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9713 – Wednesday
walkabout – who saw kittens?? We did! Continue reading 9713 – Wednesday
9702 – Sunday –
Rough day, got walkies in – saw a wet puffball kitty, and cross-eyed orange under an awning.
Dinner with the in-laws – they brought over creamy peas and ziti, plus lettuce wedges and chocolate silk pie!
Picture – clicks embiggen.
1 year ago – napkin hangman, bhk pic, got pyecam at a yard sale, many games, Oshi, (Did I ever send Ray & Kat the Larry the Zombie for Fluxx??), mid-air dolphin collision, naked gardening.
2 years ago – Bro arrested, 40 lb cat, freecol
3 years ago – lj bumps, free legal streaming shows, mail form ilene and bubbles, superman returns, ad-free lyrics, wooden pc case mods,
4 years ago – no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song
5 years ago – teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos
6 years ago – words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties
7 years ago – entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such
8 years ago – diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin poll
9670 – saturday
I got out of the house briefly to babysit Tigger with BHK at the in-laws (they’re off camping) and to visit the neighborhood flea market today – normally would’ve walked, but rolled in the love cube instead due to lack of mobility.
Spent a total of $80 today. Here is some of what we got:
- hand held police scanner (for $1!) it works!
- A big pile of books to read (William Kidd for me, a bunch of goodies for BHK)
- flash comic, seaguy comic
- 2 new iron chairs for the porch ($27)
- 4 plastic dinosaurs ($2)
- a picnic basket, complete with plates, cups and such ($5)
- a beeswax candle of a bear on a beehive
- a chocolate brownie
- 2 chocolate chip pumpkin muffins
- a yummy loaf of birdseed bread
- a chocolate chip oatmeal cookie
- 2 handmade cereal bowls – aquamarine – really pretty!
- 4 potted ranunculus, with a ton of buds (pink, yellow, orange, red)
- 2 long boxes for the flowers, plus potting soil.
- dvd player ($5) for larry
After riding around, my back was pretty rough, and BHK was feeling it too – headed home and just chilled out. I’m a little worried that I over exerted myself by just standing up and sitting down so much. Ugh.
Random pic from the hardware store last week – forgot to post it. I am juvenile.
1 year ago – sleep in doodle, Mr. Woods, Red Robin doodle, shopping, 10,000 bc vs superhero movie, cool robots, McCain says americans are too cynical, picture meme, cherry blossom pic, jefferson pic
2 years ago – victim of the 80s / transformers, time flies, movies. (still haven’t seen blades of glory.), local blooms pic
3 years ago – wearing purple, dan break, bug inspectors, doc, firewall,
4 years ago – apology-but, making fiends in bulgarian, free photos, broken people, TSiC
5 years ago – 22 questions, DST, Ft. Laud Mellowed, 4-4-4
6 years ago – Met with Meter Made, don’t confuse courtesy with subservience, pics for the day, Speedy off CN, Sample McDougald house letter
7 years ago – walkies, dream, taking stuff poll, Moment of Waponi, Killian’s, bkveggie (the old one), long music ramble, production meeting at IMT
8 years ago – Slander-drama / resolution (Honestly, I think that part of the issue started from here.) I still wonder how that "FBI Investigation" turned out
9664- sunday
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
9631 – Thursday
I am both amused and a little dismayed that our town uses a very similar font as The Prisoner for all of their emailed town announcements. Mostly Amused.
North Beach
Planning Commission
February 26, 2009
7:00 p.m.
North Beach Town Hall
1) Minutes from the January 22, 2009 Meeting
2) Board of Appeals Case: Recommendation for 9201 Annapolis Avenue, variance request.
Firsts Meme (snagged from Kat)
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
9427 – Tuesday
Got epidural (ouch.), appointment with cardio, met with back doc, got spore, Mexican food and maggie moo’s.
Wal-mart drew the last straw, and is now on the official boycott list – poor service plus bad business practices in the pharmacy.
While BHK was reading bergdorf blonds, I played spore – somehow I can’t use the critter I created in the demo creator in a spore game -still investigating why that is.
Went grocery shopping – Cranberry sierra mist is back and I got creme de menthe altoids – sad to see the mandarin orange mist gone.
As for walkies – we’ve laid out a reward plan – we have a bundle of space-critter buttons, and for each goal, we get an additional "merit badge" – after we get up to distance, it’ll be repetition. My goal is 5 miles a walk, three walks a week.
So far –
5 badges each–earned
1 after 5x 1 mile walks—Allison got a space piggy, Scott got a red astro-kitty
2 after 4x 2 mile walks
3 after 3x 3 mile walks
4 after 2x 4 mile walks
5 after 1x 5 miles walk!
Recent walkies
Sat – 8/23/08 -1.5968 addl -~1.2mi (total =2.7641 counting whole day )
Sat – 8/31/08 – 1.7333 miles
Sun – 9/1/08 – 2.0166 miles
Sat – 9/6/08 1.2279 miles
Sun – 9/7/08 1.631 miles
Tues – Today – Before going to the doc – 9/9/08 2.0234 miles
Walkabout pics – mostly flowers, fruit/berries and birds along the view from the boardwalk – I really like the little red star flowers – forgive the repetition, dear journal – trying out aspects of macro and zoom.
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Spoke to Brittney about getting serum ready for Saturday, and maybe an EKG at the same time. *please* let it be ready – this’ll be the third week out. I think it’s likely that we’ll get some this go ’round.
1 year ago – many pictures!, renfest, swami yo, hack & slash, johnny fox, kadon, bhk participation, many boardgames, food sample list, quiz-meme questions
2 years ago – october plans for in-laws meetup, geotagged photos, comedy show, go game
3 years ago – confirmed Deerfield condo, iguanas, wonder woman, pb&h, 2nd life, songs meme, quizzies
4 years ago -future life, fly-eating bot, living in Broward, Maroon, tracking Ivan,Danny’s students read my lj, on call all weekend, HIP/Bag lady
5 years ago – Run, Trism-Gollum, Run, robot zoo, dirty-sounding words, palm-day at work, lifetime membership in there, time marks the beginning of the end for prop2
6 years ago – oatmeal, remembrance rant, touch screen voting, flash CAD thingie.
7 years ago – hardscrabble, Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, (and other daily life books), good things
8 years ago – saw a black tip shark, conch fritters, everway
9425 – Sunday
Better Walkies today – cooler weather – lady with cats in a screened in stroller (Abby and Gabby – her name was Merle), spent much of the day at home.
Adam paid a visit, brought Chinese food. Played some Wii / lego star wars, took it easy.
Additionally, we saw the polydactyl cats who were more than friendly and lovable – they flop over and show belly for petting as soon as we get within 10 feet of them. clicks embiggen as always. I think the white belly is pregnant. Are mitten-footed cats just more friendly? I seem to recall the ones in the Keys to be especially lovey, too.
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Chewing on a bagel yanked out my filling and root canal. I now have a pretty big hole in my jaw – not painful, but after calling Dr Wolf, I’m to keep food out as best I can, and call him on Monday for an appointment – this was the tooth that was going to ge tthe crown, so I guess I may have more than two appointments ahead of me now (1 for temp crown, one to install perm)
1 year ago – falafel, sick bhk, gardenburger, comics and games and stuff, change, very clever pipe game, cosmic coasters, eryx sends us ecofluxx, twin win, apes and cadbury, 3000 year old beehives, population doubling by 1 human and 1 cat, how scotto makes himself angry, Madeline L’engle RIP, stolen catalytic converter from the parking lot at work, palm doodles, top murderous cities
2 years ago – jojo again, Chase is a creep, acim scuttlebutt (RS came back and left since then)
3 years ago– First notice of SNAKES ON A PLANE, smokin’ with Newt and Firpo,morning pre-work report, interdictor shenanigans, ADP and RI duke it out, second life free
4 years ago – Broward PSA, hurricane doodles, freeware
5 years ago – Harvest moon, auto-cashiers, acim two-level split, lynching, cluster move, gender genie, newt-bounce
6 years ago – Sleestaks and Oatmeal, Sculpey and Fimo, Bewitched, cave photo, bad prefixes, dog snoods
7 years ago– lj drama regarding cheaters,lovely long chat where blackie burped, thescents of rose, lavender, gardenia, violette, and muguet (burts bees),Skeletor, Back in 1997, there was an exorcism performed on Mother Teresa, saints.
8 years ago – poopy day, Suzy, Walt Whitman, American Cannibals, Mush, interests, overheard, jail visits
9417 – Monday
Pictures from today – Robots, fire, symmetrical homes, bay life.
clicks embiggen. Fire is a video. Of Fire. in a ring. where we made s’mores.
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Here is my labor day in reverse
off to bed early
opted not to labor too hard on lj entry
made smores in the fire ring
Mexico for dinner
Played some portal – finished bonus levels.
napped and lazed
2 mile walk, including the bay and a robot backyard
woke up early
According to identity management firm Cyber-Ark’s annual ‘Trust, Security & Passwords’ survey, a whopping 88% of IT administrators would steal CEO passwords, customer database, research and development plans, financial reports, M&A plans and the company’s list of privileged passwords if they were suddenly laid off. The survey also found that one third of IT staff admitted to snooping around the network, looking at highly confidential information, such as salary details and people’s personal emails.
1 year ago – went to rennfest (bullet points and pics), pictures of pye and newt kitty
2 years ago – the tick / pajama police, Zoom, car projections
3 years ago – Got fresh paid links, July 2002 Lumbee Entry (Active just 2 days ago!), Palm doodles, head photos and newt, foamy, Mind controlling death parasites, help Katrina critter
4 years ago – dream cartoon linker, The Forgotten, sample email from a stranger,Mountain Dew: Pitch Black, First Grade, Reiger resigning as chief of DCF, Stream of thought alphabet
5 years ago – Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang, Red Haired Barbarians, Aunt Jemima, $100K fart, esteem meme, dynamite magazine, Newt pic, flex points, cookie puss, annoying or not, bro stuff, blogshares, earthquakes, toontown, Frankie bugs me
6 years ago – heroclix, art fair, jellybath, skyscrapers (here’s Maryland), Ambient Findability, web hits, bike in the meter room
7 years ago – adultery, lj, rollercoaster
8 years ago – playing with html, long day at work, September b’days, Sacrifice to the Horned Goat, pesky work poop, coffee, bearded sadness, road trip, headache
9416 – Sunday
Slept much of the day, but we did get some good walkies in.
Harvested some apples and grapes (BHK made pie, and inlaws made jelly) – I just helped with long arm-reach.
Below are random shots from walkabout and the keys to the brown house. clicks embiggen, as usual.
We still have a few key-covers… just waiting to see what the next one will be. 
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my house key. woogity woogity!
"I’m in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets" from New York Times Blog – psa
1 year ago – programming, freaky potato baby from the garden, true or not true, helpful coconuts, EST for autism?, mistress of spices
2 years ago – time flies, state plate icons, wedding plans, landscape, x365 project, newsdirectory, quiz thing
3 years ago – katrina good murder alibi, vampires in hurricanes, New Orleans issues, Warriors Urge, monkey squeeze, playmobil hellboy, gaming meme, interests meme, miami 3rd poorest city, condo vitals
4 years ago – Newt Blah-blah, note to M. Night Shyamalan, gmail as a file system, Critical Mass bicycle riders arrested, Hurricane Frances, 3 Musketeers, earache, FL. child-protection agency chief quits
5 years ago – Stubbed toe, bro & Danny, Hurricane Fabian, Newt Rejected as Governor of California, keywords
6 years ago – Lauper, new desk, Hot Wax Zombies On Wheels, mr fixit
7 years ago – mush, coterminous, newt-slob, vomit with dignity, barking, labor day
8 years ago – fun names/words, ufo, grumpy, underdog, africa, work, added by applelard
9408 – saturday
Beautiful day out this morning – we went for a nice 8am constitutional to check out the bay fest pre-opening. Lots of seagulls on the beach waiting in advance for folks dropping bits of funnel cake and corn dog, no doubt!
It got pretty hot by the time we got back – I left in a fairly creaky condition, but was ok, but tired once we arrived home. BHK and I lounged for an hour or two, and then I got a message that boiled down to my going into work on Monday. Too many issues with the project – can’t in good conscience take the day off, under the circumstances. I think that I was more disappointed about not getting BHK’s birthday off to treat her more than she.
After wrestling with that for a bit, we headed back to bay fest for some junk food, people-watching and a bit more exercise. While at the Bayfest I saw Kathy Bauer! I worked with her at Calvert county a little over a year ago, and she recognized me immediately. That crew was the kindest and most fun group of people I’ve ever worked with… a shame that it just wasn’t affordable to work there. We didn’t stay long, but got a couple of veggie egg rolls and some limeade and orangeade which really hit the spot. Between the ‘fest and home, we took another A/c break at Coffee, Tea and Whimsey and ended up purchasing a bottle of wine for the evening’s birthday celebration, some awesome horseradish/garlic dip, some goofy rubber monster key-toppers, and a keen Buddha eye-glasses holder for BHK’s nightstand. Pictures of those… and the ‘fest to follow.
More resting and just goofing around until six came… bhk and I were watching primeval and just soaking up some snooze-vibes with the kitties. I waited for BHK to hit deeper sleep, and went to sneak off to do some wrapping, but it wasn’t stealthy enough – but she relented to nap while I wrapped.
We went to the in-laws for dinner – BHK got her desired Chik-fil-a strips and nuggets, and Chris made her a cake, too. She managed not to be buttered, but Larry psyched her out a few times. Aside from the tasty dinner (I had eggplant, zucchini, and the best corn on the cob of the summer), a little room was saved for the cake.. it was a reduced sugar yellow with chocolate icing… pretty yummy!
Loot BHK got was – card 1 from me – made her cry, but they were happy tears, cards from her grandparents on Larry’s side – in-laws gave her a cat encyclopedia, a ruby and diamond heart necklace w/matching earring-studs, and $100 toward a sewing machine…. very, very generous and appreciated!
The cake – pre-ignition. Don’t worry – BHK will be butter-nosed, yet, dear journal!
Day ended with us lounging at the in-laws living room – Hallmark channel vs the Rock.
Over at Gamasutra, Steve Fulton has published a massive 23,000-word history of Atari from 1978 to 1981, encompassing ‘… some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of the 2600, the development of some of the company’s most enduringly popular games (Centipede, Asteroids) and the development and release of its first home computing platforms.’ Best quote in there for Slashdot readers, perhaps: ‘Atari had contracted with a young programmer named Bill Gates to modify a BASIC compiler that he had for another system to be used on the 800. After that project stalled for over a year Al was called upon to replace him with another developer. So … Al is the only person I know ever to have fired Bill Gates.
1 year ago – sql programming, chicken doodle, Calypso and coconut shrimp, chittering
2 years ago – won psp, happiness, It’s hot in Topeka, mental jasmine
3 years ago – graypumpkin lj-ing, google desktop, gutter sniping the net, Whiums and sammy-talk, music meme mark II, paper toys, medicines to fight the sickies, carrot top bulks up, bill shatner, billy batson
4 years ago – more travel pix, Coconut Curry Tofu, coulrophagy, scream stolen, updated on JTD, pic of my workplace
5 years ago – broken photoshop friday, wanting to put a transmitter on bro, tidemarker, comic art, yawns, women in spacesuits
6 years ago – moonlight movies, a li’l grumpy
7 years ago – vertiginous, steganography, word association poll
8 years ago – smelly BK, political mailings cost the same
9406 thursday
Tasty dinner of stir-fried veggies on more naan bread, vegetarian meatloaf (mostly garden eggplant) topped with sauce saved from our selby pickup! Super good, and uber-filling.
Dessert was a treat of choco-chip cookies!
BHK’s birthday weekend starts tomorrow, though her birthday is on Monday – I took the day off for us to play! … I think we’ll have a grand time!
Pictures from Last weekend. Larry’s Birthday, tigger talking, and us all walking on the boardwalk. As ever, clicken to embiggen.
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. Me with my standard popeye sun-reduction look, Tigger gabbing some more, and a BHK odd-shot
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.Laryy & Chris, Moonrise, Larry and Tigger
. Adam!
This last one isn’t by us, but by another local named “this and that” on flickr… you can see what a difference better resolution and composition can make!
Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror. But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies, a species with a brain structure very different from mammals, could also identify themselves. It had been thought that the neocortex brain area found in mammals was crucial to self-recognition. Yet birds, which last shared a common ancestor with mammals 300 million years ago, don’t have a neocortex, suggesting that higher cognitive skills can develop in other ways.
I had no idea that “the shocker” (description may be NSFW) had a name at all.. I always knew it as er…, um… “dos en el color de rosa, uno en el hedor”. (Pardon the terrible translation.) I’m more of a fan of the Moutza as a rude gesture.
1 year ago – saw a bird of prey, heavy work week, icehouse game java, Luke / tacos / in-laws, sleepy, chessboard serial killer
2 years ago – enthused, quizzies, cydonia vid, grab old comics
3 years ago – jenjen, rocko, more hee-haw, work-dream, indoor remote control flier, a little sick, cool song parts, religion facts
4 years ago – bro fade, there lives again, walkabout, spell of hoggoth
5 years ago – personality profile for work, seasonal pages, hippos and rhinos, lifesavers changes flavors, Pam Confirmation, guest map, vamp game, chat
6 years ago – grove scandal, togas, tulip head, haiku
7 years ago – Harvard classics, imprecation, Child’s Christmas in Wales, Love, great moment from Oz, Spoon
8 years ago – Put April on a bus for home, Gaming group with Josh Marquart and the Hunters, can you picture that
Friday 9398 –
I neglected to mention that the love cube (our Honda element) is now repaired… they replaced the whole hood – BHK think that it may be from a different model, and she might be right. I haven’t seen any good photos of 2006 vs other element hoods online yet, but we’ll get to the bottom of it, if it requires us to go to a car lot somewhere and look in person.
Last night at about 5:30ish, there was a storm that knocked out power to both Chesapeake Beach and North Beach… not to mention the surrounding towns, too. No juice means no oven, and since I was still dressed from work, I figured it’d be nice to take BHK out to dinner, seeing as she’s been craving meatballs all day. We tried Ledos, Asia Cafe and Mama Lucia’s north to no avail.. apparently everyone else had the same idea about eating out… even mexico was too mobbed, so we continued onwards to Mama Lucia’s south – The service was a bit on the weak side until BHK politely asked the waitress (while I was washing my hands in the men’s room) . Service improved after that…. we got home and both towns were still dark, save for places with generators.
I used the flashlight on my key chain to get us inside, and we lit a few rechargeable candle-style lamps for some ambient light. We have access to a lot of battery-powered light – cell phones, pda, laptops, flashlights… I think we could go days without running totally out of lamp-juice. That said – I want to recharge the candle-lights, since we hadn’t done them fully beforehand.The emergency flashlight and radio lit up the bathroom area nicely as a night lite – we opened the bedroom windows and went to bed, hoping that the heat wouldn’t be too bad… it wasn’t… but poor BHK didn’t sleep very well… I was snoring big time, as the CPAP runs on juice, too. Next time, I’ll bring the UPS from the computer room in to run it.
So, power was restored at about 2am this morning, and we were all able to get an hour or two’s rest before it was time for me to get up and get rolling to work. I hope to catch a little nap sometime tomorrow in order to try and catch up.
See also – BHK’s version of what happened –
Today is Chris and Larry’s 33rd wedding anniversary, and plans are to hit Selby Sub Shop for a nice little nosh. We’ve got to pick up a lemon meringue pie and sneakily get it past the parental guards.
The longest service disruption in Netflix history has apparently been resolved, with normal service resuming today. The company will compensate affected customers by adding a 15% credit automatically to their next bill. via Physorg
Random pictures from the pyecam archive. of particular interest to me are the leaping/motion ones. No special preference is being given to Newt – he just goes on cam more.
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1 year ago – train issues, farewell to R & P, tasty supper, covenant
2 years ago – raccoons, giant ants, moldy bread and freemasons make me smile, movies, geocaching, lj on venture brothers, gentle morning off, quotes meme
3 years ago – greasemap, foreign ducktales, apricot scarves… Tony Randall and vanity, Jean Charles de Menezes, bckev’s keeno covers, kayla/susie drama, hugs, top 20 pics, elvis the robo-cat, newton nibble pic, tubby newt pic
4 years ago – AvP movie. bus schedules switch, walkabout pics, Punta Gorda – Yikes
5 years ago – last skeletor and gang, insect macro photos, apartments made from text,hello kitty warhammer, human/rabbit chimera, scotto is a fuzzy monkey,frankie knocks, wondering about crusaders planting vinyards, drunkensailor quiz, complete sherlock holmes, some detective work, pursecontents, fun with google calc
6 years ago – both machines upgraded and cleaned up, fun linkies, MRE talks about writing his junk, signage systems
7 years ago – eye dialect, latitudinarian, weird dream poll, set up alternates to LJ, Newt comes to work, cool news, freaky dream
8 years ago – loony, first hints suzy using, foodies
Thursday 9397 –
Power out at the house tonight, so we’re off to Mama Lucia’s for dinner! Looks like strong rains and downed trees knocked out all of North Beach and Chesapeake beach! [edit – power came back up at 2am – accorting to the computer, it went down at 5:25pm)
CNBC reports that Netflix’ shipping systems have been at least partially broken since Tuesday. They managed to ship nothing on Tuesday, half of what they were supposed to on Wednesday, and nothing today. What’s the deal? Apparently the outage affects 1/3 of their customers (including good ol’ Scotto and BHK), to whom Netflix is trying to figure out the best way to refund some cash. They’re still not sure what the root of the problems are, so in essence, they have no idea how to fix it. Be prepared for a few more days of outages, unless it turns out that it’s a super easy fix that’s much harder to diagnose than to repair.
Terrible cakes – Cake wrecks. or get it on lj –
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cake_wrecksRandom Scotto Factoid –
I’m an avid reader but some very simple words are sometimes mental stumbling blocks.
Examples:
Singer. Someone who sings… but my brain always reads it as someone who singes. As in: What is that singer superficially burning today? I guess I’m not altogether wrong.
Also Bewilder is not equal to “Be Wilder“… but that’s how I hear it when I read it. conversely, I read Wilder as “Will-der”. I have no idea how I mixed tohse up as a kid.
I know the old gags about manslaughter / “Mans Laughter” and Therapist / “The Rapist”, but my mind never really ripped those words in the wrong way.
Walk is a word that just looks wrong to me… as does talk and balk. Ls and Ks just don’t jibe to me.
The VGT Omnivore’s Challenge.
I haven’t always been a vegetarian.
I have eaten the following (in bold):
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
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