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Today is Allison’s 31st birthday and we had a small celebration of sorts over the weekend.

My gift for her was “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer since Allison really liked her Twilight series. A small cake was bought to hold the 31 candles and Allison managed to blow out all of them in one breath. Not a huge affair but we tend not to make our birthdays big deals and save it all for Anya and soon the little one.

Yesterday we went to the Alabama Theater in Birmingham to see Enchanted with Anya. It had been quite a while since I had been there and my memories didn’t do it justice. Built in 1927 it is one of those very ornate theaters with a traditional stage and three tiers of seats. We didn’t know that they were showing matinees of children’s movies all summer so we missed out. But it was fun and we plan to pay more attention to what’s going on at the theater.

Well, those of you that read Allison’s blog, and those that read my post titles, now know the gender of our new baby on the way. A visit to the doctor yesterday revealed that he’s fairly sure it is a girl. He admits to being wrong before and we’ll know for certain at a later visit.

So, another girl. I’m not sure how to react to that. I’m happy regardless because the baby appears to be healthy and coming along fine. But the thought of three girls in the house. At least I’ll probably look dashing with gray hair on my temples. Hopefully I’ll be cool looking when the hair just finally falls out.

But at the same time it’ll be fun.

If you’d like to see the pictures of the little girl then head over to Allison’s blog.

I took Tuesday off and we made a day of visiting the doctor. We went out and about around Birmingham so that Allison could look at baby stuff and I could buy comic books. A quick lunch at a Thai place, which was good since I had been dying for some decent chicken fried rice. Then we headed home. Anya stayed at home with Chance. And Allison’s parents. She must have had fun since she passed out around 8 o’clock which is rare for her.

In other news I have been forced to update my computer as it somehow blew a gasket. Since I don’t have the spare parts to test which component went bad it’s hard for me to know what to replace. I had been buying parts over the last few months as I spotted good deals. But this forced me to purchase the last two parts in one go because without the desktop I can’t play my games or do work. Hopefully I’ll have everything up and running by this weekend.

Let’s just say I’m still thinking it over before I write anything. It is an excellent movie and in many ways is not really a comic book movie. It’s more like a very well written hero-fights-villain saga but in this case the hero happens to wear a funny outfit.

But so does the villain.

On my mind at the moment is that one of my aunts is in the hospital and things do not look good. Rose managed to somehow survive pancreatic cancer after the surgical attempt to remove it. So far there hasn’t been a return of the cancer but she hasn’t fared too well. She’s been on the verge of liver and/or kidney failure which means she has been malnourished for a while now. I feel especially bad for my cousin Angela because I know what it’s like to lose a parent early in life and I would not wish that on anyone. We hope she has a recovery of some level because after the cancer every moment is a miracle.

I’ve been trying to tinker with more Flash stuff lately after playing with a physics engine. But for the past few days I haven’t been able to get into the mood to code. Maybe things will change this weekend.

Allison finally got her fancy camera she’s always wanted, a D80. Now I’ll have to upgrade her blog so she can have proper photo galleries.