Compressor on the fridge crapped out, and I can’t seem to get in contact with the landlord. Not sure what action I’ll take if that situation continues. It’s been coming a while now.. the freezer has been fritzy since the hurricane evacuation and power outage.

I’m not really in much of a mood to write. Not in my journal or the community project. I’ll keep typing for a bit, and see if I move past it.

Watched a bunch of JLU episodes that I’ve been grabbing off of torrent, but never got around to viewing. I dig The Question more than I thought I might. Combs has a great voice for him, and he drives a mean Pontiac, too. The Huntress is a good tie for him.

I like how they kept Billy Batson looking CC Beckish, too.

Second season has this whole Cadmus / Amanda Waller thing going… interesting to see a continued storyline after first season’s collection of one-shots.

Interesting. It looks like I’m a few episodes ahead of the air time, unless they’re cycling reruns on cartoon network. I’ve got up to episode 11, and the last one they’ve aired is #8.

Spoilers, highlight if you must see ’em.

1 year ago – OTR, Black Eye guy, showers good, legion, corps more wealthy than gov’ts, DPD, purple turtle post-its, how to make, I get groovy sandals

2 years ago – Coco’s, “If I were” meme, Danny and I get together, Bro goes to ER over hand, playstation supercomputer. [side note, A Mighty Wind was a fine movie, but certainly better in the comfort of home]

3 years ago – Newtie love, Masai Cow donation

4 years ago – lovely chats full of (LODD , evil news, eye patches, little red munkee

5 years ago – Ben Franklin, Fight Club DVD cap

Also, Big lovies for Sedef today!

Flip side of listening to audio books, OTR, etc… my eyes actually shut off a little when I focus on my ears. My multitasking skills are weak when it comes to processing sensory inputs, it seems.

Looks like the Hukilau is progressing nicely! The New Website is up, and it’s looking sharp. Great music, too. A shame it’s all flash, but it’s lovely, nonetheless.

If folks are going to be in Fort Lauderdale at the top of October, I hope to see you there!

I have to remember to call and set reservations tomorrow morning, so I don’t forget later on.

954-563-3272 I think I’ll hit the 7pm show, rather than the 10. I wonder if I could lure Danny into going? Doubtful, as it’ll be well into the school schedule. Maybe I can tempt him by sending him to the Dames A’flame website.

BRING ON MONKEY ZUMA!

Made tentative plans for Danny on Thursday. Moroccan food and belly dancers, maybe?

Bro had me make a phone call for him to get a ride from some clown with a Texas number on his cell phone. Whoever I called is pretty shady. He called me from “Uncle Bob’s”, his storage facility on Sample in Pompano.

Criminy… a Speed Racer Geico commercial? I’m pretty impressed.. the got the voice talent spot on.

Random Scotto Factoid – Speed Racer is how I found the link between 5 and the board game “Go”. (A lot of Japanese show titles make a bilingual pun out of “go,” the Japanese word for “five” and the English word for, well, “go.” That’s why Speed Racer’s car is the Mach 5 — the Japanese name of the show is Maku Go Go Go)

Have they gotten around to showing classic ‘toons again on the cartoon network? I’d dig watching some of Speed Racer and the Herculoids sometime. Any show where characters are named “Lightfingers Klepto, Jr” or “Ivonna von Vondervon” is fairly groovy to me.

CVS seems to charge for food by weight rather than content. A packet of cereal, cheese crackers, cookies or a soft drink all seem to go for about $.05 per ounce, give or take. Maybe I’m making connections where there are none.

The initials stand for “Customer, Value, Service”. I suspect most of the employees at the store on Broward and Federal don’t know this.

Recent comments is a good way to stay on top of posts if mail doesn’t come in a timely manner.

Dr. Who was another follow up episode from a prior one (This time, the TV Satellite one, a hundred years later). More consequences. I didn’t think that I’d be too fond, but I really rather liked it. One of the major plot points was pretty obvious, but it mostly served to push to the season finale.

I appreciate Jack’s Holdout skills. “It’s a pleasure, which is the only thing that matters in the end.” Which means I still don’t like his character very much. I’m starting to wonder if the Doctor is going to pick up a stray every third episode, give or take?

Again, I wonder about the suggested age group for the show. It’s still written for clever 10-year olds, but has more sexual overtones and violent innuendo than I’d like for a 10-year old to see. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it. The market for most science fiction/action shows doesn’t have to be very intelligent, just entertaining… sex (well, at least “Single entendres”) and violence (bloodless ray-beam death, and exploding aliens) are certainly that. It’s still more intelligently written than anything the Sci-fi channel has produced.

I suspect that I’m being too much of a prude, and it’s really written as popcorn for 13-years rather than a younger group.

Teeth! via the something awful goons and sammykun (A semi-instructional video for first graders.)

I forgot how much I like the Impact font.

Moment of Lyric:

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what’s right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become

via daniela

Pink Floyd reuniting for Live 8 (Like she said – Roger Waters must be broke!)

1 year ago – Newt Treats, police, sleepies, DIY-WiFi, Horrid teacher name, loud car alarm, RI, Harry Lime

2 years ago – Cartoon Pope blesses ldy, white/brown eggs, fibber island lyrics

3 years ago – Intruders, Out for Thai & sushi, Rent-bump.

4 years ago – perorate, Poi Dog Pondering, Thinking of using share point for journaling, smart tags, considering a piercing / blood donation, Wolbachia / Kamikaze Sperm, evil news

5 years ago – April refusing to go to the doc, bronchitis, half-light, new pals

No acromegalics were harmed in the making of this entry.

Thick rain, but didn’t sleep much last night. On call today… hopefully it’ll be nice and peaceful. EN forgot to launch the SP calls at 7 pm last night, so I’m going to fire ’em off tonight.

Some slight ankle-pain in my left leg. I wonder if it’s a result of my drop foot and the weather pressure change?

Somehow, a little brown mouse got into the house after all the rain last night – he ran under my dresser, and Newt wants a piece of him really badly. Neither Newt or myself can get at the little guy right now, but it’s only a matter of time.

Downloaded the Audios of Hat Full of Sky and Going Postal, since I couldn’t locate it in text format. We’ll see if I can get into listening to the book on the bus rather than reading it. If they’re good, I may go back and get the rest in that format. The problem with audio is that I can go from active to passive listening, and miss things during change of focus. When I read, it’s always active. If I had the book playing in the background while I read LJ or the like, audio will still be head, but some subtleties can drop off. Snatched TV like Lost or Dr. Who is easier to grip, because my eyes are on it.

Moment of Lyric:

Oye como va
Que ritmo
Bueno par gocar
Mulatta

1 year ago – full call weekend, 3-bean salad, adsense, monkey-money, exchange, canceled comics, Saw Ray Iglesias

2 years ago – D issues, simcamera, RIP TG, poem, North Korean Cannibals, rental warnings – things seen, minimizing pain, evil intersection, there – quest

3 years ago – MS Linux? Got my new office chair, fun day out with Dan, Tia’s angry Email, anatomically correct teddy, what’s better

4 years ago – evil news, computer problems, love boat theme for Sweetalyssm, haiku, got lovely post cards, Ornj & I speculate on a fellow journalist’s sexuality, not so evil news, body hot, breakfast cereal poll

5 years ago – Privacy, web cam ftp issues, just figuring out it’s over with April