Ok.. went to the Doc this morning, and he’s approved my going to a neurologist to see if there are any other alternatives to surgery. I’m doing reasonably well, so I’ve got high hopes and reasonable expectations. The insurance company has been hassling me doctor terribly, to the point of him mentioning, “I know it’s not your fault, but they’ve disrupted the whole office with incessant requests and pointless forms.” Apparently, they’re under the doctor has orders now to put stuff in a file (I imagine circular) and just contend directly a maximum 2 times a week, and ignore the rest.

I wonder how things with my brother went at the courthouse today… I hope everything got sewn up with a minimum of fuss.

While I wait for 11 to roll along…

Digital Librarian: a librarian’s choice of the best of the Web – Mucho Scotto-used linkage.

Cincinnati’s Abandoned Subway System
I am a sucker for abandoned places, especially tunnels. The adventure possibilities are endless. Morlocks. Gene Hackman – Luthor’s lair from the first Superman movie. The Beauty & the Beast TV series. Grant Morrison’s Invisibles.

Giant lizard terrorizes Beirut
He’s big, he’s a carnivore, he’s terrorizing the neighborhood’s residents, he’s been swimming in people’s pools and he’s already claimed victims – several cats, a dog and apparently even a horse. Continue reading

Had some lovely veggies, rice and tempura… bro got spicy chicken. We gabbed and played yahtzee… spent some quality time together. I’m going to miss not seeing him on his birthday or Halloween, but we’ll be in letter contact pretty much daily.

Going to the doc first thing tomorrow morning, at last to have him review my most recent MRIs. I hope that he and I both like what he sees.

Ever Been in a Turkish Accident? – The U.S. State Department warns of 25 significant dangers to look for when driving in Istanbul or Ankara, Turkey: “Vehicles backing up (in reverse) on exit ramps and on main highways.”

Free PDF ebooks, mostly classics.

Today’s Eats –

Water: 6 Veg/Fruit: 2 Milk: 0
Points: 41.8 Adj: 0 Act: 4.9 Rem: -2.9
Bank: 30.4 Adj: 0
Bank Max: 35 Point: 0 Act: 0
Bank Method: Start on Monday
Vitamins: Yes

Breakfast: 8.0 points
8.0: Croissan’wich w/ Egg & Cheese

Lunch: 6.5 points
0.0: Side salad
1.0: Kraft Fat Free Ranch dressing
5.5: BK Veggie Burger w/o Reduced Fat Mayo

Dinner: 10.1 points
3.1: Rice; white; glutinous; cooked
3.1: Rice; white; glutinous; cooked
0.0: Mixed veggies
0.2: Soy sauce made from soy & wheat (shoyu)
0.2: Soy sauce made from soy & wheat (shoyu)
3.5: Oil; peanut; salad or cooking

Snack: 17.2 points
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge

Activity Log: (Min:Int:Points Desc)
25:M:2.7 Bus-walk
20:M:2.2 Evening- stretches

9/3/03 7:52 am

I need to remember to just sit tight at breakfast and just head over when 8am comes. There’s no reason to lurk around waiting out front, though I expect to get a key soon.

Dinner with the bro tonight…I expect to spend some flex points if we dine out.

Ok, revised launch times again. Gives me ten more minutes of rest.

Blogshares Total Portfolio: $961,917.95. Folder: 15 blogs.

Bad Toon Rising is a collection of drawings of well-known cartoon characters produced by amateur artists entirely from memory and without any reference materials whatsoever. (via boing boing)

An International Catalogue of Superheroes: The purpose of this site is to build up a database of information about various superhero characters from around the world. For decades American comics, and especially those from two prolific publishing houses, have dominated if not the market, then certainly the public’s perception of it. There are few people in the world that would not recognize Superman, Batman, Spider-Man or the X-Men, and there are hundreds of websites devoted to those characters. That is not the focus of this site.

Woo! From the Vampire game “You are sire to 16 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (6072 pints), Liliana (2285 pints), MissV (1794 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), gilbella (1043 pints), Sierina (180 pints), Soul Harvester (25 pints), Morgoth (18 pints), bloodytears666 (17 pints), renwick (6 pints)” I wish it gave me an option to view full lineage.

Sjohn’s Font of the month – Invader Candy

Only 5 more months until my birfday!

Got my packages into the mail, so goodies (and forwarded goodies) should be winging the way to points north as I type this.

Getting together with the Bro tomorrow for an early supper at Tokyo bowl…I figure we can get out convo caught up there over some California rolls and miso, or bean burritos and rice. I want to spend as much time with him as possible before he heads off.

Ol’ Network gave us some trouble today, right as I was setting up an email account.. I thought first that the pc was down, then the server.. it turned out internet was broken across the board. A mild setback and we were up and running in under an hour.

I had a nice email convo, and got to call Kev on the phone to ask for him to donate some hardware, software and license stuff to ACIM, and also make a tentative appointment for a get together at IHOP for some tasty nighttime breakfast.

Putting a lot of our donated art stuff from Las Olas on eBay, and tracking that is going to be a daily fun stop

for Kat – (since I can’t seem to sign comments at Enigma) The Billboard website. Look at the Charts on the left. Albums, for example.

Today’s eats –

Water: 6 Veg/Fruit: 4 Milk: 0
Points: 34.9 Adj: 0 Act: 0.0 Rem: -0.9
Bank: 33.3 Adj: 0
Bank Max: 35 Point: 0 Act: 0
Bank Method: Start on Monday
Vitamins: Yes

Breakfast: 8.0 points
8.0: Croissan’wich w/ Egg & Cheese

Lunch: 6.5 points
5.5: BK Veggie Burger w/o Reduced Fat Mayo
0.0: Side salad
1.0: Kraft Fat Free Ranch dressing

Dinner: 13.5 points
3.1: Chik patties – morningstar
3.1: Chik patties – morningstar
1.4: Peas sweet; 1 can; solids & liquids
5.9: Veggie munchees -12

Snack: 6.9 points
4.8: ice cream ; low fat fudge ripple – 1 cup
2.1: Cereals; LC OATS 1 cup

Up and at ’em, Atom Ant!

Well, I’ve got a fair amount of sleep under my belt (about 5 hours… I prefer at least 6) so I think I’ve got a decent amount of Scotto-fuel to get me through the day.

I’ve got the things I’m going to mail off today, and my bank deposit. Hopefully, I can get that stuff taken care of sometime midday. It’s raining and thundering out right now… I’m in a decent mood.

Nostalgia Central – A one stop reference guide through three decades of music, movies, television, pop culture and social history.

Until later, dear journal.

a year ago – John Walker Lindh, Old Maid, debian, red flags, my tarot card, underdog

2 years ago – Reading location poll, start page, bat-music, Amazon dreams, JH Noir

3 years ago – Empathy Rating, me, and the bionic woman

Today was supposed to be a day of rest and comfort. From 3PM on, that simply wasn’t the case. Tomorrow will be a better day… I’ll be able to focus on other issues. There were a few positives about the day… Fortunately, I have some good anchors to keep me grounded. Added bonus, short week ahead.

I get to be a piglet for dessert snack tonight, because I need to catch up on my points, and I’m not in the mood for orange juice.

Esteem meme

today’s eats

Points: 34.8 Adj: 0 Act: 0.0 Rem: -0.8
Bank: 34.2 Adj: 35
Bank Max: 35 Point: 0 Act: 0
Bank Method: Start on Monday
Vitamins: Yes

Breakfast: 2.7 points
0.3: Egg; whole; hard-boiled
0.3: Egg; whole; hard-boiled
2.1: Cereals; LC OATS 1 cup

Lunch: 7.8 points
3.5: Goldfish
4.0: Egg sandwich -morningstar no cheese
0.3: Egg; whole; hard-boiled

Dinner: 10.9 points
5.3: Amy’s Enchilada dinner
4.2: Corn; sweet; white; canned; whole kernel; drained solids-1 can
1.4: Yogurt; fat free, blueberry 4.4 oz

Snack: 13.4 points
4.8: ice cream ; low fat fudge ripple – 1 cup
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge

Random Scotto factoid – I liked Dynamite Magazine when I was in elementary school, but only because of Magic Wanda’s tricks page. DYNAMITE (1974-1992)

The Rain stopped!

Enough looking out the window... time to chill out.

ok, I’ve implemented flex points in my system…we’ll see how that works out. Rather than point ranges for each day, 35 flex points are awarded each week. These points may be used as needed during the week. As part of this program Weight Watchers has eliminated point ranges and now assigns a single daily point value for each weight group. Seven days, five points a day, equals 35 points. I’ve done the math, and you still get the exact same number of points per week – it’s just a different psychological way of counting. They’re just modifying the system so that it’s in terms of a week rather than in terms of a day… though I can reserve some for a extra gluttonous day on occasion.

I’ve been craving ice cream cake since Cookie Puss has made a return to Carvel. Though… fudgie the whale seems to be sort of ironic. “To a whale of a dad… Here’s a big chunk of ice cream, tubbo!”

Speaking of which, I sort of like Am I Annoying or Not? of the “Or Not?” trends. Cleopatra’s Entry

Segue into Egypt…

Egyptian Scholar Planning Lawsuit Over Exodus Gold Continue reading

Labor day

I’m looking forward to spending some quality time today… so far, so good. It’s going to get better, too, I’m sure.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on TV last night.. I haven’t seen it in ages, and forgot how fun it was, though I think Benny Hill was underused.

Red-Haired Barbarians: The Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865 40 Japanese prints from the NEHA collection.

Who was Aunt Jemima? (via art for housewives)

Fart costs bank 100,000 dollars Continue reading Labor day