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9828- thursday

BHK and Mandy out today – they headed to Annapolis and went shopping at Sephora (got makeovers) , Lush (nice smelly soaps), some sammiches at selby, coffee at fab brew.

I stayed home, in fear for my testosterone… Instead, I opted to stretch out my back, I put in 2.5 miles around the neighborhood… it was cloudy, so weather was cooler. After the first half-mile, I was able to stand up straight, and the walk became rather comfortable… I visited the candy store and picked up BHK a praline and some gummy soda-bottles to share along with my primary goal of a bottle of water. At the post office, paperback swap sent me (c/o BHK)  The Vesuvius Club (not the graphic edition, just the novel) and Song of Kali – I look forward to reading them both.

Later that afternoon, I gabbed, watched some Bones and played some phase 10 with Chris – The girls brought us home some selby subs – steak and cheese for Chris, uber-veggie for me!

Chris and I are planning to hit the gym sometime soon – it’ll be nice to do some weight training / back strengthening with another guy who knows what I’m dealing with.

He had to do the news starting at 4am tomorrow, so Chris hit the sack at about about 7:30 – BHK and I headed back home (across the street).

Laid back and we played a lot of DS (BHK) and PSP (me) while watching the finale of Burn Notice – we were both rather underwhelmed about the summer closer. Hopefully Psych will take up the slack.

Back is complaining now about the earlier walkies. I forgot to mention that I went with the old gps – made some waypoints – kitten safari, bus stops, etc.

Upon looking at my spinning Scotto heroclix icon… I think I have to update and make a new one for myself, BHK, Newton and Pye.


1 year ago – newtcam sunning pix, tooth break, wusa9’s angie goff and kim martucci blogs, 8800 gt video card coming with 2 gig ram, retronomatopeya

2 years ago – Pickles get made!, Sunflower, Raquel Welch as space gal, light table for treehouse, zendo, hello kitty cops, 

3 years ago – Monks in a circle, ken nordine, contact lens thought, 9-volt batteries, dragonball live action in spanish, shades vary electric bill,

4 years ago – Mona moves on from work, Lisa is a good name on lj, NASA pics, walkies phone post

5 years ago – Thinking Wolfsonian, CEJ, Skeletor, bro, bandwidth crooks, awesome search phrase, cat poop coffee, silly ad, Where do they make balloons… (hey, synchronicity)

6 years ago – miniature oranges, orisinal games, tv in my head, first/last meme, newt on a windowsill, daler mehndi

7 years ago – Newt Wakies, Croc bite brings beer, scotto-man, overtired, funions

8 years ago – vcr tape, gaming, militate, warren, scientific independence for researchers, Frontier Psychiatrist, evil SUV

9 years ago – many folks join my Friendy-list (probably due to addition of interests) , grover, graves museum Geotarget

9826 – Tuesday.

Got my shots and refilled meds today – that and running errands absorbed most of the available daylight. Back is still tricking up, but I do better after stretching and a little bit of a walk.  Still pretty tough for me to pick up anything moderately heavy, and standing or sitting for a long period is difficult.

During my last walk, I picked up a couple of UNO decks to put in local geocache sites. I’m not very fond of the drive-by/ “cache and dash” mindset, but going to one a day is a nice way to see newplaces and old ones in a new light.

BHK made plans with Mandy to hit the thrift store tomorrow – BHK has a lot of luck finding loot – I expect to get a good shirt or two at least!

1 year ago – newton pork chop leg pix, cukes from the garden. resting and ratatouille.

2 years ago – picked up some icehouse pieces at aardvark, tv watching, no hits on amnesty day, kids today (super sweet 16)

3 years ago – Danny’s last summer vacation day, pictures, hovering sombrero, many memes done in comments, hidden gp address in comments

4 years ago – cute mousie, taken, chatitn’, elevator express, ks sex preds

5 years ago – riding the bus, mystery creature, tv music in my head, a great new euphemism, maps, dr who, avengers, creep

6 years ago – COPS, nifty interfaces, Creatures, TV, Clay-o-rama rules

7 years ago – Signs movie, cancerless cigs, hellboy movie, scary bunny, 2nd wishes,Oz scary, zombies land on beach, Anna Nicole show hurt to watch

8 years ago – Oz quiz, Dictionaraoke, Day planning

9 years ago – Florida panthers, everglades restoration efforts, lj adds interests Geotarget

9816 – Monday, Monday

Got BHK her Birthday present a month early – a green DS lite, with a copy of treasure world. Bugah got a copy too – it’s a pretty addictive game, and it’s fun to drive around listening for found "treasure" while sightseeing areas you might otherwise not go.

Bugah got me back into playing with the PSP, too. MediaGo is a great improvement over the old media player/data transfer. Put a few episodes of the wire on the PSP for the Sleep Study coming up.

Scheduled my sleep study in about a week – new CPAP will be soon to follow. It’ll be the first night since we got married that BHK and I won’t be in the same bed. I doubt I’ll sleep very easily without her nearby.

1 year ago – garry’s mod, pickle pictures, love cube repairs, birthdays coming

2 years ago – Williamsburg dream, BHK, Amy & I dine at the in-laws, more gaming, start my BGG account

3 years ago – Japan’s underground photography, free wifi attractive nuisance, 2nd life updates, tough times in the congo, fishbone, ape-o-naut doodle / gays in space

4 years ago – A/c unhappy, Lisa/Lisa plans, Jacques the Monkey, Candice fickle, shots, Tom Waits, Abandoned amusement and theme parks, grumping, "shut it", mallah and the brain

5 years ago – monkey doodle, palm pictures from the bus, lavender-newt, notes from the road, atm jam, CoH, lj-flower, monkey yawn

6 years ago – palm doodles, power-outage, all consuming, power of burqas, sonic bullets

7 years ago – some day tripping, cool squirrel, Belgium is a myth, tongue-trimming, lj hot-or-not, Life imitates Real Genius!!!

8 years ago – overtired & grumpy, cockaigne, evil news, flash, evil news

9 years ago – wanting to go on a group outing, discover marquee Geotarget

9815 – Sunday, Sunday

Well, Back to life as a couple, rather than a trio- Bugah made it home safe and sound yesterday morning, We had the Nailles over last night for a little game night – mario party 8 and pizza. We went to their place today – played some Can’t Stop (you can get the computer version here) Had some tasty grilled food with them tonight – dogs and burgers with corn on the cob a la BHK, and some awesome potatoes. We’re going to have to recreate those once our garden gives us a few spuds.

Twisted my back a bit more yesterday, just carrying the pizza to the table… hopefully some stretching today will iron it out.

1 year ago– yahtzee @ docs, mexico, aardvark- with Sean’s d&D figures, Tsuro, netflix – machine girl / sisterhood of traveling pants, newt and pye nose kiss

2 years ago – peppers from the garden, polishing off our garden’s bounty, Amy and BHK Gaming, Death kitty LOLcats Apelad

3 years ago – snakes on a plane burnout, newtcam flipside, still waitin’, talking with bhk, old book scans, hal jordan (green lantern) head injuries, 5x$2, gig upgrade, hoff – king of the Internet

4 years ago – M&M bday, there will come soft rains, yahoo widgets, maybe a visit from the lisas, mp bday in 18

5 years ago – Newt hates Mondays, Beaucoupkev nominates me for prez, Solar Filament, Bradbury, Math atlas, P.I.s, Obvious Movie title

6 years ago -Bambi hunt a hoax, online games, lj diversity, comic book/cartoon thoughts, including the doom song.

7 years ago – some missing pictures, wondering about my eyes, watching TV, evil news, some palm pics, Newt pics

8 years ago – senescence, thegosis, arrival as a pod, loving thoughts

9 years ago – Buds for lunch , dealing ok with winding down Geotarget

9769 – Tuesday

job fair – some possible hits there!

After, we visited twilite zone comics and then games and stuff – got micro mutants. Wargame with a tiddlywinks mechanic. looks fun!

Lunch/ Dinner at Gina’s Cantina – then off to Sam’s club – It turns out that my card from work got understandably canceled – semi annoying since it took a year to get the thing, but it was deactivated withing a week of departing. trouble of a yearly schedule, I suppose.

Tomorrow I do a callback for Georgetown gig? Wish me luck, dear journal!


Nokia developing phone that recharges itself without mains electricity

A new prototype charging system from the company is able to power itself on nothing more than ambient radio waves – the weak TV, radio and mobile phone signals that permanently surround us. The power harvested is small but it is almost enough to power a mobile in standby mode indefinitely without ever needing to plug it into the mains, according to Markku Rouvala, one of the researchers who developed the device at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, UK.

The difference with Nokia’s prototype is that instead of harvesting tiny amounts of power (a few microwatts) from dedicated transmitters, Nokia claims it is able to scavenge relatively large amounts of power — around a thousand times as much — from signals coming from miles away. Individually the energy available in each of these signals is miniscule. But by harvesting radio waves across a wide range of frequencies it all adds up, said Rouvala.

The trick here is to ensure that these circuits use less power than is being received, said Rouvala. So far they have been able to harvest up to 5 milliwatts. Their short-term goal is to get in excess of 20 milliwatts, enough power to keep a phone in standby mode indefinitely without having to recharge it. But this would not be enough to actually use the phone to make or receive a call, he says. So ultimately the hope is to be able to get as much as 50 milliwatts which would be sufficient to slowly recharge the battery.


1 year ago – element gets hit with a tree branch, missed artomatic, missed trolley, hive, wishes were fishes, labyrinth, sex and indiana jones, giant movie monsters

2 years ago – Bugah and Neil Arrive, summertime fun, godzilla cheats, newtcam pics, courthouse artist

3 years ago – website gig, writing, newtcam, sleestak sounds,

4 years ago – Sleepy, lj tags, couscous w/Danny, high voltage, questions

5 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?

6 years ago – paranoid dream (has since come true at least once), silly RP in There, sleepy newt pic, Abbie the Cat Blog

7 years ago – Navajo Talkers, Barbie collectors, I learn about this apartment, palm doodles

8 years ago – IMT becomes FMM, paying by the word, slaver, funeral-cast.com, photo poll

9 years ago – Taco bell folding & WhitesnakeGeotargetVisitor Map

9767 – Monday

Danny sent me a solar powered robot frog, and a game –  infernal contraption.

BHK is currently making some awesome-smelling supper – something involving tortilla wrappers,  hot sauce, potatoes, zucchini, teriyaki sauce, and vegetarian meat called “veat”

Tomorrow – going to a job fair

1 year ago – vamps or werewolves, Father’s Day, pancakes, hot dogs, pictures of graffiti, weird road name, geese in bikinis, fireworks on newtcam

2 years ago – last day of county gig, hot brain, DC living costs, hero machine sponsored, neil and bugah coming for sleepover, danny visit upcoming, iana gig on monday

3 years ago – payday, mango fest, Phoenix uncomfy, Nonja the rude ape, elvis costello green shirt, chess piece poll, 

4 years ago – David Sutherland RIP, trunk turtles, Easter walkies, chimp pics, paper toys, gCensus, Mothra Song, superhero TV themes, vet mixup, menstrual superstitions, 250 questions

5 years ago – Queequeg, Lizard (a knight anole) pictures, fixed calamity’s icon,Mycoprotein, Sammy doodle, sites for positive change, yahoo goes fromsix meg to 100meg (now at 1 gig vs gmail’s 2+gig)

6 years ago – Father’s Day, vampire game, wondering about a world free of psychoactive drugs

7 years ago – lovely long talk, South Park Scotto, Tea room, Replacement parts, star trek breast insignia

8 years ago – Predators of man, Apt seeking, Nothing sacred, sql/ado. pet quiz, pizza parlor, writing urge, Big Guy and rusty. 

9 years ago – Nothing in particularGeotargetVisitor Map

9748 – Friday

 
Valve releases plugin to import Sketchup 3D models into Source maps – bring any object from Google’s 3D Warehouse into a first-person game  = I wonder how long it will take to import all of Miami into a Zombie level?
 
 
You know, I’ve never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it’s a rumor.

– David Carradine

 
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1 year ago –  more tornado pix, mis-belief it is Friday, Milky Way missing Arms, BHK feeling ill, viva calaca!, mechanical employees only
 
2 years ago – bhk cooks yum stuff, Putin believes in Giant Russian war robots and Cthulhu, plastic choking the oceans, tinfoil hats prevent cancer, abduction lamp best lamp ever, pie chart meme

3 years ago – monday, random words, africa, hudson hawk, wireless router config can be tricky, agape, bumper sticker

4 years ago – Blinky arrives and is celebrated, on my path, MP pictures, google thing meme, swingset, sockamagee, Shaq, writing group slacking, SMART BOY…"Jones" CLEANS EVERYTHING BUT THE.."Baby", MI:3 rumors and Scientology powers, meetro, rainy

5 years ago – Laundry done, moribund, hungries, celeb-alikes, mindmap, google-search journal, work issue, radio.blog, pain-ray, newt-yawn pics

6 years ago – bollywood, gay days/ Disney, marketing spongebob cereal

7 years ago – Moscow Tunnel system, fumigation

8 years ago – Paterfamilias , living on bread alone / scurvy, hobos, secret Scotto factoid re:barbershops

9 years ago – nuffin, muffinGeotargetVisitor Map

9741 – sun

Never did make it to Surrat house – Instead, we watched My Name is Bruce with Sean and Duncan. Teddy Grahams, hummus and hot dogs w/ kraut for all! Jay missed out, because he was sick at home.

Today was another stay at home day – took a hard walk around the neighborhood, and some chitty-chats with William Callas and Chris.

Visited Coffee Tea and Whimsy, and got some crabber crackers, a keychain giftie for BHK and caramel sauce for all!

Chris won her first-played game of Can’t Stop vs BHK and me, while Larry mowed the yard.

Later, the in-laws came back over for quiche with peas & broccoli from the garden, and we watched some ocean documntaries and ate vanilla ice cream with the aforementioned sauce… and blueberries!

Did I mention that BHK and I went to see Star Trek last Tuesday, dear journal? I seem to have skipped over it. I liked it just fine, thinking it’s #3 on my list of favorite star Trek movies, after #1 (Galaxy Quest) and #2 (Wrath of Khan). BHK enjoyed it, too, probably more than I did! We may be taking William to see UP on Tuesday matinee. (Which I’ve been looking more forward to than Trek, actually!)

1 year ago – haircut for alan’s party, blooming tea, tina & matt, epidural, robokill, RIP Bill Elder

2 years ago – mortgage, topology, newtcam2, condo issues, firefly and mosquitoes are out, linkdump

3 years ago – may ends, dr octagon, mad now unfunny in color, key west flare vigilante, fragged with bro, blood / allergy sticks, me as jeanbunny, mm flakes back

4 years ago – depth perception, bald oscars, intel drm chips, santana, nice monday, mp3 mashups (new locations here), pros and cons, Lost is Zork (even moreso with the green monitor), connections to people, fish heads, chipmunk stripes

5 years ago – Memorial day, hell in miniature, new mouse, zombie, quiet day, little house

6 years ago – comment screening, monty burns, ch-57, silly newt, matrix reloaded explanation

7 years ago – Prezzies and rain, springer, peanut butter soda, tempestmir introduces Newt to Newt. LRsetup program crashes out, sleeping Friday five

8 years ago – pervicacious, time changes, Mikey passes away, walkies, Hubris and Gnosis, heh yuh dun?, evil news

9 years ago – polytron, country musicGeotargetVisitor Map

9740 – Saturday

Later today, we’re heading to the Surratt House today with BHK, Jay, Sean and Duncan. 

note –

http://www.surratt.org/mudd/muddcase.html
http://www.surratt.org/events/manhunt_movie.html
http://www.surratt.org/

Last night BHK and I had a lights out night – no power, just played boardgames and cards by rechargeable "candlelight" lamps.

Can’t stop bhk won 1, I won one  S6303530

Probe – bhk won  *S6303536*

Canasta Caliente – bhk won one, I won one

Charge it! – I won one

All were fun – I recommend a family game night to anyone!

more to follow when we return, dear journal!

1 year ago – poitics test, Great Gazoo, RIP, Hard knocks life, tigger/pye smoking dream, geister and other fun online games, gimlet, alan’s bday prezzie

2 years ago – hot in the courthouse, shaved ice, adam and jimmy’s graduation, more lj spam, move to own domain?

3 years ago – nice time with danny, rocker meme, mm call

4 years ago – memorial day, bhk fridge magnet pic, dr who

5 years ago – spotty notepad frenzy, mood theme editor fixed, General Tao’s tofu, My cam catches right before lights out, Newt-bt pic, Nose beeps, streams of thought, sleepy newt wallpaper (or why using arrow keys is hard with the boy on the desk)

6 years ago – google news, kev, easter island, barcode, got a lovely peek-in.

7 years ago – complaining about the weather, disappearing languages, palm piccies that need to be re-uploaded, smoke ring gun

8 years ago – hoi polloi, nice walk, memory stream, super chicken, ask me a question, ostriches

9 years ago – stream of thought re:Newt, Fritz & AprilGeotargetVisitor Map

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our first cauliflour of the new garden blooms!

Also, Free comic book day… third since we’ve been married. 🙂

Cosmic Encounter at Aardvark – maybe we’ll pick it up sometime? We got an apples to apples expansion set.

1 year ago – technology make us ruder?, 27 dresses, massive

2 years ago – freeciv / freecol, lj posts turned to audio posts, annmarie garden

3 years ago – 8333, palm diet, catagoriz, meanface, bro drama, stupid math tricks, tales to astonish

4 years ago – Cyberman cameo, all caps, bush mashup, best way to fight a vampire, Spanish frog, near-noggin hit, bus-cam pics, pulp book covers, zombie raccoon pic, geek/travel, interview meme

5 years ago – nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes

6 years ago – highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues

7 years ago – lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving

8 years ago – misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUPGeotargetVisitor Map

9689 – Wednesday

wii games from the library –

carnival gamessummer sports paradise island Cute, but not great.  I’d say that carnival games is worth a quick rental from the library, but summer sports was hardly worth the loading into the wii.

We surfed the machine’s wiiware collection and dropped $10 on  bonsai barber – much fun and superior to both the others.


Back’s doing a little bit better – but sciatica is pretty rough.


Catching up with Apache, Old issues of Giffen’s Dr. Fate, and books made of paper. (focusing on history, tech, sci-fi, and silliness)


Jason Fortuny ordered to pay $74k for Craigslist sex baiting prank – (see waxy’s recap)


1 year ago – personality test, earth day, emergency supply trapdoor, brown and green, Thomas Jefferson, BHK Hexxagon

2 years ago – got Steve Jacoby’s website, earth day, roto-tilled garden, pye and newton on boxes, mr rogers breakdances, Steve Mancour, high school meme

3 years ago – meeting mom, newtcam, silly pic, coconut and the lizard

4 years ago – Bettie Page’s bday, MJ & vaseline, bus ride pics, newt and a space monkey, air show, ramscan, banana tree herb, exoskeleton, taco bell, email kills iq more than pot

5 years ago – Eucharist toss, RI peeves me, there, vamps, CS mail-skim

6 years ago – country meme, there-crew, battle-imp

7 years ago – dreams, make out places in Ft Lauderdale, lone gunmen gone, chupa vs tia

8 years ago
 – ljwhores, undulant, Earth Day, international kite fest, 10 reasons sex is good for you, Peru shoots down US planeGeotargetVisitor Map 

9681 – Tuesday

Rainy day this morning – took the raincoat rather than the overcoat. Slipped a bit in the mud at the station – kept balance, but my shoes and my back are paying the price.

Saw the "Truth Truck " at L’enfant Plaza (note – link can be easily considered offensive)

Reading the first book from the Nightside series BHK found for me off of bookmooch – . Fantasy Noir stuff… first 30 pages are entertaining so far. I got the fourth book at a B.I.G. booksale about a year ago, and hadn’t opened it yet.

Need to play munchkin, or one of our other games – nice to have a no tv night.

Feeling pretty sore – hitting the sack early. g’nite, dear journal.

1 year ago – drop.io (gimme something!), creaky, taxes, body/health issues, NPPR cookie monster interview, IE7 only sites bleah, writers block quiz answer

2 years ago – Pictures of Llamas!, Slugs, video game goodies for BHK and me, booksale, BHK invades my journal caveman-style

3 years ago – hanging out at murphy’s, dan plans, music sharing, quizzes, good friday, commander usa

4 years ago – work, club visit, poorhouse, Tomi visit, mai kai tiki torch night, figa, aliases, admiration meme (999 entries ago)

5 years ago – memory sparks, adp issues with new hire

6 years ago – jkg, stikfas, pictures

7 years ago – library cats, vending machine art, The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, & Body Language Cues, plants, middle earth poll, poop

8 years ago – touch of evil, dsl, love, spermGeotarget

9662 – Friday!

No Franklin this morning, but his opposite number, (a skittish and dirty gray tabby with white socks) said hello from a distance… ran when I greeted her, but I put some treats down in the field where she was hanging out. Hopefully she’ll have a little snack later.

Set up my bookmooch account – I’m scottobear there , (avonberg is also there, far more active!)

buffalo shrimp salads with the in-laws tonight – postponed – in-laws were busy, so we did buffalo-pseudo-chicken-patty salads, instead.

Playing hangman with BHK earlier. Occupation: –DD-NG M-N-STER

My bad, I thought it was Pudding Monster. BHK got it right with Wedding Minister. I would love to have a job as a pudding monster, at least for a bit.

Meme via Bubbles!

The longest survey you’ll ever fill out! Do the world a favor: fill it out and post it for all your friends…. Do this because the person who did this didn’t sit here for ages for nothing. Answer all the questions honestly, no lying to avoid stuff.

If you’ve been tagged its because the person who tagged you wants to know your answers!

Shoe size: 15
Height: 6’5-6ish
What are you wearing right now? Friday work clothes – (filling this out on the bus ride home) – black shoes, black socks, dark blue pants, maroon and dark blue striped polo shirt, gray and light blue jacket.
Righty or lefty: Lefty
Can you make a£1 in change? nope I’ve got american Money.. however, I cannot even do $1 in change. I have about 45 cents in my pocket.
Best place to go for a date? I’m a fan of the classic dinner and a movie.

FAVORITES

Number: 5/14/23
Animal: monkey/bear/sasquatch
Favorite drink: diet cherry dr pepper (not diet cherry VANILLA dr pepper)

Month: October
Juice: Orange
Favorite cartoon: venture brothers

HAVE YOU EVER
Given anyone a bath: yes (younger brother when he was little)
Bungee Jumped? nope
Made yourself throw up? nope… I’ve vomited on my own, though
Gone skinny dipping? yup
Eaten a dog? Nope!
Played truth or dare? back in high school maybe
Came close to dying? here and there
Been in a sauna? yes
Been in a hot tub? Yes
Broken someone’s heart? hopefully not
Cried when someone died? Yes
Fell off your chair? yes – fainted!
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call? yes – worried about bro again
Saved e-mails? Yes
Ever used someone? not intentionally, but I imagine I have
Been cheated on? I believe so.

WHAT IS
Your good luck charm? Newton whisker and a Sacagawea dollar
Fav. song? This will be our year
What is beside you? an empty lunch bag and my laptop bag
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EVER HAD
Chicken pox: yup – when I was 8
Sore Throat: yes – every year or three
Stitches: yes – many times
Broken a bone? collarbone

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DO YOU
Believe in love at first sight? I’m sure it happens all the time.
Believe in long distance relationships? they can work, but both people really need to want to make it work.
Who was the last person that called you? BHK
Who was the last person you slow danced with? BHK
Who makes you smile the most? BHK
Who knows you the best? Newton and/or BHK
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Do you like filling these out: when they show me something new, yes
Do you wear contact lenses or glasses? nope
Do you like yourself? I’m an ok guy.
Do you get along with your family? I can get along with anyone, for at least a little while.

ARE YOU
Obsessive Compulsive? Maybe neurotic at times.
Suicidal? no

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FINAL QUESTIONS
What did you do yesterday? see yesterday’s journal entry!
Hated someone in your family? yes, but now it’s down to a mild dislike
Gotten any awards? sure – stiff from florida dept of law enforcement, trophies as a kid, the usual stuff
What car/truck do you wish to have? the love cube, fully repaired.
Where do you want to get married? been and done! worked for me!
Good driver? I’m long out of practice.
Good Singer? I do a pretty decent fake of some songs
Have a lava lamp? not for years
How many remote controls are in your house? about 5 I think
What was your last dream about: I was eating a sandwich covered in sesame seeds – they turned out to be hair follicles and the top of a football.
When you last showered? this morning
Scary or Funny Movies? Funny – it’s hard to scare me, but easy to make me laugh.
Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
Root beer or Dr.Pepper? Dr. P.
Water skiing or wake boarding? wake boarding… my feet are too big for water skis.
Summer or winter? I prefer cold to hot, but summer has fireflies.
Silver or Gold? Silver
Diamond or pearl? pearl
Sprite or 7up? sprite
Coffee or sweet tea? sweet tea
Phone or in person? in person. I really dislike using the phone!
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TODAY DID YOU
1. Talk to someone you liked: yes
2. Buy something: soda pop and some chips
3. Get sick?: No
4. Talked to an ex? no
5. Miss someone: yes – bro back when he was younger.
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LAST PERSON WHO
6. Slept in your bed?: Probably Newton, if not, BHK and me

no 7?

8. Made you cry? me. body aches
9. Went to the movies with? BHK
10. Said "I Love You"?: BHK

no 11?

12. Last Hug? Pyewacket
13. Been to Mexico? last person been to mexico?? I have.
14. Been to Canada? I’ve been to the border, not sure if I’ve been inside.
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RANDOM
15. Do you have a crush on someone right now? I love someone right now!
16. What book are you reading now? a few, depending where in the house I am. most recently touched was a MySQL programming guide
17. Best feeling in the world? making someone you love happy
18. Future kids’ names? Changes with the wind. I sort of like Penelope and William right now, but I’d have to see the kid first.
19. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal? only when Newton, Pyewacket or BHK are very well fed!
20. Whats under your bed? dust bunnies, stray cat toys, stray books
21. Favorite sport to watch? Football isn’t terrible, or Martial Arts
22. Favorite location? Home
23. Piercings/Tattoos: Really depends on the situation. I don’t have either, but don’t mind either on someone else.
24. What are you most scared of right now? Fear itself
25. Who do you really hate? The stupidly dangerous
26. Do you have a job? Yes
27. Have you ever liked someone you didn’t have a chance with? Sure, I think everyone has.
28. Are you lonely right now? nope!
29. Song that’s stuck in your head right now? Blue Bayou – Linda Ronstadt
30. Have you ever played strip poker? no
31. Have you ever gotten beat up? yes
32. Have you ever been on radio/TV?: yes – as a spokesman for assorted things, child advocacy mostly.
33.Have you ever been in a "mosh-pit"? yes
34. Ever liked someone, but thought they never noticed you? yes and I was right!
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RANDOM
Whats the first things you notice about the opposite sex (visual)? posture / body language
Are you too shy to ask someone out?  I can be bold or shy – moot now, I can easily ask BHK out!
Dogs or Cats? I’m more allergic to dogs, but I love critters! More partial to cats, because they are a bit more self-cleaning.
Favorite Flower? I vary – right now I rather like honeysuckle.
Have you ever fired a gun? several times

1 year ago – documentation weirdness, daffodil central, young scotto & bro pics, safety patrol, Miami police drones

2 years ago – back mending, bhk cold fading, mission impossible squirrel video, blogger death threats, larry and tigger vet trip picture

3 years ago – V movie, political ramble / revolution, boca/popular comics, pictures from walkabout, newt playing fetch pics

4 years ago – Easter, Deadbolt, Danny recap, K, piccies, personality test, heard from everway gamers, kitties video, walking octopus, waterbus

5 years ago – Procrastination, Henchman, search warrants/LA, booger eaters, vacuum cleaners, Brian Blessed, heroclix, zombie pinups

6 years ago – jkg, TAG, souls, Bahá’í, soul & body, leaving FMM

7 years ago – dream, dented the door with my mitt, sleepy and grumpy, how I sleep w/newt, small hands=rude, army men, Dan Bfast, lab grown meat, dali museum, secret fun spot, 2 dead celebs

8 years ago – lj bump, baby newt pic, one ring, mush, thebot, palm doodle-art, John DenverGeotarget

9631 – Thursday

I am both amused and a little dismayed that our town uses a very similar font as The Prisoner for all of their emailed town announcements. Mostly Amused.

North Beach
Planning Commission
February 26, 2009
7:00 p.m.
North Beach Town Hall
1) Minutes from the January 22, 2009 Meeting
2) Board of Appeals Case: Recommendation for 9201 Annapolis Avenue, variance request.

Firsts Meme (snagged from Kat)

Continue reading 9631 – Thursday

9617 – Saturday

Valentine’s Day! BHK got peanut butter chocolates and a couple of cards from me… I got a wonderful couple of cards, a dragon kite with a wingspan is as wide as I am tall, [edit- added a spiffy sea monster video game for the wii] and some very spiffy coupons.

BHK and I curled up on the couch and played a little lego indiana jones on the wii (checked out form the library), but then the in-laws rang us up – No time for love, Dr. Jones!

We went with the in-laws to get a spot of lunch at Clarke’s Landing (Great view, and the best seafood place we’ve been to – plus, it was free – Valentine’s gift from the in-laws)  and then onward to Leonardtown (home of ol’ Witches Rock ), and visited a local gallery and used bookstore before heading back to headquarters. BHK got a couple of cookbooks, a pair of green cylindrical earrings, black-eyed susan seeds and some Chick-lit. We got Larry a book on Southern Pacific Railroad, and a Lou Reid CD. I just enjoyed roaming aorund with my sweetie, drinking a hot cup of Earl Gray tea and taking in some nifty stenciled graffiti.

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When we (in-laws and all) got home, we watched the Nancy Drew Movie (BHK loved it, and I thought it was cute, too.)

Now we’re watching the Lost in Austen miniseries, and I’m about ready for bed. BHK and Larry are already out cold, and Chris is not long to follow.


So, Yelp sells review placement?

"Stoppelman said Yelp doesn’t strong-arm merchants and that the site’s sponsorship program — its main source of revenue — doesn’t offer "pay for play" to advertisers.

Tell that to Tom Mulvihill, owner of Thai Issan restaurant in Cerritos. He received a letter from Yelp last summer informing him that his business had earned a rating of four stars out of five.

Shortly afterward, Mulvihill said he received a call from a Yelp saleswoman urging him to pay a minimum of $150 a month for sponsorship.

"She said sponsorship would allow us to hide the negative reviews and elevate the positive ones," he recalled.

Well, if that’s the case, how can they be considered even remotely valid? I’ve removed links from my site, and am considering what my alternatives are in the review arena.

1 year ago – V-day, awesome superhero toy collection in one blister pack, metro assaults, 2 new dinos, waterboarding underestimated, sourcetv, list of famous $cientologists

2 years ago – stayed in for ice storm smashes our fence, ice pictures

3 years ago – Sand dollar, interjection poll, Miami cloud art, bro drama, Bang!

4 years ago – dream, war tuning, slacker, torrent tv, gm-ginger kitties, questions meme, christo, newt stalking pic, zefrank’s st. val history, whims-cute card, work peeve

5 years ago – V-day, hippie visit results, Nefertiti documentary mostly drama – not much document, cheese doodle sculpture, anonymous reviewer bug amazon

6 years ago – got the nordis gig, palm pics

7 years ago – n V-day poetry, JB figures out about SA & Me, wandering pics

8 years ago – How Do I Love Thee?, I resemble Dan Conner, Men cause the mutations, tea room & old TV, TMBG lyricGeotarget