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9671 – sunday

 
Back at the in-laws to watch Tigger – caught up a bit with work reviews missed while at home… documentation and editing of info, primarily.

Kicked back, relaxed for a few – and then headed home.

taken via cameraphone  – the wind was blowing cloud shadows everywhere.

Fw: spring pics.
Fw: spring pics

It’s getting warmer out – I can’t wait to go kite flying with BHK!

1 year ago – cherry blossoms, FDR memorial, spam journals on LJ, BHK sneaks on my journal

2 years ago – 3-d movies, snow, jd, county work review, petals falling, karaoke, What in Sam Hill?, psptv

3 years ago – zombie horde counterstrike, pyramid house, bugs bunny, tmbg, devo, tom delay, top40,

4 years ago – Badge shape pref poll, flickery power, Jasmine, stupid comic deaths, Dr Who episode 2, KANG KANG KANG KANG!, Monkey awe, hukilau, driver 8 pic, 23/5 bibliomancy

5 years ago – Itchies, chocolate dodge, Miami fires, sweetalyssm.com goes down due toa hack. (sadly, never to return), palm-doodle entry, Denny’s lunch

6 years ago – hung out with [info]ldy & grrwoo, JKG wants me, prep for TAG

7 years ago – Freedom Force, Poem tag, new tech, THE poll.

8 years ago – morning walk, goals, online people, people that didn’t want my help, kindness triage, cartoon stereotypes, Hey, The Dusty Miller, hair color pollGeotarget

9670 – saturday

I got out of the house briefly to babysit Tigger with BHK at the in-laws (they’re off camping) and to visit the neighborhood flea market today – normally would’ve walked, but rolled in the love cube instead due to lack of mobility.

Spent a total of $80 today. Here is some of what we got:

  • hand held police scanner (for $1!) it works!
  • A big pile of books to read (William Kidd for me, a bunch of goodies for BHK)
  • flash comic, seaguy comic
  • 2 new iron chairs for the porch ($27)
  • 4 plastic dinosaurs ($2)
  • a picnic basket, complete with plates, cups and such ($5)
  • a beeswax candle of a bear on a beehive
  • a chocolate brownie
  • 2 chocolate chip pumpkin muffins
  • a yummy loaf of birdseed bread
  • a chocolate chip oatmeal cookie
  • 2 handmade cereal bowls – aquamarine – really pretty!
  • 4 potted ranunculus, with a ton of buds (pink, yellow, orange, red)
  • 2 long boxes for the flowers, plus potting soil.
  • dvd player ($5) for larry

After riding around, my back was pretty rough, and BHK was feeling it too – headed home and just chilled out. I’m a little worried that I over exerted myself by just standing up and sitting down so much. Ugh.

Random pic from the hardware store last week – forgot to post it. I am juvenile.

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1 year ago – sleep in doodle, Mr. Woods, Red Robin doodle, shopping, 10,000 bc vs superhero movie, cool robots, McCain says americans are too cynical, picture meme, cherry blossom pic, jefferson pic

2 years ago – victim of the 80s / transformers, time flies, movies. (still haven’t seen blades of glory.), local blooms pic

3 years ago – wearing purple, dan break, bug inspectors, doc, firewall,

4 years ago – apology-but, making fiends in bulgarian, free photos, broken people, TSiC

5 years ago – 22 questions, DST, Ft. Laud Mellowed, 4-4-4

6 years ago – Met with Meter Made, don’t confuse courtesy with subservience, pics for the day, Speedy off CN, Sample McDougald house letter

7 years ago – walkies, dream, taking stuff poll, Moment of Waponi, Killian’s, bkveggie (the old one), long music ramble, production meeting at IMT

8 years ago – Slander-drama / resolution (Honestly, I think that part of the issue started from here.) I still wonder how that "FBI Investigation" turned outGeotarget

Saturday – timeline

Filled in from laptop –

Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:35 AM

Been waiting at the doctors office for about 30 minutes now – longer time than usual to get shots.

BHK is getting blood work done – I’m more peeved that she has to wait than me – she has been fasting since last night and probably has some low blood sugar going on.

I’m just glad they have some juice available to her for afterward.

After we finish here, plans are for me to get a haircut, a spot of breakfast and then visit Miss Tigger for some love while the in-laws are out off town on a school field trip.

This weekend is primarily set to be for catching up with work – home and otherwise.

Supper last night was buffalo “chicken” patties – celery for BHK, pickles for me. Caught up with an episode of Burn Notice and Psych, and then we toddled off to bed. Straightforward evening.

10:49 AM

I am back from my shot- bhk getting blood work done now.

Good day sunshine going through my head, for no reason in particular. This week did not feel like a 4-day workweek. I hope next week is less demanding on my resources.

Britny’s girlfriend broke up with her the day before valentine’s day- kind of a punk maneuver. They’re best friends “with benefits” now, but are free to see other folks.  That sounds a bit like a death knell for a relationship to me, but who knows how it will work out for them?

Haven’t heard a lot from Jay or Sean lately – I suspect that that Duncan hasx been giving them quite a run for their money.

It’s pretty cold in the doc’s office… remodeled too – the carpet is making me feel a little dizzy, too.

11:10 AM

BHK is done with bloodwork – they gave her a caprisun? I thought real fruit juice was proper, not corn syrup? Ah well, we’ll get some breakfast / lunch at home – lots of good eats there.

11:20 AM

We go to Chessie’s for subs – I get veggie & cheese, BHK gets a pizza-steak sub. I opt out of getting a haircut at the barber shop next door, as they only take cash. 7-11 next door has drinks and dessert – BHK starts on a slim jim to get her system back.

11:35 AM

Fill up with Gas, and hit the Car wash! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-632554519355380271&hl=en


Noon

Time to peek in on Miss Tigger while the in-laws are gone and give her some food, too. Subs are lackluster.

8:00 PM

Back to feed and play with Tigger again – we brought a copy of "The Cat From Outer Space" to play with her in the room.

8:20 PM

Tigger is asleep. BHK is Asleep. I’m doing stuff on the computer, and am enjoying the old disney flick.

9:30 PM BHK is awake, Tigger is downstairs, Movie is over.

9:45 – Heading home – until Later, Dear Journal!

1 year ago – lunar eclipse, ice coming?, recalled meat, Bush 19%, newt and pye analogues, new knight rider series, Psych, Kim Possible, HD DVD officially dead, giant fossilized devil-frog, common people "$25 street survivor"

2 years ago – sunset and duck pics, naked gun, phone hearing w/florida, cyn’s new (now old) space!

3 years ago – 2nd life, frankenbox windows issue, modified newtcam subdomain, Samuel, I’m a nine

4 years ago – Atlantic shores hosp, motherboards, jokers utility belt, 2-headed baby, paris hilton hacked, jlu, angry beavers, comic essentials, danny teaches school about graphic novels, six-gun gorilla, ash, icon origin

5 years ago – Wishing for Dr. Feng Shui, Quit FFXI, Time out with Danny and his wife

6 years ago – DDoS on LJ, Friday five, Nordis is full of crap, parking spots pictures, The Groovenians = blah

7 years ago – robo-triffid, daily pictures, back hurting

8 years ago – Chariots of the Gods, reminders, Geocities stops hot links, my nesting instinctGeotarget

9586 -Testing Windows Live Writer

Pretty impressive so far – I like it more than semagic, but I think Google docs is still better overall for my style.

Quick day today, Dropped off at the Library, got some groceries for tomorrow’s inauguration party, picked up some gummy dinosaurs (and hopefully, got an order in for gummy chicken feet for my birthday cake)

Fat-fingered a button, and stupidly invited everyone in my yahoo account to my facebook – Ah well, nobody there that I wouldn’t mind saying hello to, but I hope I didn’t bug my boss.

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As Contrition, I offer a picture of Tigger, guest starring as a Thanksgiving Turkey.

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Additional – back area off the in-laws pier – BOth pics taken with Larry’s phone.

Let’s see how inserting stuff goes – a little bird’s eye of North Beach

Map picture

1 year ago – fun with bugah, movies, Making Money, Cheeburger Cheeburger, Nat’l treasure 2, Family fluxx, polarity
2 years ago – waiting on net, quiz-memes
3 years ago – cool icon, late work, palm doodle, mozilla, Lost, bite pic, lj-abuse
4 years ago – Lots of family drama, weather, link sponsor, classic C&H, 10 truths – 5 fibs poll, boxer vs rice, monkey king’s tomb
5 years ago – Happy b’day, FB!, MLK, Big Fish with Danny, hair in soy sauce, cotton candy autopsy
6 years ago – music and food for bro, silly sound bites
7 years ago – nice dreams, biochemical weapons and parking meters, I enjoyed Fellowship, poor choice in names
8 years ago – Massive layoffs, cartoon bird gender, misc writing, digging Jenny Lee’s singing Geotarget
 

9406 thursday

Tasty dinner of stir-fried veggies on more naan bread, vegetarian meatloaf (mostly garden eggplant) topped with sauce saved from our selby pickup! Super good, and uber-filling.

Dessert was a treat of choco-chip cookies!

BHK’s birthday weekend starts tomorrow, though her birthday is on Monday – I took the day off for us to play! … I think we’ll have a grand time!



Pictures from Last weekend. Larry’s Birthday, tigger talking, and us all walking on the boardwalk. As ever, clicken to embiggen.

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Me with my standard popeye sun-reduction look, Tigger gabbing some more, and a BHK odd-shot

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Tigger talking, moon over the bay
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Laryy & Chris, Moonrise, Larry and Tigger
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Adam!

This last one isn’t by us, but by another local named “this and that” on flickr… you can see what a difference better resolution and composition can make!

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Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror. But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies, a species with a brain structure very different from mammals, could also identify themselves. It had been thought that the neocortex brain area found in mammals was crucial to self-recognition. Yet birds, which last shared a common ancestor with mammals 300 million years ago, don’t have a neocortex, suggesting that higher cognitive skills can develop in other ways.



I had no idea that “the shocker” (description may be NSFW) had a name at all.. I always knew it as er…, um…  “dos en el color de rosa, uno en el hedor”. (Pardon the terrible translation.) I’m more of a fan of the Moutza as a rude gesture.



1 year ago – saw a bird of prey, heavy work week, icehouse game java, Luke / tacos / in-laws, sleepy, chessboard serial killer

2 years ago
– enthused, quizzies, cydonia vid, grab old comics

3 years ago – jenjen, rocko, more hee-haw, work-dream, indoor remote control flier, a little sick, cool song parts, religion facts

4 years ago – bro fade, there lives again, walkabout, spell of hoggoth

5 years ago – personality profile for work, seasonal pages, hippos and rhinos, lifesavers changes flavors, Pam Confirmation, guest map, vamp game, chat

6 years ago – grove scandal, togas, tulip head, haiku

7 years ago – Harvard classics, imprecation, Child’s Christmas in Wales, Love, great moment from Oz, Spoon

8 years ago – Put April on a bus for home, Gaming group with Josh Marquart and the Hunters, can you picture that Geotarget

9247 – Sunday

Addendum – Fab brew was closed – no muffin or coffee (why close for inventory on a *Sunday*???) – instead we got lunch in Deale. From there we brought the in-laws lemon cake and pie (chirs prefers cake, larry, the latter)… a brief stop off turned into a 4 hour pause of enjoying movies, petting Tigger and eating Chinese food. Not too shabby!


Napoleon Dynamite is not my thing, though. Too much irony, not enough wit for me.

After our eats, we returned home to laze about a bit more – BHK beat me at Balloon Cup, and it grew too late for If Wishes were Fishes.

Short and sweet, dear journal!


1 year ago – pye & newt in a sunbeam pic, tiki bar, 420, metallurgy, movies, D&D mags cease, McKennitt tickets

2 years ago – re:grammy, getting warmer, ad-levels in lj, sesame street, greedy greedy, politics, alzheimer’s

3 years ago – there.com still the same, random objects, little red munkee, swat monkey picture, steadfastness, bad breath, Lunsford bill passes, Detective won’t stop seeking justice

4 years ago – big brain better, no dice with GP, goof gallery of life, Man eats own toes, online commerce

5 years ago – 420 Easter, evil thought

6 years ago – palm update, bro being good, cats & dogs, Phantom patriot, little red munkee expands

7 years ago – Tired, Cheese crackers, warm fuzziesGeotarget

9119 – Sunday

Discombobulated and out of sorts today. Maybe I’m coming down with something? All BHK and I (mostly just me) did today was sleep and slug about.

Caught up with Alien in America… still have to polish off a few more tivo shows getting caught up due to writers strike and previously mentioned sluggishness.

Capsule TV reviews:

Alien in America – Good stuff, and got better at the end. I’m really surprised that something that has the potential to be a one-trick pony turned out as pleasant as this. I hope that they can stay on top of it, but still fear it’ll lose steam.

Bionic Woman – Just isn’t ringing my bell. Another case of “Buffy / Firefly” for me, maybe. I just can’t get too enthused about it. Keeping it on the Tivo for when we have a rainy day and I’m willing to give the show another chance. Hasn’t hit my “3 strikes” rule yet.

Chuck – (seen 2 eps including pilot) Failed so far where Alien in America has succeeded. I think it could improve once it gets some momentum.

Reaper (seen 2 eps, including pilot) – I like this more than BHK, but it also suffers from Chuck syndrome so far, but I think it could get better, too.

Journeyman (seen pilot) – so far, so good. I suspect this’ll be then next one to be gobbled up, viewing-wise. Sadly, I think it has been cancelled.

I’m not sure where my energy went. I suspect it’s post holiday fatigue.

Babysat Tigger again… she’s a little love rag… doesn’t seem to miss the in-laws much, as long as she’s fed and petted now and again… not like clingy newt at all.


1 year ago – newt and pye pix, saw night at the museum

2 years ago – 2 week delay on big brain, skipper chuck, cool for Florida, movie meme

3 years ago – Bonded bro, lj 6a, comment spam from south of the border

4 years ago – enjoying 2-monitors, PT working

5 years ago – bad day, the ice cube defense, SOP, sexual predator data

6 years ago – Telefutura, game show network, newt shenanigans, my first recorded post on the Usenet, meemee deleted, wonka

7 years ago – Pix quit, Victorian love, spongebob, angry beavers, sweetalyssm’s art, Chinese zodiac, Cold Mountain (Everyone I’ve talked to about it has loved the book, but hated the ending.), peanut butter and nanner sammiches, mother gooseGeotarget

9118 – Sat

Quickie follow-up – We didn’t see Juno – Both showings were sold out. Instead we hit Golden Compass. It was visually pleasing – script wise and acting wise, not so much. Ah, well. Sad day when armored polar bears and zeppelins *done right* can’t make up for an otherwise poorly paced and poorly acted film.

A reminder – Compass is rated pg-13. Not for little kidlets, despite talking animals. There are some scary and violent moments not suitable for most young kids (or nervous grownups.)

Babysitting Miss Tigger today while the in-laws are off to Marion and Salem – doing some house care and visiting Larry’s Folks.

Other than that, we’re just taking it easy after I get my shots – Maybe we’ll catch Sweeney Todd tomorrow as a matinee?

A meme and then adios for now, dear journal.


Little political meme going around – who I seem to match most.

Gravel? Richardson? I’m woefully unaware of who they are, yet they topped my political list. I don’t know if that means the test is accurate or not.

83% Mike Gravel
81% Bill Richardson
79% Barack Obama
77% John Edwards
76% Chris Dodd
75% Dennis Kucinich
74% Hillary Clinton
69% Joe Biden
46% Rudy Giuliani
44% John McCain
42% Mike Huckabee
36% Mitt Romney
35% Ron Paul
26% Tom Tancredo
26% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz


1 year ago – visiting the “News” in VA, BCK on ape equality

2 years ago – National Bird Day, Religio-founder quiz, Mr. Potato Head, open camera streams, I helped to recover Tabitha lively, newt picture with my feet,

3 years ago – 12th night, Mel stuff, job hunting helps, 6 apart/lj rumor, lj optout, geek meme, Eisner dies, latest memo, tried tracking LSW.

4 years ago – 4 gamers best, gaming memories Mars Exploration, I’m an Earth Monkey

5 years ago – Internet born, origami cameras, ouch!

6 years ago – SOP, insomniac theme, My Lady by J. G. Whittier, tech trouble, newt in nightshirt, stupidfly abuse, dead image and flash links, deleted journals actually get deleted

7 years ago – vagg (dead link), internal server error (not much)Geotarget

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9001 – Monday

Hm… Archie McPhee has some nifty zombie toys. I wonder how they’d look on my desk at work? I wonder what other folks would think?

Tigger gaining weight – put her on diet kitty food… I wonder if she thinks that she needs to stock up, in case of being on her own again? She’s not as svelte as she used to be. I think Newt and Pye need to visit her, and give her a running around the house partner or two.

I was creaky this weekend, but am feeling better this evening. A severe case of stumble-thumbosis overcame me this weekend, possibly due to poor sleep on Saturday? Well rested today, and things seem much more in control.

We opened up the pickles ! While a trifle mushy, they aren’t nearly as over-spicy as I’d feared. I wonder how Miz Pix is doing, speaking of pickles?

Final counts on the 2007 summer Icehouse game competition are in – Pylon , Subdivision and Zamboni Wars won the challenge. I’m surprised that Penguin Soccer didn’t do better. All the victors have valid games, but PS just had a fun theme and a reasonable set of rules, especially the 2-player option. I think that it seemed a little skewed, given that they didn’t penalise missing entries.

More pictures of yesterday’s shenanigans – A Corn Cop, Bunnies, and a pumpkin patch.

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And an eye-eating monster.

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1 year ago – Zombies, Acronyms, RSP, eudcedit, Roddy w/silly string,

2 years ago – bro rehab issues, fun in 2nd life, riverwalk, 404 fun, spidey song, pinwheels / world peace day pics, reggae

3 years ago – MM issues, water, C-Mon & Kypski’s – Shittybum, Ookla, picture meme. 4 years ago – IHOP with Kev & Bheesh, Rose, Zombie Pinups, Space Art in Kids books, Title caps.

5 years ago – mental fog, Finn & Chupa aren’t loved, sculpey, eraser clay

6 years ago – Fussing sans A/C, Word association poll, KFC Japan

7 years ago – The Laundry event, Newt, Cherry Coke, Quit the Everway Group Geotarget

8948 – Saturday

Yesterday, I forgot to mention that I received Martian coasters, filler colors of icehouse stashes, and other ordered loot. I’m looking forward to playing them with BHK at our earliest convenience.

Awoke early – about 6:45 on a Saturday. EM was up at about 6:30, I think.

Read in bed:

  • Oliviaclassic. Olivia would be Eloise, if Eloise were a pig. She is good at singing 40 very loud songs and is very good at wearing people out. And scaring the living daylights out of her little brother, Ian, particularly when he copies her every move. She is also quite skilled at reproducing Jackson Pollock’s “Autumn Rhythm #30” on the walls at home. When her mother tucks her in at night and says, “You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway,” Olivia precociously pronounces, “I love you anyway too.”
  • Ain’t gonna Paint No more – pretty spiffy, good rhythm, color and song.
  • 93 in my family Now *that*’s a fun kids book. Reads well, stuff to look at on every page, terribly cute, and gives a message that’s neat, too. Plus, a carsick hamster named Ed. We need more like this one.
  • Where Have The Unicorns Gone? – Lovely Art, poorly written – it just doesn’t flow.

BHK was tuckered out, and fell back asleep about midway through Olivia, so Em and I got up after reading and made necklaces with wooden beads and string from Em’s kit – very pretty stuff.

Played some simple stacking and lining up games with dominoes and red & blue icehouse pyramids with Em while BHK slept – may have developed the seed of a new game! Stacking Pyramids on top of a domino board to collect points. Needs a little work, but if I can teach the basics to a 4-year-old and it’s challenging to me, there could be a fun concept waiting to burst out.

Once BHK woke up, we all got cleaned up and headed out to take care of TM’s kitties (see picture in yesterday’s post ).

After many kitty snuggles, we all went to the marine museum to see the otters and the stingrays – it was also a Cradle of the Invasion day – folks dressed in garb of 1812, WWII, and modern style, showing how Marines in wartime lived and worked in the area. pretty neat. Apparently, in the 30s-40s, Tropical chocolate was mixed with paraffin wax so it wouldn’t melt… the K rations had basically a chocolate candle to eat along with government supplied cigarettes. Lots of items about amphibious warfare that didn’t interest Em too much, but I’d like to go back next time and spend a little while talking to the folks and getting some perspectives on things. My Grandfather on my mom’s side was a Marine during WWII, and he never really talked too much about it, short of taking me to the VFW and hanging out with other vets. (That’s where I got my first Shirley Temple.)

[edit – I forgot that we went to the amish market, and saw ducks and geese and chickens and goats and puppies and horses, and amish folks, and bought gingerbread and blueberry jam, and lemon meringue pie for Larry, and shoo-fly pie for us, and peppers to stuff with yum! – Sakes, we were busy]

Getting close to Lunch, so we headed off to Burt’s [Edit – dang, why do I always call it Fred’s?] for veggie burgers (em got popcorn shrimp) – good stuff, but I suspect the kids meal had more food than our veggie burger platter! We got puzzle place mats and crayons so we could color while we waited for our food.

Went to Aardvarks to pick up Early American Chrononauts (and ice cream – Play-doh is still my favorite… vanilla ice cream dyed bright yellow with red and blue chunks of sugar cookie dough mixed in. ) I suspect that I like Early American more than standard Chrononauts.

Chris and Larry’s for Dinner – Hot Dogs on the Grill, beans, slaw, and all sorts of yum. BHK had to duck out and tend to Tina’s Kitties again while Chris, Larry, Em and I hung out and chitty-chatted. Emily was very well behaved, and barely persnickety or bossy at all. She played very nicely with Tigger for hours.

Quote of the night was by Em – “I would never hurt beautiful Uncle Scott!”

Full and happy we all came home and crashed out.


Before I bail: a meme from Tarpo –

THE RULES:

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random.
Whatever you like.

2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.

3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.

4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.

5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

Mine were –

1) Where did you meet your girl? Livejournal, actually – Sixish years ago, at least, when I was dating someone else. I think that I traded up nicely.

2) Is Newt still a vicious man-eater? He can be pretty aggressive to some folks, and a love to others. He hasn’t seen any Newfs lately, but he still attacks most smokers with great vigor.

3) Recommend 3 fairly cheap 2 player, easy to learn, fun games that are outside the normal Milton Bradley/Hasbro line. Well, you already know about Fluxx and Carcassone, so I’ll toss out Treehouse at about $10, you can’t go too far wrong (see links above) (which is a gateway drug to other fun games, too) and Chrononauts, also linked above, a little bit more pricey at $20, (with both games the more the merrier, but two can play handily.)

4) Without sounding offensive and I hope you don’t take this in the wrong way at all.. Has anyone ever mentioned that there is more than a slight resemblance between my Ex Wife and your Current Wife? Short of this question, nobody has… From what I can recall of her face, I don’t really see the resemblance! Eyes, nose, facial shape, hair and skin all seem pretty different to me!

5) Suggest something for a future DoWhatIDo
How about a picture of a favorite item, like a toy or book?


1 year ago – thread tracking, mallah/brain, sistine ceiling full view, 330 mpg car under $20k, hardest geometry problem in the world,

2 years ago – Delirium box, laundry good deed, matches, chain reaction game, Friday 5, autostitch pic, 200 e Broward pic

3 years ago – hr tag abandonment,Doug / tony memory trick, factoids about me, elevator breaks

4 years ago – Neverwhere, childhood memories circa ’74-75ish – lunch and Tonka toys,linked to hulk’s blog, bro stuff, Elvis & his prosthetic limb factory

5 years ago – Spanish TV, broken links, new he-man cartoon, mark quits FMM before he’s caught stealing, puppy pictures and palm doodles.

6 years ago – Soylent Green Tea Ice Cream at the Frieze in Miami, after seeing Kiss of the Dragon with my bro, cavort, first exp w/ Samurai Jack, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

7 years ago – saw the hollow man, and played Everway, day before sleep study Geotarget

8924 – sun

Best word about current media frenzy – Potterdämmerung. That is *perfect*. I figure that I’ll get around to reading it eventually, but I’ll blaspheme by using the public library (or if BHK wants to own a copy, I’ll read hers when she’s done.) I don’t really care who lives or who dies, but I am interested in seeing how it all wraps up. I’m almost more interested in knowing what the “next big thing” will be, now that this is essentially all over; not counting the remaining movies, spin-offs, comics and whatnot.

We had a nice, luxuriously casual post-party day.

Originally, we intended to brunch with Cyn, but it seems that Joss doesn’t have a Sunday brunch… besides, we’re all sleepyheads anyhow. (Plus, Cyn was shaking off the effects of her prior-night’s festivities.)

Instead, we opted to head to the new Jasper’s (sort of a Bennigan’s-type place), and munch some lunch. It was a mixed bag, but mostly good, I think. The bar area has 12 hypnotically eye-attracting TVs… even if just golf is showing on-air. I was more distracted by the pseudo-southwestern-indian rhino-sculpture with the bright red tail. Unfortunate choice of color for that region, as Cyn’s first thought was urzbeeubvq, and mine was nany svfghyn. Hover over the text or use rot-13 to translate.

Apparently whenever we three get together, there’s a common conversational theme that tends to crop up. I will not be linking to the terms Filthy Sanchez, Tony Danza, Cleveland Steamer, Dutch Oven or Satchmo… but if you do search for them, I’ll just say it’s not safe for work. (see the prior paragraph’s last six words or so for a starter concept.

The food varied in quality – the veggie burger was probably my favorite, after the sweet potato. Crab dip was not the best, and that’s going to be tough for ’em, given that this is crab country. The partner visited our table and asked how everything was…. and we gave a lot of compliments and a fair amount of criticism. I think that he appreciated our input, and that they’ll do very well.

Since I haven’t uploaded the rhino picture yet, here’s a honeymoon photo of me in touristy-black socks & shorts, golfing with a gorilla, and BHK being beautiful in St. Augustine. I love that pic of her… it just makes me smile every time I look at her.

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BHK and I watched Apocalypto across three houses, due to assorted cat-sitting duties for Tigger, Kiki and Chai – and polished off the last of it in our living room while munching on leftover party food. I really liked it. The story was really secondary to the setting and activity inside. The costume designer did a phenominal job, and if you get the dvd, check out “the making of” section. There were some moments that could’ve been scripted better, but the visuals were absolutely beautiful. I really liked that all of the actors were unknown to me – it made it much easier for me to take the characters as they were, rather than “that’s the Rock, and Robin Williams, and Robert DeNiro!” Definately the best art direction that I can remember seeing in a film recently.

We never did get around to playing lunch money or Chez goth – we’ll learn with Amy tomorrow! (if she doesn’t prefer to play pirates, or video games) – I hear she’s got a giant shark to trot out for our next battle.

New games BHK and I have or will be getting in the near future, in a loose order of when we’ll be playing ’em:

(I’ve also started a freebie account at superdupergames – mainly to try out online ice house sprawl – maybe BHK will start hitting it like we did with pente.net lots of stuff to choose from!)

  • We may get a treehouse die depending on how we get our pyramids.
  • you can play with a regular d6 – 1 tip, 2 swap, 3 hop, 4 dig, 5 aim, 6 wild
  • Stonehenge (5 games), and If I dig it.. (and why wouldn’t I? Check out the production diary) the Stonehenge Expansion (3 more games)
  • Polarity (thanks to keethrax)
  • 1 year ago – postcard, tiny Tarzan, MW network, golden age red tornado, Stevie wonder sesame street , comic book eras

    2 years ago – Books added to palm, Australian link, Bus station security, Apollo Mission, HTML cleaner, Google lj friend map, geek quiz, looking forward, Friday fine

    3 years ago – Mango, Spyware, Pi Approximation, Look out, Ghost tour

    4 years ago – Sam Jack, Ghosts, MRI, filters

    5 years ago – dreams, sounds, guns, action comics #1, hello kitty stress test, bike named, infinity

    6 years ago – Cohort, fwap, morning speech quiz, coloring game, kitty cookies,sunflower bread, web indexes, English language, Olestra conspiracy

    7 years ago – X-men with Dan, Robb’s Radio, went to Hops, April reading my LJ Geotarget