Author: The Jody

I am trying to find out more details, but apparently the Leominster police department recently arrested Robert F. Kennedy III (yes, those Kennedys – grandson of RFK) for, um, peeing in public.

How on earth did I miss THIS piece of news until now??!! And where on earth WAS he at the time?

Okay, just found the story in the local paper’s archives.

Ooh, he was on North Main Street! Now I just wonder where on North Main? I’m gonna stick out my neck and say…somewhere near Mason’s bowling alley. I wonder if they’ll give more specific info when the police log is eventually published?

Okay, not so much “at” the movies, cause it’s a DVD we bought and watched last night.

Spy Kids 3D: Game Over

And yes, we watched the 3D version. I don’t think it works as well on television as it does in a movie theater, but when you buy the movie they give you 4 pair of 3D glasses, and two DVDs – one in 3D, one in 2D. I think Junior was sufficiently satisfied with the one viewing in 3D to allow us to never watch it that way again.

Unless I want to see that little face wearing 3D glasses cause man, he was too cute! I just wanted to hug him to death! But I didn’t.

The movie was good, great for kids, watchable for adults. Of course, Antonio Bandaras and Carla Gugino only make a walk-on appearance at the end, so there isn’t as much in this one for the adults to enjoy.

Junior loves video games, so he understood all the concepts of losing health, bonus points, etc. Cool robot-like things = big bonus for him.

Sly Stallone was fantastic in this role. I rolled my eyes when I first heard he was in it but I’ll be darned if he didn’t make it all work, and come off as a menacing without being TOO scary, while still having a slight edge of humor that didn’t make him goofy.

Now that I’ve seen all three, I think the 2nd one is still the best overall, even though my heart belongs to Alan Cummings as the bad guy in the first movie, where he just blew me away. Luckily, everyone from 1 and 2 makes at least a small appearance in this one, so we got to see him.

Okay, so this was a kind of stupid review, but if you’re shopping for a six year old boy, I can give you my word that it gets a thumbs-up.

What we couldn’t find in the store, by the way, was a “bow-tie” movie. Junior insisted we had to buy the bow-tie movie that he had watched at daycare that afternoon. I had no idea what he was talking about, until he showed me the things they had practiced from the tape.

“Honey, you mean TaeBo, not bow-tie.”

Hey, maybe he and I will start an exercise program! Or maybe he can start one and I’ll just watch!

Looks like Tony Pierce was having a bad day yesterday. Crisis of faith time. And at the end of the post, he linked to three sites, one of them mine. I’m never quite sure what the connection to what he writes and what he links to is, but geez, I hope I’m not one of the sell-outs he mentions. I don’t carry a briefcase, Tony. However, work does block his site, which is why I’m sending my response via my own site. Oh, and the fact that this place blocks it might be a warning to you wherever you work. I don’t usually find his site unsafe for work, but something obviously set off the warning buzzers and the red siren light that someone thoughtfully picked up at Radio Shack.

(Wow, that’s two Radio Shack references this week. I’d better clear off a space on my forehead for that “loser” tattoo.)

So if someone knows how to break the “links at the bottom of the post” code, I’d be might obliged. Unless it’s a bad thing. Then just feign ignorance.

I’m ready to go to the beach. I realize it’s February in Massachusetts, but the weather has inched into the 40’s neighborhood for the past few days, and should hit mid-to-high 40s on the weekend. That’s beach weather, after this past winter.

I just want to go because it’s been too long since I’ve seen the ocean. My work schedule this past summer really screwed us up, and the one time we had the day at the beach was early in June and it was too miserable out to swim. It didn’t stop Junior from getting wet “accidentally” but it wasn’t a fun body-surfing kind of day.

Of course, compared to say, today, it certainly was. If I do make it to the beach, you’ll be the first to know.

Last night we finally got through the “Who Wants to Be King of the Jungle” game on the Lion King 1.5 DVD (cute cute movie, few extras, but they’re good ones) and Junior decided we needed to play “Who Wants to be King of the World”. I said “James Cameron” but he didn’t get the reference.

Like the game on the DVD, each level was represented by a family member (the DVD uses the food chain). The funny thing is that each levels question had to do with that person. For example, the sister level had to do with something my step-daughter did, the uncle level question was “What does Uncle Bob say when he sees me”. The answer, as everyone should know, is always “Hello Nephew Spike”. The Grandpa level, the top level, had the best possible answers.

What does grandpa do when he sees me?

a) Say “what are you doing here?”

b) Say “why are you eating my grapes?”

c) Say “why are you eating my macaroni?”

d) Give me a big hug and a kiss

The answer was e) all of the above, but I had to laugh, my dad ALWAYS asks why Junior is eating his grapes. As if my mom doesn’t buy them specifically because Junior loves them.

So in case you were keeping score, *I* am the king of the world.