THE BIG DUMP TRUCK

We're just jumping up and down in our seats in anticipation over the arrival of little AJ Sojka! Any minute now, we're going to get that call! (It wasn't fair to everyone the way Michael, err, Mookie arrived...we had a few hours of advance warning before they broke my water.) She's due in two weeks, but that means she could actually go now and she'd still be full term. I'm wondering if we're actually going to hear from her before she has the baby. I guess it's a question of how soon she wants my mom to show up at the hospital! (Although I have to say they were very good about waiting till I called (once I got them the heck out of the hospital so I could get laboring.)

It will be nice to have a little peanut in the family again. I miss my sweet little newborn. There is nothing as wonderful. I never knew it until I had one of my own. I never even appreciated other people's babies. But now that I have a child, I know that they are the most blessed things on earth. (Huh, must be a little pre-Mother's Day jitters.)


Does this look Dirty to you?

I have GOT to figure out how I ended up on the x-rated webmaster mailing list from hell. Every day, I get another "dear adult webmaster" email telling me ways to make a bundle promoting my x-rated web site. How did they get this information? Will the simple act of my typing the word "x-rated" three times in this one paragraph get me added? I don't have a clue where this came from, and I've been trying to figure out how to tell "them" that I'm not an adult webmaster. Well, I'm an adult. And I do run this little web site. But we're talking apples and, well, apples with little tassels and a tattoo.


Skunks

If anyone knows of a legal way to kill skunks, please give Keith a call. We apparently had/have grubs in our lawn. It's a bad year for them all over New England. But they seem to really like our house. In fact, there are so many of them that the Le Pew family that lives near us has take to destroying our lawn in an effort to get at them. One whole section was totally (and I am not exaggerating when I say "totally") destroyed by them. The rest of the lawn is just full of divots where they sort of dug up and folded over tufts of grass. It looks awful. I have never seen anything like this. And of course, no other lawn in the neighborhood has a problem like this. It makes us SICK that there is no way to stop them (according to the lawn guy at Home Depot.)

The good news seems to be that once they have attacked an area, they move past it and don't go back. Because they have now hit every corner of our lawn, I'm guessing they'll have to find another yard to destroy. Cross your fingers.


The Last Seinfeld

I'm going to bet [looking in wallet and finding nothing but receipts] that people will be disappointed with the last episode of Seinfeld. Sure, it is/was a good show. A great show! But is it really worth all the hype? And do the people creating the hype (see: Entertainment Tonight, every NBC promo, etc.) really believe it? Only three Seinfelds left! Ooooooooooooo!

My guess is that the big joke will be on the viewers. Maybe they'll just rerun the "Master of your Domain" episode.

Personally, I don't feel all let down because Seinfeld can currently be seen about 5 times a day if you are a channel surfer. I know that we watch it on the local Boston station at 7pm. How can I feel like I'm going to miss anything when you'd have to be living in Antarctica to not see the show daily? Oh, I know, I know, no more new episodes. That is sad. But I never thought I'd get over the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Hour going off the air and I've carried on quite nicely.


Lord of the Dance Update

According the Entertainment Weekly magazine, Lord of the Dance is the highest selling "music" video of all time.