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Dave’s having a baby!

Dave Tayman and I have an unusual history.

I ‘met’ Dave in (junior?) High School, by replying to a newsgroup post about a writing collaboration. I think it was for screenwriting, but we quickly started talking about fiction, and fantasy/science fiction, and, well, everything else. Eeegads, that was more than ten years ago. We spent most of our time outlining (not writing.. no no no, outlining…) a massive epic saga of fantasy novels. At last count, I think it was two linked trilogies. Don’t get me wrong, we gave writing it a shot a couple of times, but let’s face it: neither of us were good enough writers.

The story was worthwhile, I think. And I say this with considerable more experience than I had then. It just grew too big for us at the time. And that’s okay. We continued throughout our undergrad years, including a trip to Utah for EnderCon (the brave may follow this youtube link chronicling our journey), North Carolina for a book signing, a trip to Disney World, etc. But then life intervened in a big way. I went to grad school, Dave went on mission, I got moved across the country and got a job, Dave found a lovely gal (with a fortunate case of bad judgment!) he tricked into marrying him.

So we haven’t been chatting much (or at all). But! I just found out the lucky sap is going to have a baby. So, congrats to Dave and Emily. I can NOT believe you are going to be responsible for another human being. What a lucky kid.

Go say congrats to them (even if you don’t know them… that’d be funnier): Dave and Emily’s Blog (or maybe I should say Emily’s blog, that Dave sometimes guest spots on).