6430 Dragon in a jar, QM2, Walkies, etc.


A recently taken undated hand out photograph received on January 25, 2004 shows a fake baby dragon encased in a 30 inch (0.76 meters) jar which was discovered by David Hart in a garage in Oxfordshire, southern England. A metal tin found alongside the dragon contained paperwork written in an old-fashioned German style of the 1890s, a time when their was intense rivalry between Britain’s and Germany’s scientists. The documents suggest that Britain’s Natural History Museum turned the dragon away and sent it to be destroyed, only for the jar to be intercepted by David Hart’s grandfather, Frederick Hart, who worked as a porter. REUTERS/Allistair Mitchell


Went with for a walk with Ol’ Danno to the Cheesecake Factory for a meal, conversation, and to pick up some fudge at Kilwin’s (Where I saw Val, Rhonnie, and the Swedish volleyball team a few weeks ago)to bring in to work tomorrow. Danny got some mini dark chocolate-dipped pretzels for himself, but I’ll be content to sneak a bit of turtle fudge later on. The propane-bridge restaurant (Van Gogh’s) was closed once again, and in the daylight, we could see renovations going on inside.

Los Olas looks a lot different in the daytime… I can say that I really prefer it at night. There were a lot of helicopters overhead, checking out the port, scoping out the Queen Mary 2 out there. I expect that ship will be all over tonight’s news. Seriously, that’s one big honking cruise ship (Queen Mary 2 is the largest (151,400 tons), longest (1,132 feet/345 meters), tallest (236 feet/72 meters), widest (135 feet/41 meters) and most expensive ($800 million) passenger vessel ever built. She is the first true transatlantic liner to have been built since the line’s famous QE2 entered service in May 1969.)… it makes that yacht I photographed on Monday look like a toy.


I’m still waiting for my letter of credit from the phone company. I’d really like to see it make it through soon, so I can move forward with this condo buying thing..I was hoping to make it a birthday present to myself, but I don’t think it’ll happen in a week.


GrayPumpkin sent me this….

This silly game though very White-Wolf in approach reminds of something Marvel would have put out in the sixties. It would have been written by Jim Starlin or run for about 6 issues before being rightfully canceled.

That’s about as an accurate summation as I can make, too.


Something is drying out my skin a lot this winter. I wonder if it’s just the air, or if I’m having a reaction to something else. Site Meter

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