As of 5pm on Friday, March 30 — Matt Clark has given birth.

A small, but somewhat jagged, 4MM kidney stone was ushered into the living world weighing in at .000037821 ounces. This is the third stone for Mr. Clark, now 36.

The first stone took two weeks to pass and was appropriately named “Hail Stone” — calling forth to the world… the start of future torture.

The second stone took 4 weeks, a painful surgery, and then following an additional 1.5 weeks… gave birth to “Grind Stone” — known for his drudgery.

The third stone took just 3 days after the ER visit. This stone was called “Gem Stone” — as the apple of my eye due to speedy recovery.

Based on the catscan taken in the ER, the 4MM was on its way. There was also a bigger brother waiting to reveal itself as a 6MM stone. This one will be called “Mile Stone”.

If there is one bigger than 10MM… I won’t survive… and we’ll call it “Grave Stone”.

Thank you for all your calls, visits, laughs, and prayers,
Matt Clark

[photos with the stone can be purchased for $3.99 each]

PS – Remember… I’m always a stones-throw away if ya need me.


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Okay... I'm just going to work back into this slowly.

Bailey was the name on the "name game" on Z88.3! I finally got through and got to talk about him. Yippeee. Maybe I'll post it.

More to come.

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Here we are at the beach on the FOURTH. We set out that morning around 6am to catch the sunrise at New Smyrna Beach. We got there and the sun was already above the horizon... but behind this great big cloud... so it crept up from behind the cloud as if it was rising. We took some family photos. We then headed back to the van (parked at 27th Ave) and ate our breakfast - poptarts! We hit the beach for the rest of the day awaiting the Shuttle Liftoff. It did get crowded but it wasn't awful at all. We body surfed and had fun (no sand castles).

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Around 2:30 it seemed that everyone was ready for liftoff. It was a tremendous sight to look down the beach and see hundreds of people standing up and looking South down the beach - as if aliens were about to attack from a movie. We all stood in amazement as we saw the Shuttle takeoff. People flashed their cameras and shot their movies. And just when the glow of the rockets disappeared into the sky we heard a wave of clapping and cheering flow down the entire beach - unified in our agreement that what we saw was not only awesome - but had a sense of 4th of July Pride to it. Take that North Korea.

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After that we packed up the gear and left. We had plans with some friends (The Greens) to eat some delicious inside/out burgers. We had such an early morning and long day that Bailey was in bed at 7:30 (before the sun went down) and we were in comfy PJ's watching War Of The Worlds - which we shut it off halfway through because we were tired. We went to bed amidst the popping of fireworks in our neighborhood - every once in awhile seeing bright colors pierce our eyelids through our window.

HAPPY FOURTH TO ALL