Month: June 2003

Partay! I just wanted to point out that tomorrow is the 10th Anniversary party for Button Magazine! Button’s is the baby of Dump reader Sally Cragin, and I’m more than happy to let folks know about the party (and the magazine).

If you’re around, head over to the Ritter Memorial Library tomorrow, June 7th. Ritter is located at 960 Massachusetts Ave. in Lunenburg. (They are also having their annual book and bake sale, as if the Button party wasn’t reason enough. Just don’t buy all the good books before I get there. Or the good brownies either.

Someday I hope to receive a rejection letter from Button to add to my collection. If you want more info on how to subscribe, visit Sally’s site.

The poster for McSkin is no longer on the drive-thru board at the McD’s I visit. I don’t know if it had been there for a while and I just happened to see it at the end of the campaign, or if they got a few phone calls from horrified customers. Either way, it’s now a poster for their new McGriddle breakfast product. Is it a sandwich? I don’t know…it looks like one but do I consider eggs, cheese and meat between two pancakes a sandwich? Depends on the pancakes, I guess. I won’t be trying it anyway, because I’m not a McD’s breakfast kind of gal. Or an eggs, cheese and meat surrounded by pancake kind of gal.

But if you have had one, feel free to drop a review in the comments!

Okay, Mister Crunchy gets the “made Jody laugh out loud” award for today. He’s got an entry about the Powerpuff Girls theme song that just cracks me up…probably because it’s SO true.

Junior is home sick today, which stinks because he was supposed to be home well – I’m treating the rest of this week as if I’m on vacation. Luckily we rented a Rugrats GameCube game at Blockbluster (sic) last night so he’s been amused all moring. I do need to talk to the people who created this game about some serious design flaws in the game, including one that makes you lose everything you’ve collected because it doesn’t ask you if you want to save before you leave an area to go play bonus games. And if you don’t save first, it’s like you haven’t EARNED the bonus games yet. Ya, we found out the hard way.

Everyone always crabbed at me because I never became an IE user – I mean, I have a copy, and I use it on sites that, for whatever reason, don’t work properly with Netscape. Even now, I still consider IE my backup browser. And I downloaded Mozilla’s Firebird last week and think it’s VERY good – to the point where I almost consider Mozilla the secondary browser now.

So I’m over on KAS’s site and see an article about how IE isn’t going to release IE as a stand-alone product, you’ll only get upgrades if you upgrade your OS. Well that just cements it for me. Are they doing this because AOL bought Netscape and said they won’t be releasing upgrades* for it anymore (unless you use AOL, then you will get it as the “next version of AOL”).

*I could be wrong about this, but that was the line they were giving about two years ago.

And on an unrelated note, we had my nephew’s birthday dinner at Applebees last night, and I absoultely LOVED their (new?) Tex-Mex salad. Enough that I may go back again for it before hell freezes over.

See, like, she’s really popular, and she reads my blog, so by extension that makes me popular once-removed! Woo hoo!

I’m going to throw a non-birthday party this summer (cause Junior and I are January babies, so we never get to have cool outside parties) and I’m going to rent a sno-cone machine because I’ve always wanted to. I think that’s the epitome of cool for a party…renting a sno-cone machine. They had a spin-art machine too. You could rent that for $35. Well, it is a birthday party, so maybe that will be a good activity.

I just realized that on my next birthday I turn 39. That’s really freaking old. So maybe this will be my last birthday party ever and in January we can just ignore it when I do turn 39. Except I’ll want presents, or cards with money (one dollar for every year is fine, and if you want to round up it will fit in the envelope a little better).