I want to go strolling and rest in a big field of tall grass now. War on the brain.

It’s funny how some music can evoke a lot of memories, set off a chain of flashbacks and emotional responses.

The cool, funky song like the one I’m grooving to now has a great deal of nostalgia value to me.

Random Scotto factoid: I remember a lot of little things about people, and when I mention those things in passing sometimes, it freaks them out. “Oh, yeah. You had three hair ties on that day…only two matched.” Half the people think you’re blowing smoke and I get a laugh for being a goof. The other half of the people remember, too, and are spooked, because they thought nobody noticed anything about them.

I think only the most absolutely self-involved folks don’t notice a few little tidbits about other people to file away. Often, they file just one or two away for convenient reference, and assume it’s always true. “He *always* has broccoli in his teeth.” or “She *never* agrees with Tony.”

I spend so much time on the computer and off, just reading. I wonder sometimes what I’d do if illiterate… watch TV? Ugh… no real control over content, even with hundreds of cable channels. Spend more time outside? Possibly. I wonder how many people these days are pro-illiteracy… “Why should everyone read? It makes people less tractable and less likely to engage in physical activity.”

Fell off track there… but such is the price of typing stream of thought. My launch alert is chiming, so I’ll catch you later, dear journal.

Wow, is it raining hard!

Check it out. This is at 3ish in the afternoon.

Rainy day photo

Didn’t bother with Choco-bunnies but did get some ice cream discs to fend off my sweet tooth.

Bro says that he’s pretty much off cigs now, after going without since the end of February.

Research by the Trimbos Institute for Addiction indicates that the THC level has increased significantly over the years, meaning that Dutch-grown marijuana, Nederwiet, could now be considered a hard drug.

I’m really not one for smoking a drug, be it nicotine or thc… I just don’t like the delivery system.

Can’t I have Monday off? No? Oh, All right. I suppose that I’m a bit envious of Danny having the week off, and GP/Katt taking a couple of weeks to vacation, as well. Hopefully I’ll get to see all the slackers mentioned prior in the next week or so under leisurely circumstances.

I’m still not sure if GP was serious about a detente between Pam and myself. (I’ve always associated that word specifically with Nixon-era USA/USSR relations, though I saw it referencing Ben Franklin’s diplomacy ages back.) I did request not to see her if possible. The last thing I want to do is to contribute to a dark spot on the vacationing couple’s calendar.

I had NO Easter Chocolate bunny yesterday, though I may be naughty and pick up one at the drugstore for 50% off, if I see them still available. I’m entitled to gnaw my way through a little sugary rabbit, or at least a Cadbury egg, as long as I stay on my points.

Built a Scottobear-looking superhero, and fought crime alongside a Sammykun hero yesterday.. we found all sorts of bugs, and put the smack down on all sorts of 5th columnist super-soldiers. I wonder if Whims would be interested in similar emulation?

Butterflies of North America (via USGS) I see Phaons quite a bit where I am. USGS is a great place to eyeball nifty pages about all kinds of biology / geology / map sorts of stuff.

It’s warm, but I smell rain in the air. I rather hope that it does rain while I’m inside, and brings that clean vibe to the city… like all the grime has been swept into the river… all the plants fed, all the glass drip-dried.

1 year ago– Power out silence, ut2k3 (never did send tarpo his copy…tsk), there.com fun.

2 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby! yay!

3 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up.

Can’t I have Monday off? No? Oh, All right. I suppose that I’m a bit envious of Danny having the week off, and GP/Katt taking a couple of weeks to vacation, as well. Hopefully I’ll get to see all the slackers mentioned prior in the next week or so under leisurely circumstances.

I’m still not sure if GP was serious about a detente between Pam and myself. (I’ve always associated that word specifically with Nixon-era USA/USSR relations, though I saw it referencing Ben Franklin’s diplomacy ages back.) I did request not to see her if possible. The last thing I want to do is to contribute to a dark spot on the vacationing couple’s calendar.

I had NO Easter Chocolate bunny yesterday, though I may be naughty and pick up one at the drugstore for 50% off, if I see them still available. I’m entitled to gnaw my way through a little sugary rabbit, or at least a Cadbury egg, as long as I stay on my points.

Built a Scottobear-looking superhero, and fought crime alongside a Sammykun hero yesterday.. we found all sorts of bugs, and put the smack down on all sorts of 5th columnist super-soldiers. I wonder if Whims would be interested in similar emulation?

Butterflies of North America (via USGS) I see Phaons quite a bit where I am. USGS is a great place to eyeball nifty pages about all kinds of biology / geology / map sorts of stuff.

It’s warm, but I smell rain in the air. I rather hope that it does rain while I’m inside, and brings that clean vibe to the city… like all the grime has been swept into the river… all the plants fed, all the glass drip-dried.

1 year ago– Power out silence, ut2k3 (never did send tarpo his copy…tsk), there.com fun.

2 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby! yay!

3 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up.

Sunrise was lovely this morning… The beach was well-populated, but not super-mobbed for Easter.

I want to go on an egg-hunt. My father, brother and I would search all over the inside of the house, looking for tiny chocolate eggs left out by the Easter Bunny… Dad would sniff around, “trying to pick up the scent” and bro and I would scan around for hidden stores of two or four of them. (We’d divide them equally…I suspect there were only three in one location when Mr. Bunny wanted a quick little sugar-snack.)

Later on, I took on the role of Egg-bloodhound, sniffing out goodies with the twins and other munchkins on different years. I rather miss that…I’d love to help a few little ones find foil-wrapped sweets today sometime, but I don’t think that it’ll happen.

Peep article that Danny pointed out to me yesterday –

Peeps gone wild!

They are loved, hated, vilified, celebrated, parodied, decapitated, smooshed, frozen, fricasseed, microwaved and subjected to bizarre experimentation. Can an American icon get a little respect? Continue reading 6594 Happy Easter, folks.. Many Chocolate Yolks! →

I spent too long in City of Heroes this morning… It’s fun, playing a supers game with old Gaming pal Rik, and Newer Gaming pals Sammy and Whims. It’d be neat if GrayPumpkin and Katt got in on the action, too. Not to mention Danny, Wu-folk, or most of all, mi amor.

I was surprised ah how any copyright violations / super parodies were running around in there… A lot of variants on the Tick, especially. (Barry, The Tick’, and my favorite, a red one called “The Tack”.) Also remarkable was a super by the name of Briar Rose. I thought for a half-second that it was Pam, but that’s not likely… I don’t see her throwing herself into a beta version of any game, or having a computer that’s up to the task. Who knows, though? Stranger things have happened.

No bombs dropped at the office yesterday… not sure why. I’ve got to call the Big Kahuna and find out where things stand this evening, just to see what’s what.

Office Religion Update, VS is a Roman Catholic. No meat this last Friday, etc. She stopped going while she was away at school, but may be starting up again, because she’s officially “home and on a proper schedule… not partying every Sat. nite.” I think Big K is sort of a general secular, if any kind of theist at all.

A man’s severed head has been found on a park bench in Honduras, bringing the number of such incidents to 10 in the past nine months, police sources said.

Continue reading 6593 Ooga Chakka, hooga hooga, ooga chaka. →

Going out to look at more condos this afternoon. There are one or two that look very promising. I only hope nobody else swoops in on them, if I dig ’em! In Hollywood, West of ’95.

I see City of Heroes has 3 servers now.

Prime (Where All of my guys currently are)
Justice (Appeared Last night)
Pinnacle (New Today)

Also, they’ve bound to the arrow keys! no more wad if I don’t want to!

I’m thinking about adding a new super… some big tanker named “The Friendly Manatee”

Doodling on the palm yesterday at lunch… thinking idly about creatures nearby. Played in monochrome, and kept it “screen color” rather than black and white.

Little black frog leaping for a lazily cruising dragonfly

Splash-paddle Manatee in the same canal getting ready for a tasty supper of kelp (with a teeny seahorse)

Catch you later, dear journal! Have a lovely Friday!

via the Miami Herald –

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/8379590.htm?1c

Be on the lookout for Buttons, a 755-pound juvenile male thought to be lurking in the waters of Biscayne Bay or the Florida Keys.

His distinguishing marks: the whitish letters “Y 2” branded on his back, between his flippers, and also behind his paddle. Authorities believe he may be headed for Key Largo, his last known address.

Buttons is not a suspected offender but a young manatee released into the wild early last month after 2 ½ years of “rehabilitation” at the Miami Seaquarium. He was the youngest manatee ever rescued, researchers say.

Now, they are worried about his whereabouts. read more, and a picture

Religious revelations about work.

Rhode Island is an Ex-Scientologist who still believes in the doctrine she got while in the organization, and is the standard “Christian-lite”. Believes that the position of the planets causes assorted unusual human behavior.

ADP is a conservative Christian, who believes that Astrology is a form of Idolatry, and that none of her three daughters will ever get into any real trouble, simply because they’re regular churchgoers.

CS claims to be a complete Atheist, and I have no reason to doubt that’s what he believes.

Bean-Counter and LD are Reformed Jews, both are very laid back, not broadcasting of faith, but did take Passover off.

MM is a liberal Muslim. (Still conservative enough to have her husband chosen for her, once she completes university.)

I don’t know where VS or the Big Kahuna stand. I suspect the fairly secular non-churchgoing standard, but you never know. I imagine it’ll be interesting no matter what I find out.

What people believe is a part of who they are…that’s why folks who claim one thing, yet believe another come across as fairly heinous to me, I think. Paying lip service to play a form of debate game, be part of a clique, or toady to another has such a vulgar feel. I’m not saying that anyone in the workplace is disingenuous at all… just rolling with thoughts. and those thought will have to be continued later in writing, for I have to launch.

Until later, dear journal.

Mexican woman performs own Cesarean to save baby

Continue reading 6587 Religious notes, Super Mommy and Evil robo-lights →

This morning, I preferred an extra 20 min to –

A. sleep

B. eat breakfast

(C. have a nice shower)

D. surf the web / LJ

E. Other (_____________________)

And so I did. I may be a bit hungry, sleepy, and behind on my journal… but I’m clean!

The Baroque Bohemian Cats’ Tarot.

State police have charged a 15-year-old Latrobe girl with child pornography for taking photos of herself and posting them on the Internet. Police said the girl, whose identity they withheld, photographed herself in various states of undress and performing a variety of sexual acts. She then sent the photos to people she met in chat rooms.

She has been charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.

I wonder if she’ll be listed in the sexual offender logs, and be required to register her location whenever she moves, now?

LSD use is way down in recent years, according to arrest records, hospital records, and surveys with high schoolers. Slate looked into it, and came up with two reasons why. First and foremost, the DEA busted a couple of guys in rural Kansas back in 2000, who supplied 95 percent of the country’s acid. The other reason is the breakup of the Grateful Dead.