Yesterday I finally found solid ground, the weekend is looking clear, and bro hasn’t been in any trouble (that I know of). The chicken coop at work is getting less clucky, now that the big kahuna is at her destination, and the stressful prep has come to an end for the moment.

Downside, Mel’s Gramma is in the hospital, and had a minor heart attack. She’s under observation right now.. I hope she mends quickly.

Mel & I are definitely a go-go for some sort of day trip this Sunday… not sure where.. maybe Parrot Jungle? Don’t tell Mel, but I really am more interested in seeing the monkeys (especially Jake) than the pretty birds.

Hack coke machines

Snippet of recent music: Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams

I made a point of putting in a request to get my birthday off this year.. it falls on a Wednesday, but I didn’t take any other personal days yet. I think that I’m going to take a bit of time off in mid-may.

A couple of people at work read my LJ… EN and JH, at least. It was odd, JH called me Scotto today, and it was a bit of a surprise. A pleasant one, certainly. I’m digging the new blood so far.. I think the younger crowd will soften some of the sharper edges the elders have. Plus, it takes a lot of the workload off of me. Now what we need is a receptionist, so that I’m no longer distracted by diving for the phones.

1 year ago – Walkies-pix continued, ShOr deleted, bad storefronts

2 years ago – fogwalking, SOP

3 years ago – WID meeting, John Buscema passed away, bad day

4 years ago – brad pushes for growth, bicycle built for 2, lj creaking, bug city, recipes, siddhartha

Lawyer: Iraqi Abuse Was Like Act of ‘Cheerleaders’ Continue reading 7118 – Whiskey Tango Foxtrot of the day →

Turtles do look a bit like igloos.

I think things will be financially back on track, finally. Quite a relief. Overextended myself a bit… fortunately, I have a little snap. I look forward to the removal of tension there.

“A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.”

Three great torrent sites to snag tv shows without registration

BTEfnet.com
TorrentSpy.com
TVTorrents.tv

Towerseek – beta torrent search

I can’t seem to nail “Growing up Gotti”, but all my other TV curiosities have been fed there.

Lately, I have the urge to play a stand up bass, and use the pointed tip to kill vampires that try and break up any jam session I might be playing in.

Best metasearch engine – www.info.com (searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Altavista, Overture, Inktomi, LookSmart, Overture, Open Directory all at the same time.), although the name makes me think of old text adventures.

A load of people fired for blogging

1 year ago – drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout

2 years ago – LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies,

3 years ago – Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby

4 years ago – looking to the future, all the words

Turtles do look a bit like igloos.

I think things will be financially back on track, finally. Quite a relief. Overextended myself a bit… fortunately, I have a little snap. I look forward to the removal of tension there.

“A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.”

Three great torrent sites to snag tv shows without registration

BTEfnet.com
TorrentSpy.com
TVTorrents.tv

Towerseek – beta torrent search

I can’t seem to nail “Growing up Gotti”, but all my other TV curiosities have been fed there.

Lately, I have the urge to play a stand up bass, and use the pointed tip to kill vampires that try and break up any jam session I might be playing in.

Best metasearch engine – www.info.com (searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Altavista, Overture, Inktomi, LookSmart, Overture, Open Directory all at the same time.), although the name makes me think of old text adventures.

A load of people fired for blogging

1 year ago – drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout

2 years ago – LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies,

3 years ago – Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby

4 years ago – looking to the future, all the words

Mel isn’t crazy about my lovely Hawaiian music. She’s having some difficulty with her gramma lately, too.. Gram isn’t very physically happy with meds… they have a “return to sender” sort of effect. Mel took her to the ER yesterday, and Gram got to spend the night at the hospital. That sort of killed our Sunday outing, but there’s always next weekend.

Mel made me happy when she very carefully and kindly escorted a stinging caterpillar off of her car, and guided him onto a leaf in order to transport him to a tree. That means a lot… not just a flick onto the ground.

Tons of free Old Time Radio shows for free online. I hope they get Johnny Dollar soon. Nero Wolfe and Blue Beetle are my current earfuls. More fodder to put in the mp3 player.

I miss Hostess fruit pies, but I miss Dolly Madison’s chocolate pudding pies even more.

Evil Corporate discovery: Interstate Brands Corporation owns Hostess AND Dolly Madison. (also Drake, Roman Meal, Wonder Bread and Holsum.)

FBI Most Wanted List

Long list Meme

1) Copy this list into your LJ.
2) Bold what is true.
3) Leave plain what is false.
4) If you’re not sure, put it in italics.
5) Add something at the end.

Continue reading 7115 – Monday. ‘Allo. ‘Allo. →

Mel isn’t crazy about my lovely Hawaiian music. She’s having some difficulty with her gramma lately, too.. Gram isn’t very physically happy with meds… they have a “return to sender” sort of effect. Mel took her to the ER yesterday, and Gram got to spend the night at the hospital. That sort of killed our Sunday outing, but there’s always next weekend.

Mel made me happy when she very carefully and kindly escorted a stinging caterpillar off of her car, and guided him onto a leaf in order to transport him to a tree. That means a lot… not just a flick onto the ground.

Tons of free Old Time Radio shows for free online. I hope they get Johnny Dollar soon. Nero Wolfe and Blue Beetle are my current earfuls. More fodder to put in the mp3 player.

I miss Hostess fruit pies, but I miss Dolly Madison’s chocolate pudding pies even more.

Evil Corporate discovery: Interstate Brands Corporation owns Hostess AND Dolly Madison. (also Drake, Roman Meal, Wonder Bread and Holsum.)

FBI Most Wanted List

Long list Meme

1) Copy this list into your LJ.
2) Bold what is true.
3) Leave plain what is false.
4) If you’re not sure, put it in italics.
5) Add something at the end.

Continue reading 7115 – Monday. 'Allo. 'Allo. →

Mel’s middle fingernail came off… I think she overused it in traffic, and it spontaneously combusted.

We just flopped around on Saturday, as both of us are broke after the holiday. A quick lunch and a trip to the cd exchange to swap out old CDs, and look for fun new music and movies. I got a lot of store credit for future ref, and got rid of a pile of media that I don’t listen to anymore.

We spent the evening reading up on mental illness, watching assorted weather specials about tsunamis, earthquakes and meteor strikes, and talking for hours and hours about all manner of stuff.

Trucker missing; so is cargo of 3.6 million nickels Continue reading 7114 – Sunday…. Saturday burned like a paraffin wick. →

Surprise visit from Mel last night.. I thought she was going to have to tend to gramma during PT, but I lucked out.

She makes me a big mooshy-bear. I’m glad to see that she’s feeling a lot better, too.

Something’s up at work.. a lot of new hires. I hope that means our growth is chugging right along. We should be rearranging the place in a month.

300 free truetype fonts you should have.

1 year ago – Wonderful Prezzies from The East, Misc work hubbub, there.com hubbub, scary chimps, Ted Passed away.

2 years ago – Elvis, scrapple, lesbian bookcovers, smokers, pancake bunny passed away, Sweet comment from Rachel

3 years ago – walkies, toys, WordsEye, food

4 years ago – deoxy, st. mary’s, noir

Danny and I played Pirates of the Spanish Main at Twistyland last night…

Arr… here be Photos

Danny and I played Pirates of the Spanish Main at Twistyland last night…

Arr… here be Photos

Bro wasn’t totally out.. I had to drop a $25 bond last night to cover his minor charge, else he’d bein prison for another two months while that case came to court. I expect him out before noon today.

update on the lj purchase via 6a.

hmm.. a lot of comment spam (screened out, of course…) from 200.67.239.225. Mexico?

1 year ago – enjoying 2-monitors, PT working

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

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

4 years ago – Pix quit, love for my sweetheart, 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 goose.

Had lunch with Mel again yesterday…won’t get to dine with her again until the weekend, thanks to work schedules and her Gram.

Well, it’s Twelfth Night… who will fill my shoes with sweets?

“What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What’s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty!
Youth’s a stuff will not endure.”

Though I do hope love is more than a fleeting kiss.

12 Tips for finding a new job

Livejournal might be sold to Six Apart? I wonder how that’ll affect things?

[edit: – full disclosure here – http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/82926.html ]

My brother’s charges have been dismissed, and his probation reinstated. He should be back, integrated with the public by end of day today, or sooner.

I finally had to do this… too much image bleeding.

Geek meme. Bold those that are true

Had a nice lunch with Mel yesterday… a pleasant midday break from trainings and such.

There’s an unusual feeling I get, when I get to the point in a relationship where I am, now. Past the infatuation… the recognition of the other side’s more human faults and acceptance of same into the big picture. I start to wonder what life is like with a lot more of her in it, and what loss I’d feel if she was gone. I run myself through a kind of emotional diagnostic, mentally running myself down a tree of possible events, when I know in my mind that I can’t really control what the future will bring… I just feel out what the results will be.

Recently, I’ve had quite the craving for fish & chips. I’d settle for a big cup of boardwalk fries and a spray bottle filled with malt vinegar.

Good fruit preserves on big, thick slices of toast, too.

I wonder what is causing that? Sweet, salt, starch. Maybe I’m due to smack the bread machine around a bit, too.

Defining and Redefining “Torture”

1 year ago – Henry Earl Likes to Party (he still does!), Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric, Tokyo bowl, playing with filters

2 years ago – Ticked at bro, want to try out for LSH

3 years ago – chilly, dream, Miss Cleo in trouble, digi cam shopping, Cinnamon Pecan Bread

4 years ago – super power desire, phoneless

PLH, Dear Journal.

It will be divided across Asha for Education, an extremely efficient spending org (98% to programs); usually focuses on education and long-term socioeconomic change, but responding to the disaster and AmeriCares, an extremely efficient (99% to programs) nonprofit specialized in international disasters.

If you prefer to go right to the source, check out a number of excellent Relief Organizations here.

There’s also eBay’s Tsunami Disaster Relief Page allows you to sell things on eBay and automatically donate 10-100% of the proceeds to one of eight charities.

Charity Navigator, AIP, and BBB all help to check up on accountability of charities.

1) A charity should spend at least 60% of its budget on program services.
2) Charities should spend no more than $35 to raise $100.

Contact your favorite charities to find out if they provide the specific types of aid that you would like to fund, e.g., emergency relief, health care, infrastructure development, education, etc.

(edit- I’ve just added this to my userinfo page, too, in case of journal “scroll off”.

I saw pigeons eating a discarded McDonald’s hamburger patty recently. Something about pigeons eating meat is vaguely disturbing to me. I always picture them nibbling bread crumbs… somehow, I can picture them grabbing little wheat kernels more readily than taking down and eating a cow.

Mel’s Gramma Installed yesterday, but I still managed to steal a little time with her… going to hit lunch with her today, too. Yesterday, much time was spent watching COPS, Anger Management, researching more wholesalers on the net, and having general snugglage.

Misc Newt Pics for the start of the year