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Recapping –

Got my 401k comp check from my last gig – That worked out well. I told a little fib to BHk, and said that I expected about $500, and we got about eight times that amount. (I was planning for about six times.)

Went to Annapolis and promptly deposited that little windfall in the bank – then stopped off at the Amish Farmer’s Market for breakfast. BHK and I split two – ate half and then swapped Chocolate Chip Pancakes, home fries, cheddar cheese omelet, wheat toast – I let BHK eat up all of the bacon, of course.

Opted out of going to a movie – nothing we want to see just this moment.. maybe next week when it’s less crowded.  We did get a few other goodies at the farmer’s market – cheese, strawberries, trinket’s for our 4’th of July cake (gummy stars and confetti sprinkles), a blueberry fritter for me for tomorrow’s breakfast (or tonight’s midnight snack)

BHK remembered that I was due for shots (skipped when em was here) and we went there for a bit. Adam called, and mentioned that he was coming down for the 3rd’s fireworks, an was bringing Anna – so, it was a quick trip to the grocery to be sure he had a full belly.

I was feeling pretty out of it at that point, so I rested in the car. Going to nap now that we’re home. sweet dreams, dear journal.

added for no reason, except that I like Em and Otters – S6303931

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9632 – Friday –

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Lucky day today – in a nutshell –

  • Bought $5 worth of scratch-offs – won $12.
  • Insurance is going to pay to repair the wheel issue on the love cube.
  • BHK got $9 back in cash and free popcorn and cheap soda pop at Safeway.
  • It’s Friday!
  • BHK made yummy veggie soup.
  • Ugly Betty was pretty fun!
  • Promising emails in the works, regarding the condo association.

1 year ago – David visits, Hitler vs Frankenstein for India, Bill Hicks 14 years dead, I am accused of psychic powers (see also,Graypumpkin comments), lasagna cat

2 years ago – crazy happy (and I’m crazier happier now!!), mad dvd, mark millar says video games are for pedophiles

3 years ago – apes and mr rogers, whiz, walkies

4 years ago – asked for change at every turn, music and pie, bro maint, striking, long weekends, bk commercial evil, walkabout pictures

5 years ago – Images, missed calls, made an offer on a condo, lj-spam, walkies, matchstick rockets, gorilla basketball

6 years ago – doc, news, Mr. Rogers, eckerds sucks, palm-doodle

7 years ago – OSI closes, tardbucket, 1980 jc penney catalog, 3-minute noir

8 years ago – hurricane names, wacky news, poot, Be courteous, kind and forgivingGeotarget

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9237 – Sunday

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I forgot to mention what we did after getting my allergy shots yesterday! We stopped off at Giant, grabbed some rolls, cheese, mustard and turkey (last one just for BHK), then toddled over to Dunkirk District Park. Pretty cool place – has a nice skate ramp, lots of picnic tables, wooded areas, fields for baseball, basketball, tennis and lacrosse. I get the feeling that as it warms up, it’ll be the kids place to be.

We polished off our sammiches, and got back in the car just in time to beat the rain – it was still coming down pretty hard when we picked up our rosebushes – They look like bundles of dirty stick for now, but just wait a month… they’ll be in the ground by May 1… after the worst chance of another cold snap has passed.

Went to Sneade’s for some more seeding trays, a springtime flag for our pole (it’s cute – a beehive – “home is where my honey is” I need to check permissions for putting in a hive of my own out back this year), and a few grilly-items. Saw Larry there, and invited him and Chris over to do some grilling on Sunday… he reminded us that the United States Navy Band was playing – for some reason, we thought it was Sunday night… so we headed home, had a little nap, got cleaned up, and enjoyed some note-perfect music. It was a band, not an orchestra – BHK was missing the strings section, but made up for it by enjoying the percussion and giggling at the high cheese factor of the announcer / vocalist’s styling of Man of La Mancha.

The concert was only an hour long – we picked up Chris (who wasn’t interested in attending), and all headed to Thursday’s. It was quite good.

Anyhow – We did chores and stayed close to home today. BHK worked on the yard, while I got us caught up with last minute Taxes (That’s why Chris didn’t attend – running last minute scenarios.) My first year of filing jointly as a married sort of fellow – a bit different than filing alone. Lots of deductions this year – health care, homestead, school loan interest… I guess I’m a grownup after all. Good thing is that we’re getting some going back, not to mention the “gimme” from the govt that everyone’s getting.

We’ll sock some of it away, put some towards furniture, I suspect – a new mattress, or upholstering the coming couch, maybe?

BHK beat me at Hacienda again, but it was dang close. If I had one more turn, I might’ve beaten her. Alas, I did not! Still, it was a good game, and I think we had a lot of fun playing.

Rules of thumb – get as many markets as you can, as fast as you can! Don’t bother saving money… the three turn limit cuts what you can spend pretty hard.

I suspect I’ll sneak in a game of Wishes Were Fishes next week. Failing that – maybe if we go do paint your own pottery, I’ll make us a set of Tally-Ho! (I discovered it at Yucata… it’s close to a combination of my plans for Brier Patch and Pumpkin with Icehouse pyramids – likely a better play design, too)

Pizza and Nature documentary time with the in-laws tonight! Until Later, Dear Journal!


1 year ago – Friday the 13th, picture of me as hector hammond, talkers, palm doodle under the sea, eclairs, shocking cats

2 years ago – get together?, odds & ends mp3, reality settings, on call stuff, dr who remixes (& scooby doo), transit links

3 years ago – headhunter, dr who, hovering sombrero, little cowpoke didn’t take, Dworkin, Belle & Jen interested in remixed cds, ADP adds junk, KJ and Oona arrive.

4 years ago – easter afters, THC high enough to be considered hard drugs, rainy photo, leaping gnome scotto

5 years ago – bro issues, jkg, landlord

6 years ago – bigfoot research, local cams, lazy, SANTO!, Yellow pestilence, superhero movies, Bill & Ted

7 years ago – food & feelings, good friday, virtual omGeotarget

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Visited with the inlaws for a late breakfast and chit-chat, bugged out and proceeded to tina’s to do a little kitty-loving while she’s out of town, and then headed home to take care of some lingering duties I had left. Paid the cable bill, took care of this year’s taxes – I have about $700 coming back to me this year due to the interest paid on my condo. (it would’ve been only about $280, otherwise). I also logged about a dozen pepsi caps into the online car-contest thing. I’ve been harvesting both those and coke lids from the workplace (and in the case of coke, from our fridge) for about 3 weeks now. The coke site was down for repairs, but hopefully one or both of those will turn into something spiffy soon.

1 year ago – good saturday, dream, masamune, police thingum, spain’s easter, dr who

2 years ago – sleepy, mr t sings, music videos, flash gordon moment, sanjay patel, lobster vs sea hare, guy killed at my bus stop, orbital mind control lasers!

3 years ago – Ella Enchanted, army-men bowl, palm doodles

4 years ago – April Winchell’s media, pda burp, sleepy kitten song with some profanity

5 years ago – spam radio, falling dreams, walkies, fabric softener, story seed, NEWWWTON IS A GOOOOLEM

6 years ago – Easter, working on a shopping cart, my first 10 lj friends, family meal, walkies, css issueGeotargetVisitor Map

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8116 – Work, again? BOB SAGAT!

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GeotargetI didn’t do much of anything this weekend. I didn’t put on shoes. I didn’t leave the third floor. I did clean house, laundry, etc.

Watched the heck out of the Kong DVDs… all the special edition stuff… Harryhausen’s test footage and the documentary on “the making of” was pretty dang impressive, and Harryhausen’s commentary was good on the movie disc, too. A lot of it was interpolated, due to the movie being over 70 years old.. just about everyone remotely involved in the project are long deceased. It worked out quite nicely, however, since the material hasn’t changed in that span,either.

Mr. T doing a happy little dance. (don’t sniff the rest of the site unless you’re not at work and have a strong stomach.)

In fact, I’ll just snag the animated gif from the shockwave,and post it here, instead.

mrtdance

Found it searching for –

Remember kids… believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don’t do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs.

1 year ago – Rainy lazy mel-day, bonnet house, literati with resilience, fictional substances, fooling around with image searches

2 years ago – Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, etc

3 years ago – Newt Pic, Manatees, Harry potter, palm wait at doc, sanctity of life

4 years ago – cool invention poll, thoughts about human rights progressing, magic spell over Taiwan, books read, How to take a punch, and my first notification that I was being published in UA2.

5 years ago – Custard the Dragon, Beautiful and Not-so-beautiful Words, Botticelli reminding me of mah sweetie, Michelanglo on Censorship, and a few dead links.

6 years ago – Newt was Neutered!

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8091 – vortiginous entry

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GeotargetRS thinks that I have some big secret plans for the weekend, I think because I let her go on about her weekend plans and whatnot, and then we got to talking about something else. Nope, nothing special planned… just sleeping in and lingering around the neighborhood, doing more walkies if I can. No glamorous binges on booze and loose women, just a nice weekend out and about.

FDLE coming by the office on Monday morning, FBI Tuesday, and who knows what Wednesday will bring? Maybe big brain, ha-ha? I’m glad that HP has been as patient with me as possible.

I was so beat last night that I fell asleep at 8:30… woke up at 4ish am as a result. I suspect my weekend might be a little out of whack as a result. A bit too brisk out for a swim in the pool… maybe after the sun rises.

I find it amazing that my electric bill for the new one bedroom is less than my old studio… the old place must’ve not been very well weather sealed. $70 is almost a third less than what I paid last January. Also, automatic billpay is beautiful. I just get an email a week before it’s paid, so I can update my records, and hey, presto!

Laser pointer is nifty in the early morning fog… the line goes on for a huge distance.

Dopey dreams of work last night…I don’t much like it when the daily mundane starts stepping on areas that usually allow for people being changed into modular string bean / sabre-toothed tiger stereo components. Most of the drama that I was expecting to happen didn’t occur yesterday, so maybe that was why it was pressing on the brain. Next Friday will be considerably different, and I expect the company to have some drastic changes in one way or another by February.

May be getting together with Bro tomorrow, if plans stay on track. I think a beach walk is in order, or maybe a bike trip.

word of the day: fabiform – shaped like a bean

Speaking of words, I never seem to get a good opportunity to use the term “vortex”. (not to mention – vortical, vorticose, vorticular or vortiginous) Like kissing a woman’s hand, it’s either too much, or not enough.

Windows update now has an official security patch for the wmf vulnerability…update your system normally, and you’ll no longer need that patch posted earlier. To delete the old patch, go to the control panel, add/remove programs – It will be in the list of installed programs as “Windows WMFMetafile Vulnerability HotFix”. click on change/remove, and once it’s out, reboot. all done!

Those Yahoo ads are earning about $0.56 a day lately, down from an overall average of about $2.69 a day. (one insane day 12/15 that got nuts threw off the average.. $19.68) .. but most days haven’t broken a dollar. Upside, there has only been one day when *nothing* was earned since I started hosting them. That plus the $50 flat I get each month from my static front page linkies every month makes for a nice charity lump sum base.

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

2 years ago – Goodies, bad phone, long meeting

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

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

5 years ago – vagg, movies, napster

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GeotargetI’d like a comfy linen/cotton blend suit, and a snappy gray fedora. Not sure where that urge for a summer suit in November came from.

I can’t watch TV shows that place in hospitals, at least not around the anniversary of my father’s death or his birthday. I had an extended crying jag last night when I remembered that his birthday is coming up in about 2 weeks. First time I’ve really cried for quite a while. Ultimately cleansing, but think I hurt my side a little bit as a result. Newt was a great comfort to me.

I miss my dad. I miss the way my brother was when he was 12. I think that I get along with my mother better these days than I ever had as a kid.

The office has decided not to pay salaried folks for time away from work due to Hurricane Wilma… I’m going to point them to Hurricane Wilma Disaster Unemployment Assistance. To determine eligibility for Wilma DUA (or standard unemployment benefits), start by contacting the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation (Florida unemployment office) or filing an unemployment claim through same by 11/28/2005. For information about other types of Hurricane Wilma disaster assistance, browse the FEMA and FDEM sites.

I’m safe… I worked every day save for 2, and those two days I gave training and tech walk-through to our rep in Texas. I think that everyone else save for ECN and myself will end up getting docked a little more than week’s pay. (I wonder if the Big Kahuna will cut herself, too?)

I am a member of 1 clique of size 7

boopydoodle, acoolsecretary, scottobear, oneeyedcat, ilenebook, weezeroni, sedefendendo

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7822 – comparative values for the same journal

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My blog is worth $9,032.64.
How much is your blog worth?

$9,032.64 for http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/


My blog is worth $1,693.62.
How much is your blog worth?

$1,693.62 for http://www.scottobear.com/Journal/journal.html

$0.00 for http://scottobear.livejournal.com/

I guess it’s all in how folks link to me, as well as who I link to.

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7695 – August Behind, September Ahead.

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So long, August! Hopefully September promises good things in the coming weeks ahead.

I was given revised paid links last night… maybe the mystery of the phantom July payment will be solved.

I know for sure which entry of mine has the longest ongoing comment conversation at least across time, if not in sheer numbers. An entry posted back in July of 2002 about Roanoke and the Lumbee Indians (Long before those two wiki articles) still has people dropping in now and again, more than three years later, including a couple die-hard regulars. I come up as entry #30 on a google search regarding the tribe, and I’m not sure that any of the sites before mine have an area to post personal commentary. The biggest discussion seems to be whether or not there is African American blood in the tribe as a result of escaped slaves assimilated into the group. There doesn’t seem to be a clear answer, and neither side of the discussion seems to be showing signs of backing down.

That said, there are only 50 comments in that entry as of this writing… I have two or three entries that have sparked off into long comment trails of 500+, but those discussions peter out about a week or two after being posted. That’s a case of seven people just talking back and forth… it turned into sort of a chat room, rather than a discussion forum near the end.

Doodles drawn on the palm while in the waiting area of the doctor’s office.

Allergy Shots today - Cute girl named Angela always sits across from me, always has a book
Angela seems nice, despite the fact that I’ve never talked to her.
Books I’ve seen her reading – Great Gatsby and A few Tony Hillermans.

Harry the head
Slightly Wall-eyed guy…
reminded me a little of the seedy pawnbroker in MIB

water plants
Thinking about getting an aquarium again.

Scotto Thoughts
Random stuff bouncing off of my brain…
Manatees, Newt, Global Disasters…

Also, Photos of heads taken yesterday. (Bus Guy & Newt)

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D’oh! I left my camera at work! How’d I do that? It must’ve been because I had my handspring in my pocket. Looks like Bonbon spawn#2 got a talking to for drag racing on company time…not to mention Buddha, Sissy-Greg, and Buddha2 got in trouble for sleeping on the job. Second time in two days. I’m *very* surprised they didn’t get fired… just a suspension for a day.

Wachovia now has my proof of residence… I’m probably going to get a call tomorrow, confirming that I can open the account.

One of my dollars made it to Scottsdale Arizona! Ito only took 2 yrs, 238 days, 22 hrs, 19 min to get there… traveled 1963 miles (or an average of 2 miles a day)

I registered years ago with Where’s George, and forgot about it about six months later. I registered maybe a dozen bills, and grew bored when none came back. Now that I’ve finally gotten some confirmation, I’ll start registering more, just to see where it goes. I think that I first found out about Where’s George via Ana cam, just like I found LiveJournal, though I haven’t really been to Ana cam in ages. Danny still has a T-shirt from her site somewhere… it’s a great shirt.

I’ve just found an interesting element of the magic levitation rules…Dave’s going to get it, next time we play. Mage knight rules stuff

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The days are getting visibly shorter lately…The sun has officially set by 8pm, and it makes reading more difficult.

Work wants me to make them a website. I don’t think I want to make one for them… I’m not sure… I guess I’ll do my best, give them something that looks like the company’s brochure, and hope for the best… it’ll be a change of duty… but somehow, I don’t want to go into doing a lot of web page design for the company…or, if I do, I want to be paid accordingly for more responsibility and a broader spectrum of skills put to use. I doubt that’ll happen. (Especially since my design sense is spartan. I’m much better at programming and keeping interfaces simple, rather than the many bells and whistles that clients might want for a website.) That’s one of those things that has very little definition, and I fear “Too many chefs” syndrome… Building a website for these guys is going to be an exercise in micromanagement and nit-pickery. When I write a program for the company, I know that there’ll be set resolution sizes, no unusual ways of loading the program (like a non-standard browser / Netscape / opera, etc) and no diphthongs asking for “Hey, have something that chases the mouse with the company logo on it!” I must make a point of keeping an open mind… it could be fun. No more negativity, Scotto… deal with it as it comes.

I like the new Tori single. (Big shock there.)

You know blogging has become passé when a soap opera creates blogs “written” by two of its characters.

Watched a little 700 club this morning. He’s got some severe logic issues, as well as a lot of internal hate. I went online to find a transcript of today’s show, to reference …it’s not available yet. When my spiders bring it back, I’ll have more to say. Long story short, the guy’s a racist and has a lot of intolerance. Something about “Judge Not” is ringing in my ears.

Payday. I hope It gets off to a kinder roll soon.