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8924 – sun

Best word about current media frenzy – Potterdämmerung. That is *perfect*. I figure that I’ll get around to reading it eventually, but I’ll blaspheme by using the public library (or if BHK wants to own a copy, I’ll read hers when she’s done.) I don’t really care who lives or who dies, but I am interested in seeing how it all wraps up. I’m almost more interested in knowing what the “next big thing” will be, now that this is essentially all over; not counting the remaining movies, spin-offs, comics and whatnot.

We had a nice, luxuriously casual post-party day.

Originally, we intended to brunch with Cyn, but it seems that Joss doesn’t have a Sunday brunch… besides, we’re all sleepyheads anyhow. (Plus, Cyn was shaking off the effects of her prior-night’s festivities.)

Instead, we opted to head to the new Jasper’s (sort of a Bennigan’s-type place), and munch some lunch. It was a mixed bag, but mostly good, I think. The bar area has 12 hypnotically eye-attracting TVs… even if just golf is showing on-air. I was more distracted by the pseudo-southwestern-indian rhino-sculpture with the bright red tail. Unfortunate choice of color for that region, as Cyn’s first thought was urzbeeubvq, and mine was nany svfghyn. Hover over the text or use rot-13 to translate.

Apparently whenever we three get together, there’s a common conversational theme that tends to crop up. I will not be linking to the terms Filthy Sanchez, Tony Danza, Cleveland Steamer, Dutch Oven or Satchmo… but if you do search for them, I’ll just say it’s not safe for work. (see the prior paragraph’s last six words or so for a starter concept.

The food varied in quality – the veggie burger was probably my favorite, after the sweet potato. Crab dip was not the best, and that’s going to be tough for ’em, given that this is crab country. The partner visited our table and asked how everything was…. and we gave a lot of compliments and a fair amount of criticism. I think that he appreciated our input, and that they’ll do very well.

Since I haven’t uploaded the rhino picture yet, here’s a honeymoon photo of me in touristy-black socks & shorts, golfing with a gorilla, and BHK being beautiful in St. Augustine. I love that pic of her… it just makes me smile every time I look at her.

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BHK and I watched Apocalypto across three houses, due to assorted cat-sitting duties for Tigger, Kiki and Chai – and polished off the last of it in our living room while munching on leftover party food. I really liked it. The story was really secondary to the setting and activity inside. The costume designer did a phenominal job, and if you get the dvd, check out “the making of” section. There were some moments that could’ve been scripted better, but the visuals were absolutely beautiful. I really liked that all of the actors were unknown to me – it made it much easier for me to take the characters as they were, rather than “that’s the Rock, and Robin Williams, and Robert DeNiro!” Definately the best art direction that I can remember seeing in a film recently.

We never did get around to playing lunch money or Chez goth – we’ll learn with Amy tomorrow! (if she doesn’t prefer to play pirates, or video games) – I hear she’s got a giant shark to trot out for our next battle.

New games BHK and I have or will be getting in the near future, in a loose order of when we’ll be playing ’em:

(I’ve also started a freebie account at superdupergames – mainly to try out online ice house sprawl – maybe BHK will start hitting it like we did with pente.net lots of stuff to choose from!)

  • We may get a treehouse die depending on how we get our pyramids.
  • you can play with a regular d6 – 1 tip, 2 swap, 3 hop, 4 dig, 5 aim, 6 wild
  • Stonehenge (5 games), and If I dig it.. (and why wouldn’t I? Check out the production diary) the Stonehenge Expansion (3 more games)
  • Polarity (thanks to keethrax)
  • 1 year ago – postcard, tiny Tarzan, MW network, golden age red tornado, Stevie wonder sesame street , comic book eras

    2 years ago – Books added to palm, Australian link, Bus station security, Apollo Mission, HTML cleaner, Google lj friend map, geek quiz, looking forward, Friday fine

    3 years ago – Mango, Spyware, Pi Approximation, Look out, Ghost tour

    4 years ago – Sam Jack, Ghosts, MRI, filters

    5 years ago – dreams, sounds, guns, action comics #1, hello kitty stress test, bike named, infinity

    6 years ago – Cohort, fwap, morning speech quiz, coloring game, kitty cookies,sunflower bread, web indexes, English language, Olestra conspiracy

    7 years ago – X-men with Dan, Robb’s Radio, went to Hops, April reading my LJ Geotarget

    8818 – sat

    Went with BHK to visit Amy and her family at a nearby flyball event. The dogs were adorable and seemed to be having a really good time. Strange to see an event with such a wide variety of breeds.

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    Stumbled across Woodbine (at the juncture of the Patapsco River, the B&O Railroad, and the road that runs north from Lisbon to Winfield, Maryland on Liberty Road (Maryland Route 26) and through to Westminster, Maryland. The original road from Baltimore to Frederick runs just north of Lisbon, following a slight ridge line westward halfway to Woodbine (the road was finally paved in the 1960s). This was the original trail that existed before the National Road was built (the road that runs through Lisbon).

    Rebel calvary crossed the Patapsco River at Woodbine and at Hoods Mill, just a few miles eastward on the river and the B&O Railroad scouting the Union Army that was on its way to the Battle of Gettysburg. The main road at that time ran just west of the existing road and up the west side of a creek that runs south and that joins with the Patapsco River just 100 yards west of the existing road. That original road, now partly unused runs north 100 yards from the river and then eastward to join up with the existing road today. There was no bridge at that time, just a ford in the river.

    The town straddles the Patapsco River both north (into Carroll County) and South (into Howard County). In the 1920s and 1930s the town had a large canning factory on the Carroll County side of the river . There was another small canning factory, from the turn of the century, run by water power west of Woodbine at the foot of New Port Hill. Remains of the factory still exist and the sluice where water came to run the machinery is still visible in the wooded area below New Port Hill leading north to the dam, no longer existing.

    Just north 300 yards and west of the existing road was a wormseed distillery, where wormseed oil was steam-distilled during the 1930s and 1940s; this small factory was later converted into a tomato and corn canning factory.

    (added to wikipedia)


    I guess I have a lot of accents? Continue reading 8818 – sat

    8815 friday – four-twenty, duuuuude!

    Quickie – Spent the bulk of today at work prepping for the grand opening of the tiki bar. (Cyn sums it up nicely here)

    Speaking of Cyn, she gave us Loreena McKennitt tickets for Tuesday! Too bad Kev isn’t nearby.. he’d love to go.

    BHK feeling under the weather last night – tucked in early. I tried to get work done, but that DNS issue horked those plans but good. Upside, she’s feeling mucho better now, so our trip to visit Amy should still be AOK.

    I’m going to be attending a seminar on metallurgy and geological studies with BHK, CB, LB, TM and the spaghetti lady. (ie: Some party being held for VIPs from the jewelry store) All of the aforementioned came over to our house last night for pasta, and to watch Borat and Matchstick Men. Food was good, and the movies were fun (Matchstick Men was interestingly acted, though predictable, plotwise).

    DRAGON and DUNGEON to Cease Publication – The license with Wizard of the Coast is being allowed to lapse, by mutual agreement. WotC will be moving to an online model of providing D&D material, but further details are unavailable. While I haven’t been fond of Paizo’s product and haven’t read either magazine in years, it’s kind of sad to see these magazines go. The last issues will be cover dated September 2007. I really liked that in the old days there were all kinds of fun game inserts, like snit’s revenge.

    Unlocked all of the “utilities” in WTF – still about 5 games left to go.


    1 year ago – re:grammy, getting warmer, ad-levels in lj, sesame street, greedy greedy, politics, alzheimer’s

    2 years ago – there.com still the same, random objects, little red munkee, swat monkey picture, steadfastness, bad breath, Lunsford bill passes, Detective won’t stop seeking justice

    3 years ago – big brain better, no dice with GP, goof gallery of life, Man eats own toes, online commerce

    4 years ago – 420 Easter, evil thought

    5 years ago – palm update, bro being good, cats & dogs, Phantom patriot, little red munkee expands

    6 years ago – Tired, Cheese crackers, warm fuzziesGeotargetVisitor Map

    8746 – Sunday

    Breakfast with Tina, and then Amy, Bhk and I went to Annapolis again, this time, we saw Ghost Rider! It was a fun movie, if weak in a lot of areas. Good job of camp + comic-book scary. I made the same observations to BHK that Graypumpkin did here, where he also recounts the bizarre synchronicity between north beach an austin life.

    (points of Honda Element, Orange-ish and Blackish- kitties, disease, mexican food and loving mates in particular)


    Squirrel Tracks by our bridge! They have since turned to water, and remixed nicely.
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    1 year ago – compusa saga continues, C&C generals, Li’l Bit 6!, song meme, newtcam up,

    2 years ago – Lil Bit #5!, basketball w/danny, netflix du jour, loonatics 2.0

    3 years ago – There 2.0, stress

    4 years ago – expected last day at FMM, web-subscribers, barbie sex, Nordis hoses me.

    5 years ago – Newt wakies, proxo, palm entry, haiku/ D&D class alignment

    6 years ago – SOP, Territorial, haiku combatGeotargetVisitor Map

    8745 – Saturday –

    Tonight is the sleepover with Amy and Tina!

    After a long comedy of errors catching up with Tina-bo-beena, we finally arrived at the HQ to watch Jackass 2 of all things. It was funny, in a sort of “what the heck kind of nimrods” kind of way… but I did like a few of the sight gags a bit.. the boxing-glove valentine in particular was pretty dang funny.

    We went to Annapolis and walked around a bit – saw the Alex Haley Monument, and window-shopped at a few stores. We intended to see Ghost Rider today, but our timing was off. However, Sushi at Joss makes everything better. Even mo’ betta’ was that Amy surprised us and bought supper!

    Some photos from Annapolis – Aforementioned Haley Monument, dogma graffiti, state capitol, Ducks, and sundry other sights.

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    1 year ago – lego service, lion roar, LS left, misc linkies, nccic, yeti beware sign, (fo)-chief’s letter

    2 years ago – Movies, backup tech training, miss mcdonald, themed fonts, stinky, fear of physics, captain’s blog

    3 years ago – client crapped out, slow awakening, urge to box, comet collisions, Planet Osiris

    4 years ago – early to bed, doctor thoughts, Politi-talk

    5 years ago – Pym, argument about writing, haiku, I look like jupiter, pink for vboys, blue for girls, they have a word for it

    6 years ago – more crazy haiku, profession of love, seeking a new gig, tough dreams, gooterGeotargetVisitor Map

    8744 – yikes,! entered to catch uppify

    Friday in a Nutshell –

    Amy Visited tonight – late and waited a long time… Tina and the folks couldn’t catch up but we had yummy mac and cheese, made with basil ziti and mixed stuff (spinach and tomato) I highly recommended eating bhk’s mac & cheese. it’s goo-ood! After supper, we played fluxx and watched Shark Boy & Lava girl.

    Good excuse to clean house. (BHK is a whirlwind of soap and suds!)


    1 year ago – eye close poll, work bail, boosh, canal discovery, compusa check?, gg

    2 years ago – Jill Gone, BK & GO, JLU, Newt’s treat, mel-fade begins

    3 years ago – Scotto on the enchanted path, bigfoot conference, Florida photos, Newt on his back

    4 years ago – mickey gas mask, donkey kong jr, google bought blogger, mere-vallie, Scotto shop-palm, palm pic of the SG building, odd news

    5 years ago – mickey gas mask, donkey kong jr, google bought blogger, mere-vallie, Scotto shop-palm, palm pic of the SG building, odd news

    6 years ago – Haiku arena, weird al’s wishlistGeotargetVisitor Map