Made plans to go to dinner tomorrow night with Dan…weird.. my social time with people seems to have about a three-hour limit… I doubt very much he can stay out/up past 11, and I do have work the following day.

Bro called up, and has some more $$$ for me! He got a portion of his settlement back (not the cop thing, something else), and will be putting a couple of hundred bucks in my hot little hand… I really dig that he’ll pay me back money that I give him, even knowing that I won’t harass him about it, or even expect it returned.

I have to call the community blood center, and see about getting back on the aphaeresis schedule.

probably my last post of the evening… night night, dear journal.

today was an impromptu “take your kid into work” day today… Dale and Paul’s children (a son and daughter, 12 and 6, respectively). I’ve only met Vaughn once before, but as of this weekend, he’s now living with Dale, so I imagine his visits will be more frequent. The genetics didn’t drift a great deal, if you compare the two… save for the 18-year difference, they’re pretty much identical. It’s neat to see shared vocal traits and physical mannerisms.

Flipside, Alex is very little like her father, physically. She’s a cute little doodle-bug, and Paul’s a big ol’ box of a guy… I feel sorry for any boys that decide to take a fancy to her… she’s certainly a daddy’s girl. 🙂

I often wonder what children from the union of my beloved and myself would be like… somehow, I picture her chromosomes being more dominant… having a little red-haired monkey-girl, exuberant and running around, getting into mischief and yet melting the heart of all who behold her… much like her mother before. (She’s got a vast amount of “adorable-genes” to spare).

pondering an old nonsense-rhyme:

It’s been gray and raining steadily since mid-afternoon… the soft white noise tries to lure me to a nap. I think I’ll hit the hay early again tonight, to finish recharging my trickled-down batteries.

I’m really enjoying my current diversion… designing outfits and powers for my freedom force characters. I’ve set up a few “danger room” scenarios… it’s fun combating Lego-bots, Wildfire, the Brown Hornet (from Fat Albert), Kool-Aid man, and a host of other skins.

my current team of four –

Flashback – Hero with a tie-dye pattern from head to toe and big ol’ Grateful Dead sun on his cape. Abilities – Teleport, Alteration, and some mind control tricks… along with Healing, and high constitution. Drawbacks – his area effect attack tends to hit him, too.

WMotU – Shapely and Wise defender of the good, able to use her innate Web & Net abilities to entangle opponents and improve the way of life for those she protects. She also has “Ol’ Betsy”.. a less than friendly rifle to stop bad guys at range with a cone of buckshot. She can fly & has a mystic shield that she can place on herself or others. Beautiful… you have to make a save vs. hypnosis to try to hit her. Costume is in orange and reds, with a wide domino mask. Drawbacks – Myopic… ranged attacks are difficult to aim (good thing Betsy shoots in sort of a cone)

The Cougar – powerful Claws and Teeth. Super leap, and danger sense. Area effect sonic “purr” . Speedy. He has an Orange Tabby/Tiger striped pattern, red cape. Hirsute (fuzzy, takes less damage from cold attacks) Drawbacks- Berserker AND Timid, and no real ranged attacks… (to reflect Newt’s tendency to attack ferociously, then run away, only to return and attack again)

The Pod – Wears a “Man-Thing”/”Swamp Thing” Green / Rust / Browns, no cape, though I may add a fuzzy white blanket later. large frame. Highly resistant to most kinetic, cold and mental attacks, still vulnerable to mystic, acidic, and temperature/fire-based stuff. Very strong and durable, low speed. ( Able to toss any weapon of opportunity at bad guys… cars, street lights, etc) Has the ability to climb walls, like a creeping vine. Can take extra time to do a powerful strike… “300-percenter”. Can reflect ranged attacks back at enemies. is able to create short-term spore duplicates of himself to cause even more mayhem for the baddies.

I may swap out flashback for some other type… not sure, yet.

Stuff at work.. more drama, little resolved. I’m stepping out of that perimeter until they chill out.

I have a *very special treat indeed* planned for my sweetheart.. but I won’t say what it is, until she gets it. (which may be weeks from now, depending on where I need to get certain things) I know she’s going to dig it, though.

Speaking of special treats…

Virus W32.Klez.H@mm found. File NOT cleaned.

This attachment has a virus that may infect your computer. It cannot be cleaned.
We recommend that you DO NOT download this attachment.

Sheesh… I get about three of these daily. I’d really like to know who’s sending it to me, so I can help them and everyone else on their distro list. (it drops straight into my Spam-folder for deletion, so it’s no sweat for me personally) It goes to my goofy old bigfoot addy, then bounces around quite a bit before landing in the disposal.

the header

Weird dreams last night… I woke up with a sense of happy confusion… I wish I’d written it down. Hopefully, it’ll resume tonight when I hit the sack.

This morning’s walk was mostly uneventful, but I noticed more “work-traffic” out and about at 7:30 than at 9:00… funny how roads don’t get an even distribution of use… a few very busy times, and long periods of very little usage. I wonder if I’ll see hover cars in my lifetime, the asphalt replanted with short meadow-grass? I still want a personal jetpack.

I can’t seem to get this to load.

Pesky, because it sounds mucho nifty. I’ll try again later tonight. instead, I’m playing mad shark.

Why you should get a tattoo only in languages you can read.

My blood donation center sent me a reminder to come and donate this week… I think I’ll swing by there tomorrow, and do the deed. I’m overdue, and no longer on any meds. I know it might sound greedy, but I wonder what sort of treats they’re giving out these days? I can never have enough freebie T-shirts, donated by companies that want a nice tax write-off.

Me-

Newt-

Well, off to work, dear journal… see you tonight.

Vikings that play intestines like a harp are cool.

sleeping late with a cat at what’s better? seems to be stable at 89. I really want it to shoot over 100…

as of this writing – stats are –
Score: 89
Total Number of Wins: 288
Total Number of Votes: 539
Submitted On: 2002-05-27

By comparison…

General Zod: -19
Sleestak: -97
Mr Bubbles: 95
Quizno’s Subs: 56
the illuminatus! trilogy: 49
moist towelettes: 10

sharpie pens are tied at 89.

I’m considering tossing a few more things into the mix, but for now, I’m off to dinner, and then some reading before bed.

nifty keywords that got to my page –

Google clogs and socks
Google shanna the she-devil
Google integrated multimonitor
Google height:4 wrestler
Google first superhero to actually use terms like holy moley
Google pier one commercials kirstie ally

hmm… not many weirdo yahoo hits!

nigh nigh, dear journal.

The chair is very nice, and I had a grand brunch and conversation with Dan. 🙂

work today went nicely for me… solid but controlled, and I was happy to see my sweetie.

Chupacabra at work nearly got another person to quit, and she wasn’t even in Chupa’s department. Tia sent a scathing email to *everyone* in management about it, with poor grammar and a lot of slang to boot. the letter

MS Linux: Shipping in November 2002 – Hee hee…

eclipse was weak from where I was last night.. only about 4% obscured… plus, it was raining.

Going to breakfast with Danny… he’s still decompressing from teaching… but he’s bringing over my Christmas present! A new Office chair… (he got tired of waiting for me to pick one out. 🙂 )

So, after assembling the thing, we’ll hit Ronnie B’s or someplace that has cuisine that meets his needs… he’s on a low-sodium, low cholesterol diet. I think we can do ok at ‘RBs… they have egg beaters there.

Not sure what we’ll do after eating.. I have to go to work today, but we should have about three good hours to hang out before I do that. Probably sit and shoot the breeze. We’ll see. Until later, dear journal.

found my hair-ties, by the way. in with newt’s milk-rings. I forgot I gathered ’em up for fumigation.

plans for tomorrow… I’m going to get up at daybreak…start doing the walk earlier, again. before 8:30… it’s going to start getting hot, soon.

Air conditioning died tonight at work at about 6pm…got pretty dang warm from 6:30 on.

I’ve started listening again to old dragnet episodes after hours at work… ol’ Joe Friday has really got a range of positions… narcotics, homicide, price gouging TV repairmen, and bunko artists all cross his caseload.

Bunko is a great word…right up there with shenanigans.

Bunko Shenanigan’s!

It’s another one of those goofy TGIfridays/Ruby Tuesday’s sort of “family themed” restaurants!

I’m going to make a note of that and use it as a location sometime.

“Land of Wind and Ghosts”… theme graveyard Chinese food place

Trying to come up with some snappier names for the regions of my website,

Sea Cave / Beach / Gentle path? (Links to other Sites), Wall Scrawls (Journal, Writings), Cave Paintings (Cam / Graphic Art), Grotto (Main/ News, Possibly Host LJ there?), Bone Pile (Completed Projects / Cam Archive), Fire Pit (Projects in the works)

I rather like the Green / Tan / Orange text on my LJ… I think that I’ll propagate it over to the home site, for the time being… It may be a little Autumnal, but I rather like the blend.

I discovered that you can in your LJ settings configure your page to only show the “Community Icon” for the communities that you have on your friend’s list… I’m going to make a point of updating and ‘s bios to reflect that as an added disclaimer for people with more delicate sensibilities (like myself) that’d just as soon not see inappropriate graphics pop up there. I’ll be keeping the Normal settings on my own site just so I can make sure I can stay on top of things as moderator, but the hut will be adjusted accordingly, for folks that decide to link in there directly. I wonder if I twiddle the hut’s settings if it’ll stop everyone’s icon form popping up elsewhere? Easiest way to find out is to try, I think. It might get folks to use the secondary icon I’ve plugged in over there, too.

Where did I put my hair-ties?

I watched about half of Rose Red last night… and only got to bed at all because the other half stopped downloading. 🙂 Good flick thus far, though I would’ve waited for the whole thing had I known I only had half of it… as it stands, the first half was three hours long. So far, it’s an excellent production.

It’s loosely related to this place – somewhere I’ve wanted to visit for years.

Well, off to work… until later, dear journal.

Got caught in a summer shower during this morning’s walk…it came out of nowhere… warm rain on a sunny day. I’m going to have to put my camera in a Ziploc bag if I’m going to go roaming with it this next month or two.

Does anyone remember when cam was another word for cog? like “cam shaft”? I walked past the body shop, and it took me a second to clear the cobwebs enough to understand why an auto parts place would have a special on cams… (I assumed it was a web camera at first.) Too much time immersed in net-jargon I suppose.

I still miss my Newtie-navbar…I’m going to implement it on my new homepage, I think, just so I can have it back.

Two years ago today – poetry. A year ago, haiku. Time to get back into writing.

I’m glad to see the is getting some use again… it went a little dormant for a while, but a few new users seem to have breathed some fresh life into it.

Form of… a sucky movie! – Warner Bros. Pictures has teamed with Gaylord Films to option the rights to the Hanna-Barbera characters the Wonder Twins, with plans to make a live-action family feature.

That’ll probably change after the Scooby movie bombs. (I’m guessing it will… maybe it’ll be a blockbuster… who knows?)

and now, a moment of Zen.

In a grove of tall bamboos
Beside an ancient temple
Steam rolls from the brazier
In fragrant white clouds.
I’ll show you the path of Sages
Beyond this floating world,
But will you understand
The lasting taste of spring?

– Baisao (1675-1763)

Went to breakfast with the bro… we passed on undercover brother, instead preferring to gab and window-shop for bicycles and mp3 players. I bought a legitimate copy of freedom force… something I’d been seeking for about a month now… who knew K-mart would stock it? I had a nice time with bro… he seems to be doing well, and is enthusiastic about the coming settlement, thus the shopping.

The legit FF is much better than the pi-r8 version I had…. the sounds were ripped out and it was a playtest beta. the new version has all the powers and much of the audio cheese I was craving… I played it for a little while, but I’ve spent most of my return time goofing with Newt, when he’s wakeful. I can’t express how glad I am to have him home…. and he’s happy to be here, too…. so I’m spoiling him with a boatload of attention, where I can.

I’m looking forward to bro picking up his bicycle… I want to ride with him up and down the beach. It’ll be good to have a pedal-pal to take with to the sea and back… the beach cruiser I as looking at looked just about right for me, too… a good high seat, and I think a three speed is fine to get me comfortably over the canal drawbridge. It had shocks and an aluminum frame, so I don’t have to worry as much about jarring bumps or sea-air rust, either.

Going with the bro out tomorrow morning to see Undercover Brother… the 10am showing. He as to be to work by 3pm, so the timing is good for a movie and a little lunch out to talk and hang around together. Added bonus, it’ll be at the theatre by my house, and it’ll be matinee prices, with *nobody* there… who goes to 10am movies? Me and him, and hopefully few, if any others. More fun to laugh loudly. Heck, there’s a 9:25 flick, too, but we’d both just as soon take that extra half hour and sleep in. The movie looks like a good bet.. .we’ll either dig laughing with it, or at it.

I’m so glad to have Newt back in the bedroom with me, and to be back with all my stuff again… nice to lounge in my shorts with everything clean in the house, with my books, blankets, and DSL. Very comforting to be in a familiar place, little fuzzy boy purring happily by my right foot.

I wonder where my sweetie has dashed off to? I missed her call by about an hour earlier… I suspect she’s relaxing somewhere comfortably, as am I. She could be anywhere, but she’s also taking up residence in my heart, as always…helping to keep the blood pump happy, and all that surrounds it.

I downloaded five episodes of Greg the bunny from kazaa…watched them, and deleted ’em. entertaining, but not worth burning to CD. I’m sorry that Eugene Levy can’t find a TV show that’ll last more than 1/2 season these days.

I’m now just chewing a bit on a little program that’s been rolling around in my head and will automate a few things that the Rock does at work, freeing him up to do more bringing in of outside clients. I know he’d appreciate it, as would Kev… (and it’ll look good next pay raise time, too. 😉 )

Well, I’ve tidied up my LJ so that it’s navigable again, but not nearly as pretty… I changed the colors to sort of a ornj and green…I may swap ’em back.

Sakes… I’m glad I didn’t go with the extended flash navbar, and making my LJ the core of the page…. stupid security risks.

Well, I’d like to assume I’m through the bulk of my “June Bugs”… all the little nit-noids bugging me throughout the first week or so of June. This seems to be a habit since the year 2000… but I’ll take it, if it means the rest of my year will be as good as the 2k’s past.

Back from my day of cleaning, cleansing, and a-warshin’. 🙂

I am the only thing that remains dirty, so into the shower I go!

*sprint*

well, crap on a crap cracker.

here’s my lost flash answer –

um, where’s my flash navigation bar? 🙁

I’m home and cleaning up, by the way…