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Colt

Vault Dweller
About two hours ago my friend Nick showed up at my front door and basically said "Baby's here! You busy?" Apparently my friend Alanna had finally given birth. I got into Nick's car with him and two other friends and off to the hospital. We crowded into the room with a bunch of her family and a couple of family friends. I mostly stood against the wall in the back with a bemused expression on my face watching it all until they prodded me with the baby and demanded I hold it. I held it.


It was terrifying.


How do they make them so small and fragile?! HOW?! :shock: She was so small and cute and just... A baby. They took pictures of me with it and everything and she stared at me, a lot. It was very strange to look into the soul of one so young.

Specs:
Sunday 0620
Katie
5.5 pounds (if I recally correctly)
Dark brown lanugo hair
Deep blue eyes
Scary.

I'm not exactly sure if I ever want children at this point in my life. I don't know either way, it was just very eery holding another human like that. Anyway, I haven't slept in 29+ hours or so and I need food. Wasted. - Colt

Edit: Prerequisite babypictures:

http://img117.exs.cx/img117/7669/katie_montage.jpg
 
Colt said:
Specs:
Sunday 0620
Katie
5.5 pounds (if I recally correctly)
Dark brown lanugo hair
Deep blue eyes
Scary.
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You make it sound like the latest desktop rig you just bought. :lol:
 
Naw, that's this:

AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ 2.7ghz
768 MB DDR RAM PC 2700
ABIT NF7-S
Seagate 160 gigs with 8 meg cache
GeForce Ti4200 AGP 8X
48x read/burn CD-RW drive, 16x DVD-ROM
16 USB ports
19" professional flatscreen monitor with D-SUB and BNC inputs (55 pounds)
Antec PlusView1000AMG SOHO server case.

$460 for the actual machine but I think the baby is more epensive in terms of initial cost and operating costs. :? - Colt
 
Sigh....I need to get a new proc.

But I have 7 working computers in my house and 2 more non-working ones in my closet, so that should compensate for my small penis to some extent. :wink:

Also, how the hell do you have 16 USB ports? You must have like 3 or 4 USB PCI cards or something.
 
16 is not such a ludicrous number to have; I bought a stock Dell with 8, so my hub brings that up to 11, and they make those things you stick in a drive bay that add 6 or 8 or something.

Strangely enough I just saw a friend's baby the other day, cute little thing it was too, especially for a newborn, since they have a tendency to look like fruitfly larvae.

Frightening, also. I never wanted kids and I still don't. Too much time, effort, etc. And *Costly!*
 
Ratty said:
Baby? Somebody lock and vat this thread before I vomit.
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That's quite understandable with the way rats come looking into the world. ;)

I have so many USB ports basically because I have the space for them in this monster case and no reason to not put them in if I already had them. There's a picture of my case, with the door handle I added: Case
- Colt
 
Colt said:
That's quite understandable with the way rats come looking into the world. ;)
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Not like human babies look any more pretty than that. And they keep on pissing, shitting, smelling and vomitting until they're 21. Most rats don't even live that long.
 
A baby would be really cool. In a long, long time from now, somewhere far, far away from here with someone really, really hot, that is.
 
Ashmo said:
Colt said:
That's quite understandable with the way rats come looking into the world. ;)
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Not like human babies look any more pretty than that. And they keep on pissing, shitting, smelling and vomitting until they're 21. Most rats don't even live that long.
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I think they increase those activities in college as well. :wink:
 
It's ironic that this thread came to life at this particular moment in time, as my wife and I are expecting, and we found out last Thursday we're getting a little girl.

As for the costs, we started our purchases. Tally so far:

1 convertible crib (converts to crib, day bed and full size bed), solid wood. - 449.00

1 chest of drawers, solid wood - 400.00

1 chest of drawers, combo, solid wood - 440.00

This does not include tax.

We also registered yesterday. We're about 1/2 way through the list, and have about roughly 1000.00 worth of stuff.

Kids = expensive.
 
Pope_Viper said:
Ashmo said:
Not to be picky, but what currency are we talking about here?
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My bad, USD.
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Oh, well. Then it's just EUR 766.90 so far. That's cheaper than the computer I intend to buy.

An awful lot of money just for toddler accessoiries. tho.
 
ooo dont worry by the time baby reaches 6 or 7 he will heve spent more on clothes and food and doctors bills than he makes in a year.
plus once your little girl reaches teenagerdom you will have to buy a car, popular clothes, money so that she can take out her looser boyfriend, money to pay her cell phone bills, gas money, graduation times 2. oooo you are in for the time of your life.
 
Forget about the car, education costs and the gas money if you decide to raise your child in Germany instead.

The downside is that nearly everything else will stay the same (although maybe more expensive due to the current exchange rates and thus import costs) and alcohol will be a topic once she hits 16.
And you'll only have delayed the car and gas by a few years (with the way things are going right now she might be allowed to drive a car before hitting 18 tho) and she might want to get a motorcycle or other means of transportation before that.

Actually, better if you stay where you are. Moving here would only make things worse for your wallet.
And otherwise you wouldn't be able to train her to get into accidents allowing her to sue a megacorporation and make you filthy rich.
 
Papa_Viper, do you have relatives? You should attempt to guilt them into purchasing some of the baby accessories. "Look at the ultrasound pictures of your lovely little niece... Now, you know, it will be a shame we have to keep her on the floor, as we don't have a crib."

When my parents were buying furniture for a much younger me, they did it in third-world countries (quite a few custom-made pieces as well). Quite a bit cheaper than buying such items State-side. Find the right places and it could be just as good as well (at least for dressers and bookcases, don't think you could find a convertible crib).
 
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