Congratulations morganofthefay on the upcoming dynamic duo!

Last night, I spent about an hour painting a couple of small stone walls as part of terrain / diorama. It dried pretty nicely… I’m experimenting; working with a couple of color schemes… a sort of red/rust clay, and a more traditional greenish-gray stone color… Still torn as to which looks better. I may do one of the wall pieces as a mix and match… stone body, but with red brick trim. The set came with a few resin-cast “piles ‘o skulls” So I guess the ruined church / fortress has a graveyard or somesuch out back. The painting comes a lot more swiftly on walls and terrain instead of characters.

Thinking of my sweetheart in one of these… Belly-dancer meets flappers. More Cabaret than traditional… but there are some nifty ones.

It’s neat that I see the word yurt used regularly in common usage. I know of two or three people that have the word come up in conversation at least every few weeks or so.

Two Years ago today… the hungrybaby / mcnoggin saga began, listing some of the reasons why I love my sweetheart and a Christmas confession. (And some other stuff…)

A year ago today – Turbid, McNoggin Memories, levitated .net , and the pond poem.

Congrats to all the folks out there that are snowed in, but comfortable. Nothing like that here, until a Hurricane comes near.

Travel *does* affect my drawing / writing style.

A friendly fly/ant/bug-head

Karen is a little scaredy of alligators… when she goes fossiling… Is braving the water worth a prehistoric tooth?

A smiley… There was no open flame when I drew this.

That’s enough of that… off to work with me, dear journal.

Rainy morning…. very peaceful and calm. I imagine that in a more northern climate that it’d be a light dusting of snow on everything.

My sweetheart looks delightful all dolled up for work… I’d prefer to stay home with her and smooch, with little house on the prairie on TV in the background. I’ve got a big case of the cuddles this morning. Just a nice feeling.

Tonight’s film is Godzilla vs. Megalon. It has Jet Jaguar, but Monsters don’t show up until 40 minutes into the film. The MST version surely saves it.

Interesting enough day at work… Some nice challenges on the new program I’m developing… I have to do a lot of new code building… not much in my library to develop what they want.

Cool Christmas Tree Monster… good ol’ Megalon!

Zilla and Jet Save the day.

Cool, clean feeling this morning… but I sense that it’ll go up about 5-10 degrees by midday. I don’t know if that’s why I have more energy, or if it’s just a contributor.

Two pieces of good news…the bro got a second job, working graveyard shift (11p-5:30am) and brought me a doughnut for breakfast. Hooray for the Bro! Hooray for Doughnuts! (I still hope he gets a Louie’s gig… he could make a really healthy chunk of change over the season.)

Helpful hint to keep those holiday goiters at a minimum… ordinary table salt.

Be careful which bar you go to…

Cool Geek places to shop…. including a Cat-a-pult with Newton the foam cat. There are some keeno fossil and space stuff, too. -Via Scientific American

Heat Miser Squeaked ahead, and Beat Snow Miser.

battle cry test

One of the more beautiful applications to draw on Project Gutenberg for source material, TextArc gives the reader a visual representation of the interrelationships of texts as it reads through, for example, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Anyone want to tell me a story based on one (or some, or *all*??) of these drawings?

Annie is a very cool cat. -Brought to you by some guy that makes animal noises.

Newt and I have dealt with similar elements (especially those marked fetch, thief, proper training, and Halloween) He was very playful this morning… I had to wear him out before taking my shower. We must’ve run around for about a half hour or so.

I’m happy that my picture-server woke back up like a good boy.
Clash of the Titans on Sci-fi this morning as I get ready for work… Perseus (Hee hee…I still crack up when I see him on LA Law), the ancient Greek while sneaking away from Calibos invisibly, leaves footprints shaped like wing tips in the sand. I guess winged sandals have a pointed toe and a squared heel.

Good line from Burgess Meredith – “A divine gift should never be questioned, but merely accepted.”

I still think Bubo is a pus-filled sore as a result of plague, not a wacky r2-d2 sounding robot owl, though.

I got a goodly dose of sleep last night… hit the sack early, and got my morning swabbing at 8. I slept like a corpse… just a total system shutdown. I don’t recall any dreems, but my sleep was quite deep.

Random Scotto factoid – When My brother and I got toys from a similar set (Star wars, Battlestar Galactica, army men, etc) I *always* picked the bad guys / freaky looking ones. I think the only good-guy star wars figures I had were Chewbacca, Yoda and some droids. R2-D2, R5-D4, a Protocol droid (or C-3PO sprayed chrome rather than gold.)

Bad guys simply have cooler sculpts/shapes/uniforms/evil robo voices or growls.

A year ago, I started the coloring book community – It has gotten pretty dusty around there lately…the last post as of this writing was a Halloween one.

Hmm. My picture hosting area at Bellsouth is down. That’s a kick in the head… I hope it wakes up soon.

Went to Blimpie’s for lunch… The Veggie Max sub is tasty! Of course, getting a side of chips negated most of the healthy side of that meal. The Jalapeno chips didn’t have much of a bite to ’em… like someone ran the bags near a Jalapeno patch, just to capture a hint of the scent to toss on there… I think I should’ve gone with half sammich and half broccoli-cheese soup, no chips. (I am comfortably full of sammich, though.)

A gray day…a little warmer than yesterday.

Action figure cam – I just saw Greedo holding up another patron! (With Mr. T in the background.)

It was a tough night sleeping. I got about 5 hours in three or four fractured periods of rest over from about 2 am to 10:30 am.

Heaven knows what’s going on next door, but the bro and his roommate have a guest over they’re talking pretty loudly, but it doesn’t seem to be argumentative. I went out to say hey, and asked about the interview. He says that his interview went well yesterday and that she’ll call back. I hope that it’s so… The only thing that strikes me as odd is that he hadn’t shaved since I saw him last night (He had about three-days growth on his chin… not the best way to interview). I asked him last night if he needed a razor, and he said it was covered.

Today’s Sunday, and December already… It would seem Papa Time has wings on his feet.

I hope that this month is much more pleasant than the last two for those I care for (that includes myself).

There’s a section of ebay devoted to selling only plastic army men. the Heading goes – All Categories > Toys & Hobbies > Toy Soldiers > Modern (1970-Now) > Plastic

Getting together at about 6:30/7 with Dave for dinner tonight and maybe a game or three of mage knight. We won’t go too late, though… he wants to go surfing up coast tomorrow morning.

I’m going to try to trade him something for his ironclad tonight… maybe a couple of my spare non-convertible dwarves…I’ve got a bunch of those… it’s a shame I don’t have more of the newer sculpts. I can’t believe that I’d ever see the day I’d want to trade good ol’ dwarves for nasty orcs.

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