Author: The Jody

Yo people! I am testing posting with my phone.

Can a proud mama just announce that Junior started reading this week? We’d casually tried it once or twice before (with no pushing, it’s not like he’s in school) and nothing. This week? Something clicked and he gets it, gets how the different sounds the letters make, when said in the order they appear, makes a word. (It also verifies that he’s not dyslexic, because he pronounces them in order). I’m such a proud mama!

Oops. Forgot that I cancelled my old dial-up account. I was working at mom’s this afternoon and when I went to log in to download mail and post here, I discovered I didn’t have any way to actually DO that. Silly me. I’m so used to my always-on DSL that I forgot it wouldn’t be there for me if I wasn’t at home. Duh.

Okay, so I have a volunteer to handle updating duties while I’m gone. If one other person wants to take a entry, I’d say that would minimally cover me for the few days I’m gone.

Oh, and Blogshares went live today, so if you want to buy some Big DumpTruck stock (play money) click on the link in the upper right. Make me worth millions, baby! I want to be the most popular girl in the game!

Note to self: If you’re going to buy an electric lawnmower, you need to charge the sucker up after it’s been sitting in the shed all winter. That is, if you intend to mow the lawn. If you don’t want to mow the lawn, just forget to do it.

Hello everyone, how are you doing? Fine? That’s super! Had a nice relaxing day away from the computer. You know, because I’m “working at home” and jobhunting and keeping up with this site and email, I’m on the computer a LOT. Every day. So today was “get the hell away from the computer” day. It seems to have worked out well, although I have a crapload of mail to wade through. It’s not going to be pretty next week when I’m on vacation (i.e. computer-free) for 6 days.

So far I have someone who will do updates for two of the days, and I’m going to see if I can do email via my cell phone for the other 3. Or maybe I’ll just let you all suffer, so that you’ll really appreciate me when I get back.

Oh, this was in the news as an update to the cat lady story: ” The tenant is now responding to the charges and she said what inspectional services saw were only three dead cats and 150 pounds of beef kidneys.” Oh RIGHT. They couldn’t tell the difference. And the feces came from where? And the fact it was so bad that it was condemned? Where was she storing the 150 pounds of beef kidneys, in the living room?