Today is the first day of the rest of my life.  I did it.   It was somewhat sureal to come to such a decision and realize I may no longer be the harry-backed, tobacco spitting, scratch my privates in public, manly man i never was, and fully embrace my identity as a white middle-classed suburban parent or almost 2 kids.  There is no turning back now.  I traded in my pick-up (or truck for you city folk) on a minivan.  Not just any minivan a 2002 Toyota Sienna (pictures soon to come).  It even has the all-american flip down tv in the cieling.  Some may consider this an act of emasculation for a man such as myself but I simply consider it to be the ultimate sacrafice of a father for his progeny.

  Speaking of which, there are only three weeks until the newest addition to the whipple brood arrives.

  Thats all for know I have to go ice my goods and try to recovery from such a day as this.