Month: May 2006

You kids have been very patient, waiting for me to release the name of the new website I’m adding to the family. Now if you click to go to the site, you will just see my placeholder page while Mr. Dump helps me work on the design. He’s done with the main landing page, I think, which will just leave us to figure out how the subsections will look. I may use color to differentiate them. But as I said, we aren’t there yet.

Also, for you writers out there, I will probably open up the site to submissions, but I haven’t decided any of the details yet. What makes that site different than anything else I’ve worked on? I’m actually working on all the design details before launching the damned thing.

It also means there will be a slight redesign of this site, as I move some of the content from here to there. Primarily the Still Life with Interview and the Open Letters, I suspect.

Okay, so here you go:

http://www.bigbadwords.com

Hey, funny thing about two weeks of heavy rain…it starts to make the commute a little hard. I thought I would be safe but I did get blocked on my way to work today, right around the Hollis/Amherst line. Of course, there were no detour signs to be found, so I sort of went the way I hoped would loop me back around to 101a. Ended up way down near exit 6 in Nashua, which is about 4 exits south of where I normally come out on the back roads. Now THAT is a detour. Such is the fun of commuting from Leominster to Southern NH…

So now I’m wondering what other roads are closed. I hear people who work near me talking about closures, dead ends, etc. I am worried that route 13 in the Brookline/Mason stretch will be closed because the stream that follows the road down there should be a raging river. Luckily, the Manchester TV station, WMUR, has a website that lists all road closings by town. I don’t know how up-to-date it is, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it. I’ll be able to get home, but I may need to allow a lot of extra time to deal with the roundabout route and all the extra cars from people like me trying to detour past closed roads. Click on the link for the viewer photos if you want to be blown away. There are roads with sinkholes the size of the ones in Superman 1 when Lois’s car got filled with sand after the earthquake. That’s a lot of sink and a lot of hole.

Hey Christine, we drove through Bolton flats yesterday going to and from Solomon Pond Mall…the road was still open at 4pm yesterday – how was it this morning?

“So, did you remember to water the lawn?”

Happy mothers day to you and yours! It’s such a LOVELY day here in the northeast. I suspect I’ll be seeing animals walking by in pairs any minute now.

Off to breakfast…bacon twice in one week! I’m a lucky lucky mom!

Admit it, you’re all wondering what happened with my email.

But this isn’t about that kind of bounce, it’s about the dryer sheet. I was reading the back of the box for reasons that are probably best left to the imagination, and they are advertising their website “BounceEverywhere.com” and the box says, and I quote, “avoid direct contact with fabrics.”

Okay, maybe I’m naive, but isn’t it a fabric softener? Doesn’t it touch fabric in the dryer?