8983- thurs

My office furniture arrived, so I moved into my new office in the “west wing” today. The new office is a little bit smaller and more oddly-shaped than the old one, but placement is good. Two doors from the prez, one from development, and one from the small conference room.


Little Hoff Doll! How cute! How Evil! Clever… wish I’d have thought of it. I think I’m a little more partial to little mr t, however.


Speaking of goodies… One year wedding anniversary is in October… one year is paper for gifts, right? Maybe Zombie Fluxx is part of it this year? It looks like it’ll be released before our date on the 25th.


Why is it that whenever someone has a list to choose a favorite color, orange is often left off?


Yesterday, on the ride home, Chris asked if I was always such a serious person. Does she know me at all? I’m pretty confident that I’ve been a goof in her presence more than a few times… in fact, I thought that my serious discussion had pretty darn goofy undertones.


Two useful sites discovered recently on FF list –

http://www.seeqpod.com/ a quite nice playable music search, and podcrawler.

http://www.traffic.com/Washington-DC-Traffic/Washington-DC-Traffic-Map.htmlnifty traffic source.. works for other cities, too.


1 year ago – Illuminati perfection, venture brothers, aerial photos Miami, voting, heifer.org charity, America’s Most (And Least) Efficient Charities, Affie Jones, stand on your own head for a change

2 years ago – stream of thought, arcade games, newt, tolerance, comics, Danny elfman, tv, newtcam pic, rome, gaming, sheep don’t you know the road, fema issues, bob denver RIP

3 years ago – hurricane home movie, happy to be home, pentagon crash snopes

4 years ago – annoying LL, death, IRC pix, gender genie, toys, sunset, rainy day

5 years ago – Crash Bonsai, sticky song poll

6 years ago – Hammer-Wheel, Beijing, Stephen Foster, Mystery men Hiring, soap hair

7 years ago – Suzy goes to the Clink Geotarget

Lower Case n

BHK is my lower case n. I love you, sweetheart.

This song still makes me pretty dang misty.

Lyrics: (video here)

In a cold and far-off place
There was a lower-case N.
Lonely and cold, she would stare off into space
And it was known that she would cry now and then.

Lower-case N, standing on a hill.
The wind is very still, for the lower-case eh-en…

(occasional, unearthly “oohs” in background now)

And then one day a rocketship
Came racing from the sky.
It landed on the hill and there opened up a door
And somethin’ started comin’ outside…

A lower-case N!
(She’s not lonely anymo-o-re)
They are standing on the hill
(There are two of them for su-u-ure)
The wind is very still
For the lower-case eh-en (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

8980 – Weds

It feels like it should be Thursday. Ah well, it will be, soon enough.

I keep getting demoted to craftsman…ah well, not a bad level to be at, yucata wise.

Went to Mexico restaurant, with BHK and Mother in-law for dinner – BHK still a bit under the weather, but I think that she liked getting out of the house. We talked for a long time with the owner after our meal… he’s a nice guy, and his family owns 10 restaurants across VA-MD. Apparently he grew up not too far from where BHK did, displaced by about 7 years or so. MIL Is surprisingly naive about some things while pretty dang about others… She’s got an odd mix of Metro awareness and old-school unawareness regarding stuff about low income regions and behaviors that make me worry a little bit that she’s working in DC.


Possible plans for Saturday (formatting direct from the email)- Maybe we can drag a few friends along, too. (Maybe right after going to GCOM Annapolis ?)

This Saturday, September 8th, Cheeky Monkey Sideshow returns to the Arlington Cinema ‘n’ Drafthouse for a night of one-of-a-kind entertainment. ~GLASS WALKING and ESCAPES brought to you by MAB! ~MAGIC and MENTALISM with MYSTERION (Mr. Eon)! ~COMEDIC SELF-ABUSE by SWAMI YOMAHMI! ~Sophisticated BURLESQUE artistry by SPECIAL GUEST, KITTY VICTORIAN! Cheeky Monkey Sideshow is a breath-taking yet beautiful cavalcade of the bizarre, the shocking, the grotesque, and the strange. Every show is different, every act unique. A unique form of entertainment that few will ever experience, but none will ever forget. Tickets are only $10 at the door or online. Arlington Cinema ‘n’ Drafthouse
2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington VA
Doors open @ 11:45, Show starts @ 11:55 pm
CHEEKY MONKEY SIDESHOW ~YOU’LL BE AMAZED. YOU’LL BE AMUSED. YOU’LL BE JUST A LITTLE GROSSED OUT.


Other thoughts for the weekend include 3:10 to Yuma and / or Shoot ’em up I suspect the former will be weighted more than the latter for us. I’m probably planning way too much for the weekend.


Per the Blue room

http://www.chick. com/reading/ tracts/1038/ 1038_01.asp

In Jack Chick’s latest, he tells us what happened to the dragons.

The resulting tale plays with the fossil record in approximately the same way an episode of Xena plays with history, but without Renee O’Connor. Alas.

It’s mesmerizing, in its way.


1 year ago

– our house, tiny tent pictures, newt and Danny pix, watching WW, personality quiz thingum, interests collage

2 years ago – helping hand, on call, flickr letters, marine patrol, state of usa, iron scorch, fortune cookie, four rooms, bro, Jake Walk Blues, Brownie’s heck of a job, immersive learning theological worldview, baby jellyfish, library mofo

3 years ago – Weathering Frances, Popular interests, Medicare hike, walkies, RLP, power out, storm journals, Broward, Ivan coming

4 years ago – photo Friday, lj tweaks, FMM turnover, Dubai postcard, old palm pix, optical illusions, horror, band-aids

5 years ago – custom clix concepts, ford bails on electric cars, onelook, recycled bottle paradise, rainy day=unbreakable, poop

6 years ago – That crazy Anne Heche interview, and pygmies are real!

7 years ago – silly answering machine message, happy music, Frank SinatraGeotarget (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

Lower Case n

BHK is my lower case n. I love you, sweetheart.

This song still makes me pretty dang misty.

Lyrics: (video here)

In a cold and far-off place
There was a lower-case N.
Lonely and cold, she would stare off into space
And it was known that she would cry now and then.

Lower-case N, standing on a hill.
The wind is very still, for the lower-case eh-en…

(occasional, unearthly “oohs” in background now)

And then one day a rocketship
Came racing from the sky.
It landed on the hill and there opened up a door
And somethin’ started comin’ outside…

A lower-case N!
(She’s not lonely anymo-o-re)
They are standing on the hill
(There are two of them for su-u-ure)
The wind is very still
For the lower-case eh-en