Mel came over last night… we ate and lounged and talked about a lot of stuff. She’s got a wicked sense of humor, and can crack me up easily. She’s also altogether too willing to tickle.

She was kind of afraid to tell me that she is a born-again Christian… I can understand that, given my pretty solidly agnostic stance. We discussed it, and I think that there’s a good comfortable middle that can be met. She’s a pretty fascinating study… I’m really glad I met her. Much deep talk about motivations and directions. Many facets there, and I care for her very much. I’m quite confident that those feelings are reciprocated.

Steak comes from the Saxon word steik, meaning “meat on a stick”.

Newt was a bit spazzy last night. Very Energetic.
(this may be a *slight* exaggeration.)

Art I LIKE!

Got to hang with Mel after work, and until we were staggeringly sleepy last night… last time for a bit, she’s got to work until Sunday on her gig. We spent our time together eating ziti, watching tv, laughing like fools, and exchanging stories about bodily functions.

She had no interest in going to the gig, but will do so, just out of a sense of duty. I wish I could go with her, but I’ll be at work during most of it.

I wonder if I’ll get a chance to meet up GP and Katt this holiday season?

Saturday is Otaku-con with Danny, and I should do laundry and Christmas shop a bit in the meantime.

Sunday, we’ll both have a late lunch with the mom. I’m looking forward to that. No, really!

8:15 fund-raising demo, and a 10:15 tech training. somewhere in between, I get to teach Jill how to do web-stats, and some more advanced html, like tables.

I also have to teach Eric and Mona how to do sexual predator stuff before I decide to dash off for vacation.

Making Fiends #14

1 year ago – food, thinking, 12 days

2 years ago – deep sleeps, gender benders, doodle cartoon,

3 years ago – Modern ruins, Goethe, misc

4 years ago – Michael Peter’s Rules, dreams, cryptozoo, boat parade

And despite it being #7070:

Dragonflies have six legs, but cannot walk.

Is it time to go home yet?

Damn contemporary, bullshit architecture!

Random Mel & Scotto Factoids – She has me beat in the disaster column, having been electrocuted (and hospitalized for a month) and run down by a truck while on foot…. to my being run over by a car when on a scooter.

We both do a pretty weird variety of strange voices and can sing newt to a level of total confusion. She does better kitty-sounds and harmony, I do better baby noises and evil laugh.

Mel does not like soup, and I do. Especially broccoli & cheese.

We had a nice afternoon together. I helped her do some legal paperwork, and she took me to dinner at Quiznos.

Dan hasn’t met her yet, but that’ll probably change by this weekend.

Bro still in jail, he needed his forms notarized and with copies of prescriptions. Nobody knew, and the first time he saw his public defender was when he arrived in court. He’s going to be in jail for the holidays, it seems, at least until Jan 15.

I miss the brainstorming sessions that GP and I had over the never-made TV series “Gorilla Girl”.

Did you miss monkey day yesterday?

Massive Frog Eats Three-Legged Radioactive Dog

Beatles Christmas Records (with mp3s)

1 year ago – spelling poll, pandas, turtles, and a bed of fresh noodles

2 years ago – keywords, Newt likes Broccoli!, Lauderdale cams, bah on bush, gore and grover Cleveland, mh trim, J-lo nose picker, shoe-doodle

3 years ago – holiday shopping, good advice, winter depression folk

4 years ago – moment of RAW, Santa Claus – geek, holidays, donations

I wonder how Newt would deal with either a bubble machine or a fog machine in the apartment?

I want blueberry pancakes. I guess an apple and more instant breakfast will have to do. Bah. I desire a field trip to IHoP.

Happy Birthday, tarpo!

Handy vocabulary words –

Cousin-Betty: A deranged woman. Cousin-Tommy is applied to a man in that melancholy situation. (William Carr’s Dialect of Craven, 1828)

Gammerstang: Usually applied to a female of idle, loose habits (C. Clough Robinson’s Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, 1876)

ADP failed a test of reliability last, to launch a sexual predator call at 7pm. I launched it at 7:30, and she called back.. it’s too bad, if she’d have passed, she might’ve gotten more time back again… but now, it seems that she has lost her chance. I keep pitching out softballs, and she keeps missing ’em.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” in 30 seconds. Re-enacted by bunnies.

Random Moment of Alton Brown – In the old west, cowboys would often throw bull’s eyeballs into their chili.

Mexican tomb reveals violent human sacrifice Continue reading 7067 – 2s-D →

Added the stars to the website / blog background again for Christmas

I have no idea why I like this Romanian pop music, but I do. Lyrics I dare you not to sing at least the “ma-ia-hii” refrain.

I finally got around to watching Oceans 11. Fun little caper flick. Mel & I got sick on Pollo Tropical for lunch… I got a headache, and she got some ickies, too. No Parrot Jungle for us. We hung out while feeling icky-ish, and then called it an early night around 8. It was sort of nice, though we were both sickish. Newt was very sweet to us both… probably out of a understanding sicky vibe. (He can get fairly jealous of Mel at times.) We spent the evening surfing the web for places to find ideas about breeding birds, swapping stories about our respective skeleton closets, and found a solution to the cubase problem.

I wouldn’t mind catching Oceans 12.

Somebody plugged the manatee kiss video to ipodder… I’d really like to know who the original referrer is… if anyone out there could let me know, I’d appreciate it.

A Year Later

“What could account for such a bizarre fluctuation in the populace?
War? Famine? Rampant Cannibalism?”
“CANNIBALISM! I VOTE CANNIBALISM!!”

No Parrot jungle, helped Mel get her place ready for her gram, who’ll be staying with her for an indeterminate amount of time, while she mends. We did spend some time sniffing around for holiday prezzies for Dan and Kev, most unsuccessfully. We journeyed up to to the strip mall of sin and the mall of the dead… I showed her my old stomping grounds and told her the story of no-nose.

The Mall of the dead is being massively renovated, by the way. A big ol’ Lowes is there where it was just dirt the last time I was by, and the front entrance is being redone, covered in scaffolding.

Parrot jungle is open today. Maybe we can make it.

Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for “vote switching” software (see also this affidavit)

What’s that song? – I gambled with making the artist “misc” and won.

Ugh. If I wasn’t a vegetarian before, I would be now! Hardee’s Monster Thickburger Come on. 1,420 calories, 107 grams of fat, 229 grams of cholesterol, and 2,651 grams of sodium? There’s got to be some sort of law. Even if you ate two big macs, you’d still be short 200 calories, 40 grams of fat, 70 grams of cholesterol, and 600 grams of sodium. Feel free to read GiT’s review. The freak got fries with the “sandwich”.

Wow… a lot of people (141, as of this count) downloading the UFO theme mentioned recently. Much more popular than the other stuff.

Gigantor Trailer… I’m actually pretty glad that the robots aren’t graceful.

Moment of Lyric – Happy Rhodes, Ra Is A Busy God

I wish you could stay
I only want to play and play
But you’re such a busy god
and I’m such a mortal, Ra

…Where’re you going, Ra?
Take me with you, Ra.

Protrait quiz-meme

“What could account for such a bizarre fluctuation in the populace?
War? Famine? Rampant Cannibalism?”
“CANNIBALISM! I VOTE CANNIBALISM!!”

No Parrot jungle, helped Mel get her place ready for her gram, who’ll be staying with her for an indeterminate amount of time, while she mends. We did spend some time sniffing around for holiday prezzies for Dan and Kev, most unsuccessfully. We journeyed up to to the strip mall of sin and the mall of the dead… I showed her my old stomping grounds and told her the story of no-nose.

The Mall of the dead is being massively renovated, by the way. A big ol’ Lowes is there where it was just dirt the last time I was by, and the front entrance is being redone, covered in scaffolding.

Parrot jungle is open today. Maybe we can make it.

Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for “vote switching” software (see also this affidavit)

What’s that song? – I gambled with making the artist “misc” and won.

Ugh. If I wasn’t a vegetarian before, I would be now! Hardee’s Monster Thickburger Come on. 1,420 calories, 107 grams of fat, 229 grams of cholesterol, and 2,651 grams of sodium? There’s got to be some sort of law. Even if you ate two big macs, you’d still be short 200 calories, 40 grams of fat, 70 grams of cholesterol, and 600 grams of sodium. Feel free to read GiT’s review. The freak got fries with the “sandwich”.

Wow… a lot of people (141, as of this count) downloading the UFO theme mentioned recently. Much more popular than the other stuff.

Gigantor Trailer… I’m actually pretty glad that the robots aren’t graceful.

Moment of Lyric – Happy Rhodes, Ra Is A Busy God

I wish you could stay
I only want to play and play
But you’re such a busy god
and I’m such a mortal, Ra

…Where’re you going, Ra?
Take me with you, Ra.

Protrait quiz-meme

Field Trip to Parrot Jungle I think. Camera safari! Overdue for a day-trip. [update: that’s not going to happen, at least not today.]

Does anyone know how to convert Cubase files to a wav or mp3? My buddy’s been trying to use cubase in conjunction with fruity loops for quite a while now, and I don’t know the littlest bit about the programs (or most music software). Or does Cubase have some sort of WAV file plug in? I’ll have to make a point of asking leftyrok and sebab especially.

Assault With A Pork Chop

DECEMBER 10–Meet Ernesto Hernandez-Rosales. The 39-year-old Oklahoma inmate has been charged with the pork chop assault of a fellow resident of the Lexington Correctional Center. According to investigators, Hernandez-Rosales tried last month to settle a beef by stabbing Jermaine Portillo, 21, in the eye with a “sharpened pork chop bone.” Hernandez-Rosales, who is already serving an eight-year sentence for marijuana distribution, was named this week in a felony information charging him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Portillo, who was not seriously injured in the pork bone attack, is doing a 20-year stretch for armed robbery. A prior prison stay was also eventful, with Portillo getting charged at one point with illegally “placing body fluid on government employee.”

MANATEE WINDOW KISS! – 2.6 meg quicktime movie

via Whims – Selling World of Warcraft In-Game Content for Real Money Continue reading 7062 – My Henna tattoo reads “forever” →

Field Trip to Parrot Jungle I think. Camera safari! Overdue for a day-trip. [update: that’s not going to happen, at least not today.]

Does anyone know how to convert Cubase files to a wav or mp3? My buddy’s been trying to use cubase in conjunction with fruity loops for quite a while now, and I don’t know the littlest bit about the programs (or most music software). Or does Cubase have some sort of WAV file plug in? I’ll have to make a point of asking leftyrok and sebab especially.

Assault With A Pork Chop

DECEMBER 10–Meet Ernesto Hernandez-Rosales. The 39-year-old Oklahoma inmate has been charged with the pork chop assault of a fellow resident of the Lexington Correctional Center. According to investigators, Hernandez-Rosales tried last month to settle a beef by stabbing Jermaine Portillo, 21, in the eye with a “sharpened pork chop bone.” Hernandez-Rosales, who is already serving an eight-year sentence for marijuana distribution, was named this week in a felony information charging him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Portillo, who was not seriously injured in the pork bone attack, is doing a 20-year stretch for armed robbery. A prior prison stay was also eventful, with Portillo getting charged at one point with illegally “placing body fluid on government employee.”

MANATEE WINDOW KISS! – 2.6 meg quicktime movie

via Whims – Selling World of Warcraft In-Game Content for Real Money Continue reading 7062 – My Henna tattoo reads "forever" →

Criminy. Holiday stresses are getting to the hen house. Do I care? No, I do not.

Peaceful thoughts for those in difficult times right now.

Morning Newt-stretch, from behind his pink ears.

Tomorrow night, I’m going to help Mel unpack her house, and we’ll see where the weekend takes us. I’m looking forward to spending time with her again… funny how two days can stretch on.

Lost is getting more serialized/cliffhanger style lately. I’m definitely digging it.

I’ve never had to light a fire to survive in winter.

I’ve been hit so hard that I’ve seen flashes of light.

I want to swim in a fresh water lake by a smooth pebble beach.

I’ve only had alcohol from a jug once, and I was disappointed that it wasn’t marked “XXX”

I’ve plucked and dressed at least two dozen chickens, and hated doing it every time.

I don’t currently own a gun, for fear that I might use it in anger, or otherwise carelessly.

I’ve been to a sweat lodge, and it wasn’t my thing.

I’m amused by the idea of starting off as an egg, and I wonder about the origin of the protein that split it, before it was a sperm. What did my father eat, before he processed it into a seed? I flatter myself, by hoping it was a fly he swallowed while on his motorcycle, or maybe a bit of chocolate honey-dipped doughnut. I wonder how many pieces of me that have fallen, flaked or broken off in my life have gone on to become flies or doughnuts again?

I take fresh water for granted. I take a lot of modern things for granted.

I haven’t planted a tree in a long time. I’m overdue.

I have no real need for prezzies this Christmas. I’ve been asked by a few people, and I still have no idea what to tell them. Just good tidings, and peaceful spirits.

I wonder what mark I’ll leave behind, if any. Who’s going to remember me a hundred years after I’m dead? Ten? One year? I suppose it doesn’t really matter since I won’t actually know. I’d like to think that the chain of events from some action of mine could make someone else’s life better, 200 years from now.

Best line from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – “You’ll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious.”

1 year ago – movie clapper poll, hakarl, RI a bitch, Rudolph: Behind the scenes.

2 years ago – Rubber monsters, the four humors, feculence, Jane Goodall believes in bigfoot, prezzies

3 years ago – autochthonous, Nobel prize, Cetus, BEAR WINS; SUIT LOSES

4 years ago – nifty links, Fidel Castro’s John Lennon statue, and life’s perfectly swell, KMFDM

Moment of Lyric –

Some of my Favorite Things:

• Good Friends
• Newt!
• Being Silly
• Scalp massage
• Mutual Laughter
• Relaxing on my own
• Getting along without stress
• Nature Walks
• Sleeping late
• Helping someone in need
• Tiny hands (or paws) lost in mine
• Spinning in a circle
• Finding sweet reminders left behind
• Surprise phone messages
• Being Sung to
• Being told that I’m loved, and me believing it

Adjusting focus to the positives, of which there are many. I’ve got some good stuff happening, I think.

Gorillas hold ‘wake’ for group’s leader

BROOKFIELD, Illinois (AP) — After Babs the gorilla died at age 30, keepers at Brookfield Zoo decided to allow surviving gorillas to mourn the most influential female in their social family. Continue reading 7060 – crisp apple strudel sounds good, too. →

The gang at work (RI in particular) is getting pretty testy. Micromanagement about what window of opportunity I should take my lunch, and egotistical-types whining about not getting to do a presentation at the meeting. bleh bleh. RI’s a bad banana with a greasy black peel, and her heart is full of unwashed socks. There’s still hope for everyone, of course.

I can still smile. Pretty easily, really.

The pharmacy is moving out of the building soon. I don’t know what I’ll do about getting my morning fix of scotto-chow (in the format of diet Pepsi and pretzel-sticks)

Santa Mosh. Right on.

Charlie Brown Christmas was on last night. Got to love it. Origin of this Linus Icon, in fact. well, by way of Hey Ya Charlie Brown…

Marvel Stamps

Moment of Lyric – Soul Coughing – True Dreams of Wichita

Punch it
I got, uh, fed
I got, uh, too much things on bounce, uh, my head
I got to burn ’em up
I got to burn ’em up now
I got to go uptown, uptown
I got a thing
I got a little bit pushed
Got to stand on the corner and bellow for mush
I got a bomb
I got a baby bomb bomb
Got to stand on the corner and bellow for my friend tom
I got a thing, I got to thing it
I got to thing–team
I got to run my side

lileks is right…the UFO theme is a tune that you cannot help but do some spaz-dance to.

1 year ago – annoying words, possible friends list alteration, marshmallows & volcanoes, Rick James/Hulk, on call reduction, CS dolt, MM arrival, JL RIP.

2 years ago – mighty shopper, LA Story, keywords, rain

3 years ago – economics, WID gig, good gab, holiday cards

4 years ago – AOK, R d’E, RIP Klink, Golden goat