Author: The Jody

Update: She either wasn’t there when I picked him up, or he really didn’t recognize her today. The teacher was as tickled as I was, and she really wanted to know who it was. She apparently thinks he’s the nicest kid to ever walk the planet, which is just the perfect thing to say to a mom. I mean, there’s nothing else that I want to hear.

Anyway, he expanded on the hair thing a little: “It looked like a sand castle”. If I had the time, I’d Photoshop a little something and ask “is this her?” but alas, I don’t have the time or the software.

I’m going to back off asking about this girlfriend cause he has already starting acting self-conscious about it, and I don’t want him to not tell me stuff like this anymore.

p.s. Anyone else picturing the old lady with the big blue beehive hairdo in Better Off Dead? (It was that movie, wasn’t it? She was driving really slowly? I keep thinking it was either that or Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.)

I know it’s been a while since I’ve talked about my invisible daughter-in-law Julia, but she does come up every once in a while. About two weeks ago Junior mentioned something about Julia and Jim (Jim is his invisible buddy, I’m not sure if he lives with us or not), but since then nothing.

Yesterday when he got home from his new child care center, aside from gushing that it was the greatest place in the universe, he casually mentioned that he had a new girlfriend. I’m loving and supportive, and trying hard not to be the jealous psycho mom you see in TV movies, so I don’t tell him he’s too young. I don’t even tell him that because he’s already married to Julia he can’t actually have a girlfriend. I just ask what her name is.

“I don’t know. But she wears an orange shirt.”

“Well honey, what if she isn’t wearing that shirt tomorrow?”

“She has a mountain of hair.”

Oh good gravy, it’s so hard to keep a straight face sometime. Don’t you just want to eat him up? Miss Mountain-of-Hair is a very lucky young lady.

Sheesh, man. I would like (164) this to stop now. Granted my friend who has had over 400 has trumped me (I hope) on this whole thing. I’m So Over So Big. I know someone who got yelled at by a client for forwarding it. Problem is, you can’t prove that you actually got it from someone just because of the header (we’ve already discussed this here, right?) but the customer is always right, so what do you say? “Stop being an arse, I didn’t send you a virus?” (165 – I am so not making this up, I keep looking at Mailwasher, and a new one arrives. 166)

So should we talk about something else? Busy day fighting a big fire at work. I feel pretty good about my contributions there, I love the work, I love the people…what’s a girl have to do to get an offer to work their full time?

(167-169)

Okay, granted I was on the phone for 15 minutes (170) so writing this has taken a little longer than it should have.

Did I ever mention that when I was a kid I thought that the way to solve the whole “snack” problem at elementary school would be to learn to love eating leaves? Then if I was hungry I could pick one and just eat it? It wouldn’t matter if I forgot a snack or mom didn’t give me one. Snacks were growing in front of me!

The fatal flaws in this plan was that

a) leaves don’t taste good

b) they aren’t very filling

c) this particular snack item is only available for two months of the school year, and

d) if the playground monitor sees you eating leaves they send a note home to your mom.

So ya, I did try it. And the funny thing is that in a mere 12 days, Junior will be playing in the same playground I was back when I did the great leaf experiment of 1974 (or so).

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At last check, I was up to 72 copies of the virus received. That’s amazing. This is really the first one that has filled my in-box. With Klez I think I got maybe two a day at the height of the infestation. Trusty Norton would smite them boom-boom and I’d barely notice they’d been in the room.

But geez, you get 72 email messages containing a virus, at 100k each, and that’s going to screw up my mailbox over at the ISP.

44 emails in my mailbox with the sobig virus (caught by Mailwasher before they got to my inbox). 6 bounce messages that “my” email couldn’t be delivered to other people. I guess last night was a big night in the virus world?

I hate that these things forge headers. I know I didn’t send it to anyone – I have virus software that updates itself daily – but people who receive these things and think they are from me don’t.

In mailwasher I can read messages without downloading anything, so I was looking at the bounces. One was to a mailing list for what appears to be something porn-ish. I guarantee you I’m not a member of any yahoo group that does anything other than try to amuse each other.

*sigh*