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It’s been a while since i’ve given you all an update for what’s been going on with us in our erm, “happy little family”. We moved to coos bay to work for a call center here, ACS. Were currently living with sabrina’s aunt however are expected to be able to move into our own place friday, so that will be nice. I’m not saying I don’t like staying here, but as the saying goes, there’s no place like home. We are both doing good at our jobs, but i’m still waiting for sprint to get it on there site for jaws to work right so that I might personally take calls. One of these days however, i’ll log into our software and it’ll come up talking. That’ll be nice. Right now however, i’m taking calls and someone else is doing the work. I then have to talk with the customer as the other person tells me what’s going on on the screen. A bit of work, but totally doable.
I also listen into calls so that I have a better chance of being able to have my calls “Flow” when I do finally take calls. For the most part it’s working well. I however, have to admit that I can’t wait to be able to take my own calls. When I can i’ll be doing a lot of OT, and so Sabrina doesn’t have to listen to me bitch and stuff, smile.
Nicholas is doing wonderful. He has a doctor appointment tomorrow after work, so we’ll get him his shots, and his weight. When we did take him to the doctor a couple of weeks ago, he did way 14lbs, and was looking healthy. However, tomorrow is his wellness checkup appointment with shots given as well.
Anyways, as I said things are going well. We can’t wait to be in our own place, and do like it down here. I miss alaska a bit however, but think honestly in the long run this being down here is going to be for the best for all of us. You know, if you look back in my blog, like a year or so you’ll see how much I didn’t like alaska, and now I miss/like it? It’s strange how so much can change…
Anyways that’s it for now. I’ll update again when I have time and something to say.

This is what I got when doing a Universal 6 Card Spread reading on Free tarot Reading. If this is correct, things should go well and it should be a wonderful week then:).

Universal 6 Card Spread

Card 1 (Justice) : How you feel about yourself now »
You are feeling that things will go your way, you believe in fairness and justice in all things. If you are considering partnership issues, personal or professional, dealings will go well. Perhaps you are about to sign a contract or legal document, this will be beneficial to you. If someone has done wrong to you it will be put right and you will feel justice has been done.

Card 2 (The Hanged Man) : What you most want at this moment »
The cards suggest that what you most want at this time is to have it all, why should you have to give something or someone up? Perhaps you feel a victim and that events are not going as planned. Trust that this is a passage from one phase of your life to another. If you are not sure what or who you need to give up, trust that what will be will be, and will ultimately be to your benefit.

Card 3 (Wheel Of Fortune) : Your fears »
You are in fear of everything turning for the worse for you, perhaps you are experiencing a run of bad luck. You have to trust that most of what we fear never happens and as The Wheel of Fortune turns downwards against you, the wheel will naturally turn upwards again and bring good fortune to you too. This difficult phase will pass.

Card 4 (The Lovers) : What is going for you »
New love and commitment will enter your life, even if there’s no one on the horizon – be prepared for a surprise. Throw caution to the wind and expect joyous and happy times ahead.

Card 5 (The Empress) : What is going against you »
There are conflicts around you, frustrations and possibly a break up in a relationship. Be careful not to over-react and be too protective or dictatorial about your needs, and whatever you do, do not resort to emotional blackmail, it won’t do you any favours. You may be experiencing infertility problems or an unplanned pregnancy, if so just know that there are people around you who love and care for you and will provide support.

Card 6 (Death) : Outcome »
This is a transformational time for you. However turbulent or perhaps distressing some of the events in your life may be, endings always leave room for brand new beginnings. This is a fresh start in life for you, embrace it and live every day as though it was your last, life is for living!
* N.B. You must click the button. Using your ‘enter’ key will NOT work! *

The plans for the wedding are complete.
I hope that they are complete as we have the big day friday. I know it’s coming quickly however, i’ll be glad it’s done when it’s done. Honestly, this is a lot of work to get married. Rent the tux, find the bride dress, get the brides mades, get a best man, buy the wedding license, buy the food for the wedding, buy the church, ok well we don’t have to “buy” the church, i don’t think… But we got it all done I think. Were going to go in to town tuesday and pick up my best man, and get some of the food for the wedding then. Well get the rest of it. Either wednesday afternoon or thursday morning we have to drive into craig and pick up our wedding license. Who ever Hurd of waiting three days to be able to pick up a peas of paper. I guess it’s to bail out of you want? Thursday we have a wedding practice for the wedding and friday’s the big day. Saturday Sabrina’s family leaves early. Early like 4:30 in the morning… Tuesday the 13th we have to drive into Craig and take Nicholas to the doctor to get weighed and measured. It’s his 4 month checkup. Finally, next friday my best man kym leaves. We may be on the flight with Kym if all plans go wonderfully.
OK, so some of you may not know. I applied for a job threw ACS incorporated, it’s a call center. To make a long story short as of friday Sabrina and I were both offered a job there. Sabrina’s aunt has worked there for the past eleven years so it has been around for a long time. Is it work i’ll enjoy? Yeah likely and I think I’ll like living south again. The only major cost is getting into a place down there but I firmly believe that every little thing works out in the end for a reason. So, lets see how that goes. I’m stressing about it though that’s for sure.
I don’t really have anything else to write but Nicholas is growing like a little weed. I’ll know his weight a week from Tuesday and will be sure to write it on here. I need also to get more photos of him to put on Facebook and will do that as soon as I can. I’ll bet that we’ll have a lot of photos of our wedding friday, but, we’ll see…
Anyways mike’s out!

My name is Michael Babcock and I am currently living in Coffman Cove, alaska. It’s a relatively small town out of Ketchikan on the prince of whales island. I have been living here since june of 2008 where I moved up here to originally attend college in Anchorage. My girlfriend at the time had grew up here and so we stopped in to see her parents and have been here since. We are now engaged and plan to be married on July 9th of this year, so in a couple of weeks now.
We have a 3 month son who was born early at 33 weeks. He was early enough that Ketchikan had to send us down to seattle in order for her to have him. He was born at 4 pounds 1.6 ounces and 16 inches long. He’s our first, however we hope not our last. He does keep us busy but I can’t complain to much. I’m the one who gets up with him at night and right now he’s falling asleep at 10:00PM and not waking up until about 6AM. He’s always sleep long hours but this is nice as I don’t go to bed until about midnight, and I normally try to get up at about six.
I am not the best at writing though i’de like to think that taking english -092 with Biz Robbins out of Ketchikan helped me a bit. I passed it with a B, so I can’t have done to bad. I however had problems with writing and spelling during my time in school growing up. It could be because I don’t read printed material and just listen to it, or it could be that I was just never really worked with i’m not quite sure.
The reason I don’t read printed material is because i’m a blind student. I have been blind since birth and have always attended public schools. Well, ok so I attended the Oregon School For The Blind for a week but didn’t like it and returned home telling mom, “I don’t like this place, they treat me like i’m five and i’m 9″. The school however was designed for students who had multiple disabilities and so they tended to have to spend longer time with some students then with others. I however was able to keep up with my peers in public schools so back to the public school I went. Just in case someone is curious about my blindness and how i’m able to take classes, do my work, get a job, etc feel free to ask. I am very open about it and have no problem with answering questions you may have.
My well, I guess i’ll just call her my wife as she’s close enough to being one. Anyways, my wife and I are talking about moving down to Oregon with her family down there. As at this point in time there are not any jobs here in Coffman Cove, and she was offered a job there and i’m waiting for a response on one. If we move we do still plan to continue and get at least our associates degrees threw the university of alaska system. However, what we do after that i’m not quite sure.
I originally started college as a computer science major. I however have since changed my major a few times. At one point I wanted to major in journalism, followed by just communications. I then changed my major to computer science again, and have finally stuck on psychology. So, in another words for the longest time I didn’t know what I want to do and i’m still not completely quite sure that I know what I want to do. But becoming a psychologist does sound like something I would enjoy and have fun doing. The money isn’t to bad either…
I enjoy read mystery and thriller books. One of my most favorite authors is Stuart Woods. I also like to branch out a little bit in my reading however, it has to be a very good book for me to sit down and read it. I’ve recently gotten into reading the alex cross books by James Paterson, and am enjoying those books as well.
I think this is just about all I have to write at this time. I will get to know you guys during this course.

Our Microsoft access instructor asked some good questions, and i thought some of you may want to read my responses to his questions, so here you go.
Kevin;
Wow, Lotus Notes/Domino haven’t seen that in a while. Do people still use it? I haven’t seen that since 8th grade, and then i was just a user, and didn’t get to look at the administration side of the software at all, and as you will soon see below, administration sides of stuff is what makes me happy.
Who are you and where are you located?
Well, my name is Michael Babcock, and on many social networking sites i’m often known as “Creepyblindy”, i’m sure you’ll understand in a bit. I live in Coffman Cove, a small town on the prince of whales out of Ketchikan. However, for the time being i’m in seattle as my soon to be wife just had a baby on march 5th. Nicholas was early, 33 weeks, and so they have kept us here for a month. However the word came today that we should get to go home in a week or less. Ah, what it will be like to sleep in my own bed again…
Why are you taking this particular class?
I have always had a major intrust in databases ever since i found out that stuff can be kept in databases. I think the first database i ever worked with was my blog’s database, and to be honest, i haven’t done anything with it really. It’s the whole concept that makes me smile, you can put a lot of stuff in a database, write a script, and get that information displayed to a user? Wow. Oh, and well i thought Access might be a better place to start if i want to know about mysql more, as i don’t know if there is a mysql course in the UA system.
Do you have any previous background with database software? With MS Access  specifically?
Well, i do a little. I have never used access before. I however have used a bit of mysql. I run a site that is database driven, and we get about 2-3 support tickets opened a day, and as many if not more responses to those tickets. I have a friend manage the database, however if i can eliminate him from the picture then so be it. I would rather manage it if possible. I assume that mysql is a bit different then access yet also assume that if I can master access, then the likelihood of me being able to master mysql is drastically increased.
What is your aim? (This is a different question than “why are you taking this class?”. What do you want to get out of the class?
I want to be able to learn more about the database concept, and apply this to reel world life examples. There for being able to increase my general database knowledge and use it to apply to website development projects.
Tell us one thing about yourself that the rest of us can associate with your personality.
For the most part, i don’t let anything get me down. Something can hurt my feelings, however i would not show it and normally people would not know that it hurt me. Sometimes i think this is bad, but because of something else (soon to be known), it is beneficial.
Something about me:
Well, something that you can also associate with me is that i’m blind. I use screen reading software, voiceover on the mac and iphone, and jaws or system access n windows. I don’t let this get me down at all, and i’ve attended public schools all of my life, excluding a two week assessment that i had to attend at the school for the blind in Oregon.
Useless Trivia Question #1: what was the last book you read?
That would be “Kiss the girls” by James Patterson, and right now i’m reading “Jack and Jill” by the same author. I now need to find the book that kevin talked about in his introduction post, “Little Brother”, as i loved the monkey wrench books, and have the new one coming out on april 29th on pre order from amazon.

this is a quick update to let you all know what’s going on. We are still in seattle, mainly because the doctor and nurses want nicholas to do his best when he goes home. They want him to drink 8 complete bottles, about 2 ounces each, before they will let us go home. This is in a day. He got up to 6, and he just had a bad day, so the next day they dropped us back down to 2. He did his 4, to the best of my knowledge yesterday, so today’s goal should be 5 bottles. Followed by 6, etc tomorrow and onward. However, if he gets back to 6, and they try to drop him back down to 2 again, i feel i might ask if they drop him, to not do it so much as obviously he can do 4 for say because he’s done it twice. However, lets hope it doesn’t come to that.
The doctor said that we should be home “with in a week or less, but way before his original due date”, this is april 21st. So, i will let you know when we get to bring the little guy home. He’s getting bigger though, as of yesterday morning, his weight was albs, 2 ounces, 2 lb. in just under a month, not to bad. He’s also 19 inches long.
Well, here’s to us getting to go home to alaska soon.
mike

I thought that you all would like to get a quick update. Those of you on Facebook, and twitter are best to know what’s going on with nicholas, however, sometimes it’s good to just update everyone all at once.
First of all, Sabrina created nicholas a website. You can view it here:

Nicholas Dean Babcock

Second of all, nicholas has a goal of eight feedings by bottle. He made 2 on saturday, and sunday he had 2, however didn’t want the third. As of right now we don’t know if they gave him the third one and he took it at 11:00PM. However, if he didn’t then we will try it with him again today.
He is eating 46 CC’s, just over 1.5 ounces right now. And he seems to be taking this good however, at times i think they might be giving him a bit much. At 40 cc’s, he starts to get sleepy and is normally out by 45 cc’s, the 1.5 ounce mark. But, may be they are feeding him enough.

We also learned yesterday that nicholas ways 5 pounds. Yep, that’s right he went down to 3 pounds 14 ounces, however, is back up to 5 pounds. I think it’s because his favorite nurse returns tuesday and he wants to way a lot for her, smile.

Right now we don’t know when we will get to go home, however for the sake of all our sanity we hope soon. I told the nurses at the nurse station that “I hope we don’t have to see you for much longer,” and they laughed and said they hope so as well. If all goes to plan then i guess we should be home or headed home on the first.

Anyways that’s a quick update for you all so you know what’s going on. Keep an eye on 
My twitter
and
my facebook
for updates.
mike

nicholas is no longer in the NICU, they moved him to the second floor, i forget what it’s called. This means that mom and visitors can go visit him more often. This also means he’s doing better, so i figured i’de just update you all. He also, acquired a slight case of jaundice this morning, however, everyone’s telling me that a lot of babies get this, and i think all of my brothers did as well; therefor, i’m not to worried about it. I got to hold him, and wow, he’s small. But cute to.
mike

Nicholas dean Babcock was born at 01:54AM PST, at 33 weeks. He was 4.16
pounds and 16 inches long.
It was a quick delivery, only 4 hours. We are in the sweetish medical center
in seattle right now, and he will be in ICU for at least 3 weeks, however,
they have his release as 04-21. 04-21 is Nicholas’s original due date.
However, he’s breathing with out oxygen, so this is good.
Please, keep an eye on both

http://gwfans.net

and

http://twitter.com/creepyblindy

for updates on us. We will be in seattle until  Nicholas comes home, and are
trying to get medical for the state of alaska to pay for our hotel, and the
social worker just informed us that Sabrina has medical and she just needs to do some more stuff in order for the baby to get medical.
Anyways all, i just wanted to update you.

good day;
it’s been a while since the last time I wrote a blog, so I thought I would go ahead and write one, update you guys all on everything that’s been going on, as well as to just say In effect, not a lot has happened lately. I do have to admit though, you last night, I had the chance to go ahead and feel the baby kicking for the first time. Sabrina, claims it was quite active, and yes I have to admit that I could believe that. It’s exciting, yet scary at the same time. I know a lot of people do it, but I’m sure it might get easier after time. Am I scared? Yes. However, I feel i’ll be able to be a good dad, at least that’s what a lot of people tell me.
it’s a new year, new resolutions are in order. did I keep any of my 2009 resolutions? Well, I think I did. Though I’m not quite sure, if I even made any. It’s possible that I didn’t. However, this year I do know that I have a few. Whether or not I’ll go ahead and keep those, I’m not quite sure, however, I will sure as hell try my best.
The first of which has to be of course, being a good dad. I know that this is something that will be an ongoing resolution for me probably, for the rest of my life. However, let’s go ahead and start 2010 with a wonderful resolution. I., Michael Babcock, resolved to be an excellent father for the child to be.
and, my second resolution, will be what everyone else tends to make a resolution of. And the likelihood of me keeping it, I have to admit, it’s very likely. I resolved to lose approximately 20 pounds by the end of the year. Not that much weight, but it’s something that I think I might be able to do. Running around with the new kid might make it even easier.
The third and final resolution to have the 2010, is to be able to become more financially stable. Though, my financial situation isn’t too terribly bad, it can’t hurt to have more financial stability in my life. 2010, will be the year of finances. Or, at least that’s what I hope.
So there’s a few news resolutions that I need to go ahead and keep. Whether or not i’ll be able to do that, I guess time will see. I really need to learn to update my blog more often, as that would eliminate the purpose of me doing quite lengthy blog entries. Is it bad that I’d rather dictate my blogs now and type them? I don’t think so, I have the software, so why not use it?
I have one more resolution. It goes along with my third resolution of bringing financial stability in my lifehowever, it is slightly unrelated. I., for the fourth resolution of 2010, resolved to find myself a stable job. See, a kind of ties into the fair resolution of becoming financially stable in the year 2010. But, it’s still different.
Well bloggers, I think that’s it for now. Please, leave your comments on the blog and or on Facebook, and I’ll be sure to reply to please most of you.
tell me, in your comments, what are your New Year’s resolutions?
with my best regards
sincerely
Michael A. Babcock.
Mike — – — – — – out