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9042 – monday

January 28, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

BHK made tasty pizza for the in-laws and me tonight… mine had eggplant and garlic with ricotta, and the other was true pepperoni. good stuff.

Presenting a doodle for the coloring book done on the palm while on the subway, then fiddled with GIMP once back home. I was thinking about making him more beveled looking, but rather dig the 2D vs 3D vibe going there. I’d like to see the coloring book community revitalized again.

peradouro drops pictures in there now and then, but aside from that, it’s pretty quiet. Same for the Oekaki board in the scottobear toybox.

There were many meetings at work today… I think the bulk of them were solidly productive.

In Health news –

Started coughing this morning, and it continues into the night.

Rescheduled dentist, and am waiting to hear scheduling for the back guy. Trying to get an appointment for presiden’t day if I can, but if not, maybe on one side of the weekend or another for maximum comfort.

I still need to schedule allergist remeet. Maybe I can do a doctor hat trick!

The Hulkout list – all the reasons Banner turned into the hulk during the course of the tv series.

Personal faves, (Thankfully, none have ever happened to me):

8. Being mauled by a bear

34. Handcuffed to a woman who is falling over the cliff

36. Somehow running into a bear trap

56. Somehow getting himself into a belfry and then realizing that a bell is there, just as it strikes the hour

78. Being thrown under a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade float by a mean guy in a gorilla suit who gives David a few kicks for good measure

95. Falling out of a plane without a parachute, then being given a parachute (which causes the person who pushed him to be told “That guy has nine lives”, to which the mean person responds by pulling out a rifle and saying “Yeah, but I got ten rounds”), and then having the straps to his parachute shot off when he is still 30 feet above an empty house so that he falls through the roof and hurts himself

106. Being fed poisoned sushi

112. While paralyzed for the episode, somehow getting caught in the middle of a barroom brawl, and while trying to quietly wheel himself out of the room, being hit by a flying body and knocked down the stairs (what David is even doing in such a situation goes unexplained)

“‘The LEGO brick turned 50 at exactly 1:58pm today. This cool timeline shows these fifty years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the Legoland themed sets to Technic and Mindstorms NXT, as well as all kind of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.'” – Via Slashdot.

1 year ago – pancakes, men in black, plumbing, chinese food, Janet in Bangladesh, B’day coming

2 years ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick

3 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys

4 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution

5 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus

6 years ago – Took a day off With Danny (some non-gothic graveyard pictures), PattonBomb Talk, Giant photo of Newt in Evil Overlord Mode, bad spoonerismhumor. First photo of Tinkle pig

7 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing man

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9040 – sat

January 26, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Happy Birthday, MissV! I hope you have a fantastic day, and all days ahead are as good.

Allergy Shot was uneventful, but saw Jose (nee’ Pedro) in for bloodwoork.

Lunch in deale with the in-laws, they were tardy but they did buy the food! Ok Blueberry pie for dessert.

Newt and Pye in the Window – see previous entry.

Stopped into good deale bluegrass, eyed the stand up bass. keen!

Train Shopping & antiques – Chris got a lovely bit of stained glass, I spotted a wireless cam possibly suitable for newt and or pye, Larry got some train couplers, BHK found a little food place that had cute pastries, and socks with hearts on ’em.

Came home and had a nap-rest

Went over to the in-laws again, and had a supper of noodles & peas, crab soup, salad – all yummy

Watched balls of fury… it was about what a perosn would expect. One or three cute/ funnny moments, but the best bits were in the preview.

1 year ago – paradise weather, Adam and Larry guitar video, swim meet pix, ghost brides,

2 years ago – compusa hits comcast poor service level, gurps vs water, syndication links, handy freeware

3 years ago – fly doodle, GP praise, “cut” slang, B’s lyrics, Day off the dead, ringo starr superhero, lifespan/season meme, flammable cables, bro issues

4 years ago – dream, bearded babies, touch graph

5 years ago – pirate stuff, Morikami, geourl, cool safeway prank, search keywords

6 years ago – missv’s Bday!, To dos, day trips m&ms, Baby dexter-doggie!!, Newt in laundry

7 years ago – First shoo smiley – Ü, bounced Greg, Yahoo eats up egroups, love letter

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9037 – thursday

January 24, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Here’s the full description of what’s up with my back, according to the MRI –

Findings: There is decreased signal density emanating from the disks between the L3 and S1 levels. There are posterior protrusions of the disks between these levels. The vertebrae are normally aligned. The conus is normal.

There are no areas of abnormal contrast within the canal.

Conclusion:

1: L5-S1 level: There is an extruded left sided posterior disk herniation at the L5-S1 level. The disk protrudes 6mm posteriorly. This causes compression at the proximal aspect of the left S1 nerve root. There are also moderate left sided facet hypertrophic changes. This causes mild narrowing of the left neural foramen.

2: L3-L4 level: There is a small left sided posterior disk herniation at the L3-L4 level. This causes a mild flattening of the left anterior thecal sac contour.

Basic breakdown – knee extension (L3), ankle dorsiflexion (L4), long toe extension (L5), and ankle plantar flexion (S1) are issues, in addition to pain/numbness.

More info on Lumbar and Sacral vertebrae.

Chinese food at the in-laws, and 3:10 to Yuma – Not a bad way to spend Thursday night. I Zzzzed off at the end, will have to catch up tonight or tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion.

Remarked with Chris that I’ve not seen many migratory birds this year, but then again, I’ve been working longer hours! More daylight to look during the weekend.

Mo’ Snow today, but nothing stuck. Bah!

Not many folks in wheelchairs in my vicinity, but there are a *lot* of people with white canes / red tips walking around. I wonder if there’s a local lighthouse for the blind nearby, or if DC just has good support for them? It’s rather odd not seeing anyone on wheels… perhaps the metro has a specialized service for them.

Not to be melodramatic or anything, but I’m trying to remember a time when no part of my body was in pain… that sounds so teenager-emo. I guess my physical situation has been “if it’s not one thing, it’s another” for as long as I can remember. I suspect that it’s the status quo for most folks over 30.

Interesting reveal about the Clinton Campaign via insomnia. I’ll be wanting to see how that plays out, if it is true. Most of the source comes from here. Which also mentions counter-behavior by the Obama campaign.

Ugh.. I alternately hate and love it when light is shined on mud… I like to watch the worms writhe.

1 year ago – verizon dsl poop, snow coming, adam swims

2 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

3 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,

4 years ago – made the Linus icon, professional victim, Cap’n gone, Robert E. Howard 98, clock, van helsing, US army rebuilding schools, Murgatroyd

5 years ago – random knockers, Hippos on an abandoned ranch

6 years ago – Fever, Clothes color survey, Naughty Newtie in the kitchen, a dead photo link, Intel Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program, House Resolution 3598

7 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 linkies

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9034 – mon

January 21, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Back to work, MLK day 0121 Or R.E.LEE day for folks too racist to even take a day off to say thanks to a black guy. (Well, Virginia’s state Motto is what John Wilkes Booth shouted in the theater.)

BHK and Bug lifted me into work this morning… I said my goodbyes, as he was back in VA by the time I made it home. We had a nice time – lots of stuff to do, and good goofing off periods.

MRI came back, and I have a herniated disk – S1 level, pressing to the left {pic via gray’s anatomy} – (S1 nerve impingement from a herniated disc may cause loss of the ankle reflex and/or weakness in ankle push off (e.g. patients cannot do toe rises). Numbness and pain can radiate down to the sole or outside of the foot.

I’d like this to mean that I can get repairs done to a previously thought dead area. I suspect that I may have to have surgery down the line – Still early to tell.

To counter flying_blind’s wtf flickr moment – I don’t know how old the news is, but I just learned that the library of congress has a flickr account. Cool, neat stuff like this made me add ’em.

I’ve had music by TMBG in my head all week… I Palendrome I and Birdhouse especially. Sakes, but Jay Leno has gotten gray.

KFC dinner and an omelet at the in-laws tonight… BHK made it there about 10 minutes after I arrived. Nice time, gabbing with family about this and that – got to talk to Em on the phone a bit, too! Caught Danny on Skype, too… he was watching the debate feed on CNN. Me, I’m not caring much for any of the current batch of politicos, but it looks like he’s going to vote for Hillary, based on her platform.

1 year ago – snowstorm ends, snowballs, eggplant and french toast.
Pictures – snow & love notes

2 years ago – compusa bah, acim gang out and about, float on, sacrifice & wrath, chastity belts for 21st century
pictures – ACIM gang

3 years ago – Strep, Jill is like 30, Greek Grotto, Weather, The woods, urinals, Mrs G team pic, Romanian Girl returns from the grave, poli-sci

4 years ago – Palm doodles, band names, sinister ducks, Cheddar Cheesus, water bus trip home, Orange Cat, walkies pics

5 years ago – zcardz (precursor to the pirates game), LL fooled with my bro, vanishing finn, meds

6 years ago – Dream, Walkies with fog, Worked MLK, ear pressure relief then a return, ordered my digicam, got a keeno book off my wish list, siege engines, lego cube solver.

7 years ago -Bro pic, garam masala, patty hearst pardoned, DNA police

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9033 – sun of nutshelling

January 20, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Pancake and scrambled eggs brunch at Larry & Chris’s, checked out L’s trains upstairs, and rooted around BHK’s old bedroom and returned with salvage of wacky packages, headphones and a weight ball. Not to mention BHK’s 14-wheeled skateboard. I would love to try it if I didn’t fear breaking the rest of my spine.

Retired downstairs to view the last 85% of George of the Jungle.

Too dang cold outside for playing, so back to our place – fooled around with pirates, star-wars hero-type clix, and yet more wii.

Ultimate Alliance and Lego Star Wars ruled the evening.

BHK ordered us all some pizza, and then baked cookies…. nom nom nom. Did we give Bugah any veggies this weekend, aside from products containing wheat?

Watched Funny Farm & Trial of the Incredible Hulk – Bugah may’ve been a little frightened by the needle scene. I was pleasantly surprised that he wasn’t bored by the 80’s sensibilities and lack of special effects.

Hit the sack at 10:30… it’s a school night for me!

1 year ago – newt lounging pics

2 years ago – big brain wait, college students illiterate, LN, little prince,

3 years ago – Sicky Mel, PSA, No new drama month, paypal button for charity, weather, Korean postal robots guards, MA lobster strike, Monkey king, fibs and truths answers, weather

4 years ago – crapulent, British WWII photo archive, Chick Tract, homeowners groups lacking

5 years ago – bawled out my bro, bashed up my hands.

6 years ago – walkies, coloring book fairy, waterlog ear, some dead links and some live ones, full moon birth, good dreams.

7 years ago – Iron Man, brain eating, thinking about my dad, smitten, First experience with a good LJ client, Fred the enema cat.

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9031 – fri

January 18, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Nutshelling.

Mario Party 8.

Swift cleanup – mostly BHK’s doing. She’s a member of the reverse-hurricane school of speed-tidiness.

Watched psych and held my poor, sore jaw.

Straightened the office a bit, mostly clearing my desk, dealing with paperwork and holding my jaw.

Picked up Bugah in the early evening (~7:30ish)

Went to Bert’s diner w/in-laws – Milkshake was soothing and delicious.

Got Bugah back to our place, and played video games until the wee hours. Preferred titles were Guitar Hero 3 and Transformers (brought with him), but we also got some other bits in here and there.

1 year ago – voice post – newton’s first snow

2 years ago – homeless thoughts, bb vid card broken, newt buries my dinner, jimi, auto-dl tv shows,

3 years ago – mushroms and eggplant, barefoot craving, acronym cursing, Panama city teens, prozac suicides

4 years ago – popeye is 75, duckburg, powerskip, santa cluster maint, hybrids, beach-dweller picture that will make you shriek, brain sammiches, cam pics, cap’n strong

5 years ago – tan me hide, kartoo, SOP, coloring book entry

6 years ago – Accessory animals. Enron & GWB/pretzel, watching Lone Gunmen, Newt came to work, skate porn

7 years ago – Hot outside! Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, the weather the cuckoo likes, my first LJ flame attack (and my rebuttal)

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9028 – tues

January 15, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Beware the ides of January! Oh, how it snowed today! It went for a brief period, stopped, and then came back, all crazy-like.

I heard that it wasn’t going to stick, but it was pretty white out there for a little bit. If it had done its drop after dark, I’d wager there’d have been less sublimation.

Veggie Meatloaf for dinner tonight… nom nom nom.

I’m glad that BHK doesn’t mind my meat-free ways! Larry opted for a fried chicken tv dinner, but Chris was game. I have enough to bring a goodly does for lunch tomorrow, too – with plenty of mixed veggies and peas on the side.

Detour guide to 1970’s TV detectives. This is a pretty good sampling of tv during my formative years.

Random Scotto factoid – For some reason, as a kid, I got Baretta and Columbo mixed up. I got it worked out pretty early, but there was a time that I thought it was the same show.

We took are time eating and talking… after supper, we’re watching a little psych before bed. Stay warm and sleep tight, dear journal.

VIENNA, Austria – A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person, Austria’s Supreme Court has ruled, activists said Tuesday.

An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person in hopes of gaining guardianship of the animal.

The shelter where Matthew has lived for 25 years is going bankrupt, threatening to leave him homeless. Donors have offered to help support him, but under Austrian law, only a person can receive personal gifts.

The Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories sought to have him declared a person and petitioned to be appointed Matthew’s trustee.

But the high court upheld a September ruling by a judge in the town of Wiener Neustadt rejecting the petition, the group said Tuesday.

The rights group said it would take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Matthew and another chimp at the shelter, Rosi, were captured as babies in Sierra Leone in 1982 and smuggled to Austria for use in pharmaceutical experiments. Customs officers intercepted the shipment and turned the chimps over to the shelter.

Organizers said they may set up a foundation to collect donations for Matthew, whose life expectancy in captivity is about 60 years.

But they argue that only personhood will ensure that he isn’t sold outside Austria.

1 year ago – moved into the brown house

2 years ago – nudge (I like it now), my latest superpower, electrocution dream, soloing, caribs, pandas make more sense, stardust probe returns,

3 years ago – Jambi back after the great LJ crash of ’05, William Schmidt’s art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA

4 years ago – DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck

5 years ago – smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires

6 years ago – nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols

7 years ago – pictures of me with tarpo at No-nose maldanado’s, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things

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9021 – tues jan 8

January 8, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Got home tonight, and found out our water isn’t draining properly. Larry came by and tried plunging, but to no avail. Tomorrow, he’s bringing the snake by to take care of business.

I like that phrase… like an enforcer, “Tomorrow, the snake will take care of business”.

Hm.. or something pornographic, maybe.

Not much today – Worked, a very long meeting midday. Got some solid brainstorming done, and possibly a good lead for some side help from BR.

Got home, and BHK made me veggie meatballs, salad, and best of all, surprised me with my dream cake of chocoate / chocolate with mandarin oranges as a garnish. Yumma.

A nice demo of Portal is available free to NVIDIA customers – I have an ATI video card, but I also have the full version, so I can’t complain… especially since ATI gave me Half-life: deathmatch and lost coast.

Speaking of which, if anyone’s looking to add me to a game buddy list (counterstrike, hl2, team fortress 2, etc… – I’m scottobear there, too.

ooh… lego batman video game. After I burn through the 13 or so titles I got for christmas, I’ll have to look it up! Mario Party/Galaxy/HL2 are fine diversions until then!

Absinthe is legal again how’d I mis shearing about this? I wonder if BHK will want some green fairy now that it’s officially ok in the usa? I’m not a huge fan, but she’s got the tingle.

1 year ago – gave up on heroes and torchwood, assorted tv enjoyed, bhk and I work, took down xmas train, brown house

2 years ago – Letterman vs O’Reilly, Envisioning poll, Prof. Plum, Moon Worship, firefly crew, World Of Stuff, bike about and hoff, pictures, human skin books

3 years ago – mooshy, work hires, 300 fonts you should have (Note – porno bob, CS, sharon and jill all no longer work there)

4 years ago – Wonderful Prezzies from The East, Misc work hubbub, there.com hubbub, scary chimps, Ted Passed away.

5 years ago – Elvis, scrapple, lesbian book covers, smokers, pancake bunny passed away, Sweet comment from Rachel

6 years ago – walkies, toys, WordsEye, food

7 years ago – deoxy, st. mary’s, noir

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9097 – sun

December 16, 2007 scottobear Leave a comment

Snow… where is my precious snow? None fell today… just wet ol’ rain.

I don’t mind… I like gray days just fine. All sunshine makes a desert, right?

Bulk of the day was spent doing holiday decorations and prep for my Mother and Wilton coming up for the holidays. I like that tree is all gussied up and has the train underneath. Officially Yuletide now.

Larry and Chris came over and we all slurped some veggie soup. BHK also made a Cheese ball and Chef Boyardee Pizza that was really quite good. The in-laws bugged out early, but we got a little Adam visit for an hour before bedtime. He found the pickle on the Christmas tree in about 3 minutes. I suspect Bugah will find it more rapidly.

The robot is now packing the moniker “Pickle”, at least as a nickname.

We played Wii for a bit – Mario brothers is older than Adam… and he’s going to College. That’s sort of frightening.

Christmas lights, Pye in a Wreath, Newt and the train, Pretzel Walruses, our two favorite new ornaments… robot and ship in a bottle.

Tannenbaum Express-cam will be set up online shortly… probably by midweek.

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1 year ago – more xmas lights… and travel video

2 years ago – 10 gigs on lj, mighty boosh, newton ashamed of Chinese food photoshopping, Hawaiian Christmas song, friday 5, survey

3 years ago – Pasta with Mel, Jill at work (she’s since quit), Making fiends 14, Great out of context line for Eric and Mona

4 years ago – food, thinking, 12 days

5 years ago – deep sleeps, gender benders, doodle cartoon

6 years ago – Modern ruins, Goethe, misc

7 years ago – Michael Peter’s Rules, dreams, cryptozoo, boat parade

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9096 – sat –

December 15, 2007 scottobear Leave a comment

Today seemed both brief and extended at the same time, somehow.

Took off early this morning to snag a few allergy shots, and then we swung by Maerten’s to check out plans for BHK’s ring. I was going to have it be a surprise, but when design considerations came up, I opted for her input… she’s the one that’ll be wearing it after all.

I wonder how many people buy an engagement ring for their spouse, 14 months after the wedding day?

We hashed out a few designs with Heather, and I think that the one that was finalized will be lovely. I’m looking forward to the CAD images sometime this week before the casting. If this one works out well, I think a Mexican Day of the Dead “skull ring” could be next on the list.

Later, we went to the local farm grocer, grabbed lunch and a broad assortment of candy-type stuff to put in X-mas stockings.

The chocolate drops intended for Larry were not destined to survive.

They were, however, delicious. He’ll get other candy, love it and never be the wiser. We’re not bad people.

The in-laws had a little trouble finding the train store, so we met with them for a little bit… Larry and I talked trains while BHK and Chris went to the kids bookstore and got a little treat or two for Em and maybe Bugah.

We parted company – BHK got a flash of brilliance – and we stopped and got the final piece of Chris’s prezzie…. not mentioned in case she’s reading this. (I don’t think she is, but better safe than sorry.)

Following that, we hit our favorite friendly neighborhood gaming store, Aardvark’s – got some goodies for Louise, Cathy and Dave. Added bonus, Mike gave us the Fluxx Party pack and a Larry the Zombie to go with our Looney Labs purchases. Score! I’ve been wanting a radioactive potato, and now we have two! (Larry {the card, not the father-in-law} is the zombie equivalent.)

I think we’ve got everyone covered for presents except for Adam and Matt. That shouldn’t be too traumatic.

I ran out of juice by the end of the day… not sure where all my energy went, unless it was the sugar blues post about 1000 chocolate drops.

1 year ago – huge number of Christmas lights pictures from Solomon’s Island and more. Snow!

2 years ago – monkey day, kong, slow lj, dsl issues, santa question

3 years ago – Mel & Scotto facts, Gorilla Girl, Monkey Day, Massive Frog eats 3-legged dog, Beatles Christmas Records, 7070, Santa hates damn contemporary, bullshit architecture!, I break Christmas bonuses to ADP

4 years ago – spelling poll, pandas, turtles, and a bed of fresh noodles

5 years ago – keywords, Newt likes Broccoli!, Lauderdale cams, bah on bush, gore and grover Cleveland, mh trim, J-lo nose picker, shoe-doodle

6 years ago – holiday shopping, good advice, winter depression folk

7 years ago – moment of RAW, Santa Claus – geek, holidays, donations

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9093 – Wednesday

December 12, 2007 scottobear Leave a comment

Downright warm today at 61F. I really didn’t even need to wear a jacket today.

I like the word folderol.

I still have a little trouble understanding how Aflac or similar programs could be beneficial to me over and above my other health insurance… it doesn’t seem like it’s of much utility to my situation, but perhaps I’m mistaken. I don’t know it it’s me, or if the folks explaining it sort of missed my personal buttons. (Most of the talk sounded a bit like standard insurance fear-mongering.) The whole medical / insurance system really gets my goat sometimes – there’s always a feel of a protection racket itching in the back of my skull.

Heard through the grapevine that my ex’s home went into foreclosure. I pity her, but I don’t know the whole situation. I hope that she and her family find a good place to crash and get cover… seems like a heck of a thing to happen at Christmas.

Thinking good thoughts about BHK today. She has been working very hard for quite some time on multiple difficult projects. Digging up old records is tough … the chain of information is full of weak links. I remember how annoying it was just to shift information between Comcast and Verizon – slip that same information between state and federal agencies, and it only adds to the mountain of paperwork, receipt of careless service and red tape.

I have the urge to map out my office building (at least the floor I’m on), our house in North Beach, and maybe some of WMATA in a fps engine like counterstrike or half-life, just to do it. Home wouldn’t be a huge undertaking, and I have the layout of the tower… but the subway might be tricky. Given the huge number of mods out there already, it wouldn’t surprise me if it already existed in some rippable form.

I wanted my own radio station when I was in High school… call letters WMBT – wombat radio.

After work, we visited the in-laws for a bit…. watched The Santa Clause. It’s sort of nice to have fun family nearby. Nobody else had seen the film, which was received well enough.

1 year ago – christin reviews eragon, my Xmas stocking, got a train to put under the tree. (Larry gave me some track extension this year!)
pictures taken – more xmas tree

2 years ago – pizza and narnia, santa poll, lenses, feliz navidad, cousin billy, clydee card, walkies pix

3 years ago – damned don’t dance, Mel’s Gramma, shopping, vote switch software, Hardee’s Monster thickburger, UFO theme popular, Gigantor

4 years ago – sleepyhead , mugger caught on lj audio, Epipelagic and Mesopelagic Animals, misc

5 years ago – Newt with his feet up, Froogle gets rolling, VB memos, given serious sam by msk

6 years ago – Linus Recounts the reason for Christmas, segway thoughts

7 years ago – Hell week day 2, the psychic, longfellow

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9089 – Saturday –

December 8, 2007 scottobear Leave a comment

We woke up fairly early, but not so much that we left on time for the Friendship Trees spot for a Tannenbaum.

The in-laws caught up with us about an hour and a half after we were slotted to leave… some mist made me wonder if we would make it outside before rains came.

In-laws saw the tree they wanted before they even left the car. BHK and I spent a solid span of time roaming the lot looking for just the right one… the gigantic 15-18 footers caught BHK’s eye, but sadly, they wouldn’t fit in the house if we had opted to take ’em home. I thought it’d be cool to plant a live tree outside, but indoors is where the presents and the train will be, so the tree must surely follow. I was having some back trouble, and the uneven ground got me pretty solidly… end result was that we left those grounds without any tree to show for it. Instead, we went by the North Beach Volunteer Fire Department, and spotted one that looked just fine…. it fits just perfectly in the house and is nicely symmetrical and full.

Added bonus, we met a guy named Cheeto (Was a contender for Newton’s name, but not seriously), who shook the tree for us…. and a friendly Freemason by the name of Bobby, who delivered it to our porch.

There was much rejoicing.

We picked up the in-laws who had split from us to go decorate the blue house, and we all flitted over to Deale to snag a bite of lunch (I had grilled veggies on a baguette with a side o’fries, plus diet coke with a splash of cherry soda from the fountain)

After the nosh, a quick stop to visit good deale bluegrass, to peek at a sweet double bass. I wouldn’t much mind playing one, if I had the time to learn it. One thing at a time… bass guitar first.

We started to approach midday, so we headed back to set up our tree… she looks good! Pictures to follow, I’m sure.

After we got the basics in place, we all bounded over to the in-laws, and repeated the process there…. by the time we got to a stopping point, it was already 9ish at night, so it was feeding time again – Subway, this go ’round.

BHK was pooped and slept on the recliner while Larry, Chris and I hung out. We primarily talked trains, photography and printing technology; I fear that we may have bored poor Chris to death. I learned a few things, and got to see some pictures of BHK from when she was maybe five or 6 years old… still cute as a button. Those pictures may also be soon to follow.

Back is a bit better, but still needs work. MRI appointment is forthcoming.

1 year ago – city data North Beach, dinner with lj friends and family, PH day

2 years ago – Saw Renee, sysadmin song, liz quit, year in review meme, the jumping party

3 years ago – Work blues, hey ya cb, marvel stamps, ufo theme

4 years ago – annoying words, possible friends list alteration, marshmallows &volcanoes, Rick James/Hulk, on call reduction, CS work-dolt, MM arrival, JL RIP.

5 years ago – mighty shopper, LA Story, keywords, rain

6 years ago – economics, WID gig, good gab, holiday cards

7 years ago – AOK, R d’E, RIP Klink, Golden goat

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9072 – Saturday

November 24, 2007 scottobear Leave a comment

Again, for any who care – “Black Friday” is *not* the busiest shopping day of the year. (Though it is generally in the top 10)

Today in a nutshell:

Allergy shots – quick like a wink.

Greek Festival – crafts were interesting – more art glass and felting.

More nifty to me was the interior of the church.
Jesus has a little smudge on his face.
Gold Bells
Augustine and Helen Mosaic.
Devil and Squid.
Merman and angels? No answer from guide. Photos to follow. Squid says “I don’t care! I don’t care!”. Satan is balding, but has braided pigtails.
Marble vs Ivory.

Homestead Gardens – 3 new ornaments.

robot – retrobot reminds BHK of me.
love bugs – BHK and I all snuggly.
popcorn – our fondness for movies.

Preacher cookies at the in-laws. (Chocolate cookie, made with oats. yummy.)

nap, no sleep, just rest.

Picked up dinner for the crew, and we saw will at the Chinese food place.. is he making a resurgence? He seemed to have seen us, and appeared to hide out in the Roland’s while we got our food. We saw him head back to the Chinese food place as we were driving off.

Back at in laws for General Tso’s Tofu and a viewing of Christmas Vacation – I dozed off a few times.

Home again, and deep sleeps.

Fire on Friday’s Creek, originally uploaded by cynroux.

Beautiful capture of local color by Cyn! Amazing grab of local autumn colors.

1 year ago – coughing, sickies one day to one month

2 years ago – William Burroughs Thanksgiving, Adam Sandler Counterpoint, I left home at Thanksgiving (1987), collection of questions, Bwain, quiz results, Herm gets snow!, thank you songs, grover smash puny human

3 years ago – toasted orange marmalade sammiches, weather, getting porn spam, Italian vampires must have it rough, comic books, non-net folks, Frost, I want to…, GREG photoplay made by me from secret squirrel episode way back when!, I like bananas

4 years ago – Dr. Who, Mail, Ellies, Pods, mininukes

5 years ago – chores, 7 seas, supah-tofutti, Proverbs 15:1

6 years ago – met with tarpo and isis, tarot, fair-palm synch, LJ-ish quotes

7 years ago – Kids in the Hall bits, things I’m thankful for, what’s love?, dream

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9071 friday!

November 23, 2007 scottobear Leave a comment

Dinner last night was excellent… BHK and I slept a bit late this morning – just relaxed a little before heading out for a trip with Larry to take a look at the toy trains set up at the neighborhood motorcycle shop. It was pretty amazing – I’d really like to know where he stores all of his track, trains and scenery the rest of the year! I think that my favorite parts of the set were fire engines at the burning building (with real smoke), the hobo camp off to the side in one of the tunnels, or the Super Chief. Pictures to follow as they’re uploaded.

After an hour or so there, we popped off to the doctor’s office in the hopes of getting a jump on my weekend shots. No dice – they had the same break that I did. Tomorrow’s another day, though.

As consolation, we went to Mexico for very late lunch and then poked our noses into the Festival of Trees. Quite lovely, but I didn’t realize it was for Hospice… many of the trees were memorials. Given the fact that my Dad’s birthday is right around the corner (I can’t believe that he’d have been 62) and that my grandmother is teetering on hospice care now – that was all a bit much for me. The Tree in the middle with all the doves on it, and each one named for someone in that sort of care really cut me to the quick.

Christmas isn’t supposed to be about deep, gut-level sorrow regarding loss… if anything, it should be a celebration of joy. I’d say it took me a good little while to rearrange my thoughts into the proper mindset.

That said, we did see some beautiful trees, again, pictures to follow. The craft show aspect was less than stellar, given that the good stuff (items made by hand – glass beads, ceramics, art prints, etc.) were rather crowded out by the bad. (Air filter units, Herbalife [crosses arms and spits to both sides], and prefab junk made overseas and sold on tables.)

We got a ceramic votive candle holder made by kids in the school’s art department… it’s lovely, and we got to meet the person who designed it. It now resides atop the TV, for mood lighting.

BHK is by far the most wonderful traveling companion a person could ever wish for. The fact that I love her so much isn’t clouding my vision there in the least. She has a delightful sense of wonder and curiosity that makes everything just a little more shiny and brought into focus.

1 year ago – gobble gobble – turkey day

2 years ago – talked to bro in hospital, local music, reader quiz

3 years ago – good counters bad, beard, heroin traffic in sofla, Melissa not Alyssa, evo vs creationism beliefs in the usa, googlewhacked, crimes against children task force

4 years ago – Whatever comes to mind, kid memory, cent sign, elephants

5 years ago – Mayah’s Birthday with pics, mage knight, cosplayers, Newtpics, ACCExpo, Lemmiwinks song

6 years ago – Superpowers, assoil, holiday icon musing

7 years ago – Golden Rice, survey, myths over Miami

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9066 – sun

November 18, 2007 scottobear Leave a comment

In response to yesterday’s entry about BHK’s ring, some superstitions about lucky / not so lucky stone types.

Today was a nice one… we raked some leaves, the in-laws came over to do a little yard work with us… Pye came out with me on the leash for a little bit.

Not much to report, aside from the gutters are cleaner, now… and the leak isn’t really a leak, but an impact from something, probably around halloween on the side of the house.

Last of the hot peppers harvested for the year – next garden is going to be even better than our first, I bet! What I thought was going to be a “vanity garden” certainly bore a huge bounty.

Once it got dark, we hit Mama Lucias for supper… veggie pizza for Chris and Me, while Larry and BHK enjoyed pepperoni.

We returned, played a little Rayman, and then hit the sack after watching our
yardwork, dinner at mamma lucias, rayman, caught up office and old eps of news radio.

Newt and Pye playing a moment on video –

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4491653991876093977&hl=en

Recent photos –

autumn

Some colors still turning from green to deep red in the parking lot of the Doctor’s office.

honesty is everything

Cigarettes promoting honesty.
An anagram for “Honesty is” – Tiny Shoes.
An anagram for Honesty is everything – Teensy Thieving Horsy (heck, or Everyone Shits Nightly.)
If I had my druthers, I’d go back and rearrange those letters.

barnacle bikes belched from the bay –

flash shot… you can see the green algae a lot more clearly. I wonder how long they were in there… did the bike fall off of a boat?

sans flash – I like the natural light better, but there’s less detail.

Bike 2 – natural light – too blurry.

flash – better, but again, not as warm.

1 year ago – frigate bird, fishing trip
pictures taken – fishing trip

2 years ago – prep to move in, newtie, tortie

pictures – hurricane pate

3 years ago – doodles, first penny, sodium party, fussy danny, BCfair, harry lampert RIP, journal fine, diana a celebration

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

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

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

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

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