Author: The Jody

Junior made me give his arms a feel the other night. He learned how to do push ups [I have no idea where] a couple of weeks ago, and he wants me to check out his muscles.

“Wow, where did you get those!” I ask, trying to find a bulge on his skinny arms.

Without a trace of irony, or any attempt to be funny, he says “Well, I try to work out” like any trolling-for-females man you’ve ever met.

I tell you, if you’re looking to be amused, you have to get yourself a 6 year old son.

Mr. Dump thinks he broke his big toe (an incident involving his foot and the stairs. I didn’t see it happen). You know nothing good will come of this, right?

After every tee ball game I want to be able to tell people that Junior’s team won, except they don’t play real baseball rules (nobody gets out, everyone takes one base at a time) so who the hell knows who won.

I know that they’re in it to learn the basics of hitting and fielding and just paying attention for the hour and a half or so that they are out there. Really I do. But what parent doesn’t want to say “We won, and it was all because of the 4 errors the other team made when Junior blooped the ball out to the basic region where a shortstop would normally be!”

I guess we’ll have a won/lost record to talk about next year when he’s in the instructional league.

I think we’re coming to the end of sweater weather for the next few months, so I’m taking advantage and wearing one at work today. It was only 53 when I left the house, so it was a perfect choice. Air conditioning will keep it reasonable inside, and actually, a little too cool for short sleeves (at least for me) so I’m going to leave the sweater on.

I really need to go shopping for some summery long-sleeved tops. I freeze in air conditioning in the summer.

In other news…I’m very proud to live in Massachusetts today, and I wish all the couples who are getting marriage licenses today a long and happy life together.

Now there are plenty of reasons why I think Adam’s Boston Online website is a classy place, least of which is the fact that every time he links to me my traffic jumps up by tens of visitors (oh, to be popular!) But proving that he is a man among men, he’s donating all the extra ad revenue he’s picking up from people hitting his site from searching for information (or the video) of Nick Berg’s murder to the Nick Berg Endowed Scholarship Fund at Drexel University.

That, my friends, is classy.

Visit his site for an address if you’re interested in the scholarship fund.