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So, it’s PH day again, eh? I wonder how many people that were there are still left alive?


Had dinner out with Cyn, her pop, s0likear0se and bhk at a local watering hole, Westlawn… it’s on the boycott list again after missing its reprieve. lovely time with the crew, though… Newt was well-behaved. (as normal for folks that don’t actively seek his love… ignore him, and he’ll sneak up and snuggle.)


 
North Beach, MD map

Current weather forecast for North Beach, MD

Population (year 2000): 1,880. Estimated population in July 2005: 1,882 (+0.1% change)
Males: 886 (47.1%), Females: 994 (52.9%)

Calvert County

Zip code: 20714

Median resident age: 33.0 years
Median household income: $46,111 (year 2000)
Median house value: $116,000 (year 2000)

Races in North Beach:

  • White Non-Hispanic (87.8%)
  • Black (6.2%)
  • Hispanic (2.1%)
  • Two or more races (2.0%)
  • American Indian (1.6%)

Ancestries: German (22.5%), Irish (19.4%), English (14.9%), Italian (6.2%), United States (6.0%), French (4.0%).

compare to Deerfield


1 year ago -Saw Renee, sysadmin song, liz quit, year in review meme

2 years ago – Work blues, hey ya cb, marvel stamps, ufo theme

3 years ago – annoying words, possible friends list alteration, marshmallows &volcanoes, Rick James/Hulk, on call reduction, CS work-dolt, MM arrival, JL RIP.

4 years ago – mighty shopper, LA Story, keywords, rain

5 years ago – economics, WID gig, good gab, holiday cards

6 years ago – AOK, R d’E, RIP Klink, Golden goat

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8644 – Eat a Bagel and Go!

Eat a bagel and GO! was our battle cry today, as BHK took charge and we managed to get up and out of the house by 10:30… not a trifling feat, considering our collective penchant for the lounge-about-the-houseisms.

(bhk thinks not, but I think maybe so.) I really dig having a walkabout cohort.

(our other battlecry of choice is “We’re Grown ups, We’re Married, We can do what we want!- that mostly applies to ice cream dinners, however)

We hit vizcaya with great enthusiasm…Quite enjoyed touring the grounds with bhk(more pictures from my last visit in ’03 on the vizcaya tag)

DSCF0155 Bubba and Squirrel Girl Take some Peektures.

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Green Dome, Pelican, red wall, stone boat, grotesques, stone boobies,spanish moss, pictures of a stalker european, sneaking into a secret door, quinteanos, swimming pools, fountains and foo dogs

highlights of the day were seeing a manatee in the wild by the stone boat, and holding hands with my beloved on the bench by the east gardens.


After vizcaya, we toured around and ultimately went to the swap-shop drive-in to see flushed away… very cute, but I think that I enjoyed the novelty of the drive-in even more than the movie. Very easy to sneak drinks and smooches in without an usher giving us any grief… we’ll be going back again before sauntering to points north, I suspect.

I was pretty impressed by flushed away… they kept the look and feel of aardman, despite it being all cgi rather than claymation. cute moments and lots of fun bits, though I think that the setup for a sequel was a bit over-telegraphed.


1 year ago – poorhouse w/liz, monkey beer, gg mood theme,newt pics

2 years ago – bro issues, newtie love, lost, getting it,link sponsor

3 years ago – TG poll, paid links began, GP recovers, Twistyland

4 years ago – better living through chemistry, Jude Law a bad papa, French comics, wolfsonian

5 years ago – Evil news, EL Dildo Bandito!, went out with Dave & Cathi

6 years ago – Rush, Bee-manGeotarget

8608 – Saturday continues –

On the porch with Newt while Fatima gives the place a a scrub down… later, I meet up with the house sitter to make sure everything is good for my trip next week… basics, like where the sand and kibble are, some fundamental newt rules, and phone numbers to reach me in any time of need.


mp3 of current music. Hey, it was the spice girls earlier, too. Polka Inspired Nostalgia kick.


Just rec’d via netflix – First 3 eps of season 3 of the Shield, Barbarella, and the Skeleton Key. Skeleton Key is on reserve for Tuesday night, methinks. The other two will get watched before then.


Hey! Tomorrow is graypumpkin‘s birthday!


I think a trip to “¡Viva Broward!” is in order – I hear that there’ll be a few good musical guests, and I could go for some walkabout fun this weekend. Maybe pick up some arepas, too.


Places to take BHK in November – (just spitballing, not an actual itinerary)

The Bonnet House

Morikami Museum And Japanese Gardens

Vizcaya (and a stop off at the Planetarium and science museum, too!)

Fairchild

Butterfly world

Miami Metrozoo (It’s cageless, plus it has the “Scoop on Poop” – the biggest excrement exhibit in the world!)

Speaking of poop and no cages… maybe Monkey Jungle?

Sawgrass Mills Mall

Maybe the Norton? It’s been a while since I’ve been there.

Of course, bigger drives will be to the Keys (for kayaking, maybe?), or Tampa-stuff (Like the Florida Aquarium ), and St. Augustine’s goodies.

It’s fun to think like a tourist in my own region. (Plus, it’s cool to go any place that has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not. (Florida, that means Orlando, St. Aug, Panama City and the Keys) – I think St. Aug might be a good choice, given the reviewGeotarget

8598 – Saturday. Mostly pictures and video.

Getting together with Danny today. Mid-morning, we’ll get a bite to eat, and then goof off. Maybe play some pirates, or Axis and Allies Minis. I slept hard last night – from 11pm to just about 7am, with little a solid sea of black in between.. I don’t recall tossing, turning or dreaming at all.


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Weird Advert-looking version of me for 365 days.
How I envision I’d look on an old newsprint ad for…
oh, I don’t know. Lithium? Monkey Diapers?

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I think I prefer the Sleepy-time picture of Newton and me, instead.

2 non-scotto shots

8597 – I wonder how responsible lj would be held?

Wiped out again last night – it seems like everyone at the office has some sort of assorted yuck, from flu to worse. I think GG and LD are the only ones showing some form of immunity. I look forward to a solid night’s rest this weekend.


A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a “crook,” a “con artist” and a “fraud.”

Legal analysts say the Sept. 19 award by a jury in Broward County, Fla. — first reported Friday by the Daily Business Review — represents the largest such judgment over postings on an Internet blog or message board. Lyrissa Lidsky, a University of Florida law professor who specializes in free-speech issues, calls the award “astonishing.”

Continue reading 8597 – I wonder how responsible lj would be held?

8583 – I can’t believe Unification Day was 16 years ago.

Jewelry Success! That’s Phenom. Great job, Allison on finding a good circular metal making guy & gal!


I am a little distressed about the vanishing soybean butter.


Going to test the new po box today, once I unearth the address.


Looking forward to traveling some Southern Maryland trails in the future. I suspect the Fossils and Beach glass loops will be especially alluring.


You are 64% white and nerdy.
How White and Nerdy Are You?


Scientists see the softer side of Tyrannosaurus rex. Continue reading 8583 – I can’t believe Unification Day was 16 years ago.

8575 – 2 nights and 28 days to go!

First Episode of Legion of Super Heroes wasn’t too bad. Not sure how I feel about the “greatest american hero – needs training” superman. I think it’s probably ok as a kid hero thing.

Nice cameo of skeets, Booster gold and a lot of Green Lantern Races at the museum, they did a pretty sharp update.

Contrast that with “Heroes”… my jury’s still out on that one. It has potential, but needs a little more oomph, I think.


The C in CW stands for CBS and the W stands for WB – Columbia Warner? (CBS&WB) – something weird about an abbreviation of 2 abbreviations.

So, is the actor playing Luke leaving Gilmore Girls, or are they just getting really uppity with the writing?


How to crack a walnut with one hand:

  • First, place two hard-shelled walnuts in the palm of your hand.
  • Carefully line up the seams, and wrap your fingers around them.
  • With your hand slightly cupped, get a good grip – One walnut should rested against the base of the thumb, while the other one presses against the curved second and third fingers.
  • Squeeze *HARD* until the weaker one of the two walnuts gives in to the pressure.

That move *really* impresses folks… I once got a “Woo!” from John, the first time I showed it to him.

Good during the winter holidays, when there are walnuts all over the place.


I’m a little envious of folks that are in a place (MD) where they can see their breath… I’ll get to do that this weekend- airports have reduced restrictions on liquids again, which means that I can bring a drink aboard. Non-stop flights this time, so no layovers! Most Excellent!

I’m looking forward to late October walkabouts and after. Basic thoughts include the Keys, Vizcaya, and maybe assorted South Florida locales.


Citgo is owned by Venezuela, eh?

Angry with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for calling President Bush “the devil,” state Rep. Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is calling on the Florida Secretary of Transportation to pull the plug on gasoline stations along the Florida Turnpike run by Venezuelan-owned Citgo. Continue reading 8575 – 2 nights and 28 days to go!

8569 –

Dear Journal,

Doesn’t that look official! Too hard on the eyes, for me, though. A more standard font is what I prefer.


One of the few truly selfish things you can do that doesn’t make you an asshole is to make yourself happy by making someone else happy.

Right you are, Ze.


Charge your AAs over USB


Aw! Hulk have 2 kitties! (See Icon)


Moment of Lyric is – Track 23 on X-entertainment’s halloween jukebox. (mp3)


Postal Goodie Basket is an Awesome Halloween Score!

One, first and foremost – A lovely Headless Horseman card, complete with bonus commentary

On the candy side of things –

  • Two more Skybars
  • a fistful of Caramel Apple Chews
  • 5 mini packs of Necco Wafers
  • A Chocolate Marshmallow Vulture egg
  • a chocolate vulture’s nest
  • 3 Reeses Peanut Butter Pumpkins
  • A marshmallow ghostie

MmmMmMM Sugar Shock.


Peektures –

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Crane, Newt at Night, Blown out windows and Caution below

The Crane was in the parking lot outside of the Grotto – took birdie’s pic right as I got to the bottom of the stairs.

Newt is just chillin’ with my psp and some small denomination currency, wedged comfortably between my monitors.

Last Two – The Wachovia Building (or whichever, now that a Nation’s Bank took it over) – top windows blown out of the tower, and someone put danger tape all around the breakout area. No visible glass or debris, so I guess they cleaned it all up before I got there. Fortunately, no chalk outline. One of the poles marking off the danger zone is my bus stop to work.

For Glass and Debris pictures, feel free to look at my post hurricane wilma shots, instead. I can’t believe it will only be a year ago in October.. it feels like it was ages since it happened.


Quiz type stuff

8561 – Fart Knocker. Heh.

Went to the Seminole Casino on Coconut Creek as a mini-walkabout. I dropped a few bucks, trying slots, and I *really* don’t get it. I totally felt like a monkey pushing a bar to get a banana pellet…. the only trouble was, I had to feed the machine banana pellets to make it work. Poorly.

Not really on a par with the hard rock, but interesting to see the variety of machines and people doing the pushbutton thing. Retirees, doctor-types in scrubs, people smoking and eating chili dogs, all poking that spin button over and over again, putting in bills of all denominations, or the really hardcore just using some special sort of debit card.

I’ll just keep my banana pellets to myself, and cut out the pellet-stealing machine, thank you very much. My Fave machine to look at was was “Blues Brothers” themed… most were branded in some way, Wheel of Fortune, Monopoly, and Tobasco Hot Pepper sauce all had slot machines.

Poker was upstairs, and doubly smoky… I couldn’t find the high-speed bingo anywhere.

Odd that the Seminole Flag is very similar to the German Flag, but with a white bar on top. I guess there are only so many color combinations you can hit with stripes, before you have some replication going on.


Slept soundly last night, with odd dreams of being underwater.. maybe because the road trip in October might include the Georgia Aquarium, now? It’s so big that they have flippin’ whale sharks! Maybe I won’t have to wait until my last day on earth to visit a chunk of the great barrier reef, after all? A little scary… I saw Jaws 3-D, after all.


Reclusive German, reading reclusively in his grotto? Sounds right.

I'm Ludvig II, the Swan King of Bavaria!
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
Continue reading 8561 – Fart Knocker. Heh.