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9828- thursday

BHK and Mandy out today – they headed to Annapolis and went shopping at Sephora (got makeovers) , Lush (nice smelly soaps), some sammiches at selby, coffee at fab brew.

I stayed home, in fear for my testosterone… Instead, I opted to stretch out my back, I put in 2.5 miles around the neighborhood… it was cloudy, so weather was cooler. After the first half-mile, I was able to stand up straight, and the walk became rather comfortable… I visited the candy store and picked up BHK a praline and some gummy soda-bottles to share along with my primary goal of a bottle of water. At the post office, paperback swap sent me (c/o BHK)  The Vesuvius Club (not the graphic edition, just the novel) and Song of Kali – I look forward to reading them both.

Later that afternoon, I gabbed, watched some Bones and played some phase 10 with Chris – The girls brought us home some selby subs – steak and cheese for Chris, uber-veggie for me!

Chris and I are planning to hit the gym sometime soon – it’ll be nice to do some weight training / back strengthening with another guy who knows what I’m dealing with.

He had to do the news starting at 4am tomorrow, so Chris hit the sack at about about 7:30 – BHK and I headed back home (across the street).

Laid back and we played a lot of DS (BHK) and PSP (me) while watching the finale of Burn Notice – we were both rather underwhelmed about the summer closer. Hopefully Psych will take up the slack.

Back is complaining now about the earlier walkies. I forgot to mention that I went with the old gps – made some waypoints – kitten safari, bus stops, etc.

Upon looking at my spinning Scotto heroclix icon… I think I have to update and make a new one for myself, BHK, Newton and Pye.


1 year ago – newtcam sunning pix, tooth break, wusa9’s angie goff and kim martucci blogs, 8800 gt video card coming with 2 gig ram, retronomatopeya

2 years ago – Pickles get made!, Sunflower, Raquel Welch as space gal, light table for treehouse, zendo, hello kitty cops, 

3 years ago – Monks in a circle, ken nordine, contact lens thought, 9-volt batteries, dragonball live action in spanish, shades vary electric bill,

4 years ago – Mona moves on from work, Lisa is a good name on lj, NASA pics, walkies phone post

5 years ago – Thinking Wolfsonian, CEJ, Skeletor, bro, bandwidth crooks, awesome search phrase, cat poop coffee, silly ad, Where do they make balloons… (hey, synchronicity)

6 years ago – miniature oranges, orisinal games, tv in my head, first/last meme, newt on a windowsill, daler mehndi

7 years ago – Newt Wakies, Croc bite brings beer, scotto-man, overtired, funions

8 years ago – vcr tape, gaming, militate, warren, scientific independence for researchers, Frontier Psychiatrist, evil SUV

9 years ago – many folks join my Friendy-list (probably due to addition of interests) , grover, graves museum Geotarget

9827 – Wednesday

Loot from the Thrift store –

3 glow-in the dark dinos – dimetron, triceretops and velociraptor
a godzilla third-string kaiju-  Sort of like gomess/ godzilla mix with a hooked horn on his forehead.
kids in the hall dvd
merlin tv series dvd (the one with ed neill and martini short)
a rubber orangutan
a 3-d puzzle of the empire state building, still in original wrap
2 pairs of shorts – khaki / tan
a nice short-sleeved shirt – white with red line pattern
a fallout 3 lunchbox
a pile of books, including a mess of veggie cookbooks, his dark materiels, the canary trainer, a selection of others that don’t leap immediately to mind.
a deck of cards, war, and 52 things to do in DC (were together in a grab bag for 80 cents)
some puzzle game software that BHK has taken upstairs already and is playing now

Durning the time BHK and Mandy were out and about, I got a lot of work done looking for a gig – They’re also are heading to Annapolis tomorrow to do some shopping and hanging out, too –  Hopefully I can be as productive.

1 year ago – sleey pye pic, middleman, monk, and tasty dinner, morgan freeman, body parts made of bread, video card coming, knights templar launching legal action vs pope

2 years ago – Newt leg-up pic, hanging out, dream wizards – got cosmic wimpout and polarity, lighthouse tofu, mormon temple, pickle-time!

3 years ago – bow beats atlatl, newt trip out, 11:11, California pizza kitchen, interview meme, cpap ick, electroe pic

4 years ago – bro picked up, last Danny day, blue-ringed octopus, konfabulator, tags, high speed cat photos, bus-sleeper, taser vs rennies

5 years ago – malam bails, lyric, BttF / Mr Fusion, busy, dream, neti pot, bro’s court visit, avocado memories

6 years ago – isketch, dan’s last summer day, ebay phishing, earth as art, kitty swf games, vampire game, dirty bathroom poll

7 years ago – pleasant dreams, headache passes, Bailey the puppy, puppet play!

8 years ago – code, up late, F/X porn, coloring book, jack-in-the-box

9 years ago – house to myself, foodies Geotarget

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epidural done! Having a little Veggie fajitas for lunch, and then off to bed rest.


1 year ago – ghosts, Walpurgisnacht

2 years ago – celtic fest w/ pics, social contract

3 years ago – poem from mm, audio books, business meeting, hand pics for BHK, sketch up, earth-friendly grenades, questions meme

4 years ago – Met the centale folks, tiki night, Laos Zombies, Country Fried Hot Rod, Nazi Monkeys, balance, courthouse disco-effect

5 years ago – playing with virtual post-its, andy back in jail

6 years ago – Free sticker, timeline post, first day at jkg, back tweak

7 years ago – newt bips a skeleton, bali music, milkshake flavors, going to the grove, Charles Bronson thoughts, breasticle nectar satisfies for only about 2 hours, going back to bus from taxi, SOP

8 years ago – Lexie is so cute!, schedule change last minute, missing her, birthday toys, BlowGeotarget

9691 – Friday

Farmers Market – BHK and Chris picked up a great number of flowers and plants for the garden, I spent the day seated for the most part. 

Garden was dusted for slugs and bugs – hopefully the squirrels will stay out of the lettuce.

Got the 2nd book in the Nightside series at th library – #3 came via bookmooch, and #4 was the BIG book sale a few months back. another book sale tomorrow – I hope I’m up to making the rounds.

1 year ago – Gypsy moths and tent caterpillars, married 18 months, shot?, ledo’s, haiku2, hardy heron, people lost in the past, ban_set, many many palm doodles, almost Friday

2 years ago – Family Icon introduced, palm doodle of a crab and pollen, Maryland links, concert people observed, odd spam, new AV guy, deerfield lien, awesome difference between calvert and broward counties.

3 years ago – dr who, alabam, perm press, botswana rain, open dir, dionysus, ain’t misbehavin’, letter meme

4 years ago – anarchy online, internal monologue quiet, h-words, walkabout piccies, step into history, exploding toads, brain games

5 years ago – phone off the hook, hell froze over, pina colada almond joy, saw the hippies at a Wiggles-mania, walkabout pics

6 years ago – chupacabra, dreams, geoblog

7 years ago – bro, robomop, smurf-coloring,victim’s rights amendment

8 years ago – good css, zuba pants, reds are cool, mushyGeotarget

9689 – Wednesday

wii games from the library –

carnival gamessummer sports paradise island Cute, but not great.  I’d say that carnival games is worth a quick rental from the library, but summer sports was hardly worth the loading into the wii.

We surfed the machine’s wiiware collection and dropped $10 on  bonsai barber – much fun and superior to both the others.


Back’s doing a little bit better – but sciatica is pretty rough.


Catching up with Apache, Old issues of Giffen’s Dr. Fate, and books made of paper. (focusing on history, tech, sci-fi, and silliness)


Jason Fortuny ordered to pay $74k for Craigslist sex baiting prank – (see waxy’s recap)


1 year ago – personality test, earth day, emergency supply trapdoor, brown and green, Thomas Jefferson, BHK Hexxagon

2 years ago – got Steve Jacoby’s website, earth day, roto-tilled garden, pye and newton on boxes, mr rogers breakdances, Steve Mancour, high school meme

3 years ago – meeting mom, newtcam, silly pic, coconut and the lizard

4 years ago – Bettie Page’s bday, MJ & vaseline, bus ride pics, newt and a space monkey, air show, ramscan, banana tree herb, exoskeleton, taco bell, email kills iq more than pot

5 years ago – Eucharist toss, RI peeves me, there, vamps, CS mail-skim

6 years ago – country meme, there-crew, battle-imp

7 years ago – dreams, make out places in Ft Lauderdale, lone gunmen gone, chupa vs tia

8 years ago
 – ljwhores, undulant, Earth Day, international kite fest, 10 reasons sex is good for you, Peru shoots down US planeGeotargetVisitor Map 

9686 – sun 4/19

Took it easy. in-laws came over for Chinese food.

Getting caught up on my light reading – Laura Lippman’s Baltimore Blues is pretty good – Simon R Green’s Nightside stuff is a bit too Mary Sue (Marty Lou?) – not as good as Jim Butcher’s Dresden books, but entertaining popcorn novels.

Reverting a bit to childplay – petting the cats, watcinhg tv, but mixing it up with catching up on my sql skills and visual studio strengths when not too stupid on muscle relaxers.

1 year ago – beehive, guitar, yard sales, D&D modules, new games, vegetable garden, eee pc

2 years ago – falafel with the gang, adapting to a higher house-population, personality test results

3 years ago – how to glue 2 things, sketch-it, mgum, moonies and sushi

4 years ago – on call techs, residence addresses, 45,800 scottobear entries, flickr letter gizmo, krypto cartoon, Tomi says hi, speech recog test, luxie_loo, pics from tv interview, monkey swat team, new Sophocles, Euripides and Hesiod, new pope

5 years ago – using lappie (broken big brain), teleconference prep

6 years ago – got all 30 eggs, there folks, palm pictures and more doodles, bro n upswing, SQ/EQ, brain chart

7 years ago – Vampires around the world and how to snuff ’em, mushiness, good, simple food.

8 years ago – mix CD, flying capybara quote, missing girlGeotarget

9684 – Fri

No Franklin – clear day, lots of birds. He’ll have plenty to eat, even if there wasn’t a benefactor around today.

 
Sore and rough. Looking forward to the weekend – just to rest and unkink. 

1 year ago – presents sent in the mail, hyperbole in the family, tiki bar, farmers markets, sarcastic vs sardonic, pope shoes, trees, poisonous rhino horns

2 years ago – palm doodle, power outage, VT info arrives to me late, blackout house-fun

3 year ago – dr who, secret wars, monday, sweet tomatoes, disney vault, keep cool pic

4 years ago – Homeless seen while on walkabout, mzk nearly shoots my eye out, Bo Rhap, Newt pics, mzk pic, robot doodle, lethal injections not painless?, tv interview

5 years ago – odd email, D’s bday/vanishment, manatee doodle, sammy’s sister syndicated, garlic, moon scarab, blu-ray dvd tech developing, froggie super pic 

6 years ago – egg hunt stats

7 years ago – annoying day, doc trip, search terms

8 years ago – AJ’s Bday, Recording freakazoid, dsl, [info]menstrualhut fan letter at mum.orgGeotarget

9683 – Thurs

Back to work – no Franklin, but I did spot a tin of eaten cat food… someone’s taking care of him. 

Not feeling the vibe – really out of it. Hypersensitive both physically and emotionally. Ye Olde Back/ Leg plus lack of good sleep, I think. 

I am really creaking quite a bit today – BHK was very kind to pick me up from work – we got home and we had homemade shepherds pie… always a favorite. veggie-meat, mung beans, corn, and mashed potatoes.

I’ll sleep well tonight, and am looking forward to tomorrow’s leftover lunch. 

1 year ago – HL2/Luxor, tv, stuffed peppers, tally hall, fatal metro

2 years ago – random access, punch buggy theory, eats, garden progress, VT shooting, bro probation, organic / haunted stones, deer meat.

3 years ago – easter peeps, Franciscans, freeware, bald headed cocktail sauce, lj top40, easter lunch, bugs bunny toon, newtcam action pics, SL easter pics

4 years ago – oona tested, remembering D, walker tx ranger, CD biz, Bulk License-Plate Scanning by Helicopter, Amityville Horror

5 years ago – Cheeburger Cheeburger w/Dan, Ella Enchanted, got dreamt about, LH started / CS trimmed down, Coh Reset, weird email correspondence with a person that thought I was some sort of pantheist.

6 years ago – JKG Job desc, Honda cog movie, walkabout palm art – thin lines

7 years ago – cube test, Dangerous labs, threebrain, work stuff (network names)

8 years ago – pulchritude, leitmotif, objectives. (sakes, is that lappie 8 years old!?! at least it’s got windows 2000 rather than Me(h) on it now)Geotarget

9682 – Wed –

Back too far gone – didn’t make it to work today. I still had to do work, however, and take a sick day, besides. Not much one can do about that, but at least I could work from the bedside, and stay in my pjs.

In-laws came over with Chinese food, and I primarily slept off my back with some prescribed night-night pills.

I should be ok to head to work tomorrow – I can’t afford not to! If I do stay home, I’d still have to visit the doc to get a time off slip, and transit is transit – no fun. The in-laws wanted to go to Selby bay for pizza, but also didn’t want to leave me behind.

I’m convinced that Dollhouse is better because we’re seeing less and less of the lead actress. Castle is still doing pretty well, too.

1 year ago – drop.io files, Newton pictures, Neil Armstrong and me, newtcam factoids, sleepy, pope arrives in dc

2 years ago – breakfast with in-laws, Tina, taxes, soda pop lids

3 years ago – good saturday, dream, masamune, police thingum, spain’s easter, dr who

4 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!

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

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

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

8 years ago – Easter, working on a shopping cart, my first 10 lj friends, family meal, walkies, css issueGeotarget

9681 – Tuesday

Rainy day this morning – took the raincoat rather than the overcoat. Slipped a bit in the mud at the station – kept balance, but my shoes and my back are paying the price.

Saw the "Truth Truck " at L’enfant Plaza (note – link can be easily considered offensive)

Reading the first book from the Nightside series BHK found for me off of bookmooch – . Fantasy Noir stuff… first 30 pages are entertaining so far. I got the fourth book at a B.I.G. booksale about a year ago, and hadn’t opened it yet.

Need to play munchkin, or one of our other games – nice to have a no tv night.

Feeling pretty sore – hitting the sack early. g’nite, dear journal.

1 year ago – drop.io (gimme something!), creaky, taxes, body/health issues, NPPR cookie monster interview, IE7 only sites bleah, writers block quiz answer

2 years ago – Pictures of Llamas!, Slugs, video game goodies for BHK and me, booksale, BHK invades my journal caveman-style

3 years ago – hanging out at murphy’s, dan plans, music sharing, quizzes, good friday, commander usa

4 years ago – work, club visit, poorhouse, Tomi visit, mai kai tiki torch night, figa, aliases, admiration meme (999 entries ago)

5 years ago – memory sparks, adp issues with new hire

6 years ago – jkg, stikfas, pictures

7 years ago – library cats, vending machine art, The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, & Body Language Cues, plants, middle earth poll, poop

8 years ago – touch of evil, dsl, love, spermGeotarget

9677 – Saturday –

Got my allergy shots today, and Dr. Moody was in – fortunately for me, as I was really pretty sore and my epidural isn’t for 2 weeks yet. She gave me a scrip for prednisone, some knockout drops for nighttime, and a nice dose of muscle relaxer for when I need to function at work.

While BHK was getting the scrip filled, I visited the radio shack next door for a power cord to juice my $1 police scanner – no dice, but I did get a tv tuner for the pc – much fun, but need to get a better antenna for more signal. (right now I get one analog pbs channel (poorly), and 3 digital channels.)

Picked up our mail, and then ducked in out of the rain at the candy store (I had to help E. Bunny with BHK’s basket) – we discover grape-flavored wax mustaches… bhk augmented hers with a candy cigarette. far superior to cherry wax lips of my youth.

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After that, I was pretty tuckered out, spent the rest of the day taking it easy – back was really out of whack.

1 year ago – palm doodles, shazam, green bubble guy, no sir! sure, dream of the bathroom being tiled with sweets, dinner with Chris and BHK, corker vs hoot, homestead exemtion, pixar all in 3-d, wal-mart video

2 years ago – a day in the life animated doodle, bhk’s lasagna, feeling draggy, busy at work

3 year ago – mp3, gp & kat missed, b5 / dr who, blue tarps, cloud pic

4 years ago – tv-shoot, whale cam, regional anthropology, sesame street, dream Bhk & Pye, Gamer quiz, illuminati, little cowpoke, celeb diaries, i feel great, moist towelettes, astronaut jones, 9 years for spammer, bush toy

5 years ago
– easter, peeps, image collages, pelicans, spidey-2

6 years ago – first 4 children in the vampire game, got my offer from JKG

7 years ago – Programmer / Engineer gag, lovely private entries, including Blackstone’s Reading.

8 years ago – pork taco brain worm, Power-puff Scotto, grove meeting, An open letter to browser sniffers, agogGeotarget

9675 – Thursday –

Went back to the doctor yesterday, and was scheduled for an epidural on 4/28. Hopefully, that’ll help with the sciatica issues… and I’d *really* like it if someone canceled early, so I don’t have to wait just shy of three weeks to get treatment.

We had dinner on the porch last night – it was nice, but still a wee bit chilly. sub sammiches, as the sun went down.

No Franklin this morning, but saw the little brown girl cat last night while waiting for BHK to pick me up.

BHK found me a ton of new clothes at the thrift store – some giant must’ve gotten a new wardrobe, because I have something like a dozen or more shirts. Mostly short sleeved plaid stuff like I enjoy, but a few dress shirts suitable for work, too.

Enjoyed both episodes of the office, and parks & Rec was ok too.

1 year ago – Shazam! haiku, earworms, Beheaded Bavarian in my family

2 years ago – losing weight, palm doodles, subway buskers, bluetooth, female health, restless sleep, clicks down, bro contact

3 years ago – fiddling with layouts, queen, cute newt on the patio pic, genographic project, wayfaring, logophile, about trees, euro tests, 3d museum, time-travelling chiro

4 years ago – no eclipse, ed-mv/st, The end of Kim Possible, Newton-cat animation, FL sheriff abuse of power

5 years ago – Frog & manatee palm doodle, city of heroes goes to 3 servers, condos, recovery

6 years ago – Babar Mourns, bro stuff, poem/hat

7 years ago – elephant armor, SOP

8 years ago – easter, usa backs out of kyoto protocol, bob ross, GiftiesGeotarget

9673 – Tuesday

I forgot to show the latest update to Larry’s homemade guitar. It’s truly a thing of beauty. He wet-sanded it to a high gloss, and it really makes the wood grain pop. He’s practically finished with it… I’m going to have to see what good deeds I’ll have to do to get him to make me a bass guitar to jam along with him. For that matter, I need to pick up the guitar and practice my chords some more. I figure I’ll have time to do more practice this summer, while BHK is studying for her exams.

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Back bothering me some more – My left hip and knee are bugging me, as well as more sciatica issues. Took the bus this morning, and I suspect that didn’t help too much.

Best part about getting to work this morning was that I saw Franklin! No treats for him today, but gave him some nice head scritchies. He’s a total little lover… if I knew of anyone in the DC/MD/VA area looking for a sweet cat, he’d be adopted. I haven’t seen the scaredy-cat girl kitty lately, but I suspect that she hides out if Franklin is anywhere nearby.


 
Random thoughts – I’m amazed that gay marriage is legal in Iowa, but not in California. Given that Arnold is the Gov, maybe there is more Right-wing thought there than I perceive.

When BHK picked me up at the train station tonight, there was a moment of snow … didn’t last long, but was just momentary enough to be a little fun. BHK thought it was cherry blossoms in the wind, until they melted on the hood of the love cube.

1 year ago – one day at a time stuck in my head, charleton heston’s cold, dead hand, good seasons, many cherry blossom pics

2 years ago – old shacks, karaoke, easter bunnies everywhere!, wetter walking or running somewhere?, openoffice easter egg

3 year ago– devo on fridays, lost, icon, SL designing, virus trained to build batteries, false alarm abduction, hurricane stockpile, took over
haikuarena, quizzes

4 years ago– Dr Russell, MASS, undercover brother, kitty cuteness, meet force with force, walkabout pictures, America we stand as one, BCT commercial

5 years ago – +20 min, underage girl charged with child pornography, LSD

6 years ago – creaky, PotC, Bro

7 years ago – put all of oz on my palm, boat name poll, vending machines, Newt activities

8 years ago – laundry, Herb KornfeldGeotarget

9666 – Tuesday

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Franklin followed me in to work again this morning! I think he missed me (or my treats) over the weekend. Very snuggly- I could hardly walk for all the ankle rubbing he was doing


Yeowtch!

Backdated and entered after the fact.

 

update – fell at work – went knees over noggin as a result of an unstable chair.- went to the ER and was told to take things gently until monday – so much for the cherry blossom festival this weekend. not at work either, for the time being. 

 

ER pic- post x-ray, waiting for my prescription.

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I’m ok now… in pain, but on meds and relaxing. Off my feet for this week.

1 year ago – aquarium pics, alice’s party, frogs, industrial-style bookstore, blu bamboo

2 years ago – cherry tree pic, dinner with cyn & bhk at Mexico

3 years ago – payday, mortgage day, cases run at last minute, sams, first pic of newt with new cam, grumpy newt pic

4 years ago – collections, sick call excuse, palm doodles of ape-o-naut and we’re ants guy, famous monkeys through history, fatcats, newt pic, lost seeding, cell phone abuse, vampires taste like corn, poop thief, doctor vs cop

5 years ago – sensory experiment, propeller island lodge, privacy/recording laws, newsmap, viral spam

6 years ago – insider trading time traveler, gigs

7 years ago – nice morning, honey, clowns, bentons, google bombs, methadone to wean criminals *on* to heroin, interest index, radioactive beans, Chuck Heston

8 years ago – No-nose’s gf, hanging out with bro, new pooterGeotarget