I'm not the sort to get jealous often. Or, at the very least, I'm not the sort to publicly admit to getting jealous often. Life isn't perfect and we play the hand we're dealt, right?

Well, this whole pregnancy thing has made me insanely jealous. Of Katie. For being pregnant. And me, having that Y chromosome and the lack of the proper body parts to carry the baby myself.

Today is a very sad day in the kapgar household. One from which we may never fully recover.

We lost a friend. A good friend. One that has been with us for several years now and has helped pick us up when we were feeling low. Entertained us. Made us laugh, cry, scream, and think.

That whole brouhaha with Mat Honan's Apple/Amazon/Twitter hacking that created tsunami-sized waves in the web world the last couple of weeks had me getting a little concerned about my own cyber security.

Back in the 80s, there was a rather popular issue of the classic G.I. Joe comic book series titled "Silent Interlude" (issue 21, as I recall). It featured a single storyline starring Snake Eyes, Scarlett, and Storm Shadow. It was also notable because there wasn't a single line of dialogue in the entire issue.

So that's what I am going to do with this installment of Snippet Wednesday... no text other than the Snippet title. Just some good ol' fashioned video and photo geekery and I'll let you do with it what you will.

When I was a teenager here in the far western suburbs of Chicago, we had a place called Phar-Mor. This store was supposed to be just a pharmacy, but like so many pharmacies today, they carried a lot more. They were basically a small-scale WalMart or Target.

What I liked most was that Phar-Mor was one of the first places I'd ever heard of that allowed you to open "new" CDs so you could listen to them in store before deciding if you wanted to buy it. In fact, they just had all the CDs open by default. You grabbed what you wanted, popped the CD out of the case, and placed it in one of the many listening stations in the department.

With only about 32 days left until the scheduled arrival date of the "Kiddo," as I've taken to calling him/her, I'd like to list a bunch of the questions we commonly receive and the answers we give.

Call it a Kapgar 2.0 FAQ, if you will.

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Howsabout a bunch of little snippets today to make up for the fact that I posted my New Years Resolution recap yesterday instead of my regular Snippet Wednesday?

Yeah! A bunch of Quickets!

No, that's not a joke against people with speech impediments. I swear. Quick + Snippets = Quickets. Get it? Please no lawsuits.

While I wouldn't call this month a "failure" in terms of my New Year's Resolutions, I wouldn't call it a spectacular success, either.

I did make progress on some fronts. But I bombed on a coup,e others, too.

Oh, well. Can't win them all.