds to play with.

Congrats

[Bud Cline]

How's Christina gonna handle three kids?

[John Bridge]

Psst. C'mere. Do you really believe Rob isn't going to be on this board for two weeks?

Congrats, Rob. Just in case you happen to stumble in here by accident. :D

[jlbos83]

Yep, I think middle of the night, little one am one arm, other hand on the keyboard. Christina says don't come back for at least an hour!

Congrats to you, Rob! (And to Mom!)

[Brian]

Congratulations Rob!

Brian

[Dave Ashton]

Congrats Rob...I'll send his ruck and boots in the mail!!

[Bri]

Geez Rob...2 minutes of work 9 months ago, and now you're taking all the glory!;) Congratulations Christina!...oh yeah...you too Rob. :)

[Rob Z]

"2 minutes"....that's REALLY funny, Bri! :D

Bud, you're right, she does have three children to raise now.

To everyone: thanks for the kind words and the emails. I haven't gotten the chance to respond to each email individually, so THANKS :) :) :)


It's rough getting back to work! (Did John replace me?)

[flatfloor]

No replacement yet, but MB is coming back for a second interview. :)

[Bud Cline]

Bri more than likely your being way too generous with the 2 minute thing.

Rob you don't have to individually respond to my email I know your busy right now. But if you do, please do it from your email account....John's sight is sending me poision messages.

I don't why he's like that.

[Cami A]

Heh heh- MB or Rob...can't think of two other people whose posting style is so far apart. (Unless M has to play nice now that there's sponsors everywhere- haven't been there much since the software change.)

Busy, schmusy...post a pic or two, already, Rob! :D

[Rob Z]

Hi Cami

We are still taking pictures....none have been developed yet.

:D

[John Bridge]

No. No replacement. You said you'd be out two weeks and I've charged your paid vacation allocation accordingly. It just happens you only had two weeks coming.

Even Stephen. :)

[Rob Z]

Even Stephen who? :D

[flatfloor]

Even Steven :)

[Rob Z]

John

Could you PLEASE add "Da Leveller" to Flatfloor's handle?

Things just don't seem right without it.

[John Bridge]

I guess so. :)

[flatfloor]

I feel better already. :)

[stullis]

Congrats Rob and Christina on the new addition!

[Ron]

Congratulations!

To you,Christina and Jana.

[dian57]

I'm a little late with this, Rob, but congratulations on your new son. God has blessed you with the most wonderful gift known to humankind, a child. I wish your family a lifetime of luck, love, laughter and happiness. Kiss them all from me. Dianne

[J.L. Burns]

God bless you and yours Sir-I'll try to see if I can find a can of udder butter from the Harry and David catalogue and send it ya'lls way

[cx]

Large congratulations, Z.

Don't know if they have tile tools out here, but I'll see if I can get him a little adobe form. Hey, that's "mud", ain't it?

You gonna call him Junior? Little Z? Gimme a hint.

CX

[Harry]

Late with the congratulations but hey ... CONGRATULATIONS!!

Now you'll be able to post on the forums at 2am, 3am, 4am .... :D

Harry

[Hobbit]

To Rob:

Congratulations to both you and Christina. I don't know why all the flack about the two minute thing. That's about normal--isn't it? ;)

To Robert Jr.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs, and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting, too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good nor talk too wise;
If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more --

You'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

[flatfloor]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs, and blaming it on you;

Maybe, just maybe...you don't understand the goddam problem. :D

[Bud Cline]

LMAOLMAOLMAO!!!ROFLMAO!

[John Bridge]

That Rudyard. One of my favorites. :)

[Hobbit]

Yeah, he is a perfect example of something the British did right. :D Won a Nobel prize for literature---1907, I think.
Well, early 1900's anyway!!

One of my favorites too.

[Terry O'Neill]

Now this is the law of the jungle
as old and true as the sky,
and the wolf that should keep it may live
while the wolf that would break it must die.
Like the circle that girdles the tree trunk
and the line that runs forward and back
for the strength of the pack is the wolf
and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

John and Hobbit

Forgive me if I butchered this, but I'm reciting from memory.:o

[John Bridge]

Terry,

From the very start of this forum I imagined it to be something special, way back before we even had the format you see now. (We had a pathetic little board that didn't work well at all.)

One of the special things I've learned over the past couple years is that the folks who seem to gravitate here are special. Anyone who can remember more than three lines of ANYTHING has to be somebody. :D

[I read Kipling's "Just So Stories" to my kids when they were small. My favorite is "Elephant's Child." I must confess to never having read Tolkien.]

[Terry O'Neill]

John,
Thank you. I confess that I have an aversion to Tolkien, unfortunately. Lord of the Rings was a favorite of my ex-wife's, if you get get my drift. However, I have read extensively the work of his buddy Clive Staples L.
I think your web site is indeed a special place, set and influenced by it's source, of course. I'm glad my friend Rob Z. turned me onto it.
By the way my baby sister lives in Houston or suburbia somewhere.

[flatfloor]

There was an old hermit named Dave
Who happily lived in a cave
Damn, I can't remember the third line. :D

[Bud Cline]

Jim,

Are you thinking about this one?


There once was a hermit named Dave,
Who kept a ???? ????? in his cave,
He said, "I admit
I'm a bit covenit
But think of the money I save.

[chip]

Is the little guy weaned off the mommas milk and on to the Beer yet?

If so, I hope you have introduced him to the finest beer for under $10.00 a case, Milwaukees Best Light. Start him on the light stuff, he has plenty of time to catch up with ya'.

Congrats old man, and best wishes to the ladies as well.

Chippy

[John Bridge]

Rob,

If it's a problem, just send the film. I'll get it developed, too. ;)

[flatfloor]

Yeah that's it, just couldn't figure out how to sanitize it. Thanks :)

[Cami A]

Oh-so-many versions of that one...


There once was a woman named Kit
Who kept a dead lover named Brit.
I don't care if he reeks
After all of these weeks,
But I'm madder than heck that he split!

[dian57]

Weren't we talking about babies a minute ago?

[Cami A]

Yep! I hereby nominate this thread for worst possible tangent.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:SqxZGAmtPHQC:www.kdrv.com/commun/award.jpg

[John Bridge]

Yeah, let's get back on topic. Rudyard Kipling, wasn't it?

[Terry O'Neill]

Hey,
Where did Hobbit go?

[flatfloor]

I heard he, the Grim Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen got in a bit of a dust up with some dwarfs over a girl the dwarfs were with. Thirty days plus damages. :D

[John Bridge]

By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

[Hobbit]

Like everyone here--sometimes you just gotta work.

Thirty days--like sands through the hourglass of time--
Thank goodness there wasn't any damages!!



...
I started o' canteen porter, I finished o' canteen beer,
But a dose o' gin that a mate slipped in, it was that that brought me here.
'Twas that and an extry double Guard that rubbed my nose in the dirt;
But I fell away with the Corp'ral's stock and the best of the Corp'ral's shirt.

I left my cap in a public-house, my boots in the public road,
And Lord knows where, and I don't care, my belt and my tunic goed;
They'll stop my pay, they'll cut away the stripes I used to wear,
But I left my mark on the Corp'ral's face, and I think he'll keep it there!

My wife she cries on the barrack-gate, my kid in the barrack-yard,
It ain't that I mind the Ord'ly room - it's that that cuts so hard.
I'll take my oath before them both that I will sure abstain,
But as soon as I'm in with a mate and gin, I know I'll do it again!
...

Rudyard Kipling

Excerpted from a little known work called Cells

[John Bridge]

Little known? You're right. I wasn't aware of that one, and I don't know why. It's exquisite and true to form.

I suppose, though, it all leads back to my original favorite,

Which took place by "the great gray-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees."

:)

[Hobbit]

Ah--yes!!

"The Elephant Child" I believe.

[Rob Z]

Just to keep everyone updated:

Little Robby is now just over a month old. He has learned to smile, especially after letting loose a good Toot.

Daddy is very proud! :D

[Cami A]

Sooooo...one month and no pics? http://www.clicksmilie.de/sammlung/verkleidung/verkleidung005.gif

[Rob Z]

Good one, Cami! :D

Okay, okay, I'll send one to John to be posted. Soon. I promise.

[John Bridge]

"Soon" is a very subjective term around here. How about "sooner"?

;)

[Cami A]

Or...you could go get a digital camera. There's never going to be a better time or a better reason. Then you could flood the internet with pictures of your little cutie whenever the urge strikes.

http://image.photoloft.com/opx-bin/OpxFIDISA.dll?s=cano&src=/PhotoLoft/Asset19/2002/05/26/9505/9505936_0_5316.fpx,0,0,1,1,187,256,FFFFFF