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8736 – Friday

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What Flavour Are You? Cor blimey, I taste like Tea.Cor blimey, I taste like Tea.

I am a subtle flavour, quiet and polite, gentle, almost ambient. My presence in crowds will often go unnoticed. Best not to spill me on your clothes though, I can leave a nasty stain. What Flavour Are You?

bhk got –

What Flavour Are You? Tomato is what I taste like.Tomato is what I taste like.

I taste like nothing, except a tomato. I’m sometimes sweet and sometimes tart; sometimes juicy, sometimes crisp. The roles of a tomato are many and varied. I am an exception to all the rules. What Flavour Are You?

Good preliminary news from CodeRED – Dave put me on to some good leads for a gig or 121. I’ll know midday Monday.

BHK out with Tina for a gal’s day – pedicures and Mexican food. I’m glad that Tina’s getting out and about… the winter gloomiest seems to have descended on her a smidgen. I’ll wager some time with BHK will brighten her day. [edit: They picked me up to get mexican food! Hooray! er, Ole’!

1 year ago – an owl!, tree pic, space piggy hits, plans with Dan to see wicked (canceled), home cost estimator, floating wind turbines, homeless man beating,

2 years ago – Rooster year, Kerby, palm doodle, nifty dolls, web-flowers, ljers who kill, machine gun vs katana, google maps, living with a corpse

3 years ago – RIP, J.S. , meme, Long distance , layers, GA success

4 years ago – tittles, palm pics, Pondering Newt getting pooch bro, incubus

5 years ago – bro email, morty the cylon, Emily Dickinson, Tulpas, links

6 years ago – More love issues, lj drama, loneliesGeotargetVisitor Map

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8732 –

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Slow-ish day, mostly work and stay at home errands, with a nice dinner cooked for the in laws by bhk here. We now own a george foreman grill (regifted to us at Christmas, but received the top of this month) -Veggie burgers, hot dogs with chili and french fries for din-din. Discovered that Larry doesn’t go for any mustard but yellow – Honey mustard or spicy brown doesn’t work. Fortunately, we had chili, so it’s all good. Birthday cake for dessert.

It was a nice day, all told.

1 year ago – manatee mailbox, fp with Kev and Tomi, Bailey-pooch, GUN, train ride pics, bhk vaio trouble

2 years ago – bro probation, Shoo’s B’day! (Happy Happy Again today!), flying solo, keywords, Zogg, florida research tools, baby cheetah

3 years ago – stop motion, scrabble experiment, palm doodles, feelin’ ill

4 years ago – 80s dream, oddtodd, crackle bars, warm, face-picker kid

5 years ago – Shoo’s Birfday!, Missed the bus, fruit2O, razor dream, bull sperm thieves, bellyaching, Tsar Piccies, TV news, meatloaf quiz, wacky linkies, tron

6 years ago – License plates, Bob Marley Movement, Vallies roll inGeotargetVisitor Map

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8731 –

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Yesterday, at the regional home show, there was a huge display regarding “DRYER FIRE” – it turned out to be a $1 bottle brush renamed “Dryer lint safety brush”, and selling for $20.

I say, “bah, a mostly synthetic danger cooked up by lint brush salesmen… if you clean the lint trap, how can can it be?”

If I were a more superstitious fellow, I’d fear cruel irony, as we’re doing laundry.

That said, I got the idea for a new item.. the smoke detector smoke detector… to detect if your other smoke detector is on fire… because you know that more than nine out of every ten smoke detector fires is started inside a smoke detector. (I wonder how many house fires have started from an electrical short in a smoke detector?)

Pomonkey – best local Amerindian word / Town name ever. Aww.. Po’Monkey got no nanners! Possibly a place to get a gig re:security and etc, too.

Pomonkey had a dryer fire!

Garden plan –

Tina, the In-Laws, BHK and I have a garden planned for our back yard – planting begins in March for the first crop.
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It’ll be in our back yard… Larry’s going to bring in a few truckloads of topsoil and rototill by the end of this month… BHK and I will be working the section with broccoli, peas and parsley in March, and then continuing to pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, cilantro, sunflowers, green beans and garlic at the top of may.

Other crops tended by the gang will include potato, onion, carrot, radishes, a few varieties of tomatoes, grapes, blueberries and all sorts of others. I expect it’ll be a fun and educational experience… I haven’t grown anything on this scale before, but we’ve got a master gardener, an engineer and a farm boy on our side to help keep things a-rollin’.

Finally Added Pye and BHK to my bio page… sakes! Pokey puppy Scotto.

Pictures for the kitties getting along in the loft.

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1 year ago – childhood goat trauma foundation, sleepless in seattle (stalker),
Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches, deerfield has a different sort of fauna than ftl, rainy, quizzes,

2 years ago – smoother sailing, sleeping in airports, Bigfoot 911, weather, Trism lyric

3 years ago – 7 sins meme, hand-foot coordination, stood up for b-day dinner

4 years ago – dreams, haiku, Irish curses, random politeness factoid, more palm-cam pics, nice cards!

5 years ago – Moonflower haiku, bus rides, tulpa-folk, what do people see quiz, miss cleo got in trubbah, quiet apartments

6 years ago – Snorks vs. Smurfs, recovering from sickies, lovey-loves, butch or femmeGeotargetVisitor Map

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8730 –

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Had a lovely Birthday yesterday. BHK had a party for me, and we had a goodly sized gang over… Cathy, Tina, The In-Laws, Jimmy, and Adam for Baked Ziti, lemon cupcakes (with raspberries), yellow b’day cake with chocolate frosting, maple cookies, mint oreos, all manner of mixed nuts and veggies for snacking. Oh, and M&M’s.

We had a nice time… chitty chattiing while the teens played Destroy all humans and SSX Tricky. Newt and Pye were polite little boys, too…social but not beggars or meanies. We caught up on some TiVo’d stuff when the tube wasn’t monopolized by any other activity.

EM and Buga wished me a voice mail happy b’day in the early AM, and Emily called back later and sang Happy B’day to me quite nicely.

I hope my wish comes true on the blown-out candles… Adam buttered my nose *again* (in addition to BHK’s two hits) right after extinguishing them. I really don’t have any demands, just requests… I really have more than I could possibly have hoped for already.

Loot breakdown – Quite a nice haul for the b’day!

Rec’d (in no particular order): –

  • ~$400 in checks and cash (Momster and In-Laws), plus $50 target card [maybe to put to a Wii?] (Tina), $25 Friday’s card (Cathy)
  • A great guide to Chesapeake Bay wildlife and terrain, & a Plastic Otter, a birthday party with cake and good friends, pancakes and omelet for breakfast and a ton of cleanup / prep (BHK)
  • A Glass Paperweight blown to look like a Jellyfish – must be seen to really be appreciated. (In-laws)
  • Ceramic Tile of Frog & Child – (Danny)
  • PS2 Loaner w/ grand theft auto, spy2 and a car race game (Jimmy)
  • Many lovely lj and e-wishes, a few very nice paper cards.

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8728 – 37 years + 364 days

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Gentle day, all told – Went out to Jerry’s for lunch, shopped for party food, got a haircut ( short, but I think it looks good. More importantly, the Mrs. Digs it.) Made it home at a decent hour, and watched TV – News Radio and Ugly betty, followed by Holy Man. a nice, relaxing evening with just Bhk and myself… quite nice.

1 year ago – The Matador, rock the casbah, bday card, fp with kev, Superman, Batman, Jesusman and the problem of the corpse on Hollywood Blvd.

2 years ago – no new drama, eryx b’day giftie, sick day, tea-orisinal, nifty mashups, musical mel, movie meme, oddest book titles, be a prostitute or lose your benefits

3 years ago – word association poll, top 100 movies, Trapping Jehovah’s Witnesses in forcefields, Division of Forestry, Farewell KB!

4 years ago – Happy New Year!, palm-cam pics, e-texts

5 years ago – moon/Menstruation connection(or not), dreamy-dreams, elephant talk, pictures, including Newt in a box. Man lives in an airport for 11 years, cousin stuff

6 years ago – Got Birthday arranged to be off, dreams of ancient rome, schedule, shrunken head apples, my first b-day cardGeotarget

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8724 –

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It took the better part of the day, but the commode is finished. Before starting, we had a big pancake breakfast, courtesy of BHK – Chris and BHK went shopping while Larry & I worked on the plumbing… timing was good… we finished about 15 minutes before they called to let us know that they were heading back, and we ended the day with Chinese food, and watching Men In Black.

Got a nice call from Danny, too – his wife is in Bangladesh, reviewing a clothing place’s quality control. I wonder what the quality of life is of the workers there.

Birthday is on Friday – Still not sure what, if anything will be happening for it. I suspect a quiet get-together with some family & friends… I’d like to see as much of the local gang make it if they can, but Friday night has got to be a tricky one, especially if it’s short notice. Given the current financial limits, I suspect the Wii will be a rain check item.

1 year ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick,

2 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys

3 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution

4 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus

5 years ago – Took a day off With Danny (some non-gothic graveyard pictures), PattonBomb Talk, Giant photo of Newt in Evil Overlord Mode, bad spoonerismhumor. First photo of Tinkle pig

6 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing manGeotarget

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8723 –

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Started installation of a new commode (the old wax seal was going and was beginning to leak), and got sort of side barred into a trip to the Marine Museum on Solomon’s Island. It was a fun trip with the in-laws and BHK to points exceedingly south. After the museum, we waited a long while to eat at Outback, but the food was tasty and plentiful. (I think it made Chris more angry than anyone else) I think I’ve gone out to eat more in the last three months of marriage than I have in the last twelve of bachelorhood! I’m trying to eat a bit better, though, and keep it at least moderately healthy. The waistline is doing a bit of a retreat, which is good.. I think that’s primarily due to all the running around town and moving that’s been done.

Piccies –

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Otters, Mega-sharks, Skates, Rays, a screw pile lighthouse, Fresnel lenses and sailing ships… much fun!

Also, Tinkle Pig is now in the Love Cube with BHK and I – Danny Traded up to a hula girl.

1 year ago – Celebrated Vicki’s last day, spectral analysis, history lesson, book meme, on call

2 years ago – rte 55 pic, newt and scotto wake up, song title meme, post secret

3 years ago – baby dragon, cheesecake trip, QM2, fever doodles

4 years ago – bebop cola poll, boney church, sql slammer, evil ideas

5 years ago – week plans, bob ross posse, freaky gator-in-a-dress, mr mole, biography tax loophole?

6 years ago – journal look update, evil news, hotel californiaGeotarget

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8721 – another day in paradise. no sarcasm there.

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Current weather – 18°F (RealFeel 2°F)

Brother and Father in law jamming a bit last night before dinner. Adam was about ready to fall asleep, I think. Another swim meet tonight, if all goes as planned. BHK and I are going to take Tina with us this time! That means a bit of shopping and dinner tonight too, I expect.

Things have been quite great lately… I think that once I get a good solid gig, I’ll have nothing to complain about at all.

Side note – I’ve agreed to be on the City’s Emergency Preparedness Committee – maybe I can help out CodeRED a bit, and help to insure my region is more prepared in the event of rough tidings… not to mention, possibly network into a gig.

some pics –

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Happy B’Day, missv!

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims. Continue reading 8721 – another day in paradise. no sarcasm there. →

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8720 –

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Some swim meet pics of my Brother-in-law – Adam, 17, Swim Team Cap’n.

Thumbs up for Northern! Swim meet adam frogbelly adam Grinnin' Adam

Quite a little stud muffin – he’s very popular with the ladies, especially while being all sporty. He’s really a great guy, and is very talented across the board – Physics, guitar, athletics. If he wants, he could go anywhere or do anything he might choose. He suffers a little bit from teenager-itis, but he’s generally a gentleman and all-around good guy. I’m glad to have him in my family.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – A partially mummified baby was found wrapped in newspaper in a warehouse self-storage unit and is believed to have been born sometime in the 1950s, authorities said. Continue reading 8720 – →

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8717 – about 10 days until my b’day

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Zombie Astronaut is Featuring Ray Bradbury!

Tomorrow is Adam’s swim meet – should be interesting… Adam competing vs Larry’s School.

Dreamt last night about BHK and me being “gun runners” to south of the border… we were storing ensure and other high-vitamin products in the stock… the guns themselves didn’t work, but were easier to bribe past the border patrols rather than food for the hungry. at one point, I though t of making the guns themselves out of chocolate or some sort of dark-colored food, but that was nixed for dream-reasons I don’t recall. I remember clubbing one of the patrolmen with the butt of one of the mock-rifles and having a pinkish milkshake type substance come out… hopefully it was full of strawberry flavored protein shake.

More pics from the Paper Moon in Baltimore. decor was cute “pee-wee herman meets tim burton” painted kitsch at an angle, and the food was exceptionally good. (went on 1/17/07)

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1 year ago – missing cj, superhero dream, youtube b&B, fat bat cat, herm patient, pug in lucha mask, endless forest, birthday counter.

2 years ago – Chilly, doodle, facial morphs (monkey scotto is still my fave), food, height comparisons, a/b meme, warning labels, toybox mooch, scythes,

3 years ago – happy Newt, nipples off, palm post – bus stop, tummy ache. penguin poop, giant nostril

4 years ago – Tests, truth, rumor, links and history, lj spam, Kev in court

5 years ago – I got my camera, Alvin gets fired from work for stealing overtime, unsolved mysteries, snap club, mcd’s employees, nifty moon site.

6 years ago – Reflections on the old regime, The Litter Box Song *snerk*, Cow Saliva, “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme”, rehiring some of the fire-eesGeotarget

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8715 – By Crom! 101?

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Newtcam (Now also featuring Pye and BHK as well as Newt and me) is live again, at least for a bit – Office and Loft, depending on if Lappie of big brain is more active.

Snow Day Pictures!

the bay is as calm as can be post snow the jetty - snowy with jogger 1 foot snowman - closeup - complete with baby carrot nose! 1 foot snowman - complete with baby carrot nose! 1 foot snowman - complete with baby carrot nose! My wife makes me warm, even with snow outside. blue house porch - snow! scoups on the bay... brrr 261 south marker by marsh - w watertower mailboxes by the marsh frosted trees more tree frost

Happy 101st Birthday, Robert E Howard.

In just about one year, the Spidey video has had almost at half a million hits –

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1 year ago – superhero drawing memes, CNY, Bro’s situation improved briefly, lost, spidey video views, Sting

2 years ago – Worked late, EN’s cable out, sad- sicky mel, busy phone, amber alert, great day to be alive theme

3 years ago – Year of the monkey!, new icons, act like a monkey, a fellow ljers house burns down

4 years ago – honey rant, healing hands, newt pic, cuss control, cold snap

5 years ago – spy ware killer, stab-dream, home school poll, animal noises around the world, sound

6 years ago – IMT theft, be good, take it easy surfing at work, Model of the modern super-criminal, birthday wishGeotarget

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8705 –

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We go to meet Larry’s parents on Friday – spending a weekend in the Appalachians there, while Tina comes over to look after the kitties. I’m thinking that the boys may be separated for the trip… Newt in the master bedroom and Pye elsewhere, so we make sure no real fighting happens while we’re gone. The boys are rambunctious, and I doubt anything would happen, but it may be better to be safe than sorry at this early date. Tina’s going to sit them so it should be AOK. Other Possibilities are taking one kitty with us… not sure which way we’ll go just yet.

Dinner of Veggie dogs & fries tonight… took a pretty easy day today. Didn’t move any stuff – like timer says, our get up and go got up and went. Instead, we stayed home and watched Kentucky Fried Movie and a bunch of South Park episodes instead.

1 year ago – Japanese Spidey, Heroclix for Ambush bug, piggy bank kid, ants guy, palm doodle, andy in jail, walkabout thoughts, bigfoot pic, gamera, grappling hook, boosh

2 years ago – Mel’s fingernail falls off, we surf the web, 3.6 million nickels stolen, distance home meme, quarter bin craving, monkeys & crackers, happy feet

3 years ago – dynamic address assigning, Artist under the influence of LSD, My Messy Office

4 years ago – prisoner on the brain, Names, Antarctica, EO-letters

5 years ago – paper models, walkies, coming events, EO-mashnote

6 years ago – paranoia, recorder, odigoGeotarget

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8701 –

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Visited Misti, Neil, Daniel & Emily today with the in laws and BHK – it was fun playing belated Santa. Jason’s Deli is rapidly becoming a huge fave.. I wish we had a local salad bar and soup place as yummy. Bonus was that Ukrops had some veggie-only onion soup on hand, and it was pretty dang awesome as well.

I got a chance to play a few games of laser battle (no relation to my old chestnut of laser attack) with Daniel, and it was quite fun.. I’ll probably see what I can do to add it to our games closet.

Also exchanged travel bugs with Misti – I released one due for Brazil, and received one due for Japan, and another headed to Hawaii’i. The Brazil and Japan join BHK’s Louisville, KY one as part of the Unite for Diabetes Challenge. (The Hawaii’i one is just for funzies.)

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I wish Misti the best of Luck on her first day at the new gig on Monday.

Kevin is totally spot-on with his talk about ape equality.

1 year ago – National Bird Day, Religio-founder quiz, Mr. Potato Head, open camera streams, I helped to recover Tabitha lively, newt picture with my feet,

2 years ago – 12th night, Mel stuff, job hunting helps, 6 apart/lj rumor, lj optout, geek meme, Eisner dies, latest memo, tried tracking LSW.

3 years ago – 4 gamers best, gaming memories Mars Exploration, I’m an Earth Monkey

4 years ago – Internet born, origami cameras, ouch!

5 years ago – SOP, insomniac theme, My Lady by J. G. Whittier, tech trouble, newt in nightshirt, stupidfly abuse, dead image and flash links, deleted journals actually get deleted

6 years ago – vagg (dead link), internal server error (not much)Geotarget

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8698 –

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I made it quite easily through the polar bear swim yesterday, though the bay was brisk – (between 40-45 degrees Fahrenheit, and most certainly colder than the air temp) it was misty and rainy, so some of the photos have a rather gray cast to ’em. BHK, Chris, Larry and Tina were all kind enough to come out to cheer me on, however, none went into the drink with me… I was hoping Adam might, but he was wiped out due to being the taxi driver for assorted lushes.

Pictures beneath the “brr!” – be warned, I’m a furry creature.

Brrr!