Pictures from Yesterday –
Autostitched pre-sunrise… spiffy orange clouds
Newt hanging out on the porch with me while we wait for a house cleaning.
Moment of lyric – youtube video
8317 – plop, plop, flappity flap flap.
Another one to add to “reasons I wish I could copy images/sounds seen directly to paper with photo-realistic accuracy” list.
Sitting on the porch, daydreaming and idly stroking newton, I look at one of the palm trees trees by the lake. see a coconut drop, and for a split second notice that on top of the coconut, riding the 15 foot or so drop is a medium-small sized iguana… he leapt off before the brown, furry ball hit the water, and did a belly-flop of his own into the drink about a foot to the left of the fallen tree-fruit.
The twin splashes cause about a dozen ibis to launch up and out over the water.
I think I’m the only one who saw it… nobody down by the pool or walking around the lake from my vantage point, anyhow.. it was a visual treat, but all took place before I could even think of retrieving the camera from its pouch. Even Newt was oblivious, licking a paw
8315 – Saturday.
Meeting with the momster after Fatima cleans up the joint this morning. Maybe do lunch together and gab more about the current familial hubbub.
Another morning on the porch to come. I may need to get a box fan to put out there, before the summertime hits in full.
Moment of lyric (youtube video)
When I was surrounded by the world you were the only one who came
And you were the only one astounded who has kept me grounded
As the other girls thrashed my very name
Then I looked over just in time to see her smiling back at me
And saying everything’s OK as long as you’re inside my blue veins
Your blue veins
Yeah and the feeling that you gave me no matter what I do or where I go
It always will remain
And those who would enslave me to get to me must get past you and will have no luck
Cause you’ll protect me from all pain (that’s true, yeah, but)
The most beautiful, yeah the most beautiful thing cause anything else can’t compare?
Must be the blood that’s running through your blue veins
Your blue veins
Your blue veins
And I know you won’t deceive me like the rest and there’s nothing you need to explain
You always were the first one to believe me when I said to you girl
I think it’s gonna rain
But I could be wrong
Yeah but all of these things all these things they’re all truly nice
but ain’t nothing ain’t nothing compared to the love that’s running through your little blue veins
Full day today. Possible trip to dentist, chores, mom visit, maybe dinner with the crew at W’s if the timing works? Speaking of Dinner… I could stand a little breakfast. Time to forage. Until later, dear journal. As always, Newtcam should be live.
1 year ago – Bettie Page’s bday, MJ & vaseline, bus ride pics, newt and a space monkey, air show, ramscan, banana tree herb, exoskeleton, taco bell, email kills iq more than pot
2 years ago – Eucharist toss, RI peeves me, there, vamps, CS mail-skim
3 years ago – country meme, there-crew, battle-imp
4 years ago – dreams, make out places in Ft Lauderdale, lone gunmen gone, chupa vs tia
5 years ago – ljwhores, undulant, Earth Day, international kite fest, 10 reasons sex is good for you, Peru shoots down US planes
8314 – Friday 5
1. When is the last time you were broke?
TG/Christmastime 2004. A lot of financial burdens added up and I really had trouble getting out from under ’em. Fortunately, it was resolved before I got too tapped out. (Could still take care of rent, utils, etc.)
2. What makes you lose focus?
Micromanagement, Nagging, any Harpy-like activity in my environment. Boredom. something more interesting or important.
3. How tall are you?
6’5″/6’6″ depending on slouch-factor.
4. Are you brave or cowardly?
Yes, depending on what I’m made to stand up against. I pick my battles, but am willing to gnaw through an arm to get away from some things, or gnaw through someone else’s jugular to get to others.
5. What’s in your pocket?
Standard collection – Flash drive, keys, billfold, ID, pda, cell phone, bus pass, business cards, green eraser shaped like the goodyear blimp, newton whisker
8313 – Friday. Finally.
Wow, do I hate to iron, especially first thing in the morning. Makes me a big ol’ grumpy scottosaurus. I think I’m going to ask Fatima how much she’d charge to do a few shirts and pants. I’m just not so great at taking care of those.
Swung by a pawnshop on the way home, just to eyeball what people were selling… picked up 3 dvds for $15. Buckaroo Bonsai (Special Edition), A Monty Python TV series Dvd (contains the Deja vu, silly walks and spanish inqusition episodes), and True Romance.
Crashed right out when I got home. Played a bit with the Newtster, ate a sammich, fell asleep. Not bad, but I’d have liked to do more. Read, play SL, or the like.
Seriously considering getting a short haircut for summer. I need to look up the “donate hair to kids” places.
8312 – for review later – good stats for work
8311 – four-twenty, duuuuude!
Met with the momster after work yesterday, and reviewed some options regarding the grandmomster. Her brother has power of attorney, but it looks like he’s cleaning her out while grandmuh-mah slowly fades from reality on double doses of sedatives and Alzheimer’s’s. minimal highlights for future ref: mom 25%, di 25%, doug 50%, after sig’s college is paid. Speaking of little sig, bigger sig’s bought a building in Colorado and will be doing some more real estate shortly. There are a lot of sibling infighting on mom’s side of the family. Dad’s side just dies early from accidents.
Getting hotter out.. and the dragonflies (and damselflies) are *everywhere*. I remember when I was very young, I thought that they were poisonous and that they stung like scorpions. A few varieties out there, but mostly the brown ones with the striped wings, and the blue-bottle-glass looking damsels.
insomnia makes a few good points about lj’s new ad-level membership.
that and the following promise made in ’04 —
Stay advertisement free
garner a lot of money, but nonetheless, we promise to never offer advertising space in our
service or on our pages.
A bunch of great sesame street clips, including Robert DeNiro imagines he’s Elmo! Also vaguely disturbing – Grover’s Health Minute – Teeth
Had a nice time playing “greedy greedy”, a dice game with the gang in SL. Sort of a hybrid of yahtzee and cosmic wimpout.
8310 – Sushi and Rev. Moon
8309 –
Because people have a need to glue things to other things – How to glue two different things together.
sketch-it is a website that lets you submit a subject, pay $1 and have it sketched for you by one of about 13 sketch artists. They’ve been doing it since January and have sketched a variety of subjects. Have an idea, but can’t draw it? They probably can. For a dollar, you can’t go wrong. Definitely take a look at the archives to see everything they’ve already sketched. There’s some good stuff in there.
8307 – 2z-D.
The visual part of my brain wonders why a yellow sun in a blue sky doesn’t have green around it. The Logical side understands a bit about the atmosphere and diffuson, bu tthe visual side isn’t buying it.
Hot, fresh b’nanner pancakes is a great way to start the day. I need to get some blueberries for next time.
A Florida mall dispute ended Saturday night with the arrest of the Easter Bunny on battery charges.
Some pictures from yesterday bright and early –
8306 – Keep Cool
8305 – Which brings us back to d’oh!
New Dr. Who was ok.. I liked the semi-zombie goodness despite the weak ending, but I look more forward to next week’s episode… Werewolves and Queen Victoria!
Secret Wars Re-Enactment Society – Well, it makes as much sense as those Civil War guys.
Aw, phooey… Monday again, eh? Weekend evaporated like fog on a hot day. Had lunch with the Mom and her gang at Sweet Tomatoes, and came home to an overlong nap… Sunday was completely wiped off the map as a result. Danny tried to call me from the Atlanta arport, but both phones he was using were wrecked, microphone-wise. Good to know he made it in ok, however.
I’m not a big fan of recent SNL, but the video bits, and smigel’s tv funhouse animation segments still can shock and awe a bit. Last weekend’s “Disney Vault” bit was pretty awesomely horrid.
1 year ago – Homeless seen while on walkabout, mzk nearly shoots my eye out, Bo Rhap, Newt pics, mzk pic, robot doodle, lethal injections not painless?, tv interview
2 years ago – odd email, D’s bday/vanishment, manatee doodle, sammy’s sister syndicated, garlic, moon scarab
3 years ago – egg hunt stats
4 years ago – annoying day, doc trip, search terms
5 years ago – AJ’s Bday, Recording freakazoid, dsl,
8304 – Easter in SL2006
easter in SL2006
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
A quick snap of Easter in Second Life
The Sun is an easter egg for a day!
8303 – newtcam-action easter morning
newtcam-action
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
Newt having an “easter egg” hunt of sorts… chasing an egg-shaped ladybug toy around the house. Soccer-foot!
8302 – Would a zombie icon be inappropriate for Easter?
Actually, I take a little micro-umbrage at that, because the stories have him as resurrected, not just reanimated.
I’m not a terribly religious man, but I do enjoy the sentiment of the Franciscans.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Some of those can be a little difficult at times.
As an agnostic, I’m not looking for eternal life, but I do want to be a part of making the world better for everyone. Pardoning is something I especially still need to work on. The lure of personal justice and worse, vengeance is quite strong.
Very handy freeware list for windows. I’m especially fond of Windows powertoys allowing me ot put cleartype on my big old CRTs
I forgot to mention the shopping find of the day yesterday –
They also make BBq sauce, and it’s quite excellent, not ot mention the silly picture on the front. Apparently they’re a fairly local Florida company.
Hm. I’d really like to see what the actual parameters are for lj top 40.
My LJ is now at #8, but it bounces all over the place each update. It doesn’t seem to differentiate between individuals (like me), communities (like craftgrrl), or lj-specific journals (like news)
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