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9544 – Tuesday

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Long ol’ Day at work, and a *seemingly* longer commute home.

Cousin David met BHK and I at the Suitland Station and we whisked off to the in-laws for Chinese food and an animated discussion on what David is up yo lately (his Hungarian girlfriend, school, etc etc)

BHK and I had to duck out early – "school night" for me – but we got some fun convo in, Larry and I discussed the banjo, and had a nice visit.

Just because I was bored for about a half-moment, here’s me being mind controlled by Starro, the conqueror.

hail starro!

hail starro!

1 year ago – palm doodles, compusa collapse, tasty dinner with Cathy and Dave, wii and boardgames played

2 years ago – got the xmas tree with the inlaws w/pix

3 years ago – tmbg, bro in tampa, tolld a new motherboard, music, musical mice, windows live local

4 years ago – gorilla wake, dcf snag, favorite things

5 years ago – Yuletide toe-warmer poll, creepy news, Cute Newt Pic, Medicare, clucks

6 years ago – desert dreams, "no hands" kitty, palm doodles, nice cards

7 years ago – menstruation/bear attack, Bear armor, tic tac poll

8 years ago – hungrybaby/mcnoggin, Hello Kitty Smelting furnace, Asplundh letter, why web journals suck, meat hats, comic book wrapping Geotarget

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9541 – Saturday

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Lights are up! Thanks Adam! As is proper for events like this, it began to snow, just as Chris and I polished off the little tree on the side of the house.

Scattering of pictures from today – Feature Larry, Adam, Me, BHK and our holiday lights. As Always, click to embiggen.

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BHK made Brownies for Adam helping, and then we went to selby.. nom.

1 year ago – state mental health, first sente4nces of the month 2007, recent keywords, ledos, crabs for Christmas on the radio

2 years ago – chinese at in-laws (some things haven’t changed much!), first sentences, potential snow, hannibal review, krampus, ir refer to home as North Bay, not North Beach.
Pictures taken – undercover newton

3 years ago – uggs, xmas trees, gp surgery, backlogged email notes
pictures taken – foggy morning

4 years ago – Movie with Mel goes poop, nice night out anyway, metro freefi, zombie song, fire butter coats Minnesota town, Freudian inventory, $$$ issue

5 years ago – Rainy-day wakeup, old LL passes the torch, aces & eights, oldest penis, trampled shopper

6 years ago – Danny and I send dopey "Sven" emails to companies for no good reason, bro brings me eggnog, I scare the living tar out of a lippy kid

7 years ago – gestapo gives c’s pal grief about aiming, reptile people, lj bump, world tour, Toliken Movie desire

8 years ago – Sims, accused of being an alien, dead milkmen, cannibal the musical lyrics, I’m a warmerGeotarget

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9514- Friday

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Friday- nice to see it back again. It was foggy beyond belief yesterday, and continues today.

Last night’s supper of Chinese food from the Octagon was pretty good – I only wish they hadn’t packaged the general tso’s tofu in such a way that I got it all over my work pants and jacket while driving home.

Back was tweaking up something fierce – I wonder if the barometric pressure was a factor, or all that fog?

BHK is using her super legal-powers to help with the condo issues – looks like we might get this thing ironed out after all!

While she looked up condo legal-ese, I did some back stretches,  overdue computer stuff, and checked out the demo of Left4Dead… that’s a beautiful game right there. The artwork is pretty top notch, and I really like the team play aspect. That’ll probably be my next purchase afte rI swim through Fallout 3 some more. Maybe someday I’ll get around to finishing the later episodes of HL2.

In other gaming news, BHK picked me up a new gaming joystick via freecycle. Can’t beat free hardware!

This weekend, we are likely to skip JohnCon, and instead go to Geppi’s Entertainment Museum. (I wonder if my metropass will count for $2 OFF GO GREEN! Show your ticket stub for public transportation for that day and receive $2 off admission to Geppi’s Entertainment Museum.)

Lunch today of "chicken" nuggets and mac&cheese was dang tasty. perfect for a cool, misty day

Got off work, and the Element has recovered from the hit we took from the deer. It still smells a bit of paint, but looks good as new.

Traffic was HORRID today. It took us forever to get anywhere!

BHK, Larry, Chris and I went to Selby – I guess the owners are looking to retire, sadly. I guess we had better get the pizza while we can!


Scholar finds Mayans’ buried highway through hell

The Washington Post is reporting that the shutdown of one hosting company has caused the total volume of spam to drop by 2/3rds. The company in question is McColo Corp. Both Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing pulled the plug today after a damning report revealed a number of illegal activities happening on McColo’s servers.

1 year ago – more fog, falafel, blog2blog, The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love,

2 years ago – road pix, graffiti, spider girl gang, test vox crosspost
pictures – BHK doodle-writes on my pda, cartoon pic

3 years ago – moon cake, doom patrol, politics, Life Pref, butt jokes and political statements preferred
pictures – recent visits over 24 hours

4 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

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

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

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

8 years ago – Bee-man lives, lucha, schizo-masons, Brian comment Geotarget

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9505 – Saturday

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Beard all the way off today! Zip-zip! Not sure when it’ll be back, but I wager it’ll return eventually.

Shots were a little rough – I think Danielle was preoccupied.

A couple of nifty things today –

installed the new power supply and fan for the PC today – seems to be going well – the video chip varies between 133F and 171F, depending on if I’m surfing the web or playing fallout 3 for an extended period. seems a little hot, but the blower cools the guts of the system pretty quickly.

Had a little late lunch, BHK made a wonderful early supper at 4ish with Jay, Shaun, Baby Duncan and the in-laws. – veggie "turkey" roast, stuffed peppers for the carnivores (with ground real turkey) roasted root veggies, pumpkin bread, and mac and cheese – really good stuff!

Chris and Larry brought chick-fil-a nuggets, and homemade baked apples – which were a hit with 1 year old Duncan.

Shaun and Jay brought some spicy deviled eggs – good stuff… I was the slacker, and just arranged crackers, olives, cheese, dip and veggies.

Autumn is hitting us like gangbusters… sweep the back porch off, wait 20 minutes and repeat. I’m not talking about just a few leaves, either – layers inches deep, in some places. The trees won’t have much more to drop next week, if this keeps up.

The colors outside right now are beautiful. lots of oranges, bright reds and yellows. BHK and I are in agreement – we both like the trees that go through a progressive change, all on the same plant. green leave son the bottom, bright yellow in the middle, and darker orange-brown on top.

edit – added a pic of one – camera phone doesn’t do it a whit of justice.

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day in brief – will be buffed later, perhaps

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Went back to gina’s cantina, this time with the in-laws in tow.

my “hair of the dog” brunch was pretty close to the 8 layer “slop bucket” I noshed on the day prior, but it had scrambled eggs and a tostada shell rather than a mound of guac. (aok by me.)

had the same table and the same waiter as yesterday. nice guy, chris thinks he looks like alan.

my layers today were… hummus, jalepenos, refried veggie beans (a lovely purple), cheese, scrambled egg, sour cream sauce of a sort, black olives.

bhk made up for my lack of guac by getting an avacado boat, filled with hummus, too. additionally, a couple of soft tacos – beef.

larry got a really good looking burger, and chris got a drunken taco salad, which had similar sauce to my drunken tacos yesterday.

finished off with sopapillas – yum.

we went to the antique store, and bhk found mr peanut salt an pepper shakers for $2, which have sold recently on ebay for $25. (however, it’s likely we won’t sell ’em. Mr. peanut is a cool cat.)

got some other toys – wimpy and bluto, mac tonight, papa smurf and something else. I forget who. [edit: Foghorn Leghorn, and Henery! – why do I have such a mental block?]

Picked up a book of hard-boiled detective stories, and BHK got a few cookbooks.

then went to the purple poppy, and what used to be sputnik (now lures.)

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after – we wet to sam’s and picked up some essentials (cheesy poofs and garden burger) – but they didn’t have a wireless cable router… or decent clothes bleach!

Sams… you let us down. fortunately, your muffins make up for it.

we went home, watched a little tv – primeval and iron chef cooking “offal”.

gnite for now dear journal… picturs and a broadened post may follow, if I get time.

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Chris, Larry, Wilton and Mom – a quick snack Sunday Morning, and then the Floridians were back to home turf.

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Went to homestead gardens for the fall festival – My Mother and Witon came up for a quickie visit on the weekend. My back wasn’t up to doing the corn maze, but BHK and Wilton had fun running around in there!

After some autumnal shenanigans, we headed to Jasper’s for dinner. a yelp review is sure to follow, but for now, let’s just say that the family time was good, the food was meh.

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9465 – thursday

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Starting to feel a bit like October!

Going to a birthday party this weekend – Our neighbors Jay & Sean are celebrating 1 year of Duncan being out in the world with them! BHK is making a cake, and got a cute outfit… pictures may follow later, if they’re taken, and permitted. (Folks can be worrisome about kid pics on the net.)

Watched SNL with in-laws – mostly silly political stuff about the debate, which was cute.

BHK made shepherds pie and baked zucchini for dinner tonight – the pie was a smidgen different with the inclusion of eggplant. It made for a sweeter flavor, and better texture. I’m not sure which I prefer more.

1 year ago – Comfy weather, dentist, destroy all humans / bhk yum-food, beltway sniper 5 years ago

2 years ago – 16 days to go, nostalgia for 7-11, x04, preggos on my list, identity, monsters in my pocket, girls back from QC

3 years ago – autostitch picture, with us / against us, hukilau, hp returns

4 years ago – Doom3 + Newt = Scotto Heart Attack, Bro drama, walkies pictures (graffiti/latin broward/newt), odd todd tv show sacked

5 years ago – programming, October questions, 3-fingered roy, rays, ricks, alexes, and gaming, bro gets a warrant, candy corn poll

6 years ago – dsl flicker, Lauper Photo, Kelly and Lexie meow and poop, Lincoln poll, House blessing

7 years ago – owies pass, odd news, took newt to work, werewolf (mafia) game, GPS factoid

8 years ago – Salty dog, slushies for lunch, CTD song, boycotts Geotarget

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9463 – Tuesday

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Dentist went reasonably well – tooth will require a crown in the next couple of weeks, but it looks like that will work out ok.

The purple truck should be all better tomorrow – the issue was a timing chip that just failed – no "evil parking lot type" stole the catalytic converter, or fan belt. Entropy was the culprit.

We’re all pretty tired… early to bed, early to rise, dear journal!

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9432 – Saturday

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Got my serum at last/ at last, and EKG was done. I’ll know more after my doc reviews it.

Yellow Trike at Starbucks, man with bumblebee helmet – Man not shown. Nice Guy – goofy fan of his new ride… made a comment about lack of cup holders.

We went to Starbucks – BHK found a $15 gift card, so we figured we’d go – BHK’s pumpkin spice coffee was pretty nasty – I remember why we don’t go to that starbucks (or really any these days.) My lemonade/ passion fruit tea was jim-dandy.

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Went to the BIG book sale, but I didn’t get anything, and BHK only got maybe 5 rather than our usual take of a big ikea bag’s worth. I think it got fairly picked over before we got there… earlier next time, perhaps.

Selby Sub Shop with in-laws, I had egg salad which was yummy. prior to that, I played spore for a bit while BHK dug on her new books, and Larry cut down the dead bits of our garden with the edge trimmer.

Amy’s taking a pass on vacationing here this week – sick mom at home and she want’s to stick by her there. Hopefully her mom feels better soon. We’ll likely see her in October-December sometime.

Best part of the night was coming home and having a "no power night" – lights low, relaxing to 40s music on the couch, reading a book while curled up with BHK.

Google Maps map annotated with all the places Marco Polo visited during his travels to China and back. Larger map here. (via short schrift)

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

1 year ago – figuring out my volume and time spent on lj, shopped for presents, DuClaw, Deal Bluegrass show planned

2 years ago – goodies, 008 is landon, kill windows nag, mr t – be somebody, rfjason – wtf prank, kitty combo

3 years ago – Red Thread, Postcard, walking weather, work, 2nd life, battersea

4 years ago – visit meme, case against voodoo, freeflow thought, Mexico Wal-mart Protest

5 years ago – Newt-vet, shoutcast, tiny cities, Why I dislike leiberman, Frankie mooches again, Turkish Hairballs

6 years ago – Lots of robots, World Affairs, palm art

7 years ago – Shocked awake, Nostia, folks scamming relief, weather, programming, lovely chat

8 years ago – Pompano Weather, Warghetz, Suzy News, Censorship, Loved Geotarget

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9431 – Friday

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Headed up to Annapolis to do some Vietnamese food with the Mom-in-law while the Dad-in-law worked late at school. (He doesn’t much like viet food, so it’s ok by him.)

BHK was being very silly on cam last night while I worked –

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I’m always happy to have her bouncing around the house like a goof.

 

Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. South wind between 7 and 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

1 year ago – Newt seeks content pic, restful day

2 years ago – venture bros, house, matt starts halloween, mention of 10/25/06 – 2pm, vade mecum, pretty vids

3 years ago – 2nd life, raccoon icon, newt sleepies pic, halloween jukebox, condo doesn’t like newt, ADP ship-out prep

4 years ago – Ivan raises the dead, BK covers call, Shaun of the dead, JLU, Weather pictures, Safe!

5 years ago – Photo Friday – faith, I have a cell phone, soundless music, skunk ape

6 years ago – nice dreams, wargaming terrain tips, $25 benefit for being a non-litterbug, Tony gave me Ants, Brains, Cities and Software

7 years ago– Helping, act more – gripe less, Rant about people who say "we deserved it", Long chat with Hala, Worried about DelMarVa, chickenpoo dream

8 years ago – looking for things to do, Newtcam reactivated Geotarget

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9428 – Wednesday

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Back to work. Busy busy, but BHK made an awesome vegetarian shepherd’s pie and I got to snuggle while watching Eureka, so all is right with the world for the moment.

Both myself and Chris a Rita’s cone on the way home – soft serve vanilla chocolate – Chris had straight up vanilla.

Not much else happened today (save for a possible big bang via graypumpkin), but that’s a good thing. Time seems to be flowing front to back, as usual.

Oh! There was some really awesome weather today!

This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Northeast wind between 11 and 15 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. East wind between 8 and 13 mph.

That made it nice to go out and breathe.

The McCain campaign has accused Barack Obama of sexism, saying the Illinois senator was talking about Sarah Palin when he mentioned “putting lipstick on a pig.” Obama responded that the phrase is just a tired old joke, to which McCain shot back, “WHO’S a tired old joke???”

1 year ago – BHK and I skip dinner and movie, rough day for me, future 2007 in a nutshell.

2 years ago – slacker day, criminal into shoes, the Shield, light shirts, scottish superstition, foil helmet effectiveness,

3 years ago – schwag bag, tall scotto shadow pic, finished fdle year, weezle talk, burning life with hp, preference poll

4 years ago – Bag Lady, EN passes, Diarists more prone to illness, WoW pics, Hurricane Ivan, "because he said so", Puppy shoots man, KSC storm

5 years ago – RPC issue, Badger badger, baboon nose suitcase, RIAA sues a 12 year old, RI’s birthday, new opus strip.

6 years ago – Newt Play, vote day, traded some magic cards for heroclix/mage knight, lem-doodles, wobbly

7 years ago – got a lovely poem, found old family letters, cadmean victory, stayed home, assorted news, Anne Heche’s wacky interview, ‘mat event, observations

8 years ago – embarrassing fight club reference, ramen rant, everway, Chat ‘toon review Geotarget

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9426 – Monday

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I left work a bit late due to meeting, but from there BHK and I went to University of Maryland to hang out a bit before heading home.

Chili with Matt, Adam and BHK at Hard Times – drove around college park, visited his dorm, and BHK put a C**k-block on Adam vs Sarah our server by telling her he had a facebook and liked her, Saw the Kermit  / Jim Henson statue,  lots of squirrels, and tons of college kids going from place to place.

Interesting to revisit that sort of hive after being out of it for so long.

The Chili mac superior to Frito pie.. but I suspect they didn’t put the Frito pie in the properly sized bowl. If it had been in my mac bowl, it’d have been more than sufficient.

Chris passed the PMP exam – we’ll have to take her out to supper for that! (studied for it all week.)

Roller Derby episode of Psych and BHK fell asleep mid-view – good day overall.  Tomorrow is a busy day – g’nite for now, dear journal!

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1 year ago – league of gentlemen, feeling lousy, Annapolis Games Club, Power Grid & Manila, many of our games, cheeky monkey sideshow, 100 reasons to get rid of it

2 years ago – land lobster, argenti’s lets me down, tired, heart walk, Nairobi trio

3 years ago – vtm quiz, hole digging, checking out the condo, fake red cross, voice of Vince, teachers, lost and found poll, 65 questions

4 years ago – Work power out, disco-Hitler, Ivan, WoW, Chocolate 3-d printer, making fiends, America’s army, Giant strip-miner of dooom

5 years ago – Meredith moves out, Frankie mooch’s wank machine, saw Ray-I, Dubai-mail, some cool links

6 years ago – Got Dave into mage knight, Saw Mark Archilla, 12 dragons smells of cat pee, I got some perfect pre-dyed sheets.

7 years ago – If I were, nice night, purple monkey dishwasher

8 years ago – rant and UB-X Geotarget

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9424 – Saturday

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Minor walkies in the heavy rain – got too wet and my back wasn’t into the march, so we headed home a bit early. Found a nice grove to walk down. – Stayed in due to rain most of the day.

Larry and Chris came over – they had cabin fever – brought pizza  – I was pretty kaput, but doing ok.

Got a few phone calls –  my mom worried about Ike / spoke with Amy about coming down next weekend.

Still no Serum ready from allergist – that’s twice now. too much of this, and my dosage is going to get all out of whack.

1 year ago – lobotomy planters, bhk is my lower case n, little hoff doll, got my office furniture, zombie fluxx, orange isn’t many a person’s fave, Why so serious, scotto?, seeqpod / traffic

2 years ago – Illuminati perfection, venture brothers, aerial photos Miami, voting, heifer.org charity, America’s Most (And Least) Efficient Charities, Affie Jones, stand on your own head for a change

3 years ago – stream of thought, arcade games, newt, tolerance, comics, Danny elfman, tv, newtcam pic, rome, gaming, sheep don’t you know the road, fema issues, bob denver RIP

4 years ago – hurricane home movie, happy to be home, pentagon crash snopes

5 years ago – annoying LL, death, IRC pix, gender genie, toys, sunset, rainy day

6 years ago – Crash Bonsai, sticky song poll

7 years ago – Hammer-Wheel, Beijing, Stephen Foster, Mystery men Hiring, soap hair

8 years ago – Suzy goes to the Clink Geotarget

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9419 – Wednesday

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Midweek, already? Not much happened tonight, save for burgers on the grill with the in-laws – hung out, and tv caused bhk to fall asleep – I’ll be trotting her off to bedski shortly.


The monetary density of things…or what substances are worth their weight in gold, including $50 bills, LSD, and antimatter.

People have been saying that the new industrial grade swimsuits like the LZR Racer are worth their weight in gold. As you can see, this is clearly inaccurate. But such a suit is worth its weight in marijuana or industrial diamonds.

Here’s a reason creative folks might not want to use google chrome, at least for the time being –

From the EULA:

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1 year ago – more enchanted forest pics, skipped game convention, new camera (one year old today!), The Host, Godzilla quiz, Nerd Test,

2 years ago – yub nub, Manger scenes with skittles, Godzilla and baby-llama Jesus on the brain, old time radio, silly quizzes,

3 years ago – had to take call, dan and I gabbed, missing kids, color/citizen test, suzy bday, walkabout map plan, wetlands commercial well before hurricane

4 years ago – hurricane frances – evac to Danny’s

5 years ago – bad toon rising, international supers, Turkish accidents

6 years ago – flock of seagulls, speed racer custom cars, newt steals sabretooth, Plato, custom clix

7 years ago – location quiz, feelings, dead picture links

8 years ago – Norman and the walnut, old school observational junk Geotarget