Long day yesterday, hopefully today will be better. Not bad, exactly, just busy-busy like a bee convention. Fortunately, it was productive-busy rather than wheel-spinning.

This morning, I find myself wondering how far those little Eucharist wafers would fly, if you flung ’em like a bottle-cap or tiny Frisbee. I don’t think it’d be sacrilegious, as long as it wasn’t blessed or otherwise set up for transubstantiation yet.

Got a wake up call from RI at 2:30 am… because she is unwilling to even f-ing call him when a child’s life is on the line. making me the third step in the loop is stupid and poorly thought out. She shouldn’t hold an emergency beeper, if she can’t use it correctly.

Beta of There is pretty impressive so far. The roller coasters are nifty, but I really like the 2-man scooters and the portable housing. (The new houses on Tyr are beautiful, too.)

My daughter in the vampire game helped me to achieve thievery2 last night… she’s been very kind to assist in growth there. I haven’t talked much to my other relations yet, but look forward to doing so.

Built another super… “Stinkbug Junior” a insect-motif, with a robot arm that shoots dark miasma gas / tar pits like powers. a lot of fun, the “fart joke” humor is fine for this pre-wipe era.

Anydangway, have a good one, dear journal.

Dream fragment-

Brother was living with me at the old house in Boynton, and was having an athsma attack… he told me that he had to go to the emergency room, and that his friend (Patrick) had left rather than be put out by taking bro to the ER. I sat bro in front of the computer, which had an american lung association logo on it… he was bathed in a soft pink light until his symptoms stopped. Bro was fairly thankless, and just got up and took off – I told him to be sure and close the door, so that Newt wouldn’t get out. Of course, he didn’t, and Newt got outside.. but fortunately he was just sunbathing on the front lawn, and wasn’t creamed by a car or anything. Bro returned home and I bawled him out for being irresponsible, and he was very uncarnig about it…”hey, you know me, I can’t be relied on”… so I told him that if I couldn’t depend on him to close the door when he leaves, then he’d best find another place to live, becaus eI wasn’t going to put myself, loved ones and valuables at risk just because he’s a jerk. When the mailman came, I filled out a form, and had bro reassigned to a new address in cocoa beach… at 4pm the post office truck came by, picked him and all his stuff up, and unpacked him at his new address… bro didn’t seem to mind, the surfing was good, and we talked on the phone.

Dream fragment-

Brother was living with me at the old house in Boynton, and was having an athsma attack… he told me that he had to go to the emergency room, and that his friend (Patrick) had left rather than be put out by taking bro to the ER. I sat bro in front of the computer, which had an american lung association logo on it… he was bathed in a soft pink light until his symptoms stopped. Bro was fairly thankless, and just got up and took off – I told him to be sure and close the door, so that Newt wouldn’t get out. Of course, he didn’t, and Newt got outside.. but fortunately he was just sunbathing on the front lawn, and wasn’t creamed by a car or anything. Bro returned home and I bawled him out for being irresponsible, and he was very uncarnig about it…”hey, you know me, I can’t be relied on”… so I told him that if I couldn’t depend on him to close the door when he leaves, then he’d best find another place to live, becaus eI wasn’t going to put myself, loved ones and valuables at risk just because he’s a jerk. When the mailman came, I filled out a form, and had bro reassigned to a new address in cocoa beach… at 4pm the post office truck came by, picked him and all his stuff up, and unpacked him at his new address… bro didn’t seem to mind, the surfing was good, and we talked on the phone.

Dear Journal, remind me to put a better disclaimer on potentially off-putting news items. Apparently the last toe-fry tale squicked a good half-dozen people. Sorry!

I just found out that The B-52s were at Calder race track on Sunday! Aww.. I’d have enjoyed seeing them. I wonder if they have a new album out?

Hooked up with a gmail account yesterday…I’ll be interested in seeing how long it stays spam-free. A gig of storage is nice… (work’s config for all users there is only 300 meg for the whole squad) makes file-tranning CD ISOs possible, if nothing else. My first test was a nice fat file of the Monkey vs Robot. (This won’t be my primary email, but it’s a nice backup. What’s next? Google-IM?

Rock art hints at whaling origins

Capture of a whale, showing a boat carrying whalers (left of the whale) and a float (on the right)

Stone Age people may have started hunting whales as early as 6,000 BC, new evidence from South Korea suggests. Continue reading 6608 Whale art, “Sasquatch and the Bologna Caper”, gmail →

Dear Journal, remind me to put a better disclaimer on potentially off-putting news items. Apparently the last toe-fry tale squicked a good half-dozen people. Sorry!

I just found out that The B-52s were at Calder race track on Sunday! Aww.. I’d have enjoyed seeing them. I wonder if they have a new album out?

Hooked up with a gmail account yesterday…I’ll be interested in seeing how long it stays spam-free. A gig of storage is nice… (work’s config for all users there is only 300 meg for the whole squad) makes file-tranning CD ISOs possible, if nothing else. My first test was a nice fat file of the Monkey vs Robot. (This won’t be my primary email, but it’s a nice backup. What’s next? Google-IM?

Rock art hints at whaling origins

Capture of a whale, showing a boat carrying whalers (left of the whale) and a float (on the right)

Stone Age people may have started hunting whales as early as 6,000 BC, new evidence from South Korea suggests. Continue reading 6608 Whale art, "Sasquatch and the Bologna Caper", gmail →

Well, I brought the power supply back, exchanged it, and ol’ Bigger Brain is up and running fine again. Silly Scotto.

I heard from GP yesterday, but we couldn’t get together, due to a last minute situation with family obligations. Oh well, Christmas-time, then! At least I got to gab for a few minutes with him.

Let’s Draw Birds / Let’s Draw Robots (via waxy_org)

Scientific “Goof Gallery” of Organisms.

My New nickname is Lieutenant Looney B. Dweeberson.
Take The Third Grade Insult Generator today!
Created with Rum and Monkey‘s Name Generator Generator.

Man eats own toes

An Austrian man cut off his toes, fried them up and ate them between two slices of bread after getting high sniffing butane gas. Continue reading 6607 Walk without rhythm and it won’t attract the worm →

Well, I brought the power supply back, exchanged it, and ol’ Bigger Brain is up and running fine again. Silly Scotto.

I heard from GP yesterday, but we couldn’t get together, due to a last minute situation with family obligations. Oh well, Christmas-time, then! At least I got to gab for a few minutes with him.

Let’s Draw Birds / Let’s Draw Robots (via waxy_org)

Scientific “Goof Gallery” of Organisms.

My New nickname is Lieutenant Looney B. Dweeberson.
Take The Third Grade Insult Generator today!
Created with Rum and Monkey‘s Name Generator Generator.

Man eats own toes

An Austrian man cut off his toes, fried them up and ate them between two slices of bread after getting high sniffing butane gas. Continue reading 6607 Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm →

Well, since it’s still under warrenty, Mr computer is going to fly off to santa’s workshop, and be repaired and back home inside of 8 working days, for free. (rather than me having to crack it open and replace a power supply, which is a pain in the rump with this particular case.)

Maybe I’ll see what I can cobble together of my old parts, video card and such in the meantime, and continue to work on assorted hubbub. I know that middle-brain is There-capable, but I doubt it’s up to superheroics.

I get to do trainings for Sat-mapping and codeRED via teleconference to Oklahoma, Nevada, Ohio, Florida and Rhode Island in about a month’s time… I’m enthused about that… it means that expansion is actually taking place. We’ve also put a lobbyist on the payroll (I wonder if that was BK’s final reason for droppping CS to a more drastically cut schedule…) Hopefully that’ll mean more funding in place for us next Fed-pay time. I have to produce lists of duties for CS to perform during his twin six-hour shifts each week, and he has to show that he’s on top of them, and not just checking his personal email on the clock. BK’s major gripe is that she doesn’t *see* work being done, so she doesn’t know if it is… thus, the work order list for him. She knows I do things, because of a monthly and weekly progress report that I email to her, (keeping a copy for myself, should she decide to ask “What did you do last october? We need to validate funding for Ohio,” or whatnot.

Crazy day, so off to actually eat some lunch during my lunchtime, and I’ll catch you later, dear journal.

Posting from the laptop… lost the power supply on the desktop system yesterday, about midday. Thank goodness for lappie…especially considering I’m on call. It’s been a little while since I’ve used ol’ lappie, and it’s a minor thing to get back to the smaller keyboard.

No Supers, no There, no major surfing until I get that one back to business.

There is something to be said for sitting Indian-style, typing at the end of the bed, rather than at the desk…a more comfortable, natural feeling. The big trick is to make a sitting-place more appealing than the keyboard here, considering this is also the position I sit in when I’m going to give him some playtime. We’ve found a solution…he’s curled against my back swatting at the ponytail (I’m goading him a little, by shaking my head.)

After I get my day’s duties taken care of, I’m going to swing by the computer store on federal to gather some fresh innards for my poor broken brain. I rand windows update, and for about a half hour feared that I’d caused my backup computer to crash out, too.

Well, I see by the clock in the corner that it’s time for me to fly once more. Until later, dear journal. Have a good one!

Posting from the laptop… lost the power supply on the desktop system yesterday, about midday. Thank goodness for lappie…especially considering I’m on call. It’s been a little while since I’ve used ol’ lappie, and it’s a minor thing to get back to the smaller keyboard.

No Supers, no There, no major surfing until I get that one back to business.

There is something to be said for sitting Indian-style, typing at the end of the bed, rather than at the desk…a more comfortable, natural feeling. The big trick is to make a sitting-place more appealing than the keyboard here, considering this is also the position I sit in when I’m going to give him some playtime. We’ve found a solution…he’s curled against my back swatting at the ponytail (I’m goading him a little, by shaking my head.)

After I get my day’s duties taken care of, I’m going to swing by the computer store on federal to gather some fresh innards for my poor broken brain. I rand windows update, and for about a half hour feared that I’d caused my backup computer to crash out, too.

Well, I see by the clock in the corner that it’s time for me to fly once more. Until later, dear journal. Have a good one!

On call this morning… MM had a slow weekend! I don’t see any full launches Saturday, though I did one at 8:30 this morning already.

Hmm.. Still haven’t heard from GP or Katt… Since they’re only in town until Tuesday, I suspect that schedules got too tight, and that I’ll end up missing them this go-’round. Ah well, that’s just tough luck, I suppose.

Helpful hint… if you put something in the oven, programming the microwave won’t help to heat the food. If you’re that tired, go back to bed.

I remember, as a child, thinking that I could turn off the ocean.

Got an IM from JenJen last night… Haven’t talked to her in ages. She’s married, moved out of the house and has a pair of kitties! All new things since we last gabbed. She’s still working for the school board now. We’ll have to grab lunch sometime and get caught up properly.

TV turnoff week is April 19-25… That’s easy. Now if it were “no online week” I’d be in trouble.

Superhero version of myself in CoH…(pumped to the point of insanity, as a result of frighteningly steroidal templates) I do have clothes pretty much like that, and prefer doing the no-shoes thing where possible.

Look! Down on the street! Standing still! Able to cross hot blacktop in bare feet!

It’s Scottobear

Interesting Emails have been coming in lately. It seems that one can build quite an opinion of me by reading my home page, and not an entirely accurate one, it’d seem.

I recently got a message in my in box that figured me to be “of a pantheistic, idealistic philosophical
bent”… I’m not really… closer to an agnostic cynic that hopes for the best, but expects the worst.

That particular email came from a domain that I could swear I’ve seen before, and that causes me to wonder if it’s someone I’ve wandered across previously, or if my mind is projecting some sort of post-cognitive deja-vu.

D’s birthday is coming up next week… I wonder how she’s been doing? Pulled a vanishing act on all of her pals a while ago… I think that maybe she got sucked into FFXI completely, but who can say? She stopped replying to emails from me, Sammy, Whims, and who knows who else. She’s still alive, because her auctions keep getting re-listed at There.

Looks like Sammy’s skipping out on City of Heroes, one of the reasons being the $15 a month fee. That’s within my mad-money link income, so I don’t mind it too much… far better than the aforementioned FFXI $13 a month cost.

I’m sort of looking forward to starting with fresh, new heroes, but I’ll miss sambot!

Sony and Toppan Printing have developed DVDs consisting of 51 percent paper. Data is stored on the discs using a blue laser instead of red. The smaller wavelength of blue laser light means that 25 gigabytes of data can be packed onto each paper/polymer disk, more than twice the capacity of traditional polycarbonate plastic-based DVDs.

Random Scotto factoid – I’d rather send my sweetheart a potted plant (that can be transplanted) or seeds than a bouquet of pre-cut flowers.

I made a friend’s link for sammykun so he can read his sisters xanga journal (widgets_xanga‘) on LJ friend’s list without having to bounce over to her site. Hooray for RSS!

hee… a secret person using one of my Palm doodles as a LJ icon! 🙂

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No Seahorse for Icon!

MMM. The stinking rose. Hooray for Garlic!

Here’s a recipe for the BBQ sauce I’m using on my tofu/veggies. It gets better with age. Use Flour or cornstarch to thicken, if desired. (To keep this sauce vegetarian, use vegetarian Worcestershire sauce, as the normal sauce contains anchovies.)

• 1 cube vegetable bouillon
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 2 tablespoons vegetarian Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon dried minced onion flakes
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 slice lemon
• 1/4 cup honey
• 4 cloves garlic, minced

Prep Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Directions:

1. Dissolve vegetable bouillon in boiling water.
2. In a large saucepan over medium heat combine vegetable broth, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, onion flakes, salt, sugar, cayenne pepper, oil, lemon, honey and garlic. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.