Today is my Favorite Father's birthday. Happy Birthday, Favorite Father, from your Favorite Daughter. (Sorry, Favorite Sisters, both Younger and Older, but you know it's true...)

Anyway, I recently posted another comment to just show how incredibly dull my life is. Others boast of life-saving vaccines or food production or charitable gifts; Mojo boasts about the scores she gets playing various forms of computer solitaire. The latest (and now the dullest) is a simple game called "Bubble Pop", a Mac-based thing that I have since grown tired of. Just like "Asteroids" in the Seventies--once you flip the game over it's pretty dull. (This was on the Atari system, NOT playing it in the arcades, since Mojo does not like to waste money.)  MORE Mojo! »

So Sunday I spent most of the day at my Favorite Husband's place of work while he did some stuff. I occasionally go down there, lured by promises of sushi and the claim that it will only be "for an hour or two". Mojo knows better than to believe THAT, but she has a weakness for sushi and for my Favorite Husband and it doesn't take much persuading.

My Favorite Husband was in the shop doing his engineering stuff, which I pretend is mildly interesting when in fact it has a great deal to do with things I care very little about. Which puts me out in the reception area unsupervised, which is never a good thing. Since it is a Sunday and the doors are locked I cannot do too much to endanger the company's standing with their customers, but I get bored surfing the web and occasionally trying to best my incredible score of THREE WINS IN A ROW of Spider Solitaire set at the most difficult level. Because those are the sort of meaningless goals Mojo clings to to give her life meaning.  MORE Mojo! »

Am I the only person who totally HATES the new Dunkin' Donuts campaign? I'm sorry, I don't think even Christmas Squid is as bad of an earworm as that thing. (If you don't know about Christmas Squid, search this site for the phrase. I'm too lazy to link it up for you.)

Also as a copywriter I can't BELIEVE the awful writing. "Doing things is what I like to do." "I'm slightly more productive than I previously was". Are they trying to be funny? Are academics going to be writing papers about the genius of using ironic deconstruction to sell donuts? Because I'm not getting it. And on a pure single word sort of complaint, if there was ever an adverb to inspire you to say "eh" about a product, it's "slightly". I'm guessing they are trying to somehow wedge actual scientific statistics into song lyrics. Or they are making fun of themselves? I suppose I notice them and their product through the sheer inanity of their commercial. So I guess they did their job.  MORE Mojo! »