Being apart from the woman I love is a stress I dislike to a huge degree. I actually spent a good amount of my time out tonight picturing her with me, sharing dinner and watching Knight’s Tale with my pals and me (Dave and Cathi… Cath’s stating to get a little pregnancy pooch showing… she’s so cute. I shared the botulism honey connection with her, and she was happy to get the info.)

Now, she’s in bed, and I’ll follow…hopefully to rejoin her in dreamland and have her in my arms. I miss her so much.

check this out –

http://www.livejournal.com/portal/

How nifty! Try it logged in for the biggest bennies.

Update: Upcoming boxes/options include:
— Friends view (customizable)
— Recent Entry view (with the [ ] Include text option working)
— Random User (optionally, with a picture)
— Filter group filter on Birthday View

I know that someone, somewhere, for some reason really wanted to know about the ultrasonic velocity characteristics of cheddar cheese, and the effect that temperature has on said characteristics (warning: PDF file). Importantly, this study managed to “demonstrate the feasibility of using ultrasonic measurements to determine temperatures in Cheddar cheese” — this must be important to someone.

I gotta tell ya’, I’ve become pretty dang annoyed with the dang X10 wireless system ads that have started popping up under m y web browsing window. Thanks go out to Gael for a bunch of awesome links — one to X10’s explanation of the ads, and another to a page which will disable the ads. (The unfortunate thing is that that last link only disables them for 30 days, but in looking at the URL, there’s an argument that sets the 30-day variable; if that’s right, then this link should disable them for a year, and this one should disable them for 10 years.)

Today’s Mission List – (Thinks I’d like to do)

• Shower
• Laundry
• Talk to my Sweetie
• Go Grocery Shopping
• Talk to my Little Bro (Maybe Catch a Late supper wth him)
• Play with Newtie
• Talk to Dave & Cathi (Maybe catch a late supper with them, too)
• Evaluate finances for a first/last/security
• Research New Apartments, condos, and house rentals
• Find out more about yesterday’s fiasco

Hopping on item numbers one and Two now.

fun fact of the day – a beautiful girl once named a turtle after me. 🙂 Scotto the turtle.

but I’m still neither turtlehead nor darktrain

parse PAHRS, transitive verb:
1. To resolve (as a sentence) into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
2. To describe grammatically by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
3. To examine closely or analyze critically, especially by breaking up into components.
4. To make sense of; to comprehend.
5. (Computer Science) To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.

intransitive verb:
To admit of being parsed.

Parse comes from the Latin pars (orationis), “part (of speech).”

and by the way –

happy birthday,