What’s my verb? I think I like “be”

Slept like a corpse last night…had mostly surreal dreams. A mishmash of images and thoughts that I can’t seem to bunch up into a coherent storyline or sequence of events.

Returning to work after a 4-day mini-break. I’m glad I took four, because the rest really didn’t knick in until Saturday… I’d had my “Weekend” already, and still had the coming Sunday as a buffer against the “I don’t want to go to work tomorrow” whining that sometimes nags at the back of my mind.

I’m feeling cave-mannish today, but in a good way. I think I’ll draw some elk or a hunting group on my palm pilot.

Off to work…. have a nice day, dear journal.

Midway through the dancer figure… it may need more flesh tone before figuring out the gauzy-bits, and get rid of the yellowier highlights. (I was hoping they’d blend to orange, but the mix didn’t take.

Before

First pass

More to come, before it’s over. I think a slide from the aqua to a more sage-green is in order, too. I don’t know how I feel about the bracers.

Wow…a zillion episodes of the real Ghostbusters cartoon online. … including collect call of Cthulhu

Also, a ghostbusting strongbad email

TOPPS Trading Cards including the brilliant Mars Attacks, as well as Batman, Frankenstein, and Ugly Stickers from 1965. From The Norman Saunders Site. “…a reference guide that documents the entire published works of Norman Saunders.”

You Got Me Into This. From The West: Old Paintings created to be the Covers of Pulp Fiction Magazines. “…The pulp paintings of the 1930s-40s astound the senses with visions of gun smoke, brawny cowboys and beautiful heroines – frozen in moments of maximum impact, guns exploding or a terrified damsel on horseback.”

wondering where my little brother is. hm.

Had a lovely time last night with my sweetie. I really like the fact that she’s got the interest in such a diverse array of things, and the curiosity to broaden her knowledge on them. She keeps me laughing on so many levels, and has me rapt intellectually, emotionally, and physically. I’m truly blessed to have her in my life.

Interesting point noticed by her last night… all the spam comes a’rollin in at about 2am. I wonder if those were all launched from a common area? Or maybe the spamming software they have defaults to that hour.

I was up until well past the wee hours this morning…when I did kick off to sleep, I think my brother was *still* awake and kicking around. I guess night-owls run in the stock… I remember Dad was one, too… always going fishing or whatnot well before the break of the sun. I wonder if it’s a hunter throwback sort of thing. The best times that come to mind are fishing on the pier, and looking at the water at night, and talking about whatever came to mind. It’s strange… I have a mild craving for fried catfish, now. I’d settle for big ol’ potato planks. The food of choice out there was peanut butter crackers, and a stop at Sambo’s (are they all Denny’s now?)

I’ve not seen too many jack-o-lanterns this year… the theme in this neighborhood seems to be the more ‘harvest’ style… whole pumpkins with haystacks and scarecrows. I’d say that I’ve seen maybe six jacks around, and all of them are pretty average.

That’s a lot of bunnies. a very cool picture, from this collection.

I’m supposed to go with the brother to the boat show today… maybe it’ll happen, maybe not. It sounded like he’s up and at ’em next door, but he’s got some folks over. I’ll call him at about one, and see what’s up.

Today’s been a sleepy, relaxing day. I’ve spent much of the day in a calm place, and taking it easy… as has my gluttonous protégé, Mr. Newtie McTreatEater. We’ve been flung all over the house in assorted comfortable poses, and just sort of lollygagging about, reading, napping, burning incense, wrestling with each other in a slackerly fashion and watching the occasional Spongebob cartoon…I’m having trouble figuring out the recorder fingering for the Spongebob theme… I may have to look up the sheet music for it, rather than playing it by ear. A complete slackerboy Saturday… I’ve needed something like this for a little while now. I’m bemused by the idea of the undersea creatures having a snowball fight.

Just popped into my head – I’d like some taco bell right now, and the phrase “wreak terrible vengeance” is a good one, as well as the variant “a terrible justice has been done”

I dig these groovy CD-R’s… they look like 45s!

full-newtie in repose

note to self… put the Newtie-treats back in the cupboard after giving him his goodies.

This morning, I heard him playing with the little container for them, but I thought he was just rolling the tube along the floor… nope. he was smacking it around to get the tasty goodness inside. while laying in bed I heard a pop-rustle of a half-full bucket of treats opening up. I got to them, but not until after the little orange thug had scarfed down as many as he could wrap his mouth around…. I guess *somebody* had a trick or treat snack bonanza a day late.

Naughty little monkey.

I’m home from my day out. Had a nice time with Danny. He came over at about 9:30…we spent the morning shooting the breeze, playing a couple of games of mage knight over honey nut cheerios. At about 2-ish we had pizza and then headed out to pick up my check, deposited it, and then mallwalked for a couple of hours. We finished our day over beers at Spritzel’s. I had a root beer and he had a blonde from the tap. There were a lot of the “beautiful people” out and about on Las Olas and in the mall…also an unusual amount of German speakers. I guess South Florida is on the safe-list for them again. The Food Court at the Galleria is about kaput…. Only thing left is the Sbarros… no Nathan’s, no Chinese, no deli! What happened? Do I have the death-touch for nearby malls? Thank Goodness there’s still a place to get beer and kraut!

We didn’t bother going to the starlight and movie, but I think Danny is feeling a lot less burned-out, at least for the time being. We talked about what we’d like to see in the future, and I think that my desire is pretty realistic… I’d like a nice home with my sweetheart sometime… with a goodly-sized library.

I just tried to call my mom, and wish her a happy day, but nobody was there to answer the phone. I’ll try again in about an hour… maybe she went out to party already. Meantime, I’m going to hop in the ol’ shower, then kick back and read for a while.

I have some candy corn, almond joy bites and mounds bites left if anyone wants some candy! Actually, I may save the candy corn for my sweetie, but if anyone wants coconutty yumyums, just swing on by… I’ll hook you up.

First of November!

Fresh month… payday, day off.

Dan’ll be here in about 15-45 minutes. I think the day will go like –

1. Breakfast of Banana Yoo Hoo and cereal here
2. Mage Knight for an hour or two
3. Bookstore for a bit
4. Pick up and then deposit my paycheck (it’ll take two pay periods for my direct deposit to go to the new account)
5. Lunch at the starlight diner
6. Movie – that sandler thingie, probably
7. *Not sure what else*

I don’t think we’ll play zombies, but who knows?