Scottobear: shark vs octopus 1933 – thanks, ectomo! http://tinyurl.com/2cmamm (via Twitter / Scottobear)

8907 – Sunday – 8

I forgot to mention that we picked up Hot Brain last night, and did a little walk-shopping in Barnes and Noble.

My current (one game in) abilities are: (on a 0-120 scale)

• Logic – 118.03
• Math – 120.00
• Memory – 67.16
• Language – 112.50
• Concentration – 60.40

Average Brain temp – 95.618 – red hot… but a lot of room for improvement, especially in the Concentration and Memory Department. They’re pretty fun little logic puzzles.

Hot Pixel is next on my psp game-list.

Sunday was primarily about chores and getting to things that needed doing. My end of things included kitty litter, laundry folding, insurance forms, a letter to bro, amongst others.

Watched the good bits of Night of the Comet and then The Frighteners while folding clothes, etc. Makes things that much more wonderful. Super hot outside, so gardening was kept to the shade or out of the sun as much as possible.

BHK and I took took an all-too-brief excursion to a new candy store that opened about a week ago in North Beach. I suspect it won’t do as well as the other one, even though the older of them keeps banker’s hours at best. He simply has been there longer, and is right on the boardwalk strip. The new store is right where BHK used to work… I got to buy some gummi taperworms where she first IM’ed me about 4 years ago. Hard to believe that was a landmark moment leading to us getting together. Heck, it’s hard to believe we’re well over seven months married, come to think of it. I would never have guessed back then that I’d be living outside of Florida now.

At about the end of Frighteners, Louise and the in-laws swung by to chow down on goodies from our garden. Tina and Doug couldn’t make it as they were pooped from a the road trip.

Pictures of our garden’s bounty – beets, stuffed peppers, peas, green beans, potatoes, squash, zucchini. BHK makes veggies that even a little kid would gladly attack and consume. I didn’t think that I’d like the beets, but they were surprisingly good. I’m still not crazy about leeks.

After supper, we watched Shag with the gang, ate a Klondike bar, and then called it a night. (Side Note – Annabeth Gish was a lot more cute back in the day than in her X-files period)

1 year ago – nearly naked neighbors, gray day, mob supply pic, newt pics,

2 years ago – talked to Arnie’s Sec, newt and graffiti pix, autostitch, wifi theft arrest, reality show premises, j-walk on podcasts, programmer joke, google maps goodies, flightgear, wifi hotspot backpack, my messy office, bear-knocking, sex pred info pages

3 years ago – combos/snausages , wisdom, serving sizes, ramen, Rockford Files, Planetarium pictures, weather, sock thief

4 years ago – call block, snapple, intelligence gathering, Batroc, flashback cartoon, addictive data

5 years ago – oz/floyd connection, pimps at sea, rss feeds start, cat dreams

6 years ago – cej returns, unpacking videos, 1992 tax info, the challenge, corn chowder, kubrick quiz

7 years ago – Rowlf sings, April actually kicks back a few bucks, pondering a new recorder

(via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

Today was pretty full of activity. In a nutshell: 2 more Zagat locations (Davis’ Pub was also in the guide) – Jalapeno’s (outstanding food – limited lunch menu, but the dinner looks amazing Tapas works no matter when) and Sputnik Cafe. (good cocktails and dessert, OK entrees) in between those two (lunch and dinner), we went for a little road trip to Gibson Island between shopping for a couch and our quest for Giant Diet Grape soda. Gibson Isle was a bit of a disappointment, with no Gibson girls in sight… worse yet, it was a private island, so no lookie-looing for BHK and yours truly, dear journal.

Today was the Wedding of Fred to Adam’s mom… supposedly lucky due to the 7/7/7 activity, but I don’t know… hopefully it’ll work for ‘em, but the odds are rough on a couple who have collectively four divorces behind them already. Lots of fireworks due to the abundance of weddings so close to the 4th of July… we still have a boatload to set off for Louise and Adam’s B’day coming up next week.

We *were* successful in locating about a dozen or so diet grape sodas… we’ll miss ’em when they’re discontinued. There is something magical about purple soda that fizzes bright blue… and tastes really, really good for a diet drink. BHK will miss it more than I shall – I’m perfectly content with Diet Cream soda and Diet Cherry/Cola whatever. (Currently, Dr Pepper cherry vanilla is my fave, but BHK is partial to the diet cherry Pepsi) I wonder what medieval man would think of such stuff… too sweet by far, I suspect. I’m still amazed at refrigeration… the easy access to ice and cooling makes life so much more simple.

The couch-quest goes even on… the holy trinity of color/size/design continues to elude us.

Several Groundhogs sighted in the fields during the day, and many will-o-wisp dragonflies at twilight. Oh! that reminds me!

This friendly little guy was crawling up my sleeve yesterday – probably dropped on me from the shade tree. I wonder what sort of bug he is? He was pretty gigantic, maybe as long as my thumb, though not nearly as wide. I like his little “eye-spots” quite a lot… when I gently brushed him off into the parking lot, he didn’t flap his wings – just sort of plummeted to the pavement with an audible smack. I was worried he had been broken as a result, but he seemed perfectly content to walk away as we drove off in the direction of the Kwik-E-Mart.

Since I haven’t uploaded the K-E-M pics yet, have some assorted pictures from the 4th.

Featured are – Bugah with a machine gun, assorted fireworks and the barge, Em, Jimmy, BHK and me, Adam, some wandering girls that know Jimmy and Adam, Flowers from our garden, assorted Bugah-fish-catches, and duckies. Not necessarily in that order. Also visible here.

1 year ago – prepping for keys launch, first pirates sea monster, a Brain in a jar quoting Nietzsche to a Super-intelligent Gorilla, phone breaks, questions-meme,

2 years ago – busy, tiny text, hurricanes gone?, pedometer, one, london explosions, waterspoits, 48 questions

3 years ago – condo bid, There-updated, MORE vizcaya pictures, pelvic thrust stormtrooper, spidey2, @ poll

4 years ago – Frankie, restoration of library, lovejoy, danny, lj-interests, health, baby tats

5 years ago – Newt (</a></b></a>jamacianjungle dreamed that she got to play with him!), palm entry, grim reaper song

6 years ago – wereturtle, moved into new place

7 years ago – wereturtle, moved into new place

(via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

Lots done at work today… a good ending to the week. I have to get with CS first thing on Monday (or after she’s back) about streamlining more processes. I’m pretty pleased with the current learning curve and the gang there thus far.

Outside of work – Autorealm – reminder to self – investigate other uses.

Tonight, we’d planned on a visit to see Sweeney Todd – but the venue wasn’t up to the task of seating us. However, we may make plans make it easier in the future. (Thoroughly Modern Millie may have better odds.) instead, we wandered around Annapolis, had a lovely bite to eat at Davis’ Pub (the onion rings were especially to my liking) and then went to see the latest Die Hard movie. Not bad… took place in Baltimore / DC (sort of a one globby city) and had lots of explosions and beaten up Bruce Willis in it.

We also got to visit the Maryland Kwik-E-Mart – pictures will follow of this nifty bit-o-advertising later in the week. Our Clerks were I. P. Freely, and Mae B. Drunk.

I would really like to get this… (via ectoplasmosis )

During a routine underwater expedition, these unfortunate frogmen were attacked by a giant radioactive octopus! Will their harpoon guns, daggers and pruning shears be enough to defeat this terror of the deep or will they all be eaten alive? Each set includes twelve, 2-1/2″ hard vinyl frogmen and one, 9″ soft vinyl octopus that glows in the dark!

Frogmen vs. Radioactive Octopus

also via ecto –

Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies…

The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany’s Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.

When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women’s clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings.

Count Gottfried von Bismarck Obituary

1 year ago – gamer soap, Christian Democracy myth, death bypasses convictions, ln quiz

2 years ago – Bard’s Tale, bro/snarly, solfeggio, Easter manatee rush, Tropical Storms Cindy and Dennis, heroclix, bro relocating

3 years ago – creepy Vizcaya pictures, cake man, Lego zombies, edible panties with twizzlers, Helped Danny set up website, JLU

4 years ago – harry potter quiz, history returns

5 years ago – bad sleeps, odd dreams, bed frame replaced, stats, LJ scam, villain supply, reading Earth, getting used to bro as neighbor, Scotto factoid poll

6 years ago – tirade, suberic, slinky/cult, evil news

7 years ago – got a nice letter from Christin, Emo Philips (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)