Who comes up with this stuff anyway?

It was 8:30 p.m., Saturday, and I was ready to lay down.

To be honest, I'm not sure if that is a bad sign or not.

But needless to say, Saturday had been a busy day.

I had spent the better part of the afternoon recording bass and vocal tracks for a song at a friend's home.

From there, I went home and Merry and I had dinner.

Then came 8:30 p.m.

The dogs had been walked. It was getting dark. I had been up since before 6 a.m.

I was tired.

So I went into the bedroom, laid down and started watching "Tombstone," with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.

What a great movie.

But still, my eyes were getting droopy.

Then, Merry came in.

She had tied a needle to some thread and asked me to hold the threaded needle just above her stomach.

As I did this, she kept asking me if the needle was spinning back and forth or in a circular motion.

It seemed to be spinning back and forth.

I couldn't help but think, "What in the world am I doing? What is the purpose of this?"

After the exercise was done, Merry informed me that we were going to have a boy.

Really, I thought. Based off this?

She said it was an old superstition. If the threaded needle spins back and forth, you're going to have a boy. If it moves in a circular motion, you're going to have a girl.

This seemed (and still seems) rather strange to me.

I still think jellybean is a girl.