I just had the bestest nap, ever!

It feels like my batteries are totally up to full.

My Lj-sis () made me a rastafarian. See the evidence below.

I was prowling around the more odd parts of the Net and stumbled across that image…Not much information about it except that it is some sort of Tibetan pitcher made from a human skull and used to hold wine for ceremonies.

I want something like that, but made from the skull of a buccaneer.

Colostomy Bag Thief
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A bungling thief who thought he had taken a valuable camera ended up with a case full of colostomy bags.

The burglar struck at the home of Kath Tozer in Penzance and ignored other valuables as he took the Kodak camera case and fled. The case belonged to a state-of-the-art digital camera, but Mrs Tozer, 70, uses it to keep her travelling supply of colostomy bags.

I only wish that he’d gotten the used ones.

from this test – http://blanchard.virtualave.net/war/dndstats.html

Str: 17
Int: 15
Wis: 13
Dex: 13
Con: 12
Chr: 14

I’d not have thought my Con was lower than my dex. (I’d have figured it was the other way around). According to http://www.ackadia.com/bgate/game-bgtables.html (my memory wasn’t serving me) I meet the minimums to be a Bard! That’d be a wonderful fantasy career track. (I don’t quite make muster for a ranger or paladin)

The cold hard lands,
they bites our hands,
they gnaws our feet.
The rocks and stones
are like old bones
all bare of meat.
But stream and pool
is wet and cool:
so nice for feet!
And now we wish –

well, if you’re me, right now –

1. Keyring with 5 keys, a security doodad, and a blood donor chain
2. Palm Pilot with a happy face sticker on the carrying case
3. metlife insurance card
4. video store card
5. library card
6. florida ID card
7. organ donor card
8. Newton Vet card
9. $97.60 in assorted bills. (4 20s, 1 10, 7 1s, 2 quarters and a dime)
10. A paperclip
11. a spiral mint wrapped in cellophane

What’ve you got?

well, if you’re me, right now –

1. Keyring with 5 keys, a security doodad, and a blood donor chain
2. Palm Pilot with a happy face sticker on the carrying case
3. metlife insurance card
4. video store card
5. library card
6. florida ID card
7. organ donor card
8. Newton Vet card
9. $97.60 in assorted bills. (4 20s, 1 10, 7 1s, 2 quarters and a dime)
10. A paperclip
11. a spiral mint wrapped in cellophane

What’ve you got?

Realization from today’s walkies. I saw a pair of Indian women walking, one had a child on her arm, and it looked like they were heading off to the grocer…something about seeing them made me happy, set a lot of mental gears in motion. Culture, maternity, exotic fabrics and the like. Discursive thoughts reorganized into a few ideas.

I need to do research on prayer wheels. I think it’d be interesting to maybe paint images on the side of a hard disk, and have it spiritually active every time it spins from data beind read and written. Alternately, maybe paint on the top of music CDs… would those work in the Tibetan faith? Now that I think of it… could you put it on any wheels, or is that bad for some idea? Car Tires, ceiling fans, merry-go-rounds, Ferris Wheels? I wonder if this has even been done before. I imagine that if it’s not counter to the beliefs, most likely so.

In Newtie News: He took his meds ok, and has a competitor for “Cute fuzzball at work”… a baby Golden named Dexter. I’m not as free to bring Newtie in now, because Dex has Dibs (Dex is Kev’s poochie. However, Once Dex is done being, he won’t be coming in any more). I get to babysit Dex today whenn Kev goes into his meetings… added bonus, I don’t have to go to the meetings! 🙂

Mornings, it is… must wait for the Yellow Face to show for walkings, I must. It burns us. Yess. For now I stay in my dank cave and guards my precious.

Why no lego Gollum? http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~bnh/lotr/lotrmain.html

Ah well, at least there’s an action figure. Warning, there are spoilers to the novel on the source page. Don’t look if you’ve not finished the books. safe pictures are below my lj cut

Non-spoiler pictures are here

I thought time was only supposed to fly when was having fun? I’m here at work two hours already, and I don’t know where it went. I think I’m going to start taking public transit into work in the morning, at least when it’s not raining… at least until I remember why I fell out of the habit. I need to pick up a new bus pass this weekend, anyhow.

Here’s why I have a “I’ll believe it when I see it” attitude about coming software. Especially Peekabooty and AI.

Things happening over the next 30 days, barring a bad change of events, in semi-chronological order –

1. Get a digital Camera (Belated Christmas Prezzie for self)
2. Get a nice beach cruiser bicycle (Birthday Prezzie for self)
3. Get a week off for vacation
4. Finish Big Brain’s repairs (dual monitor, internet, and backup)
5. Reactivate 24/7 Newtcam
6. Troll for some new contracting gigs
7. Get Back with WID, and JenJen and see if there’s anything else I can do there.
8. Take a more recent picture of myself and Derek together (and get a pic of his tattoo)
9. Celebrate my Birthday, and wish Robb a happy one, too. (It’s the same day)

I want to go home, get under the covers, snuggle and nap. *right now*

This morning I *creeeak* up from checking email and finding this great paper modelling links page. (Where were those paper buildings when I was tabletop gaming?) Thinking to self – “Scott, It’s kind of cool outside for morning walkies and I feel very, very lazy. It’s 48ºF…Quit yer complaining! You need a walk, and once you’re moving, you’ll thank me for it. Oh, all right. I’ll do it… *mumble mumble, gonna get a bagel at the bagel shop, though, and some tea”

So I pick up Newt, and give sweet lovies to procrastinate a bit. Four hundred nuzzles, kitty kisses and headbutts later, I’m dressed and out the door wearing a sweatshirt to keep warm and a baseball cap to preserve my nose from Yellow Face.

The sky is clear, with no clouds to hold heat down, and it’s beautiful out. The sun is bearing down, so I don’t really notice the chill too much once out of the covering shadows of the apartment’s roof. I hit the sidewalk and there were absolutely *no* rollerbladers or cyclists out today… a few other walkers though. It strikes me funny somehow that a mom with a stroller is willing to come out, but workout folks aren’t. On the return loop, there were quite a few Fire trucks screaming loudly down Federal Highway. It is very dry out again, now that I think of it… Traffic was slow to make way, the jarring klaxons of the trucks hurt my ears as they gave up trying to get past them all and instead rolled along the outside emergency lane. I scanned the horizon for smoke, but didn’t see any. There had to be at least five big trucks and a small cheif’s vehicle heading north, though. Another sight that would’ve been nice to catch on the digital camera. When I got home I dosed up Newt quite easily, we had some play, then to the shower for me to prep for work. Now dressed, I recount my morning and await a ride into work.

It’s supposed to get colder tonight, so I’m leaving the desk lamp on for Newt to sit next to in case it gets too chilly before I get home. It occurs to me that Newton’s not had warm food since drinking the formula I’d mix for him as a baby. I wonder if he misses it? How would you feel if you went from having mother’s milk to kibble and a little soft treat once or twice a day?

I don’t think it’d be too bad, if I didn’t know any better. I think Newt eats the kitty equal of Lucky charms daily… crunchy bits, and softer, tastier pieces that are shaped like things that they’re not.

In News of Scotto’s bod… the left arm is much better today.

It’s good to be home.

I’m hunnnnngry.

What’s for eats in this joint?

Ah! Grilled Cheese, with a side of green beans and applesauce.

Some sweet tea, and I’m set.

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