Up and at ‘em – Sat visit to the allergist, and then we drove on to Richie’s to meet the in-laws for some wandering.
Arranged to get my referral for the back doc on Wednesday – I have to call back…
Monthly Archives: March 2008
9187 – Friday: Rainy day, as my voice post previous can attest. 50 things I’ve done meme continues wit.. http://tinyurl.com/2rnxcn
Maertens Fine Jewelry & Gifts Inc (5/5) on Yelp.com
Maertens Fine Jewelry & Gifts Inc (5/5) on Yelp.com
When I went to get my wife her engagement ring, I knew immediately who to go see. On Feb 9th, we headed out to Maerten’s, where we finally got BHK her engagement ring… 16 months after we got…
9189 – sun
Turned the clocks and we stayed in bed pretty late. We finally got up and at ’em at about noon.. er, 1pm.
I neglected to mention our trip to the B.I.G. book sale after shots yesterday… one giant blue ikea bag’s worth of books for $30. BHK got a ton of cookbooks, Edith Wharton, and some Ursula LeGuin – about 17 or so – I got a time-life book for Larry (with the “look and feel” of real hand-tooled leather!) on railroading, and picked myself up a few things, too (about 15 books) – Including Gene Wilder’s Autobiography, John Stewart’s Naked Pictures of Famous People (already read… it’s no Cruel Shoes. Additionally, I snagged a bunch of random stuff – Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett ,(fun to see the Baltimore side of classic pulp fiction) a ton of other pulps and misc sci fi/ fantasy. Biggest weakness of being such a book magpie is our lack of shelving (see left side of image in newtcam ). BHK will be grabbing some more shelves for us later this week, I think.
I think we made out AOK there! – Thanks to BHK for reminding me of probably the best part of yesterday!
Anyhow, as far as sunday goes – We rose late, grabbed a sammich or two for the road – BHK, the love cube and I all rolled comfortably to points south. First stop was Aarvarks.. sadly, my schedule was off, and none of my books had arrived yet. I hope my Jonah Hex Showcase is there next time! They still have a ton of treehouse and fluxx… and I realised we *still* are late about sending off eryx’s loot. at this rate, it’ll be easter before he gets a christmas treat!
Instead of normal fare, we got the new Tank Girl Compilation and Gloom Cookie – Tank girl is looking pretty good these days.. she’s weathered the movie well. I’ll probably pick one up to give to ol’ danny for next time.
Post Aardvark, we swung by McD’s for a shamrock shake. It’s a tradition! The taste was good, though the mint was subtle… the shake itself was a fine neon green.
From last year – still the same – I wonder if we’ll see my rainy-day chicken stalker this year? I sort of hope so.
Nicely dosed on dairy, mint and dye – it was time to sally forth to the wal-mart. Obtained much-needed undershirts, and not so needed, but still cool dinosaur and robot easter eggs… pictures to follow. Surprisingly, BHK didn’t want the girly-girl eggs. Also snagged into the wild for larry.. the kids parents live nearby, interesting to see someone you know represented in movie form.
Closed the day with a trip to Mexico to visit with Tina M and Matt O… Tina was a little quiet, but we all chitty chatted about misc stuff – mostly food and travel.
1 year ago – David and Gill visit, movies and feed.
2 years ago – New brain arrives, peel, crack sellin’, swing on a star
3 years ago – banana man, dindin with mom, hollow men, voted, did a good deed, renewed domain until 3/11/2008
4 years ago – cool snail mail, Best commentary on “the Passion”, star trek on ice, Spalding Gray found, lj spam, SOP
5 years ago – Laundry w/bro, flaming justice, birds with arms, hulk dance
6 years ago – Who are you quiz, seven wonders, breakfast for dinner, Bfast poll
7 years ago – declaration of love, celeb pet names, payday, tmbg, yeti-scotto
Richie’s Grill (3/5) on Yelp.com
Richie’s Grill (3/5) on Yelp.com
Food was good diner far, service was a little confused, but they were reasonable. I’d go back! more a review to follow.
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9188 – sat
Up and at ’em – Sat visit to the allergist, and then we drove on to Richie’s to meet the in-laws for some wandering.
Arranged to get my referral for the back doc on Wednesday – I have to call back monday morning to make sure it’s all in order.
Finished our puzzle.. I’d say 8 hours total form start to finish. we had 1000 pieces all right, but one of parts was missing, and one was doubled!
d’oh! ah well.. it was fun assembling it, anyhow.
richie’s grill – bar side is open until 2am, now… midnight not late enough! When BHK and I arrived at 12:30, it was dead – no lunch crowd besides us. By the time the in-laws made it (about 1), a few more people had wandered in, but for a saturday, I’m sure the waitresses were hungry for tips.
Oysters… we did a sneak peak at the Chesapeake bay foundation.
More Oysters! For building an artificial reef and bringing some health back to the bay.
Freaky Beetlejuice house.. oddball sculptures and columns in the wrong locations… full size shows more, but needs a full photo shoot.
weird fence – full view doesn’t do it justice – I’m going back with a real camera next time.
1 year ago – wanted to see 300. (That’ll teach me.), elf defense for undies thief
2 years ago – jojo, fib answers, garfield minus voice balloons, coral springs walkabout,
3 years ago – Millennium Spheres, new dr who, dice quiz, Earth2/We3, Jack benny, Donner party, Karma?, bittorrent
4 years ago – motorcycle Chernobyl tour, led mug, jk to revise hp, dan tech slips, bluto song, haiku
5 years ago – palm pics travel, WWII thoughts, site down
6 years ago – Newtosill, Daffy duck, Morning here, dreams, poem tag, bubblegum alley, cute animals
7 years ago – The bed, Cool old comic books, disclaimer, OJ
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9187 – Friday
Rainy day, as my voice post previous can attest.
50 things I’ve done meme continues with items 27-29. I…
27.’ran my own BBS system back in the early 80’s – an Atari 800XL with two ways to connect – a 300 and a 1200 baud modem…later I added a third modem that ran at 9600 baud. It used 3 floppy drives to share data. It boiled down to a simple message board with a few instances of trade wars on it. I was also the co-sysop of three other atari boards out there – the community was small, but there was a lot of signal – very little noise. Brent had his own soapbox on there.. “Kaiser’s Korner” where he did goofy right-wing rants – primarily to bait people into responding. His section didn’t last long, thankfully. My bbs eventually faded into a website, and then after quite a bit of rattling and rolling, a place for my own journal. Livejournal and current blogging software is a lot easier than hand-rolling every html page and uploading it.
28.’have a mortgage, and own (with the bank) a condominium in Deerfield Beach, Florida. I have been considering selling it, or keeping it as a backup crash pad of friends and relatives that want a place to be while in the sunshine state. It’s a one-bedroom on the third floor, with a huge porch. I’m especially fond of the iguanas that live out by the lake in the courtyard.. the ibis are a fave, too. Newton prefers the squirrels.
29.’Have been member of both the Civil Air Patrol and Boy Scouts – both were pretty positive expeiriences, and I’d advise anyone to try both, despite the boy scout complaints about deisim or sexism.
Guy on the bus yesterday evening reeked of old sweat, recent booze and other items too gross to go into. It wasn’t so bad, except that he got up, changed seats and sat directly in front of me… with no escape mechanism for me. My nose was tingling for about an hour afterward. brings to mind the following – Bus trips from DC to NY- Free wifi for the trip, too. (sort of like dc2ny ) I wonder how long they’ll stay “clean and fresh”?
Secaucus, N.J.-based Boltbus, a division of Greyhound Lines Inc., said tickets went on sale Monday for the service that will start March 27.
Boltbus will run between Metro Center at 11th and G streets NW and two stops in New York City — near Penn Station at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue and in south Manhattan at 6th Avenue and Canal Street.
Boltbus will compete with the Washington Deluxe, Apex Bus, Vamoose Express and DC2NY, a service that started in July 2007 between Dupont Circle and Penn Station in New York with a stop at the McPherson Square Metro station.
DC2NY launched in July and marketed the service by offering free water and high-speed wireless Internet service onboard.
Boltbus is not only also offering wireless, but it is also using a first-come first-serve incentive to sign up riders.
The company said one-way tickets start at $1 plus a 50 cent booking fee and become more expensive as the bus gets full. Also, Boltbus is offering a free one-way ticket for every eight round trips purchased.
Tickets for each bus company vary, but are typically between $30 and $40 round trip, which is significantly cheaper than Amtrak’s cost of about $140 and up for a round-trip ticket.
The buses tend to attract travelers and students who are looking for an affordable way to get between the cities.
Boltbus said it will offer eight trips daily, starting at 7:30 a.m. from D.C. to New York.
1 year ago – Cathy’s b-day, fawlty towers counterstrike, sleep pose quiz, hits map,
2 year ago – sunburn better, fliff, ubuntu, wendy/uber, top ten accidental discoveries, senior year, luthor, poll 4/5 truths, glow plants
3 years ago – LDMs, RI high-tails it, elevator prank, screaming turtle, sunburn recovery, doctor d, pelican memory, ghostbusters/gaming, weather tracking, first mention of google video, record bro, freeware alternatives, interaction quiz, Burdines dissolves into Macys, Florida gambling, greyhound rescue
4 years ago – visited with Kev, 12 things meme, bro, CoD, train ride pictures, Newt Healthy
5 years ago – Wakeup, SS card, LAN party, classifieds
6 years ago – groceries, cloud makers, Lj folks, virus PSA, mapmaking
7 years ago – fly me to the moon, edelweiss, web-games
gorilla_playing_saxophone_large: found on the web. I want it at my next party.