Casey Wise projects and web archive/sandbox

Messing with Feedburner, Following Brother’s Adventure, Helping Mom Follow Brother with Feedburner

I'm attempting to knock out 3 birds with one stone here:

1. I've been wanting to mess with FeedBurner for a while.  Not entirely sure what this is all about yet.
2. My brother is on an epic motorcycle journey (EMJ) across the United States.  He doing a round trip from Ohio to Vancouver BC. He's regularly tweeting and got Google Latitude activated.
3. My mother wants to follow along, but is what we'll call "technically pure"  She doesn't quite get the whole twitter thing yet and really wants to follow along on the EMJ.

I'm looking to combine 1 & 2 to accomplish 3:

We’re having a…

Healthy baby! We had a baby appt today and it went as well as we could've hoped. According to the doc, this is a text book pregnancy going as well, apparently as one could hope. Amber decided that she's not going to find out the gender and keep the secret from me, so we have no idea what gender we're looking at. He/she was definitely moving, kicking, stretching, drinking (amniotic fluid) and opening his/her mouth. We're feeling pretty good right about now

And announcing… a baby

For those unaware, we are expecting a baby. Until today, we referred to the size of baby growing inside as a fruit size. Amber signed up for email notifications to keep us apprised of growth progress. This week, he/she was a fig, last week a kumquat, the week before that a grape, etc. Our fig was due on Aug 29, but today that changed.   We learned much more today as we had our first real doctor appointment:

• 1 heartbeat = 1 baby (Amber has twins in her family)
• We're due September 4, pushing us back to a kumquat
• Heartrate is 166bpm, which is very normal... according to my sister, very typical of girls
• There's a lot of arm pumping, leg kicking and heart beating

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