Tag Archives: goodies

8440 – This must be Thursday.

Perhaps the best gift for a gamer, ever. (and depending on the player, it might be a nice secondhand results gift to the group.)

Willow creates handcrafted soaps out of all-natural ingredients. Her Handmade Soaps For GAMERS premiered with rave reviews at Gen Con Indy 2005.

Currently available is the NATURAL 20 –a scented soap with an actual d20 embedded in it — the most popular soap at the show! via eryx_uk


Debunking the Christian Democracy Myth – Quotes from the Founding Fathers


suicide invalidates insurance policies, but any death obliterates a conviction that is not final – via lizaboo


ln quiz

8405 – Happy B’day, Littler Big Sis! *huggos* to LDY

Monday’s morning meeting DRAGGED. A lot was said, but I fear that little was communicated.


mass transit trip planner for south florida. handy as all get out.


After a nice gab about “something to do with your hands, rather than smoking” resulted in finding these toys.

Stretchy Ape, filled with rubber beads! Water Snake! Ye Olde Popping Martian!


Moment of Lyric –

Waiting at the station,
waiting for the right moves,
waiting in the basement,
waiting for the right cues,
waiting in a daydream,
waiting in the slipstream

waiting…
waiting in the right bars,
waiting in the right shoes,
waiting in a fast car,
waiting in the airports,

waiting for my airmiles,
waiting in slow motion,
coming through the turnstiles.

And if you ever change your mind,
you know I’m hard to find,
and if you ever need someone…

I’ll still be waiting…
Waiting with the orphans, waiting for the bee stings, they tell me that success brings,
waiting in the half light, waiting for your whole life,
waiting for an ideal…a low deal…a no deal, to play your stereotype.
And if you ever find the time,
you know I’m not far behind,
And if you ever need someone…

I’ll still be waiting…
just waiting for a friend.
I say it’s all right,
It’s all right my friend…just waiting.


*Legal* BitTorrent Download for Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2

This is not a crack, this is not a hack, this is not software piracy -it’s unofficial mirroring with official validation. You can get a Windows Vista Beta 2 product key for free through Microsoft, as the OS won’t install without one.

See also, Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista


My Scotto-thermostat is broken… the house temperature reads the same, but my body seems to heat up about 10-11pm, right before bedtime, like the more tired I am, the warmer I get… especially noticeable as core temperature of my torso and the soles of my feet.


Free Comic book of 60’s TV heroes! Herculoids! Mighty Mightor! David & Goliath!, Birdman!, er… Moby Dick, too.


Sorry about the lack of content this morning, dear journal… have a man and possum.

possumman


1 year ago – Lovies for ldy and sedef, tunnel vision, hukilau, danny, bro, speed racer for geico, cvs ood by the lb, dr who, impact font, pink floyd reuniting

2 years ago – Newt Treats, police, sleepies, DIY-WiFi, Horrid teacher name, loud car alarm, RI, Harry Lime

3 years ago – Cartoon Pope blesses ldy, white/brown eggs, fibber island lyrics

4 years ago – Intruders, Out for Thai & sushi, Rent-bump.

5 years ago – perorate, Poi Dog Pondering, Thinking of using share point for journaling, smart tags, considering a piercing / blood donation,Wolbachia / Kamikaze Sperm, evil news

6 years ago – April refusing to go to the doc, bronchitis, half-light, new pals Geotarget

8334 – Humpty-hump

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Hooray for mail!

Yesterday I got two lovely bits of mail…. a postcard from Bubbles, and two bookmarks from ilene! The postcard was a pleasant surprise… Bubs has the best handwriting… able to fit a lovely amount of content onto a mailer. The Bookmarks are even nicer than I’d hoped they would be. A monkey on one, and Newton on the other.. what more could I ask for?

ABC adds full streaming episodes of Lost ( and other shows) legally and for free! They need to do this with other shows/networks.


New Superman Returns Trailer is looking pretty keen! – I’m fairly enthused, but I don’t think that I like the new Lois Element.


Moment of Lyric – InstrumentalMP3

Speaking of Which, nice collection of ad-free lyrics – LyricWIKI


Wooden PC Case Mods. I really, really like these. Beautiful.


Archives on Hold Due to LJ being spotty – will update later.

1 year ago – no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song,

2 years ago – teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos

3 years ago – words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties

4 years ago – entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such

5 years ago – diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin pollGeotarget

8322 – Camo-man lurks at the Bus Station.

Strange things afoot at the Bus Station yesterday morning. Unusual man lurking about, patrolling all of the bus bays, hiking at a good clip.

Click here to see him meander past on shaky-animated gif style video. – about 1 meg.

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Camo-man has powers similar to the yeti and loch ness monster, as cameras cannot photograph him properly. Is it the suit? His magical giant old-lady sunglasses (complete with rhinestones)? That huge hand-carved walking stick?

See more of Camo-man

8297 – Coming at you like a shark with knees!

Newt was shown in yesterdays Zefrank video news post. Sadly, Zefrank says that animals aren’t allowed in any known League of Awesomeness. It seems I must submit a power move of my own, and thenget Newton into the league’s good graces later.

Maybe I should show my eyestalk yoink power move!

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Yes, no, I, this is


Got together with Kat and Graypumpkin yesterday at lunch. Nice time was had lunch of bagel sammiches and I got gifties of Issues 4 & 5 of The Thing Comic, 1, 2, and 3 of the grant morrison superman comic, and a cool squishy toy.. an awesome replacement for blinky. It was nice visiting with ’em… It’s been over a decade since I’ve seen ’em. ’94, I think. We spoke about the usual.. fmaily, firneds, comics, livejournal, sushi, the appropriateness of naming a flower shop “adam and eve” -quoth kat “I’d like some apple blossoms, please!”, the danger of shrimp trucks.

Squishy octopus is pretty awesome, and he looks more durable than Blinky – hidden inside his swirling, glittery maw, are the two ultimate yin yang of good/evil of the deep… a great white shark and bottle nose dolphin, eternally battling inside the octocosm.

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Unsquished octopus thingie. Added bonus, he’s orange.

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Squished – blue fluid with glitter in mouth.

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Dolphin inside!

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Shark inside!

I didn’t give ’em the Dr. Who dvd, because I didn’t know we were doing lunch until mid-morning. If I was a cool guy, I’d drop it in the mail for them to come home to… or I can try and ge tthe first ep of th enew season on Sat, first.

If I wasn’t a dolt, I’d have taken pictures but I was too busy enjoying their company to remember my camera. Tomorrow they’re off ot tampa, and I doubt I’ll ge tot visit again before they head back to the lone star state. I look forward to seeing them again sometime soon.


Kudos to Mandy on her first day at the Chem lab!


Kev took a job doing programming as a civilian for the DoD at Gitmo. (The same place Hav used to do his gig.) Sounds like a sweet deal.. they’re training him, giving security clearance, paying for his lodging.. (everything but food and phone) great pay too.. only downside is, well.. it’s Cuba. He’ll get time off and such, but he can’t bring the puppies or kitties with him, either. (That’d be a deal breaker for me).. It’s about a 2 hour flight from here, so returning won’t be much of an issue on holiday. (about a month off every year).

I’m really happy for him.. he’s finally doing something worthwhile, well-paying, and for a boss he respects. I suspect he’ll really flourish there. He’s heading out there ein June, so we’ve got to have a few “fart parties” before he’s off to points south. I really would love for him to tell the pilot “TAKE THIS PLANE TO CUBA!”, but that’s probably a bad first impression.


AB was fired yesterday – wasn’t cutting it. RP will be out new agent ni Michigan… I think she’ll do a good job. RI is off to Texas for a week, and I think we’ll all get things done. It’ll be nice to have a new tech outside of the state.


1 year ago – new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards

2 years ago – wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA

3 years ago – Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.

4 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!

5 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings upGeotarget

8234 – All Monkeys like orange kitties!

Bangs! Thank you, Eryx_uk, for the Axis and Allies Starter set! What a great b’day prezzie! It looked like the postman was playing football with the USPS box, but the contents inside made it without a hitch! Most awesome. I bet Danny’ll have a good time playing counter to me, as well. It’ll have a place of honor next to Zombies!!, Mage Knight and Heroclix.


Some quizzes

8218 – free stuff

Get a Free USB Flash Drive (unknown size) loaded with information about purchasing Microsoft Windows Licensing. This offer valid only in the US, while supplies last. All you need to do is fill out a short form with your address and answer 4 simple “Windows Licensing” questions (answers below).

Copy and paste this link to keep this alive longer:
http://www.microsoft.com/mysterysolved/corp

Click on the image of the USB drive “Valuable Information – Get Yours”.

Here are the answers to the four questions:
Q1. How many ways are there to obtain a full Microsoft® Windows® Desktop license?
Answer:: 2

Q2: Volume License Agreements cover Windows Desktop operating system upgrades only.
Answer: True

Q3: OEM operating system licenses are non-transferable.
Answer: True

Q4: The most cost-effective way to acquire an initial, full underlying Windows Desktop license is preinstalled.
Answer: True

8183 – Beware the ides of February!

Both compusa managers are supposedly in today. Let’s see what the latest excuse is! Lately, they’ve just been blocking me be taking a message and not getting back to me. Today, I go in, and corral whatever authority figure I can find, pin him down until I have a reasonable answer to my issue.


Herm sent me some lovely e-valentines. Made my day, to be sure. I’m glad that she’s patient. (Actually I’m quite glad that she is who she is, period!)


Did the Phrase “Holy Moley” exist in common usage before Billy Batson said it as Cap’n Marvel?


New Microchips Shun Transistors – Take that, Tony Stark. (I wonder what a well placed EMP would do to those new chips? High tension power lines? A bulk tape eraser?)


More on Cargo Cults – In John They Trust
I’m fascinated by this stuff.


Moment of lyric –mp3

8182 – Gimme a noun, I’ll bend it.


Happy V-Day!

Tell someone you love how you feel today!

Do it again tomorrow. Make it a habit.


I haven’t held a sand dollar for nearly three years. When I was a kid living on Marathon key, we used to pick up sun-bleached ones by the bucketful. I remember painting them and giving them as valentines to some of the folks in the area where we lived… at the time, I had no idea that it was the dessicated skeleton of a five-jawed sea creature related to the sea urchin. That makes me think that they’re even more cool now. I never thought about it, but they’d make a pretty neat sort of decorative scale mail if sewn together.


I’ve been using BANG! as my interjection (mp3) of choice lately, thanks in part to GP’s meddling and Kat’s haircut commentary.


Miami Cloud Art 2.10.2006


temperatures have begun to stabilize and any further falls between now and 800 am will be small. most of the immediate coastal locations will remain in the lower 40s with the suburbs generally
in the upper 30s. – I pity the northern states, if it’s this cold here.


Bro told me his house was robbed, then the story changed to some guy taking all the money for some job he ran, then changed to is girlfriend taking it. Whatever. Upside, he *does* sound a lot sharper.. I’m likely to believe him when he say’s he’s not using.


I got my b’day prezzie from phillykat- cartoon factoids! it’s even nifitier than I’d suspected, and more from sedef and oneeyed – g0dland & 7 soldiers

The most groovy comic-booky birthday ever this year! Thank you!


Moment of Lyric – mp3via

If you go away, on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night birds’ song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay, I’ll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We’ll sail the sun, we’ll ride on the rain
We’ll talk to the trees and worship the wind
Then if you go, I’ll understand
Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you will
You must tell the world to stop turning ’til
You return again, if you ever do
For what good is love without loving you
Can I tell you now as you turn to go
I’ll be dying slowly till the next hello
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay I’ll make you a night
Like no night has been or will be again
I’ll sail on your smile, I’ll ride on your touch
I’ll talk to your eyes that I love so much
But if you go I won’t cry
Though the good is gone from the word goodbye
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away as I know you must
There’ll be nothing left in the world to trust
Just an empty room full of empty space
Like the empty look I see on your face
I’d have been the shadow of your dog
If I thought you might have kept me by your side
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away


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

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

3 years ago – got the nordis gig, palm pics

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

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

8179 – blah blah, yakkity-schmakkity.

http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/ – via the weezle! yummy vegan foodies – they put me onto vegan marshmallow fluff! Fluffernutters are a reality once more!


Hey, I got The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe as part of my prezzie from sedef and oneeyed. (the original 15-issue series bound in one “phone book”; this was the original OHOTMU. Issues 13 and 14 were the ‘Book of the Dead and Disabled’,featuring characters and groups who were, at the time, believed dead or inactive, and issue 15 was the ‘Book of Weapons,Hardware, and Paraphernalia’, featuring technical drawings of Iron Man‘s armor,Spider-Man‘s web-shooters and other notable characters’ equipment. The back of each issue in the series features a brief Appendix, giving one-line listings for minor and inactive characters.


Are there any classic, purely USA horrors? Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Giant Monsters, berserk Animals, Frankenstein, Ghosts… all so classic as to be pre-union.

Maybe it’s because the USA is such a young country. Slasher/Psycho predator Films are pretty American, but even Fritz Lang had M, but that’s a lot different than “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.

Mad Scientists? Stevenson was Scottish and lived in Samoa, I think. I guess 1950’s style Alien Invasion? Sort of HG Wells… who was from the UK.

Zombies are pretty American, even if we’ve had walking dead stories more than 200 years ago.


Florida ren-fest started yesterday… one of the premiums I got for donating blood at FBC was free passes. (along with $15 for Darden restauants – My odds are best for olive garden.) First time donating at Boca rather than Lauderdale was no different an experience, but they have a lot more fun donation loot.

I wonder if Sammy ever got the manatee shirt I sent?


Did a little doodling followed by coloring with crayons this morning. I think that the smell of the crayons was almost more incentive to color than the drawings themselves. Nothing in particular, mostly flow of wrist doodles.


Anémic Cinéma – Marcel Duchamp’s visual Dada experiment from 1926.

Nosferatu – The original 1922 version of “Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie Des Grauens”, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. – via wurzeltod

Fashion Freak – Who’d say no to car-washing zombie chicks? (via Bibi)


Getting cold in Florida (for Florida, anyhow) cooling to the upper 50s, low 60s today, and dropping into possibly freezing temps tonight from 32-39?


snagged from christinAlignment quiz

I got:

Based on your answers to the quiz, your character’s most likely alignment is Neutral Good.

Neutral Good

A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. The common phrase for neutral good is “true good.” Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias toward or against order.

–excerpted from the Player’s Handbook, Chapter 6


Went on walkabout for a bit yesterday afternoon, but before I hoofed it, Mom and Wilt came by to drop off some goodies that they were getting rid of… some nifty hand-painted wine glasses and a veggie steamer / pasta pot. I don’t drink… wine.


I’ve been wearing a lot of colored, but plain t-shirts lately. Before this year, I think that all of my t-shirts (except undershirts) had some kind of picture, logo or saying on it… I rather like having some non-descript clothes. More colors than usual, too, not just sweatshirt gray / black / olive drab. Current mix is forest green, navy blue, light blue, maroon, dark rust, and a (perhaps ill-advised) “happy face” canary yellow.

There was a time years ago when 95% of what I wore outside of work were goofy T-shirts. Favorites were the good ol’ comic book ones — Spidey Duking it out with the Green Goblin (actually, I think I got that one as a birthday present from GP and Kat in the early 90s), Nick Fury, Flaming Carrot, Silver Surfer, A few different Matt Wagner Mage shirts, a Doctor Blasphemy, and a Reid Fleming, world’s toughest milkman ensemble. Others were a Miskatonic University Alumnus and plain logo, and weirdly (because I didn’t much dig the movie) a “Dick Tracy” opening night ticket shirt.

Hm, This Journal entry is a nice combination of boring and dorky, Scotto! Proof positive that I write primarily for myself, because precious few others could possibly care about my t-shirt preferences. Heck, even I might not care a year from now, but for now, I like having comfy clothes that fit, and don’t promote anything at all.

If I’m going to be dorky, I may as well put a random picture of a monkey up –

cowboy gorilla

Cowboy Gorilla! Yee-Haw! Speaking of not drinking wine, I think he was a vampire briefly. Vampire Cowboy Gorilla. Yup. He also fought Yarn Man a lot. also, a Badge pinned directly on his pecs seems a bit rough. Ii admire his ability to shoot and whip at the same time, though.


I’ve got to call Val up and wish her a happy happy – I think she’s 48 today. I owe her and Bobby a hello, even without a b’day involved.


1 year ago – stretchy dream, journalist fired, cosmic muffin, star wars meme, C&H cartoon fave, baby tosser, don simpson’s journal (since deleted?)

2 years ago -goodies from mimi, time out and about, comment time limit, kill the ducky

3 years ago – vallies, stinky outdoors, Drama deck poll

4 years ago – popular colors, nice walkies, cooked palm, missing ornj, Aunt Val’s B’day, blessing reminder, I’m put off by nin (child abuse)

5 years ago – vagg, Aesop, Happy, Sleepy, good people in my life

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8164 – Last day of the long weekend, taking it slow.

The birthday FP with Kev and Tomi was fun – we watched Die Hard, an episode of Lost (they’re just getting into it – it was the Kate bank-robber one), Wedding Crashers (which was better than I thought it’d be), and played some xbox: “From Russia With Love” and “Lego Star Wars” – both of which were a great load of fun, and nifty interpretations of the source material. The Bond game had especially good sound and sets, and Lego probably would have the most repeat gameplay, if I had any talent at all for the pod racing pat of the game. The pizza was good, I’d not had the Papa Johns Square pie before, and it was pretty yummo.

Got Gun as a b’day prezzie, and I look forward to playing it once big brain returns.

Bailey-pooch won “cutest in menagerie” – Kev’s got a lot of critters staying at his house right now – three dogs, four cats, two fish, his sister, her husband, their three daughters and one son, plus Tomi. Moneypenny, the runt mainecoon (2 years old and all of seven lbs) was a close second.

bailey-pooch
Bailey with the airplane ears. They naturally stick out like that at rest,
but can go to full attention if need be. She’s a little snuggle bug.

It’ll probably be the last time for Tomi in the USA, probably – his sis and her hubby are moving to New Zealand. Just an excuse for me to go to Finland then!I now have buddies in Iceland, Norway and Finland to visit now. Maybe I should invest in a few items of cold-weather gear.

Train ride pictures

8160 – too hot for tea, but I’ll take it anyway. It’s a nice day

GeotargetWow, thanks everybody for all the warm birthday wishes! Also, thank you to Oneeyed and Sedef for the great gift! I’m not sure what I’m going to get with it yet!


Like Phil, I saw my shadow, so a bit more cool weather for me, I hope


I’m officially part of 40 faces now, too!


Had a nice day so far, slept in, played with Newt, rode the bike downtown and got my homestead, voter’s registration, and ID all straightened out for the new address. I think I’m pretty much done transferring stuff to the new place, now. The new Florida state ID cards are pretty, and apparently I straighten out to 6’6″ on the wall height chart.


Buckle up! – Video testing an unmanned Plane vs. Concrete safety wall. Wall wins.


Got this from acoolsecretary :

Yay, monkey!

Scotto1

Also, very cool cards from Mom and Ldy, not to mention swell waves in other folk’s Journals and websites.


Danny’s getting sick, so probably no get-together tomorrow. Poor guy sounds more disappointed than I am that he’ll have to use his sick day actually being sick. My Plan B? Probably go to the spa and get a sports massage and try to get some jacuzzi-time in.

8093 – bike-about and the Hoff quiz

GeotargetUnsurprisingly, bro bailed on us getting together today, but I was still determined bike around the region, heading north this time.

I walked my bike to the gas station on 10th & federal, aired up the long-flat tires, rode east to the beach, north on a1a to palmetto park, went west to federal, and then south to 10th. a nice, scenic circuit, but I was too busy enjoying the ride in the cool weather to take many pics. 14.4 miles, total route (I doubled back a few time s to check the bike shop, and rode up Dixie to see what was new. I picked up some cool stuff at the art store which was having an insane blowout sale… one of those foot-tall wooden manikins for drawing bodies for $4, a thick pad full of 12 x 18″ newsprint paper for doodling on for $0.75, and a couple of graphite pencils for a buck. it was all 20% off those prices, too, so I got a lot of fun loot for less than what lunch would’ve cost me out. I wonder if Newt’ll mangle the wooden guy… the manikin is similar to the wooden Christmas tree ornaments that Newt loves to smack around.

Geotarget3602 calories burned if I was walking… I wonder what that translates to in cycling? Probably not nearly as much.

Here’s my route 14.4 miles, give or take.

bike-about Sunday morning
Wings place – still hasn’t repaired the impaled sign since Wilma.

bike-about Sunday morning
Island Water Sports – Contrary to the prior image, they wanted a giant shark head first in the roof. By the way, on the inside, there is a giant shark head coming through the ceiling, too.

bike-about Sunday morning
I *think* that this is the Boca chamber of commerce, but I’m not sure. I really like the curvy divot on the side, slicing some of the windows.


Knight Rider Hasselhoff

You are Knight Rider Hasselhoff. You kick ass, you’re dead sexy, AND you are the proud owner (or perhaps life partner) of a talking black Trans-Am. What else could one ask for?

WHICH HOFF ARE YOU? at QuizGalaxy.com

8058 – Tuesday day off! Booyah again!

Geotargetre: the get together at mom’s place… bro was asked specifically to show up in a drug/alcohol-free state, so mom wouldn’t be embarrassed in front of Wilts’ folks. He arrived after having stopped off at the bar, looking grimy and disheveled. He mentioned that his pressure cleaning biz is taking off and showed me that he had some funds in the bank… good for him. Maybe he can pay back some of the dinero he owes the momster or me. I caught him in lies a few times during the day, including how he got there “a friend” “a bus” and if he’d been drinking.

I don’t think that I’ll be sharing me addy with him anytime soon, especially since he lied to me about being in Boynton. He declined a ride home, I suspect because he didn’t want to have to turn around and go back to Hollywood.

On the upside, Wilt, mom, Rosa, Yitzi and the rest of the guests were cool enough, and there was a ton of food. (I brought home a lot of broccoli casserole and a tin of cookies). There was an interesting blend of Portuguese, Hebrew and English conversations going on….I wish I understood more of the non-English stuff that was going on in my periphery.

I’d already received my big giftie, (the futon mattress and cover), but my sticking had some more goodies in it. A few Newt toys (I think he’s still partial to the toys he got from the Strawberry shortcake bag when Lisa/Lisa visited) and I got the usual stocking fare. Lip Balm, a new toothbrush, hand sanitizer, some chocolates, a notepad and sharpie pen.


Thanks to Sandy for the flickr pro account!


Internet Classic resurfaces for the purpose of torturing the graypumpkin. – David Hasselhoff singing Hooked on a Feeling (warning, some ads on the site not safe for work)


1 year ago – weird dream, more photo hosting quota up to 100 meg! (now 10 gig!), 1 Corinthians 13:13, windy, random lj wandering, ljviz, mexican indoor nudity ban, jack burton, psa, workday shift.

2 years ago – Surprise book giftie from Lisa, Talked to Katt very briefly on the phone, Gecko tape, how to cook a tarantula, wacky old comics

3 years ago – created a nation states community, rain, live_jounalia issues, v2 of cej-clix, quiet american

4 years ago – Newt vet, cultural comparisons, blogger hacked, guide to toddlers

5 years ago – Nukes (now at 7 minutes until midnight)