At 8:30 pm tonight,
Earth Hour will commence on my side of the world.
The campaign is about for all to turn off their lights
and consume less energy.
Just for an hour.

Now I am not going to play the “Holier-than-thou” game.
I am not going to pretend that I follow all the recycling
and energy conserving methods that my fellow scientists
and government officials have implemented.

But with my professional opinion,
I really think this Earth Hour has lots of potential.
And someday it could be more than an Hour.
Probably more like a day.

But I am not writing this as a professional.
I am here,
just as a regular guy,
asking you to give this Earth Hour a try.

Trust me. It’s not that bad.
I have lived in the Philippines.
We are used to not having electricity for hours.
That’s how I learned to play guitar.

Oh, and one more thing.

Please do not print everything you see on your computer screen.
Do you have to have a hard copy of all your emails?
Jeebus, man. Stop Printing every picture too!
Or every forwarded spam mail your friend sent you.

Stop it!
The trees are crying!
You are killing my planet!

Today was our first Doctor’s appointment.

For those of my friends who really know me,
they know how I feel about Doctors and Hospitals.
I have never met a Doctor who really listens to a patient since I was freakin’ 8 years old.

I say this because,
my Doctor when I was 8, always give me candies whenever she sees me.
I don’t care if she sees my “peepee”, she is my sweet candy dealer.

Anyways, as I was saying,
this Doctor we saw was very nice.
Very accommodating, intelligent and very informative. (as Tracy said)

Not an 80 year old FruitLoop who can’t tell his ass from a hemorrhoid.
Like the first one that we saw.

Let me tell you what this Jackass did.
You know how hard it is to find a Doctor here in Ottawa,
so we went to this very crowded walk in Clinic (as they all are),
just to get a referral.

But the clinic was to close in an hour.
Then this Dr. Fullashit came out and said:

“You people might as well go to the Emergency because I will be busy for the next hour.”

Now isn’t that convenient?
I can’t believe we were in the presence of greatness.
And did he just say “You people?”

Tracy and I were angrier than a voted-off castaway on Survivor.
I just do not understand why these people think they own the world.
We all put on our pants the same way.
I also bet their flatulence has a more powerful scent than mine.

But our new Doctor is different.
She was also very understanding when she asked if we had any further questions.
So I pulled out a clean printed out Word document piece of paper full of questions.
Hey I wrote them down so that I will not forget.

Tracy thought it was cute. I thought it was embarrassing.
But Hey, I do not want to end up remembering those questions after and say,
“Dang it! I should have asked her that!!”

Another very cool thing happened as well.
We were able to hear our baby’s heartbeat.
We did not even think it was even possible since Tracy was only 3 months.
It might be still a bit faint.

But our cool Doctor was able to find it,
and it just went “boom boom boom boom…..”

The smile on my face was from ear to ear.
It all seems so real now. It hit me like a ton of brick.
There is a living thing inside Tracy’s belly, and butterflies inside mine.

All I could think of was,
The Baby, Tracy, A Mortgage, Car payments, and a totally different lifestyle.

I am sooo excited and scared at the same time.
I just want to be a good Father.
A cool Dad.
And a great friend to our kid.