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Protected: 9802 – where in the world is scottobear?
9764 – walkabout Sunday with in-laws and bhk
can be found here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottobear/archives/date-taken/2009/06/14/
9753 – sunday
We went to "kids at the farm" day w/ jay, duncan, sean, and Jay’s sister & nephew.
Jay’s sister is basically Flip Wilson’s Geraldine incarnate. I kid you not, dear journal.
After visiting the baby animals, we swung by the Lusby Mexico – the food there is still great, and the cost is cheap. Thank goodness for buy one/get one coupons! I suspect that Lusby’s cook is a smidgen better than the closer one.
Seen below – security tricycle from last weekend, annapolis police, a plant we’re trying to ID, dolly-doggie, monty-doggie, misc flowers, Maize lawn darts (Indian style!), oyster shells and a spine in a food refuse pile, totem pole head thingie, assorted huts, (a pano interior photo), scarecrows, bunnies, engine of destruction, goats, tiny pony, more bunnies, duck, more horses, activity for being a pig or a sheep, duncan, pelts, tractors and cows.
1 year ago – bhk & I sick, blueberries – pie, bugah’s ballgame, aardvark’s, boardgames
2 years ago – garden pepper pic
3 years ago – LOTR online beta, valleyschwag, Newt defends me during a pirate game, yawny-poll, mermaids- traditional and feegee, monkey chow diaries, abc mp3, stealth-wing parachute, router hack, bro case update, of mice & men, freaturing superman and bizarro
4 years ago – teensy work text, human hamster balls, google-found webcams, old gi joe comics, jogging for jesus, Florida judges are tossing out DUI cases when defendants ask to see the source code for the breathalysers that busted them, Ex-deputy gets life for molesting boys, bro picked up for trespassing
5 years ago – zombie quiz, metamorpho with GP, Square-boy, Walken sings, Chainsaw owies, ST emulator, Bulldozer rampage, I go to a new host.
6 years ago – bro, pub-crawling with Danny, flowerpop clones my interests and flies off.
7 years ago – hero costume poll, sogyo poetry, fumigation finished, scopes sea monkey trial
8 years ago – baby helmet, deep sleep, grogginess, wag, folks sick all over LJ, shoe size poll, adaptation of science, spark words.
9 years ago – My life unapproved by the Comic’s Code Authority
9740 – Saturday
Later today, we’re heading to the Surratt House today with BHK, Jay, Sean and Duncan.
note –
http://www.surratt.org/mudd/muddcase.html
http://www.surratt.org/events/manhunt_movie.html
http://www.surratt.org/
Last night BHK and I had a lights out night – no power, just played boardgames and cards by rechargeable "candlelight" lamps.
Can’t stop bhk won 1, I won one 
Probe – bhk won *
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Canasta Caliente – bhk won one, I won one
Charge it! – I won one
All were fun – I recommend a family game night to anyone!
more to follow when we return, dear journal!
1 year ago – poitics test, Great Gazoo, RIP, Hard knocks life, tigger/pye smoking dream, geister and other fun online games, gimlet, alan’s bday prezzie
2 years ago – hot in the courthouse, shaved ice, adam and jimmy’s graduation, more lj spam, move to own domain?
3 years ago – nice time with danny, rocker meme, mm call
4 years ago – memorial day, bhk fridge magnet pic, dr who
5 years ago – spotty notepad frenzy, mood theme editor fixed, General Tao’s tofu, My cam catches right before lights out, Newt-bt pic, Nose beeps, streams of thought, sleepy newt wallpaper (or why using arrow keys is hard with the boy on the desk)
6 years ago – google news, kev, easter island, barcode, got a lovely peek-in.
7 years ago – complaining about the weather, disappearing languages, palm piccies that need to be re-uploaded, smoke ring gun
8 years ago – hoi polloi, nice walk, memory stream, super chicken, ask me a question, ostriches
9 years ago – stream of thought re:Newt, Fritz & April
9730 – walkabout pics / videos
1 year ago – food, cough, house and hell’s kitchen, lifelock fails and is sued, James Garner, Opheera McDoom vs Cinnamon Stouffer, SQL union command handy, newt tackle pye pic again, insane highway cloverleaf
2 years ago – acceptable in the 80s, shrek 3, pictures of otters, fireplugs and dressed up geese.
3 years ago – black adder / house, play-doh perfume, historical sounds, marco polo, a mouthful of crabs, paul anka, ninja name meme
4 years ago – breakdancing bodybuilding, bus trip with mzk pics, no magda, ear whispers
5 years ago – tman & pix, Confucius, there ‘closing’, wireless at the ‘mat, warchalking
6 years ago – PT, hoverbikes, rain, laundry video
7 years ago – more LJ reflecting (I averaged 3 posts a day back then), "VanityDeleters" and keeping LJ for the future, broken pic links to repair,awesome cd from sholanda
8 years ago – Life improved for me, LJ has gained more features, egress, rubber track conversion, ramen noodles, kumbaya, answer to the woodchuck question.
9 years ago – Fritz gave Newt a parasite, my first actual entry
9671 – sunday
Back at the in-laws to watch Tigger – caught up a bit with work reviews missed while at home… documentation and editing of info, primarily.
Kicked back, relaxed for a few – and then headed home.
taken via cameraphone – the wind was blowing cloud shadows everywhere.
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It’s getting warmer out – I can’t wait to go kite flying with BHK!
1 year ago – cherry blossoms, FDR memorial, spam journals on LJ, BHK sneaks on my journal
2 years ago – 3-d movies, snow, jd, county work review, petals falling, karaoke, What in Sam Hill?, psptv
3 years ago – zombie horde counterstrike, pyramid house, bugs bunny, tmbg, devo, tom delay, top40,
4 years ago – Badge shape pref poll, flickery power, Jasmine, stupid comic deaths, Dr Who episode 2, KANG KANG KANG KANG!, Monkey awe, hukilau, driver 8 pic, 23/5 bibliomancy
5 years ago – Itchies, chocolate dodge, Miami fires, sweetalyssm.com goes down due toa hack. (sadly, never to return), palm-doodle entry, Denny’s lunch
6 years ago – hung out with ![[info]](https://i0.wp.com/l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?resize=17%2C17){kind=small}
ldy & grrwoo, JKG wants me, prep for TAG
7 years ago – Freedom Force, Poem tag, new tech, THE poll.
8 years ago – morning walk, goals, online people, people that didn’t want my help, kindness triage, cartoon stereotypes, Hey, The Dusty Miller, hair color poll
9665 – Monday
Tasty spaghetti for supper tonight – BHK stopped off for scratchers and soda pop – $2, no prize. Listened to Life of Riley on the way home, and just took it slow.
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Info on conficker – more straightforward than a lot of the misinformation out there.
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There’s a ton of stories this morning about some bright flashes of light and booming noises coming from the skies over eastern Virginia, parts of Maryland and North Carolina. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports that the National Weather Service’s Wakefield station’s phone was "ringing off the hook" last night after around 9:45 p.m., as residents frantically called in to report flashing, bright lights and in some places, an explosion-like sound. No immediate explanation came from the NWS, but a team is now investigating what might have caused the fiery flashes. WTOP has a report that suggests that the phenomenon was most likely a fireball, which can occur when a piece of meteor rock enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
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SWAT in Maryland update – via Cheye Calvo –
I am very pleased to announce that, on Saturday, the Maryland House of Delegates passed HB 1267, the SWAT team oversight legislation, by a 126-9 vote. The bill will require law enforcement agencies with SWAT teams to report every six months to civilian authorities on the number, general location, purpose, authorization, and results of SWAT deployments. It also directs the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to analyze the information and issue an annual report on SWAT team deployments in the state.
The Senate passed a companion bill 43-0 on March 19. In both cases, lawmakers took strong action following emotional testimony in committee by numerous victims of careless or inappropriate SWAT deployments. The point was clearly made that what happened to my family was not an anomaly, nor is the problem limited to Prince George’s County.
Differences between the two bills about whether to include a sunset provision and the start date of the legislation will need to be resolved in a conference committee over the next couple weeks before the General Assembly convenes. However, it is looking quite likely that we will be able to send a bill requiring monitoring of SWAT team deployments to the Governor for his signature within the next few weeks.
The House of Delegates passed the legislation on Saturday, which happened to be my 38th birthday. This is truly the best birthday present I could have asked for!
Cheye
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1 year ago – bhk sick, games workshop, weather, david horvitz, detox quackery, q&A meme,
2 years ago – view from my desk at calvert county, quizzes, geourl, bake sale!
3 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
4 years ago – met mzkitten, poker spam, totem, Nostradamus Quatrain Generator, uv flower photos, doc ock song, david byrne
5 years ago – news registration, De Soto, missing digits, esp test, pirates, Nevada
6 years ago – Danny, keywords, Maryland Snow Day
7 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
8 years ago – netcast, rent, palm tree, spaghetti-ohs, 7-up, key limits, parapsychology, slurs
9646 – Thursday –
Tasty Salad at lunch, with lots of work on either side of it.
Made a date with BHK to see the Pietasters in May! A little Ska never hurts! Also made plans to go get some pancakes with Duncan, J, and Sean this weekend!
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Bloody Fun Day is a strategic arcade game where players control the Reaper as he plows his way through little critters. Every time Death sticks his scythe into one of the creatures, he gains points but loses health. Destroying red creatures will bring his life back up.
Each set of creatures killed leave behind eggs which need to be left alone to hatch into even more critters. Building up points also gives Death special abilities which can be activated in order to grab even more points. It’s all about bagging as many points as possible before you run out of life.
The game mechanics work really well and it’s a very nice concept. There’s a tutorial to get you going and a couple of game modes to choose from. Play it over at Kongregate. (via indiegames.com)
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News from BHK today –
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2009/9593.shtml Migratory waterfowl counts over 5 years
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2009/9597.shtml New bill to require insurance companies to disclose slave records from the 1800’s. One of the proponents is a Law prof from MD—Professor Ifill
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2009/9610.shtml Wind power available in Maryland? Who knew!!!! I’m not comfy with a 1 to 2 year contract though AND it probably isn’t even available in our area!
By the way–YOUR son was sleeping IN the trash can upstairs this morning!!!! It didn’t have trash in it but it did have a plastic bag liner—–he’s a nut!
(Whenever Newton is weird or naughty, he’s MY son. Whenever Newt is cute and adorable, he’s OUR son. Pye hasn’t been given the same treatment yet, but he’s the baby of the family.)
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1 year ago – med doodle stat, neverland ranch pix, 7 dirtiest IT jobs
2 years ago – wachovia, chipotle, pictures out birding, BHK’s potato soup
3 years ago – justice and friendship, walkabout, thai, @ sushi, dabble db, open office, human ton & handy, 5 love languages, newt installs counterstrike
4 years ago – net down, simile, super-poots, a little about myself, dmw
5 years ago – newt pic, alton brown ok, cliches, The author of California’s anti-gay marriage law? His son just got married. To a guy.
6 years ago – spam, barbed wire, slow walk, stinky bus, spring break starting
7 years ago – news articles from 1902, poem tag linked to me, Scott name confusion, cool databases
8 years ago – Big Bird Song, cell phone jamming / scanning modes, a good day, "feet and blisters, web"
9598 – thursday
Two pictures from this morning – L’enfant station in DC – halfway to work
Local Hotel who left water running, but it froze anyway.
My Life’s current settings –
Spectra-Analyzer (Monochrome / 4-Color / True-Color / Thermograph / X-Ray / Aura Vision )
MPAA Rating (G / PG / PG-13 / R / NC-17)
Kill switch (Off / On / Wanton Murderous Rage)
Weirdness Tank (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Laugh-O-Matic (Serious / Satirical / Witty / Wacky / Insane)
Cliche Blender (Pulse / Blend / Puree / Oh, Ugh!)
Global Soundtrack Volume (off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Personal Soundtrack Volume (off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Batteries (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
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Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
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1. I didn’t own any jeans for over 20 years before I got married (Just khakis, and knee-shorts, etc). Now I own 3 pairs, and they’re my favorite weekend clothes to wear.
2.I can’t wear boots, ice skates, or any long-necked "slip your toe in" type of shoe, due to dropfoot and nerve damage on my left side.
3. Every time I see my wife or one of the kitties, I feel especially blessed.
4. I’m a limited vegetarian (I’ll eat eggs and dairy… and crustaceans. – Nothing with less than 5 legs or more than 1 foot.)
5. I think that it is usually pretty easy to be kind to others, and it surprises me when some people seem to go out of their way to be cruel or hostile to strangers.
6. I doubt the existence of the supernatural, but love the stories.
7. I suspect there is life elsewhere in the universe, but doubt that it has visited Earth in a constructed craft.
8. I turn 40 this weekend. I alternately feel about 14 and about 60. So I guess I’m averaging about 37.
9. I have been run over by a car. I was riding a scooter, and the car was doing at least twice my speed. I really don’t like being tailgated, and if I have my druthers, I would pull over to let them pass, or slow to a snail’s crawl so they would do minimal damage to my vehicle. .
10. I haven’t had a driver’s license for about 15 years. (I plan to get one sometime in February, if I can get my Florida Records)
11. When I was about 15 I had a Ferret named Freya (renamed from Mitzi when I got her) – who was poisoned by someone in the neighborhood. I would still like to know why – she never hurt anybody, was friendly and fun-loving.
12. I suffer from Mama-bear levels of defensiveness of my loved ones. DO NOT HURT THEM, or I will maul you.
13. I’ve had problems with my back since I was 16 – ruptured a disc at the library of all places, moving books. I may need surgery again to repair ongoing damage there.
14. I have kept an online journal and website for over 10 years. (about the last 8 years can be found at http://scottobear.livejour
15. I often overcompensate for being a big guy by being either too shy, or too friendly.
16. I love being able to peek in on the kitties remotely. ( http://pyecam.scottobear.c
17. I’m a sucker for social gaming – board games, tabletop rpgs, cards, the Wii:whatever brings friends to meet face to face and have fun. (I’m really bad at Chess, but love playing it)
18. I believe in love, and think it’s a greater motivator than fear, greed or pain. (and those things are amazing motivators)
19. I wish that I could help more people. I also wish that more people would try to help me, and each other, too.
20. I helped to write software that assists in the recovery of missing children. (Something like 400+ recoveries at last count)
21. If I were able, my phone would only accept incoming emergency calls. (I really don’t like to use the phone much)
22. I love movies that incorporate at least a few of the following (some are redundant, and there are often exceptions): giant monsters, monkeys, witty dialogue, martial arts, comedy, are not a remake, 3-d glasses, horror, action, cartoons/CGI, fleshed-out characters and a well written story.
23. I think some things *are* black and white, but most are shades of gray.
24. I would love to use the wind off of the Chesapeake Bay to power our house.
25. I mentally render anthropomorphic almost everything I see.
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1 year ago – bioshock, apples to apples online, went home early, re-animator 4, sweetened cheetos
2 years ago – Kat and GP get Ollie and Bella!, Kierkegaard, High speed net a no sir, BHK adjusts her name
3 years ago – james lipton papazao, cny, hobophobe, ice skating monkeys, housecleaning, compusa corporate & big brain, zombie astronaut, religion of comic book characters
4 years ago – slow Friday of work and Mel, frozen water spray, man urinates his way out of an avalanche
5 years ago – Dinner with old crew, song poems
6 years ago – Russ wedding, bro visit, Cane toad loot, Tom showers us with gifts, got a prezzie for Kev
7 years ago – Devil-newt, party hat smilies, photos of pompano travels, King retiring?
8 years ago – Font-fiddling, burpin’, VAGG launched, bored with a slow reading list
9557 – Monday
9557 – Monday
North Beach’s High and Low today – 26° F | 14° F
Nearby Easton is 9°F, with a windchill of -7° F.. the Snakehead fish there are going to be under a layer of ice, I think.
That’s about as chilly as it has gotten this season… well, that’s not saying much – winter started.. what, Yesterday?
40% chance of precipitation… maybe even a white Christmas! I’ll take those odds.
BHK and I have been amused by a recent episode of Mr. Meaty – it’s on the Tivo until it gets lame. Jesse Lumberpond! Sissy Death!… and See also
Making fiends is cute, and I hope Amy Winfrey is swimmingly successful with it. I really liked the web cartoons – I wonder how many changes she had to accept to get it on nickelodeon?
Additionally – A PURPLE SQUIRREL ! – via BHK
Starting today, you can purchase a commemorative Barack Obama inauguration SmarTrip card. The special cards, which cost $10 and come with no value preloaded onto them (or pay $20 upfront and get $10 in value on the card) can be purchased online or at Metro sales offices. The commemorative cards featuring Obama’s face are not to be confused with the special $10 one-day Inauguration paper farecards, which also feature Obama’s face. Those paper cards offer unlimited rides on Metro all day on Jan. 20, and are also available online or at Metro sales offices. The commemorative SmarTrip cards work just like regular SmarTrips, and do not offer any special fare discount or unlimited rides. (via DCist)
PSA- Dealnews has a list of 90 stores that you can still order from and have it arrive it time to make it under the tree before the 25th.
Current Music:
1 year ago – brief entry – mom and wilton arrive, tacarro, mama lucia’s
2 years ago – eryx card!
3 years ago – newton is stealth-master, kev visit planned, mighty boosh, tundra, AHOl finds sticker, astrology misc, fork evolution
1 year ago – Mel’s prezzies, Jill good / ADP sucks (both are long gone), tell me meme, No Godzilla, Bush / Scalia / Thomas
2 years ago – RotK w/Dan, 51 successes, gabbed with sedef, Atom feeds
3 years ago – cravings, adoration, sinanju
4 years ago – stray fugitive lotr thoughts, my fondness for orange/yellow foods, rejection letter, where there’s a whip, there’s a way
5 years ago – cards, filters added
9547 – Friday
Had an off-site meeting the bulk of the day today – informative, and interesting, but I think I’ll opt for the webinar version unless there is going to be any "networking" to be done.
Pleasantly surprised to see Shaun M on the bus ride home – we discussed going to get a Christmas tree tomorrow.
BHK made more pigs in blankets, and we all just sort of are crashing out now.
I’m looking forward to the new tannenbaum, as long as we can find a place to put it in our house.. now that we have the new couch, it’s hard to make room for something of that size.
holiday lights that seem to have the least to do with any known holiday. A little yellow fish in love with a yellow submarine.
I wish them both the best of luck.
1 year ago – heard about ex’s foreclosure, folderol, Aflac, good thoughts about BHK, WMBT- wombat radio, Santa Clause w/in-laws
2 years ago – christin reviews eragon, my Xmas stocking, got a train to put under the tree. (Larry gave me some track extension this year!)
pictures taken – more xmas tree
3 years ago – pizza and narnia, santa poll, lenses, feliz navidad, cousin billy, clydee card, walkies pix
4 years ago – damned don’t dance, Mel’s Gramma, shopping, vote switch software, Hardee’s Monster thickburger, UFO theme popular, Gigantor
5 years ago – sleepyhead , mugger caught on lj audio, Epipelagic and Mesopelagic Animals, misc
6 years ago – Newt with his feet up, Froogle gets rolling, VB memos, given serious sam by msk
7 years ago – Linus Recounts the reason for Christmas, segway thoughts
8 years ago – Hell week day 2, the psychic, longfellow
9525 – sunday
Today I spent most of the day inside – cold out there, and my back is tricking up. I’m glad tomorrow is physical therapy! BHK and the inlaws did some yardwork in the chill while I did repairs in the heat, with the kitties inside.
Speaking of the kitties, I dreamt that we were in the green truck, returning form taking Newton and Pye somewhere – I had just off-loaded Newt in the house, when the truck drove off – Someone had made off with the vehicle and Pye! … it made it about a block and a half before BHK and I caught up with it – turned out that Pye was driving, a la Toonces. I was dumbfounded, but BHK just snatched him up and brought him inside the house, scolding him fiercely. I remember looking at the cabin of the truck, and trying to muddle out how he accomplished it – BHK was more interested in telling him "NO! BAD KITTY! You’re too young to drive!"(and this is true, as he is only 4.)
Picture taken on the way home last night – Christmas is in the air, already. Normally, I like to wait until after thanksgiving, but I love the more basic stuff… Lit up trees and misty nights.
and for the David Deboy fans out there – Crabs for Christmas.
I spent some time fixing BHK’s laptop – the boot volume was toasted somehow. Fortunately, it was just a job for chkdsk /r and a little patience for the cleanup.
After the folks left, bhk made a mighty salad – garbonzos, spinache, cabbage, and whatever other good things in the house (pumpkin seeds and meatless baco-things on mine!), served with some beans and rice for bulk. It felt really good.
1 year ago – I love traveling with BHK, train set at motorcycle shop, festival of trees (Hospice), getting my head in order
2 years ago – gobble gobble – turkey day
3 years ago – talked to bro in hospital, local music, reader quiz
4 years ago – good counters bad, beard, heroin traffic in sofla, Melissa not Alyssa, evo vs creationism beliefs in the usa, googlewhacked, crimes against children task force
5 years ago – Whatever comes to mind, kid memory, cent sign, elephants
6 years ago – Mayah’s Birthday with pics, mage knight, cosplayers, Newtpics, ACCExpo, Lemmiwinks song
7 years ago – Superpowers, assoil, holiday icon musing
8 years ago – Golden Rice, survey, myths over Miami
9524 – Saturday
leftover goodies from halloween – visits with poes gravesite, and baltimore in general. clicks embiggen.
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After allergy shots (and a chit-chat with Kendall’s Mom) BHK and I went to Gina’s Cantina for lunch and took an extended walk around annapolis today – despite Britney chiding us for not seeing "Twilight" the sparkly vampire yet, we skipped hitting the movies.
I got a lot of christmas shopping done, but BHK didn’t have my luck. Despite our having gone to a little computer show, I couldn’t see any really amazing deals.
Spoke briefly with Danny this afternoon while on the road – apparently the new tolkien calendar isn’t so great, just landscapes. I figues we can get him a better calendar than that for the holidays. BHK commented on hobbits in bikinis. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were such a thing.
1 year ago – one year out from ACIM, turkey doodle, tg pics to color, ze on thanks, BHK cooks, bacon salt, fry on americans, newt and pye pics, lj reads, 27 questions,
2 years ago – Mr.T on fashion, Bully Charlie Brown, Bro incognito, Last day at ACIM.
3 years ago – chilly for fl, many entries, foot amputee dream, bro in hospital
4 years ago – newtcam button, hercules & newton, bueller thoughts, jam sammiches, g-cans, flu bug, survey, LH quits, bro back in the pokey
5 years ago – DC Earths, Shrunken Heads, Police Cars, mix cds, South park, origin ofRaj KAJ, An awesome Weekly World News Issue, I am DNA, Bro Issues
6 years ago – classic kids audio books, history, forms in LJ work, goodbye to work-Pam, Mojo has a hissy fit vs Bonbon/Kev
7 years ago – beatnik, thanksgiving, harry potter quiz, wandering
8 years ago – thanksgiving
9514- Friday
Friday- nice to see it back again. It was foggy beyond belief yesterday, and continues today.
Last night’s supper of Chinese food from the Octagon was pretty good – I only wish they hadn’t packaged the general tso’s tofu in such a way that I got it all over my work pants and jacket while driving home.
Back was tweaking up something fierce – I wonder if the barometric pressure was a factor, or all that fog?
BHK is using her super legal-powers to help with the condo issues – looks like we might get this thing ironed out after all!
While she looked up condo legal-ese, I did some back stretches, overdue computer stuff, and checked out the demo of Left4Dead… that’s a beautiful game right there. The artwork is pretty top notch, and I really like the team play aspect. That’ll probably be my next purchase afte rI swim through Fallout 3 some more. Maybe someday I’ll get around to finishing the later episodes of HL2.
In other gaming news, BHK picked me up a new gaming joystick via freecycle. Can’t beat free hardware!
This weekend, we are likely to skip JohnCon, and instead go to Geppi’s Entertainment Museum. (I wonder if my metropass will count for $2 OFF GO GREEN! Show your ticket stub for public transportation for that day and receive $2 off admission to Geppi’s Entertainment Museum.)
Lunch today of "chicken" nuggets and mac&cheese was dang tasty. perfect for a cool, misty day
Got off work, and the Element has recovered from the hit we took from the deer. It still smells a bit of paint, but looks good as new.
Traffic was HORRID today. It took us forever to get anywhere!
BHK, Larry, Chris and I went to Selby – I guess the owners are looking to retire, sadly. I guess we had better get the pizza while we can!
Scholar finds Mayans’ buried highway through hell
The Washington Post is reporting that the shutdown of one hosting company has caused the total volume of spam to drop by 2/3rds. The company in question is McColo Corp. Both Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing pulled the plug today after a damning report revealed a number of illegal activities happening on McColo’s servers.
1 year ago – more fog, falafel, blog2blog, The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love,
2 years ago – road pix, graffiti, spider girl gang, test vox crosspost
pictures – BHK doodle-writes on my pda, cartoon pic
3 years ago – moon cake, doom patrol, politics, Life Pref, butt jokes and political statements preferred
pictures – recent visits over 24 hours
4 years ago – monet’s b’day, comment/entry stats, america’s age, torrenting shows via rss, vouchers unconstitutional, prednisone, taking falluja, work vacation, newt pics
5 years ago – bollywood, pt, hooray for adhesives!
6 years ago – Male contraceptive, Dan met OJ Simpson, Newt-spoon Wrestling, peephenge, eating on the cheap.
7 years ago – evil news, gallimaufry , happiness machine recycled, writing apache modules
8 years ago – Bee-man lives, lucha, schizo-masons, Brian comment