Some element of my friends page is killing my image loading. it propagates to other spawned explorer pages, until I close explorer and reopen it. I think someone on found objects is using printroom, and my security settings forbid it’s style of unverified cookie… causing that stoppage to result. Weird… it’s making the viewing of my page quite a pain in the patoot… I’m debating loosening security, or making a “non-photo community filter” to make things go more gently.

HONEY VANILLA CHAMOMILE tofutti is a delight. I’m glad I ventured to get it. Hooray for Locust bean! Guar Gum!

Got a great start on the day today… woke at about 8am, and had the gumption to just go to the laundry and grocer. I’ve already cleaned the kitchen and bathroom, too. Cool. I’ve got the whole afternoon ahead of me.

I feel so comforted when everything is done. A full cupboard and fridge, clean clothes, sheets and body.

No sure what’s up for today. I’m going to hold off on the Kimono and personal prezzies until after the Holidays.. better to budget for more increased spending the next month or two for others. I’m not sure which kid’s toy charity I’m going with this year yet.

Seven Seas is dang addictive.. I played it almost the whole time at the ‘mat!

The Lemmiwinks song

Back from Mayah’s b’day party… lots of babies and little children (ages 10 mos to about 11 years) there, all of them angels. Many hippies, grandparents and friendlies there.

I got tons and tons of affection from the kids there… they know instinctively that I’m no danger, and a pushover to boot. I got all sorts of warm fuzzies and playtime in. Mayah liked the little purple outfits a lot.

misc photos from the day.. Additional and larger Newt piccies behind the cut.

Had a long lunch with Italian food and watched half of Goldfinger in the conference room.

Kev’s in good spirits, which is a nice change for him. not stressed or pressed for time, and he didn’t have to work late.

They had a goodbye dinner For Pamster at Champps. Fortunately for the other celebrationists, Mojo claimed sickness, and didn’t attend. (I couldn’t attend, as I was still working)

dirt

This weekend I will:

• Tonight – Do light housecleaning, shower, have a nice supper and work on a few pieces of terrain / Scotto & Sweetie toys. I think I want to do some oasis land pieces, some swamp, and maybe a little house or city-bit.
• Sometime – Must get Groceries, including Litter, TP, Shampoo and Dental Floss, Do Laundry. Hit the aquarium shop for cheap fake palm trees/ plants for terrain
• Before Mayah’s Birthday Party – Get Mayah’s prezzie – Maybe something at the expo? It is toys and such.
• Saturday morn/midday – Go with Dan to ACCexpo




• Sat Midday / Early eve (about 5) Go to Mayah’s Birthday party.
• Sunday morn – Maybe return with Dave to Accexpo
• Sunday midday / Early eve – best time for “sometime” Chores, I think.
• All weekend, and always: Think of her with love.

aha! forms work in LJ! This could have some potential. (unless the mooks disable it)

Note to self-

Buy Newt-food
Litter
Scotto-food
Tp

(hmm.. like father, like son!)

Dental Floss
Mayah Prezzie

off to work.. later journal-gator.

Hit the Fan! The object is to propel a mound of fecal matter with your ping-pong paddle so that it connects with the rotary air circulation device. Once you get some practice, try springing one off the stapler or landing it in the coffee cup. Even better yet, go for a “Mac attack” and ricochet one off the iMac screen into the blades. They did a fairly good job of creating a sound effect for the moment when the caca hits the old ventilator too – so how can you lose?

PSA, and then on to my entry – Microsoft announced a really nasty bug in their Data Access Components (MDAC) yesterday. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-065 has the details Go get the patch here, if you’ve not updated your system recently.

Ok, now on to regular Scotto…

Friday-Friday!

Sappho and Riker are making a pilgrimage to FAO Schwarz this weekend…. I’ve got an urge to go there, too. Maybe I’ll add it to the hubbub over thanksgiving weekend sometime. Anyone want to get me a personal hovercraft for Christmas? I think i might actually get the Lego Hagrid’s hut, if I can find it at ebay for under $20.

Cool as all get out classic children’s audio books. Gerald Mcboing Boing and Little Black Sambo.

I can hear the Goodyear blimp overhead… it really pleases me that it travels this far south.

History Wired – sort of a random wandering through the Smithsonian National Museum of American history. (Strange to me is that they have a display about Life in ancient Greece Reflected in the Coinage of Corinth “American history”? Not that I mind.. it’s a neat)

yum… I took a side route home today, and came across an empanada stand.

Any Guesses as to what I’m having for supper? Zucchini, portabella mushrooms, onions, green olives and spinach in a pastry shell, with spicy olive oil and who-knows what dip. numma-num

man, it’s good. I’m certainly going to return there. I also grabbed a beer, which was also a spur of the moment decision.

Dexter and Bailey were by today, but I’m too lazy right now to transfer and resize piccies. Maybe tomorrow night.

The Hut is at 809 members. Vagpagina has a 1117, and they ask for monetary support via paypal, cafe press-based clothing, postcards and such. I wonder how much money they make? I think it’s sort of shabby asking for money, unless they donate it to a valid charity of some sort… there’s really *no* effort needed at all to maintain the hut’s community at all. Maybe I’m spoiled by just having had very few problems with folks? Vagpag Started 9/19/2001. The Hut was created 2/23/2001, and I remember thinking that they were a copycat community at the time, but I know now that they have a much stronger feminist bent, rather than the hut’s biological and general support feel.

If I walked a mile in most folks’ shoes, I’d be hurting.. I wear size 15 American. I do need to pick up a new pair of shoes… maybe two. Perhaps I’ll swing by the birk store when I get Mayah’s birthday prezzie.

I abstained from the office’s secret Santa again this year.

I’ve learned a lot about GIMP art program (Linux) and GIMP for Windows the last few days… I’m amazed at how powerful an image editor it is, and I’m finally getting the knack of layer-based image fiddling.

Dopey Action/Adventure movie script point – When someone in the film says “This isn’t a movie, it’s real life!”

Audio books for free.

Chewy Chips ahoy are weak Soft-batch cookie imitations. (Soft batch is far superior, as far as I’m concerned). Don’t buy ’em, unless that’s what you’re looking for. I mistakenly eyeballed over the “chewy” definition. I like homemade cookies soft, cookies in a bag to be crunchy. I discovered this right before bed last night. I blame them for my non-memory of last night’s dreams.

Cool hubcap monsters (I’m spreading the link that’s been spread all over already bifurcated/mefi/boingboing and others)

Lovely precipitation last night and this morning… Hard to beat being curled up in bed while it’s raining. I also attribute my dream-memory loss to that, as I didn’t want to get up and commit the dream to memory.

I’m enjoying the fact that I have a straight-edge to shave with again… keeps those parts of my face that I prefer to be hairless baby-butt smooth.

Jim Sherman’s Hu’s on First.

Two cute kittens at work today. Gossamer and Gollum. One black with brown highlights, and one a tuxedo with little white feet. Both wholly adorable. So adorable, in fact, that Kev’s keeping them for himself, rather than letting anyone else adopt them.

kitty piccies

Wishing I could wave a magic wand and cure all the blues I see. (And some of the ones I can’t.)

If not cure them all, at least brighten their day a bit. I like to think that I do a little, already. I take pleasure in that they know they’re loved, and can come to me any time if they want advice, a shoulder to cry on or an ear to bend. I can beam love, regardless, and keep thinking positive.

Gardening for bats. awww….I wouldn’t mind a bat roost nearby.

I’d really like to wear something like this to work. But with the pointy shoes.

ACCexpo this weekend. I forgot that the fossil/rocks and minerals show was last weekend…whoops. Having second thoughts about the tourney… I may just take photos of the cosplayers and hit the dealer room instead. We’ll see how it goes.

A white guy tried to use a bathhouse in Japan but was turned away. The bathhouse had a sign that read “Japanese only.” The guy became a Japanese citizen a year later and tried again, but was turned away again. He sued the bathhouse and won about $25,000.

Wow, that seems a little extreme to me. Must be one heck of a bathhouse.

Which eye is the evil eye? The one where I can do the Mr. Spock / Lee Majors arch, or the more muted, subtle other eye?

Figuring out what’s the deal for thanksgiving this year. I want my bro to go with, if he’s into it. Hippies? Pasta at home? Mom’s place? Chinese? Heck, I dunno. I just don’t want to do dishes.

Beautiful moon out last night. Just the right temperature at 73F…I stayed up late and just sort of moon-basked.

Val Kilmer’s “Simply cool” ad for Nikon… looks kind of creepy. He must’ve dropped his lucky “I’m a hunk” good luck charm or something. Or Perhaps it’s the freaky haircut.

They’re trotting out Christmas Specials earlier every year… here’s my take on it. You don’t need any specials other than a very few.

Animated ones: Charlie Brown Christmas &The Grinch. Everything else cartoon-wise is fluff… Though stop motion Rudolph / Santa ones are groovy nostalgia.

Live Action – A Christmas Story. (It’s a Wonderful Life is cool, but somehow, it’s aired 23,423,234 times between November and December..and I always catch the *same* 10 minute range of film.] National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. (Miracle on 34th street?… It falls into the “Wonderful Life” Dilemma. I’d love ’em more if I could land on them at the beginning and ride them to the end.)

I don’t think I’m forgetting any. Earnest Saves Christmas? Santa Clause, or Santa Claus, The Movie? I don’t think those have as much universal Holiday appeal. Plus, I don’t like folks offing Santa, and swapping him out. Scrooged? Eh.

Oh! I forgot Muppety-things! A Muppet Christmas Carol, the John Denver Holiday Special, and Emmet Otter’s Jug-band Christmas. Those are good.

Best Holiday spirit? Charlie Brown. The Monolog Linus makes is about as good as it gets.

Want to read it?

Pretty solid day of just chewing on catch-up work… I have a new project on my plate, now, too… always good to see. I get to generate a program that can create assorted sample/ test data on the fly, within an assortment of parameters. The hitch? The requesting folk don’t know for sure what the parameters will be… so I get to leave the architecture very open, for hanging other aspect on as I go. It should be pretty simple…though I know enough about the way things work to expect a few curveballs before the job is over with.

It seems that while I was away, Pam decided to put in her 2 weeks… it looks like she’s headed back to Ohio… in *December*… Brr… quite the way to jump in with both feet. I imagine that Sappho and Riker will miss her the most… They’re the last three Tampa-imports left, I think. Accounting will be much more dull, that’s for sure. Santie has some help selling now, too. A few departments have assistants now… Mail shop, sales, and Chupa. Perhaps (wishful thinking on my part) this means raises might come along sometime soon. Unlikely, but anything’s possible in this wacky world of ours.

Kev’s sis won free tickets to the new 007 flick… so he took the opportunity to blow out of there at a reasonable hour today. Good for him! I hope it’s a halfway decent movie.

PSA-feel free to pass it along.

It’s that time of year. Go get shot. The Flu shot, that is.

Two reasons: First, of course, you don’t want to get sick. Especially, you don’t want to get miserably, incoherently, Stephen-King-The-Stand-everybody-dies sick.

Second and less obvious: If you don’t get sick, you can’t pass the bug to someone else. And even if you are strong and healthy, and shake it off in a week, the person YOU give it to, or the person THEY give it to, may be more vulnerable. The flu kills kids, and old people, and invalids. You don’t want to be part of that chain.

So get vaccinated… and if you get the bug anyway, stay home. Don’t share. With enough immune people, and with enough common sense among those who do catch it, flu season won’t turn into an epidemic, and people will live who otherwise would have died.