Went with BHK and Jimmy to Adam’s final “official” swim meet – he did *great* and will be going to SMAC (southern maryland athletic conference, I think) to continue groovin… not sure if we can attend that.
sci-fi writer meme Continue reading 8727 – 46th anniversary of the first space monkey!
Pretty slow going today – applied for work at a few places. The biggest excitement was loss of electrical power from 6:30ish to about 7am. Got a lot accomplished, and BHK had some solid work at the local law office today. I spent most of my time at home taking care of the usual tech / job app issues… and playing with the kitties.
Tina came over to have dinner and watch American idol with us – not a bad show, but it’s more of a social event than actually getting into the TV. I have now seen three episodes of a non-COPS reality show.
via greatpoets
In Boot Hill there are over 400 graves. It takes
the space of 7 acres. There is an elaborate gate
but the path keeps to no main route for it tangles
like branches of a tree among the gravestones.300 of the dead in Boot Hill died violently
200 by guns, over 50 by knives
some were pushed under trains – a popular
and overlooked form of murder in the west.
Some from brain hemorrhages resulting from bar fights
at least 10 killed in barbed wire.In Boot Hill there are only two graves that belong to women
and they are the only known suicides in that graveyard
–Michael Ondaatje
from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
What about the munchies?
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s GW Pharmaceuticals Plc said Tuesday it plans to start human trials of an experimental treatment for obesity derived from cannabis.
It took the better part of the day, but the commode is finished. Before starting, we had a big pancake breakfast, courtesy of BHK – Chris and BHK went shopping while Larry & I worked on the plumbing… timing was good… we finished about 15 minutes before they called to let us know that they were heading back, and we ended the day with Chinese food, and watching Men In Black.
Got a nice call from Danny, too – his wife is in Bangladesh, reviewing a clothing place’s quality control. I wonder what the quality of life is of the workers there.
Birthday is on Friday – Still not sure what, if anything will be happening for it. I suspect a quiet get-together with some family & friends… I’d like to see as much of the local gang make it if they can, but Friday night has got to be a tricky one, especially if it’s short notice. Given the current financial limits, I suspect the Wii will be a rain check item.
1 year ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick,
2 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys
3 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution
4 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus
5 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
6 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing man
Started installation of a new commode (the old wax seal was going and was beginning to leak), and got sort of side barred into a trip to the Marine Museum on Solomon’s Island. It was a fun trip with the in-laws and BHK to points exceedingly south. After the museum, we waited a long while to eat at Outback, but the food was tasty and plentiful. (I think it made Chris more angry than anyone else) I think I’ve gone out to eat more in the last three months of marriage than I have in the last twelve of bachelorhood! I’m trying to eat a bit better, though, and keep it at least moderately healthy. The waistline is doing a bit of a retreat, which is good.. I think that’s primarily due to all the running around town and moving that’s been done.
Piccies –
Otters, Mega-sharks, Skates, Rays, a screw pile lighthouse, Fresnel lenses and sailing ships… much fun!
Also, Tinkle Pig is now in the Love Cube with BHK and I – Danny Traded up to a hula girl.
1 year ago – Celebrated Vicki’s last day, spectral analysis, history lesson, book meme, on call
2 years ago – rte 55 pic, newt and scotto wake up, song title meme, post secret
3 years ago – baby dragon, cheesecake trip, QM2, fever doodles
4 years ago – bebop cola poll, boney church, sql slammer, evil ideas
5 years ago – week plans, bob ross posse, freaky gator-in-a-dress, mr mole, biography tax loophole?
6 years ago – journal look update, evil news, hotel california
Current weather – 18°F (RealFeel 2°F)
Brother and Father in law jamming a bit last night before dinner. Adam was about ready to fall asleep, I think. Another swim meet tonight, if all goes as planned. BHK and I are going to take Tina with us this time! That means a bit of shopping and dinner tonight too, I expect.
Things have been quite great lately… I think that once I get a good solid gig, I’ll have nothing to complain about at all.
Side note – I’ve agreed to be on the City’s Emergency Preparedness Committee – maybe I can help out CodeRED a bit, and help to insure my region is more prepared in the event of rough tidings… not to mention, possibly network into a gig.
some pics –
Happy B’Day, missv!
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims. Continue reading 8721 – another day in paradise. no sarcasm there.
Newtcam (Now also featuring Pye and BHK as well as Newt and me) is live again, at least for a bit – Office and Loft, depending on if Lappie of big brain is more active.
Snow Day Pictures!
Happy 101st Birthday, Robert E Howard.
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1 year ago – superhero drawing memes, CNY, Bro’s situation improved briefly, lost, spidey video views, Sting
2 years ago – Worked late, EN’s cable out, sad- sicky mel, busy phone, amber alert, great day to be alive theme
3 years ago – Year of the monkey!, new icons, act like a monkey, a fellow ljers house burns down
4 years ago – honey rant, healing hands, newt pic, cuss control, cold snap
5 years ago – spy ware killer, stab-dream, home school poll, animal noises around the world, sound
6 years ago – IMT theft, be good, take it easy surfing at work, Model of the modern super-criminal, birthday wish
Moved into the new place today… got most of the furniture in, phones transferred and direct tv set up – only a few minor issues with dsl (hasn’t engaged yet).
Newt wasn’t too keen on the snatch and grab school of transport, and turned into a bit of a tasmanian devil when scooped up to head home.
Happy Birthday, kat78731! (and one year of journaling, too!)
Moved some loot over to the brown house, and did a bit of cleaning there, got a nibble from ned.org for a possible gig – we’ll see how that goes.
Saw “Dead and Breakfast” … Interesting to see Oz Perkins, but it didn’t jingle my bells so much. The commentary was more interesting than the movie itself… sounds like they had a good time making it.
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Visited Misti, Neil, Daniel & Emily today with the in laws and BHK – it was fun playing belated Santa. Jason’s Deli is rapidly becoming a huge fave.. I wish we had a local salad bar and soup place as yummy. Bonus was that Ukrops had some veggie-only onion soup on hand, and it was pretty dang awesome as well.
I got a chance to play a few games of laser battle (no relation to my old chestnut of laser attack) with Daniel, and it was quite fun.. I’ll probably see what I can do to add it to our games closet.
Also exchanged travel bugs with Misti – I released one due for Brazil, and received one due for Japan, and another headed to Hawaii’i. The Brazil and Japan join BHK’s Louisville, KY one as part of the Unite for Diabetes Challenge. (The Hawaii’i one is just for funzies.)
I wish Misti the best of Luck on her first day at the new gig on Monday.
Kevin is totally spot-on with his talk about ape equality.
1 year ago – National Bird Day, Religio-founder quiz, Mr. Potato Head, open camera streams, I helped to recover Tabitha lively, newt picture with my feet,
2 years ago – 12th night, Mel stuff, job hunting helps, 6 apart/lj rumor, lj optout, geek meme, Eisner dies, latest memo, tried tracking LSW.
3 years ago – 4 gamers best, gaming memories Mars Exploration, I’m an Earth Monkey
4 years ago – Internet born, origami cameras, ouch!
5 years ago – SOP, insomniac theme, My Lady by J. G. Whittier, tech trouble, newt in nightshirt, stupidfly abuse, dead image and flash links, deleted journals actually get deleted
6 years ago – vagg (dead link), internal server error (not much)
Something I post at the top of every new year, and I appreciate the words more with every additional trip around the sun.
Love is
is not rude,
it is not self seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices in truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.-1 Corinthians 13:5&6
PYE!
Newt!
Newt didn’t make it to the countdown, apparently.
The boys like to wrestle, which worries BHK a smidgen, but I think they’ll be jim-dandy.
618 entries this year… lower content this time around, mostly due to my living life, and not having much time to report it. I haven’t had any time recently to read much LJ at all, though I have tried to poke a nose in here and there when I could. (975 in 2006, 716 in 2004) – one of my new years thoughts is to try to write at least 30 minutes a day in the journal, just to hone my skills.
We move into the bigger house on or about 1/15… once all the utilities and such have been activated. The big TV and some small amount of furniture is already over there, but we haven’t begun the big move in earnest as yet.
I’m going to miss our Tannenbaum… I’ve enjoyed the giant beastie in the living room the last month or so. When it goes, I figure it means we’ll be headed to the new place shortly thereafter.
Danny turns 45 tomorrow. weird thought. That means I’ll be 38 a month from then. The years seem to just fly.
Last night, we got together with the normal motley crew to dine on tacos, rodeo beans, assorted fixins and far too many holiday pastry-type goodies. We watched “Failure to Launch” until about 10 seconds of midnight, counted down, and then watched fireworks over the Chesapeake bay. After, we started to watch Prime, but got tuckered out due to it’s general suckitude. Chick flicks were remedied by today’s viewing of Buckaroo Bonzai, Kung Fu Hustle and Fierce Creatures
1 year ago – HNY, modis, counts, PD movies, new day in sofla
2 years ago – Transformer guy, paleoclimatology, Tony Danza Has a TV show, Sri Lanka refuses aid because they are military, element, music, monkey entry links, unpopular baby names, pet names, Scotty’s Stores sinking, B-to-the-E, 1-2-3-go vs 1-2-go-on-3 poll
3 years ago – ninja turtles, FFXI w/Sammy & D, film finding, Newt age progression, missing kid
4 years ago – law of 5s, ageless project, wishes that didn’t come true, edbook’s llamas, sofla ice age, rain, slow day, Danny stubborn, finished Barnum / started agony & ecstasy, Newt pic
5 years ago – TZ marathon, people requesting money for reading their journal, country specific euros, 2nd instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6 and Happy Newt Year!
6 years ago – Resolutions, some dead news links, good links to marbles, bejeweled,alchemy, etc, 1st instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6, reflections onold games, Norman bates, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a new writing style
Pyewacket and Newt are in the Hizzy, yo. Some grumbling, but I think that they’ll ease together well. BHK and I both think they’ll be aok.
Meanwhile, more xmas piccies!
Had a nice dinner with Cathy & Dave… veggie lasagna, and loads of sweet desserts. (Chocolate cake, some trifle of yumminess, not to mention BHK’s tasty sugar cookies and peanut butter cookies.
Got some nice treats for xmas, too. Sweet Ornaments, sesame/garlic oil for the both of us, plus I got some spiffy warm wool socks & a book about the bay… bhk also got socks and a spangled green journal.
Put Big Brain back together today…good to have it back and live.
Got a pretty card from imperfectly today!
Here comes Scottobear! Here comes Scottobear! Right down Scottobear Lane!
Here Comes Santa Claus
from the Christmas Song Generator.
scottobear sent to me…
1 year ago – xmas card, condo xmas party, calm a llama down
2 years ago – salty seas, Christmas toy, year in review, celebrex, anime fans, con folk
3 years ago – trade invites for play $$, dreams
4 years ago – How to attain old age, got my epidural
5 years ago – Crime & Punishment, heterodox, evil news, HP question, pooter poop, bagpipe, egoboo, giant bee
6 years ago – met tarpo and isis, LJ sea Chantey, AOK-ing, Christmas Blues
Shopping with inlaws went very well. Good stuff for bhk, newtie, pye and tina, too – Also got a prezzie in the mail from Kev via amazon… BHK wisely confiscated the invoice, so it’ll be a surprise to me when it’s opened on Christmas.
via scans_daily. Good ol’ Rebis. I’m Sill partial to Cliff, though.
– via sebab
Diabetes breakthrough
Toronto scientists cure disease in mice
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