I went and saw Owen on my way home. He's doing fairly well for having been born 6 weeks early. He's doing his own breathing, and tolerating his feedings pretty well, so all is good. I'm thrilled to have a son, and I'm glad that he's so healthy. There's always a fear when you have a baby that you'll be hit with some bad news when he's born. I'll admit though that in a way I feel like I have to worry forever now that something else bad will happen later in his life and I'll be heart-broken.
I think I live my life always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Right after Heather and I had McKenna (in 2002), Keane laid me off. Right after I got married, and returned to work from my honeymoon, and on 9/11 of ALL DAYS, Pipeline Interactive laid me off. Now, Owen's born, and I'm looking around to see what will befall us next. I hate thinking that way, but it's become ingrained.
On another note, I was talking with my buddy Jeff yesterday, and we were talking about the current state of the US, specifically how the Patriot Act is being abused (who didn't see that coming?) to convict non-terrorists and punish them more harshly by twisting the wording. Jeff said that people have too many rights, and the Constitution was good in theory, but it needs to be revised. And Jeff's not the only person I've heard that from. Many people have said to me "The Bill of Rights is only a piece of paper, and can be repealed at any time!" to which I respond "A right is a right is a right, and no government can take them from you."
Somehow we've gotten this notion that we're granted our rights by the government, and they have the right to take them away, instead of how our Founding Fathers truly intended it: we have our natural rights, and we grant limited power to the government to help us protect those rights. That's a very different notion than what people have come to accept, and it scares the hell out of me that people are willing to stand by and let thugs steal their freedom by presidential mandate.
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