The Big DumpTruck

For your Wednesday enjoyment, I present “Jody In The Round” a 1-woman extravaganza in SurroudRead

• I hear we may see a snowflake or two this week (today or Friday, according to the radio). I would prefer this to not happen. I also have to order new boots for Junior, who is about 2 sizes larger than he was last winter, the little bugger. While I’m at it, I’m going to get some for me…I found some in the Lands End catalog that will apparently keep my feet so warm that as I walk, I will leave scorch marks in the snow.
• The little strip mall where I wanted to put my pipe dream store is all filled up and everything is open. So I guess that’s the end of that. Maybe one of the businesses will fail (aren’t I nice?) and I can take their space. I just really thought it was a perfect location. Speaking of which, my other pipe dream, to buy the old abandoned Whalom Drive-In and put in something fun like a Go-Cart place, may also be over. It looks like someone went in there with a bulldozer and flattened everything down and cleared out all the brush. So apparently something is going to go in that space. Don’t know if it will be a house, condos, or a business.
• I love raisin bagels.
• I should be working on the Nano Novel instead of the blog. I’m a few words behind where I should be right now. (By the end of the day we should have about 15000 words to be on target for the 50k)

So it was only about 50 degrees and super windy today. Still, if you only went by the following photo (taken at lunch where I work) and you ignored the leaves in the foreground and the random bare trees, you might think this picture was taken in late spring. (Speaking of the wind…yes, that was a strip of shingles from the roof lying on the driveway when I got home.)

This picture is glorious full size (It’s reduced to about 15% for this picture). It is in my top three favorite pictures I’ve ever taken, and right now it’s my desktop background image. See, fall can be beautiful, even without pretty red and orange leaves!

Okay, this past week and weekend we finally had our peak foliage, in my humble opinion. Not that I hate stretching out fall, by any means, but I was just so delighted to actually see some actual color.

Let the house at about 8:15 this morning and didn’t get home until around 5 pm. Oy, somehow I misplaced the whole day! Spent some money though, which is always fun. Oh, and you’ll be shocked to hear that only $29 of it was at Target. I can’t believe I only spend $29. Well, it would have been more but it turns out that I havn’t been paying close enough attantion and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory isn’t out until Tuesday. All I noticed was the commercials showing every 15 seconds on Nickelodeon.

So now it’s almost 7 and I haven’t done today’s words on my Nano novel, never mind bank a few in case next week is a rough one. I promise I will be good and for the next hour I will do nothing but type. I’ll even put on my iPod instead of watching whatever is on tv. But if I have my 1666 words by 8pm, I have earned the right to sit with my family on the couch, right? We have this week’s Mythbusters in the warming tray of the TiVo…

Okay, I have a song stuck in my head that most of you have probably never heard. But, through the power of the internet, I am going to tell you how you can download the song from the artist’s website to enjoy in your very own ears.

The song is called Skullcrusher Mountain, and it’s by a brilliant singer/songwriter named Jonathan Coulton. Got to his site at http://www.jonathancoulton.com to download this and other fantastic songs for free…then toss him a few bucks if you like what you hear. His stuff is excellent for listening to on the drive home, let me tell you.