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Judah has been walking around tonight talking about Artoo, Prince-a Way-a, and Yoyo.  He can’t find Artoo and Prince-a Way-a.  “Where’s Artoo, dad?”  He might be the youngest boy ever to have a crush on Princess Leia.

Coincidence or not, you decide.

September 12, 2004 - Judah born. October 27, 2004 - Red Sox beat St. Louis to win the 2004 World Series.

June 11, 2007 - Abel born. October 28, 2007 - Red Sox beat Colorado to win the 2007 World Series.

So last week Judah stuck not one, but two CDs in my computer…at the same time. I was able to get them out, but it was a bit of work to do that. Ever since then it just hasn’t work right. So, tonight I decided to try and figure it out.

Since it is a Mac Mini it is a little harder to work on, let alone get into it. After I got it open I had to figure out how to “service” the optical drive. After finding some guides online I was able to free the drive from the chassis, and open it up to find…Fred Bear stickers! Apparently Judah stuck them in at the same time as the CDs.

Fred Bear stickers + optical drive = no workie = unhappy dad

Stickers out, everything back together, and working again. He lives to wake another day.

Judah has three things related to TV that he asks for all the time. In no particular order they are:

• Dirty Jobs, and host Mike Rowe; this is often presented as one word, “DirtyJobsMikeRowe”
• Mythbusters, complete with a countdown (3..2..1..) and explosion noises
• Alton Brown

The last one is a bit of a recent phenomenon, but we enjoy Alton as well, so it’s all good.

Two translations for you from the Judah Language Institute:

• No-bah-wat-ton: “No I don’t want to” or “No I’m all done”
• A-bow Gee: Evil Genius

The “a-bow gee” stems from him being able to work the TV and DVD player, and his mother calling him an evil genius.

NPR has a segment called “This I Believe.” I gave Judah my rough impression of NPR as I got dressed on Friday:

“I’m wearing a red shirt today. Do you know why? [silence] Because we can believe in basketball again.”

If you don’t know what I was referring to, perhaps you should read this and this.

Ask and you shall receive.

My initials are JAS. Adrienne’s are AjGS. Judah’s are JJS. You see a pattern here? Abel Anders came about in two ways, middle name first.

My middle name is Andrew. My mom is 100% Swedish, so that makes me 50% Swedish. Anders is a Scandinavian varient of Andrew.

That one settled, now on to the all important first name.  We wen’t back and forth on this a while.  We had a few names to choose from, but once I saw him none of them “seemed right” to me except Abel.

Not too exciting of a story.  But, hey, it’s a story.

Here are some more photos. Don’t forget that these (and more) are all over here.