Shopping with inlaws went very well. Good stuff for bhk, newtie, pye and tina, too – Also got a prezzie in the mail from Kev via amazon… BHK wisely confiscated the invoice, so it’ll be a surprise to me when it’s opened on Christmas.
via scans_daily. Good ol’ Rebis. I’m Sill partial to Cliff, though.
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Diabetes breakthrough
Toronto scientists cure disease in mice
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more lights, featuring what Chris called The Sasquatch – “The Abdominal Snowman… he’s a Jedi, Right? (As opposed to abominable / yeti)
More x-mas shopping, a tasty lunch at Cheeburger Cheeburger, and a sent danny’s goodies to him via ups. (sending glass via them is mighty pricey.)
Added Fluxx to our house’s game cabinet, and with the holidayseason coming early for toina and doug, we also have pente! hooray!
1 year ago – condo commandos, dooced, kong opens, misfits, bush on constitution, yahoo income, zombie cap
2 years ago – cravings, pondering atmospheres, vocabulary words, adp ROYALLY screws up, ocular chili, its a wonderful life by bunnies, Mexican tomb of DEATH
3 years ago – Saddam captured, collective nouns, feral children, pod thoughts, tic tacs, and chores done
4 years ago – Lottery-coworker thoughts, Deathrace 2000, my favorite Chang Tzu quote, witch cow, mistaken identity, haiku
5 years ago – pumpernickel, Newt on my long-lost chair, moment of weirdness, wacky news, what we did before toilet paper, coprolite
6 years ago – sickies, FIGHT! game, Rhyme-time
Rest in Peace, Pete. I forgive you for Everybody Loves Raymond. Young Frankenstein more than makes up for it.
Quite a busy day today… Xmas shopping and visiting with Tina and Doug were the biggest bits. Ended the day watching Grey Gardens, which was amusing at first and then sad, and then just sort of turned into a codependent mother and daughter bickering at one another in a run-down mansion filled with cats and raccoons. I don’t think I’ll be seeing the movie about them when it’s released next year.
Oh, we also went to a comic store that will probably be a new haunt for me – green alien head. Some nice folks, and a few people that are interested in purchasing my heroclix / mage knight doubles. I picked up a few things from the heroclix dollar bin for the christmas tree… wendigo, sasquatch and some others, plus bhk and I split a booster pack of horrorclix. aside from the fact that someone nicked one of the figures and closed it back up (a dire wolf), we got some goodies in there too. A Scarecrow, zombie cop, and an exorcist priest fig that a lot of fun. No Zombie Lawyer.. but maybe I can trade for one. They do gaming there, but I’m not sure if I’m wanting to hop into that scene just yet… might be worth a drop-in visit though. They do play pirates, heroclix and such… I’d like to maybe do a Champions game sometime, just for old times sake, but I suspect the group dynamic wouldn’t cut it for me.
Also found a site for LAN parties, world of warcraft and other such stuff. I was pleasantly surprised to see a place like that… I may try to bid on building them a website.. might make some coin and meet some counterstrike teammates for when big brain is reassembled.
It’s been rather difficult to shop for the Mrs as yet, given that she and I are joined at the hip (and I like that) – it makes it tricky to buy a surprise for her. I’m going to try to hitch a ride with either Tina or Larry to do some indy shopping, otherwise, it’ll have to all be done online.
Tina was amazingly generous with the wedding present, by the way. A huge collection of light green crockery a green vacuum cleaner and a wad of dough to start us on our nuptial way.
I still have to mail Danny’s Xmas prezzie – keeping things pretty inexpensive this year, due to the no-job situation. Mostly gifting folks on BHK’s side of the family. On my end, it’s just Wilt & Momster and Danny. Everyone else is getting at best a card. (not that I usually gift a lot of folks, anyhow)
I’m way behind in reading LJ. Or really writing in it. My new life is both very hectic and domestic at the moment, and I’m loving every frickin’ minute of it. Money will be tight but manageable for the next few, while I continue to pursue a gig. Just a numbers game at this point.
1 year ago – sam and max, Atari 2600, favorite things
2 years ago – I discover that Romanian pop tune (OZONE – Dragoste din tei) before the weirdo kid cam sings it around the world, Oceans 11, pollo tropical makes me sick
3 years ago – the secret message, Bro & Danny visit, lizards in the tummy, truck surfing, riddle, some reference
4 years ago – nightmare, balloon hats, fudge and dinosaurs, Danny and I win a Tomato Recipe contest!
5 years ago – nice dreams, flesh eating robots, wacky day, SOP
6 years ago – coffee, hello kitty murders, village blacksmith, books to read, I get a Sigmund and the sea monsters tape!
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Visited with Adam, Cathy and Dave (Md, not FL team). and helped Larry put up lights outside.. he also hooked me up with a great train to put under the indoor tree. Newt’s been quite the social boy tonight, too.
1 year ago – pizza and narnia, santa poll, lenses, feliz navidad, cousin billy, clydee card, walkies pix
2 years ago – damned don’t dance, Mel’s Gramma, shopping, vote switch software, Hardee’s Monster thickburger, UFO theme popular, Gigantor
3 years ago – sleepyhead , mugger caught on lj audio, Epipelagic and Mesopelagic Animals, misc
4 years ago – Newt with his feet up, Froogle gets rolling, VB memos, given serious sam by msk
5 years ago – Linus Recounts the reason for Christmas, segway thoughts
6 years ago – Hell week day 2, the psychic, longfellow
note to self – Write Liz / Chad letters.. good to hear from them both after so long! I have to send a note to Tomi, too.
Pics of Newt, the Xmas tree trimming, the in laws, bhk, adam and me. Bhk had me downright holiday giddy today… maybe too much rankin-bass in the bloodstream.
Spam content is getting more interesting – most recent:
The cool air is a welcome relief, after a week of record-breaking temperatures.
I think that I may return to Hagerstown on Wednesday, so I can watch the students solo. It all started for me with a father employed by IBM.
Many of our family members who are over five years old joined the church choir and shared their musical gifts. Copies of the Championship game can be viewed on the LegalMatch television network in an office near you, courtesy of Ben. The ability to shape easily information, especially on a global scale, is democratizing. Arguably, as an academic, I often find the freely available web based dictionaries to lack substance and reliability, especially when comparing synonyms. I love to look at it, but I dislike feeling it. The value of timeshifting makes podcasting one of the most useful digital applications. How the PC has affected the face of America is one of the questions that have been rolling around inside of my head for over two decades. and I am not a normally a computer gamer! CAP Cadets Solo – flying – Says Dave CAP Cadets Solo I received word today that all of the cadets at the solo school in Hagerstown, Maryland had completd their first solo flights. As a child, I was taught to accurately compute my sales totals, estimate the sales tax, and determine the anticipated change that I would receive for each purchase that I made. Looking past the functional steps toward the applicability and the outcome-creation potential forms the bond of trust that is inherent in an embracing of any technology. I would have to ask my wife to be sure; she has a better memory for these mundane details, than I. I have found another helpful use for my handheld computer: logging my aircraft flights. These are brisk, factual and come out my recent experience; the content is often dispassionate and dry. She created a convenient dining experience, without intruding on our private conversation. The video recording that we made and burned to DVD will surely be one of our favorites, even fifty years from now. Skills not practiced are lost. We learn to like those we love across the piles of crab shells. The legal decisions require law enforcement to first show probable cause to believe that a crime has been or is being committed: the same standard that applies to search warrant requests. Dad felt that he owed much of his personal success to his being fortunate to earn a job with IBM after returning home from the Korean Conflict. now let’s go over to the losers where Diane is standing by. I have noticed this behavior before, on the part of the locals. A single e-mail message or web page download my comprise dozens of packets, each of which takes a different route to reach its intended destination. However, when listening to digital audio or watching online video, a delayed packet or two is not only noticeable, it is annoying.
1 year ago – val & rhonnie news, kreuger, bro issue, rs shopping, jellyfish
2 years ago – working with cubase / fruityloops, pork chop assault, manatee window kiss, mel 5
3 years ago – Ghost Bugs, Missing Chairs, News Stories about cats and physics.
4 years ago – holiday oranges, Joe Ostezewski, letter-words
5 years ago – evil news, bear suit update, walkies, visions
6 years ago – stinky week start, a pair of email fallacies, rhonnie has her incident
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Xmas trees up (undecorated) at home (the blue house) and at the in-laws. BHK made some seriously tasty pasta for the ‘laws, Tina, Adam, Doug and me… They were super yummo.
The tree smells really good in here.
1 year ago – complex life, sex roles, narnia, big brain repair issues
2 years ago – Newt stretch, Mels’ place, grumpy workers, lost good, many random Scotto factoids, best chitty-chitty bang bang line,
3 years ago – movie clapper poll, hakarl, RI a bitch, Rudolph: Behind the scenes.
4 years ago – Rubber monsters, the four humors, feculence, Jane Goodall believes in bigfoot, prezzies
5 years ago – autochthonous, Nobel prize, Cetus, BEAR WINS; SUIT LOSES
6 years ago – nifty links, Fidel Castro’s John Lennon statue, and life’s perfectly swell, KMFDM
Got the Christmas Tree with BHK and the in laws .. went to Friendship and got a pair of bang-up trees.. one for us and one for them. BHK likes trees *BIG*. No dinky little charlie brownies for her, no sir! We dropped the trees off and then went out to din-din at Applebee’s, and closed at the local giant box store to get some holiday supplies.
some peektures here –
1 year ago – tmbg, bro in tampa, tolld a new motherboard, music, musical mice, windows live local
2 years ago – gorilla wake, dcf snag, favorite things
3 years ago – Yuletide toe-warmer poll, creepy news, Cute Newt Pic, Medicare, clucks
4 years ago – desert dreams, “no hands” kitty, palm doodles, nice cards
5 years ago – menstruation/bear attack, Bear armor, tic tac poll
6 years ago – hungrybaby/mcnoggin, Hello Kitty Smelting furnace, Asplundh letter, why web journals suck, meat hats, comic book wrapping
So, it’s PH day again, eh? I wonder how many people that were there are still left alive?
Had dinner out with Cyn, her pop, s0likear0se and bhk at a local watering hole, Westlawn… it’s on the boycott list again after missing its reprieve. lovely time with the crew, though… Newt was well-behaved. (as normal for folks that don’t actively seek his love… ignore him, and he’ll sneak up and snuggle.)
Current weather forecast for North Beach, MD
Population (year 2000): 1,880. Estimated population in July 2005: 1,882 (+0.1% change)
Males: 886 (47.1%), Females: 994 (52.9%)
Zip code: 20714
Median resident age: 33.0 years
Median household income: $46,111 (year 2000)
Median house value: $116,000 (year 2000)
Races in North Beach:
Ancestries: German (22.5%), Irish (19.4%), English (14.9%), Italian (6.2%), United States (6.0%), French (4.0%).
compare to Deerfield
1 year ago -Saw Renee, sysadmin song, liz quit, year in review meme
2 years ago – Work blues, hey ya cb, marvel stamps, ufo theme
3 years ago – annoying words, possible friends list alteration, marshmallows &volcanoes, Rick James/Hulk, on call reduction, CS work-dolt, MM arrival, JL RIP.
4 years ago – mighty shopper, LA Story, keywords, rain
5 years ago – economics, WID gig, good gab, holiday cards
6 years ago – AOK, R d’E, RIP Klink, Golden goat
Job fair today at general dynamics – wish me luck! Promising stuff for project manager and more programmer-ish doings as well. Dusted off the ol’ suit and had speaks with some nice folks. Afterward, we hit stoneys for tasty food, and then went back to the in-laws to visit a smidgen with tina, doug, larry & chris. lovely orange moon rise again tonight.
Tonight, Newt, BHK and I watched Barbarella for the first time. Oh, the cheese. It makes me to laugh. The suck, it makes my ears pop.
DirecTV installed tomorrow…hopefully the return of channels will bring a modicum of good movies? hooray for obtaining a tivo! still will torrent this and that from bbc, anyhoo.
1 year ago – big brain waiting on repair, foggy morning pics
2 years ago – mel’s new place, zombie survival, what’s a hoe, 8/20/2000 last day without a post
3 years ago – JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart
4 years ago – Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.
5 years ago – I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.
6 years ago – Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes.
Had yummy chinese food at the in-laws with bhk, some of the best I’ve had in quite a while. odd not having so many delivery places, but the food is superior.
First sentences of the year –
January- 8079 – Welcome, 2006!
February- 8156 – Odd, considering yesterday’s news, that I took Wilt and the Momster to see The Matador last night (Was going to do Kong again, but a 3 hour movie on a “school night” is a no no for me)…sort of a chaotic film, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in particular, but I liked it, after a fashion.
March- 8215 – Argh, try as I may, I missed free pancake day
April- 8282 – Well, I went and got a Nikon coolpix l2 (the 6 megapixel version)at office depot on sale.. got a 1 gig memory card to go with it.
May- 8332 – The Sarah Jane episode of Dr. Who didn’t disappoint, and it was delightful to see both her and K9 again.
June-8384 – Lunching with mom after work, catching up on family business, and will generally gab.
July-8434 – Today is a better day.
August-8489 – Sharks don’t have knees.
September-8536 – An object at rest cannot be stopped!
October-8580 – Sunday return!
November-8628 – Happy All Saint’s Day!
December-8664 – first day of my new life in md.
27 degrees tonight, 35, feels like 32 right now. Yikes. I’m glad for a fishbowl-like living room that can absorb sunlight and heat so readily. Flurries tomorrow, maybe!
Beautiful full moon last night. I’ll post some pics once the images get to flickr. Bright orange, over the bay, christmas lights and sand.
Review from Patton Oswalt re: HANNIBAL RISING
It’s like reading fan fiction. It’s that bad. How depressing. I love Thomas Harris’ books, but this one…it even has a climax where our hero looks skyward and yells, “NOOOOOOOOOO!”
Which is what I did, when I read it.
HIPAA / Conversion insurance since neighborhood continuing to be a minor issue, but it will be handled.
Santa’s evil sidekick gives jolly fright to kids
By Alexandra Zawadil Wed Dec 6, 1:49 AM ET
GRESTEN, Austria (Reuters) – As Christmas nears, Austrian children hoping for gifts from Santa Claus will also be watching warily for “Krampus”, his horned and hairy sidekick.
In folklore, Krampus was a devil-like figure who drove away evil spirits during the Christian holiday season. Continue reading 8671 –
Dined on the Weezle’s dad’s grapefruit for breakfast this morning (with a couple of tasty bagels), and they were jim-dandy, to say the least. Good stuff from Sanibel!
Young Master Newton continues his silly habit of licking the condensation off of the windows of the living room. I think his purpose is twofold… tasty water, fresh from the pane, and clear view of outdoor squirrels!
pictures from the licks this morning –
ah fink mah tug ith thuk.
Um, what?
The Family Un-Planner The Bush administration’s crazy new HHS appointment.
By Amanda Schaffer
Originally Posted Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at 4:50 PM ET in Slate
On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation’s family-planning program got a new boss who doesn’t believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms “offer virtually no protection” against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage. Continue reading 8670 –
unpacked a little bit, made sure phone at the fl place was turned off, and discovered that Neighborhood Health doesn’t want to extend COBRA benefits because of my move out of the tri-county area. I’ve got a call in to the department of labor to take care of things – even if worst comes to worst, I know of a decent health insurance provider I can turn to if COBRA doesn’t cut it… or if I get a gig before that, the new insurance should be even better than Neighborhood’s in any event.
After taking care of the top-o-de-month loose ends, we took a little trip to tina’s and visited her and the kitties for a bit. doug was upstairs day-trading on his laptop, so kitties won the day for attention. kiki and chai are adorable little beasties, and it’s a shame that doug is allergic (I am too, so my visit with ’em was kept to a minimum. we meant to pick up a photo CD, but forgot take it with us when we left.
from there, we journeyed to goodyear for the replacement tire and settlement, only to find it was a different speed rating (A “H” rather than a “S”) so we get to return tomorrow for pickup and install. odds are best that it’ll cost half price due to our low mileage and goodyear’s desire to keep customers happy… I’d have preferred a freebie replacement, but it beats dropping $160-175 for a new tire.
picked up a few holiday ornaments for our not yet picked out tree – rainbow of colored bulbs and strung beads, with a punch buggy vw and heart ornament for flavor. lots of model train sets on display in MD at assorted locations- makes me crave building models and painting minis just a smidgen (but not enough to warrant the purchase of paints or brushes… I know if I dove back into the hobby, I’d just collect a lot of clutter and dust… not to mention I might bore of it again swiftly). Better to build a model or three with bhk and bugah at his house here and there.
tasty dinner of cowboy beans, goldfish crackers… talked to Danny briefly on the phone, in fact I’m calling him back once I finish typing this up.
Found a few really nice prezzies here and there, both primaries and stocking stuffers. no details due to readers who may be receiving them.
I finally heard “Crabs for Christmas”! Very cute tune, and I’d been looking forward to the groove for about 4 months now.
Newt climbed on BHK’s shoulder… that tells me he’s accepted her quite strongly. I believe the move here has mellowed any harsh he may’ve had against her. Or maybe he knows santa’s watching.
That’s about it for now dear journal! time to call Dan back, and see what he’s up to for a few. Later tater!
p.s. temps in the 20s tonight, and I’m digging it… at least as long as I’m inside!
Had a nice time shopping with bhk, tina and chris – got a few stocking stuffers and some much needed sneakers. Newtcam is back up, now that I’m on the local network on lappie, though big brain is still packed. it won’t be 24/7 until I can find a good spot for it.
after shopping, we hit tt’s diner for some dinner, with mixed levels of culinary success, and then drove home through holiday lights, and a viewing of Elf while bhk slept on my lap on the couch. a good day, indeed.
a smidgen chillier out today, and I’m looking forward to the possibility of a white christmas… or maybe birthday. two christmases this year, one for doug, before he ships out for Iraq on the 15th, and another at the proper time. I’m pleased that doug makes tina happy… she deserves someone to make her feel good.
