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.
Starting to feel a bit like 
ctober!
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
Still feeling a smidgen overtired and generally weary.
I think it’s just been from all the hubbub at work and family-wise. I think being stressed about the bro has given me some clenched muscles and attitude issues, which I am trying to work with, too.
BHK made some awesome quiche for supper… I know how spoiled I am. Two types – broccoli and cheddar, and soy-sausage with mozzarella. Sides of potato cakes, and more broccoli & cheese.
Comfort food for a cool temperature evening. Good stuff.
I’m going back to my 8/7/6/5/4/3/2/1 year ago archives soon – maybe this entry. I’ve been terribly lax about entries.. just been too busy.. or too tired from being too busy to write much.
Watched the first installment of Feasting on Waves. Alton Brown has a good gig going for him… getting his company to send him sailing around the Caribbean, sampling food and just taking in the life there.
doing archive now, reminded me that I got a flu shot again this year, last Saturday, along with allergy shots… and we saw Tina and Matt on the Boardwalk this time last year, too! When I mention getting a flu shot to people, most seem to say "Oh, I don’t do that" like it’s something terrible. I don’t know… they seem to work for me.
I’ll include more pictures from the ghost walk, corn maze and other goodies sooner or later – they’re all at my flickr account already – just a matter of putting them here.
1 year ago – (9017… 447 entries ago in 365 days) got a flu shot, visited a bunch o’docs, saw tina and Matt on the boardwalk. sore throat, Michaels for craft stuff, fillings, atw man, tiny toys from target.
2 years ago – more about BHK in VT, congestion issues, quick photoshop colorize, canspidersfart.com, Halloween meme, pride quiz, first computer
3 years ago– newt pic, random one liners, newtcam time lapse, crazy man Michael, palm post, wallace and gromit, aventura pics
4 years ago– Kiwanis bust, shirt pocket shotgun, bus observations
5 years ago – went article submission crazy at sa.com, linkies, and hairball dinosaur
6 years ago – Frankenstein, Manchurian Candidate, MD sniper, walk at about 3mph
7 years ago – distance poll, evil news, cecity
8 years ago – troll, Saw Psycho Beach party with the bro, Pinky Tuscadero violates probation
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
BHK made some yummy stroganoff noodles with pseudo-meat patties… really tasty and delicious, though I’m still totally gaga about the shepherd’s pie.
Took it easy tonight – I found out that Amy won’t be here until Monday or so, due to her mom having some health issues – nothing new, and I think her mom will be OK. I hope Amy’s feeling all right when she gets here, too.
Not much mention of today’s historical significance at the office, and in town short of seeing more American flags here and there. Radio and TV however had it going constantly. Folks seem to forget the pentagon side of things, with the towers filling up the majority of memory.
::three joys::
::three fears::
::three current obsessions::
::three surprising facts::
2 years ago– rapture index, nice day, rotating apartments, screamin’ jay hawkins, app-stick, old family pix, audience participation, eating clown face
3 years ago – imageshack woes, lj-poll, walkabout pix, smiles, music meme fruitful, super mario world, burning life with hp pics, power spotty
4 years ago – Ivan entry attracts travel tips, El Niño is back, beauty of a hurricane, Big Kahuna Generous, rough case, nice chats,
monkey-chants,silly sliders graphic
5 years ago – written missives with bro, newbie likes the doobie, digital clouds,Hurricane Fabian, Stratego, Yoni Yantri, BK snoops, gave frankie the mooch some pasta and a pan.
6 years ago – Great dreams, care-were-bears, Big Bird (IMT) is a thief, Private moon landing. (never took place, sadly.), newtie play
7 years ago – wtc-pentagon 9/11
8 years ago – Tattoo trend, questions memes.. hmm, #4 came true!, Possibility of a Seed donation
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???”
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
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!
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
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
Pye Running after the laser pointer at the blue house – found video!
Went to Hard Times in College Park for supper after work. – Tasty – I had Veggie Chili in Frito pie format with a side of cornbread – BHK got the Chili Dog, which was monstrous. After that we roamed to Barnes and Noble – looking at books – picked up a scrabble dictionary – too full for a chocolate chip cookie -Sugar Queen for BHK as goodies later, some gifts for Tina
Also: For easy reference, a roundup of outright lies in (and around) Palin’s convention speech.
1 year ago – not doing great in yucata, mexico with bhk and Chris, cheeky monkey side show, plans for saturday, gcom, other movie thoughts, jack chick mentions what happened to the dragons
2 years ago – our house, tiny tent pictures, newt and Danny pix, watching WW, personality quiz thingum, interests collage
3 years ago – helping hand, on call, flickr letters, marine patrol, state of usa, iron scorch, fortune cookie, four rooms, bro, Jake Walk Blues, Brownie’s heck of a job, immersive learning theological worldview, baby jellyfish, library mofo
4 years ago – Weathering Frances, Popular interests, Medicare hike, walkies, RLP, power out, storm journals, Broward, Ivan coming
5 years ago – photo Friday, lj tweaks, FMM turnover, Dubai postcard, old palm pix, optical illusions, horror, band-aids
6 years ago – custom clix concepts, ford bails on electric cars, onelook, recycled bottle paradise, rainy day=unbreakable, poop
7 years ago – That crazy Anne Heche interview, and pygmies are real!
8 years ago – silly answering machine message, happy music, Frank Sinatra
So… a nice little reprieve from Gustav for New Orleans. I hope everyone (Louisiana, Florida, and everywhere else) continues to dodge Hanna, Ike and Josephine. Note 3 years ago today, below.
The DNC homepage makes no mention of John McCain. The RNC page has a ton of attacks on Obama and Biden. That’s something. Not sure what, but it’s something.
BHK put me on to Disaster Dioramas – I’m partial to the Hindenburg, but I suspect that she’s more into the Titanic.
Tonight we went to Ledos, and got the greasiest white pizza ever. Tummy trouble is likely to follow. we didn’t bother keeping half of it. I hate wasting money and food – I suspect it’ll take a lot for us to return there. Got maggie moo’s as a after yuck treat – I got mint chocolate chip with chocolate sprinkles and brownie bits – BHK got carrot cake ice cream with peanut butter sauce. It was pretty good, if odd. I’ve got a love-creeped out relationship with cake-batter flavored ice cream.
Added bonus was at the photography center next door – we saw an orange kitten (about 3 mos) named Charlie playing with his humans… it was very adorable, and we got to talk to the family a bit. BHK thinks it might be time to get a portrait with the lads… though I’m not sure how well-behaved Newton would be for sit-down pictures. Pye is mellow enough, but it is a strange and new environment.
I forgot to mention that on Saturday we went to Leonardtown – skipped witch rock this time, and instead visited a few nifty bookstores – including one made from an old bar. I can’t remember the name but it was a nifty old-school mass of books just reaching back into the far back – also went back to White rabbit and got BHK a Raven Puppet to go with her Edgar Allan Poe, a yarn store (Crazy for Ewe ) with a hostess who was very nice and kept staring at BHK’s lime-vanilla ice, a model train shop and the do-dah deli… later, we went to Aardvark to pick up Pentago – BHK beat me 5-2… a sound victory indeed.
Pictures from today – Robots, fire, symmetrical homes, bay life.
clicks embiggen. Fire is a video. Of Fire. in a ring. where we made s’mores.
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Here is my labor day in reverse
off to bed early
opted not to labor too hard on lj entry
made smores in the fire ring
Mexico for dinner
Played some portal – finished bonus levels.
napped and lazed
2 mile walk, including the bay and a robot backyard
woke up early
Solid end to the work week – I was fortunate enough to have Chris pick me up at the office door, and take me straight on home.
BHK was there and we had red lentil soup and stuffed eggplant – it was really good, but I was feeling so well… needed a good lie down tonight. The in-laws could tell I wasn’t up to snuff, so they called it a night early.
Sick right after lunch today – stomach cramps, vomiting and a bit of shakes afterward. I wish the bathroom at work was less centrally located.. I felt like I was broadcasting my problems to the whole office. Ah well… no helping that.
Watched season opener for Eureka last night and the start of Death at a Funeral. (spoilers on page – don’t read, unless you care to know.) Both were pretty standard fare for the genre, but entertaining nonetheless. Product placement in Eureka – interesting… I was surprised that we watched it last night -was rather expecting it to be a "see the whole season prerecorded after it’s ended" sort of thing. As for the movie, it’s always nice to see Peter Dinklage.
BHK made salad and queso for me, and had some left over chik-fil-a strips in hers… it smelled wonderful, and mine was delicious.
Work continues to grind along.. .it’s “in the thick of it” stuff, but I’m glad it’s finally getting to a point where I can see positive closure points to the project ahead. Later, I’ll get to implement the human contact side of things, which will be interesting. I get along well with others very well, especially for a tech-type guy.
Dinner of an awesome spicy bean soup and open-face veggie meatloaf sammiches! BHK makes the most wonderful food, both health-wise and comfort-wise.
We watched Dan In Real Life, which was pretty good… not nearly the stinker I’d heard it was. Nice to see Steve Carell outside of his normal slapstick / idiot character.
That’s about it, dear journal – running on vapors, and will be off to bedski soon – leaving early for work tomorrow. G’night!
Work is getting back to paces – looks like we’ll have a few very solid weeks of care to deal with up ahead. I’ll take my replacement day off at that point.
Not too many people to socialize with out here, and when they are available I’m pretty busy. After this primary project has been done, I can get back to visitors and whatnot.
BHK made tasty sausage (tofurky italian sausage for me) and veggies on whole wheat spaghetti with garlic bread. Yummitty yum yum! More tomorrow for lunch, and that’s fine by me!
Middleman tonight was fun – I don’t blame the aliens at all for minding our intrusion, and it was nifty seeing inside Ida’s noggin.
That’s probably okay with Barack Obama: Biden likely got the nod because of his foreign policy knowledge. The Delaware politician is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee who voted for the war in Iraq, and is reasonably well-known nationally after his presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008.
read more here
or just for general skeleton closet stuff – http://www.realchange.org/biden.htm which mentions his plagiarism and less than stellar academic merits.
