Tag Archives: bro

9727 – Thursday

DNA test came back, Bro is the father – Shannon (The Mother) is using, and there is a warrant out for her arrest. Greeeeat.

BHK in garden with Chris – Newton in here with me fuss with this and that… and watching movies.

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front garden left 2

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We watched Crank – High Voltage and it is both ridiculous, offensive, violent and funny. I’m going to have to see the previous installment , now.

Going ot be a dagwood sammich dinner night soon… until later, dear journal!

1 year ago – picture with Pye waiting for the ledge, Pye tackled pic, SPicy Thai soup, what Mrs. MacGillicuddy saw, assorted pics from the day, snake in the yard, pmog, slo-mo punches to the face

2 years ago – voice post – testing the auto-transcribe, work, strangers with candy

3 years ago – birthday party for  [info]mental_circles, with pictures

4 years ago – creepy star wars moment, S.T.A., world view, making fiends #18

5 years ago – gmail trades, archive the dead, fruit pies, pirate, bro broke another straw

6 years ago – gamer purity, my buffy blasphemy, newt-grumpy/nosy, p/t, SOP

7 years ago – rainy, ashcroft snooping, what’s better, catgrass growing crazy, more pictures to repair, SOP, Lao-tze

8 years ago – bibelot, albedo, TV crushes, Dark Sun, Post to the net/privacy rant, enneagram, SOP, evil news, ‘hear, hear’

9 years ago – nuffin

9704 – Tuesday –

Cinco De Mayo… Cheers! We had ratatouille and baked potato for supper. (But the bagel I ate had jalapenos on it!)

Contemplating going to Bengie’s Drive-in this weekend. Triple feature of Fanboys, Monsters vs. Aliens and Star Trek a fun, dorky night.
I’m not sure though – I’d prefer to see MvsA in 3-d.

Talked to Danny on the phone tonight – he might be jumping into a game of Champions at his local game store this summer. 150 points – the store used to be the Dragon’s Lair, but it’s now Adventure something or another.

Bro sent me a text from his new phone – I’ll call him tomorrow and see how he sounds. I’m sure he’s happy to be out and about.

No Franklin again this morning – I noticed that the lawn was treated with chemicals – hopefully that kept him away, along with the cold, drizzly rain.


Pull in your tum,
stick out your tush,
wiggle your hips,
now give ’em a push

Godspeed, Captain Chaos


As I was starting to say, I’m glad it’s staying a bit rainy and cool outside… I’m probably the only one who is loving a little soft, cool rain over sun and heat. I’m a hairy, big beast… hm, an excuse for another old Ditko picture, I think, dear journal.

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Freeware Eurorails game  –  Thanks, Rock, paper, shotgun!

also discovered OpenTTD for a freeware version of Transport Tycoon, and SimuTrans .


1 year ago – stern face pic, best public potties in somd, thinky-doodle, FPS games, never say hopeless

2 years ago – Cinco de mayo – extended description

3 years ago – fleet week, cinco de mayo, network neutrality, kitten & rooster, mega m&ms, options, friday 5, dr who, prisoner, lj drama

4 years ago – 555, fishbone & dose pics, reference librarian scotto, oops-i did it again (30’s style), questions asked

5 years ago – not loving the phone, porno bob cut ? (it took until last month), amy’s diary, iconners, cookies, Florida state rock

6 years ago – ortho, There-folks giving me cool virtual clothes, WMD, star wars kid

7 years ago – I’m a sexy cusser, pop vs soda, digger mole, puppyfrog, maps, bad show, verisign, a date with destiny that was doomedCinco de Mayo, panda killer, Man Imprisoned 30 Years for Crime FBI knew he Didn’t Commit, other evil news, what’s your sign poll (Gemini won again!), C&I nightmare, smart sweater

8 years ago – Cinco de Mayo, panda killer, Man Imprisoned 30 Years for Crime FBI knew he Didn’t Commit, other evil news, what’s your sign poll (Gemini won again!), C&I nightmare, smart sweaterGeotarget

9653- Wednesday

Bro’s girlfriend / possible mother to his kid Shannon has been found, and she and her baby are doing OK – Momster is distancing herself from the situation – and I think that’s a good thing.


Google voice – free phone goodies –

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?answer=142423 – That sounds amazing… google… I hope you don’t turn too evil on me!

Ran a query to update about 20000 drivers for a client – amazing what a little snippet of code in the right place at the right time will do.

 

update driver_details set timestamp=’2009-03-18 20:10:00′

WHERE

driver_details.MC_ACCT_NO =  ‘**account number**’ AND

driver_details.DRV_TERMINATED_DT is null

 

 That’ll earmark all the active users for that group and send an update file to everybody. Hooray for Triggers !

 

Chasing potential errors after, now. Seems to be working within parameters, save for one not splitting properly.

Chinese food from the Octagon tonight – this was try #2 – I suspect BHK’ll be leery of a third try, unless Little Panda or Grace’s are closed.

1 year ago – voice post, eating grapes, haiku, busy day, gaming with R/K/P, POTA, Will Smith Denies Scientology

2 years ago – Behind the Mask, Tigger Adopted!, whistle blowers get some clearance,

3 years ago – bethany, st patty plans sacked,

4 years ago – much work, webjay, Danny invite, George, potential condo piccies (many mock the pre-move decor)

5 years ago – Astronaut Jones, Square Bear, speak and spell, Frank R paul, I create an fdle syndicated lj

6 years ago – iwo jima in the rock garden, I start using jarhead, wish for peace

7 years ago – facemaker, cab stacking, poem tag, timeline, roles I’ve filled, cool bunker

8 years ago – cartoon logic that works, alice, I want tasty snack food, lone gunmen, workplace desiresGeotarget

9639 – Friday

BHK gave me a lift in to work this morning – let me sleep in an extra hour or so. I repay her by going over her accent on the way in – we were talking about someone’s "pen collection", and With BHK, Pin & Pen sound alike – and I had no context cues to work with. so I innocently asked if it was the writing implement or the sharp thing that pierces fabric.

That devolved into a Rosetta-stone style communication back and forth – She doesn’t pronounce the difference between pin or pen. Long story short, we just were silly and giggly on the ride in – perhaps you had to be there, dear journal.

[update – noonish]

Found out this afternoon that my brother’s girlfriend Shannon has had a relapse and has vanished with her baby (Bro’s daughter). Bro is still in prison for the next few months (out in May) – My Mom is understandably upset – had bonded some with the child and is looking into legal recourse. I really don’t think that they’ve even established paternity yet, so I doubt she has much to work with.

I am a bit cold about the whole thing – saw this coming (heck, I dealt with Derek’s bouts back and forth with rehab, and know how that whole deal works), but there is not a lot I can do for any of them.

She’s made a good decision not to pursue custody or guardianship or anything like that and I feel she made a good, if very difficult choice.

Tomorrow, BHK and I are attending the United Way Mardi Gras – we got comp tickets from the Maerten’s Gang!

We’re taking a limo, with the whole crew, and it’ll be like BHK and I are going to prom. I’m looking forward to it all!

Picnic at home night! BHK and I are going to have fun with a light supper of veggies, fruit and cheese … just lots of fun and relaxation – just what a Friday night should be! Starting in a little bit… until later, dear journal!

http://www.bombombombomwooooo.com/

goes nicely with  Instant Crickets ,sad trombone and instant rimshot .

Hmm.. I wonder if I will have time to make some paper dinosaurs this weekend? A triceratops , at least?

1 year ago – Bilvil, mental flicker vision, loco roco, chimpanzee have a speech center in the brain, 3 word meme

2 years ago – Taco dinner, bhk edit, relaxing at home, doggie videos, bhk marine museum article from 13 years ago

3 years ago – walkies at a carnival with pix, Yanni beats folks up,

4 years ago – ren-fest trip w/pictures, Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age

5 years ago – Newt-vet pics, Carpathian undead, radar on chip, Aerial Recon Archives, exorcist in 30 secs (by bunnies), punctuation meme

6 years ago – Gali sends me fan mail from Israel, ape music in my mind

7 years ago – playing the numbers, the bolters, euphemism generator, lj-reflink-list. (including 6 degrees), being romantic, superman 2, magic item poll, street signs of the world

8 years ago – filepile, interview, SQL issues, Kung fu Oz, CJ & Herman – part 2Geotarget

9526 – Monday

Feeling better today. Physical Therapy seems to be working out some of the back issues, thankfully. Mentally and physically in a more positive place – also, sundown was at 4:45 today. I certainly suspect that I don’t have Seasonal Affective Disorder. I think that the dark and cold weather mostly suits me, even if I try to be a warm and cheery sort of person.

After PT we went to Mexico for supper. I was perversely hungry for Mexican food after seeing a filthy Mexican resaurtant on Kitchen Nightmares yesterday. The food was superb – BHK and I both sussed out that it was the cook that sometimes works in Lusby on the kitchen tonight.

My mom met Shannon and her possible granddaughter – (well, by proxy – Shannon is still pregnant, due in a month or so.) I’m still not sure how that’s going to pan out.

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Newt is really enjoying the ledge in the loft these days… one of the warmest spots in the house! I hope he shares with Pye, at least a bit. Hm.. somehow I doubt it. Interesting that his winter coat is a bit more visible than usual – likely that he and Pye were running around pretty heavily before naptime.

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Physical Therapy today. Leg lifts, stretches, bicycle, and then the stim/heat combo that works so well for me. I needed it – I was really stiff yesterday.

Forgot to mention yesterday that Chris and Larry brought over a couple of preacher cookies for us… much better than the last batch a year ago – see archive below.

While I was fixing BHK’s machine, I was multitasking a bit – catching up with scripting, listening to old episodes of Dragnet in the background – The radio show is really superior to the TV series. Additionally – I listened a bit to some of my old time radio broadcasts. OTRcat sent me a nice collection of Richard Diamond not too long ago in exchange for a link on my website – the clarity on them was excellent, especially given that the condition of the original recordings must’ve been a real problem to fix. I’ll be looking to go back to him for more OTR goodies as time goes by. Dick Powell is no slouch as a voice actor, and I’m really pretty glad to have my collection filled out. (5 CDs worth of stuff, I’ve only begun to begin to listen. (I’m thinking about getting the Edgar Allan Poe Collection next – maybe for road trips through Baltimore)

1 year ago – black friday not the busiest shopping day, nutshell day – greek fest, new christmas ornaments, preacher cookies, will appears, cyn fall pic

2 years ago – coughing, sickies one day to one month

3 years ago – William Burroughs Thanksgiving, Adam Sandler Counterpoint, I left home at Thanksgiving (1987), collection of questions, Bwain, quiz results, Herm gets snow!, thank you songs, grover smash puny human

4 years ago – toasted orange marmalade sammiches, weather, getting porn spam, Italian vampires must have it rough, comic books, non-net folks, Frost, I want to…, GREG photoplay made by me from secret squirrel episode way back when!, I like bananas

5 years ago – Dr. Who, Mail, Ellies, Pods, mininukes

6 years ago – chores, 7 seas, supah-tofutti, Proverbs 15:1

7 years ago – met with tarpo and isis, tarot, fair-palm synch, LJ-ish quotes

8 years agoKids in the Hall bits, things I’m thankful for, what’s love?, dream Geotarget

9509 – Tuesday

Does someone ruin a hand or at least lose fingers in *EVERY* one of Tim Powers‘ books?

Stress of Her Regard – Yup (still reading)
Declare – mm-hmm.
Earthquake weather – yup
On Stranger tides – yes
Last call – yup.

Those are just the ones I’ve read.
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bro has a tri-rail ticked on file for 10/31. neat trick, since he has been in jail since june. someone using his ID, or just a really slow process?
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The spawn of the XM Sirius fusion emerges tomorrow, and Orbitcast has picked up the complete channel listing for XM subscribers that goes into effect in less than 24 hours. It’s fairly grim for some diehard XM fans—a lot of stations have been erased (bye bye punk channel) or are being replaced by Sirius pseudo-equivalents.

No more upop? lucy? fred? ethel? high standards? soul street? Doesn’t look good, kids.


1 year ago – rayman, check mii out, some scotto dislikes

2 years ago – pf chang pix, played pirates with BHK and Danny (BHK’s first game ever!), sleepy

3 years ago – power on, big brain going away, packing, suprglu

4 years ago – Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, lost on torrent, pixar, who links here, Wanna know your consistence?

5 years ago – incas & guinea pigs, minefield, earth photos, anagrams, Sirenity baby!, high school memories, norman saunders

6 years ago – I win cookies!, owie-back, keywords

7 years ago – went to see fishies, walkies

8 years ago – good news / bad news, Boogie Pop Phantom, African Frog Myth Geotarget

9389 – Thursday

Went the dentist – got a temp filling and I need a crown. Later at dinner, the temp filling fell out, but it’s aok for now.

Went to the Walgreens and I got BHK a pedegg – foot callous remover and orange zester, apparently. I think it’s a pretty surreal device, and is more surreal to me en espanol.

Watched latest Psych and Dragon’s Den… that’s about it!



Hey, Thanks, Knife-wielding robot! You’re not as dangerous as you sound, I guess!

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crazy robot doodle by me, article via



I just realized something about German boardgames. Seldom do you see dice. Cards are drawn and are sometimes used as randomizers, but you can still play the odds a bit – it’s rare to roll the ol’ bones. I wonder why?



Bengie’s is showing Wall-E, Dark knight and step brothers… I don’t think that I care to see Dark knight again, so it looks like we’ll wait another week or so before our return trip to the drive-in.



Follow up on the mayor’s “drug raid / dog shooting” indecent. He’s completely innocent, it seems. Prince George’s County Police really fouled up, in my opinion. That and the armed car chase through my neighborhood (well outside PG county jurisdiction) only adds to my problem with that organization. Some sort of Internal Affairs review needs to be done… but it seems unlikely.

“The mayor’s counsel also disputes authorities claims that they killed the dogs, Chase and Payton, because one of the dogs was coming at officers. Maloney says one dog was running away and the other was shot some distance from the front door.

Still, county law enforcement officials say they do not owe the Calvo’s an apology. Chief High defended the officers actions, but expressed regret over the death of the dogs.”


As someone that’s been at swat team gunpoint more than once… (06/02/2001 when my landlord went loopy with his guns over his face cancer and 02/24/2004 once when my bro committed “grand theft boat”.) – I can honestly say that sometimes the police has good reason to hold someone under potential deadly force. I’m thankful that neither I nor Newton were shot



Well, bro is right on the border of the 44 violation points rule. (he has exactly 44 points)(pdf info ) If convicted of all of his charges, he could either do under a year in county jail, or over a year in state prison.

from here

If total points are equal to or less than 44, the lowest permissible sentence is a non-state prison sanction (however state prison up to the statutory maximum can be imposed).

If total points exceed 44, the minimum sentence is established by taking the total point value subtracting 28 and decreasing the remaining value by 25%. This end result value is the lowest permissible prison sentence in months.

This means than only those offenders scoring 44 or less points may receive a non- state prison sanction under the code. All others must receive a state prison sanction, absent downward departure from this structure. The threshold under the guidelines for mandatory prison incarceration was 52 points.

and from here

The magic number is 44: Anyone scoring above 44 points “must” be sentenced to state prison under the Code. However, the plea bargaining process can a) reduce the number of counts charged, b) have an agreement not to score certain items, c) substitute charges, d) reduce the actual count charged, or e) several other creative techniques can be used to get someone sentenced to a non-incarcerative sentence. Note the departure grounds under Rule 3.992(b), but also note the actual language of the “Sentence Computation” because someone charged with a felony can be sentenced to state prison even if the score fewer than 44 points. For this reason, felony cases are always very serious legal matters.


For his Faces of Evil project, Hans Weishäupl made composite photographs of the world’s worst dictators by photographing hundreds of people in each dictator’s country and stitching them together. The results are a bit disturbing, particularly when viewing very large, clear, vibrant color photos of long-dead monsters like Stalin or Hitler. (via conscientious)


1 year ago – dc to nyc bus, pg county car chase update, chocolate gum, ex debt, louise fadeout, ljopoly, cruel 2 b kind assassination game

2 years ago – finished pride & pred / monkey politics, Newt pic, kid rolling ajoint on the bus, solar powered sun bricks, firkin, 8500, flying model plane in miami, flight plans to maryland

3 years ago – deepest sender, jumping pictures, walkabout autostitch, mangrove tunnels

4 years ago – tmbg thoughts, sugar water vid, space issues, Rick James dead, Burpin’ at Newt, Magical Trevor, cocktail demons, nifty charts, Newt Videos, CoH Pix

5 years ago – Zombies, Army Men, mean cannibal pudding, time travel spam, vampire game, celeb phone calls, cej chat, bro request

6 years ago – Earth and Beyond Playtest, Kev & Bailey, fat parrots, french fry girl palm doodle

7 years ago – harried, inculpate, plane lands just down the road on andrews as a makeshift runway and kits my regular bus, wondering about lj’s image server (still not ready!), happy thoughts, magic can of soda

8 years ago – grumping, Space cowboys shows old man butts Geotarget

9379 – Wednesday

scotto and chae, he-man styleOh My Goff! –Emmy award winner Angie Goff profiled me, the kitties and Alan & JC’s pup Chae on her blog entry today ! (Picture here from the entry… eek and awesome. BHK is going to tease me mercilessly – She’d better watch it, or she’ll get She-Ra’ed.) The WUSA9 team all have blogs it seems, and the bulk of them are very entertaining!



Called Dr. Wolfe – cracked my back tooth, the one with the composite filling. I’m taking antibiotics starting tonight, and I’ll be seeing him in a week for a fix-up. It only hurt a wee bit yesterday, but has progressed to headache level annoyance now. I wonder if the tooth will come out of my noggin before thursday… it feels a bit loose.



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recent Pyecam captures of Newton in the “treehouse” – as always, click to embiggen them!

We need to get pye in the light like that, so he doesn’t look like the phantom blot !



A very interesting graph of the estimated ideological positions of US voters, senators, and representatives shows that members of Congress are much more liberal and conservative than are US voters, who fall somewhere in the middle. (via 3qd)



Maryland Renaissance Fest is coming up. I figure we’ll go again, probably for one weekend, this time to just people watch, if nothing else. Scottish Weekend might be fun.



Got a postcard from the bro. He sounds better when he’s sobered up. I’ll be writing him sometime between tomorrow night and this weekend. It breaks my heart every time I think of him… I thought I was mostly over it, but I’m really still fairly tender about it at times. If luck enters the picture, maybe he’ll get some good, solid treatment, but I won’t get my hopes up.

His arraignment was supposed to have been on Monday – I wonder how long before public records will give me follow-up info? He’s got a calendar call on 9/2/08 – I guess I’ll know more then.



Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

“I tried to warn them, but the Elders of this planet would not listen,” said Gore, who in 2000 was nearly banished to a featureless realm of nonexistence for promoting his unpopular message. “They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold. Fools! Why didn’t they heed me before it was too late?”



1 year ago – payday, mas90, chalupacabra, Ultimate Blade Runner set, Amy on her way home, All Star Superman, Harry Potter, Metatron

2 years ago – first pente loss to bhk, newt and squirrel pic, dice wars, proximity, nobility, vista speech off, clip art movie, hotspot hacks, gamelan,

3 years ago – entry loss, sky high good, Danny wins prizes, calls while not on-call, 10k superballs, Newtcam Law and Order, meme stuff, pics of lisas, and autostitch garage

4 years ago – museum pics, slippery, Loveless

5 years ago – tv shows, comic fonts, paper money, sound resource, gay high, starmark, CA2, tunnel walkies pix, Dan visit, toys

6 years ago – random voog glimpse, infrasound, dinner timeline, GRASP, hate group mapping, Jen plans on being wed, FMM steals paid time from me, mach 8 jets

7 years ago – animal traits poll, Museum of Black Superheroes, remonstrate, Pompano info, evil news, mental health day, rainbow newt poll, icq/lj tech trouble

8 years ago – April stress, New everway group review, Babel fish translations, green lantern, Jerry’s Birthday bash, Discover marquee, Bev Preggers, Bro working at Amici’s, We Like Pie, 29th Scroll, 6th Verse Geotarget

9361 – thursday

Made plans this morning before work to take BHK on a date to The Bengies Drive-in tomorrow night. Triple feature of Kung-fu Panda, Dark Knight and Get Smart.

From the site –

Warner Brothers has graciously agreed to send us a LARGE FORMAT print for our 52 by 120 foot screen (the Biggest in the USA) so we do not have to worry about the run coinciding with the full moon that occurs on that opening night.


It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun – I hope it cools down a bit after dark – projected to be 94F tomorrow during the day. I’m going to have to make sure that I change out of my work duds and into some comfy play clothes for our date! Unfortunately, cameras are forbidden, due to movie paranoia about piracy, but maybe I can click off a few pics of the place via cellphone.

Lots of Veggie options at the snack bar… Hey, if we’re going to be there for 6+ hours after work, I’ll be eating something for supper. I’m already earmarking a meatless egg roll and a pretzel with mustard for me! BHK will no doubt grab herself a corn dog. They sell “food permits” to bring your won stuff in, too… I just might do that, but the snack bar is pretty reasonably priced, and I’d like to support the theater. Back when I was Managing the Cobb 23 theater at Sawgrass Mills (Now a Regal, it seems) that was where *all* the money came from. The cost to lease the movies was more than we made in admissions.

That was during a period when I was either homeless or mooching Danny’s guest room.

Speaking of the snack bar (they sell mosquito repellent) Looks like the Mosquito addition to Hive will be coming in next month to Aardvark ! (I was thinking about making homemade ones… and may still do something like it for other custom critters… we need a dragonfly, lightning bug and a ladybug, I think.)

Come to think of it, we could brig hive, or a card game to play if we wanted to to the drive in!

I wonder if they can do current format 3-d movies at the drive in? I imagine it’d be tough to implement non-color based 3-d.. and on the 3-d note – 2 current games that pop in 3d thay I’d like to try before I buy – Pipeline and Aapep.

Anyhow, long story short, date night at the the drive in tomorrow!! Hoody-hoo!



more info on bro – he got 2 years probation on the drug charges before being arrested on the grand theft charge. He plead no contest to the drug charges.



1 year ago
– tasty garden foods picture, family tree math, too much soda-pop, fox news hates mr rogers, human-sized penguins

2 years ago – defective materials, algo march 2, control freak, McCain on Lieberman, Michigan fairy doors, random flickr

3 years ago – Kev day, pictures of train station/toys/etc, mr moonlight

4 years ago – mind flayer doodle, travel plans, blue ink, Warriors…., phone posts

5 years ago – odd dreams, Gary hart, pizza box solar oven, hunting for Bambi hoax, walnut walks with a belly dancer

6 years ago – CHiPs, Spreading rumors

7 years ago – Music Mystery Solved, exegesis, evil news, Earhart’s wreck perhaps found, I discover Google image search, sea creature poll, why poop is brown

8 years ago – Scheduled Departure time set in stone, something at Archie McPhee no longer there, sitcom nudity-logic Geotarget

9350 – Monday

Forgot to mention – Very Clever Pipe game – I won 20 to 13, BHK beat me at Carcassonne H&G – by like 50 points!

We still haven’t dug into Canasta Caliente or Rook yet. I suspect next weekend will be good for that. Maybe Chinese Checkers, depending, too. (Perhaps just 2-player Halma.)



BHK made dinner tonight of veggie brats with onion and green pepper (on a baguette from the farmer’s market) , along with sides of Mexican-style corn on the cob. Good stuff!



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Pye on “Monitor Duty” this morning. He looks like he just woke up, but he’s been flipping around for at least an hour.


I can’t believe my Dad would’ve been 62 this year. I can’t even imagine how he might’ve aged.


Just checked on my Brother’s record online, and it says he’s in 12MM (Male Infirmary). I wonder what happened to him? He’s now in the North Broward Bureau, which is already a bad sign.

From the site

The North Broward Bureau is a minimum to medium security, special needs detention facility housing male and female offenders. The facility also houses protective custody female offenders and female juveniles. The facility currently holds 1,200 inmates.


The primary mission of the facility is to house and manage the mentally ill, medically infirm and special needs inmate population.


Momster pulled his police report – It seems he’d parked in a handicapped space, and when the police ran his tags, the car he was in was reported stolen. Apparently his license was expired, as well. It was certainly enough to violate probation.

[Edit – in 11c now, out of the infirmary. Bro has been there before. My guess is he is detoxing or being treated for bi-polar as he has claimed that in the past.]



1 year ago – Jalapenos, bug on me, Sputnik, Gibson Island, Fred and Marilyn get hitched, grape soda discovery, couch quest, groundhogs and dragonflies, qwik-e-mart pictures, 4th pics, flowers

2 years ago – prepping for keys launch, first pirates sea monster, a Brain in a jar quoting Nietzsche to a Super-intelligent Gorilla, phone breaks, questions-meme,

3 years ago – busy, tiny text, hurricanes gone?, pedometer, one, London explosions, waterspouts, 48 questions

4 years ago
– condo bid, There-updated, MORE vizcaya pictures, pelvic thrust stormtrooper, spidey2, @ poll

5 years ago
– Frankie, restoration of library, lovejoy, danny, lj-interests, health, baby tats

6 years ago
– Newt (jamacianjungle dreamed that she got to play with him!), palm entry, grim reaper song

7 years ago
– wereturtle, moved into new place

8 years ago
– no ihop, replan for movies, april trying to soften me up, jenjen peekingGeotarget

9339 – Sunday –

Spent the bulk of the day moving in our new couch, shelves and end tables – our house is looking more like a home and less like a dorm every day.

Mom contacted me re: my bro – it comes as no surprise (somewhat like agent “!”.) – got to add another link to the mugshot page.

(Agent ! – 

Known otherwise only as “Malcolm,” a homeless man who dressed in a garish outfit decorated with exclamation marks (possibly referencing his predecessor, the Quiz) drawn back to reveal his chest is actually a gilded cage containing a miniature jet with bird-like feet. Despite his odd appearance, he “comes as no surprise,” which allows him and anyone around him to be unnoticed or any attacks made by them to be seemingly out of nowhere. He mentions his desire to find the element of surprise, which may mean that his powers of “stealth” are not what he wants; Malcolm finds the element at last when dying during the final battle between the Brotherhood and the government.)


Once we got home, we settled in and watched the cats enjoying all the new surfaces to explore. Newt seems to like the couch and the low end tables, Pye likes the bookcases, and more “cubbyhole” sort of spots. There’ll be more rearranging before the dust has settled, though.

We watched the first half of Astronaut Farmer while eating celebratory Chinese food – food was good, the movie was less than engaging for me.

Worn out, we’re heading to bed early tonight.



Miami Beach cops have busted a rolling whorehouse that operated from a $250,000 bus and offered riders who paid a $40 cover charge lap dances and assorted sex acts.



via defective yeti, and I agree –

Why I love Wikipedia: “When invigorated by spinach, Popeye can lift or press about 36 tons. [citation needed]”




1 year ago – zucchini and peppers from the garden pic, first paycheck from new gig, nifty phones, earth without people, breaking plastic back down into oil and gas, 50s to 20s advice, quizzes, newt b/w pic, Newsom plans

2 years ago – writing, linda ronstadt, a/c clothes powered by usb, march of the swivelheads, statues, plans for 4th, where does the line start, flake out.

3 years ago – misc bits, deadwood, photos from kites, images from cat brains, 43things, one word, adp cheats on her hubby via company email, bro drama, bedtime newt pics, grammy drama

4 years ago – green flash, CoH, serial killlers, art books, piratey

5 years ago – electronic handgun, gun quiz, rambles, movies, newt pic

6 years ago – faith farm, new place, troll

7 years ago – genuflect, foot binding, broken bow, lj goodies, robot pondering, apartment

8 years ago – on meeting an icon
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