Well, today was quite eventful.

Not the least of which was the birth of my good friends' baby, Zadie, at about 2 PM. Both the mother and the baby are doing fine, though I wish I could say the same about the father. When I saw them, the baby was sleeping (of course) the mother was doting, and the father was grumpy. Perhaps this was due to the epidural she'd received (in fact, there's a hilarious sequence of pictures showing her before and after the epidural), but it was still a funny juxtaposition.

My contribution consisted of moral support (well, duh) and delivering some supplies a few hours after the baby was born. Their cell phone battery had died, and they had no way to contact me (my number was in the dead phone), so I just assumed they didn't call because nothing had happened. When five o'clock rolled around, I figured I should give them a visit, to see how things were going, and everything was over.

Oh, I'm also taking care of the family pooch, Royal, a 2-year-old Scottish terrier. He's a good dog, and we're getting on fine, though it's a bit of an adjustment for me, having never had a pet that wasn't aquarium-bound. I also feel like I should always be paying more attention to him, regardless of the amount of attention I'm giving him, which is difficult.

But the really big news is that, thanks to a wonderful promotion from the local cable company (six months for twenty bucks/mo., the same I pay for Earthlink. So why not? The guy showed up today at two (which, now that I think of it, is the same time as the baby was born), and now I have high-speed Internet access again. Now whether I'll still be here in six months...