The Announcement!

It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm finally ready to spill the beans on something that's been in the works for a while now. As I said in my previous post, there's been hints in everything I've posted this calendar year. If you would like to figure out the news on your own, quit reading now.


***SPOILERS AHEAD***


Last month my wife and I welcomed our first child, a wonderful baby boy. He's sleeping in his swing as I write this and just looks absolutely adorable. I know I don't update this blog very often, and having a kid has really made it harder to find the effort to do anything. The first few weeks were really rough and I just wanted to do nothing but sleep. It's starting to get a little better so I hope I can get back into the swing of things soon. I do have a lot that I want to talk about.

As I said above, I've been dropping hints about it all year long. As you can imagine I've been really excited about it and have been dying to talk but my wife and I kept it pretty low-key. I think the blog was really the first place I announced it in public, albeit extremely cryptically.

I've always been a fan of the "everything's been in front of you the whole time if you only knew where to look" plot device. So naturally, I had to drop come clues in the blog. I went about it in probably the lamest way possible, but it was easy enough for me to stick to. If you look at the first letter of all the post titles in January, (in chronological order, not the order they are in on the page) you'll see that they spell out 'I'M A DAD'. Also, in the first post of the year I added at the end "I'll post next in August, alluding to the due date.

The couple posts I made in February and March had nothing to do with anything, but things picked back up with my only post in April. Sticking with the first letter theme, the first letter of each paragraph in that post spells out 'HINT TITLES' trying to point people towards reading the post titles. The weakest part of this whole thing in my opinion is the paragraph for the letter E. Although that's a genuine question I have, I shoehorned it in there like nobody's business. I needed something for the letter E and I couldn't come up with anything so I did that. I think it worked out in a way because (at least to me) it seems so out of place that it might hint that there's something more to be seen there.

The titles of the rest of the posts up until now, including the one in April, spell out 'IT'S A BOY' because I found out I was having a son and wanted to share that too. Then I quit writing because I got super busy and then the baby came and everything got even busier.

I'm going to try to get back into posting again. I've got a couple new magic products I would like to talk about. I also have no plans to hide messages in my blog posts again, at least not in the near future so feel free to take things at face value. I can't promise I won't do something cryptic again sometime but it'll have to be something big because, honestly, this whole thing was kind of a pain in the ass to set up.

- Dadster