If I was part of a UFO/supernatural investigation team, I don’t think it’d be Men in Black. Odds are better that it’d be a part of-

“Men in Forest Green”
“Men in Deep Blue”
“Men in Light-colored tropical prints”
“Men in Tie-Dye & Khakis”
“Men in Comfortable T-shirts”
“Men without Hats” (Does the SAFETY DANCE)

Having Your Employer Pay for Your Hookers
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UA police are investigating John C. Buckingham Jr., the former head of the graduate business program, for allegedly using university money to pay for escort services while on business trips.

Some Kind Of Major Malfunction
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Police say that a drill instruction has been brutally beaten by a teenager that he was trying to help. The alleged beating happened at the “Boot Camp” in Martin County near the sheriff’s office.

Attack Of The Killer Vacation
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A Colorado newspaper reporter, one day into a hard-earned vacation with his girlfriend, died after being struck by lightning on Fort Lauderdale beach Saturday afternoon, according to police and rescue officials.

Rules are made for a Reason.
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Because it puts them at greater risk of being harmed, police officers in this state are trained not to reach inside cars they have pulled over. Still, Seattle police Officer Greg Neubert reached into the white Cadillac he and his partner had stopped for erratic driving late Thursday.
Neubert, police say, was going after a license that Aaron Roberts, the driver of the Cadillac, had offered and then withdrawn. Roberts, an escaped felon with a history of drug addiction, is believed to have been baiting Neubert.When Neubert, who is white, reached in for the license, police say Roberts, who was black, gunned the Cadillac forward and began dragging the officer along 23rd Avenue near East Union Street. The dragging stopped when Neubert’s partner, Craig Price, who is also white, fatally shot Roberts.

Wacky Prank, results in much trouble
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Inserting strong-bonding glue into the locks of 50 doors in the high school got Matthew Wien, Jeremy Umansky and Michael Powidel suspended. They missed both their prom and graduation. But the youths, all 18, also face serious adult vandalism charges. “This is a case of not knowing the consequences of what you do,” said Solon police Lt. Chris Viland. “These poor kids are looking at a felony record.”

Smart Dealing Teen
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A 14-year-old south Fort Myers girl is accused of taking $1,300 worth of jewelry from her mother and pawning it for $73 so she and her friends could go to New York.

We Still Have To Wait For Space Porn
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Cosmonauts claim that it is forbidden to have sex in space.
“A lot of different commissions — moral, ethical and medical ones — that were discussing this, finally ruled that one must not do it so far, because the consequences are unknown for those who would be born,” Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev said in an interview published in the Friday edition of Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
Musabayev also gave a negative answer when asked whether anybody has ever had sex in space. “Definitely not, although there is a lot of idle talk around this,” he said.

Creating list, everything I can think of in 5 minutes. and… go!

Researcher
Kindly older brother
Karmic Enforcer
Patsy
Brute
Clown
Santa’s Helper
The Only Voice of Reason
Anonymous Benefactor
Anonymous Malefactor
Secret Admirer
Choir Boy
Boy Scout
Storyteller
Actor
Programmer
Author
Leader
Assistant
Follower
Coward
Caregiver
Pilot
Gossip
Distraction
Guardian
Narrator
Teacher
Student
Lover
Friend
Medic
Taxi Driver
Bank
Bum
Homeless Man
Babysitter
Censor
Cataloguer
Exterminator
Teetotaler

Being apart from the woman I love is a stress I dislike to a huge degree. I actually spent a good amount of my time out tonight picturing her with me, sharing dinner and watching Knight’s Tale with my pals and me (Dave and Cathi… Cath’s stating to get a little pregnancy pooch showing… she’s so cute. I shared the botulism honey connection with her, and she was happy to get the info.)

Now, she’s in bed, and I’ll follow…hopefully to rejoin her in dreamland and have her in my arms. I miss her so much.

check this out –

http://www.livejournal.com/portal/

How nifty! Try it logged in for the biggest bennies.

Update: Upcoming boxes/options include:
— Friends view (customizable)
— Recent Entry view (with the [ ] Include text option working)
— Random User (optionally, with a picture)
— Filter group filter on Birthday View

I know that someone, somewhere, for some reason really wanted to know about the ultrasonic velocity characteristics of cheddar cheese, and the effect that temperature has on said characteristics (warning: PDF file). Importantly, this study managed to “demonstrate the feasibility of using ultrasonic measurements to determine temperatures in Cheddar cheese” — this must be important to someone.

I gotta tell ya’, I’ve become pretty dang annoyed with the dang X10 wireless system ads that have started popping up under m y web browsing window. Thanks go out to Gael for a bunch of awesome links — one to X10’s explanation of the ads, and another to a page which will disable the ads. (The unfortunate thing is that that last link only disables them for 30 days, but in looking at the URL, there’s an argument that sets the 30-day variable; if that’s right, then this link should disable them for a year, and this one should disable them for 10 years.)

Today’s Mission List – (Thinks I’d like to do)

• Shower
• Laundry
• Talk to my Sweetie
• Go Grocery Shopping
• Talk to my Little Bro (Maybe Catch a Late supper wth him)
• Play with Newtie
• Talk to Dave & Cathi (Maybe catch a late supper with them, too)
• Evaluate finances for a first/last/security
• Research New Apartments, condos, and house rentals
• Find out more about yesterday’s fiasco

Hopping on item numbers one and Two now.

fun fact of the day – a beautiful girl once named a turtle after me. 🙂 Scotto the turtle.

but I’m still neither turtlehead nor darktrain

parse PAHRS, transitive verb:
1. To resolve (as a sentence) into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
2. To describe grammatically by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
3. To examine closely or analyze critically, especially by breaking up into components.
4. To make sense of; to comprehend.
5. (Computer Science) To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.

intransitive verb:
To admit of being parsed.

Parse comes from the Latin pars (orationis), “part (of speech).”

and by the way –

happy birthday,

You know… if I had been doing laundry like I was supposed to, I might not ever know that this stuff happened.

Hey I left my cam on!!

*going to dig through the pictures…