Tag Archives: vizcaya

8645 – meeting and picture linkage

Off to a lovely start with snuggles and bagles before launch to work… bhk is far superior to me at “punch buggy” , especially in the bleary early morning, where my field of vision seems to be something like fifteen degrees. I think she whomped me about 937 times on the drive to fort lauderdale, but I loved every minute of it. Every day with her seems to shine brighter and have more potential than the one before. It’s truly wonderful to have her in my life.


Found a good seasonal renter for the condo, so mortgage payments won’t be an issue for a few months… that’s a real blessing. (Hooray for laid back family friends that like to tour florida! I know she won’t trash the place, and I can give her a rockin’ deal on the rent.)


Monday meeting went pretty well, BK is still out sick, so I’m not quite sure where things stand on this and that, aside from RS getting the bulk of reporting duties, TD chewing on web / overview text info (no design work, just straight entry), and the training of the new IT guy. Things should be a fairly smooth transition, as everyone is detail oriented, and willing to take things to task… which is a big relief for me.


whoops! I just saved the company a little embarassment –

Original Text –

2-CERTIFICATES
SAFARI ECO TOUR
4-PEOPLE
$100 Value
Seminal Tribe of Florida

Corrected text –

2-CERTIFICATES
SAFARI ECO TOUR
4-PEOPLE
$100 Value
Seminole Tribe of Florida

Important fix. Does nobody actually proofread? Spellcheck is handy, but sometimes a human eye is even better.


for more vizcaya – see craig james white’s pics – he was there about 3 days before bhk amd me.. and was allowed some indoor shots, too. His Miami Pics in general are quite nice, too.


1 year ago – LED clothes, K&K mime, Clavicus loves his pastry, doom patrol, quizzes, x-ing, newt pic, Red knows the score, cybermen, scotto avie

2 years ago – bro call, sammich heartburn, remote control jargon, Eid, promenade in the park, FF movie looks like poop, comic book torrents, CoH sued by Marvel

3 years ago – Butterflies, Christ, Wind and Dexterity, my journal is in popular science, phonepost, back on call

4 years ago – expensive minis, misc whims, wacky news, bob hope

5 years ago – I live near blimps, medicine poll, Bad Elder Caucasian Dudes, marvel misfits

6 years ago – Des tries to take on the hive, whoville test, aok, Robbo’s last weekGeotarget

8644 – Eat a Bagel and Go!

Eat a bagel and GO! was our battle cry today, as BHK took charge and we managed to get up and out of the house by 10:30… not a trifling feat, considering our collective penchant for the lounge-about-the-houseisms.

(bhk thinks not, but I think maybe so.) I really dig having a walkabout cohort.

(our other battlecry of choice is “We’re Grown ups, We’re Married, We can do what we want!- that mostly applies to ice cream dinners, however)

We hit vizcaya with great enthusiasm…Quite enjoyed touring the grounds with bhk(more pictures from my last visit in ’03 on the vizcaya tag)

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Green Dome, Pelican, red wall, stone boat, grotesques, stone boobies,spanish moss, pictures of a stalker european, sneaking into a secret door, quinteanos, swimming pools, fountains and foo dogs

highlights of the day were seeing a manatee in the wild by the stone boat, and holding hands with my beloved on the bench by the east gardens.


After vizcaya, we toured around and ultimately went to the swap-shop drive-in to see flushed away… very cute, but I think that I enjoyed the novelty of the drive-in even more than the movie. Very easy to sneak drinks and smooches in without an usher giving us any grief… we’ll be going back again before sauntering to points north, I suspect.

I was pretty impressed by flushed away… they kept the look and feel of aardman, despite it being all cgi rather than claymation. cute moments and lots of fun bits, though I think that the setup for a sequel was a bit over-telegraphed.


1 year ago – poorhouse w/liz, monkey beer, gg mood theme,newt pics

2 years ago – bro issues, newtie love, lost, getting it,link sponsor

3 years ago – TG poll, paid links began, GP recovers, Twistyland

4 years ago – better living through chemistry, Jude Law a bad papa, French comics, wolfsonian

5 years ago – Evil news, EL Dildo Bandito!, went out with Dave & Cathi

6 years ago – Rush, Bee-manGeotarget

8575 – 2 nights and 28 days to go!

First Episode of Legion of Super Heroes wasn’t too bad. Not sure how I feel about the “greatest american hero – needs training” superman. I think it’s probably ok as a kid hero thing.

Nice cameo of skeets, Booster gold and a lot of Green Lantern Races at the museum, they did a pretty sharp update.

Contrast that with “Heroes”… my jury’s still out on that one. It has potential, but needs a little more oomph, I think.


The C in CW stands for CBS and the W stands for WB – Columbia Warner? (CBS&WB) – something weird about an abbreviation of 2 abbreviations.

So, is the actor playing Luke leaving Gilmore Girls, or are they just getting really uppity with the writing?


How to crack a walnut with one hand:

  • First, place two hard-shelled walnuts in the palm of your hand.
  • Carefully line up the seams, and wrap your fingers around them.
  • With your hand slightly cupped, get a good grip – One walnut should rested against the base of the thumb, while the other one presses against the curved second and third fingers.
  • Squeeze *HARD* until the weaker one of the two walnuts gives in to the pressure.

That move *really* impresses folks… I once got a “Woo!” from John, the first time I showed it to him.

Good during the winter holidays, when there are walnuts all over the place.


I’m a little envious of folks that are in a place (MD) where they can see their breath… I’ll get to do that this weekend- airports have reduced restrictions on liquids again, which means that I can bring a drink aboard. Non-stop flights this time, so no layovers! Most Excellent!

I’m looking forward to late October walkabouts and after. Basic thoughts include the Keys, Vizcaya, and maybe assorted South Florida locales.


Citgo is owned by Venezuela, eh?

Angry with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for calling President Bush “the devil,” state Rep. Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is calling on the Florida Secretary of Transportation to pull the plug on gasoline stations along the Florida Turnpike run by Venezuelan-owned Citgo. Continue reading 8575 – 2 nights and 28 days to go!

6760 – museum pix, waiting for news on my condo, misc

The condo owners are out of town… silly for them to list it and not be available until later, but, whatever. I’ll know more today, I think.


Did the guy that invented combos see a snausage, and think it would be tasty for people to have a snack like that.. or was it the other way around, benefiting dogs?


Intelligent observation overheard ages ago – “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”


I can’t believe that a single packet of ramen noodles is considered to be “three servings”. That’s almost as bad as the “two fig newtons per serving” rule. Who decides this stuff? Very full people who aren’t so hungry and don’t like the product?

Random ramen factoids –

  • “Ramen” is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters lo mein, which means “boiled noodles.”
  • Ramen was popularized in Japan by a 17th century samurai named Mito Komon. You can see Mito’s actual ramen bowl and a reproduction of his favorite meal in the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, Japan. The museum that attracts 1500 visitors a day–more than Japan’s national art museum.

I’m in the mood to watch the Rockford Files again.


Random Scotto Factoid: I had trouble remembering the difference between definitions for vertical and diagonal, until I learned the word vertigo. Likewise, horizontal was never a problem, because I already knew the word horizon. I learn better by association, rather than simply by rote.


Planetarium Trip Pictures

6757 – put a bid down…

Last night I reviewed and put a bid down on a condo. Nice neighborhood, the place is a very roomy one bedroom (much bigger than my last apartment, let along my little studio) in excellent physical shape, and in a nice neighborhood.

I’ll know if my offer was accepted this afternoon…it just came on the market yesterday morning, and nobody was in line in front of me, as far as I know.

I’ve got my fingers crossed.


Hm… I thought that they weren’t doing any more There-upgrades, but I just got notification that I’m back in the beta, and it’s been upgraded. Maybe it’s not going dark as soon as I thought.


Yet More Vizcaya

6755 – Journey, part 3 – brides, brides everywhere, and not a one to wed

Many women in bridal gowns or the like were there on Saturday. I suspect a photo shoot for a magazine, but there wasn’t a lot of camera technology there.. just handheld cameras, none of those wacky reflector-umbrellas, makeup folks or people with light meters that I saw at the last shoot I witnessed in Fort Lauderdale. Maybe they didn’t need it with all of the natural light as nice as it was? Maybe the production values were just lower. In any event, they added a nice ambiance to the visit.

More Pictures, mostly of women in gowns and gardens

6754 – Journey, part 2 – Vandals, Statues, Lego

O Muse!
Sing in me, and through me tell the story
Of that man skilled in all the ways of contending,
A wanderer, harried for years on end…

Something worth mentioning about the trip of Saturday… It seemed like every common room had large white urns in them, with remains of someone or other inside. It was interesting at first and later became almost the theme of the house, which was fairly ostentatious.. makes Cinderella’s castle look like a grass shack.

I had hoped that the misting garden was open, but it wasn’t.. it’s a great way to cool off if you don’t mind getting a little wet.

Assorted Statuary from the Vizcaya Trip

6753 – The day out was lovely, though hot and steamy.

HAPPY 4th of JULY! I know I’m glad to be as free as I am.

So, Vizcaya it was. I walked the house (sadly, no photography inside was allowed) Outside, however, is another story entirely… so, I took a lot of pictures. )though, not all the pictures below are mine) There was *so* much statuary, and such extensive Mediterranean gardens that I could’ve stayed there all day… but the beating of the sun got to me after walking around in it from late morning to about 3pm, even with the cool breeze off of the water, and the gigantic fruit smoothie I was gunning down at a record pace.

Something nifty was that there was either a photo-shoot for a bridal magazine going on, or three different wives-to-be were all being captured on film in different parts of the outside, too. At times, it seemed as if I couldn’t take a picture without snagging a gal in a white dress and gloves someplace in the shot. (and I took a few deliberate shots, too… it’s to the gal’s merit how composed they were in the aforementioned super-sun beams. There was also a “Red White & Blue” celebration planned for the evening, with some rasta-guys working the soundboard. Unfortunately, I wasn’t up to staying there to the 9pm launch time.

I took so many photos that it’ll take me a while to sort the wheat from the chaff. I’ll toss in a few each entry as I go through ’em. Explanations of each are beneath the picture in question.

The Journey Begins