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9792 – Thursday

July 9, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

I just realized I missed Artomatic again this year, dang it. Third Time’s a charm, I guess!

Pictures from today – BHK taking a roughhouse with Newton Break, and I take a walk to stretch out my back and see baby ducks.

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Mostly an at home day today. Worked on the garden, cleaning up, and work search. Thanks to Sean, I discovered sugar on a stick, which I’ll install to the first cheap flash drive I find. Looks like cute fun!

1 year ago – Cathy and Dave move to Colorado dinner, Adventurers club shutdown, awesome promo for Kubrick Season, sunglasses that protect you from cameras

2 years ago – mysql code, hot outside, cacls, ram’s head plans (did neither), ad&d stats, backpack question, commute pictures on the way home,

3 years ago – phone post from keys… riding the bus is about all I did that day.

4 years ago – power outage, cool magicians, my eyes are blue, klaxons, past life/ice cream/coffee, stem cell steaks

5 years ago – pizza with dan, adp screws up, paid users get lj-priority, making fiends, Fiona apple mp3, Miami Travel Piccies, condo

6 years ago – trolls, naughty hulk, wonder woman movie

7 years ago – Wave of Husband killings, apple nipple monkey, star trek chairs auctioned, Ashcroft afraid of kitties

8 years ago – brackish , some broken links, dancing poll, tried mcD’s yogurt & fruit, Le Petomane, band name poll, bid farewell to some junk

9 years ago – angry beavers, scary movie, don’t look behind you

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9752 – sat

June 6, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Nice day today – went to Annapolis with Larry, Chris and BHK – went to see Jerry Douglas and toured St. Anne’s Church graveyard.

just about wiped out my back, but it was worth it. a few pics from the day – concert, downtown, yellow fever graves and newton / pye pix

1 year ago – dream memories fading, house, gut, hive and other boardgames, paper foldables, there will be blood / bambi, l. ron hubbards most impressive lies besides scientology, i catch up with ellen re:the library team

2 years ago – 150 questions meme

3 years ago – tuesday like buddy holly, poetry, long phone talk, csi project, under cold blue stars, 3 girl rhumba,

4 years ago – Org of American States, South America, Local Journals, burlesque, rain to sun, icons, journey to the center of the earth, I don’t much like Cap’n Jack, PO CHU-I, florida slave labor, rose garden, the Way-Outs, Spanish mixup at work.

5 years ago – D-Day / Normandy, Cold Reading, plague cookies, shockwave, meme, chill out, first appearance of eryx_uk in my comments.

6 years ago – Hobbit Pub w/danny pics, DARPA

7 years ago – Troublesome evacuation issues for fumigation

8 years ago – evil news, laconic, hobbit names, aimbot, hungry, lj DDos, glow text abuse, misc wacky html, Scotto quirk, COPS, long chat with CEJ, Rudy-fibber, poo-health chart.

9 years ago – no-thang

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9715 – Friday – Beware the ides of May!

May 15, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Newton demanded equal op art rights for Pye’s pic yesterday.

BHK got a massive collection of books and boardgames from freecycle today – enough for a new game a night for at least a week or three. Most of the books will be passed on to goodwill or mulch-too smoke damaged or not interesting enough to keep- but a few goodies in there.

We went to lunch with Chris at the BBQ place – I think BHK’s assessment of Chris just wanting to go out was right.

Spoke to mom on the phone – Bro getting a DNA test w/Shannon – Odds are good that he’s the dad, but it can’t hurt to be sure. (more sure?)

Jay, Duncan and Sean came over tonight for hot dogs and fixings – Jay and Dunc took off afterward, but Sean hung out to watch "Let the right one in" with BHK and me. I liked it more than BHK did. (I give it a 6/10 or so – BHK didn’t like the pacing, which I thought fit the story)

Final note of the evening, I love teddy grahams.

1 year ago – tour dream, sound effects websites, gorilla mask robber steals pants, anniversary of dad’s death, voice post

2 years ago – Father’s Death Anniversary, Mom hears from Bro re: his sentencing, my challenges, happy to be "up north" and out of FL, people who have moved, more shaved ice (with pix)

3 years ago – bird flu / monkey pox, walkabout, podcasts, newtcam pics, jack lemmon, hoot, saucermen, exploding pants, bus ride poll, hail,

4 years ago – MP gift, pabst t, won rum, don lapre’s vitamin, personality defect, walkabout pics, monkey at large/safety in numbers, vampire sugar fuel cell, florida medicine is stupid, I smell good

5 years ago – first palm doodle on new palm, wireless sync, pics from houstons (hypno-orb), Library of Alexandria Discovered, Bones Found In Bag At Florida Cemetery

6 years ago – palm doodles, dreams / reflections on the old crew, chicken hawk cards,mailbox mystery, lunar eclipse, first use of publix grocery deliveries,Teen Girl Squad #3

7 years ago – saw waking life, dream thoughts, prep for star wars expedition

8 years ago – evil news, tumor thoughts, astley gives me defective hardware, humors,hunger-poll, Tsarist Russia photos in color, Paid users get fasterservers, Florida Joke

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9686 – sun 4/19

April 19, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Took it easy. in-laws came over for Chinese food.

Getting caught up on my light reading – Laura Lippman’s Baltimore Blues is pretty good – Simon R Green’s Nightside stuff is a bit too Mary Sue (Marty Lou?) – not as good as Jim Butcher’s Dresden books, but entertaining popcorn novels.

Reverting a bit to childplay – petting the cats, watcinhg tv, but mixing it up with catching up on my sql skills and visual studio strengths when not too stupid on muscle relaxers.

1 year ago – beehive, guitar, yard sales, D&D modules, new games, vegetable garden, eee pc

2 years ago – falafel with the gang, adapting to a higher house-population, personality test results

3 years ago – how to glue 2 things, sketch-it, mgum, moonies and sushi

4 years ago – on call techs, residence addresses, 45,800 scottobear entries, flickr letter gizmo, krypto cartoon, Tomi says hi, speech recog test, luxie_loo, pics from tv interview, monkey swat team, new Sophocles, Euripides and Hesiod, new pope

5 years ago – using lappie (broken big brain), teleconference prep

6 years ago – got all 30 eggs, there folks, palm pictures and more doodles, bro n upswing, SQ/EQ, brain chart

7 years ago – Vampires around the world and how to snuff ’em, mushiness, good, simple food.

8 years ago – mix CD, flying capybara quote, missing girl

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9678 – Sunday

April 12, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Happy Easter / springtime / fertility / whatever from Newton and all of us, dear Journal!

We woke early this morning – exchanged easter baskets! BHK loaded me up with jellybeans, gummi lobsters and chocolate covered potato chips, while I got her peanut butter eggs, tie-dye plastic eggs, lip balm and ceramic bowls. 🙂

Kitties were happy to play with catnip from the garden – growing well already.

BHK gave Mr. Woods an assortment of flowers from our garden to put on his wife’s grave – colorful… yellows, reds, and lavender.

I was really beat – back bothering me – I had some lunch and had a nap – woke up at 8:30pm.

Have a wornderful day, dear journal!

1 year ago – cimnim nuts video, no pimpernel, but italian, tough sleep, hacienda / wishes were fishes, doom patrol movie?, JL:New Frontier, Batman Brave & Bold, gaming / cartoon, GP & Kat

2 years ago – rainy day, auto-deploy lj, tk experiments fail, small town feel

3 years ago – Newt in Zefrank’s video, yoink doodle, met with gp and kat, cool gifitis, squishie photos, kev at gimo, mady at chem lab, ab fired

4 years ago – new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards

5 years ago – wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA

6 years ago – Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.

7 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!

8 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up

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9667 Wednesday –

April 1, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

I spent April fool’s day fading back and forth from dreamland.

I mostly napped – spent the day in muscle-relaxant torpor.

BHK and I had some tasty black-pepper popcorn – bhk may’ve had an allergic reaction, or a steam hit? She’s a little red around eyes and a little arm area.

While doped up, I spent a little time playing with the panorama-stitching program (haven’t used it in ages)

Some results of blending multiple pics below –

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1 year ago – april fool – I don’t prank, BHK ill, Night watch, Day Watch, T-Man and Pixx preggers!, the hearse.

2 years ago – scary garden gnome, prank text message

3 years ago – see newt chase a paper wad, new camera, April fool, Scotto utility belt, eagle in the sky

4 years ago – Angsty Bro stuff, making fiends, spam, sticker graffito, social hygiene posters, doodle pay offer (never was paid for it), new doc out, Mitch Hedberg dead, goat’s milk eggs, Sin City

5 years ago – Ossuaries, CoH, LJ 4/1 gag, impression meme

6 years ago – If I were a, fuel cells, JKG, 20,000 leagues

7 years ago – reprint, life changes, teacher with 17 dogs, that’s my baby whale, critter poll, pikachu vs badger, doc visit, mario moonlighting

8 years ago – midget wrestler, glow worm, april fools, nice dreams, I don’t like AFD, Computer update, midget wrestler-scotto

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9666 – Tuesday

March 31, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

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Franklin followed me in to work again this morning! I think he missed me (or my treats) over the weekend. Very snuggly- I could hardly walk for all the ankle rubbing he was doing

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Yeowtch!

Backdated and entered after the fact.

update – fell at work – went knees over noggin as a result of an unstable chair.- went to the ER and was told to take things gently until monday – so much for the cherry blossom festival this weekend. not at work either, for the time being.

ER pic- post x-ray, waiting for my prescription.

I’m ok now… in pain, but on meds and relaxing. Off my feet for this week.

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1 year ago – aquarium pics, alice’s party, frogs, industrial-style bookstore, blu bamboo

2 years ago – cherry tree pic, dinner with cyn & bhk at Mexico

3 years ago – payday, mortgage day, cases run at last minute, sams, first pic of newt with new cam, grumpy newt pic

4 years ago – collections, sick call excuse, palm doodles of ape-o-naut and we’re ants guy, famous monkeys through history, fatcats, newt pic, lost seeding, cell phone abuse, vampires taste like corn, poop thief, doctor vs cop

5 years ago – sensory experiment, propeller island lodge, privacy/recording laws, newsmap, viral spam

6 years ago – insider trading time traveler, gigs

7 years ago – nice morning, honey, clowns, bentons, google bombs, methadone to wean criminals *on* to heroin, interest index, radioactive beans, Chuck Heston

8 years ago – No-nose’s gf, hanging out with bro, new pooter

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9664- sunday

March 29, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Beautiful Spring day today – Back is sore and tummy still upset, but it’s hard not to love the weather. If anything, it’s a bit warm – thank goodness for the breeze off the bay!

Opened up our windows, and let the kitties sniff the fresh air… good to air out the house. Lots of green glow outside, flowers are blooming like gangbusters.

All of our neighborhood kitties were running around, too… most were too fast for the camera, save the chubby polydactyl girl that lives off of 7th and F. She is a master of using her little mitten-hands, too! I fear for the day we ever own a cat with opposable thumbs… our boys are tricky enough without manual dexterity.

Also discovered that the critter up the road we call "Dirty Cow Cat" (sung to Foreigner’s "Dirty White Boy") is really named Zorro.

Pyewacket was at the Window, mewing loudly as BHK picked at the catnip out front… I took a time out from what I was doing to dose both the boys up with a little bit of the kitty-weed.

Saw Chicken Dawg walking around while the in-laws were working in the garden. He was having a grand ol’ time, and smartly stayed out of the road. (Chicken Dawg is named such, because the first day we saw the beagle/basset mix, he was running down the street with a chicken carcass in his mouth – looks like he got it from a trash can. He high-tailed it before we could take it away from him.)

Pictures from walkabout – lots of plants, with the occasional kitty or lawn.

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1 year ago – aquarium trip, cherry blossom fest plans, new avengers, metro cars cracking, fights / passivity

2 years ago – BHK ill & irritated, free psp t-mobil wifi, north beach link, I’m swiss, haiku, D&D gaming grant

3 years ago – coloring book wakes up, zefrank’s log pretty keen, y/n meme, gesture poll, monkey doodle, abstract doodle

4 years ago – Dizzy bear flashbacks about GP, Kat, Danny, and past game group members, blackstronauts, newt angles, alex toth, nameless dread, click to save the world, lunsford

5 years ago – lemon fanta, diet pepsi slurpees, pet sweaters, bro stuff, awesome man,Galaxy Quest, mp3s, virus, apt/newt pics, chernobyl cyclist

6 years ago – There, light bulb pops, the rack, TAG approaches, heroX=mediocre

7 years ago – ice dreams, mock French, animal cams, keywords, yahoo plays bad, peep research, hut destroys a troll

8 years ago – Random Mail, music mix, palm BS picture, pantywaist poll, storms, blogger down

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9661 – Thursday

March 26, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Newton and Pyewacket were especially resistant to my heading out this morning. Good Snuggle and nap weather.

No Franklin – also due to rainy day.

Came home, dinner of pigs in blankets, and mac & cheese. The boys were happy to see me.

BHK got goodies for the garden and the yard! So far, she’s picked up Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, sugar peas, tulips, radishes, spinach and something else that doesn’t leap immediately to mind. Broccoli will be coming later.

I’m glad BHK has such sharp cooking cred – I’m still not sure how I feel about baby stinkhead sprouts, but I’m sure she’ll make ’em great. (I also used to dislike zucchini, so what do I know?)

Some fires to put out at work, went quickly enough.

BHK fell asleep next to me while watching last restaurant standing. Making an early night of it again – maybe we’ll catch the office tomorrow.

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kottke pointed me to this re: Some answers to the disappearing honeybee problem

In an article for Scientific American, two scientists who are working on the causes of colony collapse disorder (CCD) say that they and other researchers have made some progress in determining what’s killing all of those bees.

The growing consensus among researchers is that multiple factors such as poor nutrition and exposure to pesticides can interact to weaken colonies and make them susceptible to a virus-mediated collapse. In the case of our experiments in greenhouses, the stress of being confined to a relatively small space could have been enough to make colonies succumb to IAPV and die with CCD-like symptoms.

It’s like AIDS for bees…the lowered immunity doesn’t kill directly but makes the bees more susceptible to other illness. One the techniques researchers used in investigating CDD is metagenomics. Instead of singling out an organism for analysis, they essentially mixed together a bunch of genetic material found in the bees (including any bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc.) and sliced it up into small pieces that were individually deciphered. They went through those pieces one by one and assigned them to known organisms until they ran across something unusual.

The CSI-style investigation greatly expanded our general knowledge of honeybees. First, it showed that all samples (CCD and healthy) had eight different bacteria that had been described in two previous studies from other parts of the world. These findings strongly suggest that those bacteria may be symbionts, perhaps serving an essential role in bee biology such as aiding in digestion. We also found two nosema species, two other fungi and several bee viruses. But one bee virus stood out, as it had never been identified in the U.S.: the Israeli acute paralysis virus, or IAPV.

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1 year ago – midweek, hummus is the new salsa, john adams card, cute -yet destructive animals, lego plastic man, work

2 years ago – Pictures from lookout point drive, cold/ back issues with bhk and me

3 years ago – made a couple of bucks, Hero dial, tree zoo, ladybug, shin splints, quizzes

4 years ago – danny visit, moskau, balloon wizard doodle, slugbaby snowsuits, Jarvis Sow Bung System Model VC -for the cutting out of sow bungs, Caffeine contents per serving, coconut bonk, taser rick Sanchez, famous homosexual quiz, Jesus-scented candles, finger-wendy’s

5 years ago – Newtie-reaper, policy almanac, GP&K coming to town, Parkland cops bad, cargo ship aground, wandering piccies

6 years ago – Sickies, schoolhouse rock, bro dating

7 years ago – hydrant, alton brown, Halle Barry Freakout, weird emma, annoying cabbie, aa, tcup, Disney/Dali

8 years ago – plh, grumpy at boss, maple cologne, slackerjack, treats

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9658 – Monday

March 23, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Slow to get up – Aiee monday, indeed. It took me a good hour or two to shake off the morning sleepies.

Made it to work with time to spare, I was welcomed by Franklin-cat – I’m going to get treats for him later.

Batman Brave & the Bold continues to be exceptional – I really liked the recent Joker’s 50’s design is … also "brake, choke, throttle, " my kind of car! comment was perfect.

Speaking of Throttle – Comcast returned – didn’t call BHK to let her know they had come by – seems they had throttled down our connection because they couldn’t figure out how to properly bill us? What? Anyhow, it is back up to speed now. Just as well – Verison’s service isn’t in our area – our only other alternative is satellite-type stuff – Hughes net. That’s the price we pay for living in a rural-ish area, I guess!

Grabbed subs, did $2 worth of scratch-off tickets (and won$2! – broke even), and headed home to watch Hancock tonight – I thought it was pretty enjoyable, all told. I think the thing was to not expect "meteor man – drunk hero" throughout the whole film. I do have to wonder about the other super though… why was Hancock the only person being a hero? Just seeing the movie made me wonder if a Damage Control film was a viable thing – a ton of collateral damage.

I just figured out the cartoon I was whistling the song to earlier (singing to pyewacket and newt) – An Itch in Time – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zA16E-_NY about 1:30 into the video

1 year ago – atw easter, palm doodle, becoming jane, easter island, open source options

2 years ago – saw 300 with BHK and TM, supper at chevy’s

3 years ago – six comments per entry, dark organic secrets, working rocket boots, no ‘e’s, hurricane names, ape & kitty,

4 years ago – superhero idea, prvt brokentoy on pavement, bandwidth pull, eclipse, DOJ presentation, Digicam RIP

5 years ago – Bubba Ho-Tep, Bro info, RI annoying

6 years ago – Season poll, spring rains

7 years ago – Newtie Mer, grabby bunny, text-m’s, Pirate disfigurement poll, clever robber, outside reading sources online

8 years ago – sql, free pulp novels online

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9651 – mon

March 16, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Amy’s mom passed away today after battling with lung cancer for quite some time. I didn’t know her, but my heart goes out to Amy and her family. I need to call her tomorrow and express my condolences. We knew it was coming, but it’s still a shock.

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Found Object – Newton and I surfing the web about 6 years ago. I think it was the African Peanut Soup recipe.

BHK and I had a lovely taco salad for supper… huge enough for tomorrow’s leftovers, methinks.

1 year ago – me as gene wilder pic, lowe’s, honemoon, MAN OF IRON… 1504, cherry blossom picture tips, $5, eats

2 years ago – got the Calvert County gig, more shamrock shake, Louise & in-laws, monkey cap, Raines, The Riches, The Microscopic trout and the Machiavellian Fisherman

3 years ago – grampa poll results, RS taught to burn and forgets, folks go to brazil, ultrasound critters, Marvel Florida, gg winding up for an exit,

4 years ago – Freedom force, Thumbkin, Josie Conell, moot back (he’s been gone awhile again), regional wifi scan, netflix queue, account locations,making fiends, Lumbee updates, pinecone

5 years ago – Danny Solo, Devilfinder, Paper toys, elephants-Yeah!, pages back up, COH

6 years ago – lovey, storms

7 years ago – palm-doodle dreams, guest map, location poll, Bert’s Love Song, decent left, menstrual hut memo page

8 years ago – evil news, got a permanent account

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9646 – Thursday –

March 12, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

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"

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9645 – Wednesday –

March 11, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Got home from work, and had more homework to do before bed – I think I’m pretty prepared for tomorrow’s meeting, though.

Not much to say, save that I’m sleepy, and tonight’s Big Bang Theory was pretty weak. They’re on a train and Summer whoozit from Terminator / Firefly is there. Bleh. Best thing about the episode was the end title card.

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From BHK –

"Funny story about this morning. I made a bagel and went upstairs to sit on the bed and eat it and watch the news. I kept hearing this rumble. I couldn’t figure out what it was—maybe my stomach or something outside…at 6am??? On the bed was my jacket which I’d taken off after curling up in yesterday when I wasn’t feeling well and I was cold—-the sound seemed to be coming from there—I touched the coat and felt a lump—trying to figure out if it was Newt I picked it up and—-he had WRAPPED himself like a burrito A BURRITO in my coat and he was purring like CRAZY!!! He’s so silly!!!!"
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1 year ago – alien in america, nerds jelly beans, 911 emergency on bus, free streaming tv, secret lunchtime nosh with BHK, 2 more of the 50 things I’ve done, invictus

2 years ago – D&G off to NY, emergency prep meeting, potato candy, missed 300 with lj folks, birdwatching, everything test

3 years ago – quizzes, secret ritual skeletons, crapulous, neverwinter nights

4 years ago – Open house follow up, pacific northwest tree octopus, lj badge, credit card scam, lois lane’s mustache

5 years ago – walk piccies (sudsy fount), CS bombed as a tech, zombies, condos, legal poop, broken website

6 years ago – Newt in a tub, wandering walk photos

7 years ago – I’m Newt’s bfast table, at the doc, parrots & cuban food, Asimov died of AIDS, Dave’s birthday on the 14th, spiders, squids,Stichomancy, and a little zen, death to smoochy, gypsies

8 years ago – good day, accomplished much, new phone, akimbo, Super Newt, fun words, random plots

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9644 – Tuesday –

March 10, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

Newton slept on my hands – must’ve been seeking bonus warmth, or he was jealous of my rubbing BHK’s arm.
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meme-time – snagged from Sean

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you’re it!

Here is my list, narrowed to 15. (Scotto isn’t tagging anyone, but is happy to see any other entries)

Let’s see… this could be fairly tricky – I’m not sure of music that changed me forever… I’ve never really been one of those folks to play the same album over and over again… a few that come to mind –

Stuff that was significant to me, and I still dig –

1. Beach boys – I went through a major Beach Boys phase as a kid – Pet Sounds was something that got a lot of play both in my home and on my walkman. The album still cheers me up quite a lot.

2. Beatles – Yellow Submarine / Octopus’s Garden (not really an album, but the first music I had as a kid.. that I remember. It wasn’t even the Beatles, it was the Sesame Street Version) If I had to pick an actual Beatles album, I really liked Rubber Soul.

3. Talking Heads – Little Creatures Great album – started me on that Band, and despite the "art student snob" aspect, I really like ’em.

4. Tubes – Outside Inside Got this form a yard sale – I was very pleasantly surprised. (Wild Women of Wongo is what got me to drop 25¢ for it. ) I figure I’ve gotten well worth my penny a play just for that track.

5. ELO – Time – first Album bought with my own money, played a *lot*

6. Steve Martin – A Wild And Crazy Guy Not really a music album, though it had banjo and The KingTut single.

7. B-52s – Whammy Discovered them late – mostly via gaming with Ray & Kat. (Specifically for Trism)

8. Zombies – Odessey and Oracle This one keeps coming back, and I love it every time. (Most recently for "This will be our year")

9. XTC – Oranges and Lemons So Sue me… I like Mayor of Simpleton.

10. They Might Be Giants – Lincoln I first heard them on Dr. Demento when I was in High School – I’ve been hooked since. Hard to believe it’s been 20 years+

11. Genesis – Selling England by the Pound Very different stuff than the Phil Collins-centric bits in later years. It may be my all-time fave Genesis Album.

12. Chuck Mangione – Chase the Clouds Away – One of the five 8-track tapes I had for my first car, the blue bomber. played repeatedly, because we only had 5 albums, and eventually the AC/DC and Beach Boys tapes wore out.

13. Rusted root – When I Woke – first really fun time with the hippies – post concert. I like them quite a lot.

14. Poi Dog Pondering – Poi Dog Pondering – "and I said YEAH!" – discovered by accident. Thanks, tape-traders in college!

15. Queen – Flash Gordon Soundtrack – FLASH ! AHAHHHHH! HE’LL SAVE EVERY ONE OF US!

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1 year ago – transformer at mexico, veggie pocket pies!, back surgery

2 years ago – bhk takes a pic of Newt and I snoozin’

3 years ago – bday via eryx, monkeys and kitties, compusa fails me, quizzes, morrisey vs van halen

4 years ago – apheresis skip, cocktail party, banana man snippet, netflix queue,Ultima 4 Virtue Quiz, system tweaking, ethiopian skellie, dr. who shipping, health and family review, Broward slots, SCI

5 years ago – food, gator bus ride, Voting, business cards, spammed again, MONKEY POPS!

6 years ago – prepared to pee in a cup for TAG, after Nordis tried to toss mysalad… Painted minis in the haunted tunnel… Rockford Scientist

7 years ago – bro came by apt, multi-journal quiz, fear vs love, Fire and Ice, Pliny the Younger

8 years ago – Brad Mentions adding a photo server and chat to live journal…. speed hasn’t been a real priority on that dev. Meat-eating robots, top atrocities… and the return of a hero

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9641 – Sunday –

March 8, 2009 scottobear Leave a comment

We woke very slowly today- it was a pretty exhausting day yesterday, and this morning.

Grabbed a bagel and a bowl of cereal and took a nice walk up to the bay – it was 80 degrees at our house, but the wind off of the bay (once we made it down there) made it feel about 65. Thank goodness for cold water! BHK prefers the warm, I’m sure… but I was certainly refreshed by the bay breeze.

Finished the season finale of Burn Notice – There were some odd elements for the charater, but I suspect next season will be good too. To put it in spoiler sand hero terms – I sort of figured he had a code vs killing, and his hunteds got bought up or down, depending on how you look at it. My favorite line of the show was his mom’s – "How are they going to find me in Miami? A 60-year-old bleach blond? That doesn’t exactly narrow it down"

After that, I caught the end of Willie Dynamite– pleasantly awful. I had it on in the background while I worked on the computer.

My Flickr upload program was slow, so here are more mardi gras pics from yesterday – rolled over at midnight, so these are labeled 3/8/09.

Also of note are a couple more Newton pictures, and I like the shot of Chris with her hands in the air. I may make the "scotto-hand-mask" picture an icon… not sure.

1 year ago – Drive about with pictures – oysters and architecture, puzzle missing 1 piece!

2 years ago – wanted to see 300. (That’ll teach me.), elf defense for undies thief

3 years ago – jojo, fib answers, garfield minus voice balloons, coral springs walkabout,

4 years ago – Millennium Spheres, new dr who, dice quiz, Earth2/We3, Jack benny, Donner party, Karma?, bittorrent

5 years ago – motorcycle Chernobyl tour, led mug, jk to revise hp, dan tech slips, bluto song, haiku

6 years ago – palm pics travel, WWII thoughts, site down

7 years ago – Newtosill, Daffy duck, Morning here, dreams, poem tag, bubblegum alley, cute animals

8 years ago – The bed, Cool old comic books, disclaimer, OJ

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