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8697 – Hap-Pye New(t) Year! 2007

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Something I post at the top of every new year, and I appreciate the words more with every additional trip around the sun.

Love is
is not rude,
it is not self seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices in truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.

-1 Corinthians 13:5&6

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Newt!

Newt didn’t make it to the countdown, apparently.

The boys like to wrestle, which worries BHK a smidgen, but I think they’ll be jim-dandy.

618 entries this year… lower content this time around, mostly due to my living life, and not having much time to report it. I haven’t had any time recently to read much LJ at all, though I have tried to poke a nose in here and there when I could. (975 in 2006, 716 in 2004) – one of my new years thoughts is to try to write at least 30 minutes a day in the journal, just to hone my skills.

We move into the bigger house on or about 1/15… once all the utilities and such have been activated. The big TV and some small amount of furniture is already over there, but we haven’t begun the big move in earnest as yet.

I’m going to miss our Tannenbaum… I’ve enjoyed the giant beastie in the living room the last month or so. When it goes, I figure it means we’ll be headed to the new place shortly thereafter.

Danny turns 45 tomorrow. weird thought. That means I’ll be 38 a month from then. The years seem to just fly.

Last night, we got together with the normal motley crew to dine on tacos, rodeo beans, assorted fixins and far too many holiday pastry-type goodies. We watched “Failure to Launch” until about 10 seconds of midnight, counted down, and then watched fireworks over the Chesapeake bay. After, we started to watch Prime, but got tuckered out due to it’s general suckitude. Chick flicks were remedied by today’s viewing of Buckaroo Bonzai, Kung Fu Hustle and Fierce Creatures

1 year ago – HNY, modis, counts, PD movies, new day in sofla

2 years ago – Transformer guy, paleoclimatology, Tony Danza Has a TV show, Sri Lanka refuses aid because they are military, element, music, monkey entry links, unpopular baby names, pet names, Scotty’s Stores sinking, B-to-the-E, 1-2-3-go vs 1-2-go-on-3 poll

3 years ago – ninja turtles, FFXI w/Sammy & D, film finding, Newt age progression, missing kid

4 years ago – law of 5s, ageless project, wishes that didn’t come true, edbook’s llamas, sofla ice age, rain, slow day, Danny stubborn, finished Barnum / started agony & ecstasy, Newt pic

5 years ago – TZ marathon, people requesting money for reading their journal, country specific euros, 2nd instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6 and Happy Newt Year!

6 years ago – Resolutions, some dead news links, good links to marbles, bejeweled,alchemy, etc, 1st instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6, reflections onold games, Norman bates, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a new writing styleGeotarget

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8691 – Classic Nativity on Boxing Day

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plus alien. 🙂

Part of our present to Larry – Good Deale Bluegrass Tuesday, December 26- 7pm at the Rams Head Tavern

The annual Day After Christmas Holiday show! Tim Finch , Chris Walls, Jon Glik, and Mike Munford, are accompanied by the critically acclaimed Wayne Taylor from the Navy Country Current Band on vocals and guitar and sitting in on dobro will be Nashville session great Jimmy Heffernan, plus other special guests. Mike Auldridge will not be part of this show.

1 year ago – 2nd life, tennyson, newton, willenborgs, rosie, 500+ colors, condo iguana pics

2 years ago – Mel gifts, chrismahanukwanzakah, speed up firefox, disasteroid

3 years ago – Newtie Headbutt, Work mission

4 years ago – Scottovia, bro confession to me, pepys, cat code

5 years ago – dream fragment, internal dialog comes out, satan in the olympics

6 years ago – Boxing day, word galaxy, Life/panagrams, Whitman

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GeotargetShopping with inlaws went very well. Good stuff for bhk, newtie, pye and tina, too – Also got a prezzie in the mail from Kev via amazon… BHK wisely confiscated the invoice, so it’ll be a surprise to me when it’s opened on Christmas.


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More x-mas shopping, a tasty lunch at Cheeburger Cheeburger, and a sent danny’s goodies to him via ups. (sending glass via them is mighty pricey.)Geotarget

Added Fluxx to our house’s game cabinet, and with the holidayseason coming early for toina and doug, we also have pente! hooray!

1 year ago – condo commandos, dooced, kong opens, misfits, bush on constitution, yahoo income, zombie cap

2 years ago – cravings, pondering atmospheres, vocabulary words, adp ROYALLY screws up, ocular chili, its a wonderful life by bunnies, Mexican tomb of DEATH

3 years ago – Saddam captured, collective nouns, feral children, pod thoughts, tic tacs, and chores done

4 years ago – Lottery-coworker thoughts, Deathrace 2000, my favorite Chang Tzu quote, witch cow, mistaken identity, haiku

5 years ago – pumpernickel, Newt on my long-lost chair, moment of weirdness, wacky news, what we did before toilet paper, coprolite

6 years ago – sickies, FIGHT! game, Rhyme-time

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Rest in Peace, Pete. I forgive you for Everybody Loves Raymond. Young Frankenstein more than makes up for it. Geotarget

Quite a busy day today… Xmas shopping and visiting with Tina and Doug were the biggest bits. Ended the day watching Grey Gardens, which was amusing at first and then sad, and then just sort of turned into a codependent mother and daughter bickering at one another in a run-down mansion filled with cats and raccoons. I don’t think I’ll be seeing the movie about them when it’s released next year.

Oh, we also went to a comic store that will probably be a new haunt for me – green alien head. Some nice folks, and a few people that are interested in purchasing my heroclix / mage knight doubles. I picked up a few things from the heroclix dollar bin for the christmas tree… wendigo, sasquatch and some others, plus bhk and I split a booster pack of horrorclix. aside from the fact that someone nicked one of the figures and closed it back up (a dire wolf), we got some goodies in there too. A Scarecrow, zombie cop, and an exorcist priest fig that a lot of fun. No Zombie Lawyer.. but maybe I can trade for one. They do gaming there, but I’m not sure if I’m wanting to hop into that scene just yet… might be worth a drop-in visit though. They do play pirates, heroclix and such… I’d like to maybe do a Champions game sometime, just for old times sake, but I suspect the group dynamic wouldn’t cut it for me.

Also found a site for LAN parties, world of warcraft and other such stuff. I was pleasantly surprised to see a place like that… I may try to bid on building them a website.. might make some coin and meet some counterstrike teammates for when big brain is reassembled.

It’s been rather difficult to shop for the Mrs as yet, given that she and I are joined at the hip (and I like that) – it makes it tricky to buy a surprise for her. I’m going to try to hitch a ride with either Tina or Larry to do some indy shopping, otherwise, it’ll have to all be done online.

Tina was amazingly generous with the wedding present, by the way. A huge collection of light green crockery a green vacuum cleaner and a wad of dough to start us on our nuptial way.

I still have to mail Danny’s Xmas prezzie – keeping things pretty inexpensive this year, due to the no-job situation. Mostly gifting folks on BHK’s side of the family. On my end, it’s just Wilt & Momster and Danny. Everyone else is getting at best a card. (not that I usually gift a lot of folks, anyhow)

I’m way behind in reading LJ. Or really writing in it. My new life is both very hectic and domestic at the moment, and I’m loving every frickin’ minute of it. Money will be tight but manageable for the next few, while I continue to pursue a gig. Just a numbers game at this point.

1 year ago – sam and max, Atari 2600, favorite things

2 years ago – I discover that Romanian pop tune (OZONE – Dragoste din tei) before the weirdo kid cam sings it around the world, Oceans 11, pollo tropical makes me sick

3 years ago – the secret message, Bro & Danny visit, lizards in the tummy, truck surfing, riddle, some reference

4 years ago – nightmare, balloon hats, fudge and dinosaurs, Danny and I win a Tomato Recipe contest!

5 years ago – nice dreams, flesh eating robots, wacky day, SOP

6 years ago – coffee, hello kitty murders, village blacksmith, books to read, I get a Sigmund and the sea monsters tape!

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8676 – pics and spam.

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note to self – Write Liz / Chad letters.. good to hear from them both after so long! I have to send a note to Tomi, too.

Pics of Newt, the Xmas tree trimming, the in laws, bhk, adam and me. Bhk had me downright holiday giddy today… maybe too much rankin-bass in the bloodstream.

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1 year ago – val & rhonnie news, kreuger, bro issue, rs shopping, jellyfish

2 years ago – working with cubase / fruityloops, pork chop assault, manatee window kiss, mel 5

3 years ago – Ghost Bugs, Missing Chairs, News Stories about cats and physics.

4 years ago – holiday oranges, Joe Ostezewski, letter-words

5 years ago – evil news, bear suit update, walkies, visions

6 years ago – stinky week start, a pair of email fallacies, rhonnie has her incidentGeotarget

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Xmas trees up (undecorated) at home (the blue house) and at the in-laws. BHK made some seriously tasty pasta for the ‘laws, Tina, Adam, Doug and me… They were super yummo.

The tree smells really good in here.

1 year ago – complex life, sex roles, narnia, big brain repair issues

2 years ago – Newt stretch, Mels’ place, grumpy workers, lost good, many random Scotto factoids, best chitty-chitty bang bang line,

3 years ago – movie clapper poll, hakarl, RI a bitch, Rudolph: Behind the scenes.

4 years ago – Rubber monsters, the four humors, feculence, Jane Goodall believes in bigfoot, prezzies

5 years ago – autochthonous, Nobel prize, Cetus, BEAR WINS; SUIT LOSES

6 years ago – nifty links, Fidel Castro’s John Lennon statue, and life’s perfectly swell, KMFDM

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8674 – The village of Friendship used to be called something like “Devil’s Corner”

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Got the Christmas Tree with BHK and the in laws .. went to Friendship and got a pair of bang-up trees.. one for us and one for them. BHK likes trees *BIG*. No dinky little charlie brownies for her, no sir! We dropped the trees off and then went out to din-din at Applebee’s, and closed at the local giant box store to get some holiday supplies.

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Geotarget1 year ago – tmbg, bro in tampa, tolld a new motherboard, music, musical mice, windows live local

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

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

4 years ago – desert dreams, “no hands” kitty, palm doodles, nice cards

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

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

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8672 – a good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

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Job fair today at general dynamics – wish me luck! Promising stuff for project manager and more programmer-ish doings as well. Dusted off the ol’ suit and had speaks with some nice folks. Afterward, we hit stoneys for tasty food, and then went back to the in-laws to visit a smidgen with tina, doug, larry & chris. lovely orange moon rise again tonight.

Tonight, Newt, BHK and I watched Barbarella for the first time. Oh, the cheese. It makes me to laugh. The suck, it makes my ears pop.

DirecTV installed tomorrow…hopefully the return of channels will bring a modicum of good movies? hooray for obtaining a tivo! still will torrent this and that from bbc, anyhoo.

1 year ago – big brain waiting on repair, foggy morning pics

2 years ago – mel’s new place, zombie survival, what’s a hoe, 8/20/2000 last day without a post

3 years ago – JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart

4 years ago – Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.

5 years ago – I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.

6 years ago – Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes.

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Had a nice time shopping with bhk, tina and chris – got a few stocking stuffers and some much needed sneakers. Newtcam is back up, now that I’m on the local network on lappie, though big brain is still packed. it won’t be 24/7 until I can find a good spot for it.

newton!

after shopping, we hit tt’s diner for some dinner, with mixed levels of culinary success, and then drove home through holiday lights, and a viewing of Elf while bhk slept on my lap on the couch. a good day, indeed.

a smidgen chillier out today, and I’m looking forward to the possibility of a white christmas… or maybe birthday. two christmases this year, one for doug, before he ships out for Iraq on the 15th, and another at the proper time. I’m pleased that doug makes tina happy… she deserves someone to make her feel good.

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went with misti, bhk and em to see buga and neil tote a balloon in the richmond christmas parade – had a great time – aside from the obvious perq of bugah, there were also tiny shriner cars, a really overweight darth vader, cowboys, balloons of odd things blowing like the hindenberg, and more sousaphones than even john phillips could ask for. Odd thing, since the giant balloons were being hoisted through downtown richmond, they had to be lowered to duck under the street lights every few blocks.

misc pictures from road trip to md (including newt in lockdown, south of the border, and electric palm trees, as well as the parade) click here.

bro still is where he is… writing him a letter tomorrow or first thing monday.

after the parade and a quick trip to target to look for some xmas lights, we visited with misti, neil & co, bfore heading to the in-laws for dinner. long day, but a solid one… on the way back, we drove through DC, and I got to eyeball the washington monument and nation’a capital from the potomac bridge. more photos from that neck of the woods soon.

with that, I’m hitting the sack. until later, dear journal.

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