Author: The Jody

Phantom met his cousins yesterday, and a fun time was had by all. I’m pretty sure now he’s spoiled for life, of course.

He still follows us EVERYWHERE which is just so cute until you don’t want him to. I’m not used to having someone cry while I pee. Even Junior kept himself amused for the 45 seconds it takes me to go to the bathroom.

I have to say that what we’re most proud of is the fact that he’s been going potty outside consistently for the past day or so. The whole time at my sisters he didn’t pee or poop in her house once. This is really cool. It’s still a pain to have to take him outside every hour or so, but it’s delightful to not be cleaning poo up off the kitchen floor.

My hosting company just notified me that I’m moving! That shouldn’t mean anything to you, dear reader, but I may post something and then have it disappear if it was posted after they started the synchronization. I assume it will just repost the next time I update.

In the meantime, here’s the news I was talking about. You’ll understand if I don’t have a lot of time to post in the next couple of days…

https://www.bigdumptruck.com/phantom/

Tom DeLay, you big tool, how do you sleep at night?

So,

“It’s not a pay raise,” said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. “It’s an adjustment so that they’re not losing their purchasing power.”

Well heavens to Betsy, can’t have them lose their purchasing power. Grandma, looks like you’re gonna have to eat cat food an extra couple of days a month – no relief in site for you. Have you considered running for Congress? They make $165,200 a year. They were about to lose their purchasing power, you see…

Thanks for the heads up from Mr. Crunchy.

The new menu should work. If it doesn’t, I’ll have to fix it later. For now, I just wanted to make sure I didn’t blow anything up. Then again, not much I can do about it now that I’ve saved the changes, eh?

Updated: Minor flaws. Nothing to see here except minor flaws.

Updated: Okay, maybe they weren’t minor before. But they should be minor now.

Again: Aw boogers. One of the buttons is wrong. It isn’t Interview with Still Life. It’s Still Life With Interview. Attention to detail: C-

I was looking at my page stats a few minutes ago, and realized that since I started using that tracking service in 1998, I’ve had over 200,000 page hits. Actually, it hit 200,000 over the weekend. That’s a lot of page hits. I mean, some folks get that many a day. My highest day ever was 2727 hits. I’d like to do that again. I should try to remember what was going on back in May 2002. I’m guessing Linky & Dinky mentioned me. I think the time I was mentioned in the Sunday Newspaper supplement Access Magazine happened prior to 2002. Yup, just double-checked…it was Linky & Dinky.

So anyway, I’m thinking of doing some low level redesign on the site, but I don’t necessarily want to do it over the weekend. This weekend is supposed to be barbecues, 24/7. Sun and fun and parties until you bleed A1 sauce and beer. Swimming until you closely resemble one of those California Raisins. That’s what you’re supposed to do on the Fourth of July weekend.

I don’t know that I’ll be doing any of that. Mr. Dump just switched to a low fat diet and he’s still in the being really good phase and isn’t keen on rustling up a mess ‘o ribs. Or burgers and dogs. Potato and macaroni salad are right out. You see the problem?

Plus, we’ve got something coming up that will probably keep us busy this weekend. More on that later this week. (See, now you have to keep coming back. I’m sneaky, huh?)