The Tommy Show! Starring: Tommy!

 

Here we are going to the hospital at about 2:30am. She had the breakage at 12:30am and there was some discussion as to whether we could sleep on it and then go, or head in. The phone call quickly cleared that up: We had to go in. Once that happens, they want the show on the road. We were calm enough to drag our feet over and hour and take this photo on the way out the door. I wore my Nixon Library shirt for luck. Mrs. Pinetar is feeling good and not having any contractions and is quite calm.

This is right after Tommy is cleaned up and Mrs. Pinetar as well. She’s probably had him on her for all of a minute and a half at this point. He was born at 3pm and right here it’s about 3:10pm. We are both really not believing what a neat little guy we’re holding here. What a privilege!

For the record, we checked in at 3:00am and at 7am, they had induced her somewhat with a drug so traditional labor was marked at 7am. Pushing began at 1:25pm and the winning run was plated at 3:00pm on the button.

And here’s the man that causes all the trouble, Tommy. This was taken a day later when he’s about 22 hours old (kind of like El Duque).

Also at 22 hours and below, Mom and Tom, at 22 hours.

Below is one of the few, specific hopes that I had for my little guy, besides just overall health. In the photo here, you can see that Mrs. Pinetar has really long hands and fingers. I have little, stuby, Fred Flintstone fingers. If I had a boy, I was hoping that he would get “the hands”, so that if he ever pitched a baseball, he’d have a chance to throw a nice overhand slider or split fingered fastball, pitches that I can only dream of with my little fingers.

Anyway, check this out:

Nice and long! So I’d say, he has “the hands”.

But there will be no undue pressure on him to do anything. If he wants to be a Curling star, then we’ll be up early and out at the rink. I’m just happy to have him around. We’re both thrilled and feel very blessed and lucky to have had such a smooth ride and people have been very nice to us all the way through. We thank God. Take that, ACLU! –fog

Just for the record, here’s the old man, tearing up the sheet at the Jaques Cartier Curling Club in Quebec City, Quebec.  Oui.

Pumpkin at the Chef’s Table

What a different kind of day it shaped up to be.  Leaving work earlyish, I approached the Tappan Zee bridge only to see a really dark, scary storm right over the bridge.  To my right as I approached (North) I saw an unbelievable amount of tan colored dust blown up off the ground and into the air until it merged with the low clouds.

Citizen’s Arrest

Remember that Indian?

Search Engine 51, Squad 51…

In the last two hours, folks have entered the following text strings into search engines to find The Pinetar Rag:

Roy DeSoto	1
VAN HALEN REUNION	1
Squad 51 sounds	1
mutual of omaha Wild Kingdom theme song	1

Again, I say WHAT is with the obsession with the show EMERGENCY! ???

What Exit, Liberty?

 

Mrs. Pinetar and I went to Princeton, NJ today just to look around and shop and see what there was to see. It’s a unique and historic American town (and it’s in New Jersey–no “exit” jokes, please~) I liked this marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

TV Schedule for 1975

This is the primetime TV Schedule for 1975. I recall watching Emergency! and The Six Million Dollar Man on the same night (Friday) and you know what? Your memory plays tricks on you. It never happened. I looked up all the schedules on this nifty site (where I got the TV sched)

At least the Six Million Dollar Man was on Fridays in 1974, so I do recall that correctly. Emergency!, apparently, was only ever on Sunday nights.

Look up and down the schedule at the number of cop/court and doctor shows! Half the schedule! Follow the leader, anyone? The networks are all afraid of innovation and taking a chance but once a format or show hits, they all rush to clone it and then for 10 years, you see little else. I always wondered how the creators of ‘Hogan’s Heros’ ever convinced a room full of these suits that a comedy set in a German POW camp could be funny? But somehow, they did it. Amazing. And what’s more amazing is that my brother recalls seeing Hogan’s Heros in Germany dubbed into German! –fog

Good News Pinetar Raggers

I found a web page that really goes into metal objects (and yes, even rocks) making sounds in near-lightning conditions.

Click here to go to the Google Answers Page

Can’t really believe this…

The Pinetar Rag has been getting pounded for the last week (1024 hits on Fri) because I seem to be the only one out there with decent odds on Superbowl Box Pools. I have risen to the top of many google text searches on this item so that makes sense.

What I don’t understand is that every single day I get between 2 and 10 search engine hits from the posts on the old TV Show “Emergency!” The searches are usually on the string: “Station 51″ or “Squad 51″ but today, someone searched for “roy desoto’ mom was here in station 51″. This thing has some wierd legs.

[Roy DeSoto, Dr. Brackett, Nrs Dixie McCall, Dr. Early, Johnny Gage]

Do these people even know that Roy DeSoto is a fictional Paramedic? I’m sure somewhere (Waco, Texas?) there is a compound and folks are worshipping a bust of Doctor Bracket. Man, only in America and by the way, I thank God every day for allowing me to live in the internet age!

Enjoy the game–easy on the canned heat if you’re driving!

–fog