Author: The Jody

Junior announced to me this morning that he had to go to work, get into his ninja costume and do the ninja dance (that his boss had taught him) with his girlfriend the cheerleader, Julia.

I had no idea he’d finally found a job.

I was at the grocery store yesterday, picking up the basics, and I needed to get bread. Well, apparently there’s a storm coming cause the shelves were pretty barren. A bread guy (you know, he works for the bakery that makes the bread, not the store, that kind of guy) was standing there and I asked if he handled the brand of bread I was looking for. He told me no, but that delivery guy was there, he’d probably be out in a few minutes. Then he explained that they all deliver on Tuesday because they don’t work on Wednesday. If you buy bread on Tuesday look for the green twist-tie because that’s the stuff right off the truck, and not stuff left from the last delivery. Oh, and if you buy on Sunday, look for the yellow twist tie, for the same reason. He was very helpful, considering I wasn’t going to be buying something from the company he worked for. On the other hand, I used to do grocery merchandising for a cereal company, and it was a long, lonely summer driving from store to store, and I think if someone in the store had started talking to me I would have had a conversation as well.

Oh, and here’s an interesting thing – gas prices dropped 2 cents at my favorite place. Don’t know if they did it to compete with the new Hess, which at one point last week was FOUR cents cheaper than the next cheapest place. But I’ll take a price drop of any kind, thank you. That puts us at $1.59 for regular unleaded, if you’re keeping track.

Looks like I might be moving the Big DumpTruck to a new host soon. I was trying to support a local company, but my hosting fees jumped $25 this month (and I’m still trying to figure out why, because something looks very fishy to me). Look, I love you guys, and I love writing this blog, but I cannot afford to spend THAT much money just to amuse myself.

If and when I make the change, the site may be temporarily unavailable. If you subscribe to the Dump newsletter, I will post the IP address so you will have no downtime while the change makes its way through the DNS servers of the world.

Amazingly (and if you know me, you’ll agree) I’ve gotten more items from my to-do list completed in the past two days than, well, ever. No, that’s a lie, but still, I’ve been so freaking productive. I even did all the items that required me to actually leave the house and go out in public. I returned all the overdue library books (total fine =$3.20), got something notarized, and picked up a copy of Junior’s birth certificate so that I can register him for kindergarten on Saturday. Somebody replaced my sweet baby boy with a big kid, and I’m none too happy about it.

I even scoped out two projects that I’m bidding on. I don’t want to say things are improving and jinx it, but I’m seeing more postings for tech writers, and more opportunities to do web content development. Also, I have had a couple of small projects this week, so I’m just happy to be busy.

I’m going to let the warm weather and the possible work improve my mood and not dwell on the fact that our “elected” leader chooses to ignore the American People and most of the free world, and play High Noon out in the desert. I’m going to ignore the Code Orange and throw open the windows and listen to some peppy tunes. Cause that’s the kind of gal I am.

If you have $5 or $10 or whatever, consider sponsoring my friend Jeff who is participating in the May 18th AIDS Walk NY.