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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 linkiesGeotarget

9592 – Friday

Went to hospital for a gut – check – Doc gave me meds, and prescribed an Upper GI / sonogram. Digestive tract is treating me mean – but now I have some meds to tide me over. Sonogram tomorrow, Upper GI next week. Also got Allergy shots today, since I was in the area, and work told me that I didn’t have to come in.

Stopped at the  library – got boom blox for the wii- cute, but not a purchase. one night was enough.

BHK made some tasty soup! pot pie squares (noodles), broccolii, cabbage, peas, carrots, celery veggie "beef" stock. really good.

To make up for a lack of content – have a picture of Newton sunning in the window, watching the starlings outside

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1 year ago
– pye on cam, bhk and Cathy, paper ballot in MD, walker nightmare, self-portrait (see yesterday for same place), stinging hands memory, pueblo zip, punch a tyrannosaurus in the face, Human sacrifice by General Butt naked

2 years ago – zombie astronaut, gun runner dream, paper moon pix

3 years ago – missing cj, superhero dream, youtube b&B, fat bat cat, herm patient, pug in lucha mask, endless forest, birthday counter.

4 years ago – Chilly, doodle, facial morphs (monkey scotto is still my fave), food, height comparisons, a/b meme, warning labels, toybox mooch, scythes

5 years ago – happy Newt, nipples off, palm post – bus stop, tummy ache. penguin poop, giant nostril

6 years ago – Tests, truth, rumor, links and history, lj spam, Kev in court

7 years ago – I got my camera, Alvin gets fired from work for stealing overtime, unsolved mysteries, snap club, mcd’s employees, nifty moon site.

8 years ago – Reflections on the old regime, The Litter Box Song *snerk*, Cow Saliva, "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme", rehiring some of the fire-eesGeotarget Geotarget

9577 – Sunday

Learned a little bit about Rescue Ink – tough guys helping out animals.

This morning we headed over to the first day of the Annapolis Winter farmer’s market – not a lot of vendors yet, but I’m guessing it’ll grow.  We picked up some turnips, soap, coffee for cheap and a localvore mag for free of note was the spiffy alpaca stuff.

On the way home, we swung by 3rd eye comics and I caught up on my ambush bug – also got the Munchkin Quest boardgame & an Obama comic for BHK.

Visited Best Buy to peek at the eee netbooks, and the acer one – maybe a goodie for us later on this year (not purchasing at BB, though – online has better deals). $200 for a laptop with internet isn’t too shabby.

After that we came home – watched die monster die (boris karloff flick loosely based on "the colour out of space"), the soup, mr meaty, and corpse bride, sanctuary… tried to soak up as much rest as we could, but I still ending up pooped, so I took apart train set under the Christmas Tree, and now we’re tucking in to bed.

Goodnight, dear journal.

1 year ago – baby polar bear, different route to work, friday 5, gizmodo tv-b-gone

2 years ago – newt and pye pics / video, off to marion

3 years ago – hijinks, top 10 questions, hieroglyphic names, system still out for repair, doodling

4 years ago – turtle thought, dinero, illumination, tv torrents, vampire hunting with a stand up bass, metasearch, mucho folks fired for keeping online journals, iraqi abuse cheerleaders, server location, flying_blind introduces me to the term blague which is a perfect alternate to blog.

5 years ago – drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout

6 years ago – LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies

7 years ago – Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby

8 years ago – looking to the future, all the words Geotarget

9573 – Wednesday 1/7/9

Regular day in ol’ Scottoville, dear journal.

Icy, cold rain all day – bhk and I came home, and she had some tasty quiche for us to munch for dinner.

We both chatted a bit with Angie Goff last night via mogulus – I’m not sure if it’s what I want ot use to strema newtcam, but it is a good little website, once you work out the kinks. Also so Kim Martucci on video as well – it was fun chatting with both of ’em!

It occurs to me that I haven’t yet mentioned my Christmas loot. here is a brief list, likely in need of more detail later.

Here are some of the goodies I got this year, in no particular order, just off the top of my head:

  • Some wonderful coupons – BHK’s undying love, homemade fudge and dinner of my choice!
  • Battery charger – runs on usb or wall plug
  • book on playing the bass guitar
  • bananagrams game – I love the bag and the pieces – can’t wait to play
  • scrabble poker game
  • a bubble-balance (on a keyring)
  • a snakehead fish plushie (in orange and green)
  • Several books – Some Steven Fry, The Twelve, a book of goofy letters sent to companies, National Musueum, assorted super-hero, and other keen tomes
  • a shoeshine sponge
  • Wings of War – Balloon-Busting Biplane combat game from Danny
  • $200 coupon good for cash transfer into the bank
  • A boatload of candy, cookies and such! Including homemade haystacks from BHK – crunchies, butterscotch and peanut held together with chocolate. yum!
  • Baked goods of many varieties
  • a tea towel
  • Oranges & assorted citrus (also a chocolate orange)
  • A lovely blue striped sweater, that actually fits
  • 2 new train cars for my engine – a flat freight and a yellow grain container
  • A miniature Stonehenge kit (will look good by the train)
  • a laser-pointer/flashlight gizmo
  • best of the Thunderbirds on dvd (the puppet tv show, not the rock band)
  • a tissue box cover made of scrapbook paisley and clip art frogs
  • a martha stewart pie cutter/server

Did I forget anything? Sure I did… but I’ll mention them as they pop up either in use or conversation.

1 year ago – cracked tooth, sick to work, atw man, quepapa (tater-tot) clog at pizza-hut, bhk finger-pinch, hl2 and psych

2 years ago – laundry with newt pics, bros grimm, dream away, major spam hits in anony comments due to the word "panty"

3 years ago – RS suspicious, fdle meeting, sleepy, cheap electric, laser pointer in fog, fabiform, windows update, yahoo ads

4 years ago – pics of Danny and I playing pirates at twistyland, sickly mel, hippo and tortoise are pals, how infectious are dead bodies

5 years ago – Goodies, bad phone, long meeting

6 years ago – waiting for doc, HMOs suck, Autopsy, memories

7 years ago – freesco, horked my arm, make smudges, culture bound syndromes, stinky, live in the present, salt sticks

8 years ago – vagg, movies, napster Geotarget
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9567 – And with a new day… a new year begins.

Hap-Pye New(t) Year!

Something I post at the top of every new year, and I appreciate the words more with every additional trip around the sun.

Love is
is not rude,
it is not self seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices in truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.

-1 Corinthians 13:5&6

453 entries in 2008. (417 in ‘07,618 in ’06, 975 in ’05, 716 in ’04)

At this rate, I’ll break 10,000 entries by this time next year… of course, some entries are beefier than others.. I’ve been cheating a bit with the picture posts – still haven’t done a breakdown of my holiday loot yet!

But for now, a recap of recent history –

BHK took Amy to Urgent care last night, as her dog bite was getting more infected – worried about swelling and red marks. While they were at the doc’s, Shaun and I played Easter Island (I won!), and watched Bones on TV with my in-laws. The girls got back about 45 minutes later, and Amy’s wound was freshly cleaned and re-wrapped with gauze.

After the ball dropped, the in-laws headed off, and the rest of us played witch trial into the wee hours. (BHK took that one, but Amy wasn’t far behind. I really thought I would win! d’oh!)

Amy, Shaun W, BHK, the in-laws and I rose at about 10am, (after staying up until 3ish) and headed off to Gina’s Cantina for a nibble on some tasty brunch. No sign of Tyson or Gina, but the food was tasty and abundant, as usual.

BHK napped a bit and then did some work while Amy & I play Lego star wars / Mario Land 8 on the wii for about 4 hours. I feel pretty guilty about that – I wish we had another controller, or could have played something amongst the three of us.

Amy grew concerned about her issue – BHK went out to get some fresh bandages for her, and if she doesn’t feel significantly better by tomorrow morning, she’ll probably head home.

My earache also started kicking up – could not eat dinner tonight as it hurt to chew. Going to the doc tomorrow, so my appointment timing is good.

1 year ago – HNY, Hairspray, New pyecam laptop

2  years ago – HNY, newt and pye pics, 618 entries, sucky movies

3 years ago – HNY, modis, counts, PD movies, new day in sofla

4 years ago – Transformer guy, paleoclimatology, Tony Danza Has a TV show, Sri Lanka refuses aid because they are military, element, music, monkey entry links, unpopular baby names, pet names, Scotty’s Stores sinking, B-to-the-E, 1-2-3-go vs 1-2-go-on-3 poll

5 years ago – ninja turtles, FFXI w/Sammy & D, film finding, Newt age progression, missing kid

6 years ago – law of 5s, ageless project, wishes that didn’t come true, edbook’s llamas, sofla ice age, rain, slow day, Danny stubborn, finished Barnum / started agony & ecstasy, Newt pic

7 years ago – TZ marathon, people requesting money for reading their journal, country specific euros, 2nd instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6 and Happy Newt Year!

8 years ago – Resolutions, some dead news links, good links to marbles, bejeweled,alchemy, etc, 1st instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6, reflections on old games, Norman bates, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a new writing styleGeotarget

9543 – Sunday

Not much today – BHK sick and sleeps, I play fallout 3 and do net-research.

Fallout-wise, I’m doing my best not to get slaughtered by "centaurs" and super mutants at the base of the now "heavily weathered"  washington monument. Brotherhood of steel there.

Perhaps more to follow once BHK wakes up. I hope she feels better soon!

Charlie Brown Xmas on tonight, I think!

1 year ago – giant vs nazi robot dinosaur, sputnik cafe, driver 8, quiz-meme, wifi sensing t-shirt, bhk *$ and presents

2 years ago – General dynamics, watched barbarella, prep for directv

3 years ago – big brain waiting on repair, foggy morning pics

4 years ago – mel’s new place, zombie survival, what’s a hoe, 8/20/2000 last day without a post

5 years ago – JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart

6 years ago – Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.

7 years ago – I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.

8 years ago – Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes. Geotarget

9523 – Friday

Friday!

Date night! Where are we off to? Christmas Lights in Annapolis, I think. I’m looking forward to a nice weekend with BHK – it seem slong overdue.


I suspect that JJ Abrams will make it tough for me to interest BHK in the new star Trek movie. (She wasn’t too crazy about Cloverfield… or Lost. or Fringe… or.. ) For that matter, I gave up on Season 2 of Lost, episode 1 of Fringe, and Swarm of the Snakehead is more my idea of a fun monster movie than Cloverfield. – all of which fairly split me from most of the Science Fiction fans out there.

However, I still want to see the new trek, even if it is 90210 in outer space, with Winona Ryder, and Bana as a Romulan with a Scottish Accent. I think I’ve got her sold on the gal who plays uhura and the guy from Harold and kumar.

per Kat – Google is hosting LIFE photo archives, free to view & print (as long as you’re not trying to making money at it.) http://images.google.com/hosted/lif e

If the translation to English is to be trusted, Egypt’s strongest man generates 240 horsepower, is medically exempt from working because he might hurt someone in the workplace, and, well, it just gets better from there. Oh, and HE’S NEVER SLEPT. (via delicious ghost)

misc thoughts recently, most from today –

Scott is ready for date night!

Scott is impressed by sublimation. (It is a common experience to observe the disappearance of snow from the ground even though the temperature is below the freezing point and liquid water is never present.)

Scott believes that any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. (and vice versa).

Scott frequently prefers leftovers to the first time "put on the plate" food.

Scott loves working on the 11th floor. Snow is falling UP past my window. 

Scott wouldn’t bother with silver bullets to fight werewolves. Silver buckshot, maybe. 


Valve was offering Half-Life for just 98¢ in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the company’s debut title – I had to pick it up – I’m only a decade behind for not playing it! Even my brother had it for about 2 years, and I just never got around to it.

1 year ago – bro out of jail and in seemingly good condition, date night with BHK, movie reviews / possibilities,

2 years ago – pirate scotto pic

3 years ago – red lobster, class struggle, black friday, chubby checker

Pictures – 7942 posts!

4 years ago – pirates, giraffes, incredibles, bro

5 years ago – Marvel Family, Countdown meme, garden pictures

6 years ago – Free audio books, hubcap monsters, discover empanadas nearby, GIMP

7 years ago – cloture, pocketlj, single card tarot spreads, meeting lj folks confirmed

8 years ago – air cools, Young Frankenstein poetry, sleepyhead, country bear jamboree

9 years ago – very basic Newt statsGeotarget

9514- Friday

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Friday- nice to see it back again. It was foggy beyond belief yesterday, and continues today.

Last night’s supper of Chinese food from the Octagon was pretty good – I only wish they hadn’t packaged the general tso’s tofu in such a way that I got it all over my work pants and jacket while driving home.

Back was tweaking up something fierce – I wonder if the barometric pressure was a factor, or all that fog?

BHK is using her super legal-powers to help with the condo issues – looks like we might get this thing ironed out after all!

While she looked up condo legal-ese, I did some back stretches,  overdue computer stuff, and checked out the demo of Left4Dead… that’s a beautiful game right there. The artwork is pretty top notch, and I really like the team play aspect. That’ll probably be my next purchase afte rI swim through Fallout 3 some more. Maybe someday I’ll get around to finishing the later episodes of HL2.

In other gaming news, BHK picked me up a new gaming joystick via freecycle. Can’t beat free hardware!

This weekend, we are likely to skip JohnCon, and instead go to Geppi’s Entertainment Museum. (I wonder if my metropass will count for $2 OFF GO GREEN! Show your ticket stub for public transportation for that day and receive $2 off admission to Geppi’s Entertainment Museum.)

Lunch today of "chicken" nuggets and mac&cheese was dang tasty. perfect for a cool, misty day

Got off work, and the Element has recovered from the hit we took from the deer. It still smells a bit of paint, but looks good as new.

Traffic was HORRID today. It took us forever to get anywhere!

BHK, Larry, Chris and I went to Selby – I guess the owners are looking to retire, sadly. I guess we had better get the pizza while we can!



Scholar finds Mayans’ buried highway through hell


The Washington Post is reporting that the shutdown of one hosting company has caused the total volume of spam to drop by 2/3rds. The company in question is McColo Corp. Both Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing pulled the plug today after a damning report revealed a number of illegal activities happening on McColo’s servers.


1 year ago – more fog, falafel, blog2blog, The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love,

2 years ago – road pix, graffiti, spider girl gang, test vox crosspost
pictures – BHK doodle-writes on my pda, cartoon pic

3 years ago – moon cake, doom patrol, politics, Life Pref, butt jokes and political statements preferred
pictures – recent visits over 24 hours

4 years ago – monet’s b’day, comment/entry stats, america’s age, torrenting shows via rss, vouchers unconstitutional, prednisone, taking falluja, work vacation, newt pics

5 years ago – bollywood, pt, hooray for adhesives!

6 years ago – Male contraceptive, Dan met OJ Simpson, Newt-spoon Wrestling, peephenge, eating on the cheap.

7 years ago – evil news, gallimaufry , happiness machine recycled, writing apache modules

8 years ago – Bee-man lives, lucha, schizo-masons, Brian comment Geotarget

9513 – Thursday 2

Just as FYI – the prior entry was that of a pair of clowns being sucked into a pneumatic tube.


Was late to the Metro this morning, so BHK rolled me all the way in – we had time to get a hot chocolate and a cinnamon cake, one or both of which made us both a little on the ill side come 10:30/11am. Last strike for that place – just as well, since *$ is a real money sink, and the tassimo makes better coffee and hot chocolate.

Work was steady today – and I’m brushing up on my Bash shell script powers – perl wasn’t the way to go on one of my projects, it seems. I’m developing new skills in GPG as well, out of necessity.

Lunch of veggie "turkey" roast on pumpernickel with gouda and spicy mustard did just the trick. root veggies make me happy too. Pumpkin pie yogurt is still weird, but November appropriate. Banana was out of sync, but yummy.


Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States’ first plasma gasification plant. The plant will use super-hot 10,000 degree Fahrenheit plasma to effectively vaporize 1,500 tons of trash each day, which in turn spins turbines to generate 60MW of electricity — enough to power 50,000 homes!

– Is it wrong to think that it would be the source of a really perfect crime? What a solid way to dispose of a body, evidence, etc…


Topps announced that "WizKids will immediately cease operations and discontinue its product lines."

I guess that means no new Pirates, but it looks like Heroclix will survive.


1 year ago – noose dream, stick shifts and safety belts, logical fallacies, autumn remains, DIET GRAPE RETURNS!, perfervid,

2 years ago – punch buggy, meeting, craig james white, typo on sheet, work misc

3 years ago – LED clothes, K&K mime, Clavicus loves his pastry, doom patrol, quizzes, x-ing, newt pic, Red knows the score, cybermen, scotto avie

pictures taken 2 years ago – newt with the palm cam

4 years ago – bro call, sammich heartburn, remote control jargon, Eid, promenade in the park, FF movie looks like poop, comic book torrents, CoH sued by Marvel

5 years ago – Butterflies, Christ, Wind and Dexterity, my journal is in popular science, phonepost, back on call

6 years ago – expensive minis, misc whims, wacky news, bob hope

7 years ago – I live near blimps, medicine poll, Bad Elder Caucasian Dudes, marvel misfits

8 years ago – Des tries to take on the hive, whoville test, aok, Robbo’s last weekGeotarget Geotarget Geotarget

9510 – Wednesday

Just heard about the gaming thing up at Johns Hopkins is happening this weekend. Maybe I can wrangle swinging by there after going to lunch at paper moon with BHK and Alice. If anyone is in the area and of a mind, maybe we could have a little visit, too. I wanted to maybe get a little game time in with Cath and Haas, but schedules didn’t work out for us – maybe this is a happy medium. Note to self, send a facebook invite.

Maybe BHK and I will get in a round of GURPS space? (noon to 5 – likely not. Lunch date, and all) Or at least a game of chrononauts or something in freeplay time. Maybe I should bring Hive or something small and portable to play..I wouldn’t mind a quick game of werewolf or chez geek.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 years ago – Rush, Bee-manGeotarget Geotarget

entry 9499 – New Things

Let’s see – what’s new?

Well, Shaun W came over for supper with BHK and me – veggie/stuffed cabbage, mac & cheese, and a ton of snacks.

Played –

Monty Python Fluxx – Cute game, I like it! Shaun Won.

Early American Chrononauts – A classic – BHK won.

The a-MAZE-ing labyrinth – BHK won, yet again.

Me, I got a good dinner and some fun chitty-chat time with folks. I’m good 🙂

Oh yeah, and Obama swept the presidential election! Good on you, Big O! He’s got a lot of work ahead of him – I hope he’s up to the task!

We may make game night a semi-regular occurrence, but I can’t do the past 11pm thing on a “school night”. Staying up late for the election was a special circumstance, and I’m glad I did.

Additional – looks like it’s time for a new power supply for D1000y ( http://help-site.com/Hardware/Computers/Desktops/HP/Pavilion_d1000/Pavilion_d1000y/ ) . While I was dressing for work this morning, BHK called me over to have a whiff – the poor guy smells like burning christmas tree lights. I rather hope it’s just the PSU – and nothing else major. Until a fix or replace, surfing from pyecam lappie, I guess!

9491 – Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, Dear Journal!
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Current mood – Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc

Trimmed the ‘stache to less sleazy-looking levels, but the whole goatee is coming back or I’m cutting it all off.

After work yesterday, BHK and I met with Adam and Eric for dinner at Hard times cafe. It was $4.99 chili mac night, so I was all about that. BHK and Adam got the chili dogs, and Eric took the healthy high road with grilled chicken sammich.

we spent an hour or two talking about politics, who is voting for what and why – I hope Adam finds his voters reg card. Eric seems to be allying with the ‘phants, while BHK and I are leaning a bit more toward the ‘keys. It was all civil, though, and we had a good time ribbing one another.

Played a smidgen more of fallout 3 last night… got gunned down severely while working under bhk’s guidance.

NOT a game for kids… pretty graphic when you shoot a guy in the head – and a lot of dubious morality.

Right now I’m playing the high karma path… being nice, helping out. I can see going back and wiping out the town, though, later, just to watch it go up in a mushroom cloud.

Not going to do the trick-or-treater thing tonight – instead, we’re off after work to the Edgar Allan Poe grave and memorial site in Baltimore for a little walk around the necropolis, and have a generally spooky time.

1 year ago – pictures from halloween, dentist in future, tina visit, recover cash from id theft, SNIPER PUPPET!, aspie quiz

2 years ago – a few pics from our trip back, we should put the Mexican in the fridge.

3 years ago – fpl wilma, man-bat, safety tips, hits, utilities, zombie ronald girl, frappr map, condo interview

4 years ago – tommy vu, man-bat, chess logic, Halloween resources, venture brothers season ends

5 years ago – Victorian Halloween Card, Landlord selling the triplex, Sore throat, La Historia del mamut, remembering my father, virus, Halloween Quiz

6 years ago – Assorted pictures of Newt, Cows, Baby Clowns and the Sky, Movie Halloween safety tips, Avoided Mushroom House

7 years ago – Latex Gloves not the answer to mail, King Kong song, Prologue,Halloween CD, Free Flow, Costume Poll, Ambergris, SOP, No Trick or Treaters

8 years ago – One of many landlords to forget the gas bill, good vibes, Newt not as talky, more fetchy, Omar, Evil Test, PHC Geotarget

And, I’ll play you out for now –

pretty brief stuff

Let’s see… more work, BHK and I planned out my d-bag / jesus from big lebowski costume.

have my cuban shirt, jewelry, toothpick and beard trimmer ready.

Played a little fallout three – had a few video issues, but I downloaded the new codec pack ( standard version at http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm ) and all seems well now- additionally, gotta remember to disable AVG Free from is scanning for viruses – it locks it up.

9427 – Tuesday

Got epidural (ouch.), appointment with cardio, met with back doc, got spore, Mexican food and maggie moo’s.

Wal-mart drew the last straw, and is now on the official boycott list – poor service plus bad business practices in the pharmacy.

While BHK was reading bergdorf blonds, I played spore – somehow I can’t use the critter I created in the demo creator in a spore game -still investigating why that is.

Went grocery shopping – Cranberry sierra mist is back and I  got creme de menthe altoids – sad to see the mandarin orange mist gone.

As for walkies – we’ve laid out a reward plan – we have a bundle of space-critter buttons, and for each goal, we get an additional "merit badge" – after we get up to distance, it’ll be repetition. My goal is 5 miles a walk, three walks a week.

So far –

5 badges each–earned

1 after 5x 1 mile walks—Allison got a space piggy, Scott got a red astro-kitty

2 after 4x 2 mile walks

3 after 3x 3 mile walks

4 after 2x 4 mile walks

5 after 1x 5 miles walk!

Recent walkies

Sat – 8/23/08 -1.5968  addl -~1.2mi (total =2.7641 counting whole day )
Sat – 8/31/08 – 1.7333 miles
Sun – 9/1/08 – 2.0166 miles
Sat – 9/6/08 1.2279 miles
Sun – 9/7/08 1.631 miles

Tues – Today – Before going to the doc – 9/9/08 2.0234 miles

Walkabout pics – mostly flowers, fruit/berries and birds along the view from the boardwalk – I really like the little red star flowers – forgive the repetition, dear journal – trying out aspects of macro and zoom.

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Spoke to Brittney about getting serum ready for Saturday, and maybe an EKG at the same time. *please* let it be ready – this’ll be the third week out. I think it’s likely that we’ll get some this go ’round.


1 year ago – many pictures!, renfest, swami yo, hack & slash, johnny fox, kadon, bhk participation, many boardgames, food sample list, quiz-meme questions

2 years ago – october plans for in-laws meetup, geotagged photos, comedy show, go game

3 years ago – confirmed Deerfield condo, iguanas, wonder woman, pb&h, 2nd life, songs meme, quizzies

4 years ago -future life, fly-eating bot, living in Broward, Maroon, tracking Ivan,Danny’s students read my lj, on call all weekend, HIP/Bag lady

5 years ago – Run, Trism-Gollum, Run, robot zoo, dirty-sounding words, palm-day at work, lifetime membership in there, time marks the beginning of the end for prop2

6 years ago – oatmeal, remembrance rant, touch screen voting, flash CAD thingie.

7 years ago – hardscrabble, Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, (and other daily life books), good things

8 years ago – saw a black tip shark, conch fritters, everway Geotarget

9418 – Tuesday

So… a nice little reprieve from Gustav for New Orleans. I hope everyone (Louisiana, Florida, and everywhere else) continues to dodge Hanna, Ike and Josephine. Note 3 years ago today, below.

The DNC homepage makes no mention of John McCain. The RNC page has a ton of attacks on Obama and Biden. That’s something. Not sure what, but it’s something.

BHK put me on to Disaster Dioramas – I’m partial to the Hindenburg, but I suspect that she’s more into the Titanic.

Tonight we went to Ledos, and got the greasiest white pizza ever. Tummy trouble is likely to follow. we didn’t bother keeping half of it. I hate wasting money and food – I suspect it’ll take a lot for us to return there. Got maggie moo’s as a after yuck treat – I got mint chocolate chip with chocolate sprinkles and brownie bits – BHK got carrot cake ice cream with peanut butter sauce. It was pretty good, if odd. I’ve got a love-creeped out relationship with cake-batter flavored ice cream.

Added bonus was at the photography center next door – we saw an orange kitten (about 3 mos) named Charlie playing with his humans… it was very adorable, and we got to talk to the family a bit. BHK thinks it might be time to get a portrait with the lads… though I’m not sure how well-behaved Newton would be for sit-down pictures. Pye is mellow enough, but it is a strange and new environment.

I forgot to mention that on Saturday we went to Leonardtown – skipped witch rock this time, and instead visited a few nifty bookstores – including one made from an old bar. I can’t remember the name but it was a nifty old-school mass of books just reaching back into the far back – also went back to White rabbit and got BHK a Raven Puppet to go with her Edgar Allan Poe, a yarn store (Crazy for Ewe ) with a hostess who was very nice and kept staring at BHK’s lime-vanilla ice, a model train shop and the do-dah deli… later, we went to Aardvark to pick up Pentago – BHK beat me 5-2… a sound victory indeed.



1 year ago – gamerz, gamers, enchanted forest w / pictures, hot fuzz, night at the museum

2 years ago – iguana mob pics, saw Accepted, impersonating liberace, nice weather for ducks

3 years ago – holiday countdown, teensy manatees, npr podcasts, disney quiz, underdog, trammel , new orleans psa, "I Don’t Wanna See Anybody Give Any More Goddamn Press Conferences"

4 years ago – hurricane frances, CoH, sweet revenge, strange brew, superhero costumes, sequels, Syncretism, retreat to Danny’s, newtcam pic, second thoughts, twinkie sushi, evil genius, zim and gaimajin, DCL’s bday.(HAPPY B’day!)

5 years ago – nostalgia central, general upkeep, nice chatty

6 years ago – John Walker Lindh, Old Maid, debian, red flags, my tarot card, underdog

7 years ago – Reading location poll, start page, bat-music, Amazon dreams, JH Noir

8 years ago – Empathy Rating, me, and the bionic woman Geotarget