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9817 – ’til Tuesday

Back pain is continuing, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Left leg, left foot all have twinges lately. I can safely say that the left transforaminal epidural steroid injection under fluouroscopy (l5-s1) – didn’t take. The upside is that I am also not paralysed as a result.

Some pictures taken over the last week or so, with Bugah and BHK – Cypress swamp provided skinks, frogs, squirrels, bees, hummingbirds, inchworms and plant life. (Pawpaws, ferns and cypress, mostly.) Bugah and BHK as John Smith, eating a stingray as revenge for posioning his arm with a tail barb.

Slugs out on our porch are beautiful, but hard to do justice with the camera. I love the slimy leopard pattern on them.

Also shown is Pyewacket lazing on the chair, much as he is beside me now. 

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1 year ago – Batman the way I prefer, Weather kim uses the BHK tomato pic, game closet, Port of Baltimore trip scheduled, Tm Powers books, Veggie hot dog eating contest, Fluxx flavors

2 years ago – abandoned italian village, doodle of me with a pyramid nose by bhk, minisodes, coloring book, girls at tennis, quiz, kitty pic

3 years ago – 8484, monet, 12 monkeys, talking with danny, walkabout pictures, crypto trivia (useful for playing hangman!), netflix goodies, I get my yoga pack from BHK, hungarian wellness mud, bus stop, sunrise

4 years ago – shots, Danny and wee free men, glowing breast implants, saturn’s radio emissions, little 12-toes, cool flying star wars ships, Teele suicides

5 years ago -thoughts on journaling, $20 recovered, retro science book covers

6 years ago – bro, woolly panda, mood scents, anti-piracy vid, alphabet meme, bubba ho-tep, visible embryo, deaths, reunified my homepage

7 years ago -Peter Gabriel bald, change the flavor of your sexual secretions, abunch of broken picture links, worh1000 coolness – Persian elephant

8 years ago -chores, Tron 2.0, tick quote

9 years ago – got invited to an everway group, palindromes, food, translations Geotarget

9816 – Monday, Monday

Got BHK her Birthday present a month early – a green DS lite, with a copy of treasure world. Bugah got a copy too – it’s a pretty addictive game, and it’s fun to drive around listening for found "treasure" while sightseeing areas you might otherwise not go.

Bugah got me back into playing with the PSP, too. MediaGo is a great improvement over the old media player/data transfer. Put a few episodes of the wire on the PSP for the Sleep Study coming up.

Scheduled my sleep study in about a week – new CPAP will be soon to follow. It’ll be the first night since we got married that BHK and I won’t be in the same bed. I doubt I’ll sleep very easily without her nearby.

1 year ago – garry’s mod, pickle pictures, love cube repairs, birthdays coming

2 years ago – Williamsburg dream, BHK, Amy & I dine at the in-laws, more gaming, start my BGG account

3 years ago – Japan’s underground photography, free wifi attractive nuisance, 2nd life updates, tough times in the congo, fishbone, ape-o-naut doodle / gays in space

4 years ago – A/c unhappy, Lisa/Lisa plans, Jacques the Monkey, Candice fickle, shots, Tom Waits, Abandoned amusement and theme parks, grumping, "shut it", mallah and the brain

5 years ago – monkey doodle, palm pictures from the bus, lavender-newt, notes from the road, atm jam, CoH, lj-flower, monkey yawn

6 years ago – palm doodles, power-outage, all consuming, power of burqas, sonic bullets

7 years ago – some day tripping, cool squirrel, Belgium is a myth, tongue-trimming, lj hot-or-not, Life imitates Real Genius!!!

8 years ago – overtired & grumpy, cockaigne, evil news, flash, evil news

9 years ago – wanting to go on a group outing, discover marquee Geotarget

9815 – Sunday, Sunday

Well, Back to life as a couple, rather than a trio- Bugah made it home safe and sound yesterday morning, We had the Nailles over last night for a little game night – mario party 8 and pizza. We went to their place today – played some Can’t Stop (you can get the computer version here) Had some tasty grilled food with them tonight – dogs and burgers with corn on the cob a la BHK, and some awesome potatoes. We’re going to have to recreate those once our garden gives us a few spuds.

Twisted my back a bit more yesterday, just carrying the pizza to the table… hopefully some stretching today will iron it out.

1 year ago– yahtzee @ docs, mexico, aardvark- with Sean’s d&D figures, Tsuro, netflix – machine girl / sisterhood of traveling pants, newt and pye nose kiss

2 years ago – peppers from the garden, polishing off our garden’s bounty, Amy and BHK Gaming, Death kitty LOLcats Apelad

3 years ago – snakes on a plane burnout, newtcam flipside, still waitin’, talking with bhk, old book scans, hal jordan (green lantern) head injuries, 5x$2, gig upgrade, hoff – king of the Internet

4 years ago – M&M bday, there will come soft rains, yahoo widgets, maybe a visit from the lisas, mp bday in 18

5 years ago – Newt hates Mondays, Beaucoupkev nominates me for prez, Solar Filament, Bradbury, Math atlas, P.I.s, Obvious Movie title

6 years ago -Bambi hunt a hoax, online games, lj diversity, comic book/cartoon thoughts, including the doom song.

7 years ago – some missing pictures, wondering about my eyes, watching TV, evil news, some palm pics, Newt pics

8 years ago – senescence, thegosis, arrival as a pod, loving thoughts

9 years ago – Buds for lunch , dealing ok with winding down Geotarget

9804 – saturday

Good morning, dear journal – I will be updating you little by little over the course of today.

Using my starry-eyed icon to represent my brain on oxy-c for my back today. Very painful, but I’m taking the stupification way out today, along with my heating pad.

Later – Bhk home from her schoolwork – Back is still fairly out. Heating pad is helping, and I’m having chinese food with the in-laws while watching NCIS.

Bugah comes over tomorrow. I can hardly wait! We’ll put in some quality buddy time this week – I have to remember to ask if Harry Potter is acceptable for him to see. Certainly Wii games and some outside time by the bay will happen.

Set up my google voice account – 410-929-6473 (can call it anywhere from the continental usa for free) – likely will go to voicemail, though.

1 year ago – drive-in date night, pumpkin from the garden, bocce, code red air

2 years ago – rusty thing, the soup, dan’s rocks, walking score, compleat strategist replies to criticism, tin foil hats fail (in comments)

3 years ago – morning breaks doodle, sleepy, heat of the moment, training a tech, sailboat doodle, stop motion space invaders, voice pdf files, deaths 

4 years ago – bro court, auto-stitch of an alley no longer there, graffiti pics, harry potter, zombie game, bards tale ends, mimicked, Reverse Polish Notation, top40

5 years ago – manatee trip pictures, Miami travel shots

6 years ago – Aol gives up on netscape, random poster form the past, I get fan mail from desert butterfly, reading list retreat

7 years ago – princess sultanas circle, hug meme, joy machine, angry corn ghosts burn police cars, hydrogen fuel cars, got tested for diabetes (none here!),baseball bat poll, Bush & Women’s rights, spooky patent office logo

8 years ago – evil news, arriviste, clochard & myopic, gilligan’s lessons,contraception myths, Leisa’s 2 months pregnant, zeppelins, tuck in thoughts

9 years ago – xanadu, sleep study prep, name meaning Geotarget

9797 – Tuesday

Library had a seminar on career counseling, BHK got some hints, and I tightened my resume to one page – I’m pretty pleased as to how it turned out. I really appreciate the help I got today. Much more accomplished than yesterday.

We spent the rest of the day (about 6 hours or so) working in the study room again – I’m really glad the library has such a solid internet, and a reservation policy. Also thankful ofr Panera next door, for lunch and dinner.

Happy 9th birthday, Newtcam! (That means Newt’ll be 10 in October!)

1 year ago – Inger a grownup, picture this, okra and 3 kinds of eggplant from the garden, mamihlapinatapai, zero effect added

2 years ago – college park – drove by looney labs, got chrononauts, nasty smoothie king, collector’s crypt, liberty books

3 years ago – rip webmonkey, skipping dragon*con, personal growth post recap, newt on porch pic

4 years ago – mp, kev, $, Rs, the love god mp3, update info about me, tag cloud, allergy

5 years ago – construction webbing, fonts, celebs, web cam fights crime

6 years ago – braced, zombie pumpkin fights, insanity script, insurance stupidity

7 years ago – dream about graypumpkin at the paint store, little people, domed 3d displays,great ape project, 28 things quiz, sue the teacher trend, mental comfort

8 years ago – cool mini or not, vatic, cool things about moving, smoothies, misc news, age poll, counter testing, chocolate bees, Victorian Sex Cry Generator, what’s for supper, coloring book concept germ

9 years ago – Newtcam’s own page posted Geotarget

9796 – Monday

More library time, panera, and studying. I didn’t get as much accomplished today as I might have. I’ll do better tomorrow – polishing the resume to one page and keeping it tight, rather than the 3 pages it is now.

Tired now – watching some tv, and playing dokepon castle to unwind. BHK’s sample test is this weekend, so we’re on a time crunch.

1 year ago – invulnerable barefoot, abba never to perform together again, mooch neighbor, corn and dagwoods, movies to see, swarm of the snakehead, the host, cloverfield didn’t do it for me, danny saw some movies, u.s.s. constitution in Baltimore, Larry’s guns, pancakes, awning

2 years ago – I love local corn pic, beautiful foggy out, FF2 with BHK, DC train maps on google, skipped salem, the shield, note to anonymous commenter, atheists taking the lord’s name in vain, Zoroaster the Kitten, faith and democratic candidates

3 years ago – pirate quiz, pirates w/Dan, 61 questions, walkabout pics, bus stop self portrait, newtcam silly pic

4 years ago – bro visit, good exp games, Karl Rove a rat, mood settings, big ol’ Locust

5 years ago – perspective via work, kitty-bot, rain, diseases

6 years ago – Movies w/ danny, LED-suit, Lupin quiz, dinosaur haiku, new tv, LXG, html tests, ghoulishness

7 years ago – Ian McCracken, zork 404, branleur, got my bike

8 years ago – evil news, longueur, spoliation, space fungus, superstition poll, fri-13 reasoning, I’m Neutral Good

9 years ago – Traditional trolls, Catholics handy in a pinch Geotarget

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BHK pretends to take my picture while asking if I think my hat is dorky.

1 year ago – shots, trott’s farm, BHK veggie crazed, selby, free concert by the bay, MIL with nude sombrero, Dead Men Don’t wear plaid, the cloud minders, jersey walk, efficient solar energy, voice gun

2 years ago – factoids about folks I know, armed car chase through the neighborhood, Perseid shower reminder, brits start to ditch wigs in court

3 years ago – venture bros good, lj ugly nav bar, bye bye black rhino, angel / shovel / burrito, simulated lost case-630am, Arvis book in comments!

4 years ago – Last Day w/Magda, invisi-bro, chrono-lifting, breakfast foods, zombies invade sca event, crab, autostitch bus, minor drama, commendation

5 years ago – KoL, Bollywood, Patriot Act, Felix the Cat

6 years ago – sleep troubles, Andromeda Strain, 4-legged man , system crash – modem drivers (Service pack 4 for win2k caused Norton trouble) , Stalin vs Hitler comic, newtcam pic, discovered title-tags, strickland a/c die-lemma

7 years ago – more swell chatties, Roanoke (including odd reply from Boughman), Dreams of Lake Conoy with zombie mist, sweet possum sugar, mother goose

8 years ago – Evil news, riposte, dream of the jungle, If I were… meme, time, sleepy, Dumbass Tenochtitlan Saucermen,chat, aura colors, personality disorder test, Louvre

9 years ago – Bad things with April, super power question Geotarget

9793 – friday FREE THE EXPO ’67!

Back to the library today – only noon to five though, given the Saturday hours.

BHK put in a lot more steam than me – I toook a break midday for a stretch and a walk – picked up a flash drive to put sugar on a stick . Now we’re home, and I’m taking another break.

One of these question things – Haven’t done one in a bit.

From Christin – passing it along with my info-
Continue reading 9793 – friday FREE THE EXPO ’67!

9792 – Thursday

I just realized I missed Artomatic again this year, dang it. Third Time’s a charm, I guess!

Pictures from today – BHK taking a roughhouse with Newton Break, and I take a walk to stretch out my back and see baby ducks.

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Mostly an at home day today. Worked on the garden, cleaning up, and work search. Thanks to Sean, I discovered sugar on a stick, which I’ll install to the first cheap flash drive I find. Looks like cute fun!

1 year ago – Cathy and Dave move to Colorado dinner, Adventurers club shutdown, awesome promo for Kubrick Season, sunglasses that protect you from cameras

2 years ago – mysql code, hot outside, cacls, ram’s head plans (did neither), ad&d stats, backpack question, commute pictures on the way home,

3 years ago – phone post from keys… riding the bus is about all I did that day.

4 years ago – power outage, cool magicians, my eyes are blue, klaxons, past life/ice cream/coffee, stem cell steaks

5 years ago – pizza with dan, adp screws up, paid users get lj-priority, making fiends, Fiona apple mp3, Miami Travel Piccies, condo

6 years ago – trolls, naughty hulk, wonder woman movie

7 years ago – Wave of Husband killings, apple nipple monkey, star trek chairs auctioned, Ashcroft afraid of kitties

8 years ago – brackish , some broken links, dancing poll, tried mcD’s yogurt & fruit, Le Petomane, band name poll, bid farewell to some junk

9 years ago – angry beavers, scary movie, don’t look behind you Geotarget

9791 – at the library all day today.

why was 6 afraid of 7?  because 7/8/9!

I was doing research on gigs, and BHK studying. 11-6:30 today, where the internet connection is reliable, and less distractions.

grabbed a bagel at panera for lunch break

researched a bit more and then we watched a guy doing a presentation on shadow puppets… a lot of fun!

Dinner at Ruby Tuesday – strike two after the first home run. We may be back, though, since our new Neighbor Philmena said that they have great mojitos.

From today’s shadow puppets – tears of joy, belling the cat, , origin of puppets

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Lyrics to current music – just came over pandora – I’d never heard it before on my channel –

You’ve heard of Ali-Baba
Forty thieves had he
Out for what we all want
Lots of LSD

He also had a camel
Stole it from a zoo
How he loved the camel
And the camel loved him too
(Oh, how the camel loved Ali-Baba!)

Ali-Baba’s camel loved Ali-Baba so
No matter where he went to the camel had to go
Some say he’s in heaven, but this I know is true
Wherever you think Ali’s gone, his camel’s gone there too

Crossing the equator, ooo, how hot is was
Poor old Ali-Baba cursed and swore because
He was so very thirsty, and everybody knows
It’s horrible to walk for miles with sand between your toes.
(Oh, how the camel loved Ali-Baba!)

Ali Baba’s camel turned ’round and licked his hand
He said, oh Ali-Baba, I surely understand
We must find an oasis and get a drink somehow
But hark, I hear the temple bells, they’ll all be open now.
(Bleah bleah. Glorious beer, fills you right up with it… aaahh)

They entered for the races and the desert sports
There goes Ali’s camel in his filthy cotton shorts
The starter cracked his pistol off the camels hared
Ali-Baba’s camel wins by half a camel’s hair
(Hey, Ali-Baba! Hey, Ali-Baba! Your camel loves you! Your camel loves you!)

Ali-Baba’s camel had run for miles and miles
His tail was pointing backwards, that’s how a camel smiles
But Ali and his camel they both were out of breath
They’d run so far, they’d loved so much,
They laughed themselves to death

Oh, gather around the campfire, sing a roundelay,
But don’t sing out of tune, now. (‘Cause eggs are cheap today!)
Sing of Ali-Baba, sing about his men
Sing about his camel, then sing it all again
(Oh, how the camel loved Ali Baba)

Ali-Baba’s camel loved Ali-Baba so
No matter where he went to that camel had to go
Some say he’s in heaven, but this I know as well
Wherever you think Ali’s gone, his camel’s gone to….

1 year ago –  okra and cukes! track map of metro, guantanamo, 2008 bejing sponsors – many to boycott, zero chance lottery

2 years ago – hot brain, hot pixel, night of the comet, the frighteners, Louise and in-laws at supper, dinner pix, shag and klondike bar

3 years ago – nearly naked neighbors, gray day, mob supply pic, newt pics

4 years ago – talked to Arnie’s Sec, newt and graffiti pix, autostitch, wifi theft arrest, reality show premises, j-walk on podcasts, programmer joke, google maps goodies, flightgear, wifi hotspot backpack, my messy office, bear-knocking, sex pred info pages

5 years ago – combos/snausages , wisdom, serving sizes, ramen, Rockford Files, Planetarium pictures, weather, sock thief

6 years ago – call block, snapple, intelligence gathering, Batroc, flashback cartoon, addictive data

7 years ago – oz/floyd connection, pimps at sea, rss feeds start, cat dreams

8 years ago – cej returns, unpacking videos, 1992 tax info, the challenge, corn chowder, kubrick quiz

9 years ago – Rowlf sings, April actually kicks back a few bucks, pondering a new recorder Geotarget

9788 – ugh.

Ugh… really feeling out of it today. Not sure if it’s medicine, combination of aches, or just having a "hormonal" day, but I think I’m being overly stressed out and hypersensitive.

Pictures from this afternoon’s walk – trying to stop back or noggin from bugging me.

Quest for Kitties, Froggies, Cute Kids, Bunnies and Flowers! Mission Accomplished!

Below is the neighborhood rabbit, a frog found in the bottom of our swimming pool, Pumpkin the cat, the north beach boardwalk pov of the bay, many flowers, a cat that looks a lot like a brown version of Pyewacket, Neighborhood Kitties of all sorts – tuxedo, tabby, kitten and adult.

BHK cheered me up with the walk, her very presence, and just letting me rest today.

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1 year ago – lots of tv, new desk, newtcam, pyecam, pinched back, read comics,

2 year ago – frogmen and octopus toy, autorealm, sweeney todd play, qwik-e-mart, Gottfried von Bismark obit

3 years ago – gamer soap, Christian Democracy myth, death bypasses convictions, ln quiz

4 years ago – Bard’s Tale, bro/snarly, solfeggio, Easter manatee rush, Tropical Storms Cindy and Dennis, heroclix, bro relocating

5 years ago – creepy Vizcaya pictures, cake man, Lego zombies, edible panties with twizzlers, Helped Danny set up website, JLU

6 years ago – harry potter quiz, history returns

7 years ago – bad sleeps, odd dreams, bed frame replaced, stats, LJ scam, villain supply, reading Earth, getting used to bro as neighbor, Scotto factoid poll

8 years ago – tirade, suberic, slinky/cult, evil news

9 years ago – got a nice letter from Christin, Emo Philips GeotargetVisitor Map

9787 – Independence Day comes early to our neck of the woods.

Third of July. The twin beaches always celebrate a day early, because everyone likes to go to DC or someplace else for the 4th.

Andrew was looking dapper, and the fireworks were a-ok by me. we spent the day grilling – thankfully, it was cool and comfy at windward key. I grilled the dogs and etc, while bhk made a funfetti cake.

We played some Can’t stop, Huggermugger and of course, apples to apples. I was hoping for a little try at dictionary dabble  (aka Balderdash, but dabble has much cooler pawns)

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BHK took most of the Dock pics, I experimented a bit with the camera settings for the fireworks.

let’s see now –

Recapping –

Got my 401k comp check from my last gig – That worked out well. I told a little fib to BHk, and said that I expected about $500, and we got about eight times that amount. (I was planning for about six times.)

Went to Annapolis and promptly deposited that little windfall in the bank – then stopped off at the Amish Farmer’s Market for breakfast. BHK and I split two – ate half and then swapped Chocolate Chip Pancakes, home fries, cheddar cheese omelet, wheat toast – I let BHK eat up all of the bacon, of course.

Opted out of going to a movie – nothing we want to see just this moment.. maybe next week when it’s less crowded.  We did get a few other goodies at the farmer’s market – cheese, strawberries, trinket’s for our 4’th of July cake (gummy stars and confetti sprinkles), a blueberry fritter for me for tomorrow’s breakfast (or tonight’s midnight snack)

BHK remembered that I was due for shots (skipped when em was here) and we went there for a bit. Adam called, and mentioned that he was coming down for the 3rd’s fireworks, an was bringing Anna – so, it was a quick trip to the grocery to be sure he had a full belly.

I was feeling pretty out of it at that point, so I rested in the car. Going to nap now that we’re home. sweet dreams, dear journal.

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 Went over to Chris and Mandy’s for a cookout and general socializing – nice day, and the people were conversational and friendly. I missed out on the good eats because it seems that the antibiotics I’m taking don’t work well with cereal-milk – had a sourbelly all day. 

Chris and Mandy (and Sarah and James/John?) seem like really fun folks to hang with – Philomena next door looks like a wonderfull addition to the neighborhood too. maybe we can all get together for a game night sometime – or maybe a boy’s night and a gal’s night split sometime, too?

tired as all get out – still recovering from our little visitor – but it’s a good tired. I’m looking forward to Bugah’s visit in two weeks! It should be interesting to see the shift form a 6 year old girl to 11 year old boy!

BHK is still recovering too – sh’es more resilient than I am!

Machine is back to work, newtcam is online again!