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10,064 – Friday

snow day today – a light dusting cleaned up the dirty slush left over from the blizzard.

Newton has the right idea, I think – Burrito snuggles under covers!

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Mandy took home the game trophy for winning cir-kis and pop-up storybook.

I like Cir-kis, but think that Blokus is a bit more my thing – benefit of cir-kis is that you don’t need ghost players if you only have 3 people at the table.

1 year ago – crayon physics, pyecam and newtcam, Chris’s metro car poops out, inauguration, mexico for lunch
2 years ago – plumbing issues start, video games (meet me on the steam netowork to play!), absinthe legal again
3 years ago – gave up on heroes and torchwood, assorted tv enjoyed, bhk and I work, took down xmas train, brown house
4 years ago – Letterman vs O’Reilly, Envisioning poll, Prof. Plum, Moon Worship, firefly crew, World Of Stuff, bike about and hoff, pictures, human skin books
5 years ago – mooshy, work hires, 300 fonts you should have (Note – porno bob, CS, sharon and jill all no longer work there)
6 years ago – Wonderful Prezzies from The East, Misc work hubbub, there.com hubbub, scary chimps, Ted Passed away.
7 years ago – Elvis, scrapple, lesbian book covers, smokers, pancake bunny passed away, Sweet comment from Rachel
8 years ago – walkies, toys, WordsEye, food
9 years ago – deoxy, st. mary’s, noir Geotarget

10,061 -Tuesday

I like that I live somewhere that still uses horse-drawn carriages alongside the jets. 

BHK and I finally viewed Watchmen last night – not bad.. I actually think I prefer the revised ending, though the characters itself needed a lot of explanation to BHK. I give it a 6/10… Better than it might’ve been.

BHK still has her cold – looks like it’s moving down from her sinus to her chest now – hopefully, it means she’s getting better.

Got Heron: Steam Machine for the Wii – or “Yet another pipes game” – it’s a lot of fun, and stress levels are high, especially in multiplayer.

Off to the grocery – going to get some filling for tonight’s quiche feast!

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1 year ago – Scotto pic – swollen jaw, Punxatawney Phil, Chinese food

2 years ago – political views quiz, armored polar bears and zeppelins disappoint, babysitting tigger

3 years ago – visiting the "News" in VA, BCK on ape equality

4 years ago – National Bird Day, Religio-founder quiz, Mr. Potato Head, open camera streams, I helped to recover Tabitha lively, newt picture with my feet,
5 years ago – 12th night, Mel stuff, job hunting helps, 6 apart/lj rumor, lj optout, geek meme, Eisner dies, latest memo, tried tracking LSW.
6 years ago – 4 gamers best, gaming memories Mars Exploration, I’m an Earth Monkey
7 years ago – Internet born, origami cameras, ouch!
8 years ago – SOP, insomniac theme, My Lady by J. G. Whittier, tech trouble, newt in nightshirt, stupidfly abuse, dead image and flash links, deleted journals actually get deleted
9 years ago – vagg (dead link), internal server error (not much)Geotarget
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pic recap of New Years day Entry # 10,060

Mostly photos from the polar bear plunge, but some gaming (Valley of the mammoth – warning, cartoon nudity) and Hap-pye New(t) year!

Additional caution – if looked at too closely, you may see Scotto’s hair front and or back.

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1 year ago – jaw a bit better, winter holidays over, Sean, J and Duncan visit

2 years ago – dinner and a movie w/BHK, rotoscope video, friday 5, cold weather – shelter hotline, orexin A vs narcolepsy,

3 years ago – The Library is Open

4 years ago – on call, nice day, rainbow love thingum
5 years ago – Mel lunch, food cravings, b/w picture of Scotto, torture
6 years ago – Henry Earl Likes to Party (he still does!), Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric, Tokyo bowl, playing with filters
7 years ago – Ticked at bro, want to try out for LSH
8 years ago – chilly, dream, Miss Cleo in trouble, digi cam shopping, Cinnamon Pecan Bread
9 years ago – super power desire, phonelessGeotarget

10,052 – Farewell UNTIL THE SUMMER, Amy!

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Dictionary Dabble, Carcassonne – New World, and Valley of the Mammoths played.

BHK Did really well – Winning all (She and I tied in Dabble) I think it was the green knit cap I got her for Christmas – Mandy said she looked like toad (a mushroom person) from Super Mario… of course, BHK had to take that and run with it (see above)

Amy is off to NY again – We’ll miss her! BHK and I are going to have lunch in Deale soon with the in-laws. tomorrow, Sean is coming over for some year-end games, too, maybe we can whomp on him and Andrew a bit then!

Random thought in my head lately – I really like grappling hooks. One of my fave gadget / tools in video games, RPGs or even just in general. Swung by hand or fired from a gun, it doesn’t matter.

1 year ago – BHK and I go to Geppi’s, Gabby Hayes, Ravens/Orioles stadium pix, leap second added
2 years ago – breakfast, xmas books to read
3 years ago – officially done with ACIM, Danny covered for b day, calvert library
4 years ago – Spanish channel shenanigans, big brain issues, ACIM paperwork, crunks,walkabout pics, palm cam picture spin (visiting Deerfield)
5 years ago – picture beliefs, cheese
6 years ago – Dang Dick, Kindly Kahuna, and Scotto Stuff. Alliteration!
7 years ago – RFL pictures, PT Barnum, Malawi vampires, Morse code
8 years ago – Treebeard and Entwife, Met Denise & Sara @ Danny’s Party, Mai Kai, eclipse
9 years ago – Calcutta Chromosome, Got shoo as a pal, Amitav Ghosh, Saw D&D movie with Danny, and Andy running the yellow Pompano comic shack
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A return to doodle posts?

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As a Side benefit of getting the DSi – I suppose I’ll try doing the occasional doodle-post  again!

As mentioned above, Amy is here, and we’re getting lots of gaming in – Jungle Speed and Small world taking up the lion’s share of our time.. though Pop-up pursuit is a lot of mindless fun, too. I’m looking forward to playing a little cir-kis and buzz word before our time is up, as well.

We also have been doinga little Super Mario World-Wii – which is fun, but hard with multi-player.

Entry 10,030 – Too many pictures, not enough words lately. 12/18/2009

I’ve been cheating quite a bit – I prefer to post verbal over visual content. I’ll admit that I like to see pictures of Christmas, family and the kitties as much as the next guy, but to me, a photograph with just a small caption is strangely silent, especially coming from me.

What have I been up to lately, dear journal? Let’s see.

On Wednesday, I went to a job fair in Northern Virginia… I’m thankful that my background allows me to qualify for a good clearance ranking. DC area seems to prefer folks with an ability to do so.

Yesterday, BHK, Chris and I went to the Mexico restaurant for supper – aside from that, I went to physical therapy and rested in bed with the boys. Tonight we’re scheduled to visit the Manspergers for some baked Ziti and good conversation – Sean has been very helpful, in helping me to seek out opportunities in this region.

I’m looking forward to a snowy day tomorrow. Supposed to be 12-20 inches in my neck of the woods!

Amy is coming to visit from the 26th to the 30th! Right on!

I’m digging the new statistics page for livejournal. Makes it easier to track hits than by hiding little sensors in each post, certainly. The “my guests” feature is especially engrossing – I never know so many flyby’s happened to old entries!

I’m glad the tv show lost is in it’s final season. I don’t hate the show… but I am tired of the hype. I watched the first season or so, and then stopped, when it occurred to me that they’d keep making shows as long as advertisers would pay to keep ‘em on the air, and not because there’s a solid plot going from beginning to end. I feel the same about Heroes, sadly.  If there had been something more engaging than “what is the answer” and one I’d never get, I’d probably dig both of those shows.

Also, I think Blade should’ve been in Twilight, not Buffy.

New Years, I’m planning on doing the Polar bear plunge, unless my health isn’t into it. Current holiday loot breakdown – all of it wonderful!

  • Mom and Wilton – Oranges, Honey and assorted grove goodness from Florida.
  • Ish & company –  a tin of yummy cookies, a picture of Newt drawn by Li’l bit, two wonderful tree ornaments – one says “we <3 u infinity”, and a pair of sea stars in beach gear and a great hand-done card, complete with glitter!
  • Karen (Kev’s sis)– super friends Cartoon DVD (via Amazon… BHK and I didn’t recognize her married name, so it took me a sec to figure out who it was!)
  • Cathy and Dave – Cookies! and three wrapped gifts to put under the tree!

Just a reminder to folks on Steam or Windows live gaming – I’m user Scottobear there (and just about everywhere else, too) – If you want to friend me there, please do! I’d love to do a little left 4 dead or borderlands with a pal. My official new year’s resolution for 2010 – do the yearly countdown daily again, if possible.
 
1 year ago – Dexter season 1, gifts from Kev, and the folks in Florida, tired but getting better,
2 years ago – started my minicity – (still doing ok, though neglected), icy footing, f’ing programming, tell me meme, my snazzy new custom sneakers
3 years ago – Dinner with C&D, Big Brain, Xmas card, silly holiday lj toys
4 years ago – Xmas card, condo Xmas party, calm a llama down
5 years ago – salty seas, Christmas toy, year in review, Celebrex, anime fans, con folk
6 years ago – trade invites for play $$, dreams
7 years ago – How to attain old age, got my epidural
8 years ago – Crime & Punishment, heterodox, evil news, HP question, pooter poop, bagpipe, egoboo, giant bee
9 years ago – met Tarpo (I still have the holiday mix cd) and Isis, LJ sea Chantey, AOK-ing, Christmas BluesGeotarget
10 years ago – heat miser / snow miser song.

9996 – Saturday

Slept in to about 11:30 this morning… good grief! Rainy day is good for snoozles.
LightingMore Rain and gloomy skies makes things lovely outside, at least to my eyes. Umbrella
Random awesome sign –
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Spent the evening at the Nailles, more Jungle Speed!
1 year ago – Friday night date night, JJ Abrams losing streak with me and BHK, google’s life photos, misc thoughts, half-life for less than a buck

2 years ago – bro out of jail and in seemingly good condition, date night with BHK, movie reviews / possibilities,
3 years ago – pirate scotto pic
4 years ago – red lobster, class struggle, black friday, chubby checker

Pictures – 7942 posts!

5 years ago – pirates, giraffes, incredibles, bro
6 years ago – Marvel Family, Countdown meme, garden pictures
7 years ago – Free audio books, hubcap monsters, discover empanadas nearby, GIMP
8 years ago – cloture, pocketlj, single card tarot spreads, meeting lj folks confirmed
9 years ago – air cools, Young Frankenstein poetry, sleepyhead, country bear jamboree
10 years ago – very basic Newt statsGeotarget

9991 – Last night and today – wednesday

Adam, BHK & Jungle Speed – played about 10 games, Adam pretty much dominated. I want to play it as an actual card game, now, though I like the jungle animal animations.


Test #1 – picture – Scotto as mr potato head
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Testing pic links to flickr via windows live writer –
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1 year ago – snowing – with pic5tr
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2 years ago – lucky and unlucky stones, pye on a leash, hot peppers, newt and pye on video, autumn pix, honesty is, underbay bikes

3 years ago – frigate bird, fishing trip
pictures taken – fishing trip

4 years ago – prep to move in, newtie, tortie
pictures – hurricane pate
5 years ago – doodles, first penny, sodium party, fussy danny, BCfair, harry lampert RIP, journal fine, diana a celebration

6 years ago – Coffee, ghost towns, Grunt, growl & Tear, local cams, Zombie survival guide, Lego source, fun linkies, city stats, frankie wheedling, thai smiles

7 years ago – got a spine sucker after getting an epi, Freemasons, fezzes, slogans, first clues to undoing w/bro

8 years ago – meteors, taliban, mrblowup, broward county fair, Martian Manhunter Rehashed, sv tarot

9 years ago – Limb lopping, wonka, new ljstuff, hunter thompson, aok Geotarget

9983 – Thursday

Growing my beard out again…. time for the "hunt for red october" look to keep my face protected from the elements that are coming. Oddly, Kathleen took today to do a mr potato head of my current beardo icon… serendipity?

Adam came over to visit last night. and we played a bit of dokopon before he was off to his church group meeting. No sign of andrew… he was going to come over for dinner, but double booked.

BHK and I continued playing a bit after Adam left and got some Papa John’s pizza, because it was too windy, cold and rainy to go out to the grocery store or the chinese place.

Today was mostly spent looking for work, watching tv, and shooting skags in borderlands. I did take a brief launch outside with neighbor Chris to swap his car for a loaner while the window got fixed…. BHK made some amazing ravioli and pink sauce for supper… full after one bowl, with plenty for tomorrow’s lunch and then some.

We finished watching Journeyman – it left on a high note, and I supect that it was cancelled just in time… our dvr is slowly draining of saved shows from 2007.

1 year ago – caveman voice post, johncon – gaming

2 years ago – a year away form acim, ninjas on the subway, meat, commodes, dining out, jimmy and amanda, veggie folk get picked on by chefs

3 years ago – grab a bagel and go!, swap shop, flushed away

4 years ago – poorhouse w/liz, monkey beer, gg mood theme,newt pics

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

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

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

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

9 years ago – Rush, Bee-manGeotarget Geotarget

9975 – weekend update

William, Bryce, Dominic, Dalton, (and Donnie , but he was outside, and didn’t come in) came over for a surprise visit and afternoon of Wii gaming. It seems that Bryce and William’s own Wii was broken, and so they figured they’d swing by our place for some goofing around and general fun.

Bryce was the rare talent today – creamed us at Wii bowling and barely lost mario party 8…. not to mention being a surprise champ at Hey, That’s my fish, and Labyrinth. 

It was a pleasant, though chaotic visit… the kids were all very well mannered. They all just piled out of the house to go home to dinner.
 
(Damien wasn’t here tonight, but he did check out haunted.scottobear.com for the Callis Haunted Adventure earlier this week.

In other gaming news, I won mario party 8 and blokus at the Nailles on Friday night — the trophy is ours once more!

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Won the trophy back – my win was via mario party 8 and blokus at the Naille’s house.

So far, the trick to winning was to play as a visitor, rather than a home game.

William, Bryce, Dominic, Dalton, Donnie and Damien were here tonight, to check out haunted.scottobear.com for the Callis Haunted Adventure. My friendly effort to help out William.

In other gaming news, I won mario party 8 and blokus at the Nailles on Friday night — the trophy is ours once more!

9837 – Friday

friday –

Gaming with The Nailles, Philomena, Ana – Apples to Apples

yet another quiz –

Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen tv series you’ve seen all/most of the episodes of that will always stick with you. Series you have bought/would buy on DVD if money was no object. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

Tag fifteen friends, including me because I’m interested in seeing what shows my friends choose.

1. MiddleMan
it just came out on dvd recently! what are we waiting for?
2. Gorilla Girl
doesn’t really exist, but it should. (ok, ok – I’ll put Probe in there – Parker Stevenson needs the money, and I dug it)
3. Rockford Files
A PI that gets beaten up, and isn’t smarter than everyone else.
4. Red Dwarf
Got to love it. No alien life, just stuff from earth. Droid crewmen, hologram crew, way before star trek.
5. Bonanza / Big Valley / Rifleman
They all should be in the same universe.
6. The Dick van Dyke show
Still Great, every time I see it. Beware of alien walnuts!
7. Andy Griffith
Just the black and white episodes.
8. The Complete Dr. Who collection
Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker vs the new guys should be fun viewing.
9. Ugly Betty
BHK got me into this, and it may be jumping the shark now, but I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons
10. Ripley’s Belive it or not
– starring Superman or Curly, either are ok by me.
11. M*A*S*H
Have to steal this from Kath – I really liked the mix of drama and humor a lot.
12. The Prisoner –
thanks to Ray and Kath for this one – I actually own it and secret agent on dvd already.
13. sesame street / electric company / Mr. Rogers neighborhood –
brilliant songs and nostalgia – they cannot be split apart
14. Black Sheep Squadron / Tales of the gold monkey
– my love of corsairs / seaplanes started here.
15. Night court
wonderfully surreal – the green acres of the 80s

Honorable mention: green acres / petticoat junction / hercules & xena /quincy m.e. / mannix / banacek

9829 – Friday

Hard to believe it’s only been 3 years since I was first planning to visit BHK on her birthday. Funny to me how little I can think of life prior to being married to her, and having our crew of four under the roof.

I’m in the office now, taknig a brief break from gig-searching to catch myself up on LJ. Larry is setting up BHK’s Best Birthday Present Ever ™- a widening of the closet door in our bedroom. For the record, I also proposed to BHK on her birthday, 3 years ago in two weeks. Heck, she’d have wanted closet spasce, even if single.

33333333333333333333333333333333  – Newton’s left foot on the number pad says hello. Pye is sleeping on the purple chair to my left, and Netwon has leapt to the couch on my right (newtcam couch) and will be in sleepytown soon.


Here’s a breakdown of my music via Media Go

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According to my SenseMe playlist – the fastest/happiest song is a three way tie –

  • Get a Job – The English Beat
  • The Famous Polka – They Might Be Giants
  • B-52s Cosmic Thing.

Slowest Saddest songs are also a 3-way tie –

  • Matt Lauer can suck it – Michael Gaicchino (Land of the Lost Soundtrack)
  • Running to the Rain – Peter Gabriel
  • Ballero – War

I seem to have mostly happy, mid-speed songs in my library.


I am really interested in a few new looney labs releases – Aquarius 2.0 and Chrononauts: The Gore Years expansion

(Chrononauts 1.4 The Gore Years: Like Aquarius, Chrononauts is also about to get upgraded to the new uniform box. But although it will feature a couple of new cards and a new rulesheet, the new edition of Chrononauts won’t be very different from the original. For this reason, and since it’s the fourth printing, they’ve decided to call it version 1.4. However, since a lot has happened since 1999 and Chrononauts is really showing its age, theyere also creating an expansion product that brings the TimeLine into the 21st Century. This packet of 11 cards will feature 5 new Timeline cards (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2008) along with 3 new Patches and 3 new characters who need to change recent events in order to get home. (Of course, it’s called the Gore Years because that’s what the last 8 years are known as to certain time travelers.). Release date: October 23th.

(Martian Fluxx, too, but not as much as the other two)

Additionally – I’d like to try Apophis sometime as a game. Looks neat, and I have all the pieces already to play!


from the lj status page, earlier –

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1 year ago – temp filling, need crown, knife wilding robot doodle, pedegg, german boardgames usually lack dice, Bengies, Mayor’s Drug raid – he’s innocent, cops shot his dogs, bro at 44 points, faces of evil project

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

3 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

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

5 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

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

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

8 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

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