8742 – Wednesday – Happy Valentine’s Day!

Staying home for V-day… maybe a trip to Philly or DC as a little romantic getaway some other time… the snow and ice was just too rough and tumble for driving unless it was absolutely necessary.

Made for some interesting scenes, though. I’ve never seen stuff so totally laminated as this… including the tree branch that fell and smashed one of our fence pipes! the branch alone weighed about 200-300 lbs… I estimate the water on top added an additional 100-150 lbs to it.

Photos – Probably too much ice, but I’m new to this stuff! (click here for thumbnails of iced trees, a smashed house, birds by the water, and so on. Bobby Drake attacks!)

8741- Tuesday

Feeling much better today – only a mild sore throat and some joint stiffness remain, along with a lack of appetite. Stayed home and was attended to quite gently by Doctors BHK, Pye and Newton.


Snow for Valentine’s looks more like an ice storm a’comin’!


Saw a big bird in a neighbor’s fountain up the street… BHK thought it was a statue at first.

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Caught quickly in a drive past – click to make big-like.


1 year ago – chilly?, swollen uvula, nohari, bongos, GND moving (she’s since married… as have I!), cookies?, auto stitched comic spread, super squid

2 years ago – ren-fest thoughts, bro-religion scam thoughts, lair, pretzel prefs, grocery store, lj-buddy collage, valentines zod, moris tepper, elektra barbie, unix cheatsheet, lj user a sexual predator

3 years ago – Ft13th, urban beasts, photo memes, workers screwing up, Joel Veitch (Elephants, Yeah!), Mage knight with Dave

4 years ago – bro mooching, gas prices , newt’s Problem solving, Nice email, scabby palm pics, space giants, Walter adopted

5 years ago – Alton Brown, Melting pot month, ornj on the mend, talky newt, sleepy day, condiment museum

6 years ago – lost empires, pipe-smoking monkey sings Sanford and sonGeotargetVisitor Map

8739 – Monday

Gentle going today – returned library books, posted a couple of family valentines via snail mail, and retrieved our own mail.

Grew a bit ill – muscle aches, coughing, etc. Canceled watching 24 with the lads (Adam and Jimmy, not Pye and Newt) BHK was a sweetheart, and went out last night to pick up sundry meds to take care of me – I’m really appreciative of that. Something is supposedly going around, and I guess I snagged it.

I glossed over and caught up with some old episodes of News Radio and House… I still haven’t caught up with 24 yet. I guess it’s just as well we didn’t watch last night’s 2 hours.


1 year ago – vegan lunch box, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, American horror, ren-fest, crayons, movies, Neutral Good, colored t’s, cowboy gorilla, Val’s B’day, newtcam pix,

2 years ago – stretchy dream, journalist fired, cosmic muffin, star wars meme, C&H cartoon fave, baby tosser, don simpson’s journal (since deleted?)

3 years ago – goodies from mimi, time out and about, comment time limit, kill the ducky

4 years ago – vallies, stinky outdoors, Drama deck poll

5 years ago – popular colors, nice walkies, cooked palm, Aunt Val’s B’day, blessing reminder, I’m put off by nin (child abuse)

6 years ago – vagg, Aesop, Happy, Sleepy, good people in my lifeGeotargetVisitor Map

8737 – Chris’s B’day Party

More Nose-buttering – at Tinas, for my Mother In-Law. – tomorrow we go to main ingredient for brunch.

mother in law - nose buttered!


1 year ago – songbird, Opa, micro retro, FREE PANCAKES!, personality awareness, scary mary

2 years ago – Bro & HI, website income to AmeriCares, I miss CJ, Danny gets Debate, mirror newt pics, still talking to mel, #3 for kp/rs shenanigans, Newt Love, Danny sick (and he is again this year), sedef & crew adorable, MmmmMMMmonkey, masked grader

3 years ago – shopping for condos, zombie night club

4 years ago – memes, dreams, Streets of San Fran, computer sculptures, Pith, Good quote of the day, interviewing, hot shower

5 years ago – up early on a Sunday, Finished reading FAFCwGM, nice weather, tulpa plot

6 years ago – kid tv-memories, valentinesGeotargetVisitor Map

8736 – Friday

What Flavour Are You? Cor blimey, I taste like Tea.Cor blimey, I taste like Tea.

I am a subtle flavour, quiet and polite, gentle, almost ambient. My presence in crowds will often go unnoticed. Best not to spill me on your clothes though, I can leave a nasty stain. What Flavour Are You?

bhk got –

What Flavour Are You? Tomato is what I taste like.Tomato is what I taste like.

I taste like nothing, except a tomato. I’m sometimes sweet and sometimes tart; sometimes juicy, sometimes crisp. The roles of a tomato are many and varied. I am an exception to all the rules. What Flavour Are You?


Good preliminary news from CodeRED – Dave put me on to some good leads for a gig or 121. I’ll know midday Monday.


BHK out with Tina for a gal’s day – pedicures and Mexican food. I’m glad that Tina’s getting out and about… the winter gloomiest seems to have descended on her a smidgen. I’ll wager some time with BHK will brighten her day. [edit: They picked me up to get mexican food! Hooray! er, Ole’!


1 year ago – an owl!, tree pic, space piggy hits, plans with Dan to see wicked (canceled), home cost estimator, floating wind turbines, homeless man beating,

2 years ago – Rooster year, Kerby, palm doodle, nifty dolls, web-flowers, ljers who kill, machine gun vs katana, google maps, living with a corpse

3 years ago – RIP, J.S. , meme, Long distance , layers, GA success

4 years ago – tittles, palm pics, Pondering Newt getting pooch bro, incubus

5 years ago – bro email, morty the cylon, Emily Dickinson, Tulpas, links

6 years ago – More love issues, lj drama, loneliesGeotargetVisitor Map

8735 – Thursday’s end

Highlight of the day was ending it with a picnic in the loft with bhk – cheese, crackers, seltzer and vegetarian pepperoni while watching stuff on the tivo was the perfect end to the evening.
(Ugly Betty, The Office, My Name is Earl)

I love it in the loft… it’s sort of a little tree house that we can run to with the kitties and just curl up in a bubble of extra comfort.


An incomplete list of Interests added or revitalized since I’ve moved north –

  • wildlife observation / birding
  • fly fishing (at least the casting side of it)
  • music of all stripes
  • seltzer water (flavored, sometimes)
  • Getting together with family
  • School events
  • Neighborhood Committees (especially for emergency preparedness and regional wifi)

interview meme

via _chandra

1. How many days have you been married? 106! It’s gone by like a blur, too.

2. Do you like dogs and would Newt allow you to ever have one? I do like dogs, and I’d wager Newt wouldn’t mind one too much after a little adjustment period. However, dogs are a lot more responsibility than cats… walking, more regular bathing, etc… I think that I’d prefer to visit a puppy more than have one.

3. If a movie of your life were made, who would play you? Heck if I know. I’ve been through a lot of physical and behavioral changes over the years. Someone who can do the “giant guy” thing without being too ridiculous. John Goodman, maybe?

4. What are your top three favorite songs at the moment?

  1. This Will be our year – The Zombies
  2. I’m Alive – ELO
  3. Powerhouse – Carl Stalling

5. What do you wish you had more time to do? Everything! I’ve been enjoying virtually every minute!

via eryx_uk

1. If you were to gain super powers, would you honestly be a hero or a villain? I think I’d be a hero, but I’d probably use my abilities for personal gain here and there. (or at least laughs) I like to help people and do what’s right, for the most part.

2. Who would star as you in a movie of your life? Dang it… I just got this question – see #3 from chandra

3. Zombie apocalypse or return of the Great Old Ones? Zombie apocalypse, please… I’d like a war that can be won!

4. If you wrote the autobiography of your life, what would you call the book? I’m unsure… “Immaculate Misconception” maybe? “Don’t Sweat the Petty Things, and Don’t Pet the Sweaty Things?”

I’d probably swipe a line from Bill Hicks… It’s all just a ride

5. If you were a character from a live-action TV show, who would you be? Not sure.. maybe a bit of Jim Halpert from The Office (except that I moved to Maryland to be with the one I love – no triangles or questions there.)

IF you like, leave a comment saying “interview me,” and I’ll ask you five questions, the answers to which you will post on YOUR livejournal.


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8733 –

Didn’t watch the Superbowl. Whoops. I suppose I’ll find out who won sometime this week.


It snowed tonight, and was quite brisk today. We took a walk into the bay (it had frozen, and the water retreated quite a distance back. The [edit to complete]

cold weather iced over the bay, allowing BHK and I to walk out on the mud flat and take pictures from the water zones and ice toward the beach. Found all sorts of nifty old bottles, shark’s teeth and horseshoe crab carcasses frozen in the ice. Too cold to go out without gloves, however, so I took pictures here and there, but kept my mitts in my sleeves like an amputee cut off at the wrists.

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Hm. Microsoft is going to support OpenID, eh?


1 year ago – “Chilly” – in the 40s.ha. Today it was less than half that, before wind chill!, best buy wall numbers, absurd inventions, Superbowl. Scientology SP, Black/white vs right/wrong

2 years ago – Beetlejuice thoughts, evergreen boneyard photo-walk, domestic cats stay at adolescent mentality, interactive autopsy, girls sued for being nice

3 years ago – Super-loved ones, 2-headed baby surgery, fox wedding weather, meat eaters, scale, ruins

4 years ago – Nice thoughts, torture, LCD, note to Newt, Latrave b-day card, Class action suit.. I got my $12 check, eventually, Chandlerisms

5 years ago – MP pay delay, tron, #10 tight, naughty work thoughts, Scripts, system lockdowns and short tempers

6 years ago – At Last, first find hero machine (now in my toybox), bug, Dani and Rhonda hook me up!GeotargetVisitor Map

8732 –

Slow-ish day, mostly work and stay at home errands, with a nice dinner cooked for the in laws by bhk here. We now own a george foreman grill (regifted to us at Christmas, but received the top of this month) -Veggie burgers, hot dogs with chili and french fries for din-din. Discovered that Larry doesn’t go for any mustard but yellow – Honey mustard or spicy brown doesn’t work. Fortunately, we had chili, so it’s all good. Birthday cake for dessert.

It was a nice day, all told.


1 year ago – manatee mailbox, fp with Kev and Tomi, Bailey-pooch, GUN, train ride pics, bhk vaio trouble

2 years ago – bro probation, Shoo’s B’day! (Happy Happy Again today!), flying solo, keywords, Zogg, florida research tools, baby cheetah

3 years ago – stop motion, scrabble experiment, palm doodles, feelin’ ill

4 years ago – 80s dream, oddtodd, crackle bars, warm, face-picker kid

5 years ago – Shoo’s Birfday!, Missed the bus, fruit2O, razor dream, bull sperm thieves, bellyaching, Tsar Piccies, TV news, meatloaf quiz, wacky linkies, tron

6 years ago – License plates, Bob Marley Movement, Vallies roll inGeotargetVisitor Map

8731 –

Yesterday, at the regional home show, there was a huge display regarding “DRYER FIRE” – it turned out to be a $1 bottle brush renamed “Dryer lint safety brush”, and selling for $20.

I say, “bah, a mostly synthetic danger cooked up by lint brush salesmen… if you clean the lint trap, how can can it be?”

If I were a more superstitious fellow, I’d fear cruel irony, as we’re doing laundry.

That said, I got the idea for a new item.. the smoke detector smoke detector… to detect if your other smoke detector is on fire… because you know that more than nine out of every ten smoke detector fires is started inside a smoke detector. (I wonder how many house fires have started from an electrical short in a smoke detector?)


Pomonkey – best local Amerindian word / Town name ever. Aww.. Po’Monkey got no nanners! Possibly a place to get a gig re:security and etc, too.

Pomonkey had a dryer fire!


Garden plan –

Tina, the In-Laws, BHK and I have a garden planned for our back yard – planting begins in March for the first crop.
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It’ll be in our back yard… Larry’s going to bring in a few truckloads of topsoil and rototill by the end of this month… BHK and I will be working the section with broccoli, peas and parsley in March, and then continuing to pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, cilantro, sunflowers, green beans and garlic at the top of may.

Other crops tended by the gang will include potato, onion, carrot, radishes, a few varieties of tomatoes, grapes, blueberries and all sorts of others. I expect it’ll be a fun and educational experience… I haven’t grown anything on this scale before, but we’ve got a master gardener, an engineer and a farm boy on our side to help keep things a-rollin’.


Finally Added Pye and BHK to my bio page… sakes! Pokey puppy Scotto.


Pictures for the kitties getting along in the loft.

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1 year ago – childhood goat trauma foundation, sleepless in seattle (stalker),
Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches, deerfield has a different sort of fauna than ftl, rainy, quizzes,

2 years ago – smoother sailing, sleeping in airports, Bigfoot 911, weather, Trism lyric

3 years ago – 7 sins meme, hand-foot coordination, stood up for b-day dinner

4 years ago – dreams, haiku, Irish curses, random politeness factoid, more palm-cam pics, nice cards!

5 years ago – Moonflower haiku, bus rides, tulpa-folk, what do people see quiz, miss cleo got in trubbah, quiet apartments

6 years ago – Snorks vs. Smurfs, recovering from sickies, lovey-loves, butch or femmeGeotargetVisitor Map

8730 –

Had a lovely Birthday yesterday. BHK had a party for me, and we had a goodly sized gang over… Cathy, Tina, The In-Laws, Jimmy, and Adam for Baked Ziti, lemon cupcakes (with raspberries), yellow b’day cake with chocolate frosting, maple cookies, mint oreos, all manner of mixed nuts and veggies for snacking. Oh, and M&M’s.

We had a nice time… chitty chattiing while the teens played Destroy all humans and SSX Tricky. Newt and Pye were polite little boys, too…social but not beggars or meanies. We caught up on some TiVo’d stuff when the tube wasn’t monopolized by any other activity.

EM and Buga wished me a voice mail happy b’day in the early AM, and Emily called back later and sang Happy B’day to me quite nicely.

I hope my wish comes true on the blown-out candles… Adam buttered my nose *again* (in addition to BHK’s two hits) right after extinguishing them. I really don’t have any demands, just requests… I really have more than I could possibly have hoped for already.


Loot breakdown – Quite a nice haul for the b’day!

Rec’d (in no particular order): –

  • ~$400 in checks and cash (Momster and In-Laws), plus $50 target card [maybe to put to a Wii?] (Tina), $25 Friday’s card (Cathy)
  • A great guide to Chesapeake Bay wildlife and terrain, & a Plastic Otter, a birthday party with cake and good friends, pancakes and omelet for breakfast and a ton of cleanup / prep (BHK)
  • A Glass Paperweight blown to look like a Jellyfish – must be seen to really be appreciated. (In-laws)
  • Ceramic Tile of Frog & Child – (Danny)
  • PS2 Loaner w/ grand theft auto, spy2 and a car race game (Jimmy)
  • Many lovely lj and e-wishes, a few very nice paper cards.

Use the first letter of your first name and fill out the following. Its harder than you think.

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8729 – Happy B’day to me!

Happy Groundhog’s Day, Candlemas, Pidyon Ha-Ben,Imbolc, Lughnasadh, Thesmophoria, Farewell to Lords of Misrule’s Trickster phase, etc.


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More lovely pics received for my bday!


I didn’t see my shadow this morning. No more cold?


Well, I got my Nose buttered twice by BHK already – (In a few places around the world, the traditional birthday trick is what is often known as ‘grease face.’ The same custom is known in parts of the Maritime provinces of Canada as ‘buttered noses.’ As early as is convenient on the birthday someone tries to reach from behind the birthday boy or girl and dab on their nose a fingerful of grease, often butter. This is accompanied by best wishes for the year, now lubricated with the greasy face. Among schoolchildren this custom sometimes takes the form of pushing a sweet, creamy cake in the face) (See also BHK’s entry from about 6 years or so ago)

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Also, my morning was brought to a lovely start with blueberry pancakes and a cheese omelet for b’day breakfast. YUM!


Candlemas Day (February 2nd) is known as “La fête de la chandeleur” among the francophones of the West Coast and is celebrated with a beribboned bachelor King visiting houses of eligible young women. Elsewhere in the province it is known as a day to watch for bears’ shadows in order to predict the weather. Candlemas Day is the same date as the American Groundhog Day but retains the old Christian calendar name, which derives from the tradition of blessing the annual supply of church candles on that day, the official end of the liturgical Christmas season. In older European traditions, bears step outside their hibernation caves to check the weather on February 2nd. If it is fine they will stay out for the remainder of the season. In Newfoundland this belief has remained more or less intact in the rhyme “If Candlemas Day be clear and fine, the rest of winter is left behind; If Candlemas Day be rough and grum, there’s more of winter left to come” (cf. Hiscock 1996:35).


1 year ago – I’m 37, dance monkeys dance, afterlife quiz, kind wishes, 40 faces, ID, Danny Sick

2 years ago – I’m 36, no shadow, cleaned Mel’s system, under the bed, birthday type pics

3 years ago – I’m 35, Birthday factoids, walkies

4 years ago – I’m 34, the Museum F Art, Tinkle-pig, Newt, and other palm-cam pics, Groundhogs seek sex, not shadows

5 years ago – I’m 33, saw my shadow, blah day, daredevil, nice end of day

6 years ago – I’m 32, many holidays, nice ecards, saw my shadow, got my moonmama penguin pic

7 years ago – I’m 31Geotarget

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8728 – 37 years + 364 days

Gentle day, all told – Went out to Jerry’s for lunch, shopped for party food, got a haircut ( short, but I think it looks good. More importantly, the Mrs. Digs it.) Made it home at a decent hour, and watched TV – News Radio and Ugly betty, followed by Holy Man. a nice, relaxing evening with just Bhk and myself… quite nice.


1 year ago – The Matador, rock the casbah, bday card, fp with kev, Superman, Batman, Jesusman and the problem of the corpse on Hollywood Blvd.

2 years ago – no new drama, eryx b’day giftie, sick day, tea-orisinal, nifty mashups, musical mel, movie meme, oddest book titles, be a prostitute or lose your benefits

3 years ago – word association poll, top 100 movies, Trapping Jehovah’s Witnesses in forcefields, Division of Forestry, Farewell KB!

4 years ago – Happy New Year!, palm-cam pics, e-texts

5 years ago – moon/Menstruation connection(or not), dreamy-dreams, elephant talk, pictures, including Newt in a box. Man lives in an airport for 11 years, cousin stuff

6 years ago – Got Birthday arranged to be off, dreams of ancient rome, schedule, shrunken head apples, my first b-day cardGeotarget