22.4 Weeks Along - More Strange Dreams....Where In The World Is Jon Ballard?

Who is John Ballard you ask?

Well, um....lets see. He's a DJ, or air talent, whichever term you prefer, that I got to know when interning for Cathy Faulkner back in the former glory days of Seattle's KISW. He was really funny, even if he did have a warped sense of humour. But in a good way. There was something about him though....something about his show, I can't recall if it was called "Ballards Bits" or something else.....no it couldn't have been that. The Brits reading this will think I'm referring to his man-bits, WHICH I AM NOT! I wouldn't know anything about his man-bits!

Anyhowwwwwwwww.......

I haven't thought about him in ages and last night I had the most bizzare dream about him. All I remember is that he was climbing Mt. Si (it's in WA State, near - damn now I can't recall the name of the city where they filmed Twin Peaks, will probably come to me at some odd moment) and when he got to the top, Lawrence Welk was already up there and then the next thing I know, John Ballard is in Leiderhosen (sp) with an accordian - and he's playing the damn thing with Lawrence in the background. I kept waiting for Julie Andrews to pop out and start singing about how the hills were alive. Don't know if she ever did. I woke up. And in my dreams, she and Ballard probably would have hooked up. Ewwwwwwwwwww.

Anyhow the dream got me to thinking about Ballard and wondering if he's still in radio and where he's at and what he's doing. I attempted to google him and came up with a most unusual assortement of Ballards....John Ballard the parapsychologist, John Ballard the Artist (watercolours and oils), and John Ballard the tissue growth researcher- somehow I don't think that's him either.

Oh well, wherever he is, I hope he's happy and still making people laugh.

Well, enough already. But not before I let you know that I, little ole pregnant me.....SORTED OUT CINGULAR WIRELESS! Total KO in the 7th round! Ding ding ding!

This time I got "Tina Smith" who barely spoke any English and it took me the better part of an hour. But I got that stupid billing issue FINALLY taken care of. Only took me 7 phone calls and 6.45 hours to do it. And yes, I do still feel compelled to throw my cell phone into the Atlantic (which I can easily do from my driveway) but I'll hold off for now.