9005 fri

Calvert County fair is this weekend… I don’t know if I’m up to it, but we can surely check it out.

I haven’t eaten anything more solid than blueberry yogurt since Tuesday. I think that I’ll be up for something with a bit more texture by the time the weekend is over, though. Tonight’s meal of soft noodley-cheesy-tomato-saucy goodness was just right. Salad was a little hard on the throat, but not bad!

Watched Revenge of The Pink Panther with the in-laws and Louise… we quickly crashed out.


Hey! Cthulhu is in the Chesapeake Bay! There’s how we can get Colin to visit! 🙂


Back at work, and Nurse Newton is already back to slacking in the sunbeams.
newtcam - looking for an opening. newtcam92807 - mama opened it up, now bored


1 year ago – nelson sings nilsson, bro foreshadows his current environ, out with gabby and todd, heard from vicki, scary storybook pics, kitty, daily episodes, planning weekend with bhk

2 years ago – put in for the condo, gorilla comic, mugato toy, headstone,esoteric path, international tort, state resources across the board

3 years ago – bro bails, Orks, games removed from the system, walkies pictures, sky railroads, post apoc

4 years ago – Monkeys, Ukes make you brainy, Super-scotto, cracked 100 vamps, dervishes, cartoons, Stridulous.

5 years ago – mary gross, new PG album

6 years ago – robotech, poem, kegel, evil twin, horseman wallpaper, newtcam, enlightenment, Steve Irwin, adipocere, Mango

7 years ago – work drags, missing folks, time-variance/generation gap Geotarget

9004 thur

OK, enough of this mess – I’ve gone to the doctor – the muscle aches have mercifully abated, but it’s even harder to constrict my throat than before… head is pounding, and I’ve been laying down so much that my back was starting to really hurt. Now I’m on Amoxicillin 500mg 3x a day for a week… that should slap this bug on the butt.


BHK picked up our pottery! Her mug is amazing… I must put pictures up of how it turned out – the green and purple tones are perfect. I’m also very pleased at how well my little volcano board / icehouse stash box turned out, too! The colors got a lot more vivid, post-firing.


On the way home, spied a new neighborhood kitten – maybe 2-3 weeks old… the mama was right around the side of the house, but it took all my might (in my already weakened state) to say no to a pickup of a little black and white tuxedo before we spotted her.


Today is my Brother’s 35th birthday. We’re sending him a copy of Fluke, which I think that he’ll enjoy quite a bit. I wanted to send him some pin-up type goodies too, but that may or may not get his whole shipment confiscated.


Watched the season Premieres of My Name is Earl, Ugly Betty and The Office. Also watcher the mockumentary Werner Herzog – Incident at Loch Ness… not so great.

Also saw the Bionic Woman… I have a long-time fondness for the old one, and this new one by comparison was pretty weak.

Personal Biases against –

  • I don’t like nanobots as a plot device. Boring.
  • Too much pseudo-Matrix type combat
  • Terrible dialogue
  • inclusion of obligatory hacker-character
  • “Pleasantly goofy” factor is gone

Possible Pluses –

  • I like the “Prototype Bionic Loon” part
  • Maybe Bigfoot? Unlikely.
  • No Lee Majors Crossovers. Probably. Though I’d be for it if he wore a red track suit and a cheesy 70s moustache.

I’m pretty impressed with LJ’s new snapshot link (Third part of this entry ) – it works especially well with wikipedia links. Interesting that you can see “similar searches” … not sure where current hurricane conditions in the Atlantic have to do with hello kitty, but who can say why a person clicks somewhere? It works especially well with art/scan communities that post links for dial-up folks… just hover and peek – spares a lot of lj-cut effort.


1 year ago – 2 nights/28 days, Legion, CW merger of WB and CBS?, cracking walnuts, Gilmore girls, FL/MD walkabouts, Citgo Venezuelan

2 years ago – bro 33 skipout, condo, newspaper poll, 3 irritations, 3 pleasures, $-boost

3 years ago – Post Jeanne patio-pix, leftover reptile-ness, free-flow, Greek/roman souls, more Rice rant, Warhammer PC game, 3 week power outages

4 years ago – flyme & prop2 on the way out, planet-eating star, Levi-Strauss no longer in the US, wedding spite, metamorphosis

5 years ago – gravity / electromagnetism effects, dial tones, headlines, PG freaky looking, Seattle whores, fires and ladders, brain as symbiotic parasite, Issues with the Finn, dead net, friday 5, WC, cloud and rain,The Gnome

6 years ago – Velveteen Rabbit, neoteric , lighthouse walkies, WS-41st sonnet, dream, warning myself

7 years ago – squids!, work, last meals, hidden post, bro 28 Geotarget (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

9003 wed

transcribed and backdated for catch up.

Holy cow – Last night was nuts. Fever dreams of being compressed and spread out over a latticework of red and purple circles – I felt like I was a wad of pizza dough, being roasted and smashed… stretched and smeared while being roasted from inside. Combine suffocation with the feeling of having your joints twisted.

It sucked. Sure, not so bad now that it’s passed, but heck… that may’ve been the worst fever/fever dream I’ve ever had.

BHK and the boys have been sweethearts and help immensely.

Caught up with out Tivo’ed Kitchen Nightmares – both British and USA versions. Also bagged some Eureka, the new House, too. There are benefits of being so wrecked that you can’t read a book or surf the web properly, after all!

I’m still of the opinion that UK’s Ramsey is far different than the USA one, but the American gross-out factor is winning me over a bit. Cripes… I don’t know why they don’t just shut a place down entirely if they get caught serving food that could kill a person.

Turning Points is dangerously similar to my concept for Pumpkin… I may need to revise my maze-y aspect to the game. Worse yet, it may be a better game! Pumpkin may go into a fundamental rethink at this point.


1 year ago – I want to be Dr. Killenger, late night bro call, pancakes,

2 years ago – bro, bullfighting – with milk, peas, newt pic, king tut
3 years ago – elbo room with fembots, publicity, metaVNC, Nushu dies, retro, 939,000people are without power, Asian Soul, electoral votes, Anne Ricelambastes on amazon / gaiman’s reply

4 years ago – Tree, Dr. Who, work, man eating plants, fairy tales, tarot, schizophrenia

5 years ago – cat/dog mummies, color illusion, headache, palm doodles

6 years ago – battle of New Orleans, enemies, grumbly, Cathi & me at the beach

7 years ago – pv entriesGeotarget
(via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

9002 – tues

I’m feeling a little sick today – sore joints, sore throat, only on the right-hand side. Getting chills – I rarely get cold. (edit – I’m full blown destroyed. by the time I got home, I could barely walk or function. Severe fever, muscle aches. went to bed on arrival, and burned up all night)


Surprised that nobody commented on the video. I may start putting more in there, depending on what happens where.
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Also forgot to post the giant sponge bob in the hay maze. He’s about 25 feet tall.


BHK spotted Cranium Triple Triumph at target – I wonder how hard it’d be to convert to icehouse? (Rules here) Maybe a variant, at least, using stacking and mono-colors.

She also brought home lots of fun loot for Halloween. Orange/mango candy corn, Dwight Schrute fridge magnets, and a cool back-lit pirate silhouette!


Yesterday was national punctuation day… flying blind let me know a bit late… I was fortunate to slip in an interrobang, but didn’t get to use some great marks that are non-standard, but highly useful –

asterism ( )
index/fist ( )
therefore sign ( )
lozenge ( )
interrobang ( )
irony mark ( ؟ )
reference mark ( )
sarcasm mark


The quiz that’s making the rounds… it looks like all the numbers are intact… or at least they’re in sequence. I wonder how many there were from the beginning?

1. Do you have a tattoo? Nope… not against ‘em, just haven’t thought of anything I want permanently on my body.

2. How old are you? 38, going on 39. Some days I feel much older, others, far younger.

3. Are you single or taken? I’m married, and quite taken with her.

4. Fish? I do like fishing… though I use it as an excuse to just let my mind wander and focus, rather than a means to eat. If I had to, I could survive with a net, line and hook. I wouldn’t want to, but could do it.

5. Do you dream in color? I certainly remember them in color… I also recall scents, textures and words spoken to me at different times. Whether or not that’s my mind filling in the blanks after the fact or not… well, I don’t know. Does it make a difference?

6. Ever seen a corpse? More than a few. In person, I’ve seen people in both deathbeds and coffins. Thankfully, usually they appeared to be inert and whole.

7. Hipsters or Hillbillies? I like ’em both, though I suspect that I’ll stereotype hipsters more rapidly.

8. How did we meet? most folks that are reading this have met me via LJ – I discovered livejournal via Ana Voog, over 7 years ago. I’ve reconnected with old friends, met new ones, and met my wonderful wife here. For all of it’s shortcomings, I’m quite thankful for livejournal.

9. What’s your philosophy on life and death? the former is too short, and the latter too long.

10. If you could do anything with me, and have no one know, what would it be? (this is the most hurtin’ internet question ever.) Depends. No matter who, I’d like to have good, clean fun and have everyone enjoy themselves.

11. Do you trust the police? As an institution, yes, for the most part. I believe that every group has good and bad people in it.

12. Do you like musicals? Depends on the music. I like a few, but I think the majority of them are pretty stinky.

13. What is your fondest memory of me? What’s my fave memory of me? (since I’m not really answering anyone else directly) Hard to say, but I really love all my time spent with BHK.

14. If you could change anything about yourself what would it be? The usual… magically in better health/shape.

15. Would you cheat ? Nope.

16. What are you wearing? Clothes, skin, fat, and hair.. .probably some assorted dust mites and germs, too.

17. Have you ever peed in a pool? Sure, I was 6 once.

18. Would you hide evidence for me if I asked you to? Talking to myself again, I’d probably go with I thought was the best move. Unlikely to incriminate myself by hiding stuff.

19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? I’d spend as much time with BHK as possible.

20. Which do you prefer – short or long hair? I vary… I’m enjoying the short hair on me right now, as it’s more comfy and managable – on others, it depends on the situation. Some folks look great in long hair, others look better with a shaved head.

21. What’s your favorite day of the week? Saturday. Least responsibility, maximum fun.

22. What’s your favorite color? I tend towards Orange/Rust colors, but am also a fan of forest greens

23. If you could bring back anyone that has passed, who would it be? I’m not sure… whoever could make the most positive change in the world. (To my liking, of course)

24. Tell me one interesting/odd fact about you? What haven’t I mentioned in 7 years of keeping a journal… I tend to evaluate things from a slightly off-center mark at times. Rather than looking at a logo, I tend to see white space first (or the material a sign is made of) / the color second sort of thing.

25. What was your first impression of me? My first memory of self awareness is from 4th grade or so… I remember having a strange “moment of clarity” where my mental picture just sort of clicked into place – I became very aware of the shape of my hands and that wearing clothes had an actual sensation… I think that’s where I first started to dislike wearing socks.

26. Have you ever done drugs? plenty of legal ones… I’m very partial to some specific toxins – caffiene, sugar, salt and starches.

27. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you? Well, looks like I did!


1 year ago – RPS, itunes rss, anvil, flavored corn, yosh!, bill clinton verbal smackdown

2 years ago – museum walkabout pics, lj TorT

3 years ago – hurricane jeanne, scotto doppler, pookies, miss cleo, Aztec soul

4 years ago – big ear dog, spam fraud, gyromancy, I help cej with programming

5 years ago – mush, work drama, leopard man, pd supers

6 years ago – av, wookie, allergy lj poll, hoboes are hated, cej poopy, philo poll- plato’s my guy, lj meme tracker (currently down)

7 years ago – CEJ, frag speak, jen’s poochie, work lapse Geotarget (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)