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9063 – Monday – President’s day
HAPPY 8th, Li’L Bit! HOLY MOLEY! 8?!?!
As for president’s day, I certainly prefer the original “George W” to the one currently in office.
Ah, the blessing of a Monday off. Added bonus is a hopefully more gentle 4-day week ahead!
Got up, went to get shots… it was pretty crowded due to the holiday. BHK and I both got our appointments out of the way in a reasonable span of time. I’m about 75% through the third Harry Dresden book. It started out a bit weak, but has gained a nice momentum through the middle 50%. I especially like Mike & Charity Carpenter, even though Mike seemed pretty cornball in the first bit of the book.
After the doc, we went off to Annapolis to make use of the Joss gift certificate we got from Adam for Christmas… I was quite in the mood for a little sushi and tempura.
Alas, the curse of DC and its environs struck again. The weather was absolutely beautiful (mid 70s, sunny), and everyone in government (i.e., EVERYONE within a 250 mile radius, or more) had the day off.
No parking and Joss was full to the gills. That worked out to our advantage, as we toured a little bit until we stumbled into Lemongrass Too. The Fried Green Beans were excellent, and I really liked the Pa-Ram Jae (Deep-fried tofu sauteed with yellow curry with rice, veggies and broccoli, topped with peanut sauce) that BHK ordered… my veggie Pad Thai was good, as well. The crispy tofu appetiser was lacking, in comparison, but that might be just due to everything else being so good. We got enough for me to take for lunch tomorrow as leftovers…. double score. Not the sushi I was expecting, but a nice substitution. Really, only the second time I’ve had Thai since moving from Florida, and this time I was quite pleased.
We opted to walk a bit for a constitutional after our meal – there was a Best Buy next door. I picked up some wipes for my new (Xmas) monitor at home, seeing a sit has already acquired a few Newton / Pyewacket nose-prints. Additionally, we saw Lego Star Wars Trilogy being sold, and in a moment of game-lust, we picked it up. Both BHK and I dig the game, and it’s 2-player…. more bonding time for us! (Like we need it).
We headed home at about 3pm… the weather was still gorgeous, but getting a bit cooler. From what I understand, there’ll be snow by mid- to end-week… hardly seems possible, but I’ve seen stranger stuff.
Upon our arrival, it turned out that the in-laws had come over and were kind enough to take down our Christmas lights (they were too high for us to reach without a ladder.)
BHK was still feeling a little cottony, so we spent the rest of the day at home, resting and recovering energy.
I’m surprised… we really haven’t eaten much since midday, but it’s well after dark now, and neither of us are that hungry. We may have a little nibble in a while, but I suspect it’ll be a light dining night.
1 year ago – tracks in the snow pic, ghost rider, synchronicity with GP and Kat.
2 years ago – compusa saga continues, C&C generals, Li’l Bit 6!, song meme, newtcam up,
3 years ago – Lil Bit #5!, basketball w/danny, netflix du jour, loonatics 2.0
4 years ago – There 2.0, stress
5 years ago – expected last day at FMM, web-subscribers, barbie sex, Nordis hoses me.
6 years ago – Newt wakies, proxo, palm entry, haiku/ D&D class alignment
7 years ago – SOP, Territorial, haiku combat
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9062 – sunday
spent the bulk of the day indoors with tv and the kitties – bhk a little sick, my back was creaky. Nice day to stay in, relax, and not wear shoes all day.
Watched The Soup, Redneck weddings and read books the whole day away. A nice way to recharge after yesterday’s long-term walkies.
Tree-trimmer guys came back and hammered down the bridge part they knocked over – and finished trimming and proper cleanup.
Jumper‘s getting quite the stinky reviews. Maybe we’ll just wait and catch it on Netflix when it drops to DVD… next weekend. 15%… by comparison, Hottie & the nottie got 7%. if it’s only barely twice as good as a Paris Hilton vehicle, I’ll pass. Jumper got 15 positive reviews and 88 negatives as of this writing.
I’m still game to see No Country for Old Men. – 94%, 179 positive, 11 negative reviews.
The Pentagon will try to shoot down a spy satellite before it crashes to Earth. I want to see the video of that.
Princeton engineers’ weather modeling suggests that the city of Baltimore experienced about 30 percent more rainfall than the region it occupies would have experienced had there been no buildings where the city now sits. While thunderstorms are thought of as being purely forces of nature, the research suggests that man’s built environment can radically alter a storm’s life cycle.
1up has a list of what game companies have donated to which candidates – sort of interesting to see which designers / folks went where.
data gathered via fundrace – a really nifty tool to see what’s up – my zip code shows $840 dollars went to Republicans, and $0 to Democrats, while my in-laws city (right next door) donated $3,426 to Republicans and $1,800 to Democrats
Austin, TX is a little more happy to spend on both sides… it is a bigger city… I was surprised that it spent just a little bit less than Miami.
1 year ago – Sleepover with Amy & Tina, Jackass 2, annapolis pix, ducks, dogma, and Alex Haley.
2 years ago – lego service, lion roar, LS left, misc linkies, nccic, yeti beware sign, (fo)-chief’s letter
3 years ago – Movies, backup tech training, miss mcdonald, themed fonts, stinky, fear of physics, captain’s blog
4 years ago – client crapped out, slow awakening, urge to box, comet collisions, Planet Osiris
5 years ago – early to bed, doctor thoughts, Politi-talk
6 years ago – Pym, argument about writing, haiku, I look like jupiter, pink for vboys, blue for girls, they have a word for it
7 years ago – more crazy haiku, profession of love, seeking a new gig, tough dreams, gooter
9061 – Sat
Woke up bright and early, rip-roarin’ and ready to roll. BHK and I had a tasty start of toasted bagels with cream cheese, and chugga-chugga-chugga.
After getting the parents, it was about… 11ish. Well, we didn’t lose too much steam – the in-laws were loaded for bear (girl scout cookies, soda-pop, and egg sammiches) we rolled out to our destination… Baltimore!
It was a bit of a drive, but the scenery was lovely, and the company was good… we all chitty-chatted about all manner of small talk.
We arrived at the Aquarium Parking garage at about noon, and headed off to see items lovely and aquatic… but it was not meant to be. The crowd there for the holiday weekend was vast… Chris didn’t want to navigate that swarm of roaming tourists. Totally understandable, if a little disappointing.
Upside… we had a secondary plan of action! The B&O Railway Museum! The place is sweet for folks that dig steam / diesel engines, or rail history at all (the B&O is pretty much the birthplace of American Railroading). We got a family membership to last us the year – it turned out the snow collapse of the roundhouse was 5 years ago to the day we returned. There’s still a lot of restoration going on to the trains that were hit, but most of them are in beautiful shape. BHK and I got a couple of pressed pennies to add to our collection.
(some of our walkabout pictures on flickr here. – more to follow as I upload and make some shots public that are currently hidden.)
Got pretty tuckered out after 5 or six hours there, filling my brain with train. We headed off to Annapolis for some Cheeburger Cheeburger (they’e getting a lot of play from us lately!) and then home to relax and unwind with the kitties – plans were to hang out and watch a movie with the in-laws, but they were too pooped to pop, so BHK had a lovely night together, instead.
I can haz The Entire Bible? Man, lolcats! Nice use of your spare time!
I wonder if this will win any converts in one direction or the other?
1 year ago – Amy visit, mac & cheese, fluxx and movie
2 years ago – eye close poll, work bail, boosh, canal discovery, compusa check?, gg
3 years ago – Jill Gone, BK & GO, JLU, Newt’s treat, mel-fade begins
4 years ago – Scotto on the enchanted path, bigfoot conference, Florida photos, Newt on his back
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 – bloody mary mythos, feel poll, newt ill, rainy day, movie poll, fu-style, alphebetica cyberia
7 years ago – Haiku arena, weird al’s wishlist
9060 – fri
BHK got me a bag of creme de menthe Hershey’s kisses. A large quantity of them currently reside in my Jonas Green Skull and Crossbones mug.
(Green was a troublemaker. He hated the Stamp Act, which among other things directly taxed his newspaper. Refusing to pay, he halted publication of his paper with the protest headline “The Maryland Gazette Expiring: In Uncertain Hopes of a Resurrection to life again.”
In the bottom right corner, he placed a skull and crossbones where the tax stamp…
9060 – fri
BHK got me a bag of creme de menthe Hershey’s kisses. A large quantity of them currently reside in my Jonas Green Skull and Crossbones mug.
(Green was a troublemaker. He hated the Stamp Act, which among other things directly taxed his newspaper. Refusing to pay, he halted publication of his paper with the protest headline “The Maryland Gazette Expiring: In Uncertain Hopes of a Resurrection to life again.”
In the bottom right corner, he placed a skull and crossbones where the tax stamp should have been.)
They may be my favorite flavor of Hershey’s kiss yet. Green foil is an added bonus.
Date night tonight with BHK – we went to DuClaw, and she had a spinach salad, while I ate a pile of bread, cheese and potato-related items.
Toe The Line (Not Tow the line ) – That’s ok… I got Piss and Vinegar wrong… I confused it with the incorrect Pith and Vinegar.
I’ve just upgraded to ATi Catalyst suite version 8.1 and now a small white square a few pixels across in the upper left hand corner of the screen – I thought it was stuck pixels at first, but later discovered that it goes away when I remove the Catalyst icon from the system tray.
I’ll be interested to see if 8.2 remedies the issue. EDIT: maybe– A white dot no longer appears on the windows desktop when launching the Catalyst Control Center. However, this issue may still be experienced under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31715
No big whoop – it was a pretty easy item to track down.
meme time!
1. What is the geekiest part of your music collection?
Hm.. silly mashups of Gwen Stefani / Queen, or any all of They Might Be Giants.
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