The Entrance to the Swap Shop. There’s a drive-in theater, the only one in good repair within several miles that I know about. Despite the incoming vehicles, it wasn’t uncomfortably crowded.
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6802 – August? Where did last month run off to?
I’ve got to remember to drop my monthly monies in the mail to the landlord. Bro’s court date is either tomorrow, or Wednesday, I forget which. I’m sure I’ll be reminded by end of day.
I can’t believe that I’ve been at my current gig for almost a year now. Serious time compression / dilation on that side of things.
Cripes… speaking of which, I have my Monday meeting today.. there goes another few hours into the john, unless I can give my update, and bug out.
I’m rather groggy… yesterday’s rainstorm put me in some sort of precipitation and cat-snuggle coma for a longer span of time that I needed to sleep. I fell into a deep slumber surrounded by the sounds of water hitting windows and roof, much rolling thunder, and Newt-purrs.
I’m really glad that the pro-wrestling trend has again retreated back into the seedy, tacky corner it came from. Now, I can cope with the wacky stuff like Luchadores and Midget Wresting (or best of all, a joining of the two), but the mainstream WWF/WWE/WWwhatever was just boring and invasive. I haven’t felt this good about something not bombarding my media since Clive Barker faded from view.
Ok, this is probably a rental, but I’d love to see a movie with thunderbirds-type puppets doing satire on the big screen, too. Team America – World Police
Spiffy Scarecrow game… Makes me long for Halloween.
Can’t play a particular DiVX movie? This codec pack might help (Klite is just codecs, mega is codecs plus a quicktime alternative and a realplayer alternative) it’s kept fairly up to date, so it’s worth checking back the next time a DiVX doesn’t work in the future, too.
6801 – Rock over New York, rock on Chicago.
Interesting quote that applies to many blogs out here…
“You will just have to accept being addressed by a disembodied voice just as I accept the compulsion to speak out even though I am painfully aware that I am talking to an invisible, perhaps nonexistent audience.”
–Robert Shea, The Eye in the Pyramid
I wonder how much my intelligence and personality has been altered as a result of playing with mercury when I was in high school?
How many IQ points were lost? Any added paranoia? Dementia? What aspects were opened and closed?
I won’t even venture into other chemical changes.
6800 – I'll be left there on the wall at the store.
Didn’t do much with Danny last night… went to the Ole’ Ole’, got a plate of loaded nachos and a couple of margaritas, and meandered a little while talking about nothing in particular. The evening was interrupted briefly by the big kahuna calling in on my cell phone, and my giving her a quick tutorial on how to use outlook express to send attachments.
We walked over to the Museum of Discovery and Science, where I picked up a couple of trinkets of happiness for assorted folks. A little treatie-wheatie for my sweetie, in particular… Also, I need to get a few other addresses to send stuff.
Random pictures, taken in a circle at riverwalk at about 4:30pm
6800 – I’ll be left there on the wall at the store.
Didn’t do much with Danny last night… went to the Ole’ Ole’, got a plate of loaded nachos and a couple of margaritas, and meandered a little while talking about nothing in particular. The evening was interrupted briefly by the big kahuna calling in on my cell phone, and my giving her a quick tutorial on how to use outlook express to send attachments.
We walked over to the Museum of Discovery and Science, where I picked up a couple of trinkets of happiness for assorted folks. A little treatie-wheatie for my sweetie, in particular… Also, I need to get a few other addresses to send stuff.
Random pictures, taken in a circle at riverwalk at about 4:30pm
6797 Peaches in the Summer, Apples in the Fall
Little kids in turtlenecks can be sort of creepy. Especially in the summertime.
Whirlwind days lately.. lots of work to do, pressure high. I’m dealing with it pretty well, but LH nearly quit I think.
Skinbags – gear made out of synthetic human skin. (in all sorts of shades.. black, asian, pink white, mixed, and Tattoo personalization : name, sentence, logo)
Oh, I really rather think the aprons are something. Yeek!
Gene Simmons sings Firestarter.
Also Yeek. I wonder if he’s a real doofus, of if his public life is another Andrew Dice Clay act?
This whole touch screen thing makes Florida look like it *wants* to be guilty of more voter drama.
My sensitivities to my environment are out of whack a little bit, today. I feel numb to some things, and overly aware of others. Every hair on my right arm seems to be a high-powered sensor.
Recently played music –
- A Perfect Circle – The Package
- Electric Six – Danger! High Voltage
- The B-52s – 52 Girls
- Dave Matthews Band – I’ll Back You Up
- Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles
- Yellowcard – Only One (Album Version)
- A.F.I. – Charles Atlas
- Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- The Vines – Ride
- New Found Glory – That Thing You Do (From “That Thing You Do”)
- Stone Temple Pilots – Plush (Acoustic Version)
- They Might Be Giants – Whistling In The Dark
- Frank Sinatra – The Lady Is A Tramp
- Soul Coughing – Screenwriter’s Blues
- Led Zeppelin – The Ocean (Live At The LA Forum)
- Tom Waits – New Coat Of Paint
- The Pixies – I Bleed
- Shady Grove – Jerry Garcia
- Natacha Atlas – Aqib
- 13th Floor Elevators – Splash 1
- Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child
- Talking Heads – Mommy Daddy You And I
- Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want
I’ve been using launch radio, calendar, weather, news and games a lot lately on my Y!M. Tasty little app.
oOmiaq wrote me recently, and thanked me for listening to his music. My pleasure, oOm.
Dan bailed for tonight, but we’ll probably get together tomorrow. I don’t mind, save for the short notice. I don’t really want to go to the Seminole casino on a flippin’ Friday, so that’s going to have to wait. I’m not sure what I want to do for my solo Saturday walkabout, yet. That Moonlight movie is that night… that could be a fun time. Maybe I’ll hit Port Everglades during the day, and see if I can spot some free-swimming manatees or turtles. I found out after my recent trip to Miami that there’s a natural calving / nursery area there.
Maybe tonight I’ll hit the Museum ‘f Art. It’s free until the end of August, just up the street, open until 9pm on Thursdays, and air-conditioned.
Manatee Trivia: Continue reading 6797 Peaches in the Summer, Apples in the Fall
6789 Pictures and stuff
I, Robot was a fun, predictable, dopey action movie with robots and Will Smith. Exactly what I expected, and it was fine by me (save for the awkward product placement). Afterward, we swung by The Floridian, and gabbed over supper… Danny seemed a little distracted, but that’s understandable.
Well, of course I signed up for the photojournal service. See here for more details. First Gallery
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Made plans set in sand (if not stone) to go see I, Robot with Dan on Thursday… I’m going to go in, with Asimov-free bias. I just want a fun sci-fi / action movie with robots. I think Will Smith can pull that off. If I want Asimov-tight story, I’ll watch Bicentennial Man.
It surprises me how aggressive women can be to other women, watching a dynamic where the people are primarily female gives an interesting vantage. Cliques, backstabbing, and political friendships pop up much more quickly from what I’ve seen. I’ve observed this once prior, when I worked at the library, ages ago.
60 years ago today, Operation Valkyrie was attempted. (An assassination plot against Hitler via a time bomb.) I wonder how things would’ve turned out if it had succeeded?
It’s also the 35th anniversary of the moon landing… I also wonder how things might’ve turned out if that failed?
6767 Newt asked me this earlier.
He usually says “mer?”
I think I’ll go to the Seaquarium some Saturday soon. I want to see one of the baby manatees before he’s returned to the wild, but the rehabilitation pools understandably aren’t open to the public.
Want to sponsor a baby manatee?
Come to think of it, it’s so warm out lately that I bet there’s a number of manatees just up the street. I’ll have to swing by and see.
The term “coagulated blood” is on my mind today. I’m not sure why.
I could go for a Twinkie right now… or some angel food cake with strawberry preserves. And have a dip in a nice freshwater lake. And a smooch from my sweetheart. Throw in some shade-trees over that lake.
Nice.
Dan’s changing the color scheme of his website. I think it looks fairly nice and cheery as-is, even though the colors were slapped in quickly, just to show him how the boxes delineate. I can see him going with a monochrome blue… and I don’t see it looking as fun.
6762 – music, people watching, and pizza.. a decent night.
Went out to pizza with Danny, and had a nice long session of talking and people-watching. there’s a lot on his mind lately, and I hope that the pressures ease up. I think he’s going to have to come to some major decisions regarding work, and soon.
ADP let me down in a big way last night…couldn’t remember after three reminders and having written it down. I don’t know what to do about her. Everyone’s entitled to mistakes, but hers are consistent. If she can’t be relied upon to do it, I’ll launch sexual predator calls myself, if need be. I’m glad I thought to call and ask if the job was launched, or they’d not have gone out at all, rather than late.
nice paid perq. If you’re logged in as a paid user, you “cut in line” of other web requests that Lj’s received but has not yet generated a response.
Speaking of servers, My lj has moved again.
scottobear is on Madcow, subcluster 3.
coloringbook is on Chef, subcluster 7.
live_journalia is on Cartman, subcluster 7.
menstrualhut is on Santa, subcluster 3.
Making Fiends #10! Chompy Bats Like Ice Cream!
6735 pictures and travels and talkies.
The Gmail hype is officially over.. sniffing on ebay returns no bid higher than a buck for a single unnamed address.
A fight I *don’t* want to see. Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush in ’08. for the love of Pete… don’t let it happen.
Went to the Aventura Mall with Danny last night… it was that or the Seminole Casino, and roaming a new mall sounded more interesting. (I’d still like to venture over to the Hard Rock over Seminole way, sometime)
I had a nice late dinner of cucumber salad and sizzling tofu, with a cocktail made from an assortment of rums, and juices of pineapple and mango.
I want to come back sometime soon, if only to take pictures of some of the great courtyard sculptures.. after sundown, I only had my palm, and no flash made it far too dark. There’s one of two kids riding an alligator that really caught my fancy.
Ach, overslept this morning… I’m going to have to do that file-tranny tonight. 1.31 gigs transfer over the instant messenger. (the six episodes of neverwhere… the first one timed out at 30 meg to go. D’oh!) Isketch is a hoot, but some of the topics are *hard*. I’m glad that you’re allowed to skip the impossible ones. Even the comic-book ones had some that I’d never heard of… sixth-string run-twice books from the mid-70s. It’s much simpler to draw “Hulk Smash” or “The Human Torch.” I’d like to get a big goon squad to play online pictionary sometime. (Though I’m terrible at mouse-art… a wacom pad would make things a lot simpler.)
The morning constitutional and shower brought me some good energy, and I’m feeling pretty good.
Today is Danny’s last Day of his summer courses, so we’ll be able to get together Tomorrow and hang out a bit. It’ since to be able to goof off with him so much now, because when the regular school season starts up, he’ll be much more restricted in his visits.
Noticed a scammy-looking letter in my Box this morning, and I did a follow-up on it. It’s upsetting because I think that this would fool a lot of people that don’t know better. My rule of thumb is never follow links from inside an email regarding information updates, but instead to go to the main company site, and see if there are any banners or update questions there.
The Email I received (and have forwarded to Ebay for whatever legal action they would like to take part in) was –
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New Noontime ritual in the works, watching Lovejoy, for later discussion with Danny. A fun show, they break the 4th wall a lot for narrative purposes.
It looks like the interests page has been cleaned up, as well as the user info page… at the end of the interests list, there’s a little blurb that allows you to modify yours. -Via peradouro
Insurance called, and apparently misunderstood about my being able to work form home. I honestly cannot take the bus and train for literally hours every day. Going back and forth to physical therapy is torment enough, thank you. I wish that they’d just talk to the doctor about these things, and get a straight answer rather than just assuming “can continue to work from home” means, “can work at work, if accommodated”. It’s not nearly the same, as much as I’d like it to be so.
Ray Stevens – Mr Businessman
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Wow. Remember asking for a better vibe? It arrived. 🙂
A day of wonders and good cheer.
I can’t even remotely say how happy I am about the day’s events.
Talked to three cool people today; Danny at lunch, Ray after, and my sweetie after that. So nice!
Lunch with Danny was groovy… we had Thai (I had red curry tofu) , and a long rambling talk about assorted things…. my journal, his church, his 8-hour Saturday class, FAU’s horrible record-keeping and baurocratic system, my brother, gaming, There… and lots more. Gave Danny a stamp to put on his good student’s papers…”Double Happiness”
Ack, photos didn’t come out from today very well. We went past a number of art galleries on Las Olas… some amazing sculptures in the windows there… sadly, the female forms made of chain and coins didn’t come out an auction house with tons of ivory had this cool dragon boat in the window… all hand carved. I don’t even want to know how much that much old ivory is costing.
Tiny, banana-scented stickers.
Aww!! Giant plushie microbes! How cute are they? (via applelard…Athlete’s foot and the common cold are both so cute!
Broccoli Wokly can be purchased at Piggly Wiggly.