Author name: judyann dutcher

Theme Song

Daughter came home today saying that her peers gave herm a theme song to the tune of “Indiana Jones.” If you can imagine the theme: Da-da-da-daaa Da-da-da (Come on, sing it in your head) Da-da-da-daaa Da-da-da-daaa Now substitute dutcher for the 4th daaaa Pretty clever. Since Indiana Jones is one of my favorite movies, this […]

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Blackberries

My blackberry and blueberry plants have done very well (raspberries and boysenberries not so much.) When Daughter comes home from school, she greedily falls upon the bushes to glean the most ripe berries. We’ve discovered that the berries need to be black for more than one day for them to be sweet. If they are

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Barrier

Two years ago I was unable to do the SB Triathlon due to a knee injury. Last year I was prevented by a shoulder injury. I think this year, the culprit will be a bulging disk in my back. Back pain causing tingling in my left arm led to an MRI which showed that I

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Meta to the 3rd level

The Princess Bride is a favorite movie, I saw it on the big screen in 1987. It took a long time for me to read the book and although I’m glad I did, this is the rare case when I like the movie better than the book. In the movie, a grandfather is telling his

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Pony Up

A couple years ago, I looked over at Daughter’s computer screen and saw pink. Pink? Why would she have anything pink on her screen? She’d most recently been addicted to coding for Super Mario World and I knew there wasn’t a lot of pink there. So what was this pink all about? I looked at

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