Last friday was our baby daughter’s due date. The little bugger has been hiding from us for nine months now, and both my wife and I are ready, ready, ready to meet her. At this point, Victoria is pretty constantly uncomfortable, and is waking up A LOT every night. That means I wake up A LOT every night. I once read that the general idea behind basic training in WWII was to make the soldiers so miserable, so unhappy, and so uncomfortable that being shot at would seem like a vacation. I figure that pregnancy is similar. It’s all nature’s way of preparing you for having a baby. All this is a round about way of saying, we still don’t have the baby! First pregnancies are often late, but c’mon already! We’re ready.

On the flip side, the extra week without baby has allowed me to almost finish, “And Zeppelins,” my latest rewrite. Should be begging people for feedback any day now.