Vaykay Day off to a poor start.

Did I sleep in? No, because my brother called and woke me up at 6:20 this morning, but hung up before I could talk to him. (he must’ve realized he was calling too early. He called back at about ten past seven, to give me his latest sob story about his bike going stolen and living on the street and how he needs money for a daily bus pass to get to work. I know that’s likely a pile of bs, because day labor stops reeling in at 6am.

I went to my change jar and set him aside the money in nickels and dimes, because I don’t currently have any folding cash on me… and I won’t give him anything more than a fiver at any rate. He picked up his food card here yesterday, and apparently he’s cashed that all out already, too… so I made him a few PB&Js to take with him on the road. It hurts that I can’t do anything to really help him, and I feel squeamish about giving him even bus fare’s worth of dinero, because I worry that he’s going to spend it on drugs.

[update: 7:30 – he called back and asked if I could write him a check for $20 to pay someone to “give him a ride around today”, and look for his bike. I told him that I was sorry, but I couldn’t do that. He said that he understood, but said that he figured he would ask. In a way, I’m glad he did, because it actually helped to strengthen my resolve about refusing him bigger funds.]

He says that he’ll be by inside of an hour… he was surprised when I told him I wasn’t going into work this morning… I think that he’d prefer to pick up the money and not face me. He mentioned that I could leave the money in the mailbox if I was heading out to the job.. that also means that he’ll have to come by sooner than later if he wants his story to hold water.

In other family news: Mom bailed on supper out last night, and it’s just as well. Her leg was bothering her, and I was beat from the day… we gabbed on the phone for about 20 minutes and that went well.

I gave GEO (big Kahuna’s Husband) another tutorial on the computer after work, and showed him how to scan, print and burn images to CD (and rewrite) he’s a swift guy, and grasps technology quickly for a guy in his mid-70s. His photography is amazing, too.

All new Making Fiends! (Special 4/1 edition!)

More spam-comments from

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this time about diet, loans and Viagra, all in the same post (My birthday, 2003). did they figure out how to bypass the catchpa?

Random walkabout photo from lunchtime yesterday.

More Sticky-letters. Kram? Mark Backwards? Same guy that did Buk-50?

Contemplating a new cammy-cam-cam. Vacation-time. Save Money, Or Spend it? Probably save it.. I need to get some bucks to Dave and to Kev.

American Social Hygiene Posters ca. 1910-1970

Moment of Lyric:

I saw you ‘cross the dance floor (dancin’)
I thought of birds and bees (reproductive system baby)
And when I tried to speak to ya (talk talk)
My tongue unraveled to my knees (flippety-flippety-flop)

I tried to say I love you (love you)
But it came out kind of wrong, girl (wrong girl)
It sounded like “Nunubididoo” (tongue tied)
Nuh mur nuh murh ni nong nurl

I was just offered a small donation from a guy to use my “combover” doodle (I come up pretty early in google searches for that hairstyle) on his letterhead if I’d put his name on it. Apparently he’s losing his hair. I said, sure! and promptly modded the doodle for him. I’ll donate the money to my charity fund. That’ll be my first piece of sold and commissioned art done on the palmtop.

I still prefer monkeysaw or Newt.

Christopher Eccleston (who did a fantastic job) the Doctor in the new Doctor Who tv show, now he’s quitting. Bah.

Eccleston, whose first appearance as the ninth Time Lord attracted around 10 million viewers, feared being typecast.

A second series of the new Doctor Who, which will again be written by Russell T Davies and produced by BBC Wales, has already been commissioned.

1 year ago – Ossuaries, CoH, LJ 4/1 gag, impression meme

2 years ago – If I were a, fuel cells, JKG, 20,000 leagues

3 years ago – reprint, life changes, teacher with 17 dogs, that’s my baby whale, critter poll, pikachu vs badger, doc visit, mario moonlighting

4 years ago – midget wrestler, glow worm, april fools, nice dreams, I don’t like AFD, Computer update, midget wrestler-scotto