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8736 – Friday

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What Flavour Are You? Cor blimey, I taste like Tea.Cor blimey, I taste like Tea.

I am a subtle flavour, quiet and polite, gentle, almost ambient. My presence in crowds will often go unnoticed. Best not to spill me on your clothes though, I can leave a nasty stain. What Flavour Are You?

bhk got –

What Flavour Are You? Tomato is what I taste like.Tomato is what I taste like.

I taste like nothing, except a tomato. I’m sometimes sweet and sometimes tart; sometimes juicy, sometimes crisp. The roles of a tomato are many and varied. I am an exception to all the rules. What Flavour Are You?

Good preliminary news from CodeRED – Dave put me on to some good leads for a gig or 121. I’ll know midday Monday.

BHK out with Tina for a gal’s day – pedicures and Mexican food. I’m glad that Tina’s getting out and about… the winter gloomiest seems to have descended on her a smidgen. I’ll wager some time with BHK will brighten her day. [edit: They picked me up to get mexican food! Hooray! er, Ole’!

1 year ago – an owl!, tree pic, space piggy hits, plans with Dan to see wicked (canceled), home cost estimator, floating wind turbines, homeless man beating,

2 years ago – Rooster year, Kerby, palm doodle, nifty dolls, web-flowers, ljers who kill, machine gun vs katana, google maps, living with a corpse

3 years ago – RIP, J.S. , meme, Long distance , layers, GA success

4 years ago – tittles, palm pics, Pondering Newt getting pooch bro, incubus

5 years ago – bro email, morty the cylon, Emily Dickinson, Tulpas, links

6 years ago – More love issues, lj drama, loneliesGeotargetVisitor Map

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8735 – Thursday’s end

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Highlight of the day was ending it with a picnic in the loft with bhk – cheese, crackers, seltzer and vegetarian pepperoni while watching stuff on the tivo was the perfect end to the evening.
(Ugly Betty, The Office, My Name is Earl)

I love it in the loft… it’s sort of a little tree house that we can run to with the kitties and just curl up in a bubble of extra comfort.

An incomplete list of Interests added or revitalized since I’ve moved north –

  • wildlife observation / birding
  • fly fishing (at least the casting side of it)
  • music of all stripes
  • seltzer water (flavored, sometimes)
  • Getting together with family
  • School events
  • Neighborhood Committees (especially for emergency preparedness and regional wifi)

interview meme

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1. How many days have you been married? 106! It’s gone by like a blur, too.

2. Do you like dogs and would Newt allow you to ever have one? I do like dogs, and I’d wager Newt wouldn’t mind one too much after a little adjustment period. However, dogs are a lot more responsibility than cats… walking, more regular bathing, etc… I think that I’d prefer to visit a puppy more than have one.

3. If a movie of your life were made, who would play you? Heck if I know. I’ve been through a lot of physical and behavioral changes over the years. Someone who can do the “giant guy” thing without being too ridiculous. John Goodman, maybe?

4. What are your top three favorite songs at the moment?

  1. This Will be our year – The Zombies
  2. I’m Alive – ELO
  3. Powerhouse – Carl Stalling

5. What do you wish you had more time to do? Everything! I’ve been enjoying virtually every minute!

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1. If you were to gain super powers, would you honestly be a hero or a villain? I think I’d be a hero, but I’d probably use my abilities for personal gain here and there. (or at least laughs) I like to help people and do what’s right, for the most part.

2. Who would star as you in a movie of your life? Dang it… I just got this question – see #3 from chandra

3. Zombie apocalypse or return of the Great Old Ones? Zombie apocalypse, please… I’d like a war that can be won!

4. If you wrote the autobiography of your life, what would you call the book? I’m unsure… “Immaculate Misconception” maybe? “Don’t Sweat the Petty Things, and Don’t Pet the Sweaty Things?”

I’d probably swipe a line from Bill Hicks… “It’s all just a ride“

5. If you were a character from a live-action TV show, who would you be? Not sure.. maybe a bit of Jim Halpert from The Office (except that I moved to Maryland to be with the one I love – no triangles or questions there.)

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8733 –

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Didn’t watch the Superbowl. Whoops. I suppose I’ll find out who won sometime this week.

It snowed tonight, and was quite brisk today. We took a walk into the bay (it had frozen, and the water retreated quite a distance back. The [edit to complete]

cold weather iced over the bay, allowing BHK and I to walk out on the mud flat and take pictures from the water zones and ice toward the beach. Found all sorts of nifty old bottles, shark’s teeth and horseshoe crab carcasses frozen in the ice. Too cold to go out without gloves, however, so I took pictures here and there, but kept my mitts in my sleeves like an amputee cut off at the wrists.

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Hm. Microsoft is going to support OpenID, eh?

1 year ago – “Chilly” – in the 40s.ha. Today it was less than half that, before wind chill!, best buy wall numbers, absurd inventions, Superbowl. Scientology SP, Black/white vs right/wrong

2 years ago – Beetlejuice thoughts, evergreen boneyard photo-walk, domestic cats stay at adolescent mentality, interactive autopsy, girls sued for being nice

3 years ago – Super-loved ones, 2-headed baby surgery, fox wedding weather, meat eaters, scale, ruins

4 years ago – Nice thoughts, torture, LCD, note to Newt, Latrave b-day card, Class action suit.. I got my $12 check, eventually, Chandlerisms

5 years ago – MP pay delay, tron, #10 tight, naughty work thoughts, Scripts, system lockdowns and short tempers

6 years ago – At Last, first find hero machine (now in my toybox), bug, Dani and Rhonda hook me up!GeotargetVisitor Map

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8732 –

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Slow-ish day, mostly work and stay at home errands, with a nice dinner cooked for the in laws by bhk here. We now own a george foreman grill (regifted to us at Christmas, but received the top of this month) -Veggie burgers, hot dogs with chili and french fries for din-din. Discovered that Larry doesn’t go for any mustard but yellow – Honey mustard or spicy brown doesn’t work. Fortunately, we had chili, so it’s all good. Birthday cake for dessert.

It was a nice day, all told.

1 year ago – manatee mailbox, fp with Kev and Tomi, Bailey-pooch, GUN, train ride pics, bhk vaio trouble

2 years ago – bro probation, Shoo’s B’day! (Happy Happy Again today!), flying solo, keywords, Zogg, florida research tools, baby cheetah

3 years ago – stop motion, scrabble experiment, palm doodles, feelin’ ill

4 years ago – 80s dream, oddtodd, crackle bars, warm, face-picker kid

5 years ago – Shoo’s Birfday!, Missed the bus, fruit2O, razor dream, bull sperm thieves, bellyaching, Tsar Piccies, TV news, meatloaf quiz, wacky linkies, tron

6 years ago – License plates, Bob Marley Movement, Vallies roll inGeotargetVisitor Map

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Yesterday, at the regional home show, there was a huge display regarding “DRYER FIRE” – it turned out to be a $1 bottle brush renamed “Dryer lint safety brush”, and selling for $20.

I say, “bah, a mostly synthetic danger cooked up by lint brush salesmen… if you clean the lint trap, how can can it be?”

If I were a more superstitious fellow, I’d fear cruel irony, as we’re doing laundry.

That said, I got the idea for a new item.. the smoke detector smoke detector… to detect if your other smoke detector is on fire… because you know that more than nine out of every ten smoke detector fires is started inside a smoke detector. (I wonder how many house fires have started from an electrical short in a smoke detector?)

Pomonkey – best local Amerindian word / Town name ever. Aww.. Po’Monkey got no nanners! Possibly a place to get a gig re:security and etc, too.

Pomonkey had a dryer fire!

Garden plan –

Tina, the In-Laws, BHK and I have a garden planned for our back yard – planting begins in March for the first crop.
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It’ll be in our back yard… Larry’s going to bring in a few truckloads of topsoil and rototill by the end of this month… BHK and I will be working the section with broccoli, peas and parsley in March, and then continuing to pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, cilantro, sunflowers, green beans and garlic at the top of may.

Other crops tended by the gang will include potato, onion, carrot, radishes, a few varieties of tomatoes, grapes, blueberries and all sorts of others. I expect it’ll be a fun and educational experience… I haven’t grown anything on this scale before, but we’ve got a master gardener, an engineer and a farm boy on our side to help keep things a-rollin’.

Finally Added Pye and BHK to my bio page… sakes! Pokey puppy Scotto.

Pictures for the kitties getting along in the loft.

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1 year ago – childhood goat trauma foundation, sleepless in seattle (stalker),
Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches, deerfield has a different sort of fauna than ftl, rainy, quizzes,

2 years ago – smoother sailing, sleeping in airports, Bigfoot 911, weather, Trism lyric

3 years ago – 7 sins meme, hand-foot coordination, stood up for b-day dinner

4 years ago – dreams, haiku, Irish curses, random politeness factoid, more palm-cam pics, nice cards!

5 years ago – Moonflower haiku, bus rides, tulpa-folk, what do people see quiz, miss cleo got in trubbah, quiet apartments

6 years ago – Snorks vs. Smurfs, recovering from sickies, lovey-loves, butch or femmeGeotargetVisitor Map

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Had a lovely Birthday yesterday. BHK had a party for me, and we had a goodly sized gang over… Cathy, Tina, The In-Laws, Jimmy, and Adam for Baked Ziti, lemon cupcakes (with raspberries), yellow b’day cake with chocolate frosting, maple cookies, mint oreos, all manner of mixed nuts and veggies for snacking. Oh, and M&M’s.

We had a nice time… chitty chattiing while the teens played Destroy all humans and SSX Tricky. Newt and Pye were polite little boys, too…social but not beggars or meanies. We caught up on some TiVo’d stuff when the tube wasn’t monopolized by any other activity.

EM and Buga wished me a voice mail happy b’day in the early AM, and Emily called back later and sang Happy B’day to me quite nicely.

I hope my wish comes true on the blown-out candles… Adam buttered my nose *again* (in addition to BHK’s two hits) right after extinguishing them. I really don’t have any demands, just requests… I really have more than I could possibly have hoped for already.

Loot breakdown – Quite a nice haul for the b’day!

Rec’d (in no particular order): –

  • ~$400 in checks and cash (Momster and In-Laws), plus $50 target card [maybe to put to a Wii?] (Tina), $25 Friday’s card (Cathy)
  • A great guide to Chesapeake Bay wildlife and terrain, & a Plastic Otter, a birthday party with cake and good friends, pancakes and omelet for breakfast and a ton of cleanup / prep (BHK)
  • A Glass Paperweight blown to look like a Jellyfish – must be seen to really be appreciated. (In-laws)
  • Ceramic Tile of Frog & Child – (Danny)
  • PS2 Loaner w/ grand theft auto, spy2 and a car race game (Jimmy)
  • Many lovely lj and e-wishes, a few very nice paper cards.

Use the first letter of your first name and fill out the following. Its harder than you think.

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8729 – Happy B’day to me!

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Happy Groundhog’s Day, Candlemas, Pidyon Ha-Ben,Imbolc, Lughnasadh, Thesmophoria, Farewell to Lords of Misrule’s Trickster phase, etc.

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More lovely pics received for my bday!

I didn’t see my shadow this morning. No more cold?

Well, I got my Nose buttered twice by BHK already – (In a few places around the world, the traditional birthday trick is what is often known as ‘grease face.’ The same custom is known in parts of the Maritime provinces of Canada as ‘buttered noses.’ As early as is convenient on the birthday someone tries to reach from behind the birthday boy or girl and dab on their nose a fingerful of grease, often butter. This is accompanied by best wishes for the year, now lubricated with the greasy face. Among schoolchildren this custom sometimes takes the form of pushing a sweet, creamy cake in the face) (See also BHK’s entry from about 6 years or so ago)

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Also, my morning was brought to a lovely start with blueberry pancakes and a cheese omelet for b’day breakfast. YUM!

Candlemas Day (February 2nd) is known as “La fête de la chandeleur” among the francophones of the West Coast and is celebrated with a beribboned bachelor King visiting houses of eligible young women. Elsewhere in the province it is known as a day to watch for bears’ shadows in order to predict the weather. Candlemas Day is the same date as the American Groundhog Day but retains the old Christian calendar name, which derives from the tradition of blessing the annual supply of church candles on that day, the official end of the liturgical Christmas season. In older European traditions, bears step outside their hibernation caves to check the weather on February 2nd. If it is fine they will stay out for the remainder of the season. In Newfoundland this belief has remained more or less intact in the rhyme “If Candlemas Day be clear and fine, the rest of winter is left behind; If Candlemas Day be rough and grum, there’s more of winter left to come” (cf. Hiscock 1996:35).

1 year ago – I’m 37, dance monkeys dance, afterlife quiz, kind wishes, 40 faces, ID, Danny Sick

2 years ago – I’m 36, no shadow, cleaned Mel’s system, under the bed, birthday type pics

3 years ago – I’m 35, Birthday factoids, walkies

4 years ago – I’m 34, the Museum F Art, Tinkle-pig, Newt, and other palm-cam pics, Groundhogs seek sex, not shadows

5 years ago – I’m 33, saw my shadow, blah day, daredevil, nice end of day

6 years ago – I’m 32, many holidays, nice ecards, saw my shadow, got my moonmama penguin pic

7 years ago – I’m 31Geotarget

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8728 – 37 years + 364 days

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Gentle day, all told – Went out to Jerry’s for lunch, shopped for party food, got a haircut ( short, but I think it looks good. More importantly, the Mrs. Digs it.) Made it home at a decent hour, and watched TV – News Radio and Ugly betty, followed by Holy Man. a nice, relaxing evening with just Bhk and myself… quite nice.

1 year ago – The Matador, rock the casbah, bday card, fp with kev, Superman, Batman, Jesusman and the problem of the corpse on Hollywood Blvd.

2 years ago – no new drama, eryx b’day giftie, sick day, tea-orisinal, nifty mashups, musical mel, movie meme, oddest book titles, be a prostitute or lose your benefits

3 years ago – word association poll, top 100 movies, Trapping Jehovah’s Witnesses in forcefields, Division of Forestry, Farewell KB!

4 years ago – Happy New Year!, palm-cam pics, e-texts

5 years ago – moon/Menstruation connection(or not), dreamy-dreams, elephant talk, pictures, including Newt in a box. Man lives in an airport for 11 years, cousin stuff

6 years ago – Got Birthday arranged to be off, dreams of ancient rome, schedule, shrunken head apples, my first b-day cardGeotarget

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8726 –

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Pretty slow going today – applied for work at a few places. The biggest excitement was loss of electrical power from 6:30ish to about 7am. Got a lot accomplished, and BHK had some solid work at the local law office today. I spent most of my time at home taking care of the usual tech / job app issues… and playing with the kitties.

Tina came over to have dinner and watch American idol with us – not a bad show, but it’s more of a social event than actually getting into the TV. I have now seen three episodes of a non-COPS reality show.

via greatpoets

In Boot Hill there are over 400 graves. It takes
the space of 7 acres. There is an elaborate gate
but the path keeps to no main route for it tangles
like branches of a tree among the gravestones.

300 of the dead in Boot Hill died violently
200 by guns, over 50 by knives
some were pushed under trains – a popular
and overlooked form of murder in the west.
Some from brain hemorrhages resulting from bar fights
at least 10 killed in barbed wire.

In Boot Hill there are only two graves that belong to women
and they are the only known suicides in that graveyard

–Michael Ondaatje
from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

What about the munchies?

LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s GW Pharmaceuticals Plc said Tuesday it plans to start human trials of an experimental treatment for obesity derived from cannabis.

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It took the better part of the day, but the commode is finished. Before starting, we had a big pancake breakfast, courtesy of BHK – Chris and BHK went shopping while Larry & I worked on the plumbing… timing was good… we finished about 15 minutes before they called to let us know that they were heading back, and we ended the day with Chinese food, and watching Men In Black.

Got a nice call from Danny, too – his wife is in Bangladesh, reviewing a clothing place’s quality control. I wonder what the quality of life is of the workers there.

Birthday is on Friday – Still not sure what, if anything will be happening for it. I suspect a quiet get-together with some family & friends… I’d like to see as much of the local gang make it if they can, but Friday night has got to be a tricky one, especially if it’s short notice. Given the current financial limits, I suspect the Wii will be a rain check item.

1 year ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick,

2 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys

3 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution

4 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus

5 years ago – Took a day off With Danny (some non-gothic graveyard pictures), PattonBomb Talk, Giant photo of Newt in Evil Overlord Mode, bad spoonerismhumor. First photo of Tinkle pig

6 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing manGeotarget

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8723 –

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Started installation of a new commode (the old wax seal was going and was beginning to leak), and got sort of side barred into a trip to the Marine Museum on Solomon’s Island. It was a fun trip with the in-laws and BHK to points exceedingly south. After the museum, we waited a long while to eat at Outback, but the food was tasty and plentiful. (I think it made Chris more angry than anyone else) I think I’ve gone out to eat more in the last three months of marriage than I have in the last twelve of bachelorhood! I’m trying to eat a bit better, though, and keep it at least moderately healthy. The waistline is doing a bit of a retreat, which is good.. I think that’s primarily due to all the running around town and moving that’s been done.

Piccies –

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Otters, Mega-sharks, Skates, Rays, a screw pile lighthouse, Fresnel lenses and sailing ships… much fun!

Also, Tinkle Pig is now in the Love Cube with BHK and I – Danny Traded up to a hula girl.

1 year ago – Celebrated Vicki’s last day, spectral analysis, history lesson, book meme, on call

2 years ago – rte 55 pic, newt and scotto wake up, song title meme, post secret

3 years ago – baby dragon, cheesecake trip, QM2, fever doodles

4 years ago – bebop cola poll, boney church, sql slammer, evil ideas

5 years ago – week plans, bob ross posse, freaky gator-in-a-dress, mr mole, biography tax loophole?

6 years ago – journal look update, evil news, hotel californiaGeotarget

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8721 – another day in paradise. no sarcasm there.

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Current weather – 18°F (RealFeel 2°F)

Brother and Father in law jamming a bit last night before dinner. Adam was about ready to fall asleep, I think. Another swim meet tonight, if all goes as planned. BHK and I are going to take Tina with us this time! That means a bit of shopping and dinner tonight too, I expect.

Things have been quite great lately… I think that once I get a good solid gig, I’ll have nothing to complain about at all.

Side note – I’ve agreed to be on the City’s Emergency Preparedness Committee – maybe I can help out CodeRED a bit, and help to insure my region is more prepared in the event of rough tidings… not to mention, possibly network into a gig.

some pics –

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Happy B’Day, missv!

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims. Continue reading 8721 – another day in paradise. no sarcasm there. →

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Some swim meet pics of my Brother-in-law – Adam, 17, Swim Team Cap’n.

Thumbs up for Northern! Swim meet adam frogbelly adam Grinnin' Adam

Quite a little stud muffin – he’s very popular with the ladies, especially while being all sporty. He’s really a great guy, and is very talented across the board – Physics, guitar, athletics. If he wants, he could go anywhere or do anything he might choose. He suffers a little bit from teenager-itis, but he’s generally a gentleman and all-around good guy. I’m glad to have him in my family.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – A partially mummified baby was found wrapped in newspaper in a warehouse self-storage unit and is believed to have been born sometime in the 1950s, authorities said. Continue reading 8720 – →