A gift! printable paper rulers!
According to haunted Fort Lauderdale…My Tunnel has a ghost… this weekend I’m going to go down the pedestrian walk area, and take some pictures. (That particular ‘haunted Fort Lauderdale’ guy is a little bit of a crackpot… lens flare does not equal ghostie, in my mind, anyhow)
the tunnel… I don’t see any ghosts there
A day full of uses of the poo wand for my sweetie and me but had a nice time, despite the tech-struggles… perhaps even because of them.
I’ve determined that my tools at work are woefully inadequate, at least for me. Corel photo paint and Corel draw 8 not only aren’t cross compatible, but they both are dung-filled doughnuts of despair as far as tools go.
Give me Photoshop, Photopaint, or the GIMP any day over the Corel nightmare. I’ve sent the files to work with home, but I think instead I’ll work on them with proper tools tomorrow… I’m going to install the gimp there…my only element remaining is to make a decent banner graphic. (It’s actually going to be the background, but it’ll be at the top of each page, all banner-like.
The scent of synthetic ambergris is on my mind and in my mental directory.
A good hump day. Tomorrow, she is Thursday, yes?
Three great words/phrases of power.
If I hear people use any of those with sincerity, my brain clicks into uber-helper/friendly mode. I like to think that I’m normally pretty nice, anyhow… but those are the magic words. Watch me jump to action.
wow! The piggie amendment made the cruel site of the day! The ban passed, by the way.
Koko’s got a CD coming out? Didn’t they know about apple nipple hungry?
I want just Black Manta and the Sub. Aquaman… I wonder who I could give him to? I’d like to trade him for Will Magnus. Is it me, or does Lead (Who should have a Pb as his logo) look a little sissified? Everyone else seems true to form. This Manta is pretty cool, too.
It is really beautiful weather-wise outside. Maybe 72 degrees? Just downright nice.
I dreamt last night that I ran a turtle-powered farm/ mill/ bakery. They were used as *very slow*, but strong beasts of burden… pulling plows and carts full of some sort of grain. There was a large geodesic dome storage area, and a water wheel powered millhouse by a fresh water river full of well-rounded stones along with a “petting zoo” area where folks could feed the off-duty turtles apples right off of the tree. The bread we made was a very good seller… we couldn’t keep it in stock. The “secret ingredient” was sea salt, and apparently it made all the difference in the world. Apparently the Amish thought we were especially good, and wanted to trade all sorts of quilts and furniture for our wares, too. I don’t recall if we used Amish milk in the production. We did have juice there too.. but I don’t know if it was made on site or brought in. (I figure a cider mill would work with the waterwheel, and apple tree but I don’t recall in the dream.)
Of course, I had to do a search for turtle bread, and found this bread machine recipe… sounds pretty darn good, actually. It’s been a little while since I’ve made my own bread. I may try it later on down the line, but it sounds pretty hefty… a slice of bread that has more calories than a can of soda! I’ve not used sucanat in cooking before… I imagine splenda might be an alternative? This calls for more research, later.
Turtle Bread
1 1/3 cups water
13 vegan caramels, unwrapped
3 1/2 cups flour
3 tablespoons dry, powdered soy or rice milk
2 tablespoons sucanat
1 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 teaspoons bread machine yeast
1/3 cup vegan chocolate chips
2/3 cup coarsely chopped pecansPlace all ingredients except the chocolate chips and pecans into the bread machine pan in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select the sweet or basic/white cycle. Use medium or light crust color. Do not use the delay cycle. Add the chocolate chips and pecans at the beep signal or 5 minutes before the last kneading cycle ends. Cool on a wire rack. Makes a two pound loaf (16 slices).
Per slice: 195 calories 5 grams fat
From the grab bag –
a treasury of macramé owls My brother and I both got macramé owls as kids from Sally Brunot. We were quite young, and thought that they were cool as all get out. Come to think of it, Over at Sally and Bill’s House, I encountered my first copy of playboy. My Brother’s owl looked a bit like the leftmost one on page five, and mine looked like the leftmost one on page seven.
Speaking of pretend animals… these *non-taxidermy* mock-animals are awesome. (the other stuff on the site is also quite good)
New Kitty Cartoon… Outtatheway – The vines That Tabby needs an orthodontist. Featuring a little Newtie mosh-action.
If your name of them so Hot; shower by the
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that some candy in about: finished our day
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a lion tamer outfit. She sounds like Charlton Heston
well, as an end; of Joy bites left to
kids to worry about whatever. I like to keep a
nice and round planet of photography journals
on that now and would be sure what about my
sweetie but sheets nobody was dating
smacking some giggle time with six jacks
around. Nope. Good day because I’ve finally
gotten some of my heart: Waking up.
I especially like the last four lines, and “she sounds like Charlton Heston”
Won an auction for more figures… . $18 total for 66 little plastic guys. (plus $5 shipping) for – (each one is three of the same figure, in varying strengths)
Dwarven Fuser,Imp,Werewolf,Cave Archer,Cave Butcher,Flesh Golem, Soaring Crossbowman, Soaring Gunner, Whirling Golem,Berserker, Dwarven Mounted Fuser, Dwarven Ram, Dwarven Rotary Fuser, Shelled One (rock lobster!), Standard Bearer, Wild Mountain Troll, Deadwood Golem, Demolishing Ape (munKEEE!), Lizard Man, Wereboar, Werecat,Weresabertooth
The ones I already had a few of will be good trade-bait for Dave…and maybe Dan. I think I hooked him last time.
addendum – Nimrods at the Fort Lauderdale remote office changed the pcanywhere password, thus they get no November data and will suffer perditions flames from Jenjen in the morning because of it. I wash my hands of the whole affair. One day they’ll learn that they’re not allowed to mess with stuff like that. (Or the big guns will stop populating the offices with mouth-breathers) I’m glad that it wasn’t the Quebec office! 🙂 At least this one is only a few miles up the road.
long day at work today… some brief bright spots, but overall the same old thing. Island boy left early to do his first voting as an American citizen… very cool, indeed…but Kev didn’t register in time. I’m pretty disappointed in that, because he’s the big example of the “Good American” at work. Ah well.. I don’t think that Santie or Chupa or anyone else of note voted. I forgot to ask Sappho, Riker and the Pamster…but none of them strike me as votey-types.
I look forward to seeing what happens when Island Boy gets called on for Jury duty!
Newt sez, Vote for Dukes! A vote for Dukey is a vote for cool orange cats everywhere.
Cool singing horses. Safe for work, but it’s got sound.
Coca Cola is releasing a Yoo-Hoo-like substance called Choglit…. possibly the dopiest name for a drink this decade. Looks dangerously similar to a Mr. Pibb or Dr. Pepper can. Careful mixing them up!
Put my votes in all nice and neat-like. I’m actually more enthusiastic about the amendments than the candidates. a lot of negative campaigning has been going on the TV lately, and I’ll be happy to see those commercials brought to an end. A pleasant surprise is that I seem to have gotten less political junk mail this year. Maryland has a neato-named Governor candidate (though he won’t win, because he’s a libertarian, rather than the ‘big two’) SPEAR LANCASTER. He sounds like a cool private eye, or an angry white savage, raised by a lost tribe of javelin-throwing natives. Spear. That’s an odd name… a weapon. I’d heard of Dirk, Lance, Glaive, Pike and Mace…. am I forgetting any? I can’t say as I know anyone named Halberd, Flail or Quarrel… I suppose Gun names don’t really count, because they’re generally named for a person, not the other way around. Smith & Wesson… Is Colt named for a person, or just a horse?
“What’s green, has eight legs, and would kill you if it dropped on you from out of a tree?”
“A pool table!”
Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Newt was fairly vocal this morning…not sure what set him off, but he was willing to carry on a conversation for a little while. “Mer!” “What’s that?” “Mer!” “Are you sure?” “Mer!” “The Blue one?” “Mer! Mer!” “Ok… what about the monkeys?”.. with that, Newt just cuddled back with in bed… I may never know the answer to the Monkey question. I’ve worn him out this morning. He’s now purring peacefully atop monitor two as I type this… he’s more fond of the screens, as they’re warmer than the futon, and he can play with me more easily when in front of me, rather than behind.
I should pick up a new web cam. This one’s output is pretty dang fuzzy.
I’m still not terribly hungry, even after yesterday’s semi-fast. I wouldn’t mind some waffles, though…maybe I’ll treat myself to something tasty at lunch. I’m not sure who’d deliver waffles, but IHOP would be nice about now. I could really go for one of my sweetie’s apples in the bowl on her desk, too.
I’m reading a book by C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity. Superb. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting a good, non-predatory evangelical insight about the faith. The reading can be heady, but well worth some of the thinking required.
As I mentioned earlier, here’s me lost in a cave, and some cave-drawings. It’s an elephant, but the shaman-guy is wearing elk-antlers.
I wonder lately if I escape being called sir because I’ve got long hair. If I got a wiffle-cut (no, I’m not planning on it) tomorrow… would suddenly, most strangers call me ‘sir’? Right now, most often, I’m referred to without title… “Excuse me” or “May I help you” or “Yes/No”… and I’m sort of glad of that. I’ve seen folks use the term, and it appears sort of weird.
I do get called mister occasionally, when a little kid wants to ask me something. I like that I’m approachable by kids.
Speaking of which, the almond joys are officially gone. My trick or treating brother assisted in my consumption of mass quantities over the last week.
It’s too late in the night to make a hot supper… I think a bowl of cheerios will do the trick. I just realized… I didn’t eat lunch today! Dang… how did that happen? I’m not that hungry, probably because I drank about a gallon and a half of water from the cooler over the course of today. I’ve only had cereal today… breakfast and supper. Well, that works. I’ll have some real food tomorrow though. Just reflecting on not having had any makes me hungrier.
Before I hit the sack, a fun link… bcdb: it’s an imdb just for cartoons!
Nighters, dear journal.
What’s my verb? I think I like “be”
Slept like a corpse last night…had mostly surreal dreams. A mishmash of images and thoughts that I can’t seem to bunch up into a coherent storyline or sequence of events.
Returning to work after a 4-day mini-break. I’m glad I took four, because the rest really didn’t knick in until Saturday… I’d had my “Weekend” already, and still had the coming Sunday as a buffer against the “I don’t want to go to work tomorrow” whining that sometimes nags at the back of my mind.
I’m feeling cave-mannish today, but in a good way. I think I’ll draw some elk or a hunting group on my palm pilot.
Off to work…. have a nice day, dear journal.
Midway through the dancer figure… it may need more flesh tone before figuring out the gauzy-bits, and get rid of the yellowier highlights. (I was hoping they’d blend to orange, but the mix didn’t take.
Before
First pass
More to come, before it’s over. I think a slide from the aqua to a more sage-green is in order, too. I don’t know how I feel about the bracers.
Wow…a zillion episodes of the real Ghostbusters cartoon online. … including collect call of Cthulhu
Also, a ghostbusting strongbad email
TOPPS Trading Cards including the brilliant Mars Attacks, as well as Batman, Frankenstein, and Ugly Stickers from 1965. From The Norman Saunders Site. “…a reference guide that documents the entire published works of Norman Saunders.”
You Got Me Into This. From The West: Old Paintings created to be the Covers of Pulp Fiction Magazines. “…The pulp paintings of the 1930s-40s astound the senses with visions of gun smoke, brawny cowboys and beautiful heroines – frozen in moments of maximum impact, guns exploding or a terrified damsel on horseback.”
wondering where my little brother is. hm.
Had a lovely time last night with my sweetie. I really like the fact that she’s got the interest in such a diverse array of things, and the curiosity to broaden her knowledge on them. She keeps me laughing on so many levels, and has me rapt intellectually, emotionally, and physically. I’m truly blessed to have her in my life.
Interesting point noticed by her last night… all the spam comes a’rollin in at about 2am. I wonder if those were all launched from a common area? Or maybe the spamming software they have defaults to that hour.
I was up until well past the wee hours this morning…when I did kick off to sleep, I think my brother was *still* awake and kicking around. I guess night-owls run in the stock… I remember Dad was one, too… always going fishing or whatnot well before the break of the sun. I wonder if it’s a hunter throwback sort of thing. The best times that come to mind are fishing on the pier, and looking at the water at night, and talking about whatever came to mind. It’s strange… I have a mild craving for fried catfish, now. I’d settle for big ol’ potato planks. The food of choice out there was peanut butter crackers, and a stop at Sambo’s (are they all Denny’s now?)
I’ve not seen too many jack-o-lanterns this year… the theme in this neighborhood seems to be the more ‘harvest’ style… whole pumpkins with haystacks and scarecrows. I’d say that I’ve seen maybe six jacks around, and all of them are pretty average.
That’s a lot of bunnies. a very cool picture, from this collection.
I’m supposed to go with the brother to the boat show today… maybe it’ll happen, maybe not. It sounded like he’s up and at ’em next door, but he’s got some folks over. I’ll call him at about one, and see what’s up.
Today’s been a sleepy, relaxing day. I’ve spent much of the day in a calm place, and taking it easy… as has my gluttonous protégé, Mr. Newtie McTreatEater. We’ve been flung all over the house in assorted comfortable poses, and just sort of lollygagging about, reading, napping, burning incense, wrestling with each other in a slackerly fashion and watching the occasional Spongebob cartoon…I’m having trouble figuring out the recorder fingering for the Spongebob theme… I may have to look up the sheet music for it, rather than playing it by ear. A complete slackerboy Saturday… I’ve needed something like this for a little while now. I’m bemused by the idea of the undersea creatures having a snowball fight.
Just popped into my head – I’d like some taco bell right now, and the phrase “wreak terrible vengeance” is a good one, as well as the variant “a terrible justice has been done”
I dig these groovy CD-R’s… they look like 45s!