Happy Winter!

One Month since I first met Mel, yesterday. We went holiday shopping and I sneakily got her holiday prezzies. I think that one of her presents for me is a rather momentous one. We gibbered back and forth in pseudo Prussian, and pretended to be German royalty.(after she found out what my last name was all about, She’s been calling me Count, and I’ve been calling her Contessa).

We laughed over Mexican food at Carlos & Pepes, and then we watched “the Swan”… morbidly fascinating study in cosmetic reconstruction.

BK Holiday song

South Florida “scared of Santa” gallery

nifty tour of an abandoned hospital

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Mel knows where I’m ticklish, what my tolerance levels are, and also that I can lift her off of the ground with one hand. We met with the Mom, and it went well enough, I think. After Cocoa and cookies, we went back home to lounge and watch that “desperate housewives” show. Not a bad night, all in all.

There are at least 200 people (those unique IP addys that grabbed the madvillain movie) who read my journal through ipodder. I wish I knew who syndicated me there, so I could thank ’em. I wonder if much is coming via the blogdex to my site, too? If Tinklepig gets the same sort of response, I’ll know it’s automated, rather than manual grabs.

If you rearrange the letters in “SANTAS WORKSHOP” you get:

OK SNORT WHAP ASS
SWOOP STANK RASH
HOW SO, SPANK TSAR?
KHAN SWAPS ROOTS
WARPATH KNOSSOS
SHARK SPAWNS TOO
KORAN WASPS SHOT

and my Favorite –

SATAN SHOWS PORK

Just thought I’d let you know.

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Yesterday, Dan and I headed out first thing to hit a nearby Japanese animation convention…

Our trip to Miami… note tinkle pig in the lower left hand corner.

But, unfortunately, Otaku-con was a bust. Every time we go to a convention, we expect organization, and get chaos. A case could be made for getting a refund, with the video rooms being down for hours and hours, and none of the panels active. We left early, and just chitty-chatted, and had some pizza. Before we left, I had a good laugh after seeing this sort of sheet set.. I was most impressed by the DDR kids, and the LAN-party room.

As stated earlier, more cute girls, more hygiene than gaming cons, (which is like saying more than a tent city south of the border) and more openly pervy stuff. Randomness – Dan Likes Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter, but has never seen Raising Arizona. I think I may have to get it for him for Christmas / his B’day.

The Boat Parade was yesterday… a high-traffic affair, though when they’re lit up, the boats can be quite lovely. Mel came over after Dan headed home and we skipped the parade, instead flopped around the apartment and jibba-jabba’d. Stalker was picked up by the cops last night… I hope they leave him in jail until trial.

Senor Sombra (Mr Shadow)

New Odd Todd Holiday Message GOOD THINGS!

Tideland… the newest Terry Gilliam film.

Foamy’s Got a Christmas rant, too.

Today, I take call for a couple of hours from 2-4, Take Mel to see a movie, (Oceans 12, or Lemony.) visit with the mom, and then back to my place to hang out.

Thank you for the cards, tempestmir, resilience, and mintygirl!

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update later

4.75 hours after scheduled movie start time , 6 staffers on the job

Looks like there won’t be much movietime!

A panel of experts can’t fix a projector that isn’t there.

well… it seems that anime fans are the same as gamers, except that they bathe, and are more perverse.

There is enough salt in the ocean to cover the continents 500 feet deep.

hooray for amino acids!

I haven’t heard about any major standouts on the “hot new Christmas toy” this year… what is this year’s “Tickle me Elmo” ?

similarities aside, differences abound

The Year in Review meme

There is enough salt in the ocean to cover the continents 500 feet deep.

hooray for amino acids!

I haven’t heard about any major standouts on the “hot new Christmas toy” this year… what is this year’s “Tickle me Elmo” ?

similarities aside, differences abound

The Year in Review meme

Mel came over last night… we ate and lounged and talked about a lot of stuff. She’s got a wicked sense of humor, and can crack me up easily. She’s also altogether too willing to tickle.

She was kind of afraid to tell me that she is a born-again Christian… I can understand that, given my pretty solidly agnostic stance. We discussed it, and I think that there’s a good comfortable middle that can be met. She’s a pretty fascinating study… I’m really glad I met her. Much deep talk about motivations and directions. Many facets there, and I care for her very much. I’m quite confident that those feelings are reciprocated.

Steak comes from the Saxon word steik, meaning “meat on a stick”.

Newt was a bit spazzy last night. Very Energetic.
(this may be a *slight* exaggeration.)

Art I LIKE!

Got to hang with Mel after work, and until we were staggeringly sleepy last night… last time for a bit, she’s got to work until Sunday on her gig. We spent our time together eating ziti, watching tv, laughing like fools, and exchanging stories about bodily functions.

She had no interest in going to the gig, but will do so, just out of a sense of duty. I wish I could go with her, but I’ll be at work during most of it.

I wonder if I’ll get a chance to meet up GP and Katt this holiday season?

Saturday is Otaku-con with Danny, and I should do laundry and Christmas shop a bit in the meantime.

Sunday, we’ll both have a late lunch with the mom. I’m looking forward to that. No, really!

8:15 fund-raising demo, and a 10:15 tech training. somewhere in between, I get to teach Jill how to do web-stats, and some more advanced html, like tables.

I also have to teach Eric and Mona how to do sexual predator stuff before I decide to dash off for vacation.

Making Fiends #14

1 year ago – food, thinking, 12 days

2 years ago – deep sleeps, gender benders, doodle cartoon,

3 years ago – Modern ruins, Goethe, misc

4 years ago – Michael Peter’s Rules, dreams, cryptozoo, boat parade

And despite it being #7070:

Dragonflies have six legs, but cannot walk.

Is it time to go home yet?

Damn contemporary, bullshit architecture!

Random Mel & Scotto Factoids – She has me beat in the disaster column, having been electrocuted (and hospitalized for a month) and run down by a truck while on foot…. to my being run over by a car when on a scooter.

We both do a pretty weird variety of strange voices and can sing newt to a level of total confusion. She does better kitty-sounds and harmony, I do better baby noises and evil laugh.

Mel does not like soup, and I do. Especially broccoli & cheese.

We had a nice afternoon together. I helped her do some legal paperwork, and she took me to dinner at Quiznos.

Dan hasn’t met her yet, but that’ll probably change by this weekend.

Bro still in jail, he needed his forms notarized and with copies of prescriptions. Nobody knew, and the first time he saw his public defender was when he arrived in court. He’s going to be in jail for the holidays, it seems, at least until Jan 15.

I miss the brainstorming sessions that GP and I had over the never-made TV series “Gorilla Girl”.

Did you miss monkey day yesterday?

Massive Frog Eats Three-Legged Radioactive Dog

Beatles Christmas Records (with mp3s)

1 year ago – spelling poll, pandas, turtles, and a bed of fresh noodles

2 years ago – keywords, Newt likes Broccoli!, Lauderdale cams, bah on bush, gore and grover Cleveland, mh trim, J-lo nose picker, shoe-doodle

3 years ago – holiday shopping, good advice, winter depression folk

4 years ago – moment of RAW, Santa Claus – geek, holidays, donations