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9231 – Tuesday.
BHK and I aren’t watching as much TV as usual… I suspect we’re hitting an ebb tide right now. However, things may change once the new shows start rolling in again. I believe that there was a new Samantha, Who on last night, and I imagine that once Psych and Burn Notice start to roll again, we’ll be watching at least a few hours a week.
After supper last night, we came home, had some razzles and read (or did Internet research on the Tidal Basin Inlet Bridge – had to find out what was up with this sculpture/grotesque on the side.)
50 things you’ve done meme continues at 47 – I…
47.’built more than a few models as a kid. Not always well-done…. but I always did ’em to completion, even if some got the lighter treatment for “battle damage”. At my youngest, I did snap-together models of cars that could be played with right afterward – pretty rewarding… the more advanced ones like aircraft carriers and tanks always had guns and tiny airplanes that would easily fall off or break if played with too roughly…. plus, dust and dirt wrecked paint jobs.
This might be why I’m a little attracted to Warhammer or just painting minis. Models you can play with are something extra special. I still don’t know if I want to do Warhammer Fantasy or some other system… meanwhile, I may just get some paints and work on army men / mage knight leftover figures that could use a little color or customization. I’m due to make BHK and myself some updated figures, as I don’t have long hair anymore, and I never did make one of her.
Maybe it’s time for us to investigate Fimo and the like, too? Image on the right is an ancient one of Danny and me fending off a few zombies on a papercraft bridge.
1 year ago – Easter doodle – eggs, sweetest thing.
2 years ago – math problem, kitten auth, triffid tree, walkabout thoughts
3 years ago – golf day, audio entry, ransom notes, Stuffed animal seven, google maps silliness, 3-coffin pope burial, pirates and fonts!
4 years ago – Religious notes, Super Mommy and Evil robo-lights, Manatee Escaped Tracking , Nevada, and stupid CS
5 years ago – Rachel, dreads, Easter
6 years ago – Rick comments about QaF, Happy to come home, yahoo dilemma, elephants, sleeping in airports, singing Eugene, virtual om
7 years ago – back talk, Dan’s spring break, got a grove gig!, beautiful world
9228 – Sunday
We rested the bulk of Saturday, but went out yesterday evening to hit good ol’ Aardvark Comics – picked up the Showcase Jonah Hex, the 50th Anniversary edition of Diplomacy, and a few other nibs and nabs – BHK subscribed to her first book (Avengers Fairy Tales – 4 part series), and I got the latest All Star Superman. Good stuff, that Superman. Post Aardvark, we hit a local Japanese food place… benihana sort fo place with sushi. The stuff was better than most, not as awesome as Joss. Oh! I almost forgot! We stopped at Rita’s for “fro-yo”. I got the fat free stuff, and I think the chemistry hit my gastric centers a little too heavily. I’ll be calling them diarRhita’s for the foreseeable future. The problem resolved itself quickly, however.
Today, Lounged most of the morning, – Was going to hit the car show with Larry and BHK, but it was rained out. Left the house abuot noon, got a haircut, and then zipped off with BHK to have lunch with Cathi & Dave at Mexico. Mexico was a little off of their game, but it was still yummy. Post feeding, we paused at the Dunkirk Starbucks for a couple of hours of Apples to Apples over water, coffee and a little late dessert. (I won all games played… I feel a little bad about that, because I’m not really there to win, just to socialise and be silly. Psych-ops tactics work especially well with that crew.) Ended the day with a quick buzz of the local wal-mart, and then home to chill out and prep for Monday.
1 year ago – walkabout pictures (DC area), SMIB
2 years ago – loki, fundraiser, 33 questions, morning pictures, palm post bro, tree dream
3 years ago – appointment, bro homeless, electron thoughts, videos, broken umbrellas, space 1999:waka waka, 300 island resort, typo on bus, walkies pictures, beaten barricade
4 years ago – smelly books, surreal compliments, passover joke, vampire game
5 years ago – sleeveless smock, downloadable toons, bunky kabalarians, colossal squid, CoC props.
6 years ago – landlord visit, green monkey pizza, pop pardoned the knights templar,nazi-looking stamp, Japanese business card etiquette, movies, tubers
7 years ago – Killer noise, looking for a job as a flaneur, Dave & Cathi Preggers
9217 – sunday
BHK sick … Nothing serious, but she’s got a tummy bug. Party food and pizza was rough on her innards I think. After Alice’s party yesterday, we swung by Games Workshop – picked up a present for someone else and a warhammer (fantasy) rulebook for me. BHK looks interested in painting minis… maybe we’ll build an army or two, to add to the games closet?
I’m eyeing lizard men and ogres,(primarily for yhetees ) or my old standby of dwarfs vs orcs & goblins. (might get the battle for skull pass starter kit, comes with the latter)
Saturday, it was about 50… Friday, it was 76F outside.. the day before it was in the 40s. see-saw, much, mama nature?
I like David Horvitz‘s plan for doing things for mostly just the cost of expenses. The apologies and mailbox bit, especially.
Why I agree that detoxification is quackery.
Get to know me quiz-meme thingum – have I done this one before?
Where did you get the shirt you’re wearing?
Bought it at value city with BHK!
How do you think your last ex deserves to die?
Just by living her life the way she wants.
List three words to describe your mother.
Bostonian, Friendly, Bright
Do you want to get married?
Yep, and did.
Would you date someone you “met” on MySpace?
I dated and married a girl I met on LJ!
What do you think of internet dating?
Whatever works is ok by me.
If you could be any cartoon character, who would you be and why?
Plastic Man is good… as are most 3rd string supers.
Ever considered yourself crazy?
Sure – everyone is a little nuts.
When was the last time you saw your (biological) dad?
In the flesh? On his deathbed.
What make, model, and color was your first car?
powder blue chevy gran torino 440 four barrel. 4-door. you could hear the gasoline being slurped.
Did you ever believe you had a monster or ghost living in your closet?
A beast in the basement, perhaps.
Have you ever had a crush on someone younger than you?
Well, of course! I was pretty crush-happy for more than a few years.
Do you have any odd deformities?
nothing too odd. Back curves a bit, I’m a bit larger than most in height and width.
What is the blanket you sleep with like?
coverlets – cotton filled with synthetic stuffing. Newt and BHK keep me the most warm.
Have you ever gone to band camp?
No.. regular summer camp, yes.
If you could do something and know you’d never get caught or punished, what would it be?
I’ll tell you later, if I get the plans to work out.
Are you missing any body parts that you were born with?
my baby teeth, bits of spinal column.
Have you ever been a bully?
Not deliberately, but I may have steamrolled a few people by accident.
Have you ever been bullied?
Certainly.
Do your dreams haunt you?
No.. it’s hard to remember them, most days.
Have you ever had an anxiety attack?
Not medically diagnosed, but I have had a freak out or two.
Who is someone you wish you could fix things with?
I’d like to repair my brother’s mental state.. I don’t really have anyone that I need ot fix things with socially.
What does the last text message in your inbox say, and who’s it from?
better pic – picture of pyewacket on the shelf. from BHK via Larry’s phone.
What’s a happy time you’ve had in the past week?
A lot.. friday and saturday with BHK were lovely! aquarium, puttering, whee!
Is there anything in your past that you’d like to try again?
Not sure what this means.. redo? do again because I enjoyed it? I’d like the past to remain the same, and keep doing things that make me and my family happy.
Who do you spend your nights with?
BHK, pye and newt.
Are you an emotional person?
I tend to be.
Are you self-conscious?
I’m self-aware. I don’t really mind myself too much.
What’s something that can always make you feel better?
Snuggling with BHK and the kitties.
Do you tend to make relationships complicated?
I try to simplify things.
One thing you’re looking forward to?
next weekend, friday fun-day off
How do you feel about change?
I prefer folding money. I think change can be good or bad.. depends on what’s changing. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
What are you not looking forward to?
getting up before 5am tomorrow.
What are your plans for your next birthday?
heck if I know. Probably cake, kitties and BHK in some combination.
Do you even care about your birthday?
Not really. I like family, fun and food anytime.
Do you think anyone out there loves you?
I’d say so! I’d say I’m nicely loved.
Do you still talk to the person you LAST kissed?
I just asked her if she wanted a drink.
Have you ever seen your best friend cry?
Yes.
When is the next time you will make out with somebody?
A little personal! When BHK is feeling better, no doubt.
Who’s the second person on your missed call list?
BHK – from when I made my voice post, ages ago.
Is anything bothering you right now?
my back, mostly.
Are you a cuddler?
I can be… I prefer to.
Has anyone disappointed you recently?
nothing new, same stuff with bro
Will this weekend be a good one?
I suspect it will! 3 day weekend!
Do you get attached to people easily?
Those I care about, yes.
What happened a year ago from today?
see below!
Are you looking forward to tomorrow?
Well, tomorrow night!
Whats one thing thats heavily weighing on your mind?
Back repair
1 year ago – view from my desk at calvert county, quizzes, geourl, bake sale!
2 years ago – MM talks to me, Danny Nominated, GP & Kat coming to town, German lesson, batman sound screencaps, zefrank starts archiving his entries, queen, quirk quiz, updating my geocode, Monkey Florida Fire News, plus whalesong
3 years ago – met mzkitten, poker spam, totem, Nostradamus Quatrain Generator, uv flower photos, doc ock song, david byrne
4 years ago – news registration, De Soto, missing digits, esp test, pirates, Nevada
5 years ago – Danny, keywords, Maryland Snow Day
6 years ago – stuff to look at, darkstar, panorama picture galleries, pulps, snap club, newt pics, troll, dragonball, RPS poll, Lj poll, easter egg recipes/cinnamon bunny bread, stream of thought – 3 minutes, cbs mystery theater
7 years ago – netcast, rent, palm tree, spaghetti-ohs, 7-up, key limits, parapsychology, slurs
Writer’s Block: If at first you don’t succeed… entry 9210
I’m generally better at tactics than strategy, but I just can’t get an opening set of moves that is acceptable at all. I’m not sure why my skill with that particular game is so low – I suspect a mental block or some working of my brain just doesn’t visualize the pieces as well.
9201 – thursday
Happy first day of Spring!!
Egg-dying went well… the white spots denote 4 eggs that cracked, and the ones TM took home for herself and MO. Adam took one – he’ll be giving it to a girl at school – and he certainly enjoyed the fajitas that BHK made. Larry and Chris (and mostly Adam and Tina, too) spent the bulk of the visit glued to the tube while BHK and I did the majority of coloring. My faves are the family eggs (there’s a Scotto, BHK, Pye and Newt in the mix) as well as a couple of oddballs – speckeld ones and hot pink / green… both of which are more vibrant than this photo shows. more in depth pictures later, possibly.
GP‘s got me interested in Encounter Critical. It’s by S. John Ross, an added bonus (I dig the mechanics of Risus, though I’ve never played it.)
twitterwise, I’m on the Orange Team. icons when in civilian duds, and on team business.
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How could I choose another color?
I really want the cell phone legislation banning use of a handset while driving in Maryland to pass. The beltway is rough enough without people crimping necks and not looking at the road. Whatever happened to the idea of pulling over to talk?
I’d love to see some sort of magic technology that blocks non-emergency cell phone use in the driver’s side of a car while the wheels are moving.
Same goes for the front-seat DVD players, and audio systems that go louder than a range of safely hearing what’s going on outside of the vehicle, as far as I’m concerned. Color me a fascist, but I don’t need anyone being more distracted than they already are… If I could find a way to implement a breathalyser / urine tester for safe driving, I’d probably do that, too. And bumper-transponders that forbid tailgating based on the speed of the vehicles in question.
Heck, just use my magical wishing ring to stop all accidents – one of my characters, miniMAX first developed his size-changing abilities by trying to develop desolidity tech for vehicles… they never crash into one another!
After all those years, I still want a hyper-intelligent 4-inch tall talking ape to be my lab partner in fighting crime and solving the world’s ills… or clean, safe teleportation technology. Or a magic wishing ring that can put people in protective bubbles, and heal them when they’re hurt.
Thoughts about this is coming from the fact that I’m having trouble feeling a lot of sympathy for TM’s uncle…. he apparently tried to kill himself by driving his car into oncoming traffic. Seriously… I understand being in pain and lashing out, but there are *PEOPLE* driving and acting as passengers in the other cars! If you want to off yourself, I have no problem with that… but leave everyone else out of it.
I feel bad for TM, though – she’s been dealing with his nonsense for a long time, and right before this happened, she blew him off via the phone, and her other family did the same. I don’t know all the details, but I hope that once he’s out of the hospital he gets worthwhile treatment, and a maximum sentence for attempted suicide / attempted vehicular homicide / assault with a deadly weapon(car). I know his head is full of bad wiring, but I’m finding it very hard to forgive his behavior, no matter how sick he is. I just have to understand that he’s not in his right mind, and hope that he is removed from driving and doing anything that can hurt anyone else until he is sufficiently repaired.
50 things I’ve done meme continues with item 38. I…
38. ‘have written 9200 journal entries prior to this one, the vast majority of them posted publicly to the world. Some entries are only a line or two long, others are entire short stories, continued across a few posts, because each entry only holds a maximum of 65,535 bytes. (That’s about 16,000 4-letter words.) The journal will be 8 years old in just under two months.
39.’has owned scottobear.com since 1998… that was 10 years ago, March 12. It will need to be renewed again before March 11, 2013. I’ve got some time to scrape up the money to do so… it’s pretty dang cheap. My website’s look has changed a few times over the years, as has the content under the hood… it is quite due for a fresh coat of paint, and a revisit to the links contained inside. I started my first website with ol’ geocities in 94-ish, back when it was free, and before it was owned by yahoo. that arcane url is lost to me, maybe forever? Who knows if I can dig it up form the web sometime? either way, it was migrated to scottobear.com about 4 years later, and has remained there ever since.
From assorted sources (vchip, mgk, time) – a photo series of rival Kenyan tribes fighting for land with bows and arrows.
Look closely. This is Kenya, specifically a hill overlooking the Olmelil Valley, where Maasai warriors are clashing with members of the Kalenjin tribe on a regular basis. The tribal violence is a depressing comment on a country that only a year ago was promoted as a stable democracy in volatile West Africa. TIME has an interesting photo journal of the battles.
“We were using swords but they were not effective,” says Sylvester, 24, slashing a knife in the air. “In a day we can make between 80 and 100 [arrows],” he adds, refusing to give his last name out of fear. Community members pool money together to buy the necessary tools in secret; the arrows are then distributed within the neighborhood. Local leaders know about the arrow factories, but police forces do not.
“Victims with arrows, sometimes poisoned, lodged in their heads and chests have become increasingly common“, say officials in Rift Valley hospitals.
“We cannot know the time of day when they (Kalenjins) will come. If they catch you off guard, you’re dead,” says Samuel, 25, holding a bundle of ready arrows.
Kalenjin elders train their boys how to use bows and arrows from an early age, the Kikuyu men say. But Kikuyus have had to learn quickly to fight back with the same tools. Several secret workshops employing 50 workers churn out bows and arrows for munition. “We have no other choice for now,” he says.
1 year ago – first full day at the calvert gig, bhk and I go shopping for work clothes, grownup table talk, spam attractive entry
2 years ago – rebis picture, deaf language, chacarron, math, phallic removal, open source, fake cigs as meds, prisoner comic book
3 years ago – Brady Kids welcome the equinox, shamrock shake, cosmic truth, mp3s,experimental gameplay, get your tasty hot sweet potatoes in Japanese,teen kidnappers, good advice, invisible mermaid airfare
4 years ago – openoffice, Visited w Dan, open door poll, people of worth
5 years ago – Al gore, Blue’s clues, Cranky Finn
6 years ago – Spring!, Socks, overturned issues, Linda let go from FMM, LJ directory, cool picture link
7 years ago – walkies, 2 chris-sites, both have long since been left dormant, lj broken
9199 – tues
Workity work lived up to its name – there was a lot of hustle today, still catching my breath at the bus stop.
I really want to see the John Adams series, but no HBO. I guess waiting and getting it on Netflix will have to do!
50 things I’ve done meme continues with item 36. I…
36.’was a pretty avid gamer, back in the day. At my peak, I was playing in 4 different groups a week. (Granted, some of the groups had crossover – GP and Kat were in two of ’em) I tended to compartmentalize my buddies back then – for whatever reason, I liked to keep the potatoes separate from the corn and the meat on the plate. Some friends-groups were linked, like GP & Kat, while others rarely even knew I was “gaming around”.
Best gaming group ever was probably with just GP and Kat… “Brave and The Bold” stories. Two heroes, each of us got as much airtime or limelight as we wanted, and precious little lag from pokey party-members. The 4-6 player groups were good too, but when you don’t have to wait so long for a turn in combat or a say in dialogue… it’s the best. My biggest issue with extended groups is dealing with loners (sure, works in comics, but everyone else has to go into standby while they’re off doing their own thing and hogging everyone else’s play time. Best solution for that is probably keeping a character journal, and giving the GM a *brief* list of character developments between sessions. It’s just not polite to go toddling off. I don’t mind it as much when it goes sort of hill street blues style, where groups split off together into 2 teams, dividing and conquering… but that can make things slow,too. 2 to 3 players is about perfect. (4 with a gm).. wait a minute, I think I’ve covered this a bit before.
It’s funny, but I have a mental block about most of PM’s characters I recall Black Lotus (because I ran solos for her), but I don’t remember anything more about harlequin, aside from the name. She had a swordy person, a ninja-y person, a horse-trainer, a shadow controller, some sort of fairy-friend in the Ars Magica game… but most of the names and personality slip my mind.. I think mostly because she kept her characters quite secret, though pretty heavily detailed if you did get a chance to read backstory or . I can remember Doug’s Kit, KW’s Chrysanthemum, and of course Danny’s White Bow and Man of Iron quite clearly, for good or for ill. Tony’s Silver Hammer and Russian Ben Grimm knockoff. All told, everyone had a good time.
Oh- Minglegrin… that was the name I was looking for. I can’t make fun of the name much… character names like miniMAX, Zero, Parabola, Trism, Luhki Hornblower, Doc Firestone, Chuck Hurler – not to mention character names I can’t think of off the top of my head… the albino ape from the earth’s core and the grumpy cop from the paladins game that was paired with Danny’s loony officer.
A very cool Planet of The Apes timeline. (movies, TV episodes, and etc) – GP, you might want this as a character reference!
I Am (No) Scientologist, Will Smith Says – Moviefone – I guess the boycott is off then for Hancock! BHK is happy, I’m sure.
1 year ago – Behind the Mask, Tigger Adopted!, whistle blowers get some clearance,
2 years ago – bethany, st patty plans sacked,
3 years ago – much work, webjay, Danny invite, George, potential condo piccies (many mock the pre-move decor)
4 years ago – Astronaut Jones, Square Bear, speak and spell, Frank R paul, I create an fdle syndicated lj
5 years ago – iwo jima in the rock garden, I start using jarhead, wish for peace
6 years ago – facemaker, cab stacking, poem tag
, timeline, roles I’ve filled, cool bunker
7 years ago – cartoon logic that works, alice, I want tasty snack food, lone gunmen, workplace desires
9194 – friday
Dinner with Cathy & Dave tonight… say goodbye to any saved points when I have a slice of birthday cake. (sans army men). We played a bit of apples ot apples afterward, with Larry winning the first round, I won the second.
Added image to “The Good Life” for photo Friday – me and Newt Snoozing. (#127 )
50 things I’ve done meme continues with item 34. I…
34.’helped to plan, plant and harvest a family garden for the first time last spring. I really thought a 10 x 12 foot patch wouldn’t produce more than a little vanity salad food, but we got a huge crop, especially of peppers, zucchini and cucumbers. My faves were the potatoes and zucchini.. oven baked goodness. BHK turned my lifelong disdain for zucchini into love with her baked veggies in soy flour, and covered in tomato sauce. Yum. Potatoes, I’ve always had a fondness for.
I guess I’m coming late to this info, but per springheel jack – “RIP Basic (ad-free) Accounts. Your current ‘basic’ accounts are supposedly grandfathered (until they decide otherwise), but no new ones can be created. Communities too.”
The 8th Icehouse Game Design Competition is underway, and any previously unpublished game that uses Looney Labs’ Icehouse pyramids can be submitted. The deadline for entry is June 20th. Whether or not you enter, you can participate in the judging process. Details at the link above.
Current day’s eats:
Breakfast –
two breakfast granola bars
snack –
unsweetened applesauce / pretzel sticks
diet coke
lunch –
veggie pocket pie
veggies and rice
dinner –
3 slices of medium cheese and veggie pizza
Birthday cake and ice cream!
1 year ago – kitty feeding, the host, no cable modem yet.
2 years ago – sleepy, newt playing and chitty chatting, palm doodle, wifi hotsync, safety ape, sex offenders, mulligrubs
3 years ago – hello tomorrow, Robots movie, found art pictures, alligator sounds/swamp witch, silly putty, pi day, IR webcam hack, free fonts, tallyhall, ashes scattered, polar bears, open records, memory meme
4 years ago – subpages broken, Shazam!, Dead Like Me, CS sucks as a tech, vamp game
5 years ago – walkabout pics, lovieness, got unreal server hopping
6 years ago – mush, Roman tub, dreams of owning a pet grooming store, insurance woes, and palm doodles
7 years ago – Happy b’day kundalinidreams (no longer ljing), Dkmfkmkglklkgbkvbkbv,looking for a job as demagogue…(I’ll still take it, if anyone’s wanting), happy unbirthday to me, uck!, edit this page (now dead),sop, a timeline of Scotto history,veggie lo mein, muppet trivia, and Rolf singing you and I and George
9193 – Thursday.
50 things I’ve done meme continues with item 33. I…
33. I did not punch a doctor in the face yesterday, despite his smarmy, holier than thou attitude, poor consult practice, shit-eating grin and “you could beat me up just by sitting on me” comment. If I were a less in control sort of guy, I’d have ripped his spine out via his neck, reversed it, and shoved it back into him rectally.
Adrenaline-removed details below.
Dr. D really took quite a lot of wind from my sails yesterday regarding my back. I’m more than a little disappointed and dismayed, but I am happy that a fix is available, contrary to my prior concerns that I have no options.
The short form – I have gained back much of my former lost weight – I’m at 364 lbs. Pulse 82, BP 148 / 88 (far higher than my usual 120/80)
BMI is 42, according to my height vs weight, which is in the very [edit: morbidly] obese category – I obviously need to get back on the stick, health-wise. (some shortcomings of this reference)
His bedside manner was lacking in the extreme – said that I was in a lot of trouble, that my spine has some severe damage that needs to be repaired and the rub is I have too much mass to properly operate on me… he can’t get down past all of the tissue, (both fat and muscle) to take care of it.
I won’t go into his overly condescending talk about weight loss, but the bottom line is that he feels that he can’t work on me now… but he’d prefer that I come back to him in a year after I’ve lost about 100 lbs – then he thinks that he can repair the damage to my spine and fix the nerve short-circuit in my leg. Meanwhile, I’m going to have to suck it up, and just deal with the pain and numbness issues a bit longer… I don’t mind getting on a healthy diet and workout regimen.. it’s just a shame that his idea of finding a good one is “pick up a magazine” – rather than guiding me to a trainer and / or dietitian as I’d asked.
So, part of my journal is going to be recording and tracking my weight / workouts again – I’m going to resume my points-based WW program on the palmtop, and we’ll see if I can get myself into fighting trim at a reasonable and healthy rate.
I will continue to see that doctor until I find a better one – but meanwhile I’m just happy that there is a chance for repair in the future. I’m disappointed that I still haven’t gotten a cortisone shot, but there is a chance of one next visit to my general prac.
After much stress at the Doc’s, we swung by the local Games Workshop store (right across the street). It was odd to see a store devoted to just mini wargaming, specifically warhammer fantasy, warhamer 40k and lord of the rings miniatures. Apparently the Glen Burnie site is the USA headquarters for the Games Workshop with dozens tables of goodies set up for play. I was surprised to see the one in Annapolis hopping with people – mid-afternoon on a Wednesday… I’d figure everyone that would want to get in on it would be at work or school. I was impressed by the quality of the paint jobs on the armies… a lot of labor of love going on there. BHK and I both really dug the red and yellow lizard men.
We picked up a very late lunch at Lemongrass Too – it was excellent as usual. More tofu with peanut/curry vibe and spicy-sweet green beans.
We were going to check out Be Kind, Rewind – but it was too late. The only showings at the Bowtie were at 3:30 (missed it) and 9:30 (not on a school night!) – So, while we were in the plaza, BHK shoe shopped – she really liked the keen ones… Timberline, venturea, and malibu styles. note to self for future presents!
On our way out of Annapolis we did discovered the ATW man got gussied up for St. Patty’s Day (pictures to follow)… and he also has a myspace page ! Lots of pictures that I didn’t have of his past exploits – we went inside ATW and got a floor mat… the reciept mentions where to locate him on the web. I’ve added him as a friend, but he hasn’t reciprocated yet.
Dinner was boiled eggs, salad, and leftover veggie taco “meat”. good stuff, solid for the end of the day.
As for today – went to work, worked, got on the bus, headed home, wrote a long entry on the ol’ PDA.
BHK made some amazingly tasty split pea soup, with chick peas, carrots and cabbage. Lovely for St. Patty’s.
Point budget is 35, using the weight watchers points system. I still can’t abide weigh-ins and meetings, but the plan has worked for me in the past. Monitoring using the wwcalc program on the palm.
I’ll export the results here in the future.
I can bank a few points for the weekend, where I’m pretty sure I’ll go over when we dine out.
Misc health info –
10 minute brisk walk to the bus, light level. not worth any points, really.
10 cups water – just healthy.
Researched utility of using company gym during lunch – distinct possibility. 3 bikes, a treadmill and some free weights that might do the trick.
Bring gym clothes, allot 20 min for lunch, 20 for workout, 20 for changing/shower.
1 year ago – wrongly accused have to pay back rent for jail time
2 years ago – sunday walkies, path and pics
3 years ago – calle ocho, aroo, writing, chronic, tulips, mummified head of Mata Hari,Idahos mugshots, Girl Scout cookies remind me of Katt and Wendy, Monkeyhot or not, fonts, cool tools, Yu-Gi-Oh! suicide
4 years ago – CoH, Batroc, Bro, uncles, crazy yarn, comic styles, DP reboot (dang Byrne), dance cyclopedia, people as mexican food (metaphor)
5 years ago – Nordis = el sucko, LAN setup, Bellsouth, Lovely gifits from Dani, palm update
6 years ago – Applelard’s BDAY!, the moon, cadbury craving, dead website linkies,bilhicks, hairball poll, skijump, silly supers, network names
7 years ago – sweet dreams, evil news, why blowing up buddha isn’t so bad
9185 – Thursday –
Last night, we decided to try out a place that just opened up – Bilvil. It wasn’t what I was expecting – the subname is "A Beachfront Cafe".. I somehow expected more coffee and casual fare.
Oddball hours, closed on Tuesday… from the outside, the place looks clean, fresh and new! I look forward to taking the wife there tonight… when it’s open!
We returned the following night, Wednesday.
The setting was nice, if a little noisy…. estimate that the place was about 1/2 to 2/3 full at 25 people sitting.
There’s a limited menu right now – they opened right at the top of March 2008. Two weeks in, and the dust is pretty well settled, though.
The roasted beet salad with feta cheese and walnuts was tasty (My wife’s favorite part of the meal!), as was the citrus salad, made with oranges, grapefruit, watercress, broccoli, cauliflower and mustard dressing.
The main course for my wife was the pork loin and beans/greens combo… maybe a bit over-savory. my Crab cake was really fantastic, however – it was a good size and the fried potatoes and broccoli went well with it.
The dessert left a little bit to be desired. choice of three when we went – carrot cake, crustless cheesecake and chocolate mousse.
we both went for the carrot cake – no raisins… but maybe no flour, either. It has a nice taste, and was dense… with an a rubbery / fleshy texture.
There was nice wine list, and a fair selection of beer.
Our cost was about $80 for the two of us, there’s a way to combine three items (in our case, salad, main course, and dessert) for a set cost of about $32 each, before drinks.
I think that they’ll be a place worth hitting regularly, if the price comes down a bit, and the menu expands some… for now, it’s off to a nice start, and I look forward to seeing it grow.
Sometimes, I see a flicker in my vision in front of me – where I’m walking, and I wonder if it’s a future image of myself passing that spot. I wonder if I’d feel the same way if I saw the flicker behind me… would I think that light reflecting off my jacket was just slow to catch up?
I’m really getting into playing loco roco in the mornings… levels are short enough to do on the bus… and I think my newest unlock (the black one with the little tooth buds, lower right ) has some awesome music and reminds me a bit of pyewacket. I do my journal writing on the ride home, generally, unless I really want to polish off a round. Themini-games aren’t bad, but the meat is the primary puzzles. However, now I’m near a net-hotspot, and the PSP has streaming radio these days, a journaling I shall go. (see also)
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta are now claiming to have identified and located the speech center of the chimpanzee brain. Lead by Jared Taglialatela, the team used a PET scan to image activity in the brains of three chimps after doing two tasks. In one, the chimps asked for food by making grunts and other noises. In another they passed rocks out of their cages in exchange for food. The former activity lit up a specific area of the chimp’s brains that the latter did not.
So what does this all mean? Simply put, it means that as soon as some scientist decides to experiment with aiming a gamma ray cannon at that hemisphere of a chimpanzee’s brain, we’re only a few thousand years away — max — of Charlton Heston screaming "It was Earth all along!" in front of the ruined fragments of Statue of Liberty. Great. Thanks again, science.
What Separates You From Chimps [Live Science]
50 things I’ve done meme continues tomorrow with 27.
Instead, a quickie – answer in 3 words –
1. Where is your cell phone?
on my belt
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?:
is my wife
9183 – Tuesday, we march forth!
Recently bumped (virtually, via facebook) into Ellen from my days at the library – She and Teresa are the only remaining members of the old guard that I remember. I know what happened to Brent, but I wonder where Bill, Charlotte, Joy, Joyce, Jane and the gang are now… heck, I’d even be curious to know what Farace was up to these days.
Gary Gygax, R.I.P. – thanks for getting the ball rolling on the hobby.
My first thought is of him on Futurama…. “Greetings! It’s a (rolls 20-sided die… pause) pleasure to meet you!” and signing his EGG initials into one of the crashed vegepygmy spaceship levels from Expedition to the Barrier peaks.
Oddly enough, the Library above is where I first met most of my fellow D&D players as a community – before that, Kevin Cummins and I sort of played the blue paperback version at Unity School… (7th grade)
To counter the bad news with awesomeness, Mountain Wingsuit! Wile E. Coyote meets a Flying Squirrel outfit that seems to work. Holy Moley.
I blame BHK for the Avril Levine song going through my head. “Hey Hey, You You, I don’t like your girlfriend”. AIEEGHaba! I fear I may have to consult the big book of earworms to counter this. I forgot that she wanted to buy Pye a bunny-head hat for easter. Ol’ Pye dodged a bullet on that one, but can BHK resist the allure of kitty wigs ?
50 things I’ve done, continued from yesterday. 11-20.
11.’worked as a roofer in South Florida, in August – probably the most physically demanding job I’ve ever done, or ever will. Tar, mops, gravel, sun, drunken coworkers = some sort of Zenny Hell. I liked it for a while, and then pretty much burned out on it. Fortunately, I got an indoor, air-conditioned gig surrounded by books shortly after.
12.’Used to play in the band in jr. high and high school. Baritone / Sousaphone / Tuba were the primaries, though Alto Sax was there for a short period. I’m very slowly but surely picking up the electric bass, and look forward to getting into the stand-up bass, and going from there to a 6-string. I can read music, and should brush up on my recorder skills, too… a lot more portable than the guitar. Maybe the Ukulele will be a happy medium.
13.’Once scarred my leg as a result of swinging a trash bag in a circle while singing the theme song to the Godzilla cartoon. There was a glass bottle in the trash, and it smacked the ground, shattering as I swing it… it swooped back around and gouged a healthy gash in my shin.
14.’was wrestling with my younger brother after shooting at squirrels with bb guns, and rolled with him off of the roof our house in Boynton. I’m more ashamed of shooting at the squirrels than I am of flinging myself and him bodily into the void, only to come crashing down.
15.’has written and submitted (without an agent) 15 stories of varying lengths to assorted magazines and book companies. I fear that many are doomed to the slush pile forever…. despite this, I have been published in a few different paper-based publications thanks to my livejournal (popular science) and unknown armies 2nd edition,(for flavor text). I keep saying that I want to sit down and get back into actually writing some more, but finding that hour a day just isn’t there…. it’s much simpler to babble in a journal entry while on the bus than it is to write solid text, even if it’s just foolish fluff stuff.
16.’was once so soundly asleep that my charges couldn’t wake me up once the parents got home….I was out cold until daylight the next day. I still don’t know why they didn’t call my parents, but instead chose to have me just sleep over. If you couldn’t wake me up, I’d say call a doctor. I never sat for Abra and Tracy again. I was 13 or so.
17.’has seen a UFO, in the truest sense of the word… Just some unknown item flying overhead. I doubt seriously that it was anything extra-terrestrial. A red, slow-moving, cigar shaped cloud, sundog or balloon, maybe.
18.’lived on dry cap’n crunch and water for 3-4 days after Hurricane Wilma… Newton had more palatable food than me! No power for A/c, fridge or light for more than a few days.
19.’called the cops on a guy who was getting beaten up by two other fellows – turned out he was a drug dealer who burned them on a transaction. None of them were arrested. See Frankie the Mooch for a timeline of my encounters with him.
20.’was evacuated by a SWAT team with Newton from apartment, because landlord was despondent over the loss of his nose… was threatening gunfire to himself and others.
I’m beginning to wonder if I can make it to 50 items.
1 year ago – more photos of my new environs. boardwalk, barns, bay, decapitated gnomes and sundry other stuff, dog day at the fire dept, assassination vacation
2 years ago – rs drops to part time, spoofcard, condo issues, newtcam time lapse, spore,
3 years ago – pomade, numbers, lumbee talk going strong, rat flies a f-22, ifbot, secutiry, scotto pic, zombie quiz, miami bridge, New York Public Library Digital Gallery , hurley episode of lost, mile markers
4 years ago – stress, bro, god wishes, font music, audio books, tofu “chicken parm”, he-man, owie-back
5 years ago – stupidity genetic?, pulp-it, sick folks, history of eating utensils, tree like, riblets are great
6 years ago – fiddled with tulpa, dream, oxycontin, naproxen, oxycodone, Domesday
7 years ago – CJ & Herman story 2, dangers of reading in bed, AOK2
9070 – mon – Lots of Asian Elements
Started the week by taking a new route to work! Get an extra 10 minutes or so to sleep in, Fewer road hazards and a shorter trip home! Seems like a winner, so far.
Rice and Beans combined with the last of our yummy thai/curry soup. I swear that BHK is an amazing chef. I suspect that if she went back into the restaurant field that she’d have quite a following.
We watched Curse of the Golden Flower last night… it seemed to continue forever, and didn’t grab me at all. I think that I was expecting Hero or House of Flying Daggers, and it just wasn’t that sort of flick. The sets and visuals were nice, but it just didn’t elicit any strong feelings or thought processes from me.
More pictures from our sushi night on Sunday, and another picture of the “Prisoner Inn” – Flickr uploader has been very flukey lately. It cuts off uploads midstream and drops items from the queue… I may just go with the web interface from now on.
Last weekend, I couldn’t sleep at one point.. played a little Tf2, loaded the 2nd life update, but didn’t log on, and got to the last level (haven’t completed it) of Portal. So far portal-wise, I’ve gotten 4 accomplishments – not bad, given that I play about 20 minutes or so at a time, and half of that is spent just piddling around the environment.
via duchess_webb – I like these, and tend to do ’em when I spot ’em.
Leave a comment and ask, and I will –
1. Tell you why I friended you or at least try to.
2. Associate you with something – a song, a color, a photo, a word, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I’ve always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LiveJournal. (No stress about it from me – but I’d like to see it continue!)
via consumerist –
That $1,500 Prada bag may have been stitched by an illegal Chinese immigrant working in a Tuscan sweatshop.
Steve Warshak, the snake oil salesman responsible for Enzyte (and consequently for those “Smiling Bob” ads) was found guilty today of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. So was his mom.
Items recently eaten that may have negative / naughty-juvenile connotations, slang-wise.
Big ‘Mo – That had a much different connotation when I was in high school. I’d love to see a nascar kid wearing a BIG ‘MO cap…. not sure I could keep a straight face.
Screamin’ dill Pickle Pringles – Funny, yet, it’s about as extreme as tap water… or we just got the most feebly seasoned stack, ever. (Impulse’s comment about it being slang for gonorrhea is better than any gag that comes immediately to my mind.)
Hostess Cherry Pie – Cripes… look at the food values. memo to self, just eat a box o’ fat and salt. 11 points???
Not to be outdone, BHK recently had a “Jack Pack” of Beef Stick, cheese stick and pretzel stick.
Yikes.
via flying-blind – list of cat-lovers and haters throughout history. Also… having a cat help prevent a heart attack!
1 year ago – we build a snowman (with pics), birds, lots of snow, king kong, pasta
2 years ago – sad endings for sea cows, compusa fruitful, movie server, out with danny, newtcam action pics, tortoise herd
3 years ago – ten things meme, cute newt pic, liberated games
4 years ago – Bro drama, free music
5 years ago – fates, evil idea, doc trip, sorghum
6 years ago – mail, fonts, Celtic Religion – Knowledge base
7 years ago – Haiku, thoughts, flatus, dream fragment
9068 – Saturday
Went to the train show with Larry and BHK after my shots – Fortunately, the ice has melted, leaving just water all over the place to drain… not a lot to photograph that wasn’t there last year, but I took a couple of small shots. (see the far more plentiful photos from feb 25, 2007, for the better stuff.)
We returned home, and we were all pretty good about keeping purchases to a minimum.. Larry got some Rolling stock and a cool soundboard.
Most exotic food item of the day… Larry shared his lunch with me.
He made a peanut butter, banana, mayo and potato chip sammich. Knowing this, I still took a big, healthy bite.
It wasn’t bad! Not something I would make for myself, but maybe reduce the banana and mayo by half, and I’d do it again easily enough. I’ve done pB, banana and honey before to good results, but this was a new level.
Hmm… Champions online, since marvel pooped out. Not a bad idea. I wonder how well it’ll do as a sequel to City of Heroes? More “whack a mole”, or will there be some cool Champeens roleplay?
Meme-sheepage, via Applelard
1.How old were you in 1980? 11 years old
2. How old were you in 1989? 19 years old
3. Were you a Toys R’ US Kid? Sure!
4. Did you watch Transformers? Not really, but I was familiar with ’em.
5. Did you see E.T. on the big screen? Yes… back when G-men had guns, not walkie-talkies, dang it!
6. Did you own a Lite Bright? Yup!
7. Who is your Favorite Golden Girl? Rose (I love Betty White’s range! Go St. Olaf! I’ve said too much.)
8. When someone says “Who you gonna call?” Ghostbusters! (Is there another answer to this?)
9. What was your favorite toy(s)? Army Men, Tonka Trucks, super hero dolls. (pre-action figure)
10. Did you have a Pogo Ball? nope! You’ll bust your butt on those things!
11. Did you listen to New Kids on the Block? Nope… some songs got radio play, or MTV though.
12. What New Kid did you have a crush on? None… I never really crushed on any pop singers.
13. Did you play M.A.S.H? Yup!!
14. Did you watch The Care Bears? No… I was a bit old and masculine for that. Cool chest logos and care bear stare power, though.
15. Did you have jelly bracelets? nope… I suspect this is mostly a girl meme.
16. Did you have a charm necklace and/or bracelet? nope.
17. Did you have a Glo Worm? My little cousin did.. I thought it was sort of creepy.
18. Did you ever own a slap bracelet? Yet another no from the boy in the crowd.
19. The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles? Breakfast Club (BHK is going to kill me.)
20. Did you have a crazy hair style? Nope. Generic Dutch boy cut as a youngster, to just a plain ol’ cut older.
21. What was your first bike? does a big wheel count? If not, a gray huffy.
22. Name one thing you still own from your childhood: A ceramic cookie monster made by my momster.
23. Did you have a Cabbage Patch Kid? Nope… too old and too male.
24. Did you dress like Madonna? Nope, but I dated or tried to date one or two girls who did.
25. Rainbow Brite or Strawberry Shortcake? Strawberry shortcake… though this version of Rainbow Brite is rockin’.
26. Did you watch Miami Vice? Yup! Pink buildings and too much stubble!
27. Did you own a pair of jelly shoes? Again, I yam a boyman!
28. Did you own a Trapper Keeper? At least a couple, as I was rough on them. most were boring blue / green ones.
29. Atari or Nintendo? Atari! (My first nintendo was the Wii)
30. Did you play Pac-Man? Dern tootin’… though I preferred Asteroids or Battlezone.
32. What movie scared you the most? Poltergeist. Pop-up monsters, mean tree and scary animated doll-clown!
33. Did you try to dance like Michael Jackson? Who hasn’t tried to Moonwalk??
34. What Is The First Thing That Comes To Mind When You Hear “Flux Capacitor”? Oscillation Overthruster.
35. What other colors did Pepsi come in? Clear
36. Roger Rabbit Or Howard The Duck? Roger was a better Movie, Howard was better everywhere else.
37. Did you ever beg your parents to have your school picture taken with the ‘LASER’ background? Like Max Headroom? Nah.
38. Do you know what the Ninja Rap is? Nope! Am I lucky?
39. Do you know why people cringe when they hear the word BUCKNER? Again, Nope.. am I lucky?
40. Can you name the family members from National Lampoons Vacation movies? Clark, Ellen, Rusty, Audrey, Cousin Eddie, Cousin Catherine, Cousin Vicky, Cousin Dale, Aunt Edna, Clark Sr., oh.. what was clark’s mom’s name?
41. Wally-World or Europe? I’d dig a visit to either, but I think I’d prefer Europe.
42. What was your favorite movie from the 80’s? There were a *ton* of good ones. Buckaroo, Time Bandits, Raiders… I could never choose.
some boy-type questions from applelard to make up for girlie ones –
43b Did you ever wear jams? Oh yeah ,all the time.. I loved ’em!
44b What about parachute pants? Aw, Hail no!
45b Finish this line: “By the power of Grayskull…” I HAVE THE POWERRRRRRRR
46b Did you have any Garbage Pail Kids? I still do! 😀
1 year ago – kitty pix, q&A meme
2 years ago – compusa victory, nanageddon
3 years ago – M & Anchorman, overtown website
4 years ago – Hating on Monday Meetings, Good Links for odd sound, I start giving away Itunes codes, bro screws up
5 years ago – Thinking about getting a hearse, dream edits, Streets of San Fransisco, Jim Rockford Answering Machine Archive
6 years ago – Went to ER over my back, Travel & Newt pictures, confluence
7 years ago -stomp furby, Pete & pete, got interviewed by The New Digital Reporter, How I define good/evil, the menstrualhut is born.
9062 – sunday
spent the bulk of the day indoors with tv and the kitties – bhk a little sick, my back was creaky. Nice day to stay in, relax, and not wear shoes all day.
Watched The Soup, Redneck weddings and read books the whole day away. A nice way to recharge after yesterday’s long-term walkies.
Tree-trimmer guys came back and hammered down the bridge part they knocked over – and finished trimming and proper cleanup.
Jumper‘s getting quite the stinky reviews. Maybe we’ll just wait and catch it on Netflix when it drops to DVD… next weekend. 15%… by comparison, Hottie & the nottie got 7%. if it’s only barely twice as good as a Paris Hilton vehicle, I’ll pass. Jumper got 15 positive reviews and 88 negatives as of this writing.
I’m still game to see No Country for Old Men. – 94%, 179 positive, 11 negative reviews.
The Pentagon will try to shoot down a spy satellite before it crashes to Earth. I want to see the video of that.
Princeton engineers’ weather modeling suggests that the city of Baltimore experienced about 30 percent more rainfall than the region it occupies would have experienced had there been no buildings where the city now sits. While thunderstorms are thought of as being purely forces of nature, the research suggests that man’s built environment can radically alter a storm’s life cycle.
1up has a list of what game companies have donated to which candidates – sort of interesting to see which designers / folks went where.
data gathered via fundrace – a really nifty tool to see what’s up – my zip code shows $840 dollars went to Republicans, and $0 to Democrats, while my in-laws city (right next door) donated $3,426 to Republicans and $1,800 to Democrats
Austin, TX is a little more happy to spend on both sides… it is a bigger city… I was surprised that it spent just a little bit less than Miami.
1 year ago – Sleepover with Amy & Tina, Jackass 2, annapolis pix, ducks, dogma, and Alex Haley.
2 years ago – lego service, lion roar, LS left, misc linkies, nccic, yeti beware sign, (fo)-chief’s letter
3 years ago – Movies, backup tech training, miss mcdonald, themed fonts, stinky, fear of physics, captain’s blog
4 years ago – client crapped out, slow awakening, urge to box, comet collisions, Planet Osiris
5 years ago – early to bed, doctor thoughts, Politi-talk
6 years ago – Pym, argument about writing, haiku, I look like jupiter, pink for vboys, blue for girls, they have a word for it
7 years ago – more crazy haiku, profession of love, seeking a new gig, tough dreams, gooter
9059 – Thursday
Happy Valentines Day!
Got a lovely Kermit the frog card from BHK. Words can’t even begin to describe how much love I have for her. I hold her dearly in my heart. She makes every day a valentiney sort of day. Hard to get too worked up about a day that’s all about love and affection when I’m immersed in it all the time.
That’s a good thing!
As ol’ Bill Shakespeare put it,
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Tonight, we exchanged chocolates, and BHK made tasty mexican bake for me and the in-laws. (well, Chris… Larry had Hot dogs.) Dessert was 3-chocolate ice cream and orange cake with milk chocolate icing. nom nom nom. More fun din din news to follow, I’m sure.
The most awesome collection of superhero toys in one blister pack.
Movie Spidey 3 with a baseball bat!
Superman with a crossbow and terrible chest logo, riding a roaring dinosaur!
Bare-booty Hulk!
Pretty Decent Design Batman!
I would so totally pay three dollars for that. (But then again, I’d dig a Han Solo in Carbonite mini-fridge, too)
Metro says there were 84 assaults against Metrobus drivers in 2007, an increase of more than 50 from 2002. Now they’re talking about putting protective shields in for the drivers…. what about the other passengers? via WTOP
Two new dinos identified – Two previously unknown types of meat-eating dinosaur have been identified from fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert.
via Scheiner – Offshore oil rig evacuated after someone dreamed of a bomb.
I heard waterboarding referred to as a “mild form of torture” today.
The words torture and mild don’t go together in my book – not a gray area, as far as I’m concerned. Like “slightly excruciating”.
I just discovered SourceTV – pretty keen for game spectators. Not a bad way to develop strategy, either. (Learned about it per the huge Team Fortress 2 update – including a map with a train! – Nice of them to give gamers with no significant other something to do on valentine’s day.)
List of Famous (and kinda-sorta famous, maybe) Scientologists. I still can’t believe I missed hearing about Jason Lee.
1 year ago – stayed in for ice storm smashes our fence, ice pictures
2 years ago – Sand dollar, interjection poll, Miami cloud art, bro drama, Bang!
3 years ago – dream, war tuning, slacker, torrent tv, gm-ginger kitties, questions meme, christo, newt stalking pic, zefrank’s st. val history, whims-cute card, work peeve
4 years ago – V-day, hippie visit results, Nefertiti documentary mostly drama – not much document, cheese doodle sculpture, anonymous reviewer bug amazon
5 years ago – got the nordis gig, palm pics
6 years ago – n V-day poetry, JB figures out about SA & Me, wandering pics
7 years ago – How Do I Love Thee?, I resemble Dan Conner, Men cause the mutations, tea room & old TV, TMBG lyric