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6859 – Friday

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I can’t rightly call this a vacation, considering that I’m still taking call.

three so far today… I was a little difficult to train D&J to shut the pie-holes while I’m making a call, but it seems to be working out ok, now.

We took a little walk around the neighborhood… it looks like the brunt of the storm is going to pass to the north, now.

I’d forgotten how J speaks in monologues, disguised as dialogues. I think she could have the exact conversation with or without a partner.

Shutters are up throughout the neighborhood, clouds are rolling by quickly, some comfy breeze, but no rain.

It’s a little tricky training Newt to stay off of the counters here.. I don’t want him wandering around where food is prepared.

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6858 – in the box with D & J.

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At Dan’s, and it’s going better than expected. My panic was misplaced.

Tonight, we watched gaimajin, and had quorn nuggets for supper, with new potatoes and brussels sprouts. I abstained from the sprouts… they remind me of my formative years as a podling.

Newt’s digging the plants (no pun intended) and is enjoying all of the new places to nose around and check out. Minimal missing person calls tonight, and I’m only on call until tomorrow at 5pm.

Tomorrow, I’m introducing Danny to invader zim.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DCL! thanks again for the CDs!

I haven’t used this laptop for quite a span… the windows update and anti-virus both took forever on dialup.

Hitting the sack soon. See you later, Dear journal.

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6858 – in the box with D & J.

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At Dan’s, and it’s going better than expected. My panic was misplaced.

Tonight, we watched gaimajin, and had quorn nuggets for supper, with new potatoes and brussels sprouts. I abstained from the sprouts… they remind me of my formative years as a podling.

Newt’s digging the plants (no pun intended) and is enjoying all of the new places to nose around and check out. Minimal missing person calls tonight, and I’m only on call until tomorrow at 5pm.

Tomorrow, I’m introducing Danny to invader zim.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DCL! thanks again for the CDs!

I haven’t used this laptop for quite a span… the windows update and anti-virus both took forever on dialup.

Hitting the sack soon. See you later, Dear journal.

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6865 – backdated from Thursday

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backdated.

I decided briefly that I wasn’t comfortable with the C’s around Newt. I think that Jan or even Danny might get careless, and do something that would cause Newt to somehow get hurt out of the house… I’m being irrational. I came close to having a panic attack just thinking of poor Newt, out in a hurricane. It sort of saddens me to be this distrustful of Dan and his wife, but they just don’t know better, and are prone to carelessness. I don’t think that I should stay, here, but if I go to Danny’s place, I’m going to have to lay down some ground rules. Maybe I’ll stay with Newt in the guest bathroom the whole time. [update: Of course ,I ended up going to Dan and Janet’s, and everything turned out fine)

pretend-sushi made with twinkies and dried fruit… I think I’m more partial to the kebabs.

Looking for more potential hurricane cams? Check this old entry for lots o’ links. note that some links may be broken, but the Sun-Sentinel’s has always been pretty reliable.

I tried out the evil genius demo… pretty cute, but I’m not sure how much repeat game play it holds. Being a Bond-style villain is fun… and the music is groovy. Sort of a sim-city version of Evil base management.

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6857 – update

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I’m going to stay with Danny and Janet’s place if things continue to be bad. Poor Danny’s allergic to Newt, but he’s willing to sacrifice for me and the little orange guy. Newtie-boy will be banned from the bedrooms, is all. I’m sure he’ll be more than happy to spend time in the living room with me. I’ll bring some Heroclix with me to play to while away the time in a more analog style.

Janet’s rather allergic to me, too, in a different sense. Our beliefs and ideals are fairly different, but she has been nothing but very gracious to me in times of need. I’m thankful for that.

My mother is going to be fine where she is, and if bro needs a place to stay, he can go be with her and Wilt.

To be on the safe side, I’ll be unpacking my PC later tonight, so I’ll be on and off-line as things happen. Danny’s only got dial-up, so I won’t have my DSL perma-connect that I do here. I’m tempted to lave my pc covered in plastic, and have the cam pointed inside for a Hurricane-view. I figure I’ll point it at the windows without wood on ’em to scan for alien invaders or flying coconuts.

Speaking of the cam, here’s the Newt pic of the day:

Current Cam pic – (will change over time)

What do you see?

Currently, you should be able to see my front door, South and East Windows, and bike. I’ll be taking the headlight with me as my personal flashlight when I go. You may also catch me running back and forth to the oven in order to retrieve lunchtime veggie taquitos.

Wilt’s coming by with a lovely bit of 5 x 6 wood to protect my most vulnerable window… the others should be fairly safe, and wood is very rare right now, as could be expected. My landlord claims there’s none to be found… I think that there probably could’ve been some if he was better prepared. I’m also happy to uproot the broad wooden fence outside, and use it as a side-barricade if need be.

current meme – (nicked from bubbles3563)

Leave a comment with your name if you want to know what I really think of you, and I’ll reply and tell you. No lies, all honesty. [I think most people already have a good idea of how I feel about ’em, but I’m happy to reinforce / surprise them.]

Post it in your journal after I do yours so I can see the reverse. (it may take a while, as checking email might get spotty.)

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6855 – office secure/ Hurricane Frances PSA

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Ok, Office is disassembled, network secure, and everything is safe there.

Now to research what to do for myself.

Hurricane Frances Information Hotline 954-831-4000

Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman announced at a media conference today at 8:00 a.m. the following action Broward County residents and visitors should take in preparation for Hurricane Frances.

• In anticipation of a hurricane warning later today and an in an abundance of caution, a mandatory evacuation has been ordered effective 2:00 p.m. today for the Barrier Islands and all mobile homes. Residents are strongly urged to evacuate. Voluntary evacuations can take place at any time.

• A recommended evacuation has been ordered for those areas east of US1 and for those residents who live on tidal bodies of water. [that’s me. I’m looking into pet-friendly hotels now.]

• Red Cross shelters will open at 2:00 p.m. today. Buses will begin running to assist with the evacuation at approximately 1:45 p.m. along A-1-A.

• Those persons who need to evacuate should first attempt to stay with friends or relatives outside the evacuation zone. The Red Cross Shelters will be available for those that need a safe refuge.

• Shelter guidelines:

– Shelters are a place of refuge only
– No pets are permitted in shelters – a list of pet friendly hotels is posted on the web site
– No smoking is permitted
– Items to bring: medication, battery-operated radio, special diet foods, baby food, personal items, pillows and blankets
– Shelter location information is available on the Broward County web site www.broward.org or by calling the Hurricane Hotline at 954-831-4000

• The Broward County special needs shelters will also open at 2:00 p.m. today. These shelters are for people who have special health care needs and require assistance. Residents in need have pre-registered and will be notified by telephone this morning to schedule transportation.

• There are approximately 17,000 visitors to Broward County staying in hotels in the evacuation area. Hotels in western Broward County are at capacity. Our Red Cross shelters are available as refuge for our visitors.

• Travelers should call the airlines before arriving at the airport to ensure that their flights are still scheduled.

• Port Everglades closed at 8:00 a.m. this morning to all vessel traffic including cargo and cruise ships.

• Homeless persons in Broward County should seek shelter at any of the Red Cross shelters or at the four shelters designated specifically to assist homeless persons. The shelters are:

Broward Outreach Center, 2056 Scott St., Hollywood, 954-926-7417
Salvation Army Lodge, 1445 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-524-6991
Central Homeless Assistance Center, 920 N.W. 7th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-779-3990
North Homeless Assistance Center, 1700 Blount Rd., Pompano Beach 954-979-6365

• All Broward County offices are closed today, as well as all public schools.Site Meter

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6852 – blah, blah, blah

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I don’t know why, but I got the urge to make a cartoon out of Newt talking.
(no doubt he’s making fun of how pointless many of my entries are.)

I’m really looking forward to The Incredibles.

Good team. A stretchy, a brick, a speedster, invisi-forcefields, ice… looks like what little I’ve seen is well-written, too.

Dear M. Night Shyamalan,

It seems you can’t make a good movie without Bruce Willis. Call him back for the next flick you make. I loved 6th sense, and Unbreakable.

Signs and The Village, while having good bits in the middle at times, had poo endings.

Your Viewer in FL,
Scotto

Turn Gmail storage into a mountable file system

GmailFS provides a mountable Linux file system which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland file system infrastructure to help provide the file system, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favorite Unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).

Cool.

Woo! I got my check from Google Adsense! Good deal, I wasn’t totally ripped off, after all. A lot of little financial windfalls lately!

Mike from Satan’s Laundromat photographs Critical Mass bicycle riders getting arrested Friday night and finds himself arrested and in jail overnight.

“they suddenly decided to start making arrests without warning, penning people in and arresting entire blocks’ worth of people, including hapless tourists and people getting off work who just happened to be in the area watching. And they couldn’t have been bothered to clean the diesel sludge off the floor of the holding pens where they made us sleep? Someone will pay.”

I hope *somebody* catches hell for that.

I’m glad to see that Cap’n Pete in Disney’s Three Musketeers cartoon has gone back to having a peg leg. Of course, the novel itself is public domain and available online. (you can always download and print it out if you prefer text on dead trees.)

It’s also the origin of GrayPumpkin & Katt’s little cow-kitty’s name. D’Art! (The first Kitty I was ever really social with.)

Hmm… Hurricane Frances travel projection looks like it’s headed this way, around midday Saturday. A lot can happen over the course of a week, but I’d wager it’ll hit the states *somewhere*.

Current Plot

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6851 – follow-up

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Back from the doc’s, got a scrip for oral antibiotics, as well as ear drops. Insurance didn’t cover 1000s, so it took the pharm/doctor/insurance company triad about 3 hours to decide to give me two generic 500s instead.

Total time spent seeking treatment and meds – 7 hours, and $60. Am I going to complain? Nah, not too much… things are a lot worse for people with serious illnesses.

Also, I’ve gained 3 pounds back in the last 2 months… got to refocus on the diet again.

I’m home for 3.5 minutes, and HQ calls me for tech issues. Nice to be indispensable, I guess.

That’s done now, so I can get a modicum of rest. Maybe I’ll take tomorrow “off”, too.

Nighty night, dear journal.

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6850 – Monday, like a bean burrito, has returned.

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Hmm, last night’s JLU was cute, but I wasn’t crazy about B’wana Beast’s or Zatanna’s portrayal, though it was cute to see Red Tornado, Ralph Dibney and the Crimson Avenger in cameos. (Oddly, I have no problem with the #2 detective in the DC universe plastering up flyers for a missing pig.)

The Music was excellent, but poorly placed… I’ll give the episode a 5/10. (Spiked high and low to a fair average.)

It amazes me about cost comparisons. If you get a pack of smokes at a club, it’s $8. That’s more than crack… I don’t smoke, but it amazes me how much people can get away with charging, because they know people will buy ’em. I’m glad I never got hooked on that particular vice.

Bro told me that he got into a car accident this past weekend, as a passenger. I’ve already gotten conflicting stories of who he was with, and how it happened. Last night it was a guy driving, today it was a she. My guess is that was with some of his dumbass friends and doesn’t want to ‘fess up.

Still have my earache this morning (since Midday Sat), stretching from ear canal to jaw-hinge on my right side. I’m waiting for a tech to get to work, so I can remove myself from being on call, and head to my doc. I think there might be some sort of blockage after the cold I had last week. Fortunately, Tylenol is keeping the edge off of the pain-factor.

I’m tired of Bush *and* Kerry. Both seem to suck like a reverse hurricane and neither appear big on platforms I’m fond of… specifically business, education and the environment. The only reason I’m a bit more for the Dem is that it’ll mix up the political soup a bit, and Bush has a history of not following up on the good promises. Make no mistake, I don’t like either of ’em. They’re both on the same page for a lot of things. Kerry’s ahead in that he’s pro-choice, and for gay marriage. I don’t think it’s anyone’s right to legislate that behavior, even if neither apply to me.

Article here for reference- Political comparison crap

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6849 – Rainy Sunday Morning. Nice.

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Ack. Pen blew up in the laundry, and wrecked a sheet-set and a couple of shirts.

I was looking for an excuse to get some new gear, anyhow.

Best quote heard so far this morning –

“No supernatural transformations on the bus.”

Solar X-rays:

Geomagnetic Field:

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My eyes go “gutter-sniping” when I walk after a rain, and before the street sweepers catch up with things. it’s amazing what little things get washed into the corners… glass, cigarette butts, and assorted trash. The thing that surprises me the most is bones. I can’t say that see creature bits every day, but it happens more often than I would have expected.

I just don’t see bones that often, since I stopped eating meat. The people I dine out with seldom seem to go in for fried chicken or rib eye steaks, so even secondhand food bone-sightings on a plate are exceedingly rare.

They’re not always in the water-flow.. sometimes along the beach things are left in the reeds. When I see sun-bleached, dry bones out on my travels, I sometimes forget that it might remnants of a human’s meal unless there’s a some sort of context clue like fire traces or greasy foam tray nearby. I don’t have the greatest grip on biology. I can tell a bird bone from the remains of something a bit more earthbound, but that’s about it. I’ve stumbled upon whole skeletons of what I assume to be seagulls.. I wonder what killed them? Did they drop out of the sky, dead of old age? I have no idea.

I think it’s cool that some tennis shoe commercial is using “He needs me” from Popeye as theme music. I don’t know which one it is, but it’s nice to hear the song in the background. Here’s a wmv file of Olive singing the song to Popeye. (7.2 meg)

A *lot* of people disliked that movie, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Why do I have an urge to visit Portugal?

Target’s sandalwood incense is excellent. I’ll buy it again… good gamble.

Dan and I playing Heroclix 2 years ago… it always surprises me when I see us next to one another for scale.

I would love to have the whole Honey, I Shrunk the Kids TV series on DVD.

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6848 – Saturday

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Just sitting tight with my ol’ book by the phone, doing the ol’ on-call thing this weekend.

A few of the cases so far –

A child was hit by a car, unconscious, and I launched some notifications looking for his guardians in the area. I hope to hear good news on that follow-up.

A bad news kid from Apache, this was the last time he can take off… next time he’ll be considered habitual, and alerts won’t go out.

Autistic in Michigan… got to wake up the neighborhood at 2am to go look for him. I’m glad it was a Friday, rather than a work-week night. That’ll keep grumpies to a minimum.

MTV Video Music awards in Miami this weekend… I confess to a little curiosity, and some disappointment that I can’t go on photo safari… the upside is that I don’t have to worry about traffic, or bumping into Paris Hilton or Pauly Shore.

Compare google and yahoo search results side-by-side

Make your own Batphone (indirectly from Batfriend. cool opening.)

Sometimes I feel this way about the blogs that I read.

Welcome to my wall scrawls.