Jennipod Epsiode 26: Finding My Lost Notes: A Digital Miracle

I experience a digital miracle when my lost podcast notes mysteriously reappear on my work computer days after disappearing, proving good karma exists when you don't have a meltdown over tech failures. My annual girls' trip to Wilmington, North Carolina highlights the joys of having friends who live near beaches and the ongoing debate about using Orbitz for flight bookings.

• Fighting the good fight against smiley faces in professional emails and unnecessary sign-offs like "Best regards"
• My mother becoming the beneficiary of my house cleanouts, including the infamous drunk ramen soup spoons
• The widespread banana ordering mishaps affecting multiple friends through different grocery delivery services
• Defense of using Orbitz for 15 years despite being teased for this supposedly outdated practice
• Fascinating statistics about cities with the most 100+ degree days since 1900 (Phoenix wins with 11,992!)
• Excitement about the concept of QR codes on gravestones linking to personal content
• TV updates including finishing "You," starting "Modern Family," and anticipating "Emily in Paris"

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Chapters

• 0:10 Welcome and Podcast Notes Recovery
• 3:27 Email Etiquette and Family Hand-Me-Downs
• 6:39 Bananas and Beach Trip Tales
• 13:12 Weather Extremes and Asteroid Updates
• 19:43 TV Show Reviews and Recommendations
• 22:18 Episode Wrap-Up

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:10

What's up everyone? Welcome to episode 26 of JennaPod. Welcome back, Thanks for sticking with me. Even though I write out all of these podcasts, I'm realizing I'm having problems remembering what stories I have told and those I have not. But let's say I've recorded close to nine hours of talking, so I think it's okay if I accidentally repeat a couple things. My producer, aka me, doesn't have the time to review and keep track, so just deal with it. I am recording this Monday, August 11th, Back to school, back to school. That was my Adam Sandler impression.

Speaker 1: 0:58

This episode would have been out earlier, but last Sunday I went to work on my notes and my computer had restarted and apparently I hadn't saved my work and it was gone, which it's more confusing because I saved my podcast notes on a USB-C drive. So then, somehow on Tuesday afternoon I was on my work computer Shh, don't tell anyone. And at one point it said do you want to recover? Like what? Have you documents? It's that do you want to recover them? Most of the time I ignore it, but I clicked, sure, but had no idea what it was referring to, because I am constantly in Word and Excel for work. I am a savvy Microsoft gal. Then, like 15 minutes later, I went to a link from an email to my server and all of a sudden, my goddamn podcast notes appeared. And I think it was an instance of good karma. And it's good, because when I lost my work, I didn't get mad, I didn't cry. I went upstairs and cleaned out my makeup bag, all my makeup, and I cleaned out all my bathroom storage things to give myself a busy task, to not focus on the fire dumpster, and now everything is clean, clean, clean and I'm happy. So, podcast still delayed, but you know, it's like. You know, anytime you work on something and it doesn't save or disappears. I mean, how does that happen in 2025? But then it was like trying to remember the work I did and getting creative again. That that was challenging. So praise. However, the heck, I got my notes back. I bet it was that little paperclip fellow that still lives somewhere in Microsoft.

Speaker 1: 2:55

Shout out to my friends who I am the only podcast they listen to that's commitment. They listen to that's commitment. You could be listening to A-list celebrities, influencers, political figures, comedians, millionaires, business moguls, etc. And you choose. Good old Jennifer from Fairfield and everyone at the network loves that. Thank you If you work in a professional work setting.

Speaker 1: 3:27

Can we please, please, quit using smiley faces in emails? I'm fine with it in teams using emojis, gifs, gifs, whatever those are called. But I've already said if you type friendly reminder in an email, you are dead to me. But pair that with a smiley face, I will throw my laptop across the room and shatter it. Just get to the point of the email. I've quit using email sign-offs, my signature and info auto-populate, like they all do. I'm only using Sincerely if I'm applying to a job. Maybe not even then. Maybe I just type make the right decision and hire me. Best regards, Cheers. Get the hell out of here. I ain't typing that. I don't care about what's going on at the other end of this Ethernet cord, Just send the document I requested or answer the question I asked. And scene Last episode I mentioned I hoped a college student ended up with my drunk ramen.

Speaker 1: 4:39

Amazon soup spoon purchase Funny story. My mother is that college student, Sharon has the spoons and a public belated happy birthday to my mother. So anytime I clean out my house, I put everything on my dining room table and my mother comes over like it's goodwill. My husband gets mad because he is like we are just going to end up with all of this stuff again and my mom laughs and says, yep, see you at the estate sale. There are items I'm sure we have passed back and forth multiple times because we forgot we bought them. She has stuff from my wedding registry in her kitchen, has stuff from my wedding registry in her kitchen. I think I have four everyday coffee cups from my wedding registry left from the original 12, and after 17 years that's a pretty good stat.

Speaker 1: 5:35

Is it pretty normal now for people to make gift registries or Amazon wish lists for just about every party? I've seen that done for kids parties. Honestly, as someone who is a horrible gift giver and I stress out about it I do love some type of registry. Maybe I just need everyone to make a Pinterest board so I can go to it if you have a special event coming up. I miss the 90s where for three to four consecutive years for birthdays and Christmases, everyone and I mean everyone got a Bath and Body Works gift basket. Chemicals be damned, give me a basket filled with vanilla bean lotion, vanilla bean body spray, vanilla bean body wash, and even after that I'm still going to be spraying some Calvin Klein, some Tommy Hilfiger or some Abercrombie perfume on top of it. Gap had the best perfumes ever in the 1900s. I got on Amazon and it looks like you can still get some of their scents. Yas queen, I need to go to the mall ASAP and see if they have any of the perfumes in stores and maybe go get me some of those American Eagle Sydney Sweeney.

Speaker 1: 6:59

Jeans Hashtag controversy. Jeans Hashtag controversy. My mom and I have been spreading misinformation on this podcast. I didn't get my double piercing for my ears on my 30th birthday. I did not get them pierced on my 21st birthday. It was my 25th birthday and why. We didn't know when this happened? Because it was 2007 and we didn't have smartphone pictures to refer to. 2007 was still a year of transitioning from print to digital photos. Back on episode 20 of JennaPod, I discussed how we all have too many pictures on our smart devices. Anyway, I will try and refrain from spreading misinformation on this podcast. I don't need the supes at the corporate office sending me a cease and desist letter. Anywho, I do plan on adding one more ear piercing in 2025. Will I pass out, Perhaps, but do I go to Claire's at the mall or the new fancy piercing place at 5th and Broadway called Studs downtown Nashville, I think Claire's, because then you can go to the food court and get some free bourbon chicken. Also, did you see this week where Claire's is declaring bankruptcy? I don't like that. Let's save Claire's, along with Red Lobster.

Speaker 1: 8:34

I am not the only person who ended up with a many bunch of bananas from Kroger online order and delivery. Same exact thing happened to my girlfriend, Ann, in Cincinnati. She also claims they didn't update the icon picture from one banana to the bunch of bananas. I feel better because Ann is a math wizard and smarter than me, so banana shenanigans can happen to anyone. Best friend Reby also had hashtag banana problems. Her family has used just about every form of grocery delivery app and utilized Amazon one day because it was the fastest same day delivery. Amazon at the time was doing bunches of bananas, while Kroger was still doing single bananas, and Rebby's husband ordered five bunches of bananas. So, friends, this is a safe place to tell over-ordering banana stories. We stand in solidarity.

Speaker 1: 9:39

I went on my annual girls trip two weekends ago to Wilmington, North Carolina. If you end up with a friend who lives remotely near a beach, just plan to keep them around. My girlfriend, Tara has lived in Wilmington for 18 years. Fun fact my husband and I could have moved there in 2007, but for his sales territory we chose Tulsa, Oklahoma. Just kidding friends from Tulsa who listen to this, Miss you For this girl's trip. I have known most of these girls since middle school and all but one of us went to the Miami University. Go Redhawks or, if you are old, go Redskins. This was my 12th beach trip in 15 years. Technically, I was there a 13th time for Tara's wedding, but I was only in Wilmington for 17 hours, so I don't count that. Most expensive part is getting there by plane, but a free place to stay. Holla, I see most of these girls once a year at the trip because we be scattered across the United States of America. There is no direct flight to Wilmington from Nashville, so from here generally you go through Charlotte or Atlanta. Also, Southwest doesn't fly there, Boo, Okay, now I have a question for everyone out there, because I got made fun of at my gym for this. For 15 years I have booked this trip through Orbitz and it has never done me wrong.

Speaker 1: 11:20

Per Wikipedia, Orbitzcom is an international travel fare aggregator website and travel meta-search engine. The website is owned by Orbitz Worldwide Inc. A subsidiary of Expedia Group. It is headquartered in the City Group Center in Chicago, Illinois. It has been around since 2001. It was acquired by Expedia in 2015. Acquired by Expedia in 2015. Expedia also purchased Travelocity Go off Expedia. So I'm about to talk very tech-like. Embrace yourselves.

Speaker 1: 11:56

Orbitz ran on a mixed Red Hat, Linux and Solaris-based platform and was an early adopter of Sun Microsoft Systems' Genie platform in a clustered Java environment. Jboss is used as an application server within their environment, along with various other proprietary and open source software. Orbitz licensed ITA Software's LIPS-powered QPX software to power their site. Orbitz worldwide brands have been migrated to a common technology platform, which enables the same platform to serve multiple travel brands in multiple languages, in different markets and currencies as well. Orbitz has released parts of its complex event processing infrastructure as open source.

Speaker 1: 12:52

If you didn't understand a word of that, I didn't. It's one of those websites that gives you flight options across many airlines and does cost comparison. So most people would do a search on Orbitz and be like oh hey, Delta has the flight I want to go on, so I'll go to the Delta website, Not me. That's an extra step I don't feel like making. So is this a me thing. Does anyone else use orbits or something like it? Is this a Middle Ages thing? I tried the Hopper app, which gives you 1,000 flight choices, and I got overwhelmed and deleted the app. Your girl doesn't travel that much. It's not my comfort area. If I had Powerball money, I'd have a personal travel agent, someone who packs all my shit, travels with it and then unpacks all of it at set location. I've never had an issue with flights in 15 years from orbits. So 10 out of 10 from me.

Speaker 1: 13:54

Have you had a travel nightmare using a travel meta-search engine? I had to get up at 3 25 am for my flight. That wasn't pleasant. My husband was like who's taking you to the airport at 4 am? I said you are buddy. He said I wouldn't make you drive me and I said well, I'm just a girl. In no way I'm driving and parking on my own. Now I have done that once before. In no way I'm Ubering for 25 minutes with a stranger. Where is my Waymo? Where is my Tesla robot taxi? I have read recently where Uber is rolling out a system where females can request female drivers. That's cool.

Speaker 1: 14:41

Normally I do the ridiculous early flight on the way home from Wilmington, but wanted to try something different. I arrived at the Nashville International Airport at 425 am and it was wild. No, I still don't have TSA pre-check, because I'm a commoner. Only half the security lanes were open. I got to use the new fancy scanner for keeping shoes on 18 minutes through security. Yes, I always keep track because I'm a nerd. So I arrived at 425 am and I was in my airplane seat by 512 am. Nothing better than just showing up and going straight to security, than just showing up and going straight to security. So all my synapses were not firing.

Speaker 1: 15:32

When my alarm went off at 325 am, I forgot my Kindle. I've done this half a dozen times when I'm done reading in bed, I slide my Kindle under my pillow. My Kindle has had to be mailed to me by family and friends from several states across the United States of America. It was the worst case scenario ever, because all I do is read at the beach. I had to buy a paperback book Gross. My 43-year-old eyes can't read that small print. Made it to Wilmington Easy peasy. Um, the Wilmington airport now has a Jimmy John's. Let's fucking go. Got me a turkey tom immediately at 10 30 am. Super successful, Long weekend, Love, a girl's trip. Love you, girls who are listening, girls who are listening.

Speaker 1: 16:33

Nashville had 30 days in a row for 90 degree temps, 90 degree plus temps. I found a tweet from WKRN Nashville where someone calculated cities and the amount of 100 degree days they have had since the year 1900, because Tampa, Florida, had its first 100 degree day just recently. So here are 15 cities and their number of 100 degree days since 1900. Portland, Maine 7. New York City 58. Chicago 64. Minneapolis 64. We got a tie. Atlanta 83. Denver and Mobile, Alabama 102,. Another tie Washington DC 113. Bismarck 274. Houston 508. Kansas 2,103. And y'all, Phoenix, 11,992. Phoenix, that's an average of 95 days a year with 100 degree temps. Yowza, we all agree. 75 and sunny with no humidity is the best.

Speaker 1: 18:00

Give me that R-day Update from Episode 6 of Genopod straight from NASA. When asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered, it was estimated to have a very small chance of impacting Earth on December 2, 2032. After more observations, NASA concluded it poses no significant impact risk to Earth in 2032 and beyond. Yay, so let's have a ticker tape parade. An asteroid is not going to hit us in 2032. But, but that is the year, allegedly, social security runs out. So here's the age old question. Would you rather get hit by an asteroid or get zero social security benefits that you have been paying into your entire career security benefits that you have been paying into your entire career?

Speaker 1: 19:06

Now I think I've said on the podcast that I am getting cremated, but somewhere I read that people are putting QR codes on gravestones and I think that's genius. You could link it. You could put on the gravestone, link it to your obituary. A slideshow of pictures, videos of your life, random YouTube videos, a link to my podcast, what have you? I will pay money towards anyone. I will put it towards your estate, your trust, if you link my podcast on your gravestone. If you link my podcast on your gravestone.

Speaker 1: 19:41

Happy Gilmore 2. Have you watched it? I think they did a great job. I saw the original Happy Gilmore in 1996 with my boyfriend at the movie theater. We held hands. I have seen the original Happy Gilmore probably 50 times. I quote it often On Rotten Tomatoes. The second movie got a 63% critic rating and a 66% audience rating.

Speaker 1: 20:14

Like what were y'all expecting? An Academy Award winning film, Get out of here. It made this middle ages woman laugh and smile. It was very nostalgic. Oh, we started watching Modern Family. We had never watched one episode of it. It is so good, so funny, so cute, very family friendly comedy. The Father Phil Dunphy I mean top tier, one of my favorite characters ever. It aired for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020. It had 22 Emmy Awards. It also won a Golden Globe Award in 2011 for best television series in a musical or comedy.

Speaker 1: 21:01

Other TV updates I finally finished season five of you. That kind of got insane at the end. I guess I'm glad it's over. I started season four of the Bear. I need to suck it up and finish season 21 of Grey's Anatomy. And where the hell is Emily in Paris? Where is that shit show? Bring back that chaoticness.

Speaker 1: 21:26

And you know, I'm going to have to check out the Hunting Wives on Netflix because I heard it's sexy, sexy. It has an 81% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 70% audience rating because because y'all like girls making out on television, it rates TV mature on Rotten Tomatoes. But if you go on to IMDb it says sex and nudity severe in red colors, lol. The subgenre on imdb says erotic thriller, y'all nasty. So, uh, warn your mamas before they start watching that new trending hunting show on the netflix. But if I do watch it. I'll let you guys know what I think. All right, you guys. Thank you for listening to episode 26. And I hope you have a great week. Jennapod is directed, produced and edited by me, your girl, Jennifer. Please rate, review and subscribe to this on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you are listening to my lovely voice Laters.