Month: September 2002

I wrote up a post for today, I swear I did. And just before IE exploded all over me and my desk, I thought I posted it. Apparently it was lost in the storm. I was complaining about IE so maybe it censored me. I hate when that happens!

94% humidity out there right now. I feel like renting a SCUBA tank. Blech. I don’t remember what the earlier post was about, maybe something about spending 4 hours trying to figure out what happened to IE and get it re-loaded. That was fun. Like I didn’t want to get anything else done today. I did. I was just afraid to touch the darned computer until I figured out if I had a virus or something equally scary. (Insert WoooOOOOooo ghost noises).

I also took the time to load Windows XP Service Pack 1 today. It seems to have upgraded gracefully and successfully, except for one tiny thing. The Calculator is gone. WHERE IS MY CALCULATOR? Windows has had calc.exe since it was a pup. I use it ALL the time. Suddenly, no calculator. Are they kidding me? What the hell happened here? Now I have to download some silly freeware calculator? Oh man, that chaps my butt. There’d better be a simple explanation for this.

I know that it’s a very slim chance I have, catching his attention this way, but maybe he sometimes googles for his own name. If so, maybe he’ll read this and drop me a note at jody@bigdumptruck.com to tell me he knows of my adoration. I’m talking about Anthony Wiggle himself, Anthony Field. My friends think I’m wacky, but he’s right up there with the Kratt brothers for “men who are adored by moms stuck watching their shows. I never got the women who had a thing for Steve from Blues Clues, but Anthony. Mmmm. I just found a link on the web that said he was on a Bachelor of the Year list for some media magazine. Must have been in Australia, because it was back in 1999 and the Wiggles hadn’t really made it too far here by then. I, of course, already owned videos at that time. But now we’re watching their old show on the Disney Channel.

I also found a link that said Anthony starred in a movie. I wonder if it’s available in the US?

Anyway, Anthony, if you read this, I’d like to extend and invitation to swing by for a big plate of Sketties with junior and I. He’d really be thrilled. Him. You know, the 4 year old. Oh, and his mother.

We didn’t go to the air show this year. It’s just a big excuse to suck all the cash out of my wallet. Actually, the “air show” part of it is pretty cool. I remember going back 14, 15 years ago, and it was all about the planes. Now they have the carnival rides and a midway. I did that last week, thanks. I can’t afford to spend $10 for a single ride on the ferris wheel just a week after doing it at the Sterling fair. I told Junior I’d take him, as long as he didn’t ask me to go on any rides. Thus, our not attending this year. Because we live relatively close to the airport, we can hear the airshow, we just can’t see it. That’s okay with me. I mean, I love watching the air show, but it’s not just an air show anymore. It’s like my vow to not attend the Sterling Fair anymore. It used to be a good fair. Now it’s just an excuse to have carnival rides. I don’t need that.

Gotta get my dad’s birthday present wrapped, we’re heading over to have a party for him today.

Minigolfing = 4

Marshall’s Apple Barn = 10

Mowed whole lawn = 2 (only positive because it’s done and it looks good)

So today gets a 16. Not bad, considering we were trying to avoid going to the Air Fest (because I just cannot afford another weekend of carnival rides.)

Now Junior got to see a lot of the air show from a spot up the street from my mom’s while I went grocery shopping, so add 5 to his day. And right now we’re contemplating staying up and parking somewhere to watch the fireworks. That would add about 10, except I’m not sure how much he’s going to like them. If we don’t go, I won’t be crushed.

NaNoWriMo! has a new web address for 2002. I think I’ll sign up again. For those of you new to my blog, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. Last year 3000 people signed up to try to write a whole novel during the month of November. I mention my novel every once in a while…most recently I mentioned I was going to attempt to turn my nanowrimo novel into a screenplay (it’s not really happening the way I thought it would. I don’t think I’ll be sending project greenlight $30 (I don’t have it, honestly) but I will participate as a reader.

Anyway, if you want to join me and all the others, signups start October 1st for this year.