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9675 – Thursday –

April 9, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Went back to the doctor yesterday, and was scheduled for an epidural on 4/28. Hopefully, that’ll help with the sciatica issues… and I’d *really* like it if someone canceled early, so I don’t have to wait just shy of three weeks to get treatment.

We had dinner on the porch last night – it was nice, but still a wee bit chilly. sub sammiches, as the sun went down.

No Franklin this morning, but saw the little brown girl cat last night while waiting for BHK to pick me up.

BHK found me a ton of new clothes at the thrift store – some giant must’ve gotten a new wardrobe, because I have something like a dozen or more shirts. Mostly short sleeved plaid stuff like I enjoy, but a few dress shirts suitable for work, too.

Enjoyed both episodes of the office, and parks & Rec was ok too.

1 year ago – Shazam! haiku, earworms, Beheaded Bavarian in my family

2 years ago – losing weight, palm doodles, subway buskers, bluetooth, female health, restless sleep, clicks down, bro contact

3 years ago – fiddling with layouts, queen, cute newt on the patio pic, genographic project, wayfaring, logophile, about trees, euro tests, 3d museum, time-travelling chiro

4 years ago – no eclipse, ed-mv/st, The end of Kim Possible, Newton-cat animation, FL sheriff abuse of power

5 years ago – Frog & manatee palm doodle, city of heroes goes to 3 servers, condos, recovery

6 years ago – Babar Mourns, bro stuff, poem/hat

7 years ago – elephant armor, SOP

8 years ago – easter, usa backs out of kyoto protocol, bob ross, Gifties

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9672 – monday – back to work!

April 6, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Well, back is still being tricky, but I was ok enough to go gently back to the office!

Back is sore, and poor BHK has contact allergy / dermatitis – We’re both just sort of shambling around for the moment, and trying to keep our heads together.

Fortunately, we’re both in pretty good moods, despite my nagging her not to scratch.

We were blessed by not having to make dinner tonight – Chris and Larry came back from the camping / Environmental trip with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and they picked up Chinese food and a 10-layer cake for us to gobble up while they regaled us with tales of no electricity, mud and guides with Elvis sideburns.

We cooled our heels, and watched a little NCIS (and In-law staple that I don’t mind at all) and then a really good Annie Oakley documentary on PBS. I have a new found respect for the lady.

Here, dear journal – have a Pyewacket pic and a newton movie! Pye looking outside from my comfy zone on the couch, and Newton running around while BHK and I relax from the same area.

1 year ago – Aardvark (jonah hex & diplomacy), diarRhita’s, car show rained out, apples to apples

2 years ago – walkabout pictures (DC area), SMIB

3 years ago – loki, fundraiser, 33 questions, morning pictures, palm post bro, tree dream

4 years ago – appointment, bro homeless, electron thoughts, videos, broken umbrellas, space 1999:waka waka, 300 island resort, typo on bus, walkies pictures, beaten barricade

5 years ago – smelly books, surreal compliments, passover joke, vampire game

6 years ago – sleeveless smock, downloadable toons, bunky kabalarians, colossal squid, CoC props.

7 years ago – landlord visit, green monkey pizza, pop pardoned the knights templar,nazi-looking stamp, Japanese business card etiquette, movies, tubers

8 years ago – Killer noise, looking for a job as a flaneur, Dave & Cathi Preggers

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9665 – Monday

March 30, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Tasty spaghetti for supper tonight – BHK stopped off for scratchers and soda pop – $2, no prize. Listened to Life of Riley on the way home, and just took it slow.

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Info on conficker – more straightforward than a lot of the misinformation out there.

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There’s a ton of stories this morning about some bright flashes of light and booming noises coming from the skies over eastern Virginia, parts of Maryland and North Carolina. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports that the National Weather Service’s Wakefield station’s phone was "ringing off the hook" last night after around 9:45 p.m., as residents frantically called in to report flashing, bright lights and in some places, an explosion-like sound. No immediate explanation came from the NWS, but a team is now investigating what might have caused the fiery flashes. WTOP has a report that suggests that the phenomenon was most likely a fireball, which can occur when a piece of meteor rock enters the Earth’s atmosphere.

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SWAT in Maryland update – via Cheye Calvo –

I am very pleased to announce that, on Saturday, the Maryland House of Delegates passed HB 1267, the SWAT team oversight legislation, by a 126-9 vote. The bill will require law enforcement agencies with SWAT teams to report every six months to civilian authorities on the number, general location, purpose, authorization, and results of SWAT deployments. It also directs the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to analyze the information and issue an annual report on SWAT team deployments in the state.

The Senate passed a companion bill 43-0 on March 19. In both cases, lawmakers took strong action following emotional testimony in committee by numerous victims of careless or inappropriate SWAT deployments. The point was clearly made that what happened to my family was not an anomaly, nor is the problem limited to Prince George’s County.

Differences between the two bills about whether to include a sunset provision and the start date of the legislation will need to be resolved in a conference committee over the next couple weeks before the General Assembly convenes. However, it is looking quite likely that we will be able to send a bill requiring monitoring of SWAT team deployments to the Governor for his signature within the next few weeks.

The House of Delegates passed the legislation on Saturday, which happened to be my 38th birthday. This is truly the best birthday present I could have asked for!

Cheye

P.S. If you’re not receiving these updates yourself and would like to in the future, please sign up at www.protectourliberties.com.

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1 year ago – bhk sick, games workshop, weather, david horvitz, detox quackery, q&A meme,

2 years ago – view from my desk at calvert county, quizzes, geourl, bake sale!

3 years ago – MM talks to me, Danny Nominated, GP & Kat coming to town, German lesson, batman sound screencaps, zefrank starts archiving his entries, queen, quirk quiz, updating my geocode, Monkey Florida Fire News, plus whalesong

4 years ago – met mzkitten, poker spam, totem, Nostradamus Quatrain Generator, uv flower photos, doc ock song, david byrne

5 years ago – news registration, De Soto, missing digits, esp test, pirates, Nevada

6 years ago – Danny, keywords, Maryland Snow Day

7 years ago – stuff to look at, darkstar, panorama picture galleries, pulps, snap club, newt pics, troll, dragonball, RPS poll, Lj poll, easter egg recipes/cinnamon bunny bread, stream of thought – 3 minutes, cbs mystery theater

8 years ago – netcast, rent, palm tree, spaghetti-ohs, 7-up, key limits, parapsychology, slurs

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9663 – saturday

March 28, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Day was a blur. Let’s see –

We were up late last night – stayed nestled in bed until about 10am when we realized I had to be to the doc’s by 11 in order to get my shots. (Doing it a week early, so I can skip next weekend – City-wide yard sale is something we want to hit early!

Got shots, and BHK showed me the menu to a local BBQ shack that she and the mom-in-law went to for lunch yesterday. I of course got the fried clams, which were very tasty. Most entertaining food was cornbread in the shape of a pickup truck – eaten before photographed. I’ll snap the next one – it was very tasty.

We went on a little shopping expedition with the in-laws – K-mart for plants in the garden – bok choy, broccoli, cabbage – picked up some robin’s eggs and nonpareils – kept the eggs (candy-coated, chocolate covered malted milk balls) and gave biscuits and non-p’s to the inlaws. got more pot pie squares and tomato sauce for a future meal or two, as well.

Visited Compter Renaissance, and they really didn’t have any tech that was newer than circa 1995. so much for me getting a memory upgrade or car charger for the EEE. While at K-mart, I looked into a power inverter for the love cube – all of the $30 ones were out, and the $80 was a bit too spendy for me.. not going to run a chainsaw or a fridge just yet.

Saw puppies in baby cribs again. Guy insisted that dogs I’m allergic to are hypoallergenic. Just because it doesn’t shed much doesn’t mean I’m not allergic.

Got home, rested a smidgen, and we had buffalo shrimp salad for dinner. I went into the other room to fix our router’s security since Comcast reset it – noticed that they had the router to go to only one computer at a time. (ip locked) – fixed router, it’ snow called "Green Glow" for springtime, and is passworded.

I got sick about 10 minutes after resetting the router. could be the shrimp, or just the fact that I overate – I scarfed down a lot of baked potato.

We did lights out from 8:30-9:30pm as part of an energy saving gesture called earth hour .

And now, the in-laws have gone home – We watched the Thomas Crown Affair . Not the best flick in the world – first time i had seen it all at once. Surprising that they’re making a sequel next year, 11 years later. Newton was a little trickster tonight and got all sweet at Larry, and then made an effort to smack the glasses off his face.

G’nite, dear journal! A little soda-pop to soothe the stomach, and it’s off to bed!

1 year ago – alice’s bar exam party, smothers brothers, eating policy, assorted piccies of my office, newt and pye getting along, doodled voice post, bus stop pic of spring,

2 years ago – nice folks at the county, cherry blossoms, spring started – pear trees, BHK into reality tv, EPC a flop, adam & tennis, easter coming up.

3 years ago – code template, interest cloud, pda cam dies, p&B in german, song tapper, bus on fire doodle

4 years ago – easter manatee, complimented, server/servant, spliced people, germs

5 years ago – Lj then and now (I spend less time now), bro, ice cream cake, Smokey & the Bandit

6 years ago – bro got me some Godzilla movies at the gift store up the road.

7 years ago – minority report poll, breakfast with Danny, grabber rabbit meme spreads, Words describing animal traits, Ketchup packet bear, Klaatu’s speech, scary dream, link-to poll

8 years ago – babelizer, mushy-feelings, book-burning

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9661 – Thursday

March 26, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Newton and Pyewacket were especially resistant to my heading out this morning. Good Snuggle and nap weather.

No Franklin – also due to rainy day.

Came home, dinner of pigs in blankets, and mac & cheese. The boys were happy to see me.

BHK got goodies for the garden and the yard! So far, she’s picked up Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, sugar peas, tulips, radishes, spinach and something else that doesn’t leap immediately to mind. Broccoli will be coming later.

I’m glad BHK has such sharp cooking cred – I’m still not sure how I feel about baby stinkhead sprouts, but I’m sure she’ll make ’em great. (I also used to dislike zucchini, so what do I know?)

Some fires to put out at work, went quickly enough.

BHK fell asleep next to me while watching last restaurant standing. Making an early night of it again – maybe we’ll catch the office tomorrow.

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kottke pointed me to this re: Some answers to the disappearing honeybee problem

In an article for Scientific American, two scientists who are working on the causes of colony collapse disorder (CCD) say that they and other researchers have made some progress in determining what’s killing all of those bees.

The growing consensus among researchers is that multiple factors such as poor nutrition and exposure to pesticides can interact to weaken colonies and make them susceptible to a virus-mediated collapse. In the case of our experiments in greenhouses, the stress of being confined to a relatively small space could have been enough to make colonies succumb to IAPV and die with CCD-like symptoms.

It’s like AIDS for bees…the lowered immunity doesn’t kill directly but makes the bees more susceptible to other illness. One the techniques researchers used in investigating CDD is metagenomics. Instead of singling out an organism for analysis, they essentially mixed together a bunch of genetic material found in the bees (including any bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc.) and sliced it up into small pieces that were individually deciphered. They went through those pieces one by one and assigned them to known organisms until they ran across something unusual.

The CSI-style investigation greatly expanded our general knowledge of honeybees. First, it showed that all samples (CCD and healthy) had eight different bacteria that had been described in two previous studies from other parts of the world. These findings strongly suggest that those bacteria may be symbionts, perhaps serving an essential role in bee biology such as aiding in digestion. We also found two nosema species, two other fungi and several bee viruses. But one bee virus stood out, as it had never been identified in the U.S.: the Israeli acute paralysis virus, or IAPV.

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1 year ago – midweek, hummus is the new salsa, john adams card, cute -yet destructive animals, lego plastic man, work

2 years ago – Pictures from lookout point drive, cold/ back issues with bhk and me

3 years ago – made a couple of bucks, Hero dial, tree zoo, ladybug, shin splints, quizzes

4 years ago – danny visit, moskau, balloon wizard doodle, slugbaby snowsuits, Jarvis Sow Bung System Model VC -for the cutting out of sow bungs, Caffeine contents per serving, coconut bonk, taser rick Sanchez, famous homosexual quiz, Jesus-scented candles, finger-wendy’s

5 years ago – Newtie-reaper, policy almanac, GP&K coming to town, Parkland cops bad, cargo ship aground, wandering piccies

6 years ago – Sickies, schoolhouse rock, bro dating

7 years ago – hydrant, alton brown, Halle Barry Freakout, weird emma, annoying cabbie, aa, tcup, Disney/Dali

8 years ago – plh, grumpy at boss, maple cologne, slackerjack, treats

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9660 – wednesday

March 25, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Franklin was back – and happy to have a little nibble for breakfast. I ate my bagel and gave him treats and pets for breakkies.

speaking of critters – BHK master list of things for us to adopt –

duck
llama
alpaca
puggle
griffon (spunky one)
pig
baby otter (preferably 2 )

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Comcast came back – apparently they didn’t complete the disconnect from the "walled garden". Fortunately, BHK was savvy enough to tell them that our equipment wasn’t bad – told them to get one off the truck, and test – failed, and that led them to call and fix earlier.

They reset the router though – I’m going to have to rename and reset some security. (not crazy about having it called "linksys" or "default" when "mr meaty" or "salmagundia" will do better.

Let’s see how well this stays together.

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Fooling around near the bus stop, while waiting for BHK to come get me – it’s pretty gray outside for springtime, yet, and plenty cool.

After work tonight, BHK picked me up, an we went to Pizza Hut with Adam. Brought him back his hoodie and power cable left behind the other night he slept over, as well as some little treats picked up for him at 7-11 (chips, gummis, soda)

Adam is still not interested in getting BHK a Llama via his rental company, and we were all too tired to do candlepin bowling.

Dropped him off, saw a cd/video game exchange place… swung in for a moment – not a bad collection of stuff, and the prices look right. I’ll be back.

We got home, and now are heading to bed… early, but both of us are bushed!

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1 year ago – gentle day, sammich issues, why not be a freelance writer, dead bill buckley, Hillary fib, political flip flops, I was Santa, Hoss slow, I suck at chess, voice post – stuff seen at bus stop (w/doodle), ducks witness a thief.

2 years ago – newt, pye, tigger and a spongebob ice pop in the sun pictures, bro drama, hot fuzz preview, springtime cough

3 years ago – porch entry, newtcam pic, consulting work, zeppelin hotels, hornsuit

4 years ago – dr who leaks out, tree, death as a doodle, in the news, tmbg-bloodmobile, missing a brown-eyed girl, squirrel names, pirate vote

5 years ago – playing with icons, palm doodles, magical flesh fearing saw, bro still in the pokey

6 years ago – throat tickle, possible gig, FMM stuff

7 years ago – yahoo kills pop3, Can Asians Think?, llamas!, spring break, Egyptian musk, cat-recognition flap, rice dreams

8 years ago – Green Eggs & Hamlet, moody, China, Sophomore Uses List Context; Cops Interrogate

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9659 – Tuesday

March 24, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Again slow to rise this morning – I need to hit the sack earlier during the week.

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I brought some snacks for Franklin, but he was nowhere to be found this morning.

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Open BVE Train sim! – probably only interesting to me and Larry, dear journal.
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European researchers have discovered that chimpanzees have a built-in mental GPS, keeping ‘a geometric mental map of their home range, moving from point to point in nearly straight lines.’ Using GPS, two primatologists followed 15 chimpanzees for 217 days, and determined that the apes were ‘using a mental map built around geometric coordinates.’ They’re not just identifying landmarks in their surroundings, and in fact, even when swinging through trees, the chimps planned out their route several trees in advance. Here’s the paper in the journal Animal Behavior.

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Comcast was difficult again this evening, but I called and they reset the modem – hopefully it’ll be smooth sailing, now. BHK made tasty pretend chicken and creamy noodles with peas for supper.. until later!
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1 year ago – into the wild, easter basket contents

2 years ago – buzz-cut pic, shoofly pie, arizona pizza, a little sick

3 years ago – funnel clouds, nice gabbing, alligators door-to-door, you go to my head, black and white 2, v for vendetta, musical meme

4 years ago – readablog, banksy, laughing boy audio, pictures, birth chart

5 years ago – condo falls through, lj being bad, GIMP, AIM games, chimp mask, first remarked on how the Roanoke/Lumbee entry is still active, origin poll, Calliope fest

6 years ago – cool chemical reactions, pronunciation query, gael returns , a pic of newt

7 years ago – Happy chats, urban ruins links, some website renewal ideas, old icons

8 years ago – Baron Munchausen, computer needs fixifying, Coconut song, Oscar Picks, Crayola Crayon color time line

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9658 – Monday

March 23, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Slow to get up – Aiee monday, indeed. It took me a good hour or two to shake off the morning sleepies.

Made it to work with time to spare, I was welcomed by Franklin-cat – I’m going to get treats for him later.

Batman Brave & the Bold continues to be exceptional – I really liked the recent Joker’s 50’s design is … also "brake, choke, throttle, " my kind of car! comment was perfect.

Speaking of Throttle – Comcast returned – didn’t call BHK to let her know they had come by – seems they had throttled down our connection because they couldn’t figure out how to properly bill us? What? Anyhow, it is back up to speed now. Just as well – Verison’s service isn’t in our area – our only other alternative is satellite-type stuff – Hughes net. That’s the price we pay for living in a rural-ish area, I guess!

Grabbed subs, did $2 worth of scratch-off tickets (and won$2! – broke even), and headed home to watch Hancock tonight – I thought it was pretty enjoyable, all told. I think the thing was to not expect "meteor man – drunk hero" throughout the whole film. I do have to wonder about the other super though… why was Hancock the only person being a hero? Just seeing the movie made me wonder if a Damage Control film was a viable thing – a ton of collateral damage.

I just figured out the cartoon I was whistling the song to earlier (singing to pyewacket and newt) – An Itch in Time – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zA16E-_NY about 1:30 into the video

1 year ago – atw easter, palm doodle, becoming jane, easter island, open source options

2 years ago – saw 300 with BHK and TM, supper at chevy’s

3 years ago – six comments per entry, dark organic secrets, working rocket boots, no ‘e’s, hurricane names, ape & kitty,

4 years ago – superhero idea, prvt brokentoy on pavement, bandwidth pull, eclipse, DOJ presentation, Digicam RIP

5 years ago – Bubba Ho-Tep, Bro info, RI annoying

6 years ago – Season poll, spring rains

7 years ago – Newtie Mer, grabby bunny, text-m’s, Pirate disfigurement poll, clever robber, outside reading sources online

8 years ago – sql, free pulp novels online

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9656 – Saturday –

March 21, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Cable guy came by this morning to evaluate our Internet – he replaced the line from the pole to our house, and the box on the pole – looks better, but they’re sending out another truck on Monday to evaluate some more. I’m just glad it’s not an "inside the house" issue. I suspect with so many folks using Verizon around here, we may be the only Comcast people using that particular line. (side edit, spellchecker wanted to change "Comcast" to "compost". I feel the same way. )

While waiting for the cable guy, BHK tuned in to Twilight and I watched it with her. It was about what I expected. The lead characters didn’t do much for me – I saw no "sizzle" and they weren’t particularly attractive. There was certainly a powerful Mary Sue vibe going on. I’d say I liked the wolf tribe folks most of the lot of ’em, and I think BHK liked the little emo-haircut news-kid.

After the pole-climber was done, we headed out for the day – First got my shots in record time – (BHK and Kendall’s Mom chatted, so it seemed more quickly that I thought) – Instead of our usual walk around town, I thought it’d be nice to take BHK to Annapolis and just hoof it there for a bit.

Did a lot of window shopping and people-watching. Rather than getting lunch, we just sort of nibbled at the assorted stops along the way. Split a bagel here, a cookie there, a coffee somewhere else.

Stopped off at third eye comics – picked up vol 1 of Planetary and the Essential Dr. Strange . (BHK grabbed The New York Four – being an NYU grad and all) They guys at Third Eye are always willing to lend a hand, and can recommend stuff that they think I’ll like – so far, so good! I’m not a huge Warren Ellis fan, but planetary has a lot of good stuff in it – and I’ve always dug Dr. Strange.

Passed by an estate sale – lots of nifty antiques – I think it gave BHK the idea to do a distressed dresser in the bedroom.

K-mart of the walking dead – Got some solar-charged tiki lights for the porch walkway. The employees and customers were more than a little frightening – red-eyed and many doing the thorozine shuffle. Contemplated lawn furniture for spring, and decided against it, as it was too rickety for me to be sitting on for any extended period.

Visited the local hardware store to look for a bracket to hang the bell from my dad’s boat up – may return there next week.

Paused at a school yard sale (raising money for the band to go to Canada) – we got some baked goods – a crazy-colored cupcake (see below), and a brownie… BHK also snagged a hot dog, and bought her mom some orange glasses – perfect for a margarita sometime. I obtained another webcam – this one was only $1 after BHK haggled it down from $2. We’ll see if it works later this month. Also seen below are the ATW man playing ping pong, a found travel bug (trailer on the bio lab at the same yard sale) and an advertisement that stopped BHK in her tracks. PUPPIES IN BABY CRIBS.

BHK loved the Puggle , but I was a bigger fan of the Brussels Griffon not as cute, but it had a fantastic and playful personality – a little "tough guy". It’s a good thing I’m still very allergic to the critters, or something probably would’ve come home with us.

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The in-laws met with us later on, and we did supper at Adam’s Ribs – a onion loaf was bit greasy, but the veggies were good, and the service excellent.

Finished up Twilight when we got home… a lovely full day.

1 year ago – back better, lj content strike, colorwars, lunch with Adam & Eric, windy, lunchtime rendesvous redux

2 years ago – work review, cakery cookies, steve jobs on music, spore coming

3 years ago – sleepyhead, ren-festige, Chacarron again, comic-book picture, condo commando, network named elements, Sandra Day O’Connor comments on right-wingers, star wars concept pics, don’t walk through words, political profile quiz

4 years ago – Fragments, Chatted a cutie, BEAR TRAP/ PUNCH!, homeopathy=placebo, ref desk, giant sea monkeys, walkabout pics, rhemish, Parallel Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

5 years ago – local search sillies, copyright disclaimer, zombie minis, missed bro

6 years ago – palm pic, whiskerliscious-fuzzy-paw newt-pic, cat eaters, the coffee song, interviewed @ starmark

7 years ago – radiology, reading lensmen books, riker in trouble for DVDing, corpse Tupperware, Elisabeth, and a bunch of dead links.

8 years ago – IMT politics, and so on

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9654 – Thursday

March 19, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Franklin (the outdoor cat who lives near my office) followed me a bit this morning to work, I stopped to give him some love – he’s a sweetheart. I made sure to wash my hands very carefully – don’t want to allergy myself too much, or possibly bring back feline leukemia to the boys at home. I should start bringing Franklin a little treat or something.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottobear/archives/date-posted/2009/03/19/

If I’m not careful, BHK is going to make me adopt him and bring him home. Plenty of little hellcats at the house already, but I’m a soft touch.

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Though I am of no particular religious faith of my own, I don’t mind when others express belief… to a degree. Riding the green line into work this morning, a wall-eyed lady was shrieking out hosannas and praise the lords intermixed with some tuneless chant-like singing. she had headphones on, but I suspect that they were just props so she could ramble loudly.

I’ve seen this from assorted people, numerous times – usually on the bus, but the train here and the tri-rail back in Fort Lauderdale. Why are folks permitted to holler at the top of their lungs while I’m confined to the same space as they are? I think that the train is better for just making a lot of noise without repercussions, because it’s less likely that it’ll stop and eject the person.

(They won’t shut up – all I want to do is nap)

I’ve been "witnessed" to at least 4 times, maybe more while on the bus. I’ve noticed that the best thing to do is just be quiet and let it pass, because the folks doing it are generally more than a little unhinged already – I don’t want someone flipping out too much.. it seems like they run out of gas after about 15 minutes (which seems like an hour) and then start again maybe 5 minutes after that.

There needs to be some sort of code of ethics – if I’m trapped with a person that is at the minimum causing sound pollution that I don’t want, or at maximum is a foamy-mouthed looney, I get upset. I was fantasizing about picking up a tranquilizer dart gun somewhere for the bulk of the noise.

9653- Wednesday

March 18, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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 desires

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9651 – mon

March 16, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Amy’s mom passed away today after battling with lung cancer for quite some time. I didn’t know her, but my heart goes out to Amy and her family. I need to call her tomorrow and express my condolences. We knew it was coming, but it’s still a shock.

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Found Object – Newton and I surfing the web about 6 years ago. I think it was the African Peanut Soup recipe.

BHK and I had a lovely taco salad for supper… huge enough for tomorrow’s leftovers, methinks.

1 year ago – me as gene wilder pic, lowe’s, honemoon, MAN OF IRON… 1504, cherry blossom picture tips, $5, eats

2 years ago – got the Calvert County gig, more shamrock shake, Louise & in-laws, monkey cap, Raines, The Riches, The Microscopic trout and the Machiavellian Fisherman

3 years ago – grampa poll results, RS taught to burn and forgets, folks go to brazil, ultrasound critters, Marvel Florida, gg winding up for an exit,

4 years ago – Freedom force, Thumbkin, Josie Conell, moot back (he’s been gone awhile again), regional wifi scan, netflix queue, account locations,making fiends, Lumbee updates, pinecone

5 years ago – Danny Solo, Devilfinder, Paper toys, elephants-Yeah!, pages back up, COH

6 years ago – lovey, storms

7 years ago – palm-doodle dreams, guest map, location poll, Bert’s Love Song, decent left, menstrual hut memo page

8 years ago – evil news, got a permanent account

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9639 – Friday

March 6, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

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.
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[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.

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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!

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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!

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http://www.bombombombomwooooo.com/

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

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

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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 2

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9637 – Wednesday –

March 4, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

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atw man throwing a snowball

Long Meeting at work today – 9am-3pm. Fortunately, BHK and the inlaws picked me up right after – headed off to Cheeburger Cheeburger – they have a Lenten menu! Veggie burger for me, and a chocolate cherry milkshake – BHK got a wrap (new!) fluffernutter shake, superhero jammies, pictures of me and mine from ages ago.

1 year ago – Library Ellen on Facebook, Gygax RIP, wingsuit, BHK earworm, 50 things continued

2 years ago – more photos of my new environs. boardwalk, barns, bay, decapitated gnomes and sundry other stuff, dog day at the fire dept, assassination vacation

3 years ago – rs drops to part time, spoofcard, condo issues, newtcam time lapse, spore,

4 years ago – pomade, numbers, lumbee talk going strong, rat flies a f-22, ifbot, secutiry, scotto pic, zombie quiz, miami bridge, New York Public Library Digital Gallery , hurley episode of lost, mile markers

5 years ago – stress, bro, god wishes, font music, audio books, tofu "chicken parm", he-man, owie-back

6 years ago – stupidity genetic?, pulp-it, sick folks, history of eating utensils, tree like, riblets are great

7 years ago – fiddled with tulpa, dream, oxycontin, naproxen, oxycodone, Domesday

8 years ago – CJ & Herman story 2, dangers of reading in bed, AOK2

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9634 – Sunday – March Starts!

March 1, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

I played a little bit of Fallout 3 this afternoon while waiting for the in-laws to show up for supper – pigs in blankets!

Once they got here, I got a telephone call from my mom – just gabbed a bit, but when I came back out, the in-laws were ready to take off. I guess they weren’t too into The Fall. BHK and I liked it – I really enjoyed just staring through it – nifty costumes and sets.

Photos from this evening. Featuring snow that looks like ping pong balls in the light of a flash, blue lit room due to pausing the tv, and a phantom kiss from BHK due to a long shutter opening. Also seen is the "Rosy Glow" due to light diffraction outside.

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Funny to me that we get more snow on the first day of March than the rest of winter combined. Looks like about 8 inches tonight… powdery, no crust… like confectioners sugar with some glitter tossed in for effect. Maybe tomorrow will be a "Snow Day" and I can work from home!

1 year ago – outsider art museum with BHK and David, pictures, poe’s burial site, cheeburger w/ larry

2 years ago – newt and pye’s distant relative – Kiddo – the transatlantic airship kitty, GP, tina, gaming, and 2003, transfusion song

3 years ago – memes & links, dino pic, windows live pigs in space mefi, hop sing, haha ray

4 years ago – torn mime video awesome, zombie-like news story, book, idiopathic, Japanese Macaque, choicepoint data theft, duckie bath, yahoo video, kaleidoscope, mapper of doom, viva broward pictures

5 years ago – Blueberry Doughnuts, Meme, Factoid and so on

6 years ago – Dorky-Newt explanation, Vet Visit, AI 20 questions, TV schedule

7 years ago – Evil proggy struggle, baby critters, folks getting fired over weblogs, palm piccies

8 years ago – why wiccans suck

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