Yep… so I’m going to be a father. A parent. A dad. An old man.

I’m very excited, but it’s still a distant 8 months away. I have a hard enough time paying attention to the next 2 weeks, much less something that is going to happen in 8 months. I don’t really know what to think, but my priorities have changed. I used to be very concerned with discovering fulfillment and challenge in my career, but it’s like overnight I have been armed with a greater sense of purpose and I now know what I want. My job has actually gotten easier due to this heightened sense of clarity. I am going to be responsible for providing for a family and I feel like this is why I was born. It’s really weird.

I’m also going to be moving to a new house in 2 weeks. I’ve got a lot to do.

I’m about to slip into a rant here. Just as a notice, if I ever hear any of you talking about global warming as if it were anthropomorphic or preventable or carbon dioxide emissions as if they are unnatural and bad then I am going to be a bit disappointed. The moment you start putting caps on the amount of fossil fuels (especially for the sake of a consistently refuted untruth) that can be produced and consumed is when you will start living a third-world lifestyle. Comparable alternative fuels do not exist and will not exist for the foreseeable future… so don’t hold out any hope. The energy release of gasoline combustion is way higher than any other easily controllable process that has ever been discovered and electric cars that require charging and periods of disutility do not count since you have just outsourced the “emissions” to a power plant (unless it is nuclear, which is unlikely).