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9050 – Tuesday

It’s Fat Tuesday!

It’s Super Tuesday !

It’s PANCAKE DAY !

Sakes.. it all seems so early this year. I don’t have the chops to eat pancakes tonight… still feeling a bit under the weather – but I don’t do lent either, so it’s all good. some mini-bagels and wheat chex with blueberries is just what I needed.

JC told me about a pneumonia shot… I’d never heard of such a thing. I’m going in to see my doctor today about getting one… apparently, JC had some bronchial issues about 8 years ago, and this cleared it up to the point where she’s never needed anything again.

I’m for that… I’m hitting the doc’s tomorrow in Dunkirk and having a look.

Watched The Last Mimzy tonight… it was ok, but no amazing great shakes happening there. Sort of a shiny, happy 12 Monkeys for hippies and kids, but not really. It’s not a bad movie overall… I think that in the right setting, and with the right people it’d be a cute way to burn 90 minutes. As it stood, it was average. Nothing amazing, nothing terrible.

Pye liked watching it with us – Newt snoozed upstairs.


I haven’t had a hot dog cut like an octopus in a while… it’s overdue. Maybe with some cherry pez and an episode of the Tick, for that matter.


A slice of life from North Beach, by way of BHK – I’ve been waiting for some mail order stuff for a while, and Danny’s present hadn’t arrived yet.

Just went to the post office and got the mail—there was NO package slip in the box. I was waiting for your shoes and t-shirts so I thought I’d go ask just be sure and LO and BEHOLD we had 3 packages! Danny’s came on Saturday Afternoon. BUT there was a bit of controversy–2 things.

The postmaster SWORE she put a note in our box but I KNOW we didn’t get one—as I was leaving the blond post lady told me that sometimes the other post lady forgets to put slips in—-GLAD I asked!

ALSO there was a giant brown stain where something wet had leaked on your shoes box—luckily upon further inspection it didn’t make it into the inner box but without me asking the postmaster volunteered—-“Oh sorry Luther’s deer blood got on your package.”

I SWEAR I almost BARFED in the post office. I was like WHAT? And the postmaster explained that some dude who lives in North Beach and his son like to send meat back and forth to each other.

Last week the father got in a bit of deer meat packed in dry ice and it leaked If it hadn’t been our box and I didn’t have to unwrap a bloody box I would’ve laughed at the following conversation the two post-ladies had after they told me what was on my box.

One: “Is it legal to send meat through the mail?” (UM shouldn’t she KNOW?)
Two: “Of course it is–Luther sent his son some fish back last week remember?” (GAG!!!!)
One: “Well at least your box wasn’t as bad as Mrs. So-and So’s Southern Living Magazine. I felt bad for her the whole thing was SOAKED in deer blood. I doubt she was able to read a page.” (BAAAAAAAAAAAAAARF!)

It’s not Hooterville here, I swear! Sometimes, it strikes home how different things are now than in Fort Lauderdale… and how much I prefer being on the Bay to living in SoFL.


Yikes.
Photo: Pilar Olivares/Reuters

Peruvian anti-riot police officers participate in a military parade to celebrate Peru’s Independence Day in Lima.

Yikes. Remind me not to riot in Lima. Heck, I’m not feeling up to rioting anytime soon.


What the heck kind of name is Ghostface Killah? An awesome one, thanks. Better than any of his other aliases, I think.


1 year ago – slow day with family

2 years ago – manatee mailbox, fp with Kev and Tomi, Bailey-pooch, GUN, train ride pics, bhk vaio trouble

3 years ago – bro probation, Shoo’s B’day! (Happy Happy Again today!), flying solo, keywords, Zogg, florida research tools, baby cheetah

4 years ago – stop motion, scrabble experiment, palm doodles, feelin’ ill

5 years ago – 80s dream, oddtodd, crackle bars, warm, face-picker kid

6 years ago – Shoo’s Birfday!, Missed the bus, fruit2O, razor dream, bull sperm thieves, bellyaching, Tsar Piccies, TV news, meatloaf quiz, wacky linkies, tron

7 years ago – License plates, Bob Marley Movement, Vallies roll inGeotarget

9066 – sun

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

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

honesty is everything

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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 –

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bike2 - with flash. bay burped up another one

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?

2

bike2 no flash

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

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Bike 2 – natural light – too blurry.

4

bike 1 with flash - on north beach boardwalk

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 Geotarget

9048 – mon

A quick peek of my office, taken with my phone’s camera this morning – not seen, the bright moon and Venus, first thing upon leaving the house this morning. Brilliant. Wave hi to DC!

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Lunch of leftover Chinese food was almost as good as lunch of leftover BHK casserole… but not quite. Dang tasty, anyhow.

Strange… we had trick or treaters the day after Halloween, and were only too happy to give our crusty old candies that didn’t make the grade the night prior. I thought it was a fairly unique situation, but it seems that it’s not an isolated incident. Note – we gave cute little kids the good stuff – chocolate, and smarties for Daniel (as he’s lactose intolerant), but any teens that came by without costumes got nasty stale necco wafers and clove candies that we hadn’t eaten in about a year.

Side note… do I really have to link to what trick or treaters or Halloween is? I doubt it.

We don’t have much candy left at the house, but gals at work still have huge bowls set out. It’s a real challenge not to grab a kit-kat when it’s right in my flight path.

I wonder how old is the “right” age to stop trick or treating… I always figured the cutoff was age 12, but maybe that was just me.

BHK had a meeting with the city, and afterward, we met at Thursday’s with the in-laws for a late supper.


Zombie Picture taken on the metro a few days back… good ol’ Halloween.


Considering that a Ford Model-T got as good or better mileage than most of today’s U.S. automobiles, I guess it’s not suprising that Henry Ford was, according to this 1934 profile, well ahead of the game in biofuels and bioplastics:

Science is discovering means of transforming products of the farm into materials for manufacture. Through his experimental farms, Henry Ford now successfully converts the common soy bean into automobile parts and an oil which makes up 30 per cent of the Ford car finish.

Mr. Ford declares that this plastic industry, this evolution of industrial agriculture, still is in its infancy and that its possibilities and opportunities are limitless. As an example, he points out that his laboratories have produced from the soy bean a tough, hard, yet inexpensive material which stands a pressure of 9,000 pounds without breaking… Ford and his chemists envision the time when automobile bodies, houses, skyscrapers and even great monuments may be fabricated from the soy bean.

Then again: maybe biofuels aren’t such a good idea, anyway.

via treehugger / kottke


1 year ago – butterfly world, swensons, pix

  • Pictures taken (and more )- giant lobster with a smile, butterfly world, one-legged day of the dead guy, iguanas

2 years ago – lithgow soup, hot in apt, STUKA!! memory, lonliness %, bus riverwalk pic, sasha/magda, bro, chicken little, tiki pic

3 years ago – ft laud pix, incredibles, win security hole, MUDD, 68th recovery

4 years ago – stream of thought, sports clix first view, first use of hr-dividers regularly?, Daler Mehndi!, interaction

5 years ago – Singing horses, SPEAR LANCASTER!, Newtie Pic, Vote For DUKES!, cutup poetry, heroclix

6 years ago – superhero dream, evil news, Daler Mehndi, vote poll, felon poll,Q&A poll, sleep ramble, FE-co the wonder dog, posting ~6 entries aday, Entry #3152

7 years ago – dead links, real change, and a trip to see Charlie’s Angels Geotarget

8968 – sunday funday!

Still too hot to do much of anything out and about in the Crisco soup-like atmosphere, so we opted to take in lunch at the Sbarro’s in the Annapolis Mall and then hit a movie. Who knows why we woke up at 7:30 on a Sunday, but it gave us a solid head start.

We finally caught the Simpsons Movie on the big screen… I was surprised – it was a lot better than I was expecting… pretty solid TV episode from back when it was funny. We only saw 3 bits that would make it warrant a PG-13 rating – an instance of nudity, a curse word (or two) and some drinking / drug use. I could see them showing all of it after 10pm on network tv unedited, or without those three instances any time at all.

On the way home, we noticed that ATW has changed the sign again, as the search for “the man” continues. (atw is now a tag just for my ease of searching the story thread and pictures, now.)

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ATW NEWSROOM
‘THE MAN’
BOOT RECOVERED
FINGERS POINTED
Police say ‘NO Statement – NO case’
Meanwhile, Man Sightings run rampant
Psychic to be called.

It was a good thing we caught an early show as the later part of the day was comprised of –

BHK Birthday Part II: Electric boogaloo!
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Party at Tina’s place… Mexican food! Both Meat and veggie protein varieties – Tina’s not a big carnivore, either. Matt (her new boy) seems like a nice enough fellow and I hope they have maximum fun / minimum glum together. He’s certainly more social and generally conversational than DR or W. Dessert was yellow birthday cake with chocolate icing, compared favorably to yesterday’s lemon cake with lemon icing. Added bonus, BHK’s mom didn’t absent-mindedly start slurping the frosting off of the removed candles like last night, rather than giving them to the b’day girl to taste.

Aside from Tina and Matt, Adam, Jimmy, Louise, Chris and Larry all made it to celebrate. We fit pretty comfortably at Tina’s townhouse… I wasn’t sure if we’d all be able to manage, but it worked out quite well.

BHK’s Loot received:

from Louise : Necklace and bracelet of multi-colored pearls.
from Tina : A pair of Peridot Earrings / Hello Kitty purse (which looks like ms. kitty is making a gesture I’m sure wasn’t intentional)
from Larry & Chris – Red Coral necklace and Earrings / and some lovely crockery
from Danny – A swell looking green-stoned ring in gold. (and he got Tina some yellow-stoned earrings, too!)
from my Mom and Wilt – Turquoise and silver necklace, Halloween Snow globe, a little cornucopia and a really lovely card.
from me – a lot of knickknacks – Grease & Grease 2, a pair of pink pseudo-crocks, some stripy socks that mismatch/match, a pink headband with little jolly rogers, bath scrubbie, black cat bowl, a green wire basket, some fuzzy slippers and a gift cert to scalped.

I’m the only person that didn’t get her any jewelry… she told me specifically *not* to get her any. Now, I understand why.

May’ve recruited Adam and Jimmy into a parlor game night. Who knows, maybe they’ll lure Kendall and Amanda into it, too, and we’ll have a big night of it sometime!

I don’t know if Matt is into parlor games… I do know he digs the Redskins and is willing to put up with chick flicks. come to think of it, I don’t know for sure if Tina is interested in boardgames or not… I suspect that she, like the in-laws aren’t really into abstract games. Louise is a good candidate, but is harder to reel in to a date or time than the teens. The last time we saw her was her birthday, about 6 weeks ago.

Poor Danny has students in his classes now – he’s back to running the Sci-fi club, and is incorporating Pirates into the after school program. I should send him a bucket of heroclix or mage knight commons/doubles as a donation. He really liked the Superhero stamps and Lord of the Rings Risk game we shot off to him a little while back.

1 year ago – back from an all too brief visit, nose buttering, bunny suicides, events of the day, liberty city psp homebrew hack, jojo the cannibal kid, maple cookies, folks, met Adam / Future In-laws

2 years ago – power out phone post, hurricane katrina aftermath pictures (and Newt), Bro out, Techs unavailable

3 years ago – BK heads north, random visit to a 2001 entry, behavior variances, quiet-please

4 years ago – sleep schedule, zombie game (poor thing aborted), monkey helpers, first lost child.

5 years ago – Deer Hunter, Apache, Equality/freedom Poll, Emerson, flying saucer, heroclix 200 point armies, McD hot dogs, wpoison

6 years ago – that piercing woman , lj vibe change, many links (not all work anymore)

7 years ago – Godzilla, quizzes, leftyrok added me, IMT threatens to move all operations north to Tampa, dean martin Geotarget

8967 – sat – BHK b’day!

A brief summary: BHK’s Birthday!

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I managed to butter her nose by sneaking caches of a dollop in the nightstand (on a plate), and then by instilling enough paranoia in her to make looking for it in there ridiculous. A year ago today, I proposed to her – more a gift to myself, or us both. I’m happy that she said yes.

We visited the bayfest from about 11:30 to 1:30… got home before we both spontaneously combusted. We quite enjoyed the fest, and it’s sort of a shame that it’ll be the last one. (Or at least, there are no plans for more in the immediate future, anyhow.)

Items consumed:

  • Funnel Cake.
  • Kettle Corn
  • Egg Rolls
  • Orangeade
  • Water, lots of Water.

Items of note – toothless man gumming a hot dog and beer

BHK bought me a classic 60’s style Spider-man lunch box for 50¢ – good find.

Very cute but brief parade of:

  • a fire truck
  • a local celebrity I don’t know
  • 7 men in fuzzy admiral’s hats
  • several little girls with pom-poms
  • several kids in gi uniforms, swinging shiny golden nun-chucks
  • a stilt-walker in a Frankenstein costume about 10 feet tall.

On the way home we stopped in at a storefront spa that recently surfaced – it might be a place for BHK to visit to redeem her birthday “beauty coupon” I put a hand made thing in there for whatever she wants to do at Scalped, but it’s totally transferable.

After we recovered from the heat (drank a lot of cold drinks once inside, we realized that there were no soft pretzels at the fair, but we did have some in the freezer, so we continued the fair-food experience in the comfort of our air conditioned living room by consuming pretzels and remaining kettle corn while watching Ace of Cakes… we didn’t have any energy to do much more than that, despite the highly event-filled weekend here. Due to the heat, we skipped the local B.I.G. book sale at the tobacco warehouse, the opening of the Ren-fest (not a problem, it runs for 9 weekends!), and totally forgot about the Greek fest until late in the evening. It was simply too effin’ hot.

Once the sun turned the heat back a notch, we headed over to the in-laws for Chinese Food, a little present-opening and viewing of one of BHK’s presents… Grease and Grease 2… the heat turned into storms, so we had to shut off the tube and a/c for a bit at their house, but aside from that, it was a pleasant evening… Louise made it over, too!

We headed back right before the end of Grease two – BHK and I were both tuckered out, and were fairly sleeping through the video.

Tomorrow, we have a birthday party at Tina’s place!

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8963 – wed

Recent pictures from the Grotto local –

They tore down the neighbor’s house,
and are putting up a new single family home!

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FIL got a warning for running a stop sign
in his riding mower… good thing it wasn’t a ticket!

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BHK made fantastic stuffed peppers, broccoli/caulifower salad and mac & cheese – we then went to bed, after watching about 1/3 of Mrs. Pollifax – Spy. (Good movie so far! Night Stalker, Mame, MacGuyver’s boss and Exidor all in the same movie!)


Two good quotes heard recently (from a locked post, so they’ll remain anonymous unless they want to be otherwise identified.)

Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his mind, body and soul. —Sir Francis Bacon

We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts… I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. —Patrick Henry


Pretty wiped out, so I’ll catch up more tomorrow, dear journal!


1 year ago – tweaking web page, radioactive volcanoes?, wooley imbibe, venture bros, voice post burgers

2 years ago – forgotten nightmares, laughing puppets, sickies, gov rss feeds, paycheck to paycheck, audio hidden, i loves me some waffles, music, otr, 25 food hacks, smarts

3 years ago – no dwarf dice, swap shop instead, I live in a pulp universe, walkabout pictures, froggies, gorillas in comics, email post – image host

4 years ago – ACIM invites me back, new sound card, “don’t go there” is gone, DSA, keywords, gil gerard ages, commanding my minions, publix cancels home delivery

5 years ago – run tel dat, newt playing, gaming, cow teeth, trivia cookies!

6 years ago – ichnology, phantom blot, no-so-evil news

7 years ago – Newtcam, replicating interests Geotarget

8941 – Wednesday

One year until 08/08/08!


I found out today that the family across the street from us has lived in that house for the last 23 or so years. Adam, the youngest son at age 18 has lived in the same home his whole life. I wonder how often that happens anymore? I don’t think I’ve put more than five years of life in the same building – I didn’t even spend more than 2 years in the same school until I hit 9th grade as my folks moved around quite a bit.

I’m not sure I can even imagine how intimately familiar a person comes to be with that sort of environment… that kid must know every stone and fence within a 10-mile area. He must’ve seen some very significant changes over the last two decades.. North Beach was a bit of a biker town before it got an influx of bay front property money. There is quite a cultural microcosm these days, but the upper-middle class seems to be taking the lead.


Today’s weather is *evil* – Current Temperature is 100°F, “feels like” 109. And that’s at “partly cloudy”. How much hotter would it be with full-bore sun?


Totally random thought formed on the train – do the words cowherd (someone who herds cows) and coward (someone who shows fear in the face of danger) have a connection? I need to research that.

[edit – Well, I guess not. Word History: A coward is one who “turns tail.” The word comes from Old French couart, coart, “coward,” and is related to Italian codardo, “coward.” Couart is formed from coe, a northern French dialectal variant of cue, “tail” (from Latin cda), to which the derogatory suffix -ard was added. This suffix appears in bastard, laggard, and sluggard, to name a few. A coward may also be one with his tail between his legs. In heraldry a lion couard, “cowardly lion,” was depicted with his tail between his legs. So a coward may be one with his tail hidden between his legs or one who turns tail and runs like a rabbit, with his tail showing.]


BHK picks up Em tomorrow!
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She’ll be visiting from Thursday through Sunday. I expect a *lot* of fun and a probably a couple of interesting challenges. (She’s little, and will likely miss her folks on one or two nights.)


After thinking about it, I feel that a variant of Oshi might work well with the Icehouse pyramids. (Other possibilities at the World of Abstract Games )


1 year ago – priceline beats expedia, register to vote, Chinese Ghost Festival, exfoliate/defoliate, hangin’ round the ceiling, walkabout/geocache plans

2 years ago – meetings, school restarts, club shuffle, thank you – sim-sim-salabim, danny the street, vidcam hacks, google total, unf. kids books, How bona to vada your eek!, teacher, miami storm pic

3 years ago – Bro health care, lj post issues, losing some gentleness, scotto-flaws& nice things, vintage newspaper strips, no jack black as GL, funw/google searches, older archives, deep sea images, phone safe,keylogger, slowed chipmunks, JL cartoon, character makeups, europreart

4 years ago – Teen Titans, Antidepressants, narghile, steve burns, ebonics, red kryptonite poll, bro health

5 years ago – ZIM!, fun fact, fumbuckery, added newt pic to bio, after he shocked me, site reboot that didn’t come to fruition

6 years ago – some thoughts about gamers/negative side, including a dragon-con flashback (that caused some upset in the role-players community), who in a crowd?, Upside-down, RPG poll, caterwaul, Name Generator, dinos in your region, Wally Caught stealing, begins the end of the WDB era at IMT.

7 years ago – grumpy, in general and regarding TV Geotarget

8921 – Thursday

For no good reason, a picture of Alan’s rug.
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Netforum 2006/01 or /02? Upgrade is looking pretty essential. That’s been part of my work lately, reviewing the next build and how well it’ll get into place. I just want it to be as seamless as possible… minimise any growing pains.

Being a giant guy has the side effect of being used as a mobile landmark. I’ve had folks tell their kids that if the get lost, look for me in a crowd. Not for me to babysit ’em, just that my head and shoulders tend to bob above other folks nearby. Also, it appears that I’m one of those “hey, I know you” types. I look both kind and trustworthy as well as looming and scary. I guess it depends on if I’ve shaved around the goatee and am more awake than walking dead. (In that case, folks cross the street to get away from me.) I’ve been in Maryland for about eight months now, and my newest gig just one. I’ve already been invited to a lot of picnics, parties, etc…. I don’t think it’ll be too long before the combination of North Beach’s small-townishness and other friendlies at work spirals it back up to a broader friends base. Right now I’m still a bit of “BHK’s Hubby” or “Larry’s Son-in-law”.

Back in the old days (when I was in high school and thereabouts) I was Mr. connected. Everyone knew me, or knew of me through someone else. I’m not sure how that happened, but I suspect it’s a side effect of the landmark issue above. I seldom bothered anyone, and folks rarely gave me any guff. I’m not as connected anymore – living in a new state, new job, etc. This came up during a little message exchange with Sirenity… regarding people who get talked to or “hey do I know you”ed a lot.

Dreamt of a white panel van with the word destruction on it. – BHK and I were hunting down somebody who sold us a faulty bed. We were pretty mad…. I wonder what we were going to do once we got the guy? That has no relation to the sailboat dream where all we had to eat was trader joes snacks that had gone stale. We were trapped on a catamaran with a big bag of stale crisps and candy-coated sunflower seeds… and no clean water.

Picked up a pair of new shirts, and two new ties. I never thought I’d ever own a purple shirt I could wear to work. I *really* never thought I’d ever wear a tie to work. Who knew? I actually enjoy putting on a corporate noose every here and again, even though it’s not required wear in the office. It makes me feel a bit more professional and has the sense of a “uniform” to keep me a bit more focused on my tasks.

Sting from the Macaroni Grill wasp has completely faded.. .it really didn’t feel like a sting so much as a very brief electrical shock followed by swelling.

Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting a few people in your house or workplace to sign up, you can assign experience point rewards to individual chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up. Experience points are tracked both as weekly high-score charts, and as ongoing character sheets – every time you rack up 200XP of chores, your character gains a “level”, and their class changes to match the type of chores that they’ve been doing. (here’s my character, if you want to invite me to your party )

Random notes on my lj, and communites maintained

– 239 lj readers – Journal entries:8,920 / Comments Posted: 57,182 – Received: 57,141

– 2362 members – Journal entries:8,104 / Comments:Posted: 0 – Received: 42,699

– 3 members -Journal entries:36 / Posted: 0 – Received: 181

– 106 members – Journal entries:484 Posted: 0 – Received: 1,114

– 174 members – Journal entries:154 Posted: 251 – Received: 688 (How does the community comment, or was that pre-conversion?)

– 10 members – Journal entries:72 Comments:Posted: 0 – Received: 168

pseudofic accounts are all long dormant. Maybe it’s time to start up the fish stories account again?

1 year ago – day moving fast, stop motion video, minimum wage variances, pumpernickel, 2-word meme, a-z meme, dvd decrypter,

2 years ago – danny, bro, top40, riverwalk autostitched, farcry, sneak peak at Pirates of the Carib2: Davy Jones

3 years ago – Pictures, Newtcam, flipper, Miami population, picasa, alligator as weapon, flash, TMBG, Franco-Prussian war, TU, amber alert/web, php rant, meat hooking, ADP uppity

4 years ago – freeflow, dream, Superman, heart in hand, bear attacks sub

5 years ago – caving dreams, piracy, anagram server, no-longer newt-time icon, irrational deodorant mixing fear, fun hidden camera show, monopoly variants, true porn clerk stories, phobias, paperback cover gallery, 100 years of jell-o ads, missing scary link pic

6 years ago – carom, evil news, fave monopoly token poll, rude awakening, OTR, impressed with flash, and feelin’ romantic

7 years ago – zoe’s bday and loverlips adds Geotarget

8907 – Sunday – 8

I forgot to mention that we picked up Hot Brain last night, and did a little walk-shopping in Barnes and Noble.

My current (one game in) abilities are: (on a 0-120 scale)

  • Logic – 118.03
  • Math – 120.00
  • Memory – 67.16
  • Language – 112.50
  • Concentration – 60.40

Average Brain temp – 95.618 – red hot… but a lot of room for improvement, especially in the Concentration and Memory Department. They’re pretty fun little logic puzzles.

Hot Pixel is next on my psp game-list.

Sunday was primarily about chores and getting to things that needed doing. My end of things included kitty litter, laundry folding, insurance forms, a letter to bro, amongst others.

Watched the good bits of Night of the Comet and then The Frighteners while folding clothes, etc. Makes things that much more wonderful. Super hot outside, so gardening was kept to the shade or out of the sun as much as possible.

BHK and I took took an all-too-brief excursion to a new candy store that opened about a week ago in North Beach. I suspect it won’t do as well as the other one, even though the older of them keeps banker’s hours at best. He simply has been there longer, and is right on the boardwalk strip. The new store is right where BHK used to work… I got to buy some gummi taperworms where she first IM’ed me about 4 years ago. Hard to believe that was a landmark moment leading to us getting together. Heck, it’s hard to believe we’re well over seven months married, come to think of it. I would never have guessed back then that I’d be living outside of Florida now.

At about the end of Frighteners, Louise and the in-laws swung by to chow down on goodies from our garden. Tina and Doug couldn’t make it as they were pooped from a the road trip.

Pictures of our garden’s bounty – beets, stuffed peppers, peas, green beans, potatoes, squash, zucchini. BHK makes veggies that even a little kid would gladly attack and consume. I didn’t think that I’d like the beets, but they were surprisingly good. I’m still not crazy about leeks.

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After supper, we watched Shag with the gang, ate a Klondike bar, and then called it a night. (Side Note – Annabeth Gish was a lot more cute back in the day than in her X-files period)

1 year ago – nearly naked neighbors, gray day, mob supply pic, newt pics,

2 years ago – talked to Arnie’s Sec, newt and graffiti pix, autostitch, wifi theft arrest, reality show premises, j-walk on podcasts, programmer joke, google maps goodies, flightgear, wifi hotspot backpack, my messy office, bear-knocking, sex pred info pages

3 years ago – combos/snausages , wisdom, serving sizes, ramen, Rockford Files, Planetarium pictures, weather, sock thief

4 years ago – call block, snapple, intelligence gathering, Batroc, flashback cartoon, addictive data

5 years ago – oz/floyd connection, pimps at sea, rss feeds start, cat dreams

6 years ago – cej returns, unpacking videos, 1992 tax info, the challenge, corn chowder, kubrick quiz

7 years ago – Rowlf sings, April actually kicks back a few bucks, pondering a new recorder Geotarget

8901 – Monday

Restless night sleeping, accidentally booted Newt off the bed once, but he stuck with me throughout the night. BHK was restless too, but I didn’t leg-sweep her out. Pye visited briefly, but high-tailed it after the barest commotion. I dreamt that BHK and I were hunting animals, tagging them for reference, and re-releasing ’em into the wild. A side effect of geocaching, perhaps?

Bugah & Neil went fishing – to no avail, as the water was too choppy.

Half day tomorrow! North Beach Fireworks are going to be something else!

via jwz – Search for Lonesome George mate is long shot

While scientists search for a mate for “Lonesome George” — the last known survivor of a species of Galapagos tortoise — some say the effort to fend off extinction may be in vain. Even if a mate is found, George has not been interested in reproducing in the past and may not know how, former keepers and others who have worked with him said.

“He has problems … he probably never saw a female and male of his own species reproducing,” said Swiss biologist Sveva Grigioni, who worked with George 13 years ago.

Grigioni, now back in Switzerland, said she could normally get tortoises to ejaculate within minutes, but spent months manually stimulating George and never extracted semen from him.


Age is not George’s problem. He is estimated at between 60 and 90 years old, and could live to be 200 and still reproduce, scientists say.

The visual differences in tortoises from different islands were among the features of the Galapagos that helped 19th Century British naturalist Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution. Since then, the tortoises have been hunted by pirates for their meat and their habitat eaten away by goats introduced onto the islands. George, who weighs 198 pounds, was found on Pinta in 1971.

Reviewing Openads for the company’s ad server for the web. it seems pretty reputable and reliable, thus far.

Fire drill this morning was a welcome break in the day – cool outside, everyone seemed laid back and calm – helped move the rest of the time that much more rapidly. the 2pm meeting went well… lots of good information for me to ruminate over the next few projects. I really dig that I’m in an environment that will allow me to use the skills I have! (Last gig wasn’t bad, but a lot of repetition. This time, there’s a lot of room for creative thought along with brute force.

Day closed with S’mores over a fire pit, some preview fireworks, and then Bugah and I played a bit of “Destroy All Humans”. Not a bad thing.

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8762 – sunday, sunday

Nice day today… BHK and I initially wanted to make some coffee and sip it on the boardwalk in North Beach, but the wind quickly put the kibosh on that… My two caffeinated crack monkey companions soon decided that perhaps a nice drive through Deale might make for a more comfortable Sunday morning activity. (Thanks to the Love Cube’s swell environmental controls and roomy tour vehicle status, no doubt.)

Peekatures from the drive (the very last is the boardwalk bay view, before we iced over)- some broken down/abandoned housing and barns, a nifty little food joint, etc. the ‘Fabulous brew coffee shop” was a nice little joint to stop and get some scones and a caffeine recharge. Good (bad?) news is that they’re opening another Fabulous Brew about 3 minutes away from our house. Will our tassimo survive? as always, hover for a minor description, or clicken to embiggen.

rip, mr rogers wacky shed gargoyles and mexican mondays! swan thingies rickety boathouse rickety boathouse2 star barn tobacco leaner view from the point boardwalk view - north beach

On the way to dropping Tina off, we noticed a lot of activity at the volunteer fire department. (the semi-decapitated gnome: semi-decapitated gnome at tina's is on Tina’s neighbor’s steps, as it has for a year. Each neighbor is supposed to take turns and pass the gnome off to the next person in line to mow as a bait to get him off the porch, but this neighbor would rather keep a broken lawn ornament than do his part.)

The admission to the dog show was free, but there were all sorts of opportunities to help support the local SPCA, no chains, disabled animals and adoptions… though I confess that the primary allure was wiener dog races (videos to follow once uploaded to google). Oddly, there were belly dancers, as well… but I didn’t grasp the connection between them and animal assists.

fire engine bell sit, ubu, sit! neighbors at the show sniffy dog no, *I'm* Scott. more sniffy dog dog show dog show dog show belly dance w/ kid belly dance w/ bunny belly dance w/bunny belly dance


I’ve been enjoying Assassination Vacation Vowell’s writing is good, but I don’t know if I could listen to her read the whole thing in audio format. – Next on the list is Gasp


1 year ago – rs drops to part time, spoofcard, condo issues, newtcam time lapse, spore,

2 years ago – pomade, numbers, lumbee talk going strong, rat flies a f-22, ifbot, secutiry, scotto pic, zombie quiz, miami bridge, New York Public Library Digital Gallery , hurley episode of lost, mile markers

3 years ago – stress, bro, god wishes, font music, audio books, tofu “chicken parm”, he-man, owie-back

4 years ago – stupidity genetic?, pulp-it, sick folks, history of eating utensils, tree like, riblets are great

5 years ago – fiddled with tulpa, dream, oxycontin, naproxen, oxycodone, Domesday

6 years ago – CJ & Herman story 2, dangers of reading in bed, AOK2GeotargetVisitor Map

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So, it’s PH day again, eh? I wonder how many people that were there are still left alive?


Had dinner out with Cyn, her pop, s0likear0se and bhk at a local watering hole, Westlawn… it’s on the boycott list again after missing its reprieve. lovely time with the crew, though… Newt was well-behaved. (as normal for folks that don’t actively seek his love… ignore him, and he’ll sneak up and snuggle.)


 
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Current weather forecast for North Beach, MD

Population (year 2000): 1,880. Estimated population in July 2005: 1,882 (+0.1% change)
Males: 886 (47.1%), Females: 994 (52.9%)

Calvert County

Zip code: 20714

Median resident age: 33.0 years
Median household income: $46,111 (year 2000)
Median house value: $116,000 (year 2000)

Races in North Beach:

  • White Non-Hispanic (87.8%)
  • Black (6.2%)
  • Hispanic (2.1%)
  • Two or more races (2.0%)
  • American Indian (1.6%)

Ancestries: German (22.5%), Irish (19.4%), English (14.9%), Italian (6.2%), United States (6.0%), French (4.0%).

compare to Deerfield


1 year ago -Saw Renee, sysadmin song, liz quit, year in review meme

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

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

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

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

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

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