8757 – Wednesday, it is.

Still not getting all of my responses via email from LJ – I hope nobody finds my tardy replies rude.


Took a trip with BHK to Bowie yesterday, and visited the thrift store near Andrews Air force base… awesome finds. We got a few boardgames (with all the parts) including a lord of the rings risk game that was at the comic store we went to afterward for $45. (we paid $1.61), (also got Pente for under $2, a 1000 piece puzzle, never opened for about $2, too). Had a little lunch at California tortilla, and got a call to come in for an interview on Monday with the County. Hopefully, it’ll snatch me up and install me comfortably in a speedy fashion if it’s the gig for me. After the lunch, a quick step into a local bakery for a macaroon for dessert, and then the aforementioned comic book store. Picked up 2 packs of pirates (viking set) – BHK got a helmet! we just need a shield, an axe, and some other token for a free raider pack) Closed out the day with a trip to BJs (like a Costco) for basic supplies. We now have plenty of liquid refreshment and kitty food.


how will I die quiz

8756 – 2sday

Sometimes I wake up, and I can’t believe that I’m where I am. How did I find such a wonderful person, and how on earth did she agree to spend the rest of her life with me? I blink, and know the answer, and I’m so happy that I feel like I’m going to explode. It’s times like this that remind me that miracles happen… and rehappen every day.


I sort of want the Absolutely MAD dvd… every issue from the 1952s all the way to 2005 for like $40? I wonder what the resolution is like? I would really like to see the Will Elder stuff and old 50s color items in sharp view.


Marvel comic book writer Mark Millar says: “Video games are for pedophiles“.


1 year ago – apes and mr rogers, whiz, walkies

2 years ago – asked for change at every turn, music and pie, bro maint, striking, long weekends, bk commercial evil, walkabout pictures

3 years ago – Images, missed calls, made an offer on a condo, lj-spam, walkies, matchstick rockets, gorilla basketball

4 years ago – doc, news, Mr. Rogers, eckerds sucks, palm-doodle

5 years ago – OSI closes, tardbucket, 1980 jc penney catalog, 3-minute noir

6 years ago – hurricane names, wacky news, poot, Be courteous, kind and forgivingGeotargetVisitor Map

8755 – Monday, once again

BHK is out taking care of Tina’s kitties, so I’m home doing online research. Taking a little breather. (Her cats make my eyes puffy… not sure why I can’t cope with them as easily as Newt and Pye)


Larry wants to train me to play bass guitar… I’ve been fooling around a very little bit with the ukulele, which is a hoot.


Note – cool named people in my neighborhood-type region.

Mail Carrier – Candy Thorn (extra awesome, because I have a christmas card from her.)
Plumber – Joe Magnolia.

I forget if I mentioned them before. Both names are awesome.


Heroes meme

8753 – Snow!

Boy, howdy did it snow today. Big, fat flakes… some about the size of a quarter. I’ve never seen stuff that big falling before… sort of like a cheesy pillow fight scene. After taking care of Tina’s kitties, we went over to the in-laws for breakfast – Pancakes and fruit salads were the theme, and we watched the snow fall in huge clumps from the sky. Our plans to go birdwatching and perhaps return to the train show were whited out, so instead, Adam, BHK and I took a walk down to the dock and fed the available birds some old bread while making a snowman. The weather warmed up and rain came down later… I suspect mr snowman now looks a bit like Edward James Olmos. Maybe we’ll take a peek at him tomorrow in the sunlight. The sun dropped below the horizon, so we went back inside for a nice viewing of Jackson’s King Kong and angel hair pasta & salad for din-din.

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1 year ago – sad endings for sea cows, compusa fruitful, movie server, out with danny, newtcam action pics, tortoise herd

2 years ago – ten things meme, cute newt pic, liberated games

3 years ago – Bro drama, free music

4 years ago – fates, evil idea, doc trip, sorghum

5 years ago – mail, fonts, Celtic Religion – Knowledge base

6 years ago – Haiku, thoughts, flatus, dream fragmentGeotargetVisitor Map

8752 –

Not getting all of my notifications from LJ. Perhaps flying_blind is right in his suspicions about bad Vox code finding its way back into lj.


Fairly eventful weekend – After tending to Tina’s kitties, BHK and I went with Larry to the model train expo… If I were still gaming, this would’ve been the perfect place to buy all sorts of miniatures, from old west, to 1920’s, to whatever genre hat could possibly contain a train (including some stuff for a Thundarr the Barbarian game, city ruins and folks on horseback were available… and Superheroes!) I think my favorites were the LEGO trains, though… the dioramas were not as detailed, of course, but there’s something quite comforting about snap-together blocks.

After the expo, we went to see Adam swim in the state finals at the University of Maryland.. the college park campus is really nice. Adam did quite well, scored a gold medal in the 200 meter relay. I was happy to see that the majority of his crew made it to see him swim – Father, step-mom, and all of his siblings.

Several pictures from Adam’s swim meet, The train show, and assorted escapades on Saturday. Primarily shots of HO scale and Lego train sets. take a peek

8750 – Thursday

Pretty Gentle day today – Spent time looking for work, prepped a bit for bhk’s meeting tomorrow, watched Hyperdrive. I rather dig the show, but suspect it won’t be renewed… six episodes seems like just the right amount to get all of the parody stuff out before hitting too many redundancies. (edit: I stand corrected – looks like it’ll be returning)


My Youtube account is currently shut down, due to my hosting a kids in the hall sketch and a Persephone’s bees video. If it doesn’t make it back, I’ll just stick with Google video… no copyright issues for my home movies and misc foolishness. Sort of pesky that they didn’t just take down those two, however. That spidey video was a lot of fun, and pretty active.


Dang it… I don’t get a good vibe from Obama, now. He other hand has no opinions that I can see… not sure what a platform of “I like Ronald Reagan” is for a democrat. He’s a great speaker, but I haven’t seen a lot of solid content that I like.

Please, please, don’t throw Clinton in the ring, due to her past criminal dealings and all around greasy demeanor – if anything, sh strikes me as more of a “slick willie” type than her husband. She has no charisma that I can see… the only thing that I perceive going for her is a more knee-jerk following by people who want either *any* democrat or just think that a different set of genitalia will make things better in the white house. I’m not buying.

If I have to pick, Obama will get the vote, just because he’s the devil I *don’t* know.

Again picking not the one that’s best, but picking the one that’s not as bad as the others… bleh. Ah well. Maybe I’m being optimistic, but it doesn’t seem to be as bad as the last two elections or so.


Ovid – “You can learn from anyone, even your enemy.”


1 year ago – 2nd life, pics, monkey-sphere, bloodhound gang,

2 years ago – sushi and dan walkies, hunter thompson quits, cadmus jlu, freedom force, community populations, compusa rsolution, blinky explodes,

3 years ago – Monkey-mouse sperm, Alignments

4 years ago – weird news, oddball keywords, Russians link to me, community stats, mermaid art.

5 years ago – booboo’ed, Sally Struthers as soap-opera mind control, man stabbed with a swordfish.

6 years ago – Wanting things, noggin ache, Net use statsGeotargetVisitor Map

8749 – Wednesday

This morning there was a phone hearing with old gig and the state of Florida – went well, but postponed a smidgen while details about working or contracting are ironed out. I was under the impression that I wouldn’t be getting any bennies, but now it seems like I might. That could come in *quite* handy if it happens, but I’m not counting on it! After the hearing, we visited Cyn and her new space. (And finally got her the xmas prezzies we have been holding!) By the way, if you’re in the area, she does fantastic artwork, both on and off of skin. Visit her at chesapink.com

Dinner at the in-laws – stir fry and I do a viewing of the Naked Gun with Larry while Chris and BHK discuss some work issues. Larry and I win!

Before Dinner we swung by the bay and checked out the duckies, swans and other sea birds at sunset.

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1 year ago – 2nd life, frankenbox windows issue, modified newtcam subdomain, Samuel, I’m a nine

2 years ago – Atlantic shores hosp, motherboards, jokers utility belt, 2-headed baby, paris hilton hacked, jlu, angry beavers, comic essentials, danny teaches school about graphic novels, six-gun gorilla, ash, icon origin

3 years ago – Wishing for Dr. Feng Shui, Quit FFXI, Time out with Danny and his wife

4 years ago – DDoS on LJ, Friday five, Nordis is full of crap, parking spots pictures, The Groovenians = blah

5 years ago – robo-triffid, daily pictures, back hurting

6 years ago – Chariots of the Gods, reminders, Geocities stops hot links, my nesting instinctGeotargetVisitor Map

8748 – Tuesday

job interview with DHS – went well! I was told that I’m #1 on the list… depending onwhat it pays, I’ll probably jump for it. On the way home, BHK and I toured DC a bit.

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It’s a nifty city… I wouldn’t mind working there – I dig it more than Baltimore, in fact. Easier to get to, and fascinating. There’s a statue or museum every three feet, it seems. I was pleased to discover that all of the monuments and the smithsonian are free to visit, so I’d like to take a mini-tour of the Air and Space or Museum of Natural history after any follow-up interviews.


1 year ago – rainbow pigeons, dr who, sirenity, hibernation, workplace closures?, Lost- dream, quiz-meme, questionnaire

2 years ago – ren-fest thoughts, river with a fear of heights, kid-style web layout?, soylent green, glass tile graffiti, danigolden+ham steak+jelly+scott baio=a good morning for me, puppet dj, uss jimmy carter

3 years ago – Danny takes his club to the Ren-fest, 5-year-old marries a puppy, evil eye, palm entry-bus, looking back to my earliest memories

4 years ago – Spending a lot, cute newt, hot showers, green onion cornbread

5 years ago – Lewis-y, Muppetty, limericks, a cute pair of boobies, speedy bus, ninja cow eludes police

6 years ago – valentines, online books, recommitted to walkies, Belief, Myth and FolkloreGeotargetVisitor Map

8747 – Monday –

Amy went on her merry way home after supper at Mexico. Now we have a few warm-ups to do before my application at DHS. Gig looks good, but is a bit on the low-paying side. We’ll see if

Night ended with tasty Chinese at the in laws.

Internet is still spotty, thus the late updates, and lack of lj-reading.


1 year ago – super corkscrew, new video card, pin up girls,

2 years ago – missed my condo, thin man, wall pictures, blue ice, geocache fountain, joker utility belt

3 years ago – CoH preorder, getting a TENS

4 years ago – sleepy and rock-headed

5 years ago – nice dreams, String Cheese Incident, Feng Tzu-Chen, FMM poop, cool swiss mecha-island

6 years ago – placentophagy, haiku, poop on TampaGeotargetVisitor Map

8746 – Sunday

Breakfast with Tina, and then Amy, Bhk and I went to Annapolis again, this time, we saw Ghost Rider! It was a fun movie, if weak in a lot of areas. Good job of camp + comic-book scary. I made the same observations to BHK that Graypumpkin did here, where he also recounts the bizarre synchronicity between north beach an austin life.

(points of Honda Element, Orange-ish and Blackish- kitties, disease, mexican food and loving mates in particular)


Squirrel Tracks by our bridge! They have since turned to water, and remixed nicely.
squirrel tracks! (by our bridge)


1 year ago – compusa saga continues, C&C generals, Li’l Bit 6!, song meme, newtcam up,

2 years ago – Lil Bit #5!, basketball w/danny, netflix du jour, loonatics 2.0

3 years ago – There 2.0, stress

4 years ago – expected last day at FMM, web-subscribers, barbie sex, Nordis hoses me.

5 years ago – Newt wakies, proxo, palm entry, haiku/ D&D class alignment

6 years ago – SOP, Territorial, haiku combatGeotargetVisitor Map

8745 – Saturday –

Tonight is the sleepover with Amy and Tina!

After a long comedy of errors catching up with Tina-bo-beena, we finally arrived at the HQ to watch Jackass 2 of all things. It was funny, in a sort of “what the heck kind of nimrods” kind of way… but I did like a few of the sight gags a bit.. the boxing-glove valentine in particular was pretty dang funny.

We went to Annapolis and walked around a bit – saw the Alex Haley Monument, and window-shopped at a few stores. We intended to see Ghost Rider today, but our timing was off. However, Sushi at Joss makes everything better. Even mo’ betta’ was that Amy surprised us and bought supper!

Some photos from Annapolis – Aforementioned Haley Monument, dogma graffiti, state capitol, Ducks, and sundry other sights.

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1 year ago – lego service, lion roar, LS left, misc linkies, nccic, yeti beware sign, (fo)-chief’s letter

2 years ago – Movies, backup tech training, miss mcdonald, themed fonts, stinky, fear of physics, captain’s blog

3 years ago – client crapped out, slow awakening, urge to box, comet collisions, Planet Osiris

4 years ago – early to bed, doctor thoughts, Politi-talk

5 years ago – Pym, argument about writing, haiku, I look like jupiter, pink for vboys, blue for girls, they have a word for it

6 years ago – more crazy haiku, profession of love, seeking a new gig, tough dreams, gooterGeotargetVisitor Map

8744 – yikes,! entered to catch uppify

Friday in a Nutshell –

Amy Visited tonight – late and waited a long time… Tina and the folks couldn’t catch up but we had yummy mac and cheese, made with basil ziti and mixed stuff (spinach and tomato) I highly recommended eating bhk’s mac & cheese. it’s goo-ood! After supper, we played fluxx and watched Shark Boy & Lava girl.

Good excuse to clean house. (BHK is a whirlwind of soap and suds!)


1 year ago – eye close poll, work bail, boosh, canal discovery, compusa check?, gg

2 years ago – Jill Gone, BK & GO, JLU, Newt’s treat, mel-fade begins

3 years ago – Scotto on the enchanted path, bigfoot conference, Florida photos, Newt on his back

4 years ago – mickey gas mask, donkey kong jr, google bought blogger, mere-vallie, Scotto shop-palm, palm pic of the SG building, odd news

5 years ago – mickey gas mask, donkey kong jr, google bought blogger, mere-vallie, Scotto shop-palm, palm pic of the SG building, odd news

6 years ago – Haiku arena, weird al’s wishlistGeotargetVisitor Map

8743 – Thursday –

Otters! And other stuff at the marine museum, visited again, because we loves the otters. Note the sailboat in the church’s stained glass, and the hand behind the green man Copyright infringement on the superman logo at my local deli.

[entered late, mostly due to lack of internet from the ice, but also because we’ve been out be-bopping around. Will be catching up days this week.]

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1 year ago – compusa poop, holy moley, transistors, cargo cults, lj feature, bus station picture, cadbury bbq egg, on the lam(b), sex pred stigma

2 years ago – edbook pic arrives, cheap chocolate, land of the lost, Rik’s comic gets to previews, netflix queue, top 100 free e-texts, cow-pattern tents, public records db finds fugitive

3 years ago – Sun-sentinel cam changes direction, crittercam, condo shopping, I feel great

4 years ago – MP toys, work shopping, black bean hummus, key deer

5 years ago – Newtcam active in old apartment, how cell phones work/tracking, fibbed to, SOP

6 years ago – Monster!, SA goes in fro her job interview, got a love note, simpsons lame, cartoons, silly haiku, bro and IGeotargetVisitor Map