well, baby…

During Babykins' recent well-baby appointment, the pediatrician asked me, “You don't use a walker, do you?”, and at first all I could think was “Huh? Do I look like I need assistance in the form of durable medical supplies?”, but actually, he was just making sure we didn't have any unsafe baby stuff around the house.

Oh, and what does it say about me as a do-it-all working-stiff mom that his six-month well-baby appointment was on his seven-month birthday?

On Gmail

Obviously, Gmail has some sort of language bot that lets it know which ads to foist. But I can't imagine which of my emails would prompt it to shill to me “How To Kiss A Girl – www.DavidDeAngelo.com – Learn How To Kiss A Girl In A Way That Makes Her Melt In Your Arms”.

On Twitter

Some facts about Twitter:

Twitter users don't tweet, they twit.

As such, Twitter users are twits.

Twitter breeds twit wit.

That should be its motto: Twit wit Twitter.

“Twit wit wit Twitter” works, too.

new haircut

“Like my new haircut?” I asked Monstro.

“When'd you get your haircut?”

“Last night, when you were asleep.”

“Oh,” he said. “Did I get a haircut, too?”

“No.”

“Just wondering,” he said.

From Square-root day to March Fourth

Just too much awesomeness smacked side-by-side on my calendar! March fourth is my second favorite date, the only one that is also a command. Everyone knows that Monstro's favorite date is May fourth, as in, “May the fourth be with you.” Yeah, that never gets old. But the bestest day on the calendar is Fibonacci day. Got to teach my students about Fibonacci last week and used a snipped from the movie “Pi: Faith in Chaos” to illustrate. Damn, that's a good movie.

Ramble on and March Fourth, people!

what are the odds???

What are the, I ask you, what are the odds that JAKE SHIMABUKURO, ukulele guru, whose work I've admired for four years, would be coming to my town for a concert the night of my five year wedding anniversary???

I told Monstro he could pick the dinner as I've picked the entertainment. So he did.

Blog archive prettified

So you know I've been blogging (as such) since 1995, and you probably know that I have my blog archives up at my www.motormouth.com domain space, and if you know that, you also know that most of the pages looked like hell. So I spent a bunch of valuable kids-are-napping time today making them at least readable, to ease the eyes of the Guinness folks. See for yourself here: http://www.motormouth.com/blogs/blogs.html. Everything's up except for 2003, which at this moment I can't find, but will hunt down asap.

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OK, I just checked the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for motormouth.com. I think I don't have a 2003 archive compiled yet because there are 27 articles I need to compile and archive! Ugh!

Oh, and that archive only goes back to 1998 because that was when I had to change domain names from what I had (due to “trademark infringement.” Whatever) to motormouth.com.