Found all 30 Easter eggs… Josie gave me an adventure quest T-shirt for good sportsmanship and enthusiasm. 🙂 Egg 23 was a beast to find!

I joined the Adventure Quest club in There… I may design a little adventure with clues along the way myself sometime. I know it might help get me back into writing short stories.

I’ve met a great little crew in There. DeirdreNox, Chiasmodus, Whimsy, Sluggo & Josie are all wonderfully social people, and appreciate a pod’s sensibilities and humor. I even got to see my sis in there briefly on Thursday. I think we’re five out of ten folks that found all the Easter eggs, and we were complimented for working as a team, and for all of us wearing bunny slippers as part of the hunt.

Now, I just have to plan out some little quest or adventure. Maybe a murder mystery with clues and such laying around… or something silly but fun. I’m sure I could get a few of the gang to help me out.

Meantime, I think a bicycle ride would be lovely. Until later, dear journal.

What do John Dillinger, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, and the driver of the car that killed James Dean at the crossroads have in common? The stockade at Schofield Barracks.

Note that even if you were alive before one of these people died, the spirit realm has a different concept of time. Who do you identify with, and why? Multiple answers are possible, even probable.

Poll here, trimmed just because.

Friday… Not too shabby.

Passover, Good Friday, Good day to catch a movie.

I’m going to skip House of 1000 corpses, even if it has a Clown ringmaster named Captain Spaulding. That’s something you go to see with a group to mock it. Same with Bulletproof Monk. Eek.. Looking at what’s playing, I may have to consult the nearby art theatre. Nothing mainstream is piquing my interest. [Update: Nothing interesting to Scotto is playing there either!] Am I just more discerning now? There was a time for about 2 years that I would hit a movie every week, somewhere. Of course that was when I had connections there, and could just walk in for free, fill up a brown lunch bag with theatre corn, and kick back. I think I got to see Ghost Dog five times that way.

Brother brought me over some goodies of his that he didn’t want bulking him down anymore while he’s relocating to a new home. Most worth mentioning are a rotisserie oven and a high-powered squirt gun.

Got sniped out of my n50 at the last moment, so I’m placing a bid on a new one…. d’oh!

Dan called me the other day and mentioned that he thought if I put a link in my lj asking for money, even if I didn’t give a reason, people would give it to me. The problem being of course… I wouldn’t want to bilk nice people. So a fun service might be instead a variant of the national star registry… the Scotto hair registry. For the low introductory price of $10, a hair will be plucked, sealed in a protective container, and catalogued. The buyer will receive a certificate of authenticity and a note about the hair’s native region. For a gold membership of $25, the patron will be allowed to choose a region from which the hair is gathered, and a day pass to visit the storage facility during normal operating hours. Possibly a chance to meet Scotto himself!

Of course, that’s just a gag. I wouldn’t want to set up all the licenses and tax stuff to run a business like that.

Participating in an Easter egg hunt at there.com

There Easter egg hunt stats

Out on walkabout. Saw some lovely sailboats, got a special free box of the new Kellogg’s smorez cereal. Looks like a decent snack, better for me that that mildly sweet bowl of death I picked up last test market.

Some things seen…. this drawing is different with a thin 1-pixel line than my usual marker school.

Down by the water….

pretty neato film clip – via tarpo via plasticlittle

I think I’m going to walk along riverfront and just soak up some atmosphere. Sure, now that I’ve got a good job lined up, 3 other good jobs call me for interviews. Sorry, guys, I signed papers. Call me back in 90 days, after my review comes in, guys!

Here’s my current Job Description:

disturbing. singing, with pictures sleepy kittens shouldn’t upset me this way. a dirty word in there, in case you’re at work.

Yikes… got ready to synch up for the day, and discovered that Mr. Palm did himself a memory wipe. Not sure what caused that, but it sure is pesky… I’m glad I’m on usb rather than serial… but will have to evaluate all the restores carefully. I don’t want to lose any important memos, even if I do have them backed up on Big Brain.

I wonder how much stuff will reappear that I’ve already removed?

This is the first erasure since I’ve had a docking station charger… hopefully it’ll be the last, at least for a while. It’d suck if I had to go back to 8 Megs… I’m really more comfy with the extra room that 16 can provide.

[Update] looks good. The only thing that tripped me up was the planetarium files and duplicates of books I’d renamed in isilo. Both easily corrected, and my memos /schedules are all in place.

Thanks to ldy for pointing me to the amazing sound-clip section of celebrity singers … not to mention the Vincent Price remix of “How to Cook a small boy” or Fabio teaching Italian.

The woman who runs the site is Paul Winchell’s daughter.

JKG went nicely, and I got to visit with some of the folks at FMM afterward. The Network was down, and poor Sappho was stressed out. The AC is broken there too, making my old office and hers an ez-bake oven. That’s been broken since last week.

Reviewing the Employee handbook for JKG was an eye-opener…. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked at a professional company. The HR woman was amazingly helpful, informed, and well trained. I’ll be getting a 401k after 90 days, not a year as I had previously understood.. Direct deposit set up easily enough, and they even have a deal with the train station for discounted employee passes. I was complimented on my preference of taking mass transit instead of the highway

Looks like I lost a childer in the vampire game (warning, some popups) but I’m progressing reasonably well.

My Stikfas came in the mail… they’re quite a lot of fun, if you like super-poseable action toys. Newt has claimed the green one for himself. I can agree to those terms. I still have a tan one (actually closer to flesh) and a black one. The versatility is nice, but I think that they’d have done better to provide maybe less guns, and an additional head, feet and set of hands… and that way allowed you to have two guys in a box.

two pictures from today: nature and synthetic

The Transformer next door blew up at about 8:00 last night, scaring the bejimies out of me.

Internet was a little rocky, as a result of the morning power lines and so I was skittish and stayed away from the computer much of the day yesterday.

Brother is out of his apartment again. He screwed up again. Idiot. I love him, but I hate this side of him. Keeps putting off the LL, and then doesn’t understand when he gets notice.

Going to JKG tomorrow morning to sign some papers.

Not into writing at all. There are some elements of my life going well… others I don’t know where I stand, or what I can do. Just take it as it comes, is all I can do, I suppose.

The landscaping guys trimmed the branches and the local power lines, so all was quiet in the grotto this morning after a crackle and popping. FPL came out and had us up and running in less than three hours.

It’s amazing how quiet a house can be with no A/C, no refrigerator hum, no computer cooling fans or high-pitched monitor whines, I was nice to lie down and read… I could hear Newt’s breathing as well as his purring quite clearly.

Now that I’m back on current… Newt’s running around the house low to the ground, and doing a little cat dance on my freshly changed sheets. I have no Idea why he likes fresh sheets, but it’s a simple pleasure. 🙂

I picked up ut2k3 for 19 bucks at toys r us… not bad, considering most folks went to best buy and paid 35. I offered Sappho my receipt to take to circuit city. They will refund the difference if it’s within a few weeks of purchase.

It moves really fast, and gave me a good excuse to update my video drivers, and to pick up direct x 9. The level editor is almost more fun than the game is.

I’m bidding on a nostromo n50 speedpad on ebay… not just for unreal, but for a lot of macro-things that I’ve implemented…They’re going for next to nothing online.(maybe $14, with shipping) I want to play with all the crazy features on There. I really enjoy the company There, and hoverboarding is a hoot.

Taking myself out to dinner tonight, I think… I don’t feel that it’s terribly premature to celebrate a bit…. though perhaps I’ll treat my self to takeout, since I’ve been living on the cheap save for twice out with friends. I’m in the mood for something delicious and made by a strange kitchen.

As another special reward, I’ll buy myself a copy of UT2003 rather than being a dirty pirate, too.

until later, dear journal!