Cool, clean feeling this morning… but I sense that it’ll go up about 5-10 degrees by midday. I don’t know if that’s why I have more energy, or if it’s just a contributor.

Two pieces of good news…the bro got a second job, working graveyard shift (11p-5:30am) and brought me a doughnut for breakfast. Hooray for the Bro! Hooray for Doughnuts! (I still hope he gets a Louie’s gig… he could make a really healthy chunk of change over the season.)

Helpful hint to keep those holiday goiters at a minimum… ordinary table salt.

Be careful which bar you go to…

Cool Geek places to shop…. including a Cat-a-pult with Newton the foam cat. There are some keeno fossil and space stuff, too. -Via Scientific American

Heat Miser Squeaked ahead, and Beat Snow Miser.

battle cry test

One of the more beautiful applications to draw on Project Gutenberg for source material, TextArc gives the reader a visual representation of the interrelationships of texts as it reads through, for example, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Anyone want to tell me a story based on one (or some, or *all*??) of these drawings?

Annie is a very cool cat. -Brought to you by some guy that makes animal noises.

Newt and I have dealt with similar elements (especially those marked fetch, thief, proper training, and Halloween) He was very playful this morning… I had to wear him out before taking my shower. We must’ve run around for about a half hour or so.

I’m happy that my picture-server woke back up like a good boy.
Clash of the Titans on Sci-fi this morning as I get ready for work… Perseus (Hee hee…I still crack up when I see him on LA Law), the ancient Greek while sneaking away from Calibos invisibly, leaves footprints shaped like wing tips in the sand. I guess winged sandals have a pointed toe and a squared heel.

Good line from Burgess Meredith – “A divine gift should never be questioned, but merely accepted.”

I still think Bubo is a pus-filled sore as a result of plague, not a wacky r2-d2 sounding robot owl, though.

I got a goodly dose of sleep last night… hit the sack early, and got my morning swabbing at 8. I slept like a corpse… just a total system shutdown. I don’t recall any dreems, but my sleep was quite deep.

Random Scotto factoid – When My brother and I got toys from a similar set (Star wars, Battlestar Galactica, army men, etc) I *always* picked the bad guys / freaky looking ones. I think the only good-guy star wars figures I had were Chewbacca, Yoda and some droids. R2-D2, R5-D4, a Protocol droid (or C-3PO sprayed chrome rather than gold.)

Bad guys simply have cooler sculpts/shapes/uniforms/evil robo voices or growls.

A year ago, I started the coloring book community – It has gotten pretty dusty around there lately…the last post as of this writing was a Halloween one.

Hmm. My picture hosting area at Bellsouth is down. That’s a kick in the head… I hope it wakes up soon.

Went to Blimpie’s for lunch… The Veggie Max sub is tasty! Of course, getting a side of chips negated most of the healthy side of that meal. The Jalapeno chips didn’t have much of a bite to ’em… like someone ran the bags near a Jalapeno patch, just to capture a hint of the scent to toss on there… I think I should’ve gone with half sammich and half broccoli-cheese soup, no chips. (I am comfortably full of sammich, though.)

A gray day…a little warmer than yesterday.

Action figure cam – I just saw Greedo holding up another patron! (With Mr. T in the background.)

It was a tough night sleeping. I got about 5 hours in three or four fractured periods of rest over from about 2 am to 10:30 am.

Heaven knows what’s going on next door, but the bro and his roommate have a guest over they’re talking pretty loudly, but it doesn’t seem to be argumentative. I went out to say hey, and asked about the interview. He says that his interview went well yesterday and that she’ll call back. I hope that it’s so… The only thing that strikes me as odd is that he hadn’t shaved since I saw him last night (He had about three-days growth on his chin… not the best way to interview). I asked him last night if he needed a razor, and he said it was covered.

Today’s Sunday, and December already… It would seem Papa Time has wings on his feet.

I hope that this month is much more pleasant than the last two for those I care for (that includes myself).

There’s a section of ebay devoted to selling only plastic army men. the Heading goes – All Categories > Toys & Hobbies > Toy Soldiers > Modern (1970-Now) > Plastic

Getting together at about 6:30/7 with Dave for dinner tonight and maybe a game or three of mage knight. We won’t go too late, though… he wants to go surfing up coast tomorrow morning.

I’m going to try to trade him something for his ironclad tonight… maybe a couple of my spare non-convertible dwarves…I’ve got a bunch of those… it’s a shame I don’t have more of the newer sculpts. I can’t believe that I’d ever see the day I’d want to trade good ol’ dwarves for nasty orcs.

my superhero results

Two Years ago today, my sweetheart and I confirmed to each other that we were in love. I still find myself catching my breath, thinking of her.

e e knows what it’s all about.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

Happy…

Uh, which way is the most accepted?

Channuka, Channukah, Chanuka, Chanukah, Chanuko, Hannuka, Hannukah, Hanuka, Hanukah, Hanukkah, Kanukkah, Khannuka, Khannukah, Khanuka, Khanukah, Khanukkah, and Xanuka.

Two spellings for each day. Yeesh. Why can’t we spell Non-English, Non-Roman character-based words more phonetically? Heck, In Hebrew it’s only five letters.

Have a good one, regardless. 🙂

Song stuck in my head all morning – I’ve been singing it to Newt incessantly.

Oh everything comes in its own special size
I guess it can be measured by where you put your eyes
It looks big when you’re close
And it looks smaller back a bit
That’s about the size of it.

Oh the big becomes the little
When you see it back a bit
The huge becomes the dinky
Which is just the opposite
Of the larger that gets smaller
It never seems to fit
That’s about the size of it.

That’s about the size
It’s where you put your eyes
That’s about the size of it.

About 110k total, I don’t think a cut is needed. Feel free to let me know if someone wants one.

I was collecting accumulated deodorant cans (I seem to just toss them under the sink when empty, a slovenly habit I’m trying to kick. Newt was sitting on the commode so patiently watching, I had to take a picture. on the top of the tank there is potty-reading… currently You Only Live Twice, and a couple of sampler comic books picked up free at the ACC Expo.

Once I’d gotten the camera, I realized that it was probably a good morning to look for manatees. I knew the best place to go… I’d seen them there a few times before. The New River in Fort Lauderdale, right over the Haunted Tunnel.

I got there, and it was very quiet, a good sign. The less traffic, the easier it’d be to spot them on the water.

A tree that I’m fond of… I didn’t capture the feel from this angle, but it’s alternately spooky and friendly. There’s a definite vibe about it. They put planks up to protect it from the high winds, recently…those weren’t there last time.

Brisk morning…. the river patch I went to must’ve been too chilly for the manatees. I’ll return later to try again. I did find some little skinny fish swimming around. I was partial to the tag-along blue guy tooling about. No crabs out wandering, either.

I hope you had a good morning too, Dear Journal!

Santa Claus powers (it’s long been known that we’re related)

Stuff I’m pretty good at –

• Naughty / Nice detector
• Entertaining Children
• Having a Beard
• Enjoying Cookies
• Winking / nodding
• chatting with elves
• making lists (and double-checking them)
• taking care of animals
• eye-twinkling
• shouting, and calling the reindeer by name
• ho-ho-ho-ing in a deep voice
• good grasp of toys – high technology and old school

Stuff that Needs work-

• breaking and entering. (I can jimmy a car door with a clothes hanger, though)
• traveling at high speeds in a sleigh
• spreading cheer (only good in short bursts at the moment)
• Shaking like a bowl full of jelly
• Wearing Boots
• Levitating reindeer, or any animals, really.
• preferring to convert evil over the simpler “destroy it” method.
• whistling
• smoking a pipe
• spectacles
• working inside high pressure deadlines
• good penmanship

I need to work on a Christmas Icon, too. I wonder where the santa-scotto went?

Thank you cath555 for the swell postcard!