(Cartoon as if photo taken from Soap watching woman’s perspective)

Productive, though time-consuming doctor trip.

Depending on how things go in the coming months, I may not need my CPAP any more, and my back situation is looking quite promising for a solution there, too. Some surgical decisions to be made.

They’re thinking about reworking to Celebrex from Prednisone in the meantime…works for me, I don’t like having narcotics like percoset, and steroids are only a short term fix. I have to call the doctor’s office tomorrow, so the insurance can get moving.

Cool thing about my new doctor’s office… two blocks away, uncrowded, and there’s a flock of red-headed green parrots that was right outside, more vibrant, unlike the all green ones by my old place in Pompano. Nests, example head shot
a pair of images taken

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released June 21, 2003. It is clocking in at 255,000 words.

In comparison, the King James Version of The Bible is 181,000 words.

I wonder if she needs a good editor… also if she took too long and has lost much of her bandwagon?

Ah, goody good. Today’s my appointment, and no weird commands to cancel have come through to me yet.

W-2s are due by 1/31/03, but my confidence isn’t the best when it comes to HR and accounting working together. They dislike one another, so instead of them being professional about it, they just don’t communicate… to the detriment of the company. I’ve had to maintain my own records just to be sure of everything, should one or both of them cause some sort of screw up. My opinion is that if they can’t get along with one another, then either one or both should seek another means of employment.

On the good news side… A record number of manatees was found off the east coast of Florida this year, although state researchers downplayed the results. It does look like that they’re going to be upgraded from endangered to threatened as a species.

Search teams found 1,695 manatees off the east coast last week, an 11 percent increase over the count in 2001, the best previous year. Statewide, they found 2,861 manatees, up from last year but down from the year before. State researchers said the counts vary widely from year to year, depending partly on weather and water visibility, rather than the health of the manatee population.

That’s a good sign… I’ll get some sea-cow piccies yet. Seriously, I think manatees are a very nifty animal to have in my neighborhood. My upcoming walks are going to be canal-side again. Now that it’s dipping into the 60s at night, they’ll be heading into the warmer water, which means closer to where I am. (The shallows, in the sun).

Newt’s looking a little lean this morning… I guess it’s because he’s stretched, and not curled up.

Hooray for broccoli-cheese empanadas (and chicken-jalapeno for my bro as a treat)! I went by the place again on the way home from work. I may get brave next time and get a plantain one next go ’round for dessert.

Weirdo News of the day- “A ship full of rotting fish, with no crew or life-rafts, has been found drifting off the remote north-west coast of Australia.” Continue reading →

Bringing Sappho my double pezzes to work today. I seem to have a lot more equipment with me these days… umbrella, digicam, palmtop are omnipresent. sometimes I bring the gps or laptop. That’s a lot of accessories.

On the other hand, I don’t wear a beeper or wristwatch anymore. Never carry a cell-phone.

I hope sweetalyssm‘s furbies and other fluff-critters are ok… Perhaps they’ll just have a fine hickory scent. I’m just glad she wasn’t there when the building got in trouble.

I’m going to stop staying up so late, and begin getting up earlier again. Too much weekday gaming defeats my more comfy schedule.

Crud, is it 11 already? Off to work again.

Bah!

evil quiz

Solid day of work today.

Got some keeno belated Prezzies today… Young Frankenstein on DVD, Command and Conquer: Renegade and a Nifty Action figure of Worf, for Newt to beat up.

Time for a new universal remote. The old one dropped, and now changing channels is a thing you have to get up to do. Volume and power still works.. but the numeric keypad and channel up and down are dead.

I’m feeling very emotional today… I can feel tears and heavy sighs forming from a song that’s playing on the radio. (See music)

I’ve been thinking what kids with my sweetheart might be like. I think that odds are for beauty, intelligence, and deep feeling. Let’s do an average – even out the height…. 5′ 10″ tall as an adult, probably a tall kid. Beautiful Brown or Blue Eyes… Let’s go with Brown/hazel. Blue is a recessive trait… though there’s lots of Irish and German in there. Odds slightly higher for a female. Long hair a very high probability, if only of mama and papa braid & brush factor. Thick Copper hair with reddish highlights. Cuddly… will probably prefer laps to chairs. Lots of energy. Inquisitive / Curious/ Probably more than a bit Smart-alec-y, but polite when required. A reader. Healthy as a horse. Mischievous monkey. Will know the words to lots and lots of songs before she can read. Talented.

One can only wonder how accurate or not that’ll be. I know in my heart that there’ll be lots of love, though, from all sides.

Solid day of work today.

Got some keeno belated Prezzies today… Young Frankenstein on DVD, Command and Conquer: Renegade and a Nifty Action figure of Worf, for Newt to beat up.

Time for a new universal remote. The old one dropped, and now changing channels is a thing you have to get up to do. Volume and power still works.. but the numeric keypad and channel up and down are dead.

I’m feeling very emotional today… I can feel tears and heavy sighs forming from a song that’s playing on the radio. (See music)

I’ve been thinking what kids with my sweetheart might be like. I think that odds are for beauty, intelligence, and deep feeling. Let’s do an average – even out the height…. 5′ 10″ tall as an adult, probably a tall kid. Beautiful Brown or Blue Eyes… Let’s go with Brown/hazel. Blue is a recessive trait… though there’s lots of Irish and German in there. Odds slightly higher for a female. Long hair a very high probability, if only of mama and papa braid & brush factor. Thick Copper hair with reddish highlights. Cuddly… will probably prefer laps to chairs. Lots of energy. Inquisitive / Curious/ Probably more than a bit Smart-alec-y, but polite when required. A reader. Healthy as a horse. Mischievous monkey. Will know the words to lots and lots of songs before she can read. Talented.

One can only wonder how accurate or not that’ll be. I know in my heart that there’ll be lots of love, though, from all sides.

I’m so glad Court TV shows COPS, late night. (It’s neat that I’ve seen all the episodes used in the poll at the site… the one with the three-wheel chase also had a super-cool one-legged cop run a burglar down.) I can thank my sweetheart for getting me interested in the show… Our first real regular date-night TV show, if I remember correctly.

I’m surprised woman with knife is so far ahead in the polls.

Checking out police auctions online… neat. Sort of like Ebay for impounded goods.

tucking in… nigh nigh, dear journal.

Fisto’s Forest Critique. Ouch…He-Man flashbacks. *shudder*

Woodlands and Mist reminds me of a quote…that, and there was a mild haze this morn.

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

-Carl Sandburg

I’ve not wandered through a thick fog in ages. I have a fond memory of sneaking out at just before sunrise with my brother to a nearby wooded area… the rough surrounding a golf course. The fog was incredibly thick… not even remotely like pea soup, but solid enough that outside of six feet it was impossible to perceive any detail at all. Just a slight trail on the ground, and trees seemed to magically appear as we kept wandering on. It was so quiet… I think that our steps crunching on pine needles were by far the loudest things in the region. We got the tar jolted from us when a smallish animal darted from the underbrush, shot past, into our field of vision, and was lost again into the mists. An hour went by, and the fog slowly melted… our sphere of vision broadened until only little smoky wisps were sticking to the bushes, branches, and over the surface of the canal. We walked home, and talked about it for most of the day… and we still bring it up from time to time. We didn’t say a word on our walk, and it was one of the more memorable times we spent together. Not bad for a totally unplanned expedition of only about three miles or so from home. It was so fun to watch the world grow more obscured as we entered the woods, and see mist just hang in the air… as we walked through, water clung onto our eyebrows like dew on morning grass. Walking through, you can feel the droplets breathing coolly against your skin. My sweetheart took a picture of her backyard a while back, fog surrounding the trees in the back yard. I look forward to walking with her in that environment sometime… perhaps with a thermos of hot coffee and a place to hang a hammock. It’d be nice to lounge together in the wilderness, cocooned in our own private atmosphere.

Work tomorrow…I have to get back on the sample project and the custom form database for Lourdes. This weekend has seemed both eternal and brief. Strange time dilation. Will I have to learn about Gecko and Apple’s new browser?

Kellogg’s Smart Start is quite tasty, but is surprisingly weak on the box graphics. The front is ok, but the back and lefthand panel are weirdly sparse of information. Lots of white space. I’m looking at the side of the box now, and am amazed… There’s more sugar per serving than Lucky Charms! Gah! This is supposed to be healthy? It’s officially downgraded to sweet snack status.

Compare – Smart Start – 15 to Marshmallow Froot loops – 16

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A few more, heavy orange due to low light.