9373 – Sunday

Woke up slowly, played a bit with Garry’s Mod, which I find to be hilarious, went over to the in-laws for hanging out listening to the Eagles and O.A.R. with Adam and the gang, and then we had hot dogs, quick pickles, chips and etc for tasty happy fun time.

The quick pickles were from our garden –
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The cukes were a little stubby, but BHK’s mandolin made short work of slicing them.

BHK and Larry took the Element up to the mechanic for repairs – It’ll be out of service for 10 days, getting the windshield fixed and the hood / bumper dents removed. The trees still haven’t been removed form our yard yet, but the time is approaching to do so. We’ve got the green ford as a loaner until the element comes back.

Planning for 3 big events coming up next month – BHK birthday, Larry’s Birthday, and Larry & Chris’s wedding anniversary. (not in that order.)

Larry’s a tricky one – I suspect that a trip to see Good Deale Bluegrass (though Chris doesn’t want to go) would be the best gift for him. New Neil Diamond album out, too. There’s the Christmas Show at the Ram’s Head… but that’s usually reserved as a Christmas Present. Maybe at the Bluegrass show in Deale.

Larry and Chris is easy – a card and food.

I’m not going to spill any beans about BHK’s b’day, as she reads this… and I want it to be a surprise. I’ll let you know what happens later, dear journal.

BHK got back comfortably – we watched an episode of Fawlty Towers, and one of Burn Notice – now it’s time for bed!

Until later, dear journal!



1 year ago – Williamsburg dream, BHK, Amy & I dine at the in-laws, more gaming, start my BGG account

2 years ago – Japan’s underground photography, free wifi attractive nuisance, 2nd life updates, tough times in the congo, fishbone, ape-o-naut doodle / gays in space

3 years ago – A/c unhappy, Lisa/Lisa plans, Jacques the Monkey, Candice fickle, shots, Tom Waits, Abandoned amusement and theme parks, grumping, “shut it”, mallah and the brain

4 years ago – monkey doodle, palm pictures from the bus, lavender-newt, notes from the road, atm jam, CoH, lj-flower, monkey yawn

5 years ago – palm doodles, power-outage, all consuming, power of burqas, sonic bullets

6 years ago – some day tripping, cool squirrel, Belgium is a myth, tongue-trimming, lj hot-or-not, Life imitates Real Genius!!!

7 years ago – overtired & grumpy, cockaigne, evil news, flash, evil news

8 years ago – wanting to go on a group outing, discover marquee Geotarget

9372 – Saturday

Let’s see… What’d we do today? Stream of thought – more so than usual.

Started out late to get shots… but just as well… the doctor was late, too… and we’d have had to wait, regardless. I beat BHK at Yahtzee 2x, she got me once, while we hung out. “Good Boy Lollipop” of the day was Cherry Cola. Item of note – I think of the weekly lollipops I get from the doc… I may’ve eaten 3. The rest are in a bag… at this rate, we may have Halloween candy worked out… not that I’d unload tiny lollipops on trick or treaters. Actually, I’d like to bail on the trick or treaters this year, and take Allison on a ghost tour, or hit a Halloween party… or even stay in upstairs, and watch scary movies with all of our lights out.

Anyhow, back to today. After the doc, we had lunch at Mexico Restaurant – I was so hungry that no doggie bag was required. A rare occurrence… I polished off BHK’s last cheese enchilada, on top of my potato flauta thingums. The enchilada sauce there is fantastic, but variable, depending on the chef on duty.

From there we went to Aardvark, and Chatted with Mike and the gang… we missed seeing Tara this time out. One of his employees was very fun to talk to, and is interested in getting BHK and I to try out D&D miniatures gaming.. we have the freebie that was given out, and it looks like a hoot. I was admiring his Xorn and Landshark figures.. very meta, as I think that they started out as random plastic toys… If there had been a owlbear or a rust monster, I’d have been sure.

We picked up Tsuro, a few generic wooden pawns of different colors (red, black, white, green, a light and a slightly darker natural wood colors), and Issue #3 of Marvel Fairy tales. It’s funny to me that BHK gets more comics through my drawer there than I do… I lean to trade paperbacks rather than singles these days. The Fairy tales series is cute. Each book is pretty self-contained.

Foolishly forgot to get ice cream at Aardvark, and cold stone creamery was out, so chik-fil-a milkshake did the trick. BHK got a tiny triplet of chicken strips… they were so good that she decided that she’d like those on a platter for her birthday. (She said “instead of a cake”, but heck if anyone I know is going to not have a cake without good reason!)

Swung by the mailbox, got our netflix, and then got home, and unpacked our goodies, popped some corn, and got ready to play some Tsuro while watching Machine Girl. The movie has a great trailer, but the film itself doesn’t carry itself very well… we stopped watching about 20-30 minutes in. We swapped it out for Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. It’s cute for a chick flick – good excuse for 4 stories in one movie, I preferred the filmmaker’s tale over the others.

As for our Tsuro games – 1 tie, bhk beat me twice. I think that it’ll be a lot more random, and less strategic (it’s really only light strategy – each game takes about 15 minutes) with more players.. the pieces are easy on the eyes, and the rules were a little unclear about the dragon tile. All the dragon tile does is tell who got to the bottom of the draw pile, so when cards come back, they get first draw. You can really just toss out the dragon tile, and the game would be the same… maybe it’s better to remind folks when 8 people are playing – as they are knocked out, the tiles they held go back into the draw.

Newton and Pye did a terribly cute nose-kiss while we watched the movie. I’m very happy that they’re so social with each other.

So, BHK won the games day by 3 victories to my 2 victories and one tie game. Nicely Matched.

After Sisterhood, we puttered watching the tube a bit… but now it’s time to head to snoozetown. Until later, dear journal.



1 year ago – peppers from the garden, polishing off our garden’s bounty, Amy and BHK Gaming, Death kitty LOLcats Apelad

2 years ago – snakes on a plane burnout, newtcam flipside, still waitin’, talking with bhk, old book scans, hal jordan (green lantern) head injuries, 5x$2, gig upgrade, hoff – king of the Internet

3 years ago – M&M bday, there will come soft rains, yahoo widgets, maybe a visit from the lisas, mp bday in 18

4 years ago – Newt hates Mondays, Beaucoupkev nominates me for prez, Solar Filament, Bradbury, Math atlas, P.I.s, Obvious Movie title

5 years ago -Bambi hunt a hoax, online games, lj diversity, comic book/cartoon thoughts, including the doom song.

6 years ago – some missing pictures, wondering about my eyes, watching TV, evil news, some palm pics, Newt pics

7 years ago – senescence, thegosis, arrival as a pod, loving thoughts

8 years ago – Buds for lunch (I’ll miss that rare treat), dealing ok with winding down Geotarget

9371 – Friday

I am so thankful that today is Friday… I’m ready for a weekend. Lots of hustling around, getting ducks in a row, lately at work.

Dagwood night! BHK sneakily added Bethesda, MD -centric Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to Netflix, and I suspect that’ll be what we watch, rather than Machine Girl, given that the in-laws are coming over… It also seems that she bumped up Introducing the Dwights, which I’m actually fairly interested in seeing.

The longer I wait to see Indiana Jones 4, the less I even want to see it. My mind will likely be changed once it gets viewed.

Sandwich for me – Veggie Sub -fried eggplant and provolone, on fresh Italian bread. Yum.

Pye still seems to prefer to appear on Newtcam… and Newt lingers a lot in Pyecam‘s window. Go figure.



1 year ago – gummi chicken feet, classic novellas in cigarette pack vending machines, lj down, Adam off to Guatamala, documentation simplification, WWN RIP

2 years ago – break in dream, barometric pressure?, ogden nash, wtc movie, I’m a lucky, lucky boy, no danny, cost of being poor, hide the navstrip, food delivery, paintbot, times are changing

3 years ago – secret agent dream, teachers, dan reads wee free men, humor-type, vnc2swf, magic, don ho shock the monkey mp3, v for vendetta trailer, blood cholesterol, travel journal gig, net times journalist trouble, survey, scary villain picture

4 years ago – candy, incense, my mental room, cannibals, ka-boom, CoH

5 years ago – viking on newtcam, hulk adds my graphic to his journal, starmark, poop, Chinese food, mage knight

6 years ago – ISS, bear-lynching, beauty, Conroy books

7 years ago – bro’s breakup, cej, exhort, more majestic, mailing tardiness, news, Dr. Ernest Freaky Bootygrabber, Radio, time for life poll

8 years ago – Friends assessment, Spiritual Beliefs Geotarget

9370 – Thursday –

Veggie-protein meatloaf, green beans from the garden and a simple salad made for a great dinner tonight, compliments of BHK.

Middleman was excellent, again. I wonder how long it’ll take them to run out of steam? Alien dictators and Boy Bands. So far, so good!

That’s about it for me today… Have some cool links du jour from around the web, dear journal!

Om Nom Nom Nom. – pictures badly photoshopped in paint to look like monsters eating things. Ah, simple pleasures.

Atari 2600 Label Maker – produces authentic looking Atari 2600 Labels including the famous “Picture Label” using your own image and title.

WASP Injection Knife – This weapon injects a freezing cold ball of compressed gas, approximately the size of a basketball, at 800psi nearly instantly. The effects of this injection will drop many of the world’s largest land predators.

Metro Hack –

Thieves took a legitimate paper Farecard with $40 in value, sliced the card’s magnetic strip into four lengthwise pieces, and then reattached one piece each to four separate defunct paper Farecards. The thieves then took the doctored Farecards to a Farecard machine and added fare, typically a nickel. By doing so, the doctored Farecard would go into the machine and a legitimate Farecard with the new value, $40.05, would come out.




1 year ago – karma, John Lovitz pummels Andy Dick, car moving nearly squishes BHK and Amy, new shoes, Hp movie, bhk’s 4th grade yearbook and kid goodies, matt’s summer mix

2 years ago – movies, writing, housebound, heifer.org, king kong song, monday meeting, planetary mass comparisons, I doubt fate/design, lego jesus, oh don piano!

3 years ago – visited with constance1010 and tarpo, book meme, fanfic folks angry with original Harry Potter Author, zefrank’s sing-along, AIM email, bananaman

4 years ago – zombies, urine, veggies, pagerank test

5 years ago – celeb divorce, there-sales, batman movie, witch game, hulk’s diary

6 years ago – palm doodle-strip, lost hosted photos, crank yankers 80% sucks. Fortean times, F-ing Mongorians!

7 years ago – important people, ne plus ultra, anile, evil news, more majestic, now defunct Newton ICQ-bot

8 years ago – junky food, prepped April for launch, budgeting, hung out with bro, me no like stinky Geotarget