Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

So this is my actual first post. I am just going to keep it short. Today was a pretty normal day. I am healing and having less pain from the second kidney stone surgery I’ve had this year. I went to lunch with a good friend and complained to him (and later in the evening, my wife) that I am frustrated with my urologist. I’m not going to get into the whole thing, but he told me he was going to go through my kidney, laser away the shelf my kidney stone is on and then I would pass it. Long story short he called my wife after the procedure to tell her that he couldn’t reach it. So now I have no idea what the next step of the procedure is. So I’ve got his call and the thought of what could possibly be next weighing heavily on my mind. I think that’s going to be a theme of these posts: What’s weighing on my mind. Because at any given time it’s only about a million things.

Literally as I was writing the last few sentences, my mind has been consumed by the fact that I just found out a week ago that I’m going to be a father. July. In July, my wife is going to push out a child that’s going to one day call me dad…

We have only told a couple people, so please, if you’re reading this don’t tell anyone. Oh, you must tell your mom? OK. I suppose she is pretty close. Just hold her to secrecy.

I am finding more and more that I cannot find the words I want to say when I need to say them. I’m a pretty accomplished dude, and I’ve not done a ton of things that should cause me to have this much trouble so early in my life. Well, I guess “early” is relative term. I’m using the age old adage that 30 is the new 20. Which is funny, but scarily true. Only, I’m a little older than 30…

I am just going to run down the list of things that I have on my mind. Just randomly listing here so take that into consideration. Anyone of these things can become frontrunners at any given time:

• Why am I making a blog?
• How bad is it going to hurt when they take the stent out of my urethra?
• What are we going to name our kid?
• Is it going to be a boy or a girl?
• It’s probably going to be a girl because of my job
• I wonder how my new(and first) AAR-556 Semi-Auto Pistol is going to shoot
• Are my abilities with Excel and Power BI enough to sustain me in my current job?
• Why can’t I retain things in my memory?
• Need to work on the Church Counsel Poster Board
• I wonder how much my Professor is going to dock my grade after only answering one of my classmates discussion posts for this week.
• I am so blessed that I have not had to endure the immense pain that can be associated with kidney stones when they block the urethra
• How did my body manage to create a dime sized kidney stone
• The new Top Gun looks good
• I knew I was going to get backlash, but the amount of posts in contradiction to my post where I have the unpopular opinion that “The Mandalorian(as a show) is not that good” was incredible and very funny
• Am I going to be a good father?
• Really need to get going on the basement repairs so we can start to turn the current office into a nursery
• I love Deadmau5
• I could have found out how my new pistol is going too shoot today if I had looked sooner to see that my Gun Purchase License had expired
• This German song is reminding me of our second honeymoon to Germany and how we spent a couple hours chilling at the awesome hangout called “Checkpoint Charlies”
• Not 100% sure why I labeled this Post “Doubt”

(Going to add this to every post)

Something I want to remember from today:

My wife didn’t actually get as mad about the purchase of the AR as I thought she might. In fact we had a great conversation as I made her guess what she thought the purchase was and I laughed at a few of her guesses: A new car, a new bed, a boat, a cat, a new Roomba…

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