Author: The Jody

Can someone explain to me why the stories listed on My Yahoo haven’t been updated since yesterday? I’m sure there are things occuring in the world. I hate to have to rely on someone else for my news headlines, but I’ve been waiting ALL MORNING for them to fix this. The most recently updated info is from 4am on 10/27. Ugh.

You know all those great weblogs out there with deep and meaningful philosophical musings? Well I find them boring. Can’t plow through them. I could agree 100% with everything they say, but dammit, it’s not what I’m looking for when I go blog hopping. I want to be entertained. I want to smile. I don’t want to plow through 200 words on why the economy is in the toilet because the Federal Reserve blah blah blah bloat. But you know what? Part of me is jealous that I’m not able to provide the world pithy and timely observations about Microsoft or Tyco or any other story the Wall Street Journal lives for. I would like to be that kind of site, where people link to you just because it makes them feel in the know. Instapundit comes to mind. Sites like that. I’ve been there, I’ve read some of the stuff, and after a while it all blurs together. Maybe the flaw is with me, that I don’t force myself out to find these sites and learn from them. I’m too busy looking for pictures of babies and stories about Wal-Mart adventures. Because I’m shallow. I guess I need to work harder to be good, quality shallow.

I promised a photo of my favorite little clown!

Ahhh, the best day of the year. The only thing missing is someone giving me presents. I just love the first day of Standard Time, what with the free hour of sleep. Mmmmm, good times.

The weather is WAY better than I’d hoped, so the parade should be fun today. I’ll take my camera with me and maybe I’ll share with you guys.

Googlism : is a fun way to kill a few hours. I entered a bunch of stuff…and one of the things I entered was the word “Mookie”, which is what I used to call Junior (for those of you who haven’t been around since 1997). I figured maybe something about my kid would be in there. Well, there were lots of terms, and I looked for one that sounded like it might refer to something I wrote…and danged if I didn’t get it right on the nose! If you do a googlism search for Mookie, about half way down is “mookie is not clinging to my leg” When I went back and entered that into regular Google…there it was!

Funny thing is that one other match that I thought MIGHT have been a match wasn’t about my kid, but it WAS on the site of a friend of mine. Small world.