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10,079 – Saturday

Out for some “fresh air” as we’ve been cooped up for quite a spell. Visited chnaka – BHK picked up some circular knitting supplies and I got a lovely replacement for my lost glass monkey bead at bag-o-beads.

Then, we did a quick stop at Wal-Mart and got some valentine supplies – chocolate hearts and some buttons to go with BHK’s knits.

Visited Ledo’s (back next door to chnaka again – found out that buy one / get one free calzone night is the same evening as the Wednesday Knitting Circle – While we ate, (and for a bit after) we chatted with Veronica and Bill Frostbutter in the booth next to us. I like to think BHK and I will be much like them (after another 40 years or so have gone by – Veronica is a little Chatty-Cathy like BHK, and Bill is a more quiet, but friendly cohort… not unlike myself.) I think that Veronica and Bill Frostbutter should be our aliases sometime… awesome name.

We got home, and went to take care of little Stormy next door- and we proceeded to lock ourselves out of the house. Thankfully, I had the Naille’s keys on us, so we called the in-laws to let us out, while we played with little Stormy for a bit.

Of note to literati – You may flip through Poe manuscripts digitally! – http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/results.cfm?cat=1  The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection

1 year ago – hospital, boom blox, pot pie soup!, newton watching the starlings pic

2 years ago – pye on cam, bhk and Cathy, paper ballot in MD, walker nightmare, self-portrait (see yesterday for same place), stinging hands memory, pueblo zip, punch a tyrannosaurus in the face, Human sacrifice by General Butt naked

3 years ago – zombie astronaut, gun runner dream, paper moon pix

4 years ago – missing cj, superhero dream, youtube b&B, fat bat cat, herm patient, pug in lucha mask, endless forest, birthday counter.

5 years ago – Chilly, doodle, facial morphs (monkey scotto is still my fave), food, height comparisons, a/b meme, warning labels, toybox mooch, scythes

6 years ago – happy Newt, nipples off, palm post – bus stop, tummy ache. penguin poop, giant nostril

7 years ago – Tests, truth, rumor, links and history, lj spam, Kev in court

8 years ago – I got my camera, Alvin gets fired from work for stealing overtime, unsolved mysteries, snap club, mcd’s employees, nifty moon site.

9 years ago – Reflections on the old regime, The Litter Box Song *snerk*, Cow Saliva, “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme”, rehiring some of the fire-eesGeotarget Geotarget

10,078 – Friday

Today, I’m feeling a bit worse for wear – these antibiotics are tearing BHK and my guts up.

Spent the morning looking for work, and as a reward of sorts, BHK gave me her Mütter Museum pen that is shaped like an arm bone. Spent the evening watching the IT crowd, playing Wii Sports Resort with the Nailles and enjoying homemade mac & cheese with a side of veggie hot dogs from the grill!

I dreamt that Pye and Newton were horseshoe crabs, but still had their kitty tails…. somehow they could climb walls with their little hairy crab legs.

Dave sent me this – I don’t know if he drew it, but it cracked me up for about a half hour! (It looks like his style)

1 year ago – hug, element alignment, self portrait pic, pye on cam, tattoo fear, Obameter, Obama retakes oath

2 years ago – busy month, knees and backs, Bill O’Reilly doesn’t know about homeless vets, hello kitty counterstrike, Q&A meme

3 years ago – newtcam live, snow pics, reh 101, spidey hits (what killed my youtube acct)

4 years ago – superhero drawing memes, CNY, Bro’s situation improved briefly, lost, spidey video views, Sting

5 years ago – Worked late, En’s cable out, sad- sicky mel, busy phone, amber alert, great day to be alive theme

6 years agoYear of the monkey!, new icons, act like a monkey, a fellow ljers house burns down

7 years ago – honey rant, healing hands, newt pic, cuss control, cold snap

8 years ago – spy ware killer, stab-dream, home school poll, animal noises around the world, sound

9 years ago – IMT stuff, be good, Model of the modern super-criminal, birthday wishGeotarget Geotarget

10,077 – thursday

I had a terrible nightmare last night. I can’t recall all of the details now, but it involved living at home, my father still being alive and stealing stuff from my room, my mom letting Newton escape the house, having some crazy guy with a huge afro performing oral surgery that he learned in prison on my lower gums to synchronize heartbeats, Paul McCartney telling me to forgive people for doing stupid things.

In addition, look out! It’s BHK, and she’s got a giant fork!

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1 year ago – Obama / Spidey Team-up, ack to work, Dreamed about Bagel the cat, Obama suspends Guantanamo Trials

2 years ago – MLK/R.E.Lee day, Back info about Disc, LOC flickr, TMBG, KFC, randy rogers at madd, tv

3 years ago – snowstorm ends, snowballs, eggplant and french toast.
Pictures – snow & love notes

4 years ago – compusa bah, acim gang out and about, float on, sacrifice & wrath, chastity belts for 21st century
pictures – ACIM gang

5 years ago – Strep, Jill is like 30, Greek Grotto, Weather, The woods, urinals, Mrs G team pic, Romanian Girl returns from the grave, poli-sci

6 years ago – Palm doodles, band names, sinister ducks, Cheddar Cheesus, water bus trip home, Orange Cat, walkies pics

7 years ago – zcardz (precursor to the pirates game), LL fooled with my bro, vanishing finn, meds

8 years ago – Dream, Walkies with fog, Worked MLK, ear pressure relief then a return, ordered my digicam, got a keeno book off my wish list, siege engines, lego cube solver.

9 years ago -Bro pic, garam masala, patty hearst pardoned, DNA police Geotarget

10,076 – Wednesday

BHK and I both hit the doctor today – augmentin for both of us – me, for my chest and ear issues, BHK for her congestion and infection issues. Hopefully, that will knock out what’s been in BHK’s system since new year’s, and mine in the last week or so.

Making the most of our holiday gift cards – breakfast at starbucks courtesy of Dave & Cathy – the chocolate-chip banana bread is *very* good.

After that, we hit safeway to pick up our meds… and gamestop for a used copy of  boom blox bash party (the other game we got – octomania was horrible beyond keeping.)

Duncan looks adorable in the scarf BHK made for him! (he looks adorable anyhow)

1 year ago – BHK inauguration cake pic, party at J and Seans’s
2 years ago – BHK’s super skateboard, looted BHK’s old room, George of the Jungle, Wii games, Pizza, cookies, and Movies
3 years ago – newt lounging pics
4 years ago – big brain wait, college students illiterate, LN, little prince,
5 years ago – Sicky Mel, PSA, No new drama month, paypal button for charity, weather, Korean postal robots guards, MA lobster strike, Monkey king, fibs and truths answers, weather
6 years ago – crapulent, British WWII photo archive, Chick Tract, homeowners groups lacking
7 years ago – bawled out my bro, bashed up my hands.
8 years ago – walkies, coloring book fairy, waterlog ear, some dead links and some live ones, full moon birth, good dreams.
9 years ago – Iron Man, brain eating, thinking about my dad, First experience with a good LJ client, Fred the enema cat. Geotarget

Tuesday 10,075

A break day today we’re both feeling a bit better, and we’re taking advantage of $5 movies… Date with BHK in Annapolis!

The plan was originally to see Avatar  in 3-d after getting a little nibble at the mall – BHK had burgers on the brain, and I’m game for any place that has something more for a veggie-guy than a limp salad and fries… We got a wild hair to eat someplace new  – we eyeballed around a bit, and I saw a place called Sharky’s – we got closer, and it looked a little dive-y, but next door was a wonderful spot we’d never seen before, despite it having been in the same place for 17 years – Giolitti’s! The food is fantastic, and the people there are really friendly;  they support fostering animals too.

I had the vegetarian sandwich with no tomatoes, and olive spread. oh, so yummy. BHK had meatballs and pasta… also delicious..

Giolitti Vegetarian – grilled eggplant, fresh mozzarella, tomato, lettuce and oil & vinegar dressing on sliced tuscan…$6.50

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Our timing was off, and I think that’s for the best – we went to see Sherlock Holmes rather than Avatar – It was *much* better than I’d expected.

On the way in, I spotted this splat on the carport roof – looks like the sprinkler had a lot of rust build-up before going off!

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1 year ago – tigger pic, bay, testing live writer, invited my whole yahoo to facebook – oops
2 years ago – fun with bugah, movies, Making Money, Cheeburger Cheeburger, Nat’l treasure 2, Family fluxx, polarity
3 years ago – waiting on net, quiz-memes
4 years ago – cool icon, late work, palm doodle, mozilla, Lost, bite pic, lj-abuse
5 years ago – Lots of family drama, weather, link sponsor, classic C&H, 10 truths – 5 fibs poll, boxer vs rice, monkey king’s tomb
6 years ago – Happy b’day, FB!, MLK, Big Fish with Danny, hair in soy sauce, cotton candy autopsy
7 years ago – music and food for bro, silly sound bites
8 years ago – nice dreams, biochemical weapons and parking meters, I enjoyed Fellowship, poor choice in names
9 years ago – Massive layoffs, cartoon bird gender, misc writing, digging Jenny Lee’s singing Geotarget

Monday – 10, 074 – 1/18

The Nailles took us out to lunch at Appleby’s after Chris got his epidural at the hospital across the street – seems like this time it took well. BHK was just happy to get a yummy blondie to share with me!

watched the end of sanctuary – cliffhanger, dang it!

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

1 year ago – groundhog day doodle, slow day, aardvark’s, blood sugar/ blackout
2 years ago – nutshell of a day, Bugah visit
3 years ago – voice post – newton’s first snow
4 years ago – homeless thoughts, bb vid card broken, newt buries my dinner, jimi, auto-dl tv shows, 
5 years ago – mushrooms and eggplant, barefoot craving, acronym cursing, Panama city teens, prozac suicides
6 years agopopeye is 75, duckburg, powerskip, santa cluster maint, hybrids, beach-dweller picture that will make you shriek, brain sammiches, cam pics, cap’n strong
7 years ago – tan me hide, kartoo, SOP, coloring book entry
8 years ago – Accessory animals. Enron & GWB/pretzel, watching Lone Gunmen, Newt came to work, skate porn
9 years ago – Hot outside! Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, the weather the cuckoo likes, my first LJ flame attack (and my rebuttal) Geotarget

sunday – 10, 073 1/17

slept almost all day, except for playing lego battles on the ds and watching it crowd / sanctuary

Pye likes to snooze in my lap, too. Forgive the poor quality, dear journal – it was dark, and I didn’t want to wake him.

1 year ago –  frozen ground, no water, pancakes, water returns, movies with the in-laws and BHK
2 years ago – MRI, snow, dentist, pizza hangman, psych
3 years ago – pic @ papermoon cafe with Alice and BHK
4 years ago – thick head, bro has coin, iguana / scream like a girl / game show, Florida homeless beating, sand game, now with stick men, i am god toon, walking ghost
5 years ago – mel day, dick tracy’s alien connection, translations, site search
6 years ago – MM in an arranged wedding, global pals, cow brain burger, celebration(FL) sold, cool supermarket photos
7 years ago – Bavarian, Ana at gallery, they wait below, Sappho compliments me, cat piccies, scintillate, firefly
8 years ago – Trimaris, school dream, little suck-a-thumb, James Earl Jones gets called James Earl Ray (Whoops!), Immigrant song, band name poll, Sasha and Misha move away, some silly linkies.
9 years ago – Analog never did print it, Bilbo’s Guide to life, textbooks responsible for stupid teens. Geotarget

Saturday – 10, 072 – 1/16

Still not feeling so hot – yummy quiche for breakfast, and tonight we watched fanboys & extract and had a nice picnic upstairs – tried the new domino’s pizza – no the greatest, more than a little greasy. Movies weren’t the best, but it’s nice to spend time with BHK in our little treehouse.

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spinach and cheese quiche!

1 year ago – planning for the long weekend, 7 degrees!, #6 and Mr. Roarke pass away, Sammy the post office cat, newton leaps and shenanigans
2 years ago – living boardwalk dream, tasty dinner, iron man art meme, Q&A with Scotto
3 years ago – voice post – pretzels and candy corn
4 years ago – mr t happy dance, stayed in watched kong, hobbit house, MLK day, falling sand toy, palm doodle, deadly sins meme
5 years ago – Rainy lazy mel-day, bonnet house, literati with resilience, fictional substances, fooling around with image searches
6 years ago – Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, etc
7 years ago – Newt Pic, Manatees, Harry potter, palm wait at doc, sanctity of life
8 years ago – cool invention poll, thoughts about human rights progressing, magic spell over Taiwan, books read, How to take a punch, and my first notification that I was being published in UA2.
9 years ago – Custard the Dragon, Beautiful and Not-so-beautiful Words, Botticelli reminding me of mah sweetie, Michelangelo on Censorship, and a few dead links. Geotarget
10 years ago – Newt was Neutered!  Geotarget

10,071 – Friday the 15th.

terribly sick – probably shouldn’t have gone out and about yesterday – I’m really gravelly and wiped out. Probably won’t go over to the Naille’s for game night this evening. sore throat, sore joints, high fatigue.

The upside is that I’m  enjoying Colors! on the DS and streaming old-school radio and tv detective shows.

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having a bad hair day – what happens when you spend the day sick in bed. I feel like a hood ornament.

1 year ago – back to work, snow day, february vacation time lined up, holiday remainders, Getting BHK hooked on OTR, minor slim jim scratcher victory.
2 years ago – ides of January, snow, sublimation, veggie meatloaf yum!, 1970’s tv detectives, chimp declared a person, psych
3 years ago – moved into the brown house
4 years ago – nudge (I like it now), my latest superpower, electrocution dream, soloing, caribs, pandas make more sense, stardust probe returns,
5 years ago – Jambi back after the great LJ crash of ’05, William Schmidt’s art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA
6 years ago – DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck
7 years ago – smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires
8 years ago – nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols
9 years ago – pictures of me with [info]tarpo at No-nose maldanado’s, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things Geotarget

10,070 – Thursday

Nutshelling to catch up – backdated, so it shouldn’t autopost everywhere.

I am still sick – went out to pick up my acekard2i at ups with Chris and BHK. I’ll be putting homebrews on my christmas prezzie in no time!

Of course, a trip with Chris means shopping, so I parked at gamestop while BHK and her mom roamed around homegoods and pier 1.

1 year ago – “I need to talk to you”, upset stomach, Cap’n Bluebear, BHK nightmare
2 years ago – Newton on cam pic w/laundry, water cooler, psych, pizza bagels, unlimited netflix stream, free gas from chavez, call for guantanamo to be closed
3 years ago – pye in lockup, on the way home pic
4 years ago – shoo prezzie, swim / iguana fear, batgirl meme (and my palm doodle), folks quitting acim, trivia meme, porpoise song, dracula’s dinosaur death dreams, kenneth koskela in comments
5 years ago – Spidey a teacher’s aide, palm doodles, bus pictures, bizarro ipod
6 years ago – Media player classic, Chinese connection, old gaming notes (with diagrams), Florida laws, high school meme, monkeys!, work hubbub
7 years ago – evil quiz, printable gizmos, supergun, enviro-boots
8 years ago – visited hippies, cool clock, warm, groceries, kevin smith quiz, silly linkies, ramble about x-ray-eyes, SOP, etc
9 years ago – fun quotes, romance test, victorian flower symbolism, bill hicks Geotarget

10,069 – wednesday

Hump day again, again, dear journal. Some good news – Netflix is coming to the Wii this spring-

Woke up with a sore throat – hopefully I’m not succumbing to BHK’s lingering congestion, and it was only dust from the loft. We’ll know more soon enough!

Telephone interview today – it went well! I look forward to hearing more from them soon.

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Nurse Newt Making sure I’m tucked in.

1 year ago – Sick, TV and Dr. BHK and Nurses Newt & Pye take care of me.
2 years ago – frying pan, aardvark, bugah, HL2, not a hardcore gamer anymore
3 years ago – dream ramble – voice post
4 years ago – icon snatching, lost, dr who, flickr tools, books, compusa, meeting of the daves, cool weather, birds ate my brains, prejudice map, findory,
5 years ago – Lost, romainan pop inspires .htaccess, supercar, anonymous statement meme, age act meme
6 years ago – That Stretchy Guy & That Clay Guy.
7 years ago – cops, prezzies, kidthinks
8 years ago – space commies and monkeys, dream, haiku, mothman, tarot
9 years ago – SOS, folk fest, annoyed with collapsing tabs, brian howdy, super friends drinking game Geotarget

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10,068- Tuesday

Farewell, Christmas tree! You are now out by the side of the road for bulk pickup. Started off slow today, with a workout and Craig Ferguson talking about the NBC lineup issues.

BHK and I dragged the tree outside, while Newton and Pye watched… Pye made a break for it three or four times, I finally locked ‘em both up in the office while the door was opening and closing so much. Pye’s big ol’ snowshoe feet are perfect for the powder in our front yard.

Spent some time tonight trying to recover BHK laptop, reseated the ram… next is to take out the battery and power supply overnight, and see if the emptied charge will come back in the morning.

Watched Fanboys and Extract for our pizza-night in the loft… more fun just spending time together than the movies themselves. 🙂

1 year ago – plans to get MD driver’s license, cold and bitter, jaw infection, superstars of dance
2 years ago – doodle entry, angel-a, Larry looks like Comm. Gordon, rough day, relaxing at in-laws,
3 years ago – Salem and Marion pics
4 years ago – las olas wifi, newt pics, flash on dvd (I got it this xmas!), moist poll,
5 years ago – Hump day doodle, work, mel, moody blues, ex-coworkers read my journal, parrot jungle?
6 years ago – Walkies-pix continued, ShOr deleted, bad storefronts
7 years ago – fog-walking, SOP
8 years ago – WID meeting, John Buscema passed away, bad day
9 years ago – brad pushes for growth, bicycle built for 2, lj creaking, bug city, recipes, Siddhartha
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10,067 – Monday

Hey! Today is a palindrome! 011110 !

A panoramic pic of the bay iced over from yesterday (bigger here)

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BHK made me a wonderful breakfast of veggie omelets and English muffin – nice dose of protein to begin the day solidly.

Bad news technology-wise… BHK’s laptop seems to have taken a nap from which it won’t awake. I suspect the internal power supply. Looking into cracking it open soon, if the alternate cable doesn’t fix her up.

Shadow of the Vampire this evening, while we strip the tree of it’s ornaments and lights – rather a counterpoint too last year’s Kolchak festival while putting on the goodies.

Started watching sanctuary tonight, but the allure of Big Kahuna took it over. We’ve made it to 94 of 99 levels complete, and all but one tropical fish unlocked.

Dinner of tasty twisty pasta and unchicken strips in a tomato-cream sauce, with lots of tasty garlic!

Janet sent me a pic of Danny from his Birthday on Los Olas – BHK thinks he looks cuter sans moustache.

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1 year ago – rescue ink, winter farmer’s market, comics & munchkin quest (still unplayed, a year later! got to correct that soon), die monter die, mr meaty, took apart trains under the xmas tree
2 years ago – baby polar bear, different route to work, friday 5, gizmodo tv-b-gone
3 years ago – newt and pye pics / video, off to marion
4 years ago – hijinks, top 10 questions, hieroglyphic names, system still out for repair, doodling
5 years ago – turtle thought, dinero, illumination, tv torrents, vampire hunting with a stand up bass, metasearch, mucho folks fired for keeping online journals, iraqi abuse cheerleaders, server location, flying_blind introduces me to the term blague which is a perfect alternate to blog.
6 years ago – drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout
7 years ago – LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies
8 years ago – Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby
9 years ago – looking to the future, all the words Geotarget

10,066 – Sunday – Happy birthday, Kat!

Brunch with BHK, In-laws, Adam, Dave Nelson, and Rorey – Adam made a heart-shaped biscuit for anna, who was absent (Adam is going to VA this afternoon to settle some court issues there)

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No Snow today, but the bay is still nicely iced!

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Visited Nailles a bit, chitty-chatted for a while

Big Kahuna when we got home – nearly to the end by now – our zoo animals haven’t given birth yet.

New fondness for the IT crowd TV show – nice mindless foolishness, with some of the boosh gang hanging about, too.

1 year ago – shots, bhk doc visit, Kat’s 3rd year ljing, dunwich horror, cookies, bhk’s coat arrives
2 years ago – plumber, kat bday, nutshell day
3 years ago – KC’s bday, moved a bit, dead and breakfast, hero quiz
4 years ago – illegal to annoy, esp poll 2, superkitty icon, yahoo-webjay, meme, sliders farewell, Japanese spidey full 1st episode, more silly quizzes, dinosaur/archosaur, family watchdog for sex preds, eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
5 years ago – Mel’s not fond of my music & helpful to caterpillar, OTR, evilcorp, FBI most wanted, long list meme, word use, that silly video, no conspiracy folks?
6 years ago – Blimp, bail, accents and the start of getting a mortgage, fog of war, newt pic
7 years ago – silly entendres, pygmy cannibals, pyramid mausoleum
8 years ago – gollum toys, prayer wheels, SOP, What’s he gots in his pocketses?, gollum poll
9 years ago – supes, lyrics, ghosting Geotarget

10,065 – Saturday

Pictures from Wilton’s Birthday Party in Deerfield –

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Broke frivolous spending fast when we went out to breakfast with the Nailles at "Eggcelence" whoops! I guess we’ll restart soon.

Went to Best Buy to look at the TV Chris bought

boom blox party and M&M sports with the Nailles – below is BHK racing her kayak!

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Lego Star wars at home once we returned – played until the wee hours.

1 year ago – xmas lights coming down in north beach, t-rex related to birds, dinner, happiness of the katakuris
2 years ago – slept late, work, BHK and I go shopping and on a date to see Juno, Easter eggs in I Am Legend, Q&A meme
3 years ago – Appalachians trip, took it easy and watched tv, ate doggies.
4 years ago – Japanese Spidey, Heroclix for Ambush bug, piggy bank kid, ants guy, palm doodle, andy in jail, walkabout thoughts, bigfoot pic, gamera, grappling hook, boosh
5 years ago – Mel’s fingernail falls off, we surf the web, 3.6 million nickels stolen, distance home meme, quarter bin craving, monkeys & crackers, happy feet
6 years ago – dynamic address assigning, Artist under the influence of LSD, My Messy Office
7 years ago – prisoner on the brain, Names, Antarctica, EO-letters
8 years ago – paper models, walkies, coming events, EO-mashnote
9 years ago – paranoia, recorder, odigoGeotarget