Monthly Archives: March 2002
Spent all night tonight gabbing with my sweetie, watching cartoons and doing some spring cleaning. Had a lot of fun talking like anime and documentary hosts…she’s the only person I know that’d play a running gag like that as far with me. Had a good time, but the dear heart is suffering from some nasty flu symptoms. The poor gal is going to sleep late tomorrow!
I think I might want to draw a few icons for here, and get a feel for my revised website going soon. I need to transcribe my story stuff from writeen page to electronic form, if for no other reason than a safe archive.
Ingenious Idea of Robber.
I’m craving some sweets. A doughnut, milkshake or ice cream sundae. (my cravings usually go towards savory or salt.) I wonder where my sweetie got herself off to today… I’m just chillin’. Got my chores done, and will do my laundry tomorrow.
Absolutely Innocent According to Way He Explained it, but Judge Was Doubtful.
The other evening a man of the burglar type stepped up to an old gentleman and, handing him a piece of paper, said:
“Sir, would you be good enough to read me the writing on this piece of paper?”
The individual addressed consented and, moving toward the rays of a convenient gas lamp, read the following words:
“If you utter a cry or speak a single word I shall shoot you. give me your watch and chain and your purse at once then pass it on.”
Completely taken off his guard, the gentleman handed over the articles asked for and walked off. A few steps brought him to a policeman, and, relating his story, the pair proceeded in pursuit of the stranger, who was not yet out of sight.
Next morning, before the magistrate, the vagrant was called upon for an explanation.
“Your honor,” he said, “I am not an educated man, and, therefore, can neither read nor write. Last evening I picked up a piece of paper, and, it striking me that it might be of some importance, I took it to the first person I met and asked him to decipher it. The gentleman read it quietly to himself and then, without saying a word, handed me his watch, chain and purse and walked off without giving me time to recover from my surprise or ask him what it meant.”
Minnetonka Record, January 23, 1914
Some Outside Reading…
Best shot I could get of newt this morning…he was all snuggled up close, and I reached over to grab the camera… he picked up on the photo-vibe, and made a run for the litter-box. (I’m not into kitty-scat photos, so that ended that.)
When I come back from the dead, I want a halo.
text m’s I got this morning, via livejournal.
Kind of unusual. These appeared during the night, as I slept. I think I have an idea who did it, but I’m not sure. I did like getting a random howdy, though.
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:15:57 -0800 (PST)
(f:redheadgurl)kute icons!!!!! im a redhead 2.Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:18:34 -0800 (PST)
(f:god)i think you forgot to wipe your ass when you were on the toilet just nowDate: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:23:30 -0800 (PST)
(f:god)mensa just called, they wanted me to tell you you’re too creepy even for them
I wonder if they’re totally random, or from someone on my friend’s list. I actually had to think back, and see if I was on the potty at that time. I wasn’t, but it’d have been bonus wacky if I had been.
Hee… the Scotsman is keen. I love his peg-leg that doubles as a machine-gun.
text m's I got this morning, via livejournal.
Kind of unusual. These appeared during the night, as I slept. I think I have an idea who did it, but I’m not sure. I did like getting a random howdy, though.
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:15:57 -0800 (PST)
(f:redheadgurl)kute icons!!!!! im a redhead 2.Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:18:34 -0800 (PST)
(f:god)i think you forgot to wipe your ass when you were on the toilet just nowDate: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:23:30 -0800 (PST)
(f:god)mensa just called, they wanted me to tell you you’re too creepy even for them
I wonder if they’re totally random, or from someone on my friend’s list. I actually had to think back, and see if I was on the potty at that time. I wasn’t, but it’d have been bonus wacky if I had been.
Hee… the Scotsman is keen. I love his peg-leg that doubles as a machine-gun.
Newtie’s mers won over my sweetie tonight.
speaking of freakishly cute…. this entertains me all too much. He doesn’t want Trix, he wants your pointer.
Today’s featured site on the Cruel Site of the Day got me thinking about music during gaming, surfing ambience, things like that.
A Estonian band called Rondellus has produced an album of classic Black Sabbath songs sung in Latin and performed in an authentic medieval manner with period instruments. Just think of “War Pigs” as a Gregorian chant.
The CD is for sale and the site includes sound samples and blah blah.
At first it struck me as funny, but you know I can’t just leave anything like that.
Imagine presenting the music as passages from a Latin translation of the Necronomicon or tome of choice. If you aren’t expecting Black Sabbath, the slowed tempo and radically different style can disguise the identity of the song for some time. Just the thing for a campaign involving Goths and R&R and backward masking and MK-ULTRA and Anton LaVey and Bobby Beausoleil and the whole merry gang.
parting thought before bed…night night
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
– Chuck Norris
I dreamt it was raining ball point pen refills last night, and certain colors were valuable. the greens and reds were worth gaqthering in a basket, but the blacks and blues were worthless, and tossed into a disposal pot. (I don’t know why they weren’t kept for use in pens.) I want a pot like that in waking life…you toss waste in (its opening was minute, only able to fit something about the size of a penny in… but that’s workable) and it gets shunted to some sort of recycling plant. it kept a tally of what you put in, but there was no compensation for it…just for record keeping. The rain wasn’t dangerous, like the razors… more annoying. A regular umbrella deflected the pinging metal tubes. collecting the refills was tougher in the dream… no colored pegs to tell what ink was inside. they had to be tested on a piece of paper, but it was worth the while. a large number of people were harvesting them in large baskets, strapped over the shoulder.
I wonder how much stuff gets polka-dotted in that world. I figure the points have to hit a surface sometime. not really an issue at the time.
“that’s my baby” is on… it’s the llama one! it’s one I’ve not seen… very nifty to watch a squad of them to run. If you want to tune in to animal planet online, they have a weekly one hour radio show, too. Lots of stuff in archive, too. at least 25 hours or so. The baby is a crazy cute thing! like a tortie-llama.. almost checkered.
neato interactive poem tag, and the project is growing like crazy
yikes… where’d the morning go? see you tonight, dear journal. I have to get to work.
newtie, just now….”mer!” Translation… let’s go sleepies!
Got my X-rays, and found out I can check them out. I’m going to borrow them later, and take piccies of them, for my own records. Looks good!
Heard about Riker at work watching dvd movies on company time…I don’t have any problem with it, as he’s setup, and if there are no setups to do, it’s mostly hurry up and wait. However, discretion might’ve been a good idea. Maybe playing with his setup tools, like jetletter or corel draw would’ve been more politically correct. I feel most folks should just pipe down, as long as stuff gets done. I fear he’ll be the next flavor of the day… he’s not into confrontation… I coud see him quitting if someone gets too uppity with him.
things picked up surfing tonight, waiting for 10pm to roll by –
Corpse Tupperware is tickling my morbid-funnybone.
Researchers say graveyards face overcrowding problems because dead bodies aren’t decomposing properly.
Berlin undertaker Walter Mueller said: “Bodies that went into the ground 30 years ago look like they went in last week. It’s like people have been pickled in preservatives.”
Gonna get rain tomorrow… I want to stay home and catnap all day long. Not going to happen, but that is my desire. (one of several, really)
of interest to my sweetie, and perhaps others –
“Bess Dressed to Impress“, as in Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Other Elizabethan links worth noting are some portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, a nice compilation of selected writings (among which is a response to Erik of Sweden where she blows off his proposal of marriage), and if inclined, detailed instructions on how to make an Elizabethan corset and other underpinnings.
Automatic complaint-letter generator for the lazy.
Help me figure our why this credit union’s logo is a swastika made out of dollar signs.
finally, Of interest to potty-mouths (like me): Roger’s Profanisaurus.
And now, good night.
newtie, just now…."mer!" Translation… let's go sleepies!
Got my X-rays, and found out I can check them out. I’m going to borrow them later, and take piccies of them, for my own records. Looks good!
Heard about Riker at work watching dvd movies on company time…I don’t have any problem with it, as he’s setup, and if there are no setups to do, it’s mostly hurry up and wait. However, discretion might’ve been a good idea. Maybe playing with his setup tools, like jetletter or corel draw would’ve been more politically correct. I feel most folks should just pipe down, as long as stuff gets done. I fear he’ll be the next flavor of the day… he’s not into confrontation… I coud see him quitting if someone gets too uppity with him.
things picked up surfing tonight, waiting for 10pm to roll by –
Corpse Tupperware is tickling my morbid-funnybone.
Researchers say graveyards face overcrowding problems because dead bodies aren’t decomposing properly.
Berlin undertaker Walter Mueller said: “Bodies that went into the ground 30 years ago look like they went in last week. It’s like people have been pickled in preservatives.”
Gonna get rain tomorrow… I want to stay home and catnap all day long. Not going to happen, but that is my desire. (one of several, really)
of interest to my sweetie, and perhaps others –
“Bess Dressed to Impress“, as in Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Other Elizabethan links worth noting are some portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, a nice compilation of selected writings (among which is a response to Erik of Sweden where she blows off his proposal of marriage), and if inclined, detailed instructions on how to make an Elizabethan corset and other underpinnings.
Automatic complaint-letter generator for the lazy.
Help me figure our why this credit union’s logo is a swastika made out of dollar signs.
finally, Of interest to potty-mouths (like me): Roger’s Profanisaurus.
And now, good night.
at radiology
television here has “crossing over w/john edward” on the tube… I’m willing to accept that there are unknown mysteries out there, and possibly psychics, but this guy rings all my fraud bells.
it’s some sort of old folks magnet, though. the geriatric crowd here is enthralled by its infomercial-like design. I suspect that I could pull a similar carny scam on the people here. simply get a big enough crowd, and mention some generic po-culture references…”someone here once met a guy named john…possibly a relative?”
this office seems to have a better sense of throughput…patients are cycling at a good clip. I is standing room only, here, too, though. the woman on my left mentioned that it’s about a 45 minute wait after your assigned time. not as bad as the other place.
well, back to reading the lensmen books. (my latest synch to the palm, along with the latest onion and local news.)
until later, little journal.
tick tock, awaiting my ride to be irradiated, and have my innards shown on film. whoop! there’s the horn. I’m off!
Curling up, and going to sleepies. tomorrow is Dexter Thursday! 🙂
sweet dreams, all who take rest.
here’s some dream fodder…a beautiful & mysterious collection of photographs of dolls & toys by Gabrielle de Montmollin
It’s a good thing that some folks turn off comments in entries when they ask rhetorical questions.
on a totally different track –
niftiest
annnd – The directory (search) is up and running, and is currently only serving paid accounts, permanent accounts, and early adopter accounts. Once it is completely optimised and we can dedicate another server or two, it will be opened up to all accounts, with free accounts only having a limited subset of access.
also added 2 icons to the
It’s a good thing that some folks turn off comments in entries when they ask rhetorical questions.
on a totally different track –
niftiest
annnd – The directory (search) is up and running, and is currently only serving paid accounts, permanent accounts, and early adopter accounts. Once it is completely optimised and we can dedicate another server or two, it will be opened up to all accounts, with free accounts only having a limited subset of access.
also added 2 icons to the