Had to give my wife a break yesterday, so I decided to watch the baby last night -- I fell asleep in my people clothes until 4 am, when he got hungry, so I took a shower and fed him, but my wife woke up anyway. Then I woke up every 2 hours after that, and I was borderline crazy from the abrupt and rude lack of sleep, followed by very strong doses of stimulation either from sustained crying or Girls Gone Wild commericials that go on at 5am in the morning.

The little guy is noisy, quite the moaner and groaner, and occasionally he does make the sweetest coo you can imagine. We're sorta getting ready to head down to Redmond again to see my mom and my brother and his wife, who has yet to see the little guy. But what's on our minds right now is the extreme financial hole that we're peering out of.

We got the doctor's bills today, and lemme tell ya, if you can get stranded somewhere with a boatfull of good vacationing doctors who are in a good mood, deliver your baby then. The bill was well over a grand, and that is quite a blow to us. They were willing to only divide the payment over six months, which means it would be a lesser hurtin', but still a big hurtin'. And after the both of us did our bills today, I have exactly 1.62 in my checking, and my wife has 4.56 in her checking. We are broke for the week.

I suppose I'm whining just a little bit, and we'll get out of this for sure, just need a place to rant about my bills. Thankfully, my wife will be back at work soon and we'll be able to catch up on some bills. But till then, we'll be eating as cheap as we can, and canceling our porn of the month subscription.

That was my attempt at humor at a grim situation.

My attempts for the past few nights to burn a DVD has been unsuccessful - I've only managed to make a VCD, which is okay... Dansen has the hard-on for that format, I personally think it's a crap format. Can burn CDs at 6 minutes though, so that's cool.

Getting sleepy - still have to drive to Redmond tonight... D'oh!