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8731 –

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

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

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

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


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

Pomonkey had a dryer fire!


Garden plan –

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

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


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


Pictures for the kitties getting along in the loft.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8715 – By Crom! 101?

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


Snow Day Pictures!

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


Happy 101st Birthday, Robert E Howard.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8703 – As missv is fond of saying – “Son, you’ve got a panty on your head”.

Newt is buried up to his neck in laundry while I fold. I don’t blame him a bit.. warm and comfy on a drizzly rainy night!

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Watched Brothers Grimm (finally – I’ve been halfheartedly trying since it was in the theater!) and, despite the negative reviews… I like it.


Moment of Lyric –

Oh ry in eye ay – oh ry in eye ay
Oh ry in eye key ooh lay
Ka kay ooh lau ee – oh ry in eye
Say te lee ay vee show

the rest

8702 – death to squirrels!

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The boys continue to play together nicely… for the most part. Certainly willing to join forces against the devil vermin squirrels outside.

We saw “Night at the Museum”, and enjoyed it immensely.


1 year ago – 2 week delay on big brain, skipper chuck, cool for Florida, movie meme

2 years ago – Bonded bro, lj 6a, comment spam from south of the border

3 years ago – enjoying 2-monitors, PT working

4 years ago – bad day, the ice cube defense, SOP, sexual predator data

5 years ago – Telefutura, game show network, newt shenanigans, my first recorded post on the Usenet, meemee deleted, wonka

6 years ago – Pix quit, Victorian love, spongebob, angry beavers, sweetalyssm’s art, Chinese zodiac, Cold Mountain (Everyone I’ve talked to about it has loved the book, but hated the ending.), peanut butter and nanner sammiches, mother goose.

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8697 – Hap-Pye New(t) Year! 2007

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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PYE!

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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

8676 – pics and spam.

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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Spam content is getting more interesting – most recent:

The cool air is a welcome relief, after a week of record-breaking temperatures.

I think that I may return to Hagerstown on Wednesday, so I can watch the students solo. It all started for me with a father employed by IBM.

Many of our family members who are over five years old joined the church choir and shared their musical gifts. Copies of the Championship game can be viewed on the LegalMatch television network in an office near you, courtesy of Ben. The ability to shape easily information, especially on a global scale, is democratizing. Arguably, as an academic, I often find the freely available web based dictionaries to lack substance and reliability, especially when comparing synonyms. I love to look at it, but I dislike feeling it. The value of timeshifting makes podcasting one of the most useful digital applications. How the PC has affected the face of America is one of the questions that have been rolling around inside of my head for over two decades. and I am not a normally a computer gamer! CAP Cadets Solo – flying – Says Dave CAP Cadets Solo I received word today that all of the cadets at the solo school in Hagerstown, Maryland had completd their first solo flights. As a child, I was taught to accurately compute my sales totals, estimate the sales tax, and determine the anticipated change that I would receive for each purchase that I made. Looking past the functional steps toward the applicability and the outcome-creation potential forms the bond of trust that is inherent in an embracing of any technology. I would have to ask my wife to be sure; she has a better memory for these mundane details, than I. I have found another helpful use for my handheld computer: logging my aircraft flights. These are brisk, factual and come out my recent experience; the content is often dispassionate and dry. She created a convenient dining experience, without intruding on our private conversation. The video recording that we made and burned to DVD will surely be one of our favorites, even fifty years from now. Skills not practiced are lost. We learn to like those we love across the piles of crab shells. The legal decisions require law enforcement to first show probable cause to believe that a crime has been or is being committed: the same standard that applies to search warrant requests. Dad felt that he owed much of his personal success to his being fortunate to earn a job with IBM after returning home from the Korean Conflict. now let’s go over to the losers where Diane is standing by. I have noticed this behavior before, on the part of the locals. A single e-mail message or web page download my comprise dozens of packets, each of which takes a different route to reach its intended destination. However, when listening to digital audio or watching online video, a delayed packet or two is not only noticeable, it is annoying.


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

8675 –

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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”

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.

some peektures here –

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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

8670 –

Dined on the Weezle’s dad’s grapefruit for breakfast this morning (with a couple of tasty bagels), and they were jim-dandy, to say the least. Good stuff from Sanibel!


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Young Master Newton continues his silly habit of licking the condensation off of the windows of the living room. I think his purpose is twofold… tasty water, fresh from the pane, and clear view of outdoor squirrels!

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pictures from the licks this morning –

ah fink mah tug ith thuk.
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Um, what?

The Family Un-Planner The Bush administration’s crazy new HHS appointment.
By Amanda Schaffer
Originally Posted Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at 4:50 PM ET in Slate

On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation’s family-planning program got a new boss who doesn’t believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms “offer virtually no protection” against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage. Continue reading 8670 –

8669 –

unpacked a little bit, made sure phone at the fl place was turned off, and discovered that Neighborhood Health doesn’t want to extend COBRA benefits because of my move out of the tri-county area. I’ve got a call in to the department of labor to take care of things – even if worst comes to worst, I know of a decent health insurance provider I can turn to if COBRA doesn’t cut it… or if I get a gig before that, the new insurance should be even better than Neighborhood’s in any event.

After taking care of the top-o-de-month loose ends, we took a little trip to tina’s and visited her and the kitties for a bit. doug was upstairs day-trading on his laptop, so kitties won the day for attention. kiki and chai are adorable little beasties, and it’s a shame that doug is allergic (I am too, so my visit with ’em was kept to a minimum. we meant to pick up a photo CD, but forgot take it with us when we left.

from there, we journeyed to goodyear for the replacement tire and settlement, only to find it was a different speed rating (A “H” rather than a “S”) so we get to return tomorrow for pickup and install. odds are best that it’ll cost half price due to our low mileage and goodyear’s desire to keep customers happy… I’d have preferred a freebie replacement, but it beats dropping $160-175 for a new tire.

picked up a few holiday ornaments for our not yet picked out tree – rainbow of colored bulbs and strung beads, with a punch buggy vw and heart ornament for flavor. lots of model train sets on display in MD at assorted locations- makes me crave building models and painting minis just a smidgen (but not enough to warrant the purchase of paints or brushes… I know if I dove back into the hobby, I’d just collect a lot of clutter and dust… not to mention I might bore of it again swiftly). Better to build a model or three with bhk and bugah at his house here and there.

tasty dinner of cowboy beans, goldfish crackers… talked to Danny briefly on the phone, in fact I’m calling him back once I finish typing this up.

Found a few really nice prezzies here and there, both primaries and stocking stuffers. no details due to readers who may be receiving them.

I finally heard “Crabs for Christmas”! Very cute tune, and I’d been looking forward to the groove for about 4 months now.

Newt climbed on BHK’s shoulder… that tells me he’s accepted her quite strongly. I believe the move here has mellowed any harsh he may’ve had against her. Or maybe he knows santa’s watching.

That’s about it for now dear journal! time to call Dan back, and see what he’s up to for a few. Later tater!

p.s. temps in the 20s tonight, and I’m digging it… at least as long as I’m inside!


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8668 –

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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8664 – first day of my new life in md

pretty keen, thus far. woke up, watched “my big fat greek wedding” with the mrs, unloaded the van into the house, and went with the dad-in-law to replace a flat tire. (tire is a goodyear, on the love cube – may be getting replaced fro free as a defective, rather than us replacing it due to road hazard.) Larry’s a really good guy, and I had a nice tim e gabbing with him on the trip to the shop.

Newt has acclimated to his surroundings quite nicely… we may introduce pye to the equation as early as monday.

later, we all hit bob evans for some sorely needed din-din, and then bhk and i split off for a litterbox / christmas light quest at wal-mart. we were halfway successful, point to sandbox for newtie.

should have the big brain set up by end of day tomorrow, so I’ll do the former years bit again soon.

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