8994 – mon

Relaxing nighttime plans for BHK and me the coming week or so ahead:

Yo-yo Girl Cop, The Number 23, and a few rousing games of Penguin Soccer, Martian Chess and Zamboni Wars over popcorn should set us right. Tucking into bed early so we can be up for tomorrow’s Bluegrass Festival.

BHK has been excelling at boardgames lately, especially territory types like Othello(Reversi), Ponte del Diavolo , Just 4 Fun and as always, Pente(we both seem to prefer the 2 or 3-capture variant Keryo-Pente). I still am partial to Hexxagon, Hey-That’s my Fish, and Carcassone H&G (She also is superb at those) – I’m really beginning to dig War of the Roses, which I wouldn’t mind tweaking a bit into an Icehouse/treehouse game.

Speaking of games… Talisman is back? I wonder if they fixed some of the unbalancing aspects, or if they’re remaining true to the original.


Virtually no homeless issues in North Beach… mainly because there’s no support system here… however, I’ve noticed that there are many, many tent cities under the bridges in DC, especially near to the subway track zones. I had my first experience with a guy coming onto the subway, and doing the “may I have your attention, would someone please give me 25 cents so I can get a bus at the next stop?” – I hadn’t seen that since riding the bus in Broward / Dade.


Trip to the doc implies some work to be done. Dentally, I need a mouthful of fillings. Elsewhere, I need to work on my weight, my allergies, my back and leg.

All things in time – Got a few fillings yesterday I need to do 2 or 3 more visits. the bridge and cracked tooth will be dealt with in January.


Random find. A solar-powered bible. Perfect for the Christian Castaway, I guess!


Oh, come on… now the smeller is blamed rather than the smelly? Stinky is in the nose of the sniffer? I’ll leave out the almost obligatory sci-fi / gaming convention comment.

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8992 – sat

Bluegrass festival was fun, save for some folks seated in front of us that preferred to have a loud, beer-fueled discussion about the bands on stage rather than just drinking and listening.

Highlights were – Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain – Carrie has some crazy windswept hair going on, and is sponsored by Moon Pies ! Free Moon Pie at Bluegrass fest? How was there not a riot? Most everyone (save for the drunkie mentioned earlier)

Blue Highway put on the best performance, I think, though Larry says (and I’ll buy his expertise on this) that Mountainheart was the most technically able.

Country Gentlemen and Good Deale put on a fine show, as well. Lots of fantastic dobro work, especially.

There’s something to be said for groups not big enough for a massive following to team up and bring a whole day of music to the area. A pity Alison Krauss wasn’t there – if she had been, I think it’d have just been icing on the cake. I guess that’s the price of fame… you can tour on your own.

BHK caught this fellow on camera – a true fan.
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The chucklehed below was the aforementioned drunkie talker
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Assorted unfiled – will come back to mention sprite lady, delmarva guy, and so on.

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Moon pies.. nom nom nom. Other foodies the gang and/or I had were french fries, crabby pretzel, diet mt dew and hot dogs.
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last but not least, the kitties, for anyone missing orange and black. 🙂

1 year ago – wedding announcement, hacking the psp, skybar, justice

2 years ago – choco chippie cookies from the great mazinga, 2nd life, python quiz, newt and I horseplay pic, gave RS the smoking image, lj security issues, ADP vs RI, morning picture

3 years ago – skeeters are coming, Approached to hoax, enron should be glad it’s not Chinese, bro’s gf in jail, Colee contacts me

4 years ago – cej gab, goober and nims, Bottle Imps, Napellus, Salamander’s Feather, Screech Owl, Sycomancy, Tiromancy, sex x-rays, pass this on, first night of 24 hour call, universe POVs, super leaping dancers (my standing leap is now about a foot, guinness, anti-spam

5 years ago – rave, dave, mageknight

6 years ago – Ziito, Vulkon, and helpful hints re: gremlins

7 years ago – applelard comes out of the Bon Jovi closet, present reminder, and federal spending thoughts Geotarget

(via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)