Ladies and gentlemens, I apologize for the long radio silence. But I return with joyous tidings. Please welcome my niece, Cordelia Evelyn Holland.
Delia and her mom (and her dad and her brother and in fact all of us…) are doing just great. More soon, ‘promise.
Fanny Roborat
33 comments
Harold
November 24, 2009 at 12:49 pm
1Awwwwwwww!!! Congratulations all around! And welcome!
piglet
November 24, 2009 at 2:20 pm
2Pretty name. Wonderful brand new baby. Congrats!
Aunt Sam
November 24, 2009 at 4:25 pm
3Congratulations. I had no idea another bebe was coming. She’s lovely.
It's Pat!
November 24, 2009 at 5:16 pm
4Congratulations!
Beautiful baby! And welcome back!
gsny_2000
November 24, 2009 at 6:14 pm
5I second that awwwwwwwww!! Felicitations and congrats to all!
So great to have you back.
hedera
November 24, 2009 at 6:21 pm
6WELCOME BACK! Oh, yeah - beautiful baby, too!
Linkmeister
November 24, 2009 at 10:15 pm
7What the hell, Adam, were you doing the lying-in yourself? I didn’t know acting as a surrogate for that was possible!
She and Mom are beautiful.
SeattleDan
November 25, 2009 at 12:11 pm
8Great to have you back, Adam! And welcome to Cordelia!
madbard
November 25, 2009 at 2:12 pm
9cordelia is a great name. welcome and welcome back!
Ann
November 25, 2009 at 2:34 pm
10Huh? What? Where am I?
I don’t know what’s going on here, but that’s a cute baby.
Dale
November 25, 2009 at 7:22 pm
11Should I start the Regan and Goneril jokes or will someone else?
Congratulation, and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Dale
November 25, 2009 at 7:22 pm
12CongratulationS. More than one. Many.
Brian in NC
November 26, 2009 at 10:30 am
13Congratulations all around!! And thank you Adam!
SallyRenfield
November 26, 2009 at 11:09 pm
14Welcome, Cordelia. Thanks for birth announcement, Adam, the mother and babe pic is beautiful.
Dale, thanks for the Shakespeare ref. I remembered only that Cordelia was a character, now I know which play.
SallyRenfield
November 26, 2009 at 11:12 pm
15Oh, and I LOVE her hair.
Acronym Jim
November 27, 2009 at 8:18 am
16Welcome back and please extend my congratulations to Susie, Hugo and Ed. It looks like you all had a wonderful Thankgiving.
Now, first order of business - we’re out of booze and chips and Cheetos in the lurker’s lounge (and have been FOREVER). The place is a mess so you’ll need to get the janitor in as soon as possible (my fault, sorry, but ya know “when the cat’s away” and all that). Given the amount of time since anyone has dusted, I’m guessing you provide the help with a fabulous vacation package.
It’s good to have you back, so get cracking!
P.S. We missed you.
Brian in NC
December 1, 2009 at 4:41 am
17Sally– love her freedom, too, now… Fanny maintains monopolies! (I think…)
cooper
December 1, 2009 at 5:17 am
18So, how come I’m the last to know??? Beautiful mother and child. Thanks, Adam. And Jim’s right, the potato chips are seriously soggy. Hey everybody - missed you!
JR
December 1, 2009 at 12:50 pm
19Yay! Now I can resume active lurking again. Dibs on the easy chair!
Congratulations all around!
It's Pat!
December 1, 2009 at 6:24 pm
20Ok, we’ve all gotten comfortable amidst the mess. Now don’t turn on the TV, we want to hear what you’ve been doing, how work is going. We tried hanging out at Facebook, just not the same. So what have you been up to? Played any golf with Tiger? What’s up with that? Read any good books? Any bad books? Hey, did you bring any pictures of your son? I have some of my grandson around here somewhere - or there they are, under that Cheetos bag.
Sophie
December 2, 2009 at 7:02 am
21OMG!!!! What a beautiful child!! OMG!!! So sweet and cute! I’d tell Mickey that you’re back, Adam, but he would come here to comment and spent all his time checking out the mother! MEN!!!!!
ZeeMan
December 2, 2009 at 9:08 am
22What a lovely couple! Hope Susie has good insurance. DC has insurance lobbyists like it has cockroaches. A few have even stumbled into my office by mistake. I love giving them bum rushes.
Pope Benny 16
December 2, 2009 at 6:48 pm
23A glorious new baby, my child. So full of possibilities, so much to learn.
Vinnie
December 3, 2009 at 5:03 am
24Yo, Susie. Teach her ta make uh fist wit’ da thumb on da outside uv da finguhs. Babys like ta have da thum on da inside. Mom sed I broke my thum dat way punchin’ Guido when I wuz 10 mont’s old. Da left thum has always been crooked cause uv dat.
dee
December 3, 2009 at 11:39 am
25No, cooper. I’m the last to know.
What a beautiful baby. Let’s hope she follows the Bard’s advice regarding sleeping through the night : “What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent” (I.i.63-64)
Kjell Mikkelsen
December 5, 2009 at 7:16 am
26Wot a ja sure skjønn baby girl!!!
David
December 5, 2009 at 6:53 pm
27No, dee, now I’m the last to know. Trying to cope with the SEC championship game, so I thought What the heck - check on FA. What a pleasant surprise to find ADAM IS BACK. Remebered Susie was expecting. Great news, great picture, good on Clan Felber. Imagining some really big smiles.
Now, Gators, get back up and get ready for the Sugar Bowl, the granddaddy of SEC post-season prizes. Oh, and piglet, congrats on your guys winning the gridiron civil war. On to the Rose Bowl, the granddaddy of them all.
Aunt Sam
December 11, 2009 at 5:56 pm
28Anybody looking for a good way to waste a lot of time in 4-minute increments? Because, really, who isn’t? http://www.mrdeity.com/
David
December 13, 2009 at 5:31 pm
29I did, and it was…fun, that is. Thanks for the link, Aunt Sam.
waterfowler
December 15, 2009 at 12:52 am
30Now, I’m the last to know. Beautiful…
Condolences David. I really wanted to see McCoy/Tebow.
David
December 15, 2009 at 12:34 pm
31Thanks, waterfowler. That would have been a great matchup. Glad to see McCoy and Tebow are great personal friends. Helps keep the fact that it is a game in perspective.
Wish Cincinnati weren’t in such disarray because of their head coach heading to Notre Dame after apparently telling the players he wasn’t leaving. Florida-Cincinnati was looking like about as good a consolation matchup as one could imagine, and in the Sugar Bowl, the granddaddy of bowls for SEC teams.
How goes the waterfowling? I hunted ducks once upon a time, but they were mostly safe when I was shooting.
As long as hunters continue to care, we at least have a chance of saving some of our wetlands. All the duck hunters I know are solid conservationists.
The polar ice cap, on the other hand…
waterfowler
December 18, 2009 at 4:02 pm
32Thanks David. I haven’t been fowlin’ in several yrs., but I still contribute to DU in order to conserve our wetlands.
As far as the ice cap, I’ll wager you a longhorn & a case of Shiner Bock that in 5 - 7 yrs., it’ll still be there, even in the summer.
David
December 30, 2009 at 5:28 pm
33wf,
Kudos on hanging with DU even though you haven’t been fowling of late. I knew you were a real sportsman, and regardless of any other consideration, all of the sportsmen I know are ardent conservationists.
Regarding the ice caps, they are melting. That is indisputable, so the wager would be comparable to betting on Whittier College against the Longhorns. The particular timeline is subject to debate, the reality of the melting is not. And as one scientist quipped, we don’t know how to re-freeze the Greenland ice cap.
On the national championship game, since my goddaughter lives in Alabama, attends Birmingham Southern (where her father is in charge of the theater program), and is a major Tide fan, I’ve got to honor family and root for the Tide, but I gotta say I admire Mack Brown and the Texas program, and the Longhorn quarterback is every bit the decent human being that Tim Tebow is. Should be a hell of a game. Condolences on the loss to Georgia, since I think I remember you saying you’re an Aggie fan.