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10,082 – Tuesday
Our initial plan for Tuesday Date day was to go see Avatar – It wasn’t meant to be, given that after shopping we got a bit sick instead of a movie, we downloaded and played wii uno.
latest ATW man pics courtesy of ATW! My camera died right after Christmas, and the phone cam isn’t as up to the task, it seems.
1 year ago – veg garden with TD!, dream wizards, MOM, year of the ox, missv bday
2 years ago – newton and pye on the windowsill picture, lunch with blueberry pie, shopping with the in-laws, balls of fury
3 years ago – paradise weather, Adam and Larry guitar video, swim meet pix, ghost brides,
4 years ago – compusa hits comcast poor service level, gurps vs water, syndication links, handy freeware
5 years ago – fly doodle, GP praise, “cut” slang, B’s lyrics, Day off the dead, ringo starr superhero, lifespan/season meme, flammable cables, bro issues
6 years ago – dream, bearded babies, touch graph
7 years ago – pirate stuff, Morikami, geourl, cool safeway prank, search keywords
8 years ago – missv’s Bday!, To dos, day trips m&ms, Baby dexter-doggie!!, Newt in laundry
9 years ago – First shoo smiley – Ü, bounced Greg, Yahoo eats up egroups, love letter
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atw man smoking peace pipe
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9984 – Friday the 13th
Flickr dump of recent pictures –
Llamas, Newt, Pye with little water drops on his face, a neighbor’s race car, atw man watches kong devour fay, a seated gangster werewolf, and Baltimore at night.
Contemplating a netflix set-top box for streaming movies over the internet or from the desktop pc.
1 year ago – clown-vacuum voice post, late for metro, polishing up my ability with bash, november style lunch, whizkids closing business
2 years ago – noose dream, stick shifts and safety belts, logical fallacies, autumn remains, DIET GRAPE RETURNS!, perfervid,
3 years ago – punch buggy, meeting, craig james white, typo on sheet, work misc
4 years ago – LED clothes, K&K mime, Clavicus loves his pastry, doom patrol, quizzes, x-ing, newt pic, Red knows the score, cybermen, scotto avie
pictures taken 2 years ago – newt with the palm cam
5 years ago – bro call, sammich heartburn, remote control jargon, Eid, promenade in the park, FF movie looks like poop, comic book torrents, CoH sued by Marvel
6 years ago – Butterflies, Christ, Wind and Dexterity, my journal is in popular science, phonepost, back on call
7 years ago – expensive minis, misc whims, wacky news, bob hope
8 years ago – I live near blimps, medicine poll, Bad Elder Caucasian Dudes, marvel misfits
9 years ago – Des tries to take on the hive, whoville test, aok, Robbo’s last week
9832 – Monday
Whew – super hot out today – in the triple digits… and I’m designed for cooler weather. Inside the house, we have the a/c set for 69F and the thermometer is reporting about 10 degrees warmer in here. Still, not as bad as outside.
Larry’s work on the closet expansion is done – double the accessibility, and it looks nicer, too. All that remains is painting around the edge, and we’re finished. Next trick will be adding another walled off area at the foot of the bed for more storage space. BHK and I are enjoying sleep in our own bed again, and the kitties are very pleased to be allowed back in the bedroom.
We went to Selby’s for supper – saw the ATW man changed again – now he’s got his head stuck through a billboard showing him lazing on a beach at sunset, playing guitar to some bikini babes. Additionally, Chris and Mandy spotted some local wildlife (turtles and spider) and a nice barn – I autopano’ed the bar, to add detail – a pretty spiffy stucture.
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Downloading half life mod – zombie master – look forward to playing it soon.
1 year ago – walkies, tv, flower and north beach pix, Q&A meme with Scotto
2 years ago – voice posts of em, em & kitty pic, chuck e cheese
3 years ago – nifty clock, internal words, writing slowdown, eyes, mediocre bad guys, tv, milk pocky
4 years ago – Magda’s Bday, allergy shots, dreamt of killing my sister, PM memory, brown bag, meteor shower, bad breath detection, google homepage
5 years ago – construction, fay wray RIP, dan’s school blocks lj,alcohol, SPcharacter, aerial photos, UK Prozac pee taints water supply, LC’s scrapbook, CoH tempting battle cries, flower meme
6 years ago – Puzzle Pirates (with a cutie mermaid), Arabia-cam with Mom and Daughter(I met oneeyed and sedef as a result of sweet’s poochie’s booty-ticks.), vamp-game, Kings of Africa, lovely chat
7 years ago – man killed for playing the banjo, Trek happening a dud, but we discover heroclix, (already thinking customs), rorschach poll
8 years ago – 3 things poll, deracinate, cormorant, broken newt pic, 25 things to keep in mind, ja da, rate your risk (links now broken)
9 years ago – spent out, color quiz, looking forward to going to breakfast, Rowlf sings, Beaker sings
9794 – Saturday
BHK and I stopped off at the flea market on the way to study at the library – picked up a nice fedora for $5. (see icon) comfy and it fits. Also got a rock heater for my back and/or BHK’s feet
ATW is especially freaky today – he’s being hunted by some giant clown phantom. Probably a cannibal.
Llamas off the side of the road, and a huge beetle when we got home!
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1 year ago – bush leaving g8, octagon egg roll, the count loves to BLEEP, h2 mod – decadence, creeps on the internet
2 years ago – umbrella scabbard voice post, hot brain, sailboat doodle, yelp, DMAE, mercury poisoning?, Newtie and Pye pics, Sicko, slurpee day, silly spoilers
3 years ago – he’s a whore, key west stuff, travel photos (mostly graffiti), barrel of monkeys,
4 years ago – Magda time, ff flick reviews in, supernatural crime, free Slurpee, angels with attitude *shudder*, Wilde on the red rose, insanity, bottles on string, math symbol uses, had to htaccess, pagenation, Melissa Gilbert, 911 google, Florida mafia
5 years ago – Newt says Mao, travel pondering, manatee, Dan alters color scheme, good eats
6 years ago – Zwan, I snuff griefer #5, movies, Elvis tooth, bad baby names, net radio, flipped off by the universe
7 years ago – reflecting on old work, log issues, Newt attack, recalling palm animations
8 years ago – fetial, solecism, pockets poll, purse poll, evil news, pie poll, tuck-ins
9 years ago – words, bro moving to town
atw man 4th
happy 4th of july from the atw man – watch your fingers!
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note – seen after we went out too catch the Land of the Lost Movie today – I rather liked it, and I’m a fan of the original show.
9733 – mon –
memorial day
birthday of Apollo, god of music, poetry, and inspiration
9687 – mon
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ATW man on riding lawnmower, and local flowers.
back to the doc – late appointment – sciatica down both legs, and lower back very painful. Was told that I can only work form home, if at all. Hopefully, I can chug along ok on the laptop, but it’s petty painful.
Salsaritas for dinner after – probably won’t be going back. Cost as much as Mexico, and only about half as good.
1 year ago – tigger pic, fab brew closed
2 years ago – pye & newt in a sunbeam pic, tiki bar, 420, metallurgy, movies, D&D mags cease, McKennitt tickets
3 years ago – re:grammy, getting warmer, ad-levels in lj, sesame street, greedy greedy, politics, Alzheimer’s
4 years ago – there.com still the same, random objects, little red munkee, swat monkey picture, steadfastness, bad breath, Lunsford bill passes, Detective won’t stop seeking justice
5 years ago – big brain better, no dice with GP, goof gallery of life, Man eats own toes, online commerce
6 years ago – 420 Easter, evil thought
7 years ago – palm update, bro being good, cats & dogs, Phantom patriot, little red munkee expands
8 years ago – Tired, Cheese crackers, warm fuzzies
9656 – Saturday –
Cable guy came by this morning to evaluate our Internet – he replaced the line from the pole to our house, and the box on the pole – looks better, but they’re sending out another truck on Monday to evaluate some more. I’m just glad it’s not an "inside the house" issue. I suspect with so many folks using Verizon around here, we may be the only Comcast people using that particular line. (side edit, spellchecker wanted to change "Comcast" to "compost". I feel the same way. )
While waiting for the cable guy, BHK tuned in to Twilight and I watched it with her. It was about what I expected. The lead characters didn’t do much for me – I saw no "sizzle" and they weren’t particularly attractive. There was certainly a powerful Mary Sue vibe going on. I’d say I liked the wolf tribe folks most of the lot of ’em, and I think BHK liked the little emo-haircut news-kid.
After the pole-climber was done, we headed out for the day – First got my shots in record time – (BHK and Kendall’s Mom chatted, so it seemed more quickly that I thought) – Instead of our usual walk around town, I thought it’d be nice to take BHK to Annapolis and just hoof it there for a bit.
Did a lot of window shopping and people-watching. Rather than getting lunch, we just sort of nibbled at the assorted stops along the way. Split a bagel here, a cookie there, a coffee somewhere else.
Stopped off at third eye comics – picked up vol 1 of Planetary and the Essential Dr. Strange . (BHK grabbed The New York Four – being an NYU grad and all) They guys at Third Eye are always willing to lend a hand, and can recommend stuff that they think I’ll like – so far, so good! I’m not a huge Warren Ellis fan, but planetary has a lot of good stuff in it – and I’ve always dug Dr. Strange.
Passed by an estate sale – lots of nifty antiques – I think it gave BHK the idea to do a distressed dresser in the bedroom.
K-mart of the walking dead – Got some solar-charged tiki lights for the porch walkway. The employees and customers were more than a little frightening – red-eyed and many doing the thorozine shuffle. Contemplated lawn furniture for spring, and decided against it, as it was too rickety for me to be sitting on for any extended period.
Visited the local hardware store to look for a bracket to hang the bell from my dad’s boat up – may return there next week.
Paused at a school yard sale (raising money for the band to go to Canada) – we got some baked goods – a crazy-colored cupcake (see below), and a brownie… BHK also snagged a hot dog, and bought her mom some orange glasses – perfect for a margarita sometime. I obtained another webcam – this one was only $1 after BHK haggled it down from $2. We’ll see if it works later this month. Also seen below are the ATW man playing ping pong, a found travel bug (trailer on the bio lab at the same yard sale) and an advertisement that stopped BHK in her tracks. PUPPIES IN BABY CRIBS.
BHK loved the Puggle , but I was a bigger fan of the Brussels Griffon not as cute, but it had a fantastic and playful personality – a little "tough guy". It’s a good thing I’m still very allergic to the critters, or something probably would’ve come home with us.
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The in-laws met with us later on, and we did supper at Adam’s Ribs – a onion loaf was bit greasy, but the veggies were good, and the service excellent.
Finished up Twilight when we got home… a lovely full day.
1 year ago – back better, lj content strike, colorwars, lunch with Adam & Eric, windy, lunchtime rendesvous redux
2 years ago – work review, cakery cookies, steve jobs on music, spore coming
3 years ago – sleepyhead, ren-festige, Chacarron again, comic-book picture, condo commando, network named elements, Sandra Day O’Connor comments on right-wingers, star wars concept pics, don’t walk through words, political profile quiz
4 years ago – Fragments, Chatted a cutie, BEAR TRAP/ PUNCH!, homeopathy=placebo, ref desk, giant sea monkeys, walkabout pics, rhemish, Parallel Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
5 years ago – local search sillies, copyright disclaimer, zombie minis, missed bro
6 years ago – palm pic, whiskerliscious-fuzzy-paw newt-pic, cat eaters, the coffee song, interviewed @ starmark
7 years ago – radiology, reading lensmen books, riker in trouble for DVDing, corpse Tupperware, Elisabeth, and a bunch of dead links.
8 years ago – IMT politics, and so on
9637 – Wednesday –
atw man throwing a snowball
Long Meeting at work today – 9am-3pm. Fortunately, BHK and the inlaws picked me up right after – headed off to Cheeburger Cheeburger – they have a Lenten menu! Veggie burger for me, and a chocolate cherry milkshake – BHK got a wrap (new!) fluffernutter shake, superhero jammies, pictures of me and mine from ages ago.
1 year ago – Library Ellen on Facebook, Gygax RIP, wingsuit, BHK earworm, 50 things continued
2 years ago – more photos of my new environs. boardwalk, barns, bay, decapitated gnomes and sundry other stuff, dog day at the fire dept, assassination vacation
3 years ago – rs drops to part time, spoofcard, condo issues, newtcam time lapse, spore,
4 years ago – pomade, numbers, lumbee talk going strong, rat flies a f-22, ifbot, secutiry, scotto pic, zombie quiz, miami bridge, New York Public Library Digital Gallery , hurley episode of lost, mile markers
5 years ago – stress, bro, god wishes, font music, audio books, tofu "chicken parm", he-man, owie-back
6 years ago – stupidity genetic?, pulp-it, sick folks, history of eating utensils, tree like, riblets are great
7 years ago – fiddled with tulpa, dream, oxycontin, naproxen, oxycodone, Domesday
8 years ago – CJ & Herman story 2, dangers of reading in bed, AOK2
9385 – Sunday
Off to a slow-pokey start today – I think we got out the door at something like noonish. BHK and I went on a little journey to St. Michael’s, primarily to hit the maritime museum we missed last visit.
The place is a good bit of land to walk over… thankfully, much of it is inside and nicely air-conditioned. I liked the sense of humor that a lot fo the exhibits had… some fairly off-color quotes about sailors and fishemen. I wasn’t totally wowed by the place – one visit was good, but I don’t think that I have any great need to return.
The Solomon’s Island Museum is a lot smaller, but they have River Otters (Two- Bubbles and Squeak) on site, which is very tough to compete with.
In fact, I think that BHK and I had more fun seeing the occasional wild squirrel, duck or jackrabbit than the exhibits.
Headed home, once we were appropriately sun-baked. Sundown on the bridge. We stopped at Holly’s Restaurant for a little nibble that turned into a massive pile of food. I’d say the big win there was the cream of crab soup… french fries were a little soggy, and were the weak link.
Pictures from the trip – at flickr – for st. peter’s church and bunnies and duckies and cute little squirrels eating pine cones and sunsets and bhk trapped in a sailboat thingie and my head being pinched by a crab claw and the ATW man looking all scary.
look under here for lots of thumbnail photos to enlarge!
9384 – Saturday
Got my shots – minor reaction, but nothing tragic.
Met up with the in-laws, and headed to selby sub shoppe – pizza for all, I got a black bean burger and fries. Tasty as all get out!
We planned on heading to Annapolis after to go see Wall-E, but instead we stopped at Toys-R-Us, and picked up Marvel Heroscape and Good Ol’ Scrabble.
Heroscape is cute.. sort of like heroclix or D&D miniatures. The fun thing is that it’s cross-genre, so you can have cowboys shooting at zombies, fighting robots, ninjas, superheroes and cavemen all on the same board. (and if you like, you can make custom cards for units very easily – so you can have spongebob fighting a paperclip, if you want.) Basic rules are quick and easy… advanced rules look more fun, and maybe another moment or two to learn.
BHK and I opted to head back home after getting our loot – there was a storm brewing… even tornado warning, and we wanted to be curled up at home anyhow.
We swung by the ATW man – done up as a prospector – I’ll try to get better photos of him later.
Watched some tube, lounged, and the in-laws came over – we half watched Micheal Clayton while we played scrabble – Chris dominated.. and she was half asleep. I’d hate to think of what sort of opponant she’s make at full mental charge. Chris scored 258 to my 247 and BHK’s 162 – and Chris laid all of her letters down first turn… accounting for 63 of those points! I was feeling a little sour-grapey, but not too much… our dictionary is a bit on the lightweight side… time to get something unabridged. The plus size was that it caused me to rethink words I’d use in a pinch… like “QI“, but instead, items that are in more everyday language.
The folks went home, but BHK was still up for a wordgame, so we went with another – BHK dominated me at upwords – beat me by more than 40 points.
My brain is melted a bit.. until later, dear journal!
Upgrading the computer in the newtcam room at home – ordered 2 GB more ram for my system (Crucial 2GB Kit (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-4200 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC 240-PIN DIMM, to be specific) -ups my desktop box to a proper 4 gig for less han $50, and a new video card – (EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB DDR3 Superclocked Edition PCI-Express Graphics Card (512-P3-N802-AR) – got it for less than half what it usally costs – $300 card for $160, less anothera $20 rebate for a total of $140
Super saver shipping means possibly slower send times, but the price was right, and I don’t need it super soon.. I can wait a week or two.
SWAT team kills 2 dogs in raid on Md. mayor’s home
BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. — A SWAT team raided the home of a Washington, D.C.-area mayor, killing his two black Labrador retrievers and seizing an unopened package of marijuana delivered there.
Prince George’s County Police said Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo brought a 32-pound package of marijuana into his home that had been delivered by officers posing as delivery men. The Tuesday evening raid was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff’s office SWAT Team.
The package was addressed to Calvo’s wife, Trinity Tomsic. His mother-in-law had asked the supposed delivery men to leave the package outside. Calvo has not been charged, though police said he, his wife and his mother-in-law are “persons of interest” in an ongoing investigation.
“We never opened the box. We have nothing to do with this box,” Calvo said.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies “apparently felt threatened” when they shot the dogs.
Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by police from behind, he said.
Calvo said he doesn’t have any idea how the package ended up at his house. He called the raid “the most traumatic experience” of his life.
Calvo, who called his town “Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway,” gets a small stipend as mayor and works at the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that runs public boarding schools for at-risk students. His wife works as a state finance officer.
“These were two beautiful black Labradors who were well-known in the community. We walked them twice a day; little kids knew their names and would come up to them and pet them,” he said.
So… the police brought drugs to the house, and then raided him… but then didn’t arrest or press any charges? They *did* however kill his two dogs.
1 year ago – ATW man stolen, Petey Greene / “Talk to me”, Vassal, pictures while waiting for the bus, new nuclear reactor in calvert county
2 years ago – paperclips, cross-dressing crooks, reading Pride and Prejudice, I predict a riot, good talking to folks, writely (now google docs)
3 years ago – sick of summer heat, paper robots!, spiffy car, where do they make balloons?, animal crackers, ADP nearly nailed, bugs bunny, heart shaped land, baron von bludd
4 years ago – sleepy, meeting, a year at current gig, 5 senses, scarecrow, codecs, game-dancing, oh danny bot, land of many colors, rain and running newtie-pic
5 years ago – bidet poll, food, vamp game, first gig paid poorly, games on the website
6 years ago – talked to rob (we never got together), baron von bludd, strange black blobs
7 years ago – rainy, Owen Ng, broken drug war link, Thunderstorm, code red, lord humongous
8 years ago – Finished HP2, started hp3, foodies, moved to the 12-8 shift at IMT
9369 – Wednesday
Chinese dinner tonight with BHK, and the In-laws. We watched Definitely, Maybe, and I thought it wasn’t bad at all for a “chick flick.” Good amount of schmaltz, not a bad vehicle for a slice of life info. I still think he’s a swine, re: the book… he had postcards and whatnot.
Next on our netflix list – Machine Girl. Hopefully, BHK will enjoy that as much as I enjoyed tonight’s feature.
Pointless Scotto trivia of the moment – animal crackers eaten today, roughly in the order consumed.
whole –
- gorilla
- hippo x 2
- seal
- monkey
- tiger
- polar bear x 3
- horse
- lion
- rhino
- zebra
- koala 2
- sheep 2
- kangaroo
- camel
partials –
- 3-legged tiger
- tailless kangaroo
- headless lion
amazing number of intact critters in my barnum box. (60g) Sadly, no elephants. I’ve been to the circus, and always seen ellies – can’t say the same about koalas or polar bears, though they are both adorable and cool, too.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a hippo or rhino at the circus, either. Or a gorilla. (well, maybe a clown in a gorilla suit) What are they trying to pull??
4th of July ATW man – note his pop-eyes, manic grin, and huge firecracker.
seen on the way home after Journey 3-d last night
Today’s harvest – Looks like beans for dinner tomorrow!
also shown, first tomato of the season, cukes, eggplant, and a sneaky, slimy okra.
1 year ago – cyn’s house, ATW man pics as a pirate, (first mention of atw man), salmagundia, Mr. Tawky Tawny kills a man with a sitck, recently listened tracks, bierce, famous poems rewritten as limericks, amy arrives
2 years ago – this will be our year (it still makes me cry every time I hear it), ring wearing, flemish ( The TRUTH About “Belgium” – The New World Order’s Belgian Conspiracy) , cat’s got knees / I like your pants, rust monster, underground city, lake okeechobee, ninja turtles /zoom, good sleeps,
3 years ago – GrayP, Allergy results, Candice gives me her number, google hybrid, love song / mind control
4 years ago – I Robot, The Flo, LiveJournal Gallery, 1000 white cards revisited
5 years ago – Evil Fish, Bro, Brace, bazillion questions meme, crow tools, Elton Ock, LJ pings for you
6 years ago – Janet Reno, 1000 blank white cards, lost links, Dumpster Diving,singing kitty, palm sketches, snickitty-snackitty man, managing activism
7 years ago – melted heart, epizootic, hair bears, playing majestic
8 years ago – bedtime thoughts