“Okay, so I had this dream? Where I had to write an essay? And all I had to write on were the backs of bookmarks. And all I had to write with was a piece of chicken covered in barbecue sauce.”

These were the words with which my beautiful wife woke me this morning. Pregnancy is so weird.

Ned, a lesser celestial, is seated at a laptop at center stage. Enter the Achangel Gabriel, the Voice of God, stage left.

Gabriel: Hi, Ned.

Ned: Hey Gabe!

Gabriel: How’s that human reproduction project going?

Ned: Fantastic! I’m just putting the finishing touches on it now!

Gabriel: This isn’t going to turn out like the last project you ran, is it?

Ned: Hey, look, I know it didn’t go over so well, but you watch. I think the Australian mammals will fit in to the larger scheme of things better than you think.

Gabriel: (deadpan) Uh-huh.

Ned: I’m particularly proud of the duck billed platypus.

Gabriel: (deadpan) Of course you are.

Ned: It’s a beaver and a duck!

Gabriel: If we could get back to the humans…

Ned: What? Oh, right. Well, it starts out with sex…

Gabriel: That thing we had the presentation on last week?

Ned: Right.

Gabriel: Nice.

Ned: Yeah, I thought you’d like that. Then the sperm finds the egg in the ampulla of the fallopian tube, and then you’ve got a zygote.

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The nursery’s all done. Click the picture to see it from several angles. It looks pretty spectacular, I gotta say.

The stripe is finally done. Michelle still has some touch-up to do, but otherwise my work here is done.  Looks pretty good, too.

Good thing it’s done, though. I’m extremely sick of painting.

Stripe Part Two

Originally uploaded by cnitchie.

I took a pass at the second phase of the stripe two weeks ago. The less said about that attempt the better. Let’s just say that putting dark blue over white requires a lot of paint, and combining a lot of paint with a mediocre job of laying the masking tape leads to badness.

Mike and Michelle came over on Monday to help me repair the damage. There’s still more work to be done (which is why the other half of the room isn’t shown), but in the end I think it’ll look pretty good.