Author: The Jody

C Monks got an advance copy of the Bennifer vows.

Oh man, I needed to read it over at the working mom, but I forgot John Ritter did the voice of Clifford the Big Red Dog in the PBS series! Oh man, now I’m REALLY sad.

I wish I had a .wav of him saying it, but when junior was a wee one, he said CliffordtheRedDog in a crescendo (so that the highest point was “red” before dropping back down on dog. And he mispronounced Clifford.

                  red

             the

       ard

Clipp                     Dog.

*sniff*

Gonna give you some thought pebbles today, as I’m busy and tired and can’t really string together long coherent thoughts. Oh, unless it’s for work. I’m coherent at work. Really.

• I am stunned the John Ritter died yesterday. My first thought was of his wife (actress Amy Yasbeck) and their little girl. Man, he was wayyyy too young. How does one go about arranging to have all her undetected heart problems detected? Cause man, I’d like to know if I have a time bomb ticking in my chest.
• I guess I have to mention Johnny Cash if I’m going to mention John Ritter, or people will comment. I wasn’t really a fan, I don’t like country music, but, well, I can appreciate how well-loved he was by so many. I’m pretty sure he was just biding him time these past few months until he could follow his June.
• Puzzle still isn’t finished, I’m going to finish it myself, I swear.
• Oh yeah. It’s been freaking beautiful out all week, and now it’s going to rain all weekend.
• After setting up the Curious Furious website I’m getting the itch to make some changes around here – maybe even do more real writing for it. But my time is rather limited, given that I do his site and content updates and the content updates for the Daily Probe on a weekly basis.
• In the “Things I Probably Shouldn’t Have Said” file: “You could put dog poop in puff pastry and I’d eat it.” (On my love of puff pastry, to the woman serving the hot meals in the cafeteria.)

I just wanted to make sure you were all kept up-to-date on the puzzle situation.

I’m wearing my red, white and blue sweater today. I wasn’t going to, but then I thought “why not?” I bought it just after 9/11 – red sleeves, blue torso, with a white star in the middle. Someone saw me and said “Star of the day!” and I wondered it I should just agree, or if it was necessary to point out why I’m wearing this thing.

That interaction made me a little self-conscious, and looking around, I don’t see too many other people in flag-mode. Last year I was unemployed on the 1st anniversary, so I wore a denim shirt that has a flag decal sewn over the pocket, like I’m a patriotic car mechanic. I was working at Vibren on 9.11.01 and we filled the office with flags and red, white and blue bunting in the weeks that followed. I’m not going to go into my “here was my experience that morning” but you can believe I can remember every minute of that day like it was yesterday. So ya, I’m wearing red, white and blue today, and I’m happy I am.