The following excerpt from a FoxNews article is the perfect example of the great diversity in the way people live their lives.

Matthew McConaughey and girlfriend Camila Alves reveal their newborn baby boy Levi Alves McConaughey in OK! magazine … and the actor says the couple got "tribal" during his birth.

"We found a great rhythm," says McConaughey, 38. "Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,389269,00.html

I probably would have shot him If I’d had to deal with this during labor:

"I have it all chronicled," McConaughey told OK! "Becoming a dad is something I’ve dreamed of doing since I was 10. Becoming a father felt very, very natural. We were jamming! She was sweating. No painkiller, let’s go. She just clicked into that gear that only a woman has at a time like this. We’d been up for 40-something hours, and we went from dead tired to a really steadfast, ‘Let’s handle this … let’s stay in the rhythm. Don’t let the contraction be more than you.’"

She ended up getting a C-section because the cord was wrapped around the baby’s throat, which was too bad after all that effort…on her part. Obviously she’s into McConaughey’s tribal style or she wouldn’t be having his baby. I wonder if the no painkiller was her idea or his.

It’s time once again to upgrade all the WordPress blogs I administer for friends and clients. ::::sigh:::: I get tired of always having to upgrade things. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult. It just time consuming. Especially since the first blog I upgraded was old enough that it changed the categories tables in the databases making it necessary to enter in the categories by hand. The need to do this nine times is tiring, although I did one of the two biggest blogs already.

It’s summer. I want to sit in the shade outdoors, sip iced tea, and read some totally frivolous book. I’m currently enamored of the Elizabeth Moon Vatta’s War series.

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Right before vacation I got a new Dell computer. It’s an Intel Core2 Quad with lots of memory. I’m all souped up now compared with the five year old computer I was using. Figuring out some of the differences from WindowsXP to Windows Vista has been a struggle…some things just aren’t intuitive and others felt like you were playing Clue without all the cards. But on the whole, I’m really liking the upgrade.

I’m still in the process of moving stuff from the old to the new and installing necessary software. In addition to getting work done that came up while I was gone, I’ve got plenty to do. Being able to do some of this stuff at a faster speed is soooooo nice.

I also discovered and learned how to use DOSBox because Vista doesn’t allow you to run full screen DOS programs, and my favorite game is a really old DOS game. It’s a puzzle game that doesn’t rely on graphics to make it fun to play. In fact, the Windows version of the game isn’t as fun to play. The graphics actually make it harder to play in my opinion. The game? Sherlock. You can get it here: http://www.kaser.com/msdos.html in the DOS version or follow the links to see the Windows version. At $15 it really is a bargain because you can play and play and play this game.

July 7 - 4:14 pm - 9 lbs. 9 oz. - 22 inches long–those are the vital statistics for my new and first grandson. Logan Michael is a completely adorable baby. He’s a strong little guy with a lusty cry and big appetite. I miss him so much already after spending a couple of days with him, his mom, and his dad. He’s a warm little bundle of adorableness. Makes all the appropriate little baby squeaks and snuffles. I went shopping the day after he was born and got him a set of overalls with a red polo onsie and a red football shirt that says quarterback and the number 12. His folks are big Cornhusker fans, so he’s now got the proper attire to attend his first husker football game.

Mind like a steel sieve….that’s how I like to describe myself. The thing about a sieve is that it does actually catch stuff. If you’re straining pasta, it catches the spaghetti. But the way my brain works, it seems to catch the unnecessary and let important bits drain right through. Such happened to the password for this blog. Off on vacation and trying to access it from my daughter’s computer, I couldn’t remember the wonderful new password I made up for it. Got back home, still couldn’t remember it and hadn’t saved it. Dumb, dumb, dumb. But with the tools to get into the plumbing, I managed to get a new password entered and am up and running again.

Lots to talk about including the new grandbaby…so I’ll get to it.