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Where Are My Ants?

Posted on March 2, 2007 by The Jody

Not my pants. I have those. My ants. Well, Junior’s ants, really. We sent a check to the ant company so that we can let them loose in the Ant farm he got for Christmas. He’s dying to get the ants “up and running” but with the pesky lack of ants, it’s really much less fun and exciting than the box would lead you to believe.

I know other people have ant farm web cams, but I’m really tempted to do the same. Because I’ll just best most of you regulars aren’t out watching other people’s ant farms on webcams, are you?

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Got Your French Toast Supplies?

Posted on February 12, 2007 by The Jody

Storm’s a ‘comin! Did you run out and get milk-eggs-bread yet? Cause you know it’s a law that you have to. We need to go grocery shopping for realsies, and now I dread it. You crazy french toast making people…you’d better leave some bread and milk behind for those of us who actually have none left. I will not be buying in anticipation of 6 inches of snow (the current prediction). I’ve been living in New England for 42 years. Funny thing about snow storms. Outside of the beast like New York State had last week, snow ends, the roads get plowed and sanded, and voila, you can leave your house.

I actually have four or five whole cans of soup at my house, that in an emergency, I could probably survive off of those. Or a boxes of Near East Rice Pilaf, or the massive pasta stores we are required to keep on hand thanks to Junior’s pasta addiction. I think I have a way to go before I start eyeballing the dog food.

By the way, I know in the distant past I covered Mr. Fussy’s eating habits. Updating you on those, did you know that he now actually orders steak, shrimp or grilled chicken instead of pasta? Did you know that? He has eaten pot roast (Oh, hey, you know, maybe that’s what we need to get for the snow day…) and roast chicken and ham and bacon. For any of you with fussy eaters (and I mean, he ate pasta with red sauce for lunch and dinner every day for a couple of years) there is hope. They do add items to the menu! There is a light at the end of the tunnel!

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Disappointed

Posted on January 5, 2007 by The Jody

Aw, man, I went to the BDT archives to see what I was writing about at this time 9 years ago. The thing is, 9 years ago it wasn’t a daily update, because everything had to be coded by hand and then uploaded via FTP, so I used to kind of do everything in an “issue” type setup. And there wasn’t anything posted between Dec 26 of 97 and Jan 26th 98. Big bummer. I had another “site” I was running simultaneously, Mookie’s Driver Training Page, or something like that. That’s where all the Mookie news went. Mookie being Junior, by the way. Mookie was his in-vitro name, which we actually stopped calling him as soon as he was born, but it stuck on the website for a while. See, he was born 9 years ago tomorrow. I went into the hospital at about 6pm 9 years ago today to have my water broken. As I said to him this morning, “Hey, it’s Applebees night! We have to go to Applebees and stare up at Leominster Hospital and think “Oh my God, I’m going in there and I’m going to leave with an extra person” because that’s what Mr. Dump and I did that afternoon after my doctor said I’d gone long enough with my blood pressure slowly rising. My due date was the 7th, so there was no problem inducing. Well, you know, that and the fact that he was 8 pounds 12 ounces(!!) a fact I was blissfully unaware of until the maternity nurse said “Wow, you’re all baby.” “What?” “You’ve got a big baby in there.”

How did I get to that point with nobody telling me he was big?

He’s still big, and getting bigger, for the record. Still my baby, but still up at the top of the charts. Happy birthday, Mookie!

I did skip forward a couple of issues and present you this “best of” entry from Feb 1998:

User Name Suggestions

I was signing up for a site on the web that required a user name (so that I could post messages and it could keep track of me) the other day. I know that the odds of me being the only “Jody” on this service were slim to none, but I entered it anyway. I got the following Java Alert message:”Username Jody not available, here are some suggestions. KILLER SCHAEFERD HUMAYUN KENNICUTTA ANDREASEK KUTCHERA”

I’m not sure what those have to do with “Jody”, and I especially like the option “Killer” but I didn’t take any of their obviously well thought out suggestions. I went with “Jodyl“

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Deal or No Deal

Posted on December 26, 2006 by The Jody

Among the other things Santa showered on Junior was a small handheld Deal or No Deal game.

There is something wrong with the game though, and I couldn’t get it to turn on yesterday. Mr. Dump was able to somehow get it running, and played a single game, winning $750,000 bucks. (I resisted the urge to give my notice at work this morning.)

I just got the following email from the homefront:

Junior: Dad, my Deal or No Deal won’t turn on.
Dad: I know. I think it’s broken.
Junior: How did you turn it on the last time?
Dad: (hitting it against the counter) I hit it.
::: Music plays – game starts :::
Junior: Thanks… I think.

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Marley and Marley

Posted on December 15, 2006February 24, 2010 by The Jody

Yesterday I watched A Muppet Christmas Carol. Just the best movie. You have watched it this year, right? No? Okay, go watch it. I’ll wait.

Okay, so then, what happened is, I watched it again. Except I watched it with the director commentary turned on. And I didn’t just watch it twice in one day…I watched it back to back. So I saw about 4 hours of the movie. I think I have it memorized, which is nice.

Junior had much more energy than I did yesterday (he had to stay home too) and wanted to do fun things. So I set up my Christmas train under the tree and let him play with it. Leave it to my kid…he pulled the musical ice cream truck ornament off the tree and had a whole scenario where the evil ice cream truck driver was after the people on the train. I don’t think I’ve seen that one on ABC Family’s 25 days of Christmas specials.