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9042 – monday

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BHK made tasty pizza for the in-laws and me tonight… mine had eggplant and garlic with ricotta, and the other was true pepperoni. good stuff.

Presenting a doodle for the coloring book done on the palm while on the subway, then fiddled with GIMP once back home. I was thinking about making him more beveled looking, but rather dig the 2D vs 3D vibe going there. I’d like to see the coloring book community revitalized again.

peradouro drops pictures in there now and then, but aside from that, it’s pretty quiet. Same for the Oekaki board in the scottobear toybox.

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There were many meetings at work today… I think the bulk of them were solidly productive.

In Health news –

Started coughing this morning, and it continues into the night.

Rescheduled dentist, and am waiting to hear scheduling for the back guy. Trying to get an appointment for presiden’t day if I can, but if not, maybe on one side of the weekend or another for maximum comfort.

I still need to schedule allergist remeet. Maybe I can do a doctor hat trick!

The Hulkout list – all the reasons Banner turned into the hulk during the course of the tv series.

Personal faves, (Thankfully, none have ever happened to me):

8. Being mauled by a bear

34. Handcuffed to a woman who is falling over the cliff

36. Somehow running into a bear trap

56. Somehow getting himself into a belfry and then realizing that a bell is there, just as it strikes the hour

78. Being thrown under a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade float by a mean guy in a gorilla suit who gives David a few kicks for good measure

95. Falling out of a plane without a parachute, then being given a parachute (which causes the person who pushed him to be told “That guy has nine lives”, to which the mean person responds by pulling out a rifle and saying “Yeah, but I got ten rounds”), and then having the straps to his parachute shot off when he is still 30 feet above an empty house so that he falls through the roof and hurts himself

106. Being fed poisoned sushi

112. While paralyzed for the episode, somehow getting caught in the middle of a barroom brawl, and while trying to quietly wheel himself out of the room, being hit by a flying body and knocked down the stairs (what David is even doing in such a situation goes unexplained)

“‘The LEGO brick turned 50 at exactly 1:58pm today. This cool timeline shows these fifty years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the Legoland themed sets to Technic and Mindstorms NXT, as well as all kind of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.'” – Via Slashdot.

1 year ago – pancakes, men in black, plumbing, chinese food, Janet in Bangladesh, B’day coming

2 years ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick

3 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys

4 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution

5 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus

6 years ago – Took a day off With Danny (some non-gothic graveyard pictures), PattonBomb Talk, Giant photo of Newt in Evil Overlord Mode, bad spoonerismhumor. First photo of Tinkle pig

7 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing manGeotarget

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9041 – sun – return of the nutshells

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Today was all about rest… rallied strength, watched feasting on asphalt (Alton Brown’s tattoo looks… rather unplanned, to put it as kindly as I might) and an episode or two of monk, had BHK’s  home made pizza bread and pseudo chicken strips atop a yummy, crunchy salad.

Finished off the first Harry Dresden book, and began the second.

talked to danny at 930 am about terry pratchett’s alzheimers. He’s pretty down about it.

slept a lot

tried hello kitty counterstrike. it’s cute. I love “rat levels”, where you’re the size of a classic gi-joe.

Illustrator Cedric Hohnstadt has a good suggestion for artists looking to simulate graphite pencil in Photoshop. Check out his article for a link to some great (free!) pencil brushes. Read the post here

1 year ago – new commode, marine museum on solomon’s pix, fresnel, tinkle pig in the love cube, danny gets a hula girl

2 years ago – Celebrated Vicki’s last day, spectral analysis, history lesson, book meme, on call

3 years ago – rte 55 pic, newt and scotto wake up, song title meme, post secret

4 years ago – baby dragon, cheesecake trip, QM2, fever doodles

5 years ago – bebop cola poll, boney church, sql slammer, evil ideas

6 years ago – week plans, bob ross posse, freaky gator-in-a-dress, mr mole, biography tax loophole?

7 years ago – journal look update, evil news, hotel california Geotarget

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9040 – sat

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Happy Birthday, MissV! I hope you have a fantastic day, and all days ahead are as good.

Allergy Shot was uneventful, but saw Jose (nee’ Pedro) in for bloodwoork.

Lunch in deale with the in-laws, they were tardy but they did buy the food! Ok Blueberry pie for dessert.

Newt and Pye in the Window – see previous entry.

Stopped into good deale bluegrass, eyed the stand up bass. keen!

Train Shopping & antiques – Chris got a lovely bit of stained glass, I spotted a wireless cam possibly suitable for newt and or pye, Larry got some train couplers, BHK found a little food place that had cute pastries, and socks with hearts on ’em.

Came home and had a nap-rest

Went over to the in-laws again, and had a supper of noodles & peas, crab soup, salad – all yummy

Watched balls of fury… it was about what a perosn would expect. One or three cute/ funnny moments, but the best bits were in the preview.

1 year ago – paradise weather, Adam and Larry guitar video, swim meet pix, ghost brides,

2 years ago – compusa hits comcast poor service level, gurps vs water, syndication links, handy freeware

3 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

4 years ago – dream, bearded babies, touch graph

5 years ago – pirate stuff, Morikami, geourl, cool safeway prank, search keywords

6 years ago – missv’s Bday!, To dos, day trips m&ms, Baby dexter-doggie!!, Newt in laundry

7 years ago – First shoo smiley – Ü, bounced Greg, Yahoo eats up egroups, love letterGeotarget

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9038 – friday

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Taking it easy tonight – We have a couple of netflix movies and more on the TIVO… heading out is something for tomorrow, after allergy shots.

Got an odd text to my lj account – typoed and seemed to be aimed at upsetting a 13 year old girl. via a non-lj account ( rains43ver )

tucking in.. we’re toooo sleeepy. 9:30zzzz

1 year ago – adam’s swim meet, socialight newtcam, baby mummy, doomsday clock, pics

2 years ago – torrent tv, milky blue blood, eric mike and mojo, flickeur, broward costs, colorize

3 years ago – sick mel, jill training, edbook image gift, palm doodle, poll answers, interest list meme, wiki nifities

4 years ago – Dr Strangeglove, Indy TV memories, 6 degrees, colors, WWN

5 years ago – lockpicking, LoTR noir, Lingo, Chilly palm doodles

6 years ago – walkies by the Sample-McDougald House, blair witch site, some dead links, snooze button

7 years ago – Font Test, memory marker of 8th grade, age/date comparison, “Hello?”Geotarget

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9037 – thursday

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Here’s the full description of what’s up with my back, according to the MRI –

Findings: There is decreased signal density emanating from the disks between the L3 and S1 levels. There are posterior protrusions of the disks between these levels. The vertebrae are normally aligned. The conus is normal.

There are no areas of abnormal contrast within the canal.

Conclusion:

1: L5-S1 level: There is an extruded left sided posterior disk herniation at the L5-S1 level. The disk protrudes 6mm posteriorly. This causes compression at the proximal aspect of the left S1 nerve root. There are also moderate left sided facet hypertrophic changes. This causes mild narrowing of the left neural foramen.

2: L3-L4 level: There is a small left sided posterior disk herniation at the L3-L4 level. This causes a mild flattening of the left anterior thecal sac contour.

Basic breakdown – knee extension (L3), ankle dorsiflexion (L4), long toe extension (L5), and ankle plantar flexion (S1) are issues, in addition to pain/numbness.

More info on Lumbar and Sacral vertebrae.

Chinese food at the in-laws, and 3:10 to Yuma – Not a bad way to spend Thursday night. I Zzzzed off at the end, will have to catch up tonight or tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion.

Remarked with Chris that I’ve not seen many migratory birds this year, but then again, I’ve been working longer hours! More daylight to look during the weekend.

Mo’ Snow today, but nothing stuck. Bah!

Not many folks in wheelchairs in my vicinity, but there are a *lot* of people with white canes / red tips walking around. I wonder if there’s a local lighthouse for the blind nearby, or if DC just has good support for them? It’s rather odd not seeing anyone on wheels… perhaps the metro has a specialized service for them.

Not to be melodramatic or anything, but I’m trying to remember a time when no part of my body was in pain… that sounds so teenager-emo. I guess my physical situation has been “if it’s not one thing, it’s another” for as long as I can remember. I suspect that it’s the status quo for most folks over 30.

Interesting reveal about the Clinton Campaign via insomnia. I’ll be wanting to see how that plays out, if it is true. Most of the source comes from here. Which also mentions counter-behavior by the Obama campaign.

Ugh.. I alternately hate and love it when light is shined on mud… I like to watch the worms writhe.

1 year ago – verizon dsl poop, snow coming, adam swims

2 year ago – eternal double happiness, robot over monkey, today, king of carrot flowers, breakfast cake must be a circle, mind altering virus, toothy bunny, flying dogs, jodie foster sings in french

3 years ago – Purple vibes for sick Mel, convert avi/dvd, pricelessware, wind doodle,watch me shine, Tropical Island Resort:Berlin, Bunny Suicide (now here), Razor Blade Soap, senior in high school meme,

4 years ago – made the Linus icon, professional victim, Cap’n gone, Robert E. Howard 98, clock, van helsing, US army rebuilding schools, Murgatroyd

5 years ago – random knockers, Hippos on an abandoned ranch

6 years ago – Fever, Clothes color survey, Naughty Newtie in the kitchen, a dead photo link, Intel Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program, House Resolution 3598

7 years ago – love, 3-d thesaurus, Fun compliment, Robert at work is officially fired for being a dangerous loony, pokename generator, Woodstock by CSN, dead net-radio linkiesGeotarget

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9036 – weds

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Humpday! Midweek, and it feels it. I was happy to rediscover that we get President’s day off next month… Three-day weekends are a wonderful thing. Added bonus is that my b-day falls on a weekend this year, so that Saturday is mine, all mine!

BHK and Cathy got together today to do more straightening and space management at the house. One recent change is the move of the love seat from the office to the living room… newtcam archives show that Pye doesn’t seem to mind the change of pace. 

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Maybe we’ll have room for some bookcases under the North-face windows, with the tops clear for kitty-climbing and general sunning.

Poor Pye must be a little chilly in that picture – he’s all fluffed out. Cold, or resting off a horsing around match with Newt.

“After eight years and some $65 million, the state of Maryland is taking its first steps to return to an accountable, paper-ballot based voting system. Governor Martin O’Malley has announced an initial outlay of $6.5 million towards the $20 million cost of an optical system which will scan and tally the votes while the paper ballots are retained as a backup. The new (or old) system is expected to be in place by 2010 — or four years before the state finishes paying off the bill for the touch-screen system.”

Had a bit of a nightmare about using the walker last night. Forgive my recycling of old doodles. Dreamt of being poked and prodded, cut open and stapled shut.

I’ve already had two surgeries.. one in 1994, and another in 2003.

Makes me twitchy, just thinking about it. After being cut up, I had to go shopping for tennis balls to put under the walker’s feet.

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Now I’ve got the phrase / title Walker, Texas Ranger stuck in my head.

Random Self-portrait of the moment taken in the loo at work – Beard has bypassed the goatee stage for winter.

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I still remember the sting of asphalt embedded into my palms after the trip and fall 5 years back.

The voice of my first grade teacher is a strong memory, too.

Also those commercials for free catalogs….

Free Catalog
Pueblo, Colorado, 81009.

Is the only reason I know a zip code in Pueblo.

Hey…they have a website now.

I wonder if I’d have the guts to punch a Tyrannosaurus in the face.

Milton Blahyi, a former feared rebel commander in Liberia’s brutal civil war, has admitted to taking part in human sacrifices as part of traditional ceremonies intended to ensure victory in battle.

He said the sacrifices “included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat.”

There had been numerous rumours of human sacrifices during the 1979-93 conflict but this is the first time anyone has admitted publicly to the practice.

Mr Blahyi, 37, is better known in Liberia as “General Butt Naked” because he went into combat with no clothes on, to scare the enemy.

He is now an Evangelist preacher, who prefers to use the name Joshua.

1 year ago – zombie astronaut, gun runner dream, paper moon pix,

2 years ago – missing cj, superhero dream, youtube b&B, fat bat cat, herm patient, pug in lucha mask, endless forest, birthday counter.

3 years ago – Chilly, doodle, facial morphs (monkey scotto is still my fave), food, height comparisons, a/b meme, warning labels, toybox mooch, scythes

4 years ago – happy Newt, nipples off, palm post – bus stop, tummy ache. penguin poop, giant nostril

5 years ago – Tests, truth, rumor, links and history, lj spam, Kev in court

6 years ago – I got my camera, Alvin gets fired from work for stealing overtime, unsolved mysteries, snap club, mcd’s employees, nifty moon site.

7 years ago – Reflections on the old regime, The Litter Box Song *snerk*, Cow Saliva, “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme”, rehiring some of the fire-eesGeotarget Geotarget

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9035 – tues

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Busy month this go-round. I’ll be glad when the bulk of testing and error-correcting passes. It’s a pretty thick sheaf of issues to chop down in the next couple of weeks…I’ll be glad once the rollout for the new software is complete.

Why things suck – knees and backs. See.. I knew it was a bad idea to walk upright! – quoted below.

Shouldn’t evolution have taken care of our blown-out knees and aching backs? Instead, evolution may be to blame; chimps don’t tear menisci or herniate discs like we do. It could be that our knees and backs are such a pain because we insist on standing upright. When our ancestors stood up on two feet, they stumbled upon a much more efficient way of walking that uses 75 percent less energy than knuckle-dragging. Over the next several million years, natural selection refined the structural modifications that keep our torso centered over our lower half as we put one foot in front of the other: longer legs, knobby knees, an elongated spine. But those adaptations can be a bit of a kludge.

By stacking the thigh bone directly on top of the shin bone, we’ve saddled our knees with more weight than they can handle. Even when you’re just strolling down the street, the pressure exerted on your knees is three to five times your body weight. During more strenuous activity like running or climbing stairs, it can be double that. By the time you hit 30, the cartilage that distributes your weight across the joint has already begun to wear away. The tissue loss may eventually lead to osteoarthritis, and the shin and thigh bones will begin to rub against each other. This so-called wear-and-tear arthritis sends about 5.5 million people to doctors every year.

The same thing happens to our vertebrae, which weren’t designed to sit on top of each other in one weight-bearing column. With time, the cushions between the bones lose some of their spring, and then one day, as you lift a grocery bag or slump in your chair, a disc can bulge out of place. Pain, numbness, and spasms result because the disc is now pressing on a nerve that connects your spinal cord to the rest of your body. More than 80 percent of working Americans will suffer from back pain that’s severe enough to limit their activity at some point during their careers.

Surgery is just a temporary fix for our anatomical woes. After a decade, replacement cartilage can wear away, too. But we can’t blame all of our aches on design flaws. The fact that we spend so much time hunched over a keyboard — level 70 World of Warcraft players, are you listening? — can’t be good. It might help if we all got up off our highly evolved duffs more often.

Bill O’Reilly – You have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve been homeless, and I can surely tell you that there *are* homeless vets out there. Talk to some of these guys.

BHK pointed this out to me… maybe I can get her to play counterstrike after all, if Hello Kitty is involved! I’ll have to remember to download and install it.

Dinner was pseudo-chicken and noodles in a cream sauce with peas and broccoli… nom nom nom.

Jamie sent us a few photos of the Lime-Vanilla Ice ring cast in wax…. it looks good!

meme swiped from Christin!

What were you doing 10 years ago?
1998: First couple of months in at FMM… Hanging out with Kev, Cathi & Dave, Nicole & Heather.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

Admiring Snow! (see links below)

Five snacks you enjoy?

1. Chocolate Covered pretzels
2. Utz Smok’n Sweet BBQ Chips
3. Cheese and Crackers
4. hummus and pita bread / bagel chips
5. Mandarin Oranges

Five songs that you know all the lyrics to?

1. The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
2. Grateful Dead – Casey Jones
3. The Beatles – Yesterday
4. David DeBoy – Crabs for Christmas
5. Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire

1. Pay off all of my (and my family’s) debts
2. build a house nearby to BHK and my specs
3. Retire, but volunteer.
4. Travel
5. Get a personal trainer/ physician to get me into shape

Five bad habits

1. skipping proper sleep
2. procrastination regarding chores / desk surface
3. sedentary behavior
4. junk food
5. shutting up completely when interrupted

Five things you like doing

1. spending time with BHK
2. catching up on sleep
3. playing games with family & friends
4. reading a good book
5. watching and learning…. about people, critters, landscapes, anything.

Five things you would never wear again (Well… never say never!)

1. Combat boots (my left foot can’t do it)
2. T-shirts smaller than a 3x, no matter how much weight I lose… my trunk is long.
3. my bronzed baby shoes
4. brut cologne
5. anything else that I’ve outgrown!

Five favorite toys

1. My Brain
2. Carcassonne (does a board game count? Can I count our games closet?)
3. PSP/Wii/PC
4. Army Men (or the like – pirate ships, heroclix, action figures, puppets, etc)
5. Paper and Crayons

Five Things I Should Be Doing Instead of Blogging

1. Doing real writing practice
2. Following up on my emails
3. Back exercises
4. Packaging up stuff to mail
5. Faxing info to Doc

Five Things I Could Be Doing Instead of Blogging that are Fun, but Not Productive.

1. Chasing the cats and BHK around the house while shouting “Woogity Woogity”
2. Playing Orange Box
3. Catching up on Psych
4. Snuggling in bed
5. Doodling


1 year ago – newtcam live, snow pics, reh 101, spidey hits (what killed my youtube acct),

2 years ago – superhero drawing memes, CNY, Bro’s situation improved briefly, lost, spidey video views, Sting

3 years ago – Worked late, EN’s cable out, sad- sicky mel, busy phone, amber alert, great day to be alive theme

4 years ago – Year of the monkey!, new icons, act like a monkey, a fellow ljers house burns down

5 years ago – honey rant, healing hands, newt pic, cuss control, cold snap

6 years ago – spy ware killer, stab-dream, home school poll, animal noises around the world, sound

7 years ago – IMT stuff, be good, Model of the modern super-criminal, birthday wishGeotarget Geotarget

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9034 – mon

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Back to work, MLK day 0121 Or R.E.LEE day for folks too racist to even take a day off to say thanks to a black guy. (Well, Virginia’s state Motto is what John Wilkes Booth shouted in the theater.)

BHK and Bug lifted me into work this morning… I said my goodbyes, as he was back in VA by the time I made it home. We had a nice time – lots of stuff to do, and good goofing off periods.

MRI came back, and I have a herniated disk – S1 level, pressing to the left {pic via gray’s anatomy} – (S1 nerve impingement from a herniated disc may cause loss of the ankle reflex and/or weakness in ankle push off (e.g. patients cannot do toe rises). Numbness and pain can radiate down to the sole or outside of the foot.

I’d like this to mean that I can get repairs done to a previously thought dead area. I suspect that I may have to have surgery down the line – Still early to tell.

To counter flying_blind’s wtf flickr moment – I don’t know how old the news is, but I just learned that the library of congress has a flickr account. Cool, neat stuff like this made me add ’em.

I’ve had music by TMBG in my head all week… I Palendrome I and Birdhouse especially. Sakes, but Jay Leno has gotten gray.

KFC dinner and an omelet at the in-laws tonight… BHK made it there about 10 minutes after I arrived. Nice time, gabbing with family about this and that – got to talk to Em on the phone a bit, too! Caught Danny on Skype, too… he was watching the debate feed on CNN. Me, I’m not caring much for any of the current batch of politicos, but it looks like he’s going to vote for Hillary, based on her platform.

1 year ago – snowstorm ends, snowballs, eggplant and french toast.
Pictures – snow & love notes

2 years ago – compusa bah, acim gang out and about, float on, sacrifice & wrath, chastity belts for 21st century
pictures – ACIM gang

3 years ago – Strep, Jill is like 30, Greek Grotto, Weather, The woods, urinals, Mrs G team pic, Romanian Girl returns from the grave, poli-sci

4 years ago – Palm doodles, band names, sinister ducks, Cheddar Cheesus, water bus trip home, Orange Cat, walkies pics

5 years ago – zcardz (precursor to the pirates game), LL fooled with my bro, vanishing finn, meds

6 years ago – Dream, Walkies with fog, Worked MLK, ear pressure relief then a return, ordered my digicam, got a keeno book off my wish list, siege engines, lego cube solver.

7 years ago -Bro pic, garam masala, patty hearst pardoned, DNA police Geotarget

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9033 – sun of nutshelling

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Pancake and scrambled eggs brunch at Larry & Chris’s, checked out L’s trains upstairs, and rooted around BHK’s old bedroom and returned with salvage of wacky packages, headphones and a weight ball. Not to mention BHK’s 14-wheeled skateboard. I would love to try it if I didn’t fear breaking the rest of my spine.

Retired downstairs to view the last 85% of George of the Jungle.

Too dang cold outside for playing, so back to our place – fooled around with pirates, star-wars hero-type clix, and yet more wii.

Ultimate Alliance and Lego Star Wars ruled the evening.

BHK ordered us all some pizza, and then baked cookies…. nom nom nom. Did we give Bugah any veggies this weekend, aside from products containing wheat?

Watched Funny Farm & Trial of the Incredible Hulk – Bugah may’ve been a little frightened by the needle scene. I was pleasantly surprised that he wasn’t bored by the 80’s sensibilities and lack of special effects.

Hit the sack at 10:30… it’s a school night for me!

1 year ago – newt lounging pics

2 years ago – big brain wait, college students illiterate, LN, little prince,

3 years ago – Sicky Mel, PSA, No new drama month, paypal button for charity, weather, Korean postal robots guards, MA lobster strike, Monkey king, fibs and truths answers, weather

4 years ago – crapulent, British WWII photo archive, Chick Tract, homeowners groups lacking

5 years ago – bawled out my bro, bashed up my hands.

6 years ago – walkies, coloring book fairy, waterlog ear, some dead links and some live ones, full moon birth, good dreams.

7 years ago – Iron Man, brain eating, thinking about my dad, smitten, First experience with a good LJ client, Fred the enema cat. Geotarget

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9032 – sat

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More nutshelling.

Slept in a bit – 8:30ish

Had a blueberry bagel, chewed on left side.

Played a little rayman and more Mario Galaxy with Bugah

Went to get allergy shots – started reading Making Money

Bugah did his reading – Tales of a 4th grade nothing / superfudge.

Headed up to Annapolis with BHK and Bug for movies

Bought Bug’s present – Lego Star Wars Saga, vans from Larry & Chris

Picked up Marvel Ultimate Alliance for m’self  – $18 used!

Went to see National Treasure 2 again… bugah and bhk dug it, I thought it was ok, but not fantastic. I thought it was ok, but it really didn’t hold together very well… the end was loose and free to say the least. It was a fun ride, and I didn’t fall asleep like I dad last time.

Dinner at Cheeburger Cheeburger – Bug ate the 1/2 lb’r and is on the wall now.

Came home and played some family fluxx and then surprise hit polarity. (We may have to get it for him next present-time – we got him family fluxx as part of his stocking this year) Reminds me that I’m woefully behind on sending Eryx his goodies.

1 year ago – waiting on net, quiz-memes

2 years ago – cool icon, late work, palm doodle, mozilla, Lost, bite pic, lj-abuse

3 years ago – Lots of family drama, weather, link sponsor, classic C&H, 10 truths – 5 fibs poll, boxer vs rice, monkey king’s tomb

4 years ago – Happy b’day, FB!, MLK, Big Fish with Danny, hair in soy sauce, cotton candy autopsy

5 years ago – music and food for bro, silly sound bites

6 years ago – nice dreams, biochemical weapons and parking meters, I enjoyed Fellowship, poor choice in names

7 years ago – Massive layoffs, cartoon bird gender, misc writing, digging Jenny Lee’s singing Geotarget

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9031 – fri

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Nutshelling.

Mario Party 8.

Swift cleanup – mostly BHK’s doing. She’s a member of the reverse-hurricane school of speed-tidiness.

Watched psych and held my poor, sore jaw.

Straightened the office a bit, mostly clearing my desk, dealing with paperwork and holding my jaw.

Picked up Bugah in the early evening (~7:30ish)

Went to Bert’s diner w/in-laws – Milkshake was soothing and delicious.

Got Bugah back to our place, and played video games until the wee hours. Preferred titles were Guitar Hero 3 and Transformers (brought with him), but we also got some other bits in here and there.

1 year ago – voice post – newton’s first snow

2 years ago – homeless thoughts, bb vid card broken, newt buries my dinner, jimi, auto-dl tv shows,

3 years ago – mushroms and eggplant, barefoot craving, acronym cursing, Panama city teens, prozac suicides

4 years ago – popeye is 75, duckburg, powerskip, santa cluster maint, hybrids, beach-dweller picture that will make you shriek, brain sammiches, cam pics, cap’n strong

5 years ago – tan me hide, kartoo, SOP, coloring book entry

6 years ago – Accessory animals. Enron & GWB/pretzel, watching Lone Gunmen, Newt came to work, skate porn

7 years ago – Hot outside! Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, the weather the cuckoo likes, my first LJ flame attack (and my rebuttal) Geotarget

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9029 – wed

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Dreamt of the boardwalk coming to life like a Japanese Umbrella Monster. Why? Now I wonder how many 100-year old things are in the house. I’m guessing not much, save for a few books and coins.

BHK made a tasty pseudo-chicken / broccoli / alfredo noodle dish… I scarfed down two full bowls of the stuff… and they were not little bowls. The in-laws invited us to chinese food, but I think that I came out way ahead with what I got.

Nifty Iron Man art meme, reminds me a bit of the batgirl one done way back when… I wonder if GP and/ or Kat will do one? I dig Paul Conrad’s stuff.. and all of ’em are groovy. See Also the Stan Lee Tribute page.

Meme from eryx by way of count marius

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
Condo side-stuff

2. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
With BHK, every dinner is pretty dang romantic! Out, I’d say the greek restaurant before golden compass.

3. Do you regret losing your virginity to who you lost it to?
No.

4. If you could go back and change one thing what would it be?
I don’t know… maybe get better results on my back operations.

5. Name of your first grade teacher?
Mr Adams

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
Chilling with the Mrs.

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Super hero, Cowboy, pirate, army man… the usual. First career choice was tech-guy.

8. How many colleges did you attend?
PBCC, FAU, and Miami – three!

9. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?
BHK handed it to me as I got out of the shower!

10. What are your thoughts on gas prices?
It seems people will pay anything rather than investigate alternate modes of energy and transport.

11. If you could move anywhere and take someone with you where would it be?
BHK and I to a comfy cottage in vermont, maybe? Or even someplace closer to work, but further from fallout.

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
Where’s the snooze button?

13. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
Where’s Pye?

14. Do you miss being a child?
Some parts yes, but mostly no.

and where is 15?

16. What errand/chore do you despise?
Well, not despise, but anything that involves me on my hands and knees, or bending too much… scrubbing floors or ironing is yucky.

17. If you didn’t have to work, would you volunteer?
I would volunteer at a charity (or charities) of my choice, sure!

18. Get up early or sleep in?
Sleep in, usually!

19. What is your favorite cartoon character?
Hm. I dig classic cartoons, like Daffy Duck a lot.

20. Favorite thing to do at night with a girl?
Depends on my mood and the girl!

21. Have you found real love yet?
Absolutely.

22. When did you start feeling old?
I’ve gotten creaky in the back since my teens… but I don’t feel really old.

no 23?

24. Your favorite lunch meat?
Cheeeeeese! Cheddar is always nice.

25. What do you get every time you go into Wal-Mart?
I don’t think that there’s a regular thing… chips and soda, maybe?

26. Beach or lake?
I like lakes a trifle more than the sea… but both are nice. The bay is a happy medium.

27. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Depends on how you define it. I’m certainly in favor of my marriage!

28. Do you own property?
Me and the bank.

29. Favorite guilty pleasure?
Guilty, not so much, but I do like lounging indoors and having a personal day here and again.

30. Favorite movie you wouldn’t want anyone to find out about?
I’m not easily embarrassed.. I do like Adventures in Babysitting, and that could be classified as sort of feeble.

31. What’s your drink?
Diet Cream Soda is tasty! I’ll go for diet cherry pepsi, diet mountian dew or diet grape giant, too.

32. Cowboys or Indians?
In general, Cowboys.

33. Cops or Robbers?
In general, Cops.

34. Who from high school would you like to run in to?
Steve Jacoby, Cameron Scott, Larry Barnes, Mr. Cornell, Driana Maher

35. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?
Hard to say, but I’d guess XM radio U-pop, 1940’s or Motown.

36. Norm or Cliff?
Cliff is pretty hard to beat, but I think I’d prefer Norm.

37. Grey’s or ‘The Office?
The Office… never seen Grey’s

38. Worst relationship mistake that you wish you could take back?
Poor behavior around friends in general back in the 90s.

39. Do you like the person that sits directly across from you at work?
Nobody really sits across from me… I guess if I drew an imaginary line from my facing through the office, I’d hit Donna.. she’s cool, I like her.

40. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?
Hmm… Tony Shaloub? Who’s buying?

41. Indoors or Outdoors?
Both, please!

42. Have you ever crashed your vehicle?
i’ve been in a few crashes, and yes, I’ve bumped into another car way back when.

43. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
Yup! outdoor fire out of control.

44. Last book you read?
If Chins could kill. Currently reading Soon I Will Be Invincible and Storm Front depending on if I’m carrying the hardcover or just my palmtop.

45. Do you have a teddy bear?
There’s one in a little bomber jacket and goggles around here somewhere!

46. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?
Camping along the peace river… not that strange!

47. Somewhere in California you’ve never been and would like to go?
The Tar Pits

48. Do you go to church?
Not religiously, no.

49. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship?
Well, I’m happily married, so the career gets the reboot!

50. How old are you?
38

1 year ago – voice post – pretzels and candy corn

2 years ago – mr t happy dance, stayed in watched kong, hobbit house, MLK day, falling sand toy, palm doodle, deadly sins meme

3 years ago – Rainy lazy mel-day, bonnet house, literati with resilience, fictional substances, fooling around with image searches

4 years ago – Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, etc

5 years ago – Newt Pic, Manatees, Harry potter, palm wait at doc, sanctity of life

6 years ago – cool invention poll, thoughts about human rights progressing, magic spell over Taiwan, books read, How to take a punch, and my first notification that I was being published in UA2.

7 years ago – Custard the Dragon, Beautiful and Not-so-beautiful Words, Botticelli reminding me of mah sweetie, Michelanglo on Censorship, and a few dead links. Geotarget

8 years ago – Newt was Neutered!

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9028 – tues

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Beware the ides of January! Oh, how it snowed today! It went for a brief period, stopped, and then came back, all crazy-like.

I heard that it wasn’t going to stick, but it was pretty white out there for a little bit. If it had done its drop after dark, I’d wager there’d have been less sublimation.

Veggie Meatloaf for dinner tonight… nom nom nom.

I’m glad that BHK doesn’t mind my meat-free ways! Larry opted for a fried chicken tv dinner, but Chris was game. I have enough to bring a goodly does for lunch tomorrow, too – with plenty of mixed veggies and peas on the side.

Detour guide to 1970’s TV detectives. This is a pretty good sampling of tv during my formative years.

Random Scotto factoid – For some reason, as a kid, I got Baretta and Columbo mixed up. I got it worked out pretty early, but there was a time that I thought it was the same show.

We took are time eating and talking… after supper, we’re watching a little psych before bed. Stay warm and sleep tight, dear journal.

VIENNA, Austria – A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person, Austria’s Supreme Court has ruled, activists said Tuesday.

An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person in hopes of gaining guardianship of the animal.

The shelter where Matthew has lived for 25 years is going bankrupt, threatening to leave him homeless. Donors have offered to help support him, but under Austrian law, only a person can receive personal gifts.

The Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories sought to have him declared a person and petitioned to be appointed Matthew’s trustee.

But the high court upheld a September ruling by a judge in the town of Wiener Neustadt rejecting the petition, the group said Tuesday.

The rights group said it would take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Matthew and another chimp at the shelter, Rosi, were captured as babies in Sierra Leone in 1982 and smuggled to Austria for use in pharmaceutical experiments. Customs officers intercepted the shipment and turned the chimps over to the shelter.

Organizers said they may set up a foundation to collect donations for Matthew, whose life expectancy in captivity is about 60 years.

But they argue that only personhood will ensure that he isn’t sold outside Austria.

1 year ago – moved into the brown house

2 years ago – nudge (I like it now), my latest superpower, electrocution dream, soloing, caribs, pandas make more sense, stardust probe returns,

3 years ago – Jambi back after the great LJ crash of ’05, William Schmidt’s art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA

4 years ago – DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck

5 years ago – smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires

6 years ago – nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols

7 years ago – pictures of me with tarpo at No-nose maldanado’s, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things Geotarget

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9027 – mon

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First and foremost – a quick random pic of newton for his fans.

I imagine pye was along shortly after to play.

newtcam

Bhk and I had a yummy supper of tomato soup and pizza-bagels. Just right for a cool night of watching more psych and installing our water cooler.

Not much to say today – have an assorted news links edition, dear journal.

The AP has a story on Netflix’s move to head off expected competition from Apple: the company will lift limits on streaming its movies for most subscribers. The story reports on rumors of an Apple movie-download service that may be announced by Steve Jobs on Tuesday. In the past Netflix has imposed limits on how long its subscribers could watch streamed movies; for example, those who paid $16.99/mo. could stream up to 17 hours per month. The limits will end on Monday for most subscribers (except for those paying $4.99 for two DVD rentals a month, said to be a small minority). The company has 6,000 movies available for streaming, compared to 90,000 that you can get delivered in the mail.

via consumerist –

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to give you 100 gallons of free heating oil to help survive the cold cruel capitalist winter. The hogshead of liquid warmth is available to anyone enduring a financial hardship who fills out a handy online form.

Eligibility is determined with two questions: First, do you live in one of these 16 states?

Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, Delaware, Maryland, Alaska, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana.

Second, do you need the oil? Need is relative, but if you have a family and make less than $40,000, you probably qualify. Citizens Energy, which administers the program, evaluates each application on a case-by-case basis and issues eligible applicants a voucher redeemable for 100 gallons of CITGO heating oil.

It’s almost sweet of our communist friends to shove the inequalities and harsh realities of capitalism in our faces with a program that actually helps people pay for an increasingly unwieldy cost of living expense.

For more information, call Citizens Energy at: (877) 563-4645, or fill out their online application.

Individual Households [Citizens Energy]

Call for Guantanamo to be closed I wonder how that’ll hit Kev and Paul? Continue reading 9027 – mon →

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9026 – sun

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We took it easy today, as per our usual Sunday… BHK and I woke and puttered a bit, at at The Frying Pan before heading to Aardvark’s to use the gift certificate we got from the Newsies. We picked up family fluxx, my comics and a few deck boxes for our card games – with the bonus stuff for Zombie and regular fluxx, they’ve rather outgrown the cardboard boxes they came in. I was pleasantly surprised to see a nice display of looney labs stuff there – werewolf and and assortment of Fluxx decks is a sign of good fun.

If all goes according to plan, Bugah will be staying with us next weekend – I’ll be recovering from the dentist, but playing wii and just generally goofing around should be a great time for us all. Maybe we can convert him to playing fluxx, too.

In other gaming news – Half-life 2 progressing in a fun way, slowly – about 10 min of game play each time… playing on the airboat right now. Just made it to the red barn. Total Playing time: 4 hrs past 2 weeks (all pc games, including peggle, portal, team fortress 2, counterstrike, hl2, and so on) I’m just not hardcore anymore… if I ever was. Too much fun stuff to do in meat-space – video gaming is usually what I do while I wait for BHK to get ready to go out.

We were planning on heading over get groceries and then to the in-laws to set up some trains, but we grew too fatigued, and just headed home to watch our backlog of psych episodes and began the business of packing up Christmas decor for another 11 months.

I don’t even remember what I had for supper… Oh, wait, got it. Cheese crackers. I skipped the leftover spaghetti – will lunch that tomorrow.

1 year ago – dream ramble – voice post

2 years ago – icon snatching, lost, dr who, flickr tools, books, compusa, meeting of the daves, cool weather, birds ate my brains, prejudice map, findory,

3 years ago – Lost, romainan pop inspires .htaccess, supercar, anonymous statement meme, age act meme

4 years ago – That Stretchy Guy & That Clay Guy.

5 years ago – cops, prezzies, kidthinks

6 years ago – space commies and monkeys, dream, haiku, mothman, tarot

7 years ago – SOS, folk fest, annoyed with collapsing tabs, brian howdy, super friends drinking game Geotarget