9556 – Sunday: Newt and Pye have been together for 2 years now. They’ve blended well. They aren’t too aggressive.. http://tinyurl.com/aywqfc
Monthly Archives: December 2008
9557 – Monday: 9557 – MondayNorth Beach’s High and Low today – 26° F | 14° FNearby Easton is 9°F.. http://tinyurl.com/6v4srx
1222081713.jpg: chilly!
9553 – Thursday: Thursday…just about done watching the first season of Dexter. It’s interesting, but I t.. http://tinyurl.com/7ajqhh
9554 – Friday: Holiday party – won $100 (2x $50 gift cards) – Wheel of fortune // Hangman is our friend!&n.. http://tinyurl.com/8skkso
9555- Saturday: Got my allergy shots – down to only needing them every other week, now!Still feeling yucky – too.. http://tinyurl.com/8o6ofj
9557 – Monday
9557 – Monday
North Beach’s High and Low today – 26° F | 14° F
Nearby Easton is 9°F, with a windchill of -7° F.. the Snakehead fish there are going to be under a layer of ice, I think.
That’s about as chilly as it has gotten this season… well, that’s not saying much – winter started.. what, Yesterday?
40% chance of precipitation… maybe even a white Christmas! I’ll take those odds.
BHK and I have been amused by a recent episode of Mr. Meaty – it’s on the Tivo until it gets lame. Jesse Lumberpond! Sissy Death!… and See also
Making fiends is cute, and I hope Amy Winfrey is swimmingly successful with it. I really liked the web cartoons – I wonder how many changes she had to accept to get it on nickelodeon?
Additionally – A PURPLE SQUIRREL ! – via BHK
Starting today, you can purchase a commemorative Barack Obama inauguration SmarTrip card. The special cards, which cost $10 and come with no value preloaded onto them (or pay $20 upfront and get $10 in value on the card) can be purchased online or at Metro sales offices. The commemorative cards featuring Obama’s face are not to be confused with the special $10 one-day Inauguration paper farecards, which also feature Obama’s face. Those paper cards offer unlimited rides on Metro all day on Jan. 20, and are also available online or at Metro sales offices. The commemorative SmarTrip cards work just like regular SmarTrips, and do not offer any special fare discount or unlimited rides. (via DCist)
PSA- Dealnews has a list of 90 stores that you can still order from and have it arrive it time to make it under the tree before the 25th.
Current Music:
1 year ago – brief entry – mom and wilton arrive, tacarro, mama lucia’s
2 years ago – eryx card!
3 years ago – newton is stealth-master, kev visit planned, mighty boosh, tundra, AHOl finds sticker, astrology misc, fork evolution
1 year ago – Mel’s prezzies, Jill good / ADP sucks (both are long gone), tell me meme, No Godzilla, Bush / Scalia / Thomas
2 years ago – RotK w/Dan, 51 successes, gabbed with sedef, Atom feeds
3 years ago – cravings, adoration, sinanju
4 years ago – stray fugitive lotr thoughts, my fondness for orange/yellow foods, rejection letter, where there’s a whip, there’s a way
5 years ago – cards, filters added
9556 – Sunday
Newt and Pye have been together for 2 years now. They’ve blended well. They aren’t too aggressive with one another, though they do play rough.
Got an earache last night, I think it’s an infection via the crown. Contacted Dr. Wolf, we’ll see what he advises.
Went to the in-laws this morning (well, about noontime) for some Breakfast – Larry Poached some eggs, and grilled up some bacon, Chris made crab salad. All served on Xmas English muffins. (Do they call muffins something else in England, and "English muffins" just muffins?)
After eating, we watched Superhero move and I got a call from the Momster – our holiday goodies arrived in her mailbox yesterday. Superhero Movie was Basically a parody of Spider-man, plus a few cameos and Leslie Neilson nonsense.
Larry showed me how to make Preacher cookies – chocolate/oatmeal goodies, with no flour in ’em. Closer to Fudge than a cookie, really.
Good stuff – I’ve got to practice making these, I think… they’re easy, but are good eats.
BHK and I headed home early for some rest – watch some old Christmas episodes of night Court and Wings – I pretty much just Vegged out all weekend.
I’m looking forward to a nice long winter’s nap after Tuesday – Vacation (but on-call) from 12/24-01/04!
A few items need to be worked on – biggest ones are file comparing encryption, getting a slacker customer to get on the new system from the old (before the old shuts down totally) and a system map of our network that is up to date.
Maybe a little vitamin B-12 will pick me up. Until later, dear journal!
1 year ago – plan to hit the mutter (haven’t yet), National treasure 2 w/ adam & BHK, fear the turtle!, micro size nuclear reactors
2 years ago – more xmas lights, newt and pye in the same house
3 years ago – mighty boosh, 3 ships, hard candy christmas, poohsticks, nestled newt
4 years ago – Mel, swan, count & contessa, bk holiday song, abandoned hospital, scared of santa, octo vs mcd’s, net-perv sting
5 years ago – geourl syndication, desperado with monkeys, narnia
6 years ago – surreal gourmet, amazon links, a/c dies
7 years ago – last minute shopping, blah day
8 years ago – crushing, slowness 
9555- Saturday
Got my allergy shots – down to only needing them every other week, now!
Still feeling yucky – took a nap today from 3-6 pm, and my crown feels a little loose. Maybe an infection under there is messing with me? Or maybe it’s the big dose of meds today.
In-laws came over, and we had tasty soup and sammiches. I’m still not eating much, but can certainly enjoy what I am eating.
After eats, we finally finished hanging the ornaments on the tree. All that is left now is to set up the train… and maybe a few fun bits of landscape. The green beaded string didn’t show up too well on the tree this year, so we strung our holiday cards over the living room window, and it looks sharp. I think we may do this in years to come.
The in-laws headed home a little while ago – they stopped out front of our house with the engine running, and called inside to let us know that Chris lost an earring – while we were looking for it, BHK heard yelling on the phone – it turns out a pedestrian walked up to the truck, opened the door, and then took off when Larry yelled at him.
Chris and Larry went home, but BHK got the guys description and called the police. I suspect it was a drunk looking for a ride – that’s still not the sort of thing you want to take place in your front yard. We talked to the sheriff, and they sent prowl cars around, but he didn’t turn up.
[EDIT – Later that evening, just up the street (about 5 blocks closer to the bay) –
"Dep. Daniel Deakins investigated a burglary to Nice and Fleazy Antiques on Bay Ave in North Beach on December 19 at 3:27 a.m. The unknown suspect(s) cause $1125 in damage. The business owner is conducting an inventory to determine exactly what was taken. Inquires regarding this burglary should be directed to Lt. Steven R. Jones at 410-535-1600 ext. 2462."
I wonder if it was the same guy?]
Still fatigued. If this doesn’t let up soon, I’m calling the doc to see what can be done.
1 year ago – Tannenbaum cam up, coming movies, found doug wu on friendster, tentacled decor
2 years ago – acim / td interaction, newt and pye begin to blend
3 years ago – new chinese, florida snowman, day 44 of compusa drama, shadowrun, weird food, uncle joe’s monkey-man army
4 years ago – I lift mel w/one hand, video hits, anagram santas workshop, john dee’s crystal ball stolen, christmas meme, baby theft
5 years ago – considering an upgrade, Nigerian magic is weak vs bullets
6 years ago – Ft. Laud facts, Antarctic Life, Muslim Roundup, Bro at his worst finds a stray cat, make a supervillian desktop
7 years ago – Bodyboarding on lava, McMummies, xp patch
8 years ago – Restless, Special Olympics cheaters, wondering about where my parts were pre-me, palm reading
9554 – Friday
Holiday party – won $100 (2x $50 gift cards) – Wheel of fortune // Hangman is our friend! We did poorly on "guess the person in the baby pictures" part of things, but that’s ok by me. I was just happy to have a midday meet with BHK. 🙂
Introduced her around to folks – most had met her last year – I think Peter was the only new face in the crowd.
After the party, I had to go back to work for a couple of hours, and then we were free to go!
I’m not tip-top, so we headed home, and crashed out early – 9:30 bedtime!
Until later, dear journal.
1 year ago – bhkhealthholidaywork
9552 – Wednesday – Midweek: wednesday -what did we do today, aside from work, eat and now head off to sleep??&nb.. http://tinyurl.com/3h9b2l wednesday -what did we do today, aside from work, eat and now head off to sleep?? not a lot – just relaxed and snoozed by the tv with christmas specials going, and that is just fine by me. BHK made… Thursday…just about done watching the first season of Dexter. It’s interesting, but I think the sister should’ve worked out the deal, long ago, no matter how well trained he might be, or her lack of curiosity. Feeling a bit fatigued lately, but getting there. I need to send my brother a card or something, congratulating him on being a father, I guess. Somehow, I’m not feeling too festive about it. Ah well – I don’t even know if the little girl will carry his last name or not. Momster is elated about having a grandchild under any circumstances, which is a good attitude, I think. The baby is healthy and happy, as far as I know – can’t ask for much more than that! Got our first holiday prezzies – Oranges and other citrus from folks in Florida, and an amazon box from Kev. BHK made sure that I did’nt see the invoice slip – He sent his gift wrapped, I neglected to put amazon wrap on the stuff we sent him – I hope my stuff makes it to Cuba in a timely way. Tomorrow is the holiday party at the office – we’ll see how the terrible twosome of BHK and Scotto do at party games for gift card winnings! 1 year ago – started my minicity – (still doing ok, though neglected), icy footing, f’ing programming, tell me meme, my snazzy new custom sneakers 2 years ago – Dinner with C&D, Big Brain, xmas card, silly holiday lj toys 3 years ago – xmas card, condo xmas party, calm a llama down 4 years ago – salty seas, Christmas toy, year in review, celebrex, anime fans, con folk 5 years ago – trade invites for play $$, dreams 6 years ago – How to attain old age, got my epidural 7 years ago – Crime & Punishment, heterodox, evil news, HP question, pooter poop, bagpipe, egoboo, giant bee 8 years ago – met tarpo and isis, LJ sea Chantey, AOK-ing, Christmas Blues wednesday -what did we do today, aside from work, eat and now head off to sleep?? not a lot – just relaxed and snoozed by the tv with christmas specials going, and that is just fine by me. BHK made some tasty Broccoli-cheese soup, and veggie taquitos, and it was scarfed down with great gusto. In More interesting news – (via mental floss) Ernest is a 15-year-old cat who lives at a shelter in Godshill on the Isle of Wight. He suffers from entropion, a condition where the eyelids roll inward and cause inflammation. Surgery might correct the condition, but veterinarians were concerned about how such an old cat would react to an anesthetic. The solution? Contact lenses! The lenses protect Ernest’s eyes from his eyelids. Before, he had trouble seeing where he was going, but now has a new lease on life, according to shelter workers. 1 year ago – christmas tree pic, programming brain buzzing, spencer the puggle, boardgame geek gifts, ed emberly, jumping frenchmen of maine, latah 2 years ago – Prezzie from kev, doom patrol, diabetes breakthrough, 3 years ago – king kong, nighttime pix, newtie pix, boosh quote, meme 4 years ago – Mel born again, good times, steak, spazzy newt pic, earthsea whitewashed, comic book art I like, Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire 5 years ago – Tree, political compass poll, air stiff, Trained MM, flight method poll, programming notes 6 years ago – Clinton and Demi?, Sounds of Christmas, planned epidural 7 years ago – Aragon’s verse, social crit, no *taunting*?!, WiD gig 8 years ago – Meeting Tarpo and Isis in a day, liberal actors don’t bail don’t leave, planet of the apes remake 1216081905.jpg: 1216081905.jpg, originally uploaded by scottobear. songs that are bittersweet to me. if yo.. http://tinyurl.com/6z2l3d
9552 – Wednesday – Midweek
9553 – Thursday
9552 – Wednesday – Midweek