On July 4th, 2009, I became Dadshot George. I highly recommend fatherhood for anyone else who, like me, has been in a state of perpetual jadedness and grumpiness for the last several years, punctuated with brief blissful breaks where no one in your social vicinity is acting like an asshole. Those breaks generally only occur when the batteries are dead in your cellphone or you are on vacation in a remote location with a fishing pole and six pack of your favorite beer product or you are too drunk to care. It's really cool to come home to "the baby" after dodging slings and arrows all day. It's an instant gratification deal every evening. One of the really cool things about fatherhood is the funeral pyre for selfishness that begins to occur about a month into the pregnancy. Also, if you have any sort of confusion about the status of your friendships and other social associations (who is a friend, who is a frenemy, whose got your back, who doesn't, etc.) the arrival of a child will very neatly sort that out for you. There is also the cataclysmic shift of perspective that occurs that is very enlightening. Dad-dom pretty much rules (at least in the beginning).