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9315 – Thursday

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Was a bit sicker in the am, but was feeling better by midday. It seems that mornings are the most difficult now, post sleep and shower. One day until Friday!

BHK and I went out to Thursday’s for supper with Chris and Larry – took a walk on the boardwalk afterward. Nice night, only a couple of mosquitoes.

Today is Buddy’s Wake – Adam’s grandfather didn’t make it, sadly.


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More fruit from the blueberry plant! Had a little nibble on them with lunch today, in yogurt.

We also have eggplant blossoms, two peppers coming in nicely and tons of squash, bean and potato blossoms!


scribbls – a fun little doodle/game thing. (most faved is worth a peek) – I suspect that Kat will dig it, with that tablet!


Robert Downey Jr. says he gave up drugs after Burger King served him “a cheeseburger so disgusting that it forced him to reassess his entire life.” The burger was so nasty that he suddenly felt like something terrible was going to happen to him, so he threw all his drugs into the ocean and has been clean ever since.


1 year ago – carcassonne, blink, masonic temple pic, moonbase blackhellkat (in comments)

2 years ago – bangs!, 70s nostalgia, net neutrality, heifer.org, zombie powered car, blondie, smothers brothers, hurricane, tv openings, far out space nuts, 3’s company, tomi’s vette, electrawoman and dynagirl

3 years ago – Going postal, free pie, Global Frequency, Who, Kim Possible, writing, JC & fish sammiches, mouse update, UN food force, Hav, Work Sanity, fridge cleanup, Chloe-pup, sweet farm girl mp3, Hunter-Newt face pics (vs. a paper strip)

4 years ago – Astronauts, Hound Dogs, doodles, $0.21, CoH rough, Camels vs Tigers, Hustler Store on its way

5 years ago – there-music, vampires, Bollywood posters, billy the kid

6 years ago – wondering about hover cars and jetpacks, mad shark, bad tattoos,rainbow in every teardrop, kid at work day, wondering about my own,Freedom force supers, misc bro & Danny get togethers

7 years ago – irenic & potatory, recovering from yuck, idea12, waving, coffee flavored cereals, evil news, html brad hoax, plucking out a worm, l-struck

8 years ago – fooling myself, Superman is JC, site poetry via cmdrtacoGeotargetVisitor Map

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9294 – Memorial Day – Monday

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Thank you to all the people that worked so hard to make my life as free as it is.



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pictures – ATW man salutes our fallen heroes, and I complain about the heat. (Not nearly as hot as it was in other locales, so I hear!)

Slept well on the new bed – I wasn’t feeling so hot earlier, but a nap helped my back and headache quite a bit. Still a little nauseated, but not too terrible.

We had the in-laws over again and made more franks and beans for dinner, and this time, the bonfire and s’mores were a reality. Added bonus was blowing bubbles.

Opted out of the new town trolley to Pete Green’s – The route is cute, and could be a lot of fun – two bits to ride can’t be beat. I wouldn’t mind just taking it for a little day-tour out and about where BHK and I can relax and take in the scenery. I suspect that the trolley’s primary use will be for drinkers getting home safe… I’m all for it if it keeps the drunkies from behind the wheel.

I want to pick up a bike – the in-laws cycled up the beach for breakfast this morning, and I thought it sounded like a fun way to ge tout of the house for a bit.


I still haven’t decided what new e-books to put on the PDA – maybe I’ll take a breather and stick to pulp-books for a bit.


1 year ago – info about 20714, shaved ice man and diabetes, bake sale!, things going smoothly, satori quote

2 years ago – 2nd life upgrade, mm pickup issues, 26 letters about me a-d, wilma buiding, poo-poo ice, c-64 emu, super chicken, robot caveman

3 years ago – slack, WEP cracking in 10 min, forget me not panties, sithy meme, wiktrivia, Nosferatu download, writing assignment, how to fake fingerprints, sat maps make me think of people as ants

4 years ago – put motion detection on newtcam, last done meme, life on venus, AFMBE – Zombie Smackdown, FL Drugs, hummus

5 years ago – Memorial Day, freaky wind, There, superhero factoid, castrati, Skeletor and Gang, Chipotle, Joan Cusack crush

6 years ago – Gargoyle, [info]menstrualhut troll, comparison poll, memory from DC (my evil twin), yeti @ home, monster’s inc good

7 years ago – monad of John Dee, Morikami, Shrek good, Pearl Harbor bad, lj-death hoax, icky stuff, good stuff, o Mousewheel event, flash ponderings

8 years ago – subject lines, Hunter thinks that my first icon looks like I’m in the phantom zone, age difference, I have done all but the car on that list, 125 things about meGeotargetVisitor Map


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9253 -Thurs

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Lovely day today.

Lots of gypsy moth and / or tent caterpillar nests in the crooks of trees around here. Seeing birds and moths in flight through the early morning fog is something magical, if you’ll excuse the lack of a less cliched expression, dear journal. I really dislike defoliation, but watching moths and butterflies flit around makes me happy. The first date I had with BHK, we saw a luna moth in the parking lot of Mama Lucias, and we were both captivated by it. Now of course, it’s doing advertising for a sleep aid.

Believe it or not, I’m a very quiet cricket, too.

Tomorrow will be my 18 month (I just spelled it moth… on the brain) wedding anniversary. Good stuff! only 33 more of those until our 50 year mark!

Goal at the doc today was muscle relaxers or a cortisone shot, maybe an appointment with a physical therapist? I don’t want to take narcotics for this, or only in an emergency.

Results were pretty positive – found a potentially good resource for physical therapy, and a few non-dopey pain fixers. I’m going to do more research on the different drugs before taking them this weekend.

After the doc, we went to Ledo’s – BHK got a cookin’ break. Yummy, but not as good as her stuff.


Memetime –

haiku2 products –

my doom patrol and
gp’s more oddball games were as
serious as war

on my lack of knee
room in some teriyaki sauce
bleeder likes my eyes

school loan interest
i guess i shouldn’t feel too
bad for a monday

that i’d made a cheese
ball and chef boyardee pizza that
was not his to make

old fiddle player
and old fiddle player and
old fiddle player


A month after the beta dropped, Linux distro Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is officially out. Besides running GNOME 2.22 and Firefox 3 Beta 5, a big new feature is Wubi support, which’ll let Ubuntu live on the same partition as Windows and makes it easy to uninstall if you want to retreat back into Microsoft’s bosom. If you’re Li-curious, now’s a good time to try. The site’s getting hammered so torrent might be your best bet.


Is it vain wonder if people I haven’t seen in years ever think of me? Not even friends or people I knew really well… but random classmates, ex-coworkers, etc. I sometimes contemplate my effects on people long after I’ve gone. There are any number of folks who don’t know me from Adam that have caused changes in the way I think or react to things.


More random spam journals adding me – I wonder what is causing it? Is it the time of year? Same thing happened a year ago. ban_set is still my best friend when it comes to dealing with them – far more expedient than dealing with lj-abuse team. I suspect it’s a side-effect of the number of google hits the journal gets… ad folks trying to get some free hits.


Assorted doodles done recently on the palm, usually on the bus, or at the stop in the morning.

From the night we missed the scarlet pimpernel. I still think of the Daffy duck version whenever I hear the title.
I had a lot on my mind that day… supposed to represent swirling colors that remain discrete, but it looks pretty static.
A scribble made while waiting for the bus. Not jacket weather anymore, but not sweating in shirtsleeves yet, either.
From yesterday. The color doesn’t do justice to her hair’s brighness, nor does the balloon properly exhibit her boomingly loud voice.


Ah, Almost Friday.


1 year ago – Family Icon introduced, palm doodle of a crab and pollen, maryland links, concert people observed, odd spam, new AV guy, deerfield lien, awesome difference between calvert and broward counties.

2 years ago – dr who, alabam, perm press, botswana rain, open dir, dionysus, ain’t misbehavin’, letter meme

3 years ago – anarchy online, internal monologue quiet, h-words, walkabout piccies, step into history, exploding toads, brain games

4 years ago – phone off the hook, hell froze over, pina colada almond joy, saw the hippies at a Wiggles-mania, walkabout pics

5 years ago – chupacabra, dreams, geoblog

6 years ago – bro, robomop, smurf-coloring,victim’s rights amendment

7 years ago – good css, zuba pants, reds are cool, mushyGeotarget

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9235 – Friday!

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Ah, the end of another week… I’m looking forward to a gentle weekend, this go ’round. Sleepy This morning.

Recent doodles –

Me in the office, post saying Shazam! Regarding Uncle Dudley/Uncle Marvel. During the classic era, an old man named Dudley (who was clearly modeled after W. C. Fields) claimed that he was not only a relative of the Marvels but also a Marvel himself, although neither was true. The Marvels took a liking to him and decided to humor him, and “Uncle” Dudley became Uncle Marvel, the Marvel Family’s manager. He’d make his “transformation” along with one or more of the others, but not by magic; rather, by quickly removing his break-away garments (under the cover of lightning that the real Marvel(s) called down) to reveal his homemade Marvel costume underneath. He explained his lack of super-powers by claiming he suffered from “shazambago”. In modern continuity, Dudley H. Dudley is simply a janitor at Billy’s school who finds himself involved in Marvel Family adventures, although in one story he was temporarily given Shazam powers to help round up the escaped Seven Deadly Enemies of Man.

Oh, my Shazambago!

Green monkey-alien in a bubble. He’s wearing his bubble summoning-belt, of course. He’s been climbing a lot, note his filthy hands and feet. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a damn, dirty ape, however. I was thinking a little bit of Rescue on Fractalus recently, thus the cheesy lines and markings. The hammerhead alien Jaggi had great pop-up spook value in his day. Soft hearted for Planet of the Apes, Martian Manhunter, and Bubble-force fields all unwrapped into that, I guess.



Dealing with “customer service” regarding bugs, bug fixes, and time lines. I seemed to get only one word answers, with no detail as to where, when or how items would be fixed. I ultimately got it worked out, via my own trouble tree and specific questions, but it was like pulling teeth… on a rampaging hippo. I’m just glad that it’s now mostly functioning.


Dreamt of our bathroom being tiled with Hershey bars, and grouted with marshmallow. Hershey bars aren’t my absolute fave… why not milky ways, or mars bars? I guess the flat rectangle looks more like tile to my sleeping mind. Last night after work Chris, BHK and I went to Maerten’s, to check out the sale preview. Chris bought a ton of nice stuff… BHK got a cute pair of sterling bumblebee earrings and a little silver bean / bead on a box chain. Honestly, I like what BHK got more, though Chris’s items were pretty, too. Post sale, we hit Thai Inter for some yummy feed. It was a bit of a hike to return home late afterwards, but I think it was worth it – the gals had fun.


I can’t say as I’ve ever referred to anything as “a real corker.” I’d think that I might’ve, but probably not. I prefer “it’s a hoot!” or the like.


Pleased that we did get the 2007 homestead exemption after all, but looks like 2008 is a no-go. at least we have time to save up a wee bit before 4/15/2009.


Something to make BHK happy –

“The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio will commit to 3-D by releasing all of its movies in the format beginning with “Up” in May 2009. Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter made the announcement in New York at a presentation of Disney’s upcoming lineup of animated movies.”



The Wall Street Journal says that a video production company that earned 90% of its revenue from taping Walmart’s internal meetings over the past 30 years has lost the Walmart account—but retained the rights to the video library.

Now the videos are available to anyone who wants to see them —for a price. Lawyers, reporters, activists and journalists are lining up at the production company’s tiny new office, cash in hand.


1 year ago – a day in the life animated doodle, bhk’s lasagna, feeling draggy, busy at work

2 year ago – mp3, gp & kat missed, b5 / dr who, blue tarps, cloud pic

3 years ago – tv-shoot, whale cam, regional anthropology, sesame street, dream Bhk & Pye, Gamer quiz, illuminati, little cowpoke, celeb diaries, i feel great, moist towelettes, astronaut jones, 9 years for spammer, bush toy

4years ago – easter, peeps, image collages, pelicans, spidey-2

5 years ago – first 4 children in the vampire game, got my offer from JKG

6 years ago – Programmer / Engineer gag, lovely private entries, including Blackstone’s Reading.

7 years ago – pork taco brain worm, Power-puff Scotto, grove meeting, An open letter to browser sniffers, agogGeotarget

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9224 – Friday –

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Slept in a bit this morning… vacation day!!

family sleepin' in


Our neighbor’s wife passed away the first of December, last year… BHK just found out about it midweek. We’ve invited him over for dinner next week (we initially were going to do it Wednesday, but he begged off), and are bringing him some tidbits here and there. I can’t imagine losing someone that close and having to go it alone.

Last night after work, BHK and I went to Red Robin to eat while we decided on which movie to see… we were torn between two critically paned stinkers – 10,000 BC and Superhero Movie. We consumed tasty items, while watching a girl in a robin suit greet the kiddies… businss was booming for a thursday night… and continued to the Borders where we meandered andshopped a bit. Picked up a new Zagat’s guid to DC and Baltimore, and a collapsable tote for BHK… fit sin a teensy keychain pouch. I teased her a little unmercifully about it, but she took it in stride. Visted the Kayak / Outdoor store and came close to getting another pair of crocs or two… army green shoes with day-glo orange straps, but sadly, they didn’t have my mammoth foot size in stock. BHK passed on keanes, too.

Eventually, we settled on superhero movie… bought the tickets, and changed our minds. So, we saw 10,000 BC. It didn’t stink too badly, and was entertaining in its way.

Guest Doodles supplied by BHK: (when she sees me messing with the palmtop, she always wants a turn.) Seems she always accuses me of gassiness, but this time it was true.

bhk's view of last night…ate at red robin- via bhk


Nifty Links also from BHK – Cool Robots! (I’m partial to Kemore 3.)

and these two were right next to one another on her news page – Irony?

McCain Says Many Americans Are Too Cynical 3rd-Graders Plotted to Attack Teacher, Cops Say

Picture meme –

a. Go to www.photobucket.com (don’t sign in)

b. Type in your answer to the question in particular (see questions below) in the “search” box

c. Use only the first page

d. Copy the image code & paste for the answer

(I’ve added a width modifier of 320 pix, just for my own viewing ease.)

1. What’s your first name?
Scotto

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2. What is/was your school mascot? Hurricane, Owl and Eagle (University of Miami, FAU, Atlantic HS)


3. What is your relationship status? Happily Married



4. What is your favorite color? Orange



5. Who is your celebrity crush? Tricky, as I don’t really have one. I’ll fall back on ol’ Salma Hayek, and get Razzed by BHK.



6. Who is your favorite artist or band? Changes moment to moment. Right now it is Talking Heads.


7. What is your favorite movie & TV show? Again, too many to choose from, so I’m going with my first from skull school of picking. Blade Runner and Psych


8. Name your favorite drink? Diet Cream Soda


9. where is your dream vacation? Atlantis



10. What is your favorite animal? I like all of ’em, Aardvark to Zooplankton. I guess I’ll go with Gorilla for now, as first critter to skull… even though I’m, partial to Elephants, Giraffes, Tigers, Bears. Cats and Sea Cucumbers.


11. Your favorite past time? Going on Walkabout



12. Where were you born? 1969 Boston



13. One word to describe yourself? Bearded.



14. How are you feeling right now? Creaky





1 year ago – victim of the 80s / transformers, time flies, movies. (still haven’t seen blades of glory.), local blooms pic

2 years ago – wearing purple, dan break, bug inspectors, doc, firewall,

3 years ago – apology-but, making fiends in bulgarian, free photos, broken people, TSiC

4 years ago – 22 questions, DST, Ft. Laud Mellowed, 4-4-4

5 years ago – Met with Meter Made, don’t confuse courtesy with subservience, pics for the day, Speedy off CN, Sample McDougald house letter

6 years ago – walkies, dream, taking stuff poll, Moment of Waponi, Killian’s, bkveggie (the old one), long music ramble, production meeting at IMT

7 years ago – Slander-drama / resolution (Honestly, I think that part of the issue started from here.) I still wonder how that “FBI Investigation” turned outGeotarget

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9214 – Friday!

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Weekend looms ahead! Going to Alice’s party, celebrating her passing the bar… about a year ago. It’ll be nice to see her again – last time was at paper moon well over a year ago.

The Egg salad made from last Sunday’s hard-boiled Easter dye-jobs was especially good this week. BHK’s Mac & cheese is rocking my socks exceptionally well, too.

I can’t believe that tickets fro the Smothers brothers is $90 at the rams head. I want to go, but not so much at $200, 8pm on a weeknight. I still have half a mind to write in Pat Paulson for president, even though he passed away over a decade ago.

Presidential Campaign Slogan: “I’ve upped my standards. Now, up yours.”

50 things you’ve done meme continues at 44 – I…

44.’have done more than my share of critter killing and eating, despite my current feelings about doing so. If I was starving to death on an island covered with baby bunnies… well, baby bunny for dinner. I know how to kill and dress duck, boar, deer (all hands-on) and squirrel, alligator, rabbit (in theory, I saw my dad do it). I have lopped the heads off of chickens, and wrung their necks, too. I’d still rather do the slaughtering of a bird than do the cleaning.

I’m very happy to say that I haven’t wanted or had to do that for a *very* long time… but if I was lost in the wilderness, I feel that I could survive better than some, at least food-wise. The boar is something that I’d have to use high-powered rounds on… those guys are nasty. I wonder if I could do a pit trap for a pig? I suppose it’d work, not that I ever will need one.


Recent photos in phone or in archive –

My office desk (see notes here, for the OCD aspects of the journal),
with BHK memorabilia and a toy-train zoom-in

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I love my coasters – made from the label portion of old 33 1/3 records.
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Newt Yawing the other day – That’s how I was feeling, too.

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Recently, Pye waited politely for Newton to finish eating – very chummy these days. I’m glad that they’re so much more buddy-buddy. All I ask is that nobody bugs anyone else while eating or pooping… not too hard! Newt actually gave ol’ pye a one-lick after pye’s bath yesterday… I imagine they’ll be grooming one another sometime around 2012. (or sooner!)


Added a doodle to the voice post… not sure if it’s worth 1000 words, though.


1 year ago – nice folks at the county, cherry blossoms, spring started – pear trees, BHK into reality tv, EPC a flop, adam & tennis, easter coming up.

2 years ago – code template, interest cloud, pda cam dies, p&B in german, song tapper, bus on fire doodle

3 years ago – easter manatee, complimented, server/servant, spliced people, germs

4 years ago – Lj then and now (I spend less time now), bro, ice cream cake, Smokey & the Bandit

5 years ago – bro got me some Godzilla movies at the gift store up the road.

6 years ago – minority report poll, breakfast with Danny, grabber rabbit meme spreads, Words describing animal traits, Ketchup packet bear, Klaatu’s speech, scary dream, link-to poll

7 years ago – babelizer, mushy-feelings, book-burningGeotarget




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9202 – friday

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End of the week, at last, at last. Back is feeling a bit better… must’ve slept on it right on Thursday night, for a change! Maybe, if all goes well, we can hit the Carl Barks exhibit in Baltimore. We have midday plans for Saturday (see below), and who knows what Easter Sunday will bring – but if not this weekend, perhaps sometime before the end of the month… I don’t have a strong need to visit – the review is not the most complimentary (mainly due to the fact that most of his early stuff that I like is long gone, trashed back in the day)… but if we’re in the neighborhood visiting the Art Museum, or the Aquarium, why not? (more on Carl Barks )

I don’t think the the lj content strike is going to make a difference, and I’m more interested in seeing how much of my reading list changes, if at all this weekend. If lj poops out, there are plenty of other sites that offer similar functionality… and my RSS reader will allow me to collect feeds from whoever wants me to read ’em.

Regarding teamorange – the first colorwar2008 scrimmages will begin in a few days. I’m interested to see what sort of project Ze has in mind. So far, I’ve found teams blue, verygreen, puce, chartreuse, purple, gold, plaid, red, pink, white, clear and brown in addition to orange. If any other players are reading this, let me know, so I can follow you on twitter! #FF6600, baby! [update: See also – colorwars – there’s a team octarine!]

It seems ol’ Ze has quite a following – but I knew that. I just hope he uses his mighty net-powers for good, rather than evil.

Lunch tomorrow with Adam and his twin bro Eric. It’s always interesting to see them together, because they were raised in different households. Adam, at his mom’s (and more to the point, mostly at Larry & Chris’s), Eric at his pop’s. Adam seems to be the more together kid, athletic, better in school, less shifty. Eric is the party guy, partying hard, skipping class and spending more time looking to mate than to study; I.e. typical 18-year-old male.

Nature vs Nurture, live and in front. Both are basically good guys, and similar as brothers can be – but hardly duplicates.

I sneakily added a video to the lunchtime rendezvous entry about a week or so back. Filmed with the palm-cam, the image is warmed, grainy, and silly, not to mention in quicktime format. For some reason, google video doesn’t transfer sound properly form the palm video during the conversion, so I’m hosting it in my old lj archive location on my website. Speaking of which, I have a palm doodle there that reflects that there’s still a lot of rain happening at the ol’ bus stop, but I don’t mind.

windy, too, though I don’t have that much length anymore, hair-wise.

Best worth1000 competition in a while. Superhero ModRen some are better than others. I’m partial to this one.

1 year ago – work review, cakery cookies, steve jobs on music, spore coming

2 years ago – sleepyhead, ren-festige, Chacarron again, comic-book picture, condo commando, network named elements, Sandra Day O’Connor comments on right-wingers, star wars concept pics, don’t walk through words, political profile quiz

3 years ago – Fragments, Chatted a cutie, BEAR TRAP/ PUNCH!, homeopathy=placebo, ref desk, giant sea monkeys, walkabout pics, rhemish, Parallel Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

4 years ago – local search sillies, copyright disclaimer, zombie minis, missed bro

5 years ago – palm pic, whiskerliscious-fuzzy-paw newt-pic, cat eaters, the coffee song, interviewed @ starmark

6 years ago – radiology, reading lensmen books, riker in trouble for DVDing, corpse Tupperware, Elisabeth, and a bunch of dead links.

7 years ago – IMT politics, and so onGeotarget

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9192 – Wednesday

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Back doctor time, this morning. I’m concerned about surgery – hope that I get a cortisone shot to help me out. I confess that I am rather fearful – More to follow after I return.

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Nighttime photos at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. cool and creepy. best seen large.

7 dirtiest jobs in IT. – I don’t know anyone in the industry that hasn’t to touch on at least elements of all of these.

1 year ago – wachovia, chipotle, pictures out birding, BHK’s potato soup

2 years ago – justice and friendship, walkabout, thai, @ sushi, dabble db, open office, human ton & handy, 5 love languages, newt installs counterstrike

3 years ago – net down, simile, super-poots, a little about myself, dmw

4 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.

5 years ago – spam, barbed wire, slow walk, stinky bus, spring break starting

6 years ago – news articles from 1902, poem tag linked to me, Scott name confusion, cool databases

7 years ago – Big Bird Song, cell phone jamming / scanning modes, a good day, “feet and blisters, web”Geotarget

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9042 – monday

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BHK made tasty pizza for the in-laws and me tonight… mine had eggplant and garlic with ricotta, and the other was true pepperoni. good stuff.

Presenting a doodle for the coloring book done on the palm while on the subway, then fiddled with GIMP once back home. I was thinking about making him more beveled looking, but rather dig the 2D vs 3D vibe going there. I’d like to see the coloring book community revitalized again.

peradouro drops pictures in there now and then, but aside from that, it’s pretty quiet. Same for the Oekaki board in the scottobear toybox.

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There were many meetings at work today… I think the bulk of them were solidly productive.

In Health news –

Started coughing this morning, and it continues into the night.

Rescheduled dentist, and am waiting to hear scheduling for the back guy. Trying to get an appointment for presiden’t day if I can, but if not, maybe on one side of the weekend or another for maximum comfort.

I still need to schedule allergist remeet. Maybe I can do a doctor hat trick!

The Hulkout list – all the reasons Banner turned into the hulk during the course of the tv series.

Personal faves, (Thankfully, none have ever happened to me):

8. Being mauled by a bear

34. Handcuffed to a woman who is falling over the cliff

36. Somehow running into a bear trap

56. Somehow getting himself into a belfry and then realizing that a bell is there, just as it strikes the hour

78. Being thrown under a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade float by a mean guy in a gorilla suit who gives David a few kicks for good measure

95. Falling out of a plane without a parachute, then being given a parachute (which causes the person who pushed him to be told “That guy has nine lives”, to which the mean person responds by pulling out a rifle and saying “Yeah, but I got ten rounds”), and then having the straps to his parachute shot off when he is still 30 feet above an empty house so that he falls through the roof and hurts himself

106. Being fed poisoned sushi

112. While paralyzed for the episode, somehow getting caught in the middle of a barroom brawl, and while trying to quietly wheel himself out of the room, being hit by a flying body and knocked down the stairs (what David is even doing in such a situation goes unexplained)

“‘The LEGO brick turned 50 at exactly 1:58pm today. This cool timeline shows these fifty years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the Legoland themed sets to Technic and Mindstorms NXT, as well as all kind of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.'” – Via Slashdot.

1 year ago – pancakes, men in black, plumbing, chinese food, Janet in Bangladesh, B’day coming

2 years ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick

3 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys

4 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution

5 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus

6 years ago – Took a day off With Danny (some non-gothic graveyard pictures), PattonBomb Talk, Giant photo of Newt in Evil Overlord Mode, bad spoonerismhumor. First photo of Tinkle pig

7 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing manGeotarget

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9036 – weds

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Humpday! Midweek, and it feels it. I was happy to rediscover that we get President’s day off next month… Three-day weekends are a wonderful thing. Added bonus is that my b-day falls on a weekend this year, so that Saturday is mine, all mine!

BHK and Cathy got together today to do more straightening and space management at the house. One recent change is the move of the love seat from the office to the living room… newtcam archives show that Pye doesn’t seem to mind the change of pace. 

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Maybe we’ll have room for some bookcases under the North-face windows, with the tops clear for kitty-climbing and general sunning.

Poor Pye must be a little chilly in that picture – he’s all fluffed out. Cold, or resting off a horsing around match with Newt.

“After eight years and some $65 million, the state of Maryland is taking its first steps to return to an accountable, paper-ballot based voting system. Governor Martin O’Malley has announced an initial outlay of $6.5 million towards the $20 million cost of an optical system which will scan and tally the votes while the paper ballots are retained as a backup. The new (or old) system is expected to be in place by 2010 — or four years before the state finishes paying off the bill for the touch-screen system.”

Had a bit of a nightmare about using the walker last night. Forgive my recycling of old doodles. Dreamt of being poked and prodded, cut open and stapled shut.

I’ve already had two surgeries.. one in 1994, and another in 2003.

Makes me twitchy, just thinking about it. After being cut up, I had to go shopping for tennis balls to put under the walker’s feet.

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Now I’ve got the phrase / title Walker, Texas Ranger stuck in my head.

Random Self-portrait of the moment taken in the loo at work – Beard has bypassed the goatee stage for winter.

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I still remember the sting of asphalt embedded into my palms after the trip and fall 5 years back.

The voice of my first grade teacher is a strong memory, too.

Also those commercials for free catalogs….

Free Catalog
Pueblo, Colorado, 81009.

Is the only reason I know a zip code in Pueblo.

Hey…they have a website now.

I wonder if I’d have the guts to punch a Tyrannosaurus in the face.

Milton Blahyi, a former feared rebel commander in Liberia’s brutal civil war, has admitted to taking part in human sacrifices as part of traditional ceremonies intended to ensure victory in battle.

He said the sacrifices “included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat.”

There had been numerous rumours of human sacrifices during the 1979-93 conflict but this is the first time anyone has admitted publicly to the practice.

Mr Blahyi, 37, is better known in Liberia as “General Butt Naked” because he went into combat with no clothes on, to scare the enemy.

He is now an Evangelist preacher, who prefers to use the name Joshua.

1 year ago – zombie astronaut, gun runner dream, paper moon pix,

2 years ago – missing cj, superhero dream, youtube b&B, fat bat cat, herm patient, pug in lucha mask, endless forest, birthday counter.

3 years ago – Chilly, doodle, facial morphs (monkey scotto is still my fave), food, height comparisons, a/b meme, warning labels, toybox mooch, scythes

4 years ago – happy Newt, nipples off, palm post – bus stop, tummy ache. penguin poop, giant nostril

5 years ago – Tests, truth, rumor, links and history, lj spam, Kev in court

6 years ago – I got my camera, Alvin gets fired from work for stealing overtime, unsolved mysteries, snap club, mcd’s employees, nifty moon site.

7 years ago – Reflections on the old regime, The Litter Box Song *snerk*, Cow Saliva, “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme”, rehiring some of the fire-eesGeotarget Geotarget

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see doodle! Somehow, LArry looks like commissioner gordon here.

allergy shots

bhk, larry, chris and I watched angel-a

(s)nap-time

spaghetti

playing with tigger

later night peggle
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From about a week ago – rough day.
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doodled while relaxing at the in-laws
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1 year ago – Salem and Marion pics

2 years ago – las olas wifi, newt pics, flash on dvd (I got it this xmas!), moist poll,

3 years ago – Hump day doodle, work, mel, moody blues, ex-coworkers read my journal, parrot jungle?

4 years ago – Walkies-pix continued, ShOr deleted, bad storefronts

5 years ago – fog-walking, SOP

6 years ago – WID meeting, John Buscema passed away, bad day

7 years ago – brad pushes for growth, bicycle built for 2, lj creaking, bug city, recipes, Siddhartha
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It seems that my curse on the most foul CompUSA is coming to fruition at last. (The whole fiasco with Compusa can be followed in the Compusa tag I have there… Started Nov. 10, 2005 – Ended March 20, 2006…over four months of limping along on lappie while big brain tried to get fixed… and that’s with a Full service contract!)

CompUSA has been sold to an affiliate of restructuring firm Gordon Bros., and will close all of its retail stores.

Downside is that I have a full service contract that lasts until March of 2008… I guess that’s only a few months away, anyhow. Next time, I’m building my own, or getting from a retailer I’m more happy with.

Recent doodles –

at the doctor’s office – bhk reads while I get my snooze on.
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watching flyboys… not a terrible movie. Not terribly accurate, either.
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Had to do some catch up work today…. BHK made baked ziti and veggies for supper with Cathy and Dave. After chow time, we played a little wii sports… Dave slaughtered me at boxing… it was like beating up a little kid. We did better at Lego star wars and Rampage.

Once we tired of digital gaming, we trotted out the analog stuff.

Apples to Apples – I won one round, and BHK won the second handily. I forget who won the third game… either BHK or Cathy.

Hey, That’s My fish – I won first round by well over a dozen, BHK won the second… by one fish!

1 year ago – got the xmas tree with the inlaws w/pix

2 years ago – tmbg, bro in tampa, tolld a new motherboard, music, musical mice, windows live local

3 years ago – gorilla wake, dcf snag, favorite things

4 years ago – Yuletide toe-warmer poll, creepy news, Cute Newt Pic, Medicare, clucks

5 years ago – desert dreams, “no hands” kitty, palm doodles, nice cards

6 years ago – menstruation/bear attack, Bear armor, tic tac poll

7 years ago – hungrybaby/mcnoggin, Hello Kitty Smelting furnace, Asplundh letter, why web journals suck, meat hats, comic book wrapping Geotarget