9082 – tues

9082 – tues

9082 – tuesday

9082 – tuesday

9082 – tuesday

So windy yesterday and today, that the windows in the building are creaking… sounds like a ship at sea. One of my coworkers claims that she can feel the building move.. I’m not that sensitive to motion – the tower seems pretty dang sturdy to me.

Somehow I doubt this will happen here any time soon, let alone this. Sakes… was Wilma two years ago, already?

We’ve been pretty fortunate, storm-wise lately. One Ice storm on Valentine’s Day… what more reason do you need to stay indoors?


BHK picked me up from work, rather than have me take the Metro home… That shaved 2 hours off of my commute – more quality time with the Missus. We stopped off at *$ for cocoa, and then grabbed a little California Tortilla for take home… watched open season with the in-laws and then played a little classic mario bros before retiring.


“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
— Ellen Parr


The Doodleboard in my website’s toybox is getting a little activity again.. I dig the two newest pix.


Odd that my wordpress backup journal has already gotten a half dozen spam-hits (all removed by akismet before publishing.) just random gibberish, no links or anything.


Christmas reminder.. Santa’s Pals, not so sinister elf-replaced Black Pete and the sinister Krampus. (More Krampus here ! – Found while Searching for James Ensor… Belgium’s Famous Painter. )


Holiday Q&A, via eryx and kat
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9081 – mon

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9081 – monday.

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9080 – Sunday

9080 – Sunday

9081 – mon

back to work….feeling better enough to get to where I need to go. Got my Secret Santa Assignment. Not picking it up tonight, but soon. Today started slow going, but hourly stretches are helping a lot. Not so bad, once I showered and headed out the door. No drugs stronger than ibuprofen until I got home… have to stay sharp while on the job.


via bckev and lore at the same time! 50 answers from stereotypist : stick man doodles, and the lamp.

If you look at the “things in jars” link in Kevin’s post, you might be sorry. I’m not. Lore also put me on to The Superest

The Superest is a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. The rules are simple:

Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.

best read from the very beginning.


via bandicoot – As part of the new LJ “tagging” program, everyone has had their ability to see LJ content filtered. The default setting is “Moderately filtered”.

To change that back to “Unfiltered”, open up http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/, and go to the bottom, where you can change the filter settings.


Dinner tonight of veggie burgers and corn tortilla/tomato soup. good chilly weather fare!


LJ acquired from Six Apart by SUP more info at lj2008

Looks like permanent accounts will still be good, at least for the moment. Still, LJ-archive is handy, in case a person wants to jump ship with comments and links intact… or Blog2Blog, if they don’t mind losing comments while sliding from point to point.


Speaking of Easter Decorations at Christmastime (well, I was, yesterday) Looks like Melting Bunny is making the rounds. Waste of a perfectly good trio of chocolate bunnies, if you ask me, dear journal.


1 year ago – newtcam back up, getting cool out, doug and tina happy

2 years ago – Chris Yerina RIP, starmark, becky b’day, lost lost, questions and quizzes,

3 years ago – too many commercials, holiday card, eye contact, monkey festival, clean house, thermodynamics, no call psa,

4 years ago – snaily, Danny’s wife on the radio, Cartography, fun links

5 years ago – Cat-a-pult Newton, Heat Miser wins Rumble Vote 2000 by 3 votes (I know how K voted!), battle cry, Godzilla Movie

6 years ago – High School, potemkin village & fatidic, stress, and first encounter with WID

7 years ago – book advisories, sims oversleep, saw unbreakable with bro, aquarians, Addams Geotarget

9079 – Sat

9079 – Sat

9078 – fri

9078 – fri

9080 – sunday

9080 – sunday

9080 – sunday

9080 – sunday

9080 – Sunday

Spent the day pretty much on my back or in a chair, semi-stupefied by painkillers. I seem to do better when I’m moving around a little bit… after 8 hours in bed, getting up first thing in the morning can be quite difficult, at best. After making my way to the shower, I loosened up considerably.

Watched some TV and played some Wii… that’s about all. We started to watch The Number 23, but we sacked it 35 minutes in. No point in wasting any more time… the thing just couldn’t take off for us. That’s pretty sad – I’ve always liked the 23 enigma. The narrative and the acting didn’t go with my aching back and sleepy head.

BHK kept an eye on me for most of the day, but went off with her folks to decorate the blue house, for the holidays – they got rained out before making it back to our HQ. Looks like our lights may be going up next weekend.

There’s a real chance of snow next week! I hope it’s the good kind… no trouble with traffic, just pretty.

My eyes have been forming tears quite a bit lately. I wonder if there’s something in the air, or if it’s just an unconscious reaction to the pain?

Minor grinchiness… Please stop trotting out Easter stuff during the Christmas Season. I don’t need to see the symbol of Crucifixion next to a little baby in a manger. How about celebrating one miracle at a time, eh? Come back with that crown of thorns stuff in March or April. Maybe that’s just my quirk… I know that I don’t mind the secular stuff, like Santa in the Manger. Santa on the cross is pretty dang tacky.


1 year ago – Xmas parade
pictures taken – many pictures from the Christmas parade 2 3 4 5 see also bhk’s batch

2 years ago – dave and cathi, birthdays, quizzes

3 years ago – hartz bad for animals, dealing with stalkers, 85, scotto-factoid, dreams, communication, VS asks me about diamonds and shocks me with a response

4 years ago – Old palm doodles, Roy Disney quits, Haley born, Dead Bugs

5 years ago – annie cat, clash of the titans, palm doodles, ebooks

6 years ago – Yuanwu, submitting stories, laundry, Spartacus, cuban tree frog

7 years agoScotto’s, bleh, bleh recovery, Dune quote, body-mod poll Geotarget

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