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8182 – Gimme a noun, I’ll bend it.

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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 – mp3 – via

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

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8179 – blah blah, yakkity-schmakkity.

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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 christin – Alignment 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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8102 – Today I learned –

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GeotargetDinosaurs are a specific subgroup of the archosaurs, a group that also includes crocodiles, pterosaurs, and birds. although pterosaurs are close relations, they are not true dinosaurs. Even more distantly related to dinosaurs are the marine reptiles, which include the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. Mammoths and mastodons are mammals and did not appear until many millions of years after the close of the Cretaceous period. Dimetrodon is neither a reptile nor a mammal, but a basal synapsid, i.e., an early relative of the ancestors of mammals.

I honestly didn’t know that pterosaurs and marine reptiles didn’t count as dinos,  or that dinosaur wasn’t a catch-all term before today, and I’ve loved early critters for well over three decades. Talk about a hole in my education!

-as a side result of this entry of graypumpkin ‘s

Also testing out this site to seek out info re: sexual predators over a mapped area –

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

Type in your home address or a family members address. The web site will bring up a map of your neighborhood with small colored boxes on it. The small House icon represents your address; the colored boxes represent sex offenders in your area.

Click on the colored boxes and it will bring up the offender’s photograph and the exact address, names and employers. Click ALL AROUND, you will be amazed at the information you get!

Seems to work better with MSIE than Mozilla

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8095 – Spidah-san

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GeotargetUgh… Monday already? Monday work meeting and then a dog & pony for FDLE at 10.

Holy cow… why did I not know until yesterday that there was a live action Toei Spider-man TV show in Japan (Circa 1978), where he apparently had a neato motorcycle, instant change suit wristband (a-la the flash’s ring), could talk to spiders, and had control over a giant robot? I guess it makes sense, since he was a gadgeteer, (building webshooters and spidey-tracker, anyhow)… In Japan, I think that if you can wire up a tesla coil, you can have a giant robot. Spidey’s Opening Title on youtube -and a short but entertaining clip from the show… I need someone to translate either the Japanese, or the Spanish Subtitles. Graypumpkin, maybe? The Toei version looks a lot more entertaining than the lame American live-action version.

Toei spidey team up with machine gun mariachi – the awesome
Toei spidey – ninder scenes – uses webbing as a noose.

More video clips here – just search youtube for Toei Spiderman

From the same guy that has me singing the dang Iron Man theme again. (the cool 1966 version, not the longhair rock star 1996 one.)

Hey, there’s an Ambush Bug for Heroclix! A shame I really stopped playing a year or two ago. That’s the first one that would have me actively seeking it out (now if they got a Morrison Doom Patrol collection out, I’d be stoked, too)

Moment of Lyric: (Mp3)
There was a boy who knew he could be anything that he wanted to.
Everybody told him he had a singular special destiny.
Everybody said he’d go far–everybody said he’d be a star.
They said he could be anything he wanted to be–then he turned into me.
Now it seems increasingly unlikely that I’m gonna grow up to be Luke Skywalker–not gonna be Indiana Jones.
And after all this time it’s probably not gonna turn out that I’m the super-powered heir to a world that isn’t there anymore.
But somebody told me I was special.
Somebody told me that I could be anything I wanted to be.
How could they have known the dreams I had were not the dreams they had for me?
They said I could be what I wanted–they had no idea what I wanted.
And I don’t mean to seem ungrateful for all their encouragement and praise.
I just meant to say that I don’t intend to stay and spend another wasted year, cause at the end I bet I’d still be sitting here wasting time and waiting.
I’m waiting for my Lady of the Lake to come and crown me king.
I’m waiting for my rocket to land so I can get my power ring.
I’m waiting for my radioactive meteorite to fall.
I’m waiting but I ain’t got no meteorite at all.
I’m waiting for my story to begin.
I’m waiting for my/ I’m not done.
Don’t count me out of it–my story isn’t over yet.
I’m not the son of some roman god but anyway I think I’m gonna be okay.
And looking back I find it seems I’ve always had unlikely dreams but I can’t let that stop me now, it’s time to grow up anyhow.
And I may not be Hercules but here’s my new philosophy: buh buh bah buh buh bah buh bah buh buh
end of song.

1 year ago – Mel’s fingernail falls off, we surf the web, 3.6 million nickels stolen, distance home meme, quarter bin craving, monkeys & crackers, happy feet

2 years ago – dynamic address assigning, Artist under the influence of LSD, My Messy Office

3 years ago – prisoner on the brain, Names, Antarctica, EO-letters

4 years ago – paper models, walkies, coming events, EO-mashnote

5 years ago – paranoia, recorder, odigo

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8083 – Tuesday… back to work. Bleh!

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The Dan-man and I went out to an all-you-dare-eat buffet for Sushi/Thai/Chinese, and it was actually quite good. Afterward, we swung by Crabby Jacks to solve his caffeine needs and Miranda got a pretty awesome tip ($5 after a bill for $0.69 – the coffee was free and I had a draft) – after we hung out a bit and chitty-chatted. I told him a bit about my beliefs regarding meeting someone for a lifelong commitment at this point (I suspect odds of meeting someone that I have chemistry with, a minimum of emotional baggage, and a mutual appreciation of one another to be very, very, very slim.) Explained to him why Magda wasn’t a viable option, though she and I did have a nice time together. I honestly don’t know if there are any wedding bells in my future, but If I were a betting man, I know that I’d opt for “not likely.” I know good couples are out there… Dave & Cathi / GrayPumpkin & Katt are two of the best examples of two pairings as well-suited for one another for life that I can think of.

In the last decade, I’ve had the following serious relationships:

Lees – 6 months
Eryn – 3 months
April – 4 months
Rachel – 6 months
CEJ – 2ish years, Almost 3 if you count on and off time
D – A bit over a year
Mel – 3 months
Magda – 5 months (9 minus the months where she was in Columbia)

Come to think of it, I don’t have any trouble getting dates… it’s the longevity that needs work. Breakups are fairly even, an assortment of reasons, from a lack of trust to a lack of interest.

Hair-wise, we’ve got a Blond x2, Brown x3, Black x2, and a Redhead
Tattoo-wise – 6 had ink.. some got it while I was with ’em.
Politics/Attitudes – Leftx2, Modx4, Rightx2
Readers – 4 yes, 4 no
eye color – Brown – 5 Hazel -1 Blue – 2
all were fairly chesty

I’ve been proposed to on two different occasions, and I honestly thought I’d end up with CEJ for life… she was the last one that gave me those sorts of feelings.

Looking back, I do pretty well, for a serial monogamist with no vehicle of his own.

Dan got me a few very nice gifts for Christmas…. No Software this year. A used book on dinosaurs, a new copy of Pratchett’s Last Hero, a t-shirt and a zip-up shirt (both too small, unfortunately), a carrying case for a digital camera/palmtop, and some jalepeno peanuts. We tried out the Peking House restauant, but it had a bad vibe, so we went to the one we’re more fond of dining at.

Moment of Lyric – mp3 / flash video (Here’s his LJ, by the way – trapezzoid)

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8058 – Tuesday day off! Booyah again!

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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)

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8049 – written on the bus

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GeotargetDeerfield is a sort of buffer zone between Boca Raton (home of the golden girls and polo grounds) and Fort Lauderdale (Wealthy tourists slumming away from South Beach and 20-30something party central for those not up to the gyrations of Miami.)

Boca was my stomping grounds while at FAU and the library… my first solo apartment was a a dinky studio behind Mizner park. It was a pretty laid-back lifestyle, all told. Work at the BBCL, hang out / game with JTD (later, game with graypumpkin and the two squads; Wu’s on one day, Pam on the other.) Crushing/hanging out with Sheleah (Sheila) at Liberties, watching quantum leap at the house. Hermit crabs as pets. So broke that I couldn’t afford a telephone, let alone the internet. Gaming, school, and reading were my primary hobbies, but I dug playing a wide assortment of pirated Atari ST games when I could wrangle them from Brett. I learned Unix and a lot of CAD at that time, too. (free software and free time begot an education… who knew?)

I didn’t much mind being lower class in Boca. I knew a lot of nice people, was safe, and in relatively good health, save for when my back went out. GP & Katt helped me a great deal during that time, which is something that I really appreciate to this day. Also helpful were the Wu’s, during my homeless phase, not to mention Danny and his wife pulling my fat out of the fire, too… I get along poorly with friend’s wives, save for Katt, but she wasn’t a wife of a friend, she actually fell into he friend slot on her own… just happened to be married to another friend (I could hang out with either/or, or both at the same time, it was all good). I miss gabbing with her now and then. Though we cleared the air a few years back, conversation didn’t really resume like it did with her hubby.

A lot of things have happened in my life since then. Pompano was quite a paradigm shift. I was pretty depressed from about 6 months before GP & Katt moved west through about ’95-96. I met and hung out with the hippies, self-medicated with kind bud, drum circles and actually dancing a bit. They welcomed me and gave me a chance to reboot my brain with mushroom tea, lots of affection and camp outs. That gave me much opportunity to soften my armor and relax a bit.

The thing about Deerfield is that it’s to Boca as Pompano is to Fort Lauderdale. or, Delray’s equal to the South. I don’t know for sure yet, but I think that I might just prefer smaller towns, as long as the cool stuff is still reasonably nearby. Museums, theaters, books are all right around the bend, without as much hubbub.

When I ride the bus from Deerfield, through Pompano to Lauderdale, I feel emotional warm and cold spots. Specific regions make me happier or sadder… and one block sort of makes me feel very, very tired. I’m not sure what sets it off… time of day doesn’t seem to enter into the picture. Maybe some kind of subconscious reaction to a building or landscape? Who can say? Maybe certain feelings pool in different areas until other people pick them up or cancel them out? I’m prone to suspect that it’s more a weird Scotto thing than an “external emotion projector bombarding me” thing.

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GeotargetApproximately 20% of the women were wearing uggs at target last weekend. the silly all-over sasquatch-shaggy ones. that’s a lot of furry boots. With short skirts. I had to smile.. I love when something totally ridiculous is trendy. They’re the leg-warmer/headband combo of the new millennium!

Trust Wikipedia for the full unabridged history of the Christmas Tree. Leave it to us crazy Germans to take a tradition of hanging sacrificial slaves from a tree into a wonderland of lights.

Moment of Lyric: mp3 – (via)

Just a little lovin’
Early in the morning
Just a little lovin’
Early in the day
Just a little lovin’
Early in the morning…

Man, I really dig this song’s mix.

Healthy thoughts for Graypumpkin‘s outpatient surgery today, and I hope he gets a decent dice pouch out of his gall bladder!

I alternately fear and welcome the torrent of backlogged email that’s going to hit me once the notifications are fully fixed. Looks like it’ll be soon! I just got an email that was supposed to land in my box on 11/20. eep.

1 year ago – Movie with Mel goes poop, nice night out anyway, metro freefi, zombie song, fire butter coats Minnesota town, Freudian inventory, $$$ issue

2 years ago – Rainy-day wakeup, old LL passes the torch, aces & eights, oldest penis, trampled shopper

3 years ago – Danny and I send dopey “Sven” emails to companies for no good reason, bro brings me eggnog, I scare the living tar out of a lippy kid

4 years ago – gestapo gives c’s pal grief about aiming, reptile people, lj bump, world tour, Toliken Movie desire

5 years ago – Sims, accused of being an alien, dead milkmen, cannibal the musical lyrics, I’m a warmer

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GRAY PUMPKIN!

Follow-ups to that Office Bricolage link.

PRISONERS’ INVENTIONS

Improvised Weapons of the American Underground

Yahoo’s Image Search may be better than Google’s Image Search.

I can still amuse myself for hours by typing in random word/word combinations.

The friendy-meme. (revised a mite)

In the comments section of this post:

1. Tell me one thing you like about me.

2. Tell me two things you like about yourself.

Then…

3. Look through the comments. When you see someone you know, tell them three things you like about them.

4. Do this in your journal so I can tell you what I like about YOU. (or just ask, and I’ll tell you here.)

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6938 – Cellular, Modular, Interactive-odular!

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Happy Birthday, Shah-Hala!!

Happy Birthday!
Her birth was a great present to us all. Many thanks to her parents!!

Something she’d like, I’m sure – murder scenes scaled to dollhouse size, used to teach forensic science in the ’40s.

It's the Gray Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!Gray Pumpkin forwarded a link to me about Mary-Sues (the phenomenon where an author somewhat unwittingly makes a character in their story who is basically the author, or an idealized/fantasy version of the author.)

The Original Fiction Mary-Sue Litmus Test

We were both reminded of a person in our old group who hit almost all of these points with her fiction.

Went out with Danny last night to Ugly Tuna Saloona. We didn’t have the interest or time for a movie, but we enjoyed the hangout quite a lot… its a quiet joint in the early evening, and the servers were very attentive. (We had the same server we had last time, and I think that we were remembered from our last visit about a month ago.) I think we’ve found a new hangout! We still need to check out the new casino.

Big Kahuna called right as we were sitting down … she wanted me to go back to the office and burn a cd, but fortunately it can wait until this morning.

I do my follow-up presentation at Kiwanis today, too.

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The FDA approved an implantable computer chip for use in humans.

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6845 Well, no walkabout for me anytime soon.

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Ugh, on call all weekend. Friday night through Monday morning. I hope absolutely nothing happens. Slim odds, but anything’s possible.

Mail: Good news and bad news.

Good News, got my plastic man archives.

Bad News, A gift pouch I sent out in November was just returned to me as unclaimed.(they checked on 12/3, 7/12, and 8/20. back to me it came… I wonder if they put it in the wrong box?) I’m going to have to call up, and see what I can do about reshipping it out again, and add a few more fun trinkets to the mix.

Hmm, GrayPumpkin showed me this rumor about a new Aquaman movie sounds a bit like a wet match in a dark cave. I still think Owen Wilson would make a better Iron Fist. I’m not sure who’d make a good Luke Cage.

August is flying by. It seems that I mark time with checks for rent. I hope that next weekend will be a good one for condo-questing. Speaking of which, nice house… keen view on the third pic, too. (via tarpo)

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6733 – weathermen

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GrayPumpkin wrote me a brief missive yesterday about an annoyance with TV newscasters:

I hate when news people talk to the weatherman like he has some power over the weather. “So when are going to bring us but better weather Bob?” or some such crap. That joke wasn’t funny the first time I heard it, and it hasn’t gotten any better.

I totally agree with the gourd…I would love to one day see a weatherman leap up, and in a brimstone-laced evangelical tone scream:

“COUNT THYSELF LUCKY THAT I DON’T SMITE YOUR FOUL TONGUE OUT WITH A BARRAGE OF THUNDER AND HAIL THAT WOULD GRIND YOUR PUNY BONES BACK INTO THE STONE AGES WHERE THAT FEEBLE ATTEMPT AT HUMOR WAS FIRST SPARKED! SILENCE, YOU BADLY-COIFFED TOADY TO THE NETWORKS…. OR A RAIN OF FIRE AND BLOOD WILL SURROUND ALL IN THIS FAIR CITY FOR YOUR HUBRIS!!!”

*MWAHHAHAAHAAAH*

*electrical effects*

*static*

But, that’s just me.