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9597 – Wednesday
Had to get up extra early this morning, to be sure I could make it in to work on time. Snow has melted to form extra-scary and slick ice on the roads and sidewalks outside.
The replacement Clie I got back in march died – bidding for a new one on ebay. I’ll have to make a point to recover my old data – shouldn’t be a problem, since I last backed it up a day or two ago. The only hassle will be re-installing my 3rd party stuff. Astronomer, isilo reader, and tealpaint are really the only items I’ll want back right away. If those bids don’t go through, I may look into a Nokia N810 or possibly a Asus EEE for the same cost as a Birthday Prezzie to myself.
Not a great day today, but tomorrow will be better. Off to a rough start, and a really rough time at work about 4pm. BHK collected more estimates on the Love Cube’s repair, and remains doubtful that insurance will pay the bill. Chris is looking into options on her side of things.
BHK made calzones – her first attempt, and they were delicious. (Mine had broccoli, veggie meatballs, and assorted cheeses in there). Technically, I guess they were stromboli, as she put a little sauce inside the dough, but not a huge amount. I still had some on the side to dip into.
We watched the first half of the Heartbreak Kid, and now we’re calling it a night.
Until later, dear journal.
1 year ago – BHK pizza, doodles, health-coughing/dentist, hulkout list, lego turns 50 
2 years ago – pancakes, men in black, plumbing, chinese food, Janet in Bangladesh, B’day coming
3 years ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick
4 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys
5 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution
6 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus
7 years ago – Took a day off With Danny (some non-gothic graveyard pictures), PattonBomb Talk, Giant photo of Newt in Evil Overlord Mode, bad spoonerism humor. First photo of Tinkle pig
8 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing man
9593 – Saturday –
Fasted since 8pm last night through this morning – got my sonogram done, but I have to reschedule my upper GI. I got copies for myself, may photograph ’em, and show images of my spleen / liver and assorted guts as shown by echo. The technician was unimpressed when I asked if I was having a boy or a girl…. probably has heard it a million times.
Possible issues could be gastritis, ulcer, gallstones, kidney stones, or the all-encompassing "OTHER".
BHK made some scones – blueberry/ginger and maple/oatmeal/pecan. Both were quite good, but contrary to my usual, I’ll have to go with the maple being just slightly superior to the blueberry ones.
Spent part of the day playing Fallout 3 on the PC, and BHK played more Boom Blox on the Wii.
The Element has some issues – likely due to the tree falling on it back in June. It seems that the Frame is bent, and that’s causing a lot of wear on the tires. instead of being | | they skew slightly like this / . Insurance is resistant to taking care of it, since it’s been a while, but we’re trying to get it ironed out – looks like about $1000 to $3000 to repair, so I may not be going to Punxy next weekend – Due to both the cost, and the time it will take to repair the love cube.
The in-laws took us out to Selby bay – I’m still eating light, but I could do a 1/2 veggie sub and fries.
I forgot to mention that the grocery lady Patricia asked me where my "nutty wife" was – BHK got a kick out of it, and I’m starting to be recognized a bit by the locals after having been in the region for two years and change. It doesn’t hurt to have a charismatic and outspoken wife, either.
1 year ago – back issues, 3:10 to yuma, migratory birds, snow, local blind, pain, obama/clinton writhing worms
2 years ago – verizon dsl poop, snow coming, adam swims
3 year ago – eternal double happiness, robot over monkey, today, king of carrot flowers, breakfast cake must be a circle, mind altering virus, toothy bunny, flying dogs, jodie foster sings in french
4 years ago – Purple vibes for sick Mel, convert avi/dvd, pricelessware, wind doodle,watch me shine, Tropical Island Resort:Berlin, Bunny Suicide (now here), Razor Blade Soap, senior in high school meme,
5 years ago – made the Linus icon, professional victim, Cap’n gone, Robert E. Howard 98, clock, van helsing, US army rebuilding schools, Murgatroyd
6 years ago – random knockers, Hippos on an abandoned ranch
7 years ago – Fever, Clothes color survey, Naughty Newtie in the kitchen, a dead photo link, Intel Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program, House Resolution 3598
8 years ago – love, 3-d thesaurus, Fun compliment, Robert at work is officially fired for being a dangerous loony, pokename generator, Woodstock by CSN, dead net-radio linkies
9589 – Wednesday
Back to Work -workworkwork – played catch-up for missing Monday. I was tired to begin with, and now, end of day, I’m dead tired.
Randy Rogers off to work with M.A.D.D. – good for him! I hope the rest of the crew get as good a break as he did.
I dreamt the other day that we adopted all the stray kitties in town, and BHK named the orange one with white feet "Bagel". The other cats didn’t have names, but Bagel was extra naughty – knocking over anything that was knock-over-a-ble.
We loved him (her?) anyway. BHK hollered "BAYYYYYY-GULLLLLLL" every so often when he was acting up.
After work, we did the once a week night ritual of soda and scratch-offs – no money was won, but we did locate ome tasty chips to go with dinner from subway.
BHK took the Element in to have the tires replaced, but there was trouble with aligning it – She’s bringing it to the dealer tomorrow, to see what the situation is.
Watched a little Gordon Ramsay and Doctor Who, and now we’re off to bed.
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President Obama’s first official act was to suspend all prosecution of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
White House stops all pending Bush regulations for review
President Barack Obama’s new administration ordered all federal agencies and departments on Tuesday to stop any pending regulations until they can be reviewed by incoming staff, halting last-minute Bush orders in their tracks.
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1 year ago – MLK/R.E.Lee day, Back info about Disc, LOC flickr, TMBG, KFC
2 years ago – snowstorm ends, snowballs, eggplant and french toast.
Pictures – snow & love notes
3 years ago – compusa bah, acim gang out and about, float on, sacrifice & wrath, chastity belts for 21st century
pictures – ACIM gang
4 years ago – Strep, Jill is like 30, Greek Grotto, Weather, The woods, urinals, Mrs G team pic, Romanian Girl returns from the grave, poli-sci
5 years ago – Palm doodles, band names, sinister ducks, Cheddar Cheesus, water bus trip home, Orange Cat, walkies pics
6 years ago – zcardz (precursor to the pirates game), LL fooled with my bro, vanishing finn, meds
7 years ago – Dream, Walkies with fog, Worked MLK, ear pressure relief then a return, ordered my digicam, got a keeno book off my wish list, siege engines, lego cube solver.
8 years ago -Bro pic, garam masala, patty hearst pardoned, DNA police
9323 – Tuesday – man loses left side in accident, he’s all right now.
The first estimate on cutting down the dangerous trees in our yard is right at $5000. $3100 for removing the two trees near the house (with the one near the power lines costing the most) and 1800 for the ones near our elderly neighbor’s house. The tree guy said the one directly behind the house looks like its dying.
Second had the $3100 reduced to $2200 – we’ll see what the guys tomorrow think. Still waiting to see what’s to be done re: the Element’s windscreen.
Had in-laws over for veggie meatloaf, salad and stir-fry veggies – all were delicious. (Larry had hot dogs – still doesn’t want to try non-meat stuff … not like hot dogs are all that higher in critter content!)
This Thursday the 19th is, according to WMATA, “Dump the Pump Day.” Residents are supposed to take advantage of metro in order to see how much money they will save on commuting costs for a day. They are also sponsoring a related contest to guess the daily ridership on Thursday – you could win a $100 SmartTrip card.
Thanks to an anonymous whistle-blower, a Walgreens pill-flipping scheme has been blown wide open, according to CBS. "Pill-flipping" refers the practice of pharmacies that purposefully switch Medicaid patients to more expensive versions of certain drugs for the sole reason of collecting more money from the government. Naturally, when this happens, taxpayers pick up the bill. Athough, Walgreen’s officially denies any wrongdoing they have agreed to pay the government more than $35 million.
Open-Source Tower Defense is a Half-Life 2 Mod. You can choose from 4 upgradeable towers to see how long you can last protecting your castle against never ending waves of bugs. It’s a project of OneEyed that is now opensource for everybody to use.
Contains:
– Game Files
– Source Code
– Map Hammer .vmf file of the map.
Checkout the moddb website for more info over here.
1 year ago – 70 questions with bhk and scotto
2 years ago – cleaning day, flying rays, quizzes
3 years ago – Thai/sushi instead of Moroccan, retro illos, heat, tiresome week, groovy quote, shinto, Child sacrifices in London, hobo sign decoder sheet
4 years ago – audioblogger/pic remote links a no-no, bro being bad, domain shuffle (newt has an email now!), local language map
5 years ago – sleepy newt-pic, black spot, signmaker, Scott spellings, Man of iron-isms (game notes from 1995), talked with Doug Wu
6 years ago – Doug and Cathy, animal babies, Gaming. (wow… must be something about this week for reflection), Barbie, SQL for rgladiator, a kiss goodnight, forgotten silver balls.
7 years ago – Reminder that tomorrow is Kev’s Sister’s B’day, 7 things meme (I wonderhow many of those have changed?), missile silo home, how to be a superhero, superpower origin poll, enchiladas of doom
8 years ago – not a thing, but I know rough waters are ahead
9321 – Monday
Storm knocked a huge limb out of one of our trees – it bounced on the high power lines and then landed on the Element’s hood with a resounding thump. Dented the hood and front end in a few places and spider-webbed the windshield with cracks. I’m just glad nobody was hurt – Larry was fairly nearby. I’ll be interested to see how fast insurance turnaround will be on this. Homeowners should cover it with a minimal deductible.
I’m sort of disappointed that we didn’t get to hit artomatic – the last two weekends got nailed with Father’s day and general germy-ness. Hopefully it did well enough for Cyn to go back next year. It sounded like a hoot!
I want to ride the trolley, before it stops running, too. (I figure it’ll be in commission for at least 18 months more, before it stops working out for the city… but it looks like a good cheap way for BHK and I to tool around town for $0.25 a ride. With gas prices, you can’t get much better than that.
I mentioned this briefly on Saturday – the bakelite tiles in Hive are chunky (maybe 1/2 inch thick, and about 1 and 1/2 inch diameter) – much larger than I’d thought they would be. It’s even mose satisfying to play now, as a result. I’ve gotten so used to tiny counters and maybe things of “checker” size, that the bigger pieces are a real treat. Still waiting on Mosquito‘s arrival – not a huge deal, as BHK and I haven’t really gotten bored of the basic rules at all.
BHK and I played two games last night – If Wishes Were Fishes and Labyrinth. (I won both.) I suspect the dynaminc of Wishes will change if / when we introduce third, fourth and fifth players.
Sex and Indiana Jones?, originally uploaded by kubacheck.
Whoops! Wrong theater!
SF Signal has a run-down of the top 10 giant movie monsters, which is inexplicably not safe for work – Also courtesy of SF Signal, check out these anatomical cross-sections of Gamera and Godzilla.
1 year ago – Bugah and Neil Arrive, summertime fun, godzilla cheats, newtcam pics, courthouse artist,
2 years ago – website gig, writing, newtcam, sleestak sounds,
3 years ago – Sleepy, lj tags, couscous w/Danny, high voltage, questions
4 years ago – audio blog test, bluetooth virus, Sue Dibney Croaks, Dreams of the old gang, Bloomsday, When the zombies take over, how long until the electricity fails?
5 years ago – paranoid dream (has since come true at least once), silly RP in There, sleepy newt pic, Abbie the Cat Blog
6 years ago – Navajo Talkers, Barbie collectors, I learn about this apartment, palm doodles
7 years ago – IMT becomes FMM, paying by the word, slaver, funeral-cast.com, photo poll
8 years ago – Taco bell folding & Whitesnake