Monthly Archives: April 2008

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9237 – Sunday

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I forgot to mention what we did after getting my allergy shots yesterday! We stopped off at Giant, grabbed some rolls, cheese, mustard and turkey (last one just for BHK), then toddled over to Dunkirk District Park. Pretty cool place – has a nice skate ramp, lots of picnic tables, wooded areas, fields for baseball, basketball, tennis and lacrosse. I get the feeling that as it warms up, it’ll be the kids place to be.

We polished off our sammiches, and got back in the car just in time to beat the rain – it was still coming down pretty hard when we picked up our rosebushes – They look like bundles of dirty stick for now, but just wait a month… they’ll be in the ground by May 1… after the worst chance of another cold snap has passed.

Went to Sneade’s for some more seeding trays, a springtime flag for our pole (it’s cute – a beehive – “home is where my honey is” I need to check permissions for putting in a hive of my own out back this year), and a few grilly-items. Saw Larry there, and invited him and Chris over to do some grilling on Sunday… he reminded us that the United States Navy Band was playing – for some reason, we thought it was Sunday night… so we headed home, had a little nap, got cleaned up, and enjoyed some note-perfect music. It was a band, not an orchestra – BHK was missing the strings section, but made up for it by enjoying the percussion and giggling at the high cheese factor of the announcer / vocalist’s styling of Man of La Mancha.

The concert was only an hour long – we picked up Chris (who wasn’t interested in attending), and all headed to Thursday’s. It was quite good.

Anyhow – We did chores and stayed close to home today. BHK worked on the yard, while I got us caught up with last minute Taxes (That’s why Chris didn’t attend – running last minute scenarios.) My first year of filing jointly as a married sort of fellow – a bit different than filing alone. Lots of deductions this year – health care, homestead, school loan interest… I guess I’m a grownup after all. Good thing is that we’re getting some going back, not to mention the “gimme” from the govt that everyone’s getting.

We’ll sock some of it away, put some towards furniture, I suspect – a new mattress, or upholstering the coming couch, maybe?

BHK beat me at Hacienda again, but it was dang close. If I had one more turn, I might’ve beaten her. Alas, I did not! Still, it was a good game, and I think we had a lot of fun playing.

Rules of thumb – get as many markets as you can, as fast as you can! Don’t bother saving money… the three turn limit cuts what you can spend pretty hard.

I suspect I’ll sneak in a game of Wishes Were Fishes next week. Failing that – maybe if we go do paint your own pottery, I’ll make us a set of Tally-Ho! (I discovered it at Yucata… it’s close to a combination of my plans for Brier Patch and Pumpkin with Icehouse pyramids – likely a better play design, too)

Pizza and Nature documentary time with the in-laws tonight! Until Later, Dear Journal!


1 year ago – Friday the 13th, picture of me as hector hammond, talkers, palm doodle under the sea, eclairs, shocking cats

2 years ago – get together?, odds & ends mp3, reality settings, on call stuff, dr who remixes (& scooby doo), transit links

3 years ago – headhunter, dr who, hovering sombrero, little cowpoke didn’t take, Dworkin, Belle & Jen interested in remixed cds, ADP adds junk, KJ and Oona arrive.

4 years ago – easter afters, THC high enough to be considered hard drugs, rainy photo, leaping gnome scotto

5 years ago – bro issues, jkg, landlord

6 years ago – bigfoot research, local cams, lazy, SANTO!, Yellow pestilence, superhero movies, Bill & Ted

7 years ago – food & feelings, good friday, virtual omGeotarget

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9236 – Saturday

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After work yesterday, we intended to visit to Larry’s School and watch The Scarlet Pimpernel. No such luck- timing was against us, so we just grabbed some Mama Lucia’s pasta, and went home.

I’ve had very restless sleep lately, maybe getting only 2 or 3 good hours in a night. I’m hoping to play a little catch-up this weekend, and get my body back into a reasonable schedule.

Hard to say for sure, because it is dang nice outside lately.


BHK trotted out Hacienda today, and we played the analog (rather than online ) version.. she beat me soundly (by >40 points!), but now I have a better grip on the rules. She’ll continue to beat me, no doubt, but it’ll be more of a challenge for her.

Still waiting to spring Wishes Were Fishes… maybe tomorrow!

So… what ever happened to the Doom Patrol Movie, anyway? The TBA was set for 2008 . Hm. Says 2009 here. (They bought the rights in 2006.)

Ah Well, it’d be hard for me to see Cliff Steele and Negative Man (plus whatever other combo they dream up) in a live-action setting. Too surreal, maybe.

I’m still all for it, in almost any permutation, as long as it has Robotman, and Monsieur Mallah & The Brain. (Of course, I’d prefer Grant Morrison’s Team of Crazy Jane, Rebis, Robotman, The Chief (Not the Head) and with backup of Dorothy Spinner, Joshua Clay and Danny the Street, if possible.) Please leave all of the Rachel Pollack aping of Morrison’s run out, especially how she snuffed out Cliff and Jane’s relationship.

Sure, while I’m at it, hire me as an extra for a million dollars a day, plus craft service.

Side Note – it was rather neat to see a Larry Trainor cameo in Justice League: New Frontier.

Doom Patrol and GP’s more oddball games were some of my favorites – Z-squad, FOCUS and the like (Even HHH, for its brief existence) added a touch of the sinister and surreal to otherwise fairly boring fare. Funny how back in the day I’d have enjoyed identifying with Cliff or Josh, or even RPing an analogue – Rebis would be something too alien or powerful to be anything but a GM device, I think.. unless you were playing a very low powered one, and just let the ref take control every here and again. (Of which I’m also not too partial – I prefer to play my own characters.)
Best times were with miniMAX, but Zero, Run-around Sue and Le Grenouille were not too bad for a one or “two shot” quickie. I hear that they’re doing a Brave & the Bold cartoon – teaming Batman up with an assortment of “Hero of the week” types – Green Arrow, Blue Beetle, Aquaman, and whoever else they can toss in there. Funny about no mention of Superman. I really like the look of the art – silver-agey – kid friendly but still cool. Maybe they’ll work in elongated man or the Martian Manhunter, for a nice light hearted but solid detective episode. Looks like Batman will be in every episode, so it’s unlikely I’ll ge t acool Hawkman / Atom story, but who knows where it’ll go if successful? I really dug the Justice League and the transition it took to JLU – maybe lightning can strike twice.

Those were some of my most enjoyable games, GP running while Kat and I played – solid “Buddy Movie” dynamic, with plenty of time to get characterization and limelight in for everyone, every episode. Green Lantern & Dr. Mid-nite (I always wanted to see her Doc Mid-nite get together with Robin – perfect wholesome super-couple, miniMAX & Ghost, Trism & Kyoko (with sidekicks). I miss those games, sometimes – it was good, clean fun – you didn’t have to beat something up every session, and it wasn’t a bunch of fan wank, either.


1 year ago – rainy day, auto-deploy lj, tk experiments fail, small town feel

2 years ago – Newt in Zefrank’s video, yoink doodle, met with gp and kat, cool gifitis, squishie photos, kev at gimo, mady at chem lab, ab fired

3 years ago – new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards

4 years ago – wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA

5 years ago – Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.

6 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!

7 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings upGeotarget





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9235 – Friday!

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Ah, the end of another week… I’m looking forward to a gentle weekend, this go ’round. Sleepy This morning.

Recent doodles –

Me in the office, post saying Shazam! Regarding Uncle Dudley/Uncle Marvel. During the classic era, an old man named Dudley (who was clearly modeled after W. C. Fields) claimed that he was not only a relative of the Marvels but also a Marvel himself, although neither was true. The Marvels took a liking to him and decided to humor him, and “Uncle” Dudley became Uncle Marvel, the Marvel Family’s manager. He’d make his “transformation” along with one or more of the others, but not by magic; rather, by quickly removing his break-away garments (under the cover of lightning that the real Marvel(s) called down) to reveal his homemade Marvel costume underneath. He explained his lack of super-powers by claiming he suffered from “shazambago”. In modern continuity, Dudley H. Dudley is simply a janitor at Billy’s school who finds himself involved in Marvel Family adventures, although in one story he was temporarily given Shazam powers to help round up the escaped Seven Deadly Enemies of Man.

Oh, my Shazambago!

Green monkey-alien in a bubble. He’s wearing his bubble summoning-belt, of course. He’s been climbing a lot, note his filthy hands and feet. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a damn, dirty ape, however. I was thinking a little bit of Rescue on Fractalus recently, thus the cheesy lines and markings. The hammerhead alien Jaggi had great pop-up spook value in his day. Soft hearted for Planet of the Apes, Martian Manhunter, and Bubble-force fields all unwrapped into that, I guess.



Dealing with “customer service” regarding bugs, bug fixes, and time lines. I seemed to get only one word answers, with no detail as to where, when or how items would be fixed. I ultimately got it worked out, via my own trouble tree and specific questions, but it was like pulling teeth… on a rampaging hippo. I’m just glad that it’s now mostly functioning.


Dreamt of our bathroom being tiled with Hershey bars, and grouted with marshmallow. Hershey bars aren’t my absolute fave… why not milky ways, or mars bars? I guess the flat rectangle looks more like tile to my sleeping mind. Last night after work Chris, BHK and I went to Maerten’s, to check out the sale preview. Chris bought a ton of nice stuff… BHK got a cute pair of sterling bumblebee earrings and a little silver bean / bead on a box chain. Honestly, I like what BHK got more, though Chris’s items were pretty, too. Post sale, we hit Thai Inter for some yummy feed. It was a bit of a hike to return home late afterwards, but I think it was worth it – the gals had fun.


I can’t say as I’ve ever referred to anything as “a real corker.” I’d think that I might’ve, but probably not. I prefer “it’s a hoot!” or the like.


Pleased that we did get the 2007 homestead exemption after all, but looks like 2008 is a no-go. at least we have time to save up a wee bit before 4/15/2009.


Something to make BHK happy –

“The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio will commit to 3-D by releasing all of its movies in the format beginning with “Up” in May 2009. Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter made the announcement in New York at a presentation of Disney’s upcoming lineup of animated movies.”



The Wall Street Journal says that a video production company that earned 90% of its revenue from taping Walmart’s internal meetings over the past 30 years has lost the Walmart account—but retained the rights to the video library.

Now the videos are available to anyone who wants to see them —for a price. Lawyers, reporters, activists and journalists are lining up at the production company’s tiny new office, cash in hand.


1 year ago – a day in the life animated doodle, bhk’s lasagna, feeling draggy, busy at work

2 year ago – mp3, gp & kat missed, b5 / dr who, blue tarps, cloud pic

3 years ago – tv-shoot, whale cam, regional anthropology, sesame street, dream Bhk & Pye, Gamer quiz, illuminati, little cowpoke, celeb diaries, i feel great, moist towelettes, astronaut jones, 9 years for spammer, bush toy

4years ago – easter, peeps, image collages, pelicans, spidey-2

5 years ago – first 4 children in the vampire game, got my offer from JKG

6 years ago – Programmer / Engineer gag, lovely private entries, including Blackstone’s Reading.

7 years ago – pork taco brain worm, Power-puff Scotto, grove meeting, An open letter to browser sniffers, agogGeotarget