Good Morning, Dear Journal!

Random doodle picture from Yesterday’s trip home. I was tired. I don’t know what it means.

Dreamt last night that I was fighting some guy in a mock up of an arena, surrounded by onlookers. He was vaguely defined.. I knew that he was a bad guy, though… and needed a good trouncing. I was wearing my Superman boxer shorts, white T-shirt and brown socks…My Sweetie was in the audience holding the Kitties, and somehow I knew that Superman himself was out there, too. I don’t remember who won or lost, but I didn’t get any superpowers or anything and the fight was bare knuckles… the framing element is all that I recall. I *really* have no idea why I was wearing brown socks.

Interesting coincidence? Not really irony. Dork Tower on Web Logging

Illuminated manuscripts (miniatures) from the 12th to 16th centuries

Reflecting on my sweetheart and henna tattoos. I’m smiling… got good reviews on Treasure Planet.. Kev went to see it last weekend, and was quite impressed. I’ll probably go catch it over holiday weekend sometime. I also want to hit IMAX to see the Ancient Egypt Documentary…(Speaking of Which…Ark of the Covenant: in Ethiopia? )

The Martian and the Moron.… from here. People I deal with frequently fall into one of the three categories of Martian, Moron, and Devil Puppeteer.

It looks like my brother and I will be going to mom’s for thanksgiving, but I’m not planning to stay for very long. Just long enough to be sociable, and then head on homeski.

Newt was a sweetie-boy this morning… he woke me up at sunrise as normal, but instead of wanting to run around and play, we had more muted “attack the hand hiding under the blanket, and run when it fights back” sort of morning. He woke me with a nose in my right tear duct this morning rather than his patty-pats. Just in a cuddly mood. Nothing wrong with that.

Lovely morning, not as brisk as yesterday, but still clear and comfortable. A pleasant breeze surrounded me with a honeysuckle-like scent (I think from the sweet alyssum) when I poked out of my mole-hole for a gauge of the day. I think tomorrow morning I’ll take pictures at Holiday Park. So far, I only have two pictures from there…. a squirrel (from late July) and the mage knight game last weekend. I’d also like to see if I could get a couple of shots of manatees.

I’m back to drinking coffee… I have an on-again, off-again relationship with it. I go through phases of really enjoying it, to just being indifferent to it, to actively not wanting any. With an Einstein’s bagels right up the street, I can get a cup pretty much at will.

Random history factoid – When two acquaintances in ancient Rome met on the street, the typical greeting was “Ave!” and “Salve!” (“Hail,” and “Hope you’re well,” respectively). Friends often followed this by a kiss on the cheek. People who presumed to be a prominent citizen’s friends also kissed or tried to kiss them in public, much to the target’s dismay. After an exchange of pleasantries, the Romans departed with “Vale” (“Good luck”) as goodbye.

Some element of my friends page is killing my image loading. it propagates to other spawned explorer pages, until I close explorer and reopen it. I think someone on found objects is using printroom, and my security settings forbid it’s style of unverified cookie… causing that stoppage to result. Weird… it’s making the viewing of my page quite a pain in the patoot… I’m debating loosening security, or making a “non-photo community filter” to make things go more gently.

HONEY VANILLA CHAMOMILE tofutti is a delight. I’m glad I ventured to get it. Hooray for Locust bean! Guar Gum!

Got a great start on the day today… woke at about 8am, and had the gumption to just go to the laundry and grocer. I’ve already cleaned the kitchen and bathroom, too. Cool. I’ve got the whole afternoon ahead of me.

I feel so comforted when everything is done. A full cupboard and fridge, clean clothes, sheets and body.

No sure what’s up for today. I’m going to hold off on the Kimono and personal prezzies until after the Holidays.. better to budget for more increased spending the next month or two for others. I’m not sure which kid’s toy charity I’m going with this year yet.

Seven Seas is dang addictive.. I played it almost the whole time at the ‘mat!

The Lemmiwinks song

Back from Mayah’s b’day party… lots of babies and little children (ages 10 mos to about 11 years) there, all of them angels. Many hippies, grandparents and friendlies there.

I got tons and tons of affection from the kids there… they know instinctively that I’m no danger, and a pushover to boot. I got all sorts of warm fuzzies and playtime in. Mayah liked the little purple outfits a lot.

misc photos from the day.. Additional and larger Newt piccies behind the cut.

Had a long lunch with Italian food and watched half of Goldfinger in the conference room.

Kev’s in good spirits, which is a nice change for him. not stressed or pressed for time, and he didn’t have to work late.

They had a goodbye dinner For Pamster at Champps. Fortunately for the other celebrationists, Mojo claimed sickness, and didn’t attend. (I couldn’t attend, as I was still working)

dirt

This weekend I will:

• Tonight – Do light housecleaning, shower, have a nice supper and work on a few pieces of terrain / Scotto & Sweetie toys. I think I want to do some oasis land pieces, some swamp, and maybe a little house or city-bit.
• Sometime – Must get Groceries, including Litter, TP, Shampoo and Dental Floss, Do Laundry. Hit the aquarium shop for cheap fake palm trees/ plants for terrain
• Before Mayah’s Birthday Party – Get Mayah’s prezzie – Maybe something at the expo? It is toys and such.
• Saturday morn/midday – Go with Dan to ACCexpo




• Sat Midday / Early eve (about 5) Go to Mayah’s Birthday party.
• Sunday morn – Maybe return with Dave to Accexpo
• Sunday midday / Early eve – best time for “sometime” Chores, I think.
• All weekend, and always: Think of her with love.

aha! forms work in LJ! This could have some potential. (unless the mooks disable it)

Note to self-

Buy Newt-food
Litter
Scotto-food
Tp

(hmm.. like father, like son!)

Dental Floss
Mayah Prezzie

off to work.. later journal-gator.

Hit the Fan! The object is to propel a mound of fecal matter with your ping-pong paddle so that it connects with the rotary air circulation device. Once you get some practice, try springing one off the stapler or landing it in the coffee cup. Even better yet, go for a “Mac attack” and ricochet one off the iMac screen into the blades. They did a fairly good job of creating a sound effect for the moment when the caca hits the old ventilator too – so how can you lose?

PSA, and then on to my entry – Microsoft announced a really nasty bug in their Data Access Components (MDAC) yesterday. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-065 has the details Go get the patch here, if you’ve not updated your system recently.

Ok, now on to regular Scotto…

Friday-Friday!

Sappho and Riker are making a pilgrimage to FAO Schwarz this weekend…. I’ve got an urge to go there, too. Maybe I’ll add it to the hubbub over thanksgiving weekend sometime. Anyone want to get me a personal hovercraft for Christmas? I think i might actually get the Lego Hagrid’s hut, if I can find it at ebay for under $20.

Cool as all get out classic children’s audio books. Gerald Mcboing Boing and Little Black Sambo.

I can hear the Goodyear blimp overhead… it really pleases me that it travels this far south.

History Wired – sort of a random wandering through the Smithsonian National Museum of American history. (Strange to me is that they have a display about Life in ancient Greece Reflected in the Coinage of Corinth “American history”? Not that I mind.. it’s a neat)

yum… I took a side route home today, and came across an empanada stand.

Any Guesses as to what I’m having for supper? Zucchini, portabella mushrooms, onions, green olives and spinach in a pastry shell, with spicy olive oil and who-knows what dip. numma-num

man, it’s good. I’m certainly going to return there. I also grabbed a beer, which was also a spur of the moment decision.

Dexter and Bailey were by today, but I’m too lazy right now to transfer and resize piccies. Maybe tomorrow night.

The Hut is at 809 members. Vagpagina has a 1117, and they ask for monetary support via paypal, cafe press-based clothing, postcards and such. I wonder how much money they make? I think it’s sort of shabby asking for money, unless they donate it to a valid charity of some sort… there’s really *no* effort needed at all to maintain the hut’s community at all. Maybe I’m spoiled by just having had very few problems with folks? Vagpag Started 9/19/2001. The Hut was created 2/23/2001, and I remember thinking that they were a copycat community at the time, but I know now that they have a much stronger feminist bent, rather than the hut’s biological and general support feel.

If I walked a mile in most folks’ shoes, I’d be hurting.. I wear size 15 American. I do need to pick up a new pair of shoes… maybe two. Perhaps I’ll swing by the birk store when I get Mayah’s birthday prezzie.

I abstained from the office’s secret Santa again this year.

I’ve learned a lot about GIMP art program (Linux) and GIMP for Windows the last few days… I’m amazed at how powerful an image editor it is, and I’m finally getting the knack of layer-based image fiddling.

Dopey Action/Adventure movie script point – When someone in the film says “This isn’t a movie, it’s real life!”

Audio books for free.

Chewy Chips ahoy are weak Soft-batch cookie imitations. (Soft batch is far superior, as far as I’m concerned). Don’t buy ’em, unless that’s what you’re looking for. I mistakenly eyeballed over the “chewy” definition. I like homemade cookies soft, cookies in a bag to be crunchy. I discovered this right before bed last night. I blame them for my non-memory of last night’s dreams.

Cool hubcap monsters (I’m spreading the link that’s been spread all over already bifurcated/mefi/boingboing and others)

Lovely precipitation last night and this morning… Hard to beat being curled up in bed while it’s raining. I also attribute my dream-memory loss to that, as I didn’t want to get up and commit the dream to memory.

I’m enjoying the fact that I have a straight-edge to shave with again… keeps those parts of my face that I prefer to be hairless baby-butt smooth.

Jim Sherman’s Hu’s on First.

Two cute kittens at work today. Gossamer and Gollum. One black with brown highlights, and one a tuxedo with little white feet. Both wholly adorable. So adorable, in fact, that Kev’s keeping them for himself, rather than letting anyone else adopt them.

kitty piccies