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8660

Last day of packing before venture north… Newt seems to dig his little riding house, and we’ve got most of the supplies we need. Now it’s just a matter of sorting and storing today. BHK and I had a nice time at danny’s yesterday – I cleaned up at balderdash. Janet was pretty good at the fake out definitions, but I won with psychology and knowledge of what a howdah was.


phone is being turned off on 11/30, so if you need my number, email me or post here for it. I still need ot get a book or two from folks I lent to, and so on, but I imagine I’ll pick ’em up on my next visit down, if I don’t get them before I leave.


Bhk’s perspective on our trip north, with pictures. (originally posted in a dear friend’s private entry post, but this portion is suitable for public consumption.)

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lunch with Danny, hopefully rest of day packing. been busy busy recently, but after unpacking cpu in Maryland, all should be more steady and fun, entry-wise.

Newt’s going on a 16 hour roadtrip tomorrow or tues (well, 2 of 8 and 8)… we’ll see how he digs it. bhk is covering trash while I pack. Actually, I should be hopping in the shower, so we can get with Dan one more time before I depart.. lots of things this week.. his wedding anniversary, my dad’s birthday, thanksgiving, etc. It’s been a little tough dealing with the loss of my dad and bro lately, especially going through my mementos of them. Sort of disappointed the florida party never took off either, but I suppose I can have a reunion party here when I come back to the condo during off-season.

Sorry entries have been so sparse, but they’ll be back up to speed in less than a week, I suspect.

until later, dear journal!


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8655 – spanksgiving eve

Last Day at the ACIM office… still will help tech-wise from home if needed for a bit. I still have no idea if the office is full or half day today. I’ll assume full, and be pleasantly surprised if it’s otherwise.

bhk and I are off for a bit of an early drive down the beach before the start of the work day – should be fun!


I still haven’t heard from bro.. it’s been months. TG is traditionally pretty dicey for him, see prior years.


It’s A Bully, Charlie Brown! (or whatever the title was) wasn’t very high on my viewing list… that, and the over-edited thanksgiving special on tv made me thankful for dvd players… and bittorrent.



Mr. T says – “Table the Label, and wear your own name.”


1 year ago – chilly for fl, many entries, foot amputee dream, bro in hospital

2 years ago – newtcam button, hercules & newton, bueller thoughts, jam sammiches, g-cans, flu bug, survey, LH quits, bro back in the pokey

3 years ago – DC Earths, Shrunken Heads, Police Cars, mix cds, South park, origin ofRaj KAJ, An awesome Weekly World News Issue, I am DNA, Bro Issues

4 years ago – classic kids audio books, history, forms in LJ work, goodbye to work-Pam, Mojo has a hissy fit vs Bonbon/Kev

5 years ago – beatnik, thanksgiving, harry potter quiz, wandering

6 years ago – thanksgiving

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8654 – Pirate Scotto


Pirate Husband
Originally uploaded by blackhellkat.

arr, avast ye hearties!


1 year ago – red lobster, class struggle, black friday, chubby checker

2 years ago – pirates, giraffes, incredibles, bro,

3 years ago – Marvel Family, Countdown meme, garden pictures

4 years ago – Free audio books, hubcap monsters, discover empanadas nearby, GIMP

5 years ago – cloture, pocketlj, single card tarot spreads, meeting lj folks confirmed

6 years ago – air cools, Young Frankenstein poetry, sleepyhead, country bear jamboree

7 years ago – very basic Newt statsGeotarget

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random photos from yesterday. Sanibel is beautiful, and the shells were pretty dang amazing. we chitty chatted with weez and boop, met weez’s folks, and spent a nice period beach combing before the sun went down. on the way to and back, we saw all sorts of wildlife, especially birds like blue heron, spoonbill and other “storky” sorts, as well as a eyeload of alligators sunning themselves on the banks of the nature sanctuary. the was a fire burning way off in the north… I wonder if it was the cane fields that get slashed and lit periodically? it was a sweet smoke, and pretty particulate.. we both have slightly rough throats this morning as a result. As always, the journey was as swell as the destination. Bhk is a really wonderful traveling companion.

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1 year ago – arsenic & old lace, book fair, gamma passes, newt pics, missed uber, NYPL Digital Gallery, broward #1 for AIDS

2 years ago – torrenting, Brisco’s Pete, theme music, dictionareoke, flash games, cosplayers, mel

3 years ago – bro responsored by viper, GP stuff, palm art

4 years ago – accexpo, gossamer and gollum (later Jinx and Felix), Christmas specials

5 years ago – Cranberry Sauce, walkies, haiku, wacky news

6 years ago – Bob Marley, Roy likes to destroy, danigolden asks if she can add me to her friends list. (I say sure!)Geotarget

8652 – seashells are pretty.

trip to sanibel island and visit with boop and weez went swimmingly…as always, all too brief, but loads of fun.

bhk is already wanting to return for more beach combing treasures and sweet walks.

more peekturers to follow

sanibel sunset


1 year ago – grammy hospice, moving, ts gamma

2 years ago – time goes, visitors, beard, music, walkies thoughts, gd on archive, weekend check-’em-outs

3 years ago – memes, rubber monsters, super heroes, pestered by CS, whistles, newtcam by skylight, mild MD drama

4 years ago – Haiku, Robert Culp, projects, bro lies to me

5 years ago – walking, TG pressures, Astley and his grey market goods, abc meme, morning move poll, misc news

6 years ago – gloating, monkey brains, Alton brown

7 years ago – Newt breaks 2 lbsGeotarget

8651 –

Lovely day… went to Miami to pick up some bedding supplies before renting out the condo, and then went on the fishing boat with Momster, Wilt, and BHK. After the trip, bhk and I hit flannigans, and went home for an early sleep, because we head to the weezle and boop’s place tomorrow on Sanibel.

highlights were spotting a frigate, discovering kite fishing, and enjoying the ‘hood.

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1 year ago – prep to move in, newtie, tortie

2 years ago – doodles, first penny, sodium party, fussy danny, BCfair, harry lampert RIP, journal fine, diana a celebration

3 years ago -Coffee, ghost towns, Grunt, growl & Tear, local cams, Zombie survival guide, Lego source, fun linkies, city stats, frankie wheedling, thai smiles

4 years ago – got a spine sucker after getting an epi, Freemasons, fezzes, slogans, first clues to undoing w/bro

5 years ago – meteors, taliban, mrblowup, broward county fair, Martian Manhunter Rehashed, sv tarot

6 years ago – Limb lopping, wonka, new ljstuff, hunter thompson, aokGeotarget

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Rough day at work… all I can do is teach the fundamentals, and hope that they catch the details as they go. I’ll be available but not on command 24/7. I fear my protege isn’t taking enough notes, but she is smart… I’ve warned both her and RI about it, and hope the Monday meeting will go well.

The day improved vastly after, got together with Danny and Bhk for tasty Italian food at Marcello’s or Peregrinos or some such.. it was deee-lish.

Later, we did a little LoTR trivial pursuit… Dan’s bad at the movie questions, and is good at all the rest.


1 year ago – vanity search / publishing, whimsy, COA, fact meme

2 years ago – penguins desalinate, western thoughts, duck butts, rss drama, bro grabs xbox, drama,

3 years ago – – sagas, dirty food chains

4 years ago – I am Augustine, brain thieves, kazaa gets me mst3k

5 years ago – Scooby-doo freedoms, disease test, new lj client

6 years ago – paperwad fetch, bad breakfast, drugsGeotarget

8646 – Tuesday.

BK was out sick yesterday… so hopefully I’ll see what’s up if she’s in today.


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Cruising down the road after the drive-in… driver is bhk, vehicle si the love cube – blue & white honda element.

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Snacky-cart driving by during flushed away – photo taken by bhk.

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Freaky keen eyeball graffiti on the wall in coconut grove, as we left miami.. sort of reminds me of barnacles, or space monsters.


‘Spider Girl’ gang held in Chile

Police have arrested two members of one of Chile’s most notorious gangs, known as the Spider Girls. The all-girl gang of teenagers were infamous for climbing up buildings in Santiago to burgle luxury apartments.

In a spate of high-profile robberies in 2005, they made off with thousands of pounds worth of jewelery.

Lurking in the gardens of expensive parts of Santiago, the four girls hurled ropes and hooks up to balcony railings, hauled themselves up and walked through the flat windows. They then walked out of the buildings as if they were visitors.

The gang members were arrested last year but three of them were sent to reform school rather than prison because of their age.

They vowed to change their ways but after being released, one spider girl, Yasna, returned to her old tricks, recruiting a new member,Marcielle.

Despite both being heavily pregnant, they still managed to climb up to the third floor of some flats.


1 year ago – moon cake, doom patrol, politics, Life Pref, butt jokes and political statements preferred

2 years ago – monet’s b’day, comment/entry stats, america’s age, torrenting shows via rss, vouchers unconstitutional, prednisone, taking falluja, work vacation, newt pics

3 years ago – bollywood, pt, hooray for adhesives!

4 years ago – Male contraceptive, Dan met OJ Simpson, Newt-spoon Wrestling, peephenge, eating on the cheap.

5 years ago – evil news, gallimaufry , happiness machine recycled, writing apache modules

6 years ago – Bee-man lives, lucha, schizo-masons, Brian commentGeotarget

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8645 – meeting and picture linkage

Off to a lovely start with snuggles and bagles before launch to work… bhk is far superior to me at “punch buggy” , especially in the bleary early morning, where my field of vision seems to be something like fifteen degrees. I think she whomped me about 937 times on the drive to fort lauderdale, but I loved every minute of it. Every day with her seems to shine brighter and have more potential than the one before. It’s truly wonderful to have her in my life.


Found a good seasonal renter for the condo, so mortgage payments won’t be an issue for a few months… that’s a real blessing. (Hooray for laid back family friends that like to tour florida! I know she won’t trash the place, and I can give her a rockin’ deal on the rent.)


Monday meeting went pretty well, BK is still out sick, so I’m not quite sure where things stand on this and that, aside from RS getting the bulk of reporting duties, TD chewing on web / overview text info (no design work, just straight entry), and the training of the new IT guy. Things should be a fairly smooth transition, as everyone is detail oriented, and willing to take things to task… which is a big relief for me.


whoops! I just saved the company a little embarassment –

Original Text –

2-CERTIFICATES
SAFARI ECO TOUR
4-PEOPLE
$100 Value
Seminal Tribe of Florida

Corrected text –

2-CERTIFICATES
SAFARI ECO TOUR
4-PEOPLE
$100 Value
Seminole Tribe of Florida

Important fix. Does nobody actually proofread? Spellcheck is handy, but sometimes a human eye is even better.


for more vizcaya – see craig james white’s pics – he was there about 3 days before bhk amd me.. and was allowed some indoor shots, too. His Miami Pics in general are quite nice, too.


1 year ago – LED clothes, K&K mime, Clavicus loves his pastry, doom patrol, quizzes, x-ing, newt pic, Red knows the score, cybermen, scotto avie

2 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

3 years ago – Butterflies, Christ, Wind and Dexterity, my journal is in popular science, phonepost, back on call

4 years ago – expensive minis, misc whims, wacky news, bob hope

5 years ago – I live near blimps, medicine poll, Bad Elder Caucasian Dudes, marvel misfits

6 years ago – Des tries to take on the hive, whoville test, aok, Robbo’s last weekGeotarget

8644 – Eat a Bagel and Go!

Eat a bagel and GO! was our battle cry today, as BHK took charge and we managed to get up and out of the house by 10:30… not a trifling feat, considering our collective penchant for the lounge-about-the-houseisms.

(bhk thinks not, but I think maybe so.) I really dig having a walkabout cohort.

(our other battlecry of choice is “We’re Grown ups, We’re Married, We can do what we want!- that mostly applies to ice cream dinners, however)

We hit vizcaya with great enthusiasm…Quite enjoyed touring the grounds with bhk(more pictures from my last visit in ’03 on the vizcaya tag)

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Green Dome, Pelican, red wall, stone boat, grotesques, stone boobies,spanish moss, pictures of a stalker european, sneaking into a secret door, quinteanos, swimming pools, fountains and foo dogs

highlights of the day were seeing a manatee in the wild by the stone boat, and holding hands with my beloved on the bench by the east gardens.


After vizcaya, we toured around and ultimately went to the swap-shop drive-in to see flushed away… very cute, but I think that I enjoyed the novelty of the drive-in even more than the movie. Very easy to sneak drinks and smooches in without an usher giving us any grief… we’ll be going back again before sauntering to points north, I suspect.

I was pretty impressed by flushed away… they kept the look and feel of aardman, despite it being all cgi rather than claymation. cute moments and lots of fun bits, though I think that the setup for a sequel was a bit over-telegraphed.


1 year ago – poorhouse w/liz, monkey beer, gg mood theme,newt pics

2 years ago – bro issues, newtie love, lost, getting it,link sponsor

3 years ago – TG poll, paid links began, GP recovers, Twistyland

4 years ago – better living through chemistry, Jude Law a bad papa, French comics, wolfsonian

5 years ago – Evil news, EL Dildo Bandito!, went out with Dave & Cathi

6 years ago – Rush, Bee-manGeotarget

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poo poo face, boca guns, curious george, pf changs giant horse, weird bhk piccie, mural and citus n/a tini and a mojito.


Hung out a bit at the pool for a swim and then played pirates with Danny and bhk. Bhk’s first time playing and she won soundly. (she was playing a pirate, an American warship, and a giant squid… my Spanish armada and Danny’s American/frenchies didn’t have a chance, though Danny came close to doing a victory by gold rather than combat.)


sleepy bear tonight… lots of fatigue from a long week of work and such, I suspect. I’ll see what sort of fallout I get from work re:resignation during the Monday meeting.


1 year ago – power on, big brain going away, packing, suprglu

2 years ago – Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, lost on torrent, pixar, who links here, Wanna know your consistence?

3 years ago – incas & guinea pigs, minefield, earth photos, anagrams, Sirenity baby!, high school memories, norman saunders

4 years ago – I win cookies!, owie-back, keywords

5 years ago – went to see fishies, walkies

6 years ago – good news / bad news, Boogie Pop Phantom, African Frog Myth

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8640 –

Yesterday, I saw a goggle-wearing dog, and some fish.

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At the traffic ticket fixer (read: ambulance chaser) law office on Oakland park blvd.


Putting in my notice at work today. Time to move on… Greener pastures await. They now have folks I can train to take care of business, so no guilt here. I’ll be interested in seeing what the response will be, as they fairly thought I’d stay until removed with a crowbar.

Two weeks from now, I’ll be en route to Maryland, and the condo will be a seasonal rental, and we can vacation there off-season. Bro has no idea I’m leaving the state, as I’ve not really heard from him in a few months.


More pictures from yesterday… bhk in awe of the goodyear blimp, big red the iguana & friend, silly faces, sunset in the back yard

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At swensens, the wait staff asked me to help them with a power issue after we got our ice cream digested.. turned out the circuit breaker was flicked over, but we got ’em up and running in no time. They were very thankful and cut the cost of our meal. still a bit miffed over the lack of spanish peanuts or proper wafers. I think that we might try another swensens later, as one of our waitresses (we had two… it was a slow night in there, and they just traded off) confided in us that there were some items that they had on the menu that never ever got ordered – Wafers and whole peanuts amongst ’em.


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Purse-lipped Canadian Pencil Sharpener’s name is now “Bruce Moose” He is Guardian of the “Love Cube” (the Element)

His voice is pretty dang poncy, but we love him, and he loves us. I may get him to do a voice post for us later on down the line. His South Park-esque eyes and tuque, snazzy orange fur, maple-leaf tattoo and love of pencils where the sun doesn’t necessarily shine has endeared him to us, as well as his super duper cheery outlook and personality… like the uncle Arthur we never had.


1 year ago – saw Phoenix, mortgage, broward traffic lights post wilma, smarts quiz, newt fan mail

2 years ago – power out, Danny & the lions, wonder twins, network tools, adp off call, then repeals it, Florida mean to homeless

3 years ago – Comics, Local Events, silly joke. cancer bullet, Sea Monkeys, travels, programming thoughts, virtual schools, werewolf cult, phys therapy, vamp game, how lj works

4 years ago – steal this book, McDonalds Theory of War and Peace, “Big Books”,

5 years ago – tortboy, tropicon, ken kesey passes away

6 years ago – fae friend gone

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8638 – The founder of our nation has a knife.


cox and combes excitedly praise the most badass of all people who have ever existed. some lyrics may not be safe for work.


some eensy-weensy thumbnails of date night on the deerfield beach pier and the whale’s rib for dindin. clicken to embiggen, o’course.

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the last one is a helicopter that flew overhead while the shutter was open for a night photo. sort of neat. Other oddity was the weird ‘leet-speak’ meter room. trying to be elite, or was the author just really dyslexic?


1 year ago – google map risk, sexy archie, personality meme

2 years ago – bro issues, MM/Islam, light and shadow, mallah and brain, walking annual post, famous cat, truthout

3 years ago – Eclipso, Lady From Shanghai, Tomacco, fonts, Book Fair, pondering, maggot art, mirror, Witch

4 years ago – poetry search, Newtcam pic, Zombie, DTH, Stupidty, Rachel

5 years ago – evil news, tattoo poll, shirty, Bizarro, Da Vinci

6 years ago – Apologies for FL, clown, log sheets, sweet disorder, I knew a woman, crimson dreams, chupacabraGeotarget

note to self, add today’s to story list – (each dot is a prior year’s).....