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9685 – Sat
Book fair in Annapolis – taking it slow and easy though. Yard sale, and sat in on a panel of writers. Saw the Wayne Alan – writer of Magical Meatless Meals. More in-depth reviews to follow.
Scholastic was there – lots of flashbacks to the days when filling out a little strip of paper and ordering books through school came back.
Book fair was at the Keys school private education pre-k – 12- the mascot is the obezegs (Gazebo backwards)
Also shown – Easter egg tree, gazebo roof, and some video of the local color.
1 year ago – cabin fever pancakes, stuffed cabbage, enchanted, pew pew, camel quote, earth is humming, abandonware, olympic torch relay nazis
2 years ago – comcast vs my surfing, sewage eruption in north beach, tons o’ work, dual-gendered deer, amy meetup, modok, the cage, pics of pye and squirrel, evil condo guy arrested
3 years ago – yellow + blue = no green?, pancakes, newt pix, easter bunny fight, farm hustle
4 years ago – mzk, dr who, nbc6 video feed
5 years ago – Khaan!, walkabout statue pictures, CoH, tv turnoff week, Jenjen
6 years ago – Passover, Good Friday, House of 1000 corpses, hair registry idea, past life poll
7 years ago – Pig book, Argentine ants, textarc, haiku, exploding private-parts,slug-eating plant, vibration energy, freedom force, Disney rides becoming movies
8 years ago – cartoons, weeping cherry, newt pic, web hits, Tom Green & PMS ruined my night
Testing google docs doodle.
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, agog
Writer’s Block: The Kids’ Section
Of that lot, I’d have to go with Donald in Mathemagic land, though it’s not really a movie.. Maybe Blackbeard’s Ghost or possibly the Scarecrow.
Neither are really my favorite now, but I still hold them in a place of nostalgia.
9647 – Friday-
Hard to sleep last night – restless, nightmares, and all that.
I was still feeling a bit out of sorts at lunchtime… see below.
BHK picked me up after work, and we headed to selby for some supper with the in-laws.
Nice dinner, and now a bit of rest. Tomorrow is Breakfast with the Mansbergers!
1 year ago – jerk doctor, games workshop, atw man, wwcalc
2 years ago – wrongly accused have to pay back rent for jail time
3 years ago – sunday walkies, path and pics
4 years ago – calle ocho, aroo, writing, chronic, tulips, mummified head of Mata Hari,Idahos mugshots, Girl Scout cookies remind me of Kat and Wendy, Monkeyhot or not, fonts, cool tools, Yu-Gi-Oh! suicide
5 years ago – CoH, Batroc, Bro, uncles, crazy yarn, comic styles, DP reboot (dang Byrne), dance cyclopedia, people as mexican food (metaphor)
6 years ago – Nordis = el sucko, LAN setup, Bellsouth, Lovely gifits from Dani, palm update
7 years ago – Applelard’s BDAY!, the moon, cadbury craving, dead website linkies,bill hicks, hairball poll, skijump, silly supers, network names
8 years ago – sweet dreams, evil news, why blowing up buddha isn’t so bad
9644 – Tuesday –
Newton slept on my hands – must’ve been seeking bonus warmth, or he was jealous of my rubbing BHK’s arm.
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meme-time – snagged from Sean
Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you’re it!
Here is my list, narrowed to 15. (Scotto isn’t tagging anyone, but is happy to see any other entries)
Let’s see… this could be fairly tricky – I’m not sure of music that changed me forever… I’ve never really been one of those folks to play the same album over and over again… a few that come to mind –
Stuff that was significant to me, and I still dig –
1. Beach boys – I went through a major Beach Boys phase as a kid – Pet Sounds was something that got a lot of play both in my home and on my walkman. The album still cheers me up quite a lot.
2. Beatles – Yellow Submarine / Octopus’s Garden (not really an album, but the first music I had as a kid.. that I remember. It wasn’t even the Beatles, it was the Sesame Street Version) If I had to pick an actual Beatles album, I really liked Rubber Soul.
3. Talking Heads – Little Creatures Great album – started me on that Band, and despite the "art student snob" aspect, I really like ’em.
4. Tubes – Outside Inside Got this form a yard sale – I was very pleasantly surprised. (Wild Women of Wongo is what got me to drop 25¢ for it. ) I figure I’ve gotten well worth my penny a play just for that track.
5. ELO – Time – first Album bought with my own money, played a *lot*
6. Steve Martin – A Wild And Crazy Guy Not really a music album, though it had banjo and The KingTut single.
7. B-52s – Whammy Discovered them late – mostly via gaming with Ray & Kat. (Specifically for Trism)
8. Zombies – Odessey and Oracle This one keeps coming back, and I love it every time. (Most recently for "This will be our year")
9. XTC – Oranges and Lemons So Sue me… I like Mayor of Simpleton.
10. They Might Be Giants – Lincoln I first heard them on Dr. Demento when I was in High School – I’ve been hooked since. Hard to believe it’s been 20 years+
11. Genesis – Selling England by the Pound Very different stuff than the Phil Collins-centric bits in later years. It may be my all-time fave Genesis Album.
12. Chuck Mangione – Chase the Clouds Away – One of the five 8-track tapes I had for my first car, the blue bomber. played repeatedly, because we only had 5 albums, and eventually the AC/DC and Beach Boys tapes wore out.
13. Rusted root – When I Woke – first really fun time with the hippies – post concert. I like them quite a lot.
14. Poi Dog Pondering – Poi Dog Pondering – "and I said YEAH!" – discovered by accident. Thanks, tape-traders in college!
15. Queen – Flash Gordon Soundtrack – FLASH ! AHAHHHHH! HE’LL SAVE EVERY ONE OF US!
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PSA –
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Free Office 2007 Software from Microsoft
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1 year ago – transformer at mexico, veggie pocket pies!, back surgery
2 years ago – bhk takes a pic of Newt and I snoozin’
3 years ago – bday via eryx, monkeys and kitties, compusa fails me, quizzes, morrisey vs van halen
4 years ago – apheresis skip, cocktail party, banana man snippet, netflix queue,Ultima 4 Virtue Quiz, system tweaking, ethiopian skellie, dr. who shipping, health and family review, Broward slots, SCI
5 years ago – food, gator bus ride, Voting, business cards, spammed again, MONKEY POPS!
6 years ago – prepared to pee in a cup for TAG, after Nordis tried to toss mysalad… Painted minis in the haunted tunnel… Rockford Scientist
7 years ago – bro came by apt, multi-journal quiz, fear vs love, Fire and Ice, Pliny the Younger
8 years ago – Brad Mentions adding a photo server and chat to live journal…. speed hasn’t been a real priority on that dev. Meat-eating robots, top atrocities… and the return of a hero
9634 – Sunday – March Starts!
I played a little bit of Fallout 3 this afternoon while waiting for the in-laws to show up for supper – pigs in blankets!
Once they got here, I got a telephone call from my mom – just gabbed a bit, but when I came back out, the in-laws were ready to take off. I guess they weren’t too into The Fall. BHK and I liked it – I really enjoyed just staring through it – nifty costumes and sets.
Photos from this evening. Featuring snow that looks like ping pong balls in the light of a flash, blue lit room due to pausing the tv, and a phantom kiss from BHK due to a long shutter opening. Also seen is the "Rosy Glow" due to light diffraction outside.
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Funny to me that we get more snow on the first day of March than the rest of winter combined. Looks like about 8 inches tonight… powdery, no crust… like confectioners sugar with some glitter tossed in for effect. Maybe tomorrow will be a "Snow Day" and I can work from home!
1 year ago – outsider art museum with BHK and David, pictures, poe’s burial site, cheeburger w/ larry
2 years ago – newt and pye’s distant relative – Kiddo – the transatlantic airship kitty, GP, tina, gaming, and 2003, transfusion song
3 years ago – memes & links, dino pic, windows live pigs in space mefi, hop sing, haha ray
4 years ago – torn mime video awesome, zombie-like news story, book, idiopathic, Japanese Macaque, choicepoint data theft, duckie bath, yahoo video, kaleidoscope, mapper of doom, viva broward pictures
5 years ago – Blueberry Doughnuts, Meme, Factoid and so on
6 years ago – Dorky-Newt explanation, Vet Visit, AI 20 questions, TV schedule
7 years ago – Evil proggy struggle, baby critters, folks getting fired over weblogs, palm piccies
9631 – Thursday
I am both amused and a little dismayed that our town uses a very similar font as The Prisoner for all of their emailed town announcements. Mostly Amused.
North Beach
Planning Commission
February 26, 2009
7:00 p.m.
North Beach Town Hall
1) Minutes from the January 22, 2009 Meeting
2) Board of Appeals Case: Recommendation for 9201 Annapolis Avenue, variance request.
Firsts Meme (snagged from Kat)
9612 – Tuesday
Reading Booster Gold on the EEE on the ride home and listening to Free Audio books .
BHK made TVP with Mac & Cheese – Tasty stuff!
We relaxed quite a bit, watched TV, read and snuggled the night away. My kind of evening.
1 year ago – newtcam leap, sunday relaxing, in-laws, vallies day atw man
2 years ago – buttered Chris’s nose at tinas
3 years ago – songbird, Opa, micro retro, FREE PANCAKES!, personality awareness, scary mary
4 years ago – Bro & HI, website income to AmeriCares, I miss CJ, Danny gets Debate, mirror newt pics, still talking to mel, #3 for kp/rs shenanigans, Newt Love, Danny sick (and he was again last year), sedef & crew adorable, MmmmMMMmonkey, masked grader
5 years ago – shopping for condos, zombie night club
6 years ago – memes, dreams, Streets of San Fran, computer sculptures, Pith, Good quote of the day, interviewing, hot shower
7 years ago – up early on a Sunday, Finished reading FAFCwGM, nice weather, tulpa plot
8 years ago – kid tv-memories, valentines
9607 – Friday
Oh, at last. Updated the EEE with a book reader, an art program and new drivers, not to mention useful utilities for work, like openoffice and adobe. – should be a really solid palmtop replacement, and then some. Big thing will be doodling – we’ll see how that works with the trackpad, or a little external mouse.
There was a fire 2 doors down tonight – It seems that someone didn’t clean thier chimney, and it caught fire. (If feel guilty a bit for thinking DRYER FIRE at first.) Nobody was hurt, but there was a lot of smoke.
Random pictures from tonight. BHK, Pye watching the firetruck, my upper desk, and our windows need to be cleaned after all the kitty nose touches and snow time. Clicking should embiggen and open in a new window.
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1 year ago – 70 out, buses leaky, Mexico dindin, Danny Prezzies, Helen Killer, Czolgosz!
2 years ago – a ton of walkabout pics, fossil hunting during a Snowy day on the bay, microsoft and openID, kitties
3 years ago – "Chilly" – in the 40s.ha. Today it was less than half that, before wind chill!, best buy wall numbers, absurd inventions, Superbowl. Scientology SP, Black/white vs right/wrong
4 years ago – Beetlejuice thoughts, evergreen boneyard photo-walk, domestic cats stay at adolescent mentality, interactive autopsy, girls sued for being nice
5 years ago – Super-loved ones, 2-headed baby surgery, fox wedding weather, meat eaters, scale, ruins
6 years ago – Nice thoughts, torture, LCD, note to Newt, Latrave b-day card, Class action suit.. I got my $12 check, eventually, Chandlerisms
7 years ago – MP pay delay, tron, #10 tight, naughty work thoughts, Scripts, system lockdowns and short tempers
8 years ago – At Last, first find hero machine (now in my toybox), bug, Dani and Rhonda hook me up!
Groundhog’s Day – 2009.
Phil’s official forecast as read February 2nd, 2009 at sunrise at Gobbler’s Knob:
Hear Ye Hear Ye
On Gobbler’s Knob this glorious Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2009
Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators
Awoke to the call of President Bill Cooper
And greeted his handlers, Ben Hughes and John Griffiths
After casting a joyful eye towards thousands of his faithful followers,
Phil proclaimed that his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers were World Champions one more time
And a bright sky above me
Showed my shadow beside me.
So 6 more weeks of winter it will be.
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Also, Happy 40th Birthday to me!
9591 – Thursday
BHK brought the element in for an alignment at the dealer today. Mechanical issue, it turns out. Insurance should cover it, but it has to be looked over first.
The moon was orbiting pretty close tonight, I nearly banged my head on it. My gut is still out of whack – I may have to go to the doctor tomorrow if this keeps up. Cereal and Milk for dinner – that should soothe a bit.
Pye, birdwatching this morning, as we left the house.
Self-portrait taken at midday today, with a tiny self-portrait inside the phone.
I think I look odd here – overhead lights, I guess. I’ve lost a little weight, but still working on it.
Note the dueling scar just between cheekbone and beard.
I have an irrational fear of post-getting a tattoo – I figure that as soon as I get one, I’ll accidentally scar my body in a way as to make the design appear torn or crooked.
That said, I don’t know what sort of tattoo I’d ever get.
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President Obama retook the oath of office last night because of mistakes the first time around.
Also – PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
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1 year ago – busy month, knees and backs, Bill O’Reilly doesn’t know about homeless vets, hello kitty counterstrike, Q&A meme
2 years ago – newtcam live, snow pics, reh 101, spidey hits (what killed my youtube acct),
3 years ago – superhero drawing memes, CNY, Bro’s situation improved briefly, lost, spidey video views, Sting
4 years ago – Worked late, EN’s cable out, sad- sicky mel, busy phone, amber alert, great day to be alive theme
5 years ago – Year of the monkey!, new icons, act like a monkey, a fellow ljers house burns down
6 years ago – honey rant, healing hands, newt pic, cuss control, cold snap
7 years ago – spy ware killer, stab-dream, home school poll, animal noises around the world, sound
8 years ago – IMT stuff, be good, Model of the modern super-criminal, birthday wish
9590 – Writer’s Block: Open Arms
That’s one of the things I miss about hanging out with the wonderful hippie gang in South Florida – Hugs were plentiful, warm, and never forced both with new friends and old.