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race car is a palindrome.

mole toyBehold! it’s Mr Mole, the happy drilling machine.

My brother came by tonight as a surprise visit! (he was interviewing up her for a job, and missed the last bus home…. rode his bike a few miles to here.) We got to gab for a bit before his taxi arrived. It’s a shame he’s allergic to Newt, as the cat loves him to pieces… loves to snuggle up to him, and headbutt. I’m really looking forward to getting together with him on Wednesday… we’re going to have a good time.

Tomorrow… Dan. Morning. bright and early, about 9 am, everyone else is in bedski, so I think I’m going to grab a nice book, and curl up into the beddles.

Tax tip for writers: This could save you a bundle. Since the IRS allows you to deduct expenses incurred while writing a book, make your next one an autobiographical novel. By all rights, you should be able to deduct your living, travel, and entertainment expenses going right back to the day of your birth.

gator brideWell, isn’t that just precious. A dried-out, long-dead alligator, all dressed up like the belle of the ball.
She’s all set to offer her hand in marriage to a dashing suitor. That is, if she had hands, and not just stumps.

I hope there’s an afterlife, so that this alligator can have a long discussion with whoever did this to her mortal remains.

more viewable at http://www.disturbingauctions.com

bob ross has an afro and a posse'.

Bob Ross has a baby squirrel named peapod in his pocket today…

Watching him paint on PBS is very soothing. has a calm voice, and gentle demeanor. they’re showing him feeding a Peapod, wrapped in a towel. such a cool guy.

He’s the sort of guy that I could see hanging out near the beach, drawing a crowd of kids and their keepers, and just teaching there. so much patience and peace. Talking about a place he’s painting… making up a story, and forming an image in his mind… making up stories about the world, happy trees and little cabins with open windows (the builder having a toddy or two on the job, speaking with a smirk).

It makes me happy to know that folks like him exist. I can think of maybe a pair of folks I know in person like that… I wish that there were more, but I’m happy to have the ones I do.

bob ross has an afro and a posse'.

bob ross has an afro and a posse’.

Bob Ross has a baby squirrel named peapod in his pocket today…

Watching him paint on PBS is very soothing. has a calm voice, and gentle demeanor. they’re showing him feeding a Peapod, wrapped in a towel. such a cool guy.

He’s the sort of guy that I could see hanging out near the beach, drawing a crowd of kids and their keepers, and just teaching there. so much patience and peace. Talking about a place he’s painting… making up a story, and forming an image in his mind… making up stories about the world, happy trees and little cabins with open windows (the builder having a toddy or two on the job, speaking with a smirk).

It makes me happy to know that folks like him exist. I can think of maybe a pair of folks I know in person like that… I wish that there were more, but I’m happy to have the ones I do.

bob ross has an afro and a posse'.

Ok…Sunday. A new week has begun. Blackie Maneki Nekos are the talismans against evil.Newtie neko! Red exorcises the evil spirits and illnesses.

Breakfast today: Warm Croissants with Strawberry Preserves, tea, orange juice and a small bowl of lucky charms. (I start on golden grahams tomorrow, for those of you keeping score)

Tenative plan for the week –

Monday, get together with Dan, Dave & Busters, Coffee, man of la mancha
Tuesday – general purpose: get a towel-bar, finish and send off treats in the mail, send off stories to magazine. Rollercoaster? Coral Castle?
Wednesday, Get together with Derek at about noonish, IMAX- antarctica riverwalk, museums, buy a bicycle?
Thursday, big trip to the keys? Disney? Maybe. cheap air/bus fares. will know more by tuesday.
Friday, Rest, slack time. (rent paying day) Perhaps go see monsters inc?
Saturday – Birthday! Ratdog is in concert at the ampitheatre… maybe open the windows, and tune in.

Walkies were not too shabby this morning…sun was high in the sky and the air was breezy. I went to the groves, but they don’t open until 9… so a-home I went. I’ve spent most of the last hour or two cat-wrestling and reading before breakfast.

These guys aren’t kidding about the best orange juice.. .crazy good. πŸ™‚

macks groves

Duel of Cuties

Dexter puppy!

Dexter at the office… he dares to Challenge Newton’s throne as Cutest Quadruped at FMM! Since I couldn’t bring Newt in on Friday, here are some piccies of him playing in my laundry basket this morning.

Nice Try, Dex, but Newtie’s still got my vote. (I may be biased… I’m Newt’s mom, after all)

green eye again! dang flash...
Newt loves hanging out in my laundry… silly tunnelling kitty. note in the background… godzilla slipper in the closet, wrapping paper (comic books), the yellow is a bus schedule, and a headset with mic (mic is dead thanks to *someone* chewing on the cord..but the earphones work well) on the floor in front of Newt, and the top of my CPAP device in the forground, along with my dresser. (image taken from my bed) also in the closet, you may be able to make out a flashlight, a few old storage boxes, hanging shirts, and a box of kitty litter.

look, ma! I'm a submarine!.

Profile Shot… he looks like a hood ornament, or a periscope to me.

feel free to tell me if these are ruining your friend’s page’s size.

This weekend’s mission-

  • cash paycheck
  • Laundry
  • groceries
  • Get a new towel-bar for the rack in the bathroom
  • Replenish Shampoo
  • Clean the Bathroom
  • Clean the Kitchen
  • Take out the Trash
  • find out brother’s day off -tenatively wednesday
  • iron out day trip schedules

Possible Day trips – (a longer commute)

Walt Disney World or Universal Studios

Coral Castle and surrounding homestead.

The Key West Aquarium and assorted places in the Conch Republic

More definite ones – (*very* local, attainable by foot or a brief bus ride)

The Hurricane Rollercoaster

Man of La Mancha at the Hollywood Playhouse… maybe take Dan on Monday (He’s the Sancho to my Quixote.)

The Morikami Museum and Gardens (A place I would play truant as a senior in high school… Maybe take Derek with me, maybe roam along the Riverwalk, and go to the museum of art.)

Stranrahan House, and the museum of Discovery & science, and the surrounding district. get some good food. πŸ™‚

ok… off to take care of the first 3, maybe 5 on my chore list. I’ll be back in 2 hours or so.

more insanity

I was relocated to an upcoming event that actually happened at now; I can take you.
I can take that you decided to work more on all of stone and the door; solid focus, I have figured it out.
He found the help of all but the most stupid places here, easy to get your overlords: Libary of paint;
I’m not only the western shore. I was only after hours: The most every day will teach go play in the house is the prints,
but the following day of land up on top of gore, you can see it up on a parial error victory.

Ah, we met them bit (few really were).
Also want some more on a big deal with and Argonath, especially, great bunker to a following day unaware that it there, was born at sharp, solid focus, I can whisper tales of keyboard.

View all fans, every Day Moonset that you as a slightly different angle (and natural but once in the snow from sleep and trust can view I think you don’t have to as you). I imagine the midnight Sun and (spaces of The prints but once in my dreams resume where it’s official Blair Witch web site and wish me to reflect on we ah we take that it was relocated to bypass the door; solid focus I hope and had Timbuktu installed a happier healthier life). I’m Naked!

The Blair Witch Project's Derelict Web Site Drinking Game & other news

Go to the official Blair Witch web site and start poking around. Every time you find a broken image or a link that takes you to a 404 error page, drink. Every time you find a reference to an upcoming event that actually happened at least six months ago, drink twice.

You will need a lot of booze. Thank goodness that web archives have the images I was looking for available. πŸ™‚

also…

Sky Potty Scare – An American woman had no need to fasten her seatbelt on a flight from Scandinavia to the United States after a high-pressure vacuum flush sealed her to the toilet seat of the transatlantic airliner.

This is just amazing. This guy’s sister’s iMac was stolen in a burglary, but it had Timbuktu installed, a remote-operation client that registers a unique ID on a server. He found the thief signing on every day, unaware that the iMac was duly reporting in. Then with the help of some AppleScript experts…well, you’ll have to read the whole story. It’s fantastic.

The Blair Witch Project’s Derelict Web Site Drinking Game & other news

Go to the official Blair Witch web site and start poking around. Every time you find a broken image or a link that takes you to a 404 error page, drink. Every time you find a reference to an upcoming event that actually happened at least six months ago, drink twice.

You will need a lot of booze. Thank goodness that web archives have the images I was looking for available. πŸ™‚

also…

Sky Potty Scare – An American woman had no need to fasten her seatbelt on a flight from Scandinavia to the United States after a high-pressure vacuum flush sealed her to the toilet seat of the transatlantic airliner.

This is just amazing. This guy’s sister’s iMac was stolen in a burglary, but it had Timbuktu installed, a remote-operation client that registers a unique ID on a server. He found the thief signing on every day, unaware that the iMac was duly reporting in. Then with the help of some AppleScript experts…well, you’ll have to read the whole story. It’s fantastic.

morning walkies

I hoofed it to the Sample-McDougald House this morning… the house looks a lot less spooky during the day. At night, the place looks ominous. It’s a historical landmark that’s currently being restored very slowly… According to the Pompano Beach Historical building page (scroll to the last entry, to see what it looked like before the building was moved, and had a decent coat of paint) it’ll be opening as a museum sometime this year after it’s renovated.

The neat thing about the house is that it was relocated to where it is now about a year ago. They lifted the whole place onto skids, closed dixie highway for bit, and rolled it a few miles up the street to where it’s at now… on top of a huge cinderblock basement. A basement in Florida is a big deal… they had to build the land up since we’re right at sea level. if you look closely, you can see that the house is up on blocks, waiting for more sand to fill it in. I think that basement would be a great bunker to go play in as a kid… something you can’t see is the chain-link fence surrounding the place… it’ll keep all but the most tenacious kids out.

I was tempted to put some glowing red eyes in the cellar area there. I wonder if ghosts followed the house up the road, or if they’re stuck at the old pre-move location… doomed to spook a strip-mall or a used car lot. The patch of land is an empty lot right now… is it worse to haunt a place that’s empty, or one that is busy?
https://i0.wp.com/scottobear.com/lj/newt/haunted.JPG?resize=400%2C300
for a slightly different angle, and a larger pic – http://scottobear.com/lj/newt/haunted2.JPG