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pre-santa tree – cheers!

1 year ago – xmas eve dinner pix,aardvark and maertens pickup

2 years ago – holiday pictures – living nativity

3 years ago – newton is captain cabinets, work loot, memes, command santa, many boosh quotes, prezzies and kong hands

4 years ago – C-eve haul, dr who (pyramids of mars), anti-prank, pocky, einstein quote

5 years ago – housecleaning, Rush whines about his drug use, flash drive

6 years ago – dan prezzies, cards, circus stalker, Christmas pardons, Christmas poop, bill First: creep

7 years ago – Danny gift exchange, good day, had glögg & supper with family

8 years ago – Mistletoe, Ellroy, mild chafing.Geotarget

Merry Christmas Eve-Eve!

Went to Matt’s place for gingerbread decoration with Tina, Cookie, and assorted other folks.

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BHK got most creative, for her Day of the Dead Skull on an upside-down snowman.

Batman was also pretty spiffy, too.

1 year ago – more gingerbread decoration, and good deale bluegrass, atw man

2 years ago– newton and pye’s first day together in the sun

3 years ago – half day, missed kev, fun christmas links, foamy, scrabble thing, lj friends, kong hands!

4 years ago – LD sees the b’s open for cher, nifty poll answers, homeless woods, mel gets very serious, social security, exploding zamboni

5 years ago – Green Guys, Racists, Sea monkeys and my Sweetheart, cs annoyances, FFXI, there

6 years ago – read to me, super glue, grief-stricken squirrel, mistletoe

7 years ago – old English Rudolph, looking at the sky, 9 of wands, aunt jemima creepy, sealab 2021

8 years ago – not french-canadian, angry beavers, a deal link I can’t remember, cookie mah jongg, and an oliveresque welcome, bluebeard

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songs that are bittersweet to me. if you have ghosts by roky erickson, summertime by the zombies, the third man theme,

i’m an uncle, brother is in jail until june, christmas is right around the corner.

it is raining.

i have a woman that i love, and she loves me.

robots by flight of the conchords makes me grin.

a week from now, christmas vacation will have begun,

bhk’s sushi present has arrived.

i ride the subway with an alpha stare, unless i’m reading. i rarely fully sleep on the commute home,

batman: brave and the bold is a lot of fun

nice to see red tornado

even in this weather, i prefer to be barefoot, at least until frostbite sets in.

very little physical pain tonight,

i think the zombies are my fave group right now


1 year ago -snow, all sunshine makes a desert, pizza and in-laws, soup, robot named pickle, walrus pretzel sticks, train cam coming, assorted pictures, pye in antlers, newt watching train

2 years ago – more xmas lights… and travel video

3 years ago – 10 gigs on lj, mighty boosh, newton ashamed of Chinese food photoshopping, Hawaiian Christmas song, friday 5, survey

4 years ago – Pasta with Mel, Jill at work (she’s since quit), Making fiends 14, Great out of context line for Eric and Mona

5 years ago – food, thinking, 12 days

6 years ago – deep sleeps, gender benders, doodle cartoon

7 years ago – Modern ruins, Goethe, misc

8 years ago – Michael Peter’s Rules, dreams, cryptozoo, boat paradeGeotarget

9549 – sunday

We also got a nativity set at the same time we picked up the tree.

our nativity set. Bears, and etc.

Bears! View full size for maximum effect. We added some other items to the scene – Pye and Newton had to be there, and it spiraled out from there.

We went over to the in-laws for pancake breakfast after sleeping in nicely this morning. I had a bit of an allergy attack, had to head home – did some work-work stuff, folded some laundry and put lights on the tree while BHK did household work and made use quiche with cheese, veggie sausage and green peas… and some veggie sausage-biscuit balls, too. *VERY* tasty and hearty fare. The in-laws came over too, and we just hung out and chitty-chatted – watched some old episodes of Newheart and the Honeymooners on WGN –  The in-laws are out the door now, and BHK is sleeping on my lap… but now it’s time for bed.

Until later, dear journal!

1 year ago -office christmas party, good food, we win a prize, cal tort

2 years ago – shopped, ate, got fluxx

3 years ago – condo commandos, dooced, kong opens, misfits, bush on constitution, yahoo income, zombie cap

4 years ago – cravings, pondering atmospheres, vocabulary words, adp ROYALLY screws up, ocular chili, its a wonderful life by bunnies, Mexican tomb of DEATH

5 years ago – Saddam captured, collective nouns, feral children, pod thoughts, tic tacs, and chores done

6 years ago – Lottery-coworker thoughts, Deathrace 2000, my favorite Chang Tzu quote, witch cow, mistaken identity, haiku

7 years ago – pumpernickel, Newt on my long-lost chair, moment of weirdness, wacky news, what we did before toilet paper, coprolite

8 years ago – sickies, FIGHT! game, Rhyme-timeGeotarget

9548 – Saturday

It’s here! Minimum of muss and fuss. Shaun had his tree picked out and cut down before I even got there.

We introduced Shaun to "Crabs for Christmas", and a good time was had by all. After getting the tree up, we paused for some Chinese food – some of the best I’ve had. I think the secret to little panda is to not go on Sunday – I suspect that the regular cook takes that day off.

I was very fortunate that Larry brought his own saw – the one provided wasn’t up to snuff.

BHK figured out a good place for the tree, the far side of the living room. Traffic shouldn’t be too much of a problem there, and it smells so good!

Easy getting this year – measured twice, cut once – and then cut again when we got home, to fit and make fresh for water.

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We got our tree. Not decorated yet, but I rather like it unadorned at the moment.

BHK, the in-laws and I watched "Love, Actually" and by that time, it was too late to hang lights or ornaments, which is fine by me!

1 year ago -got crabs for xmas cd, add lj friends page to rss reader, bears in ill-fitting hats, metro fare increases, glow-kitties fight disease, 2007 q&A meme

2 years ago – Peter Boyle RIP, Grey Gardens, Holiday hubbub, new comic store, Tina’s wedding present to us,

3 years ago – sam and max, Atari 2600, favorite things

4 years ago – I discover that Romanian pop tune (OZONE – Dragoste din tei) before the weirdo kid cam sings it around the world, Oceans 11, pollo tropical makes me sick

5 years agothe secret message, Bro & Danny visit, lizards in the tummy, truck surfing, riddle, some reference

6 years ago – nightmare, balloon hats, fudge and dinosaurs, Danny and I win a Tomato Recipe contest!

7 years ago – nice dreams, flesh eating robots, wacky day, SOP

8 years ago – coffee, hello kitty murders, village blacksmith, books to read, I get a Sigmund and the sea monsters tape!Geotarget

9547 – Friday

Had an off-site meeting the bulk of the day today – informative, and interesting, but I think I’ll opt for the webinar version unless there is going to be any "networking" to be done.

Pleasantly surprised to see Shaun M on the bus ride home – we discussed going to get a Christmas tree tomorrow.

BHK made more pigs in blankets, and we all just sort of are crashing out now.

I’m looking forward to the new tannenbaum, as long as we can find a place to put it in our house.. now that we have the new couch, it’s hard to make room for something of that size.

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holiday lights that seem to have the least to do with any known holiday. A little yellow fish in love with a yellow submarine.

I wish them both the best of luck.

1 year ago – heard about ex’s foreclosure, folderol, Aflac, good thoughts about BHK, WMBT- wombat radio, Santa Clause w/in-laws

2 years ago – christin reviews eragon, my Xmas stocking, got a train to put under the tree. (Larry gave me some track extension this year!)
pictures taken – more xmas tree

3 years ago – pizza and narnia, santa poll, lenses, feliz navidad, cousin billy, clydee card, walkies pix

4 years ago – damned don’t dance, Mel’s Gramma, shopping, vote switch software, Hardee’s Monster thickburger, UFO theme popular, Gigantor

5 years ago – sleepyhead , mugger caught on lj audio, Epipelagic and Mesopelagic Animals, misc

6 years ago – Newt with his feet up, Froogle gets rolling, VB memos, given serious sam by msk

7 years ago – Linus Recounts the reason for Christmas, segway thoughts

8 years ago – Hell week day 2, the psychic, longfellow Geotarget

9546 – Thursday

Throwback from our shopping for a new holiday ornament or two.

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We didn’t get HO, but it got an honorable mention. No HOs for us!!

Got pretty darn chilly after work today, waiting for the bus – bad day for it to be late. Discovered that my rain jacket is water "resistant" not water "repellant!" When the bus finally came, my skin was bright red as I defrosted… cold enough that it hurt a bit. 

We drove through about 2 feet of water on the way home… but that was worth it, because Cathy & Dave sent us  homemade cookies for Xmas! (and something wrapped in gold paper for under the tree)

Nom nom nom.

1 year ago– present clues, Austen-fest, kraut, dogs and potato pancakes, Fido, lit the tree

2 years ago – tree trimming pix, spam, note to write

3 years ago – val & rhonnie news, kreuger, bro issue, rs shopping, jellyfish

4 years ago – working with cubase / fruityloops, pork chop assault, manatee window kiss, mel 5

5 years ago – Ghost Bugs, Missing Chairs, News Stories about cats and physics.

6 years ago – holiday oranges, Joe Ostezewski, letter-words

7 years ago – vil news, bear suit update, walkies, visions

8 years ago – stinky week start, a pair of email fallacies, rhonnie has her incidentGeotarget Geotarget

9545 – Wednesday

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BHK and David saw the wienermobile, and BHK sang the commercial jingle… got us two glow in the dark wiener whistles!!

They also made use of David’s 40% discount at B&N for books… and hit the thrift shop and got me a nice $6 dress shirt (blue-blue)

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Me? I worked. Blah-de-blah.

BHK made kraut and veggie dogs…. Chris and Larry came over, and brought potato pancakes!

1 year ago -foggy day, cookies at work, man hit by a train, gossip girl, burn notice, geometry wars, edison recordings

2 years ago – Tony vs Paul (still pretty dang awesome), newtcam, Annapolis cam, Xmas tree up, but undecorated.

3 years ago – complex life, sex roles, Narnia, big brain repair issues

4 years ago – Newt stretch, Mels’ place, grumpy workers, lost good, many random Scotto factoids, best chitty-chitty bang bang line

5 years ago – movie clapper poll, hakarl, RI not nice, Rudolph: Behind the scenes.

6 years ago – Rubber monsters, the four humors, feculence, Jane Goodall believes in Bigfoot, prezzies

7 years ago – autochthonous, Nobel prize, Cetus, BEAR WINS; SUIT LOSES

8 years ago – nifty links, Fidel Castro’s John Lennon statue, and life’s perfectly swell, KMFDM Geotarget

9541 – Saturday

Lights are up! Thanks Adam! As is proper for events like this, it began to snow, just as Chris and I polished off the little tree on the side of the house.

Scattering of pictures from today – Feature Larry, Adam, Me, BHK and our holiday lights. As Always, click to embiggen.

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BHK made Brownies for Adam helping, and then we went to selby.. nom.

1 year ago – state mental health, first sente4nces of the month 2007, recent keywords, ledos, crabs for Christmas on the radio

2 years ago – chinese at in-laws (some things haven’t changed much!), first sentences, potential snow, hannibal review, krampus, ir refer to home as North Bay, not North Beach.
Pictures taken – undercover newton

3 years ago – uggs, xmas trees, gp surgery, backlogged email notes
pictures taken – foggy morning

4 years ago – Movie with Mel goes poop, nice night out anyway, metro freefi, zombie song, fire butter coats Minnesota town, Freudian inventory, $$$ issue

5 years ago – Rainy-day wakeup, old LL passes the torch, aces & eights, oldest penis, trampled shopper

6 years ago – Danny and I send dopey "Sven" emails to companies for no good reason, bro brings me eggnog, I scare the living tar out of a lippy kid

7 years ago – gestapo gives c’s pal grief about aiming, reptile people, lj bump, world tour, Toliken Movie desire

8 years ago – Sims, accused of being an alien, dead milkmen, cannibal the musical lyrics, I’m a warmerGeotarget

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Newt is all over the place this afternoon – on the prowl.

Cams caught him upstairs and downstairs at about the same time. Pyewacket, however, is nowhere to be found on video. Phantom Kitty skulks in the shadows. Newt seems to perk up in the cooler weather! Only a matter of time before he starts licking condensation off of the windows.

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Went to the Festival of Trees with BHK, Jay, Shaun, and Duncan – proceeds went to local area hospice – The custom trees were neat – I think the "Cats" one had the most home-made work done to it – customized action figures (barbie and kens?) done with Makeup and hand done costumes.

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Friday – Out-of-whack


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Forgotten image taken by BHK on our trip to the Baltimore museum with Alice. I actually rather enjoyed the giant magnetic poetry room.

Still feeling a bit out-of-whack, but getting there. Did walkies today, and we made it to the post office, goodie shop, and candy store – maybe not the most healthy way to go for a nice constitutional, but I do love the sponge candy.

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Adjective

out of whack (comparative more out of whack, superlative most out of whack)

1. (idiomatic) (generally) Wrong, broken; specifically:
1. Not in proper balance; unbalanced.

our priorities have gotten out of whack

2. Not in proper alignment.

the floor is so out of whack that the door hits it when opened

3. Not working or operating properly.

banged up left knee is out of whack

Alternative spellings

* out-of-whack

Usage notes

* The unhyphenated spelling is usually used predicatively, and the hyphenated spelling usually occurs when the phrase appears before the word it modifies.

Wednesday – 11/26

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I love the Bromo Seltzer arts tower in Baltimore. I’d love to do one of the open studio tours sometime – they seem to open up about once a month.

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Today was pretty straightforward – worked, physical therapy (felt pretty darn good, this go’round) and then… LONG HOLIDAY WEEKEND!

Hooray! Hope you have a lovely next few days, dear journal – my posting may be sporadic or delayed a bit, depending on how slackerly or shopperly we’re all feeling in the Grotto.

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Good thoughts and love to you, Sedef.


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I just found out that Lisa (Sedef) passed away on Sunday.

She was one of the most giving and loving people I have ever known – and that’s saying something.

The picture is from when she and Weez came to visit Newton and me back in 2005 – my first time meeting her in person. Even more brilliant and full of heart than on-line.

Whenever I see a butterfly, I think of her – I’m glad that her fight to stay with her family lasted as long as it did – She may have been in pain, but was always quick with a kind word and a smile throughout it all. I’m glad she got for every minute she could with her family.

She and her family will always be loved and be held in the highest esteem by me. I will miss her, but her influence will always be nearby.

Thank you for being the wonderful person who I’ll always remember. Good thoughts and love to you in your passing, and always.

9526 – Monday

Feeling better today. Physical Therapy seems to be working out some of the back issues, thankfully. Mentally and physically in a more positive place – also, sundown was at 4:45 today. I certainly suspect that I don’t have Seasonal Affective Disorder. I think that the dark and cold weather mostly suits me, even if I try to be a warm and cheery sort of person.

After PT we went to Mexico for supper. I was perversely hungry for Mexican food after seeing a filthy Mexican resaurtant on Kitchen Nightmares yesterday. The food was superb – BHK and I both sussed out that it was the cook that sometimes works in Lusby on the kitchen tonight.

My mom met Shannon and her possible granddaughter – (well, by proxy – Shannon is still pregnant, due in a month or so.) I’m still not sure how that’s going to pan out.

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Newt is really enjoying the ledge in the loft these days… one of the warmest spots in the house! I hope he shares with Pye, at least a bit. Hm.. somehow I doubt it. Interesting that his winter coat is a bit more visible than usual – likely that he and Pye were running around pretty heavily before naptime.

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Physical Therapy today. Leg lifts, stretches, bicycle, and then the stim/heat combo that works so well for me. I needed it – I was really stiff yesterday.

Forgot to mention yesterday that Chris and Larry brought over a couple of preacher cookies for us… much better than the last batch a year ago – see archive below.

While I was fixing BHK’s machine, I was multitasking a bit – catching up with scripting, listening to old episodes of Dragnet in the background – The radio show is really superior to the TV series. Additionally – I listened a bit to some of my old time radio broadcasts. OTRcat sent me a nice collection of Richard Diamond not too long ago in exchange for a link on my website – the clarity on them was excellent, especially given that the condition of the original recordings must’ve been a real problem to fix. I’ll be looking to go back to him for more OTR goodies as time goes by. Dick Powell is no slouch as a voice actor, and I’m really pretty glad to have my collection filled out. (5 CDs worth of stuff, I’ve only begun to begin to listen. (I’m thinking about getting the Edgar Allan Poe Collection next – maybe for road trips through Baltimore)

1 year ago – black friday not the busiest shopping day, nutshell day – greek fest, new christmas ornaments, preacher cookies, will appears, cyn fall pic

2 years ago – coughing, sickies one day to one month

3 years ago – William Burroughs Thanksgiving, Adam Sandler Counterpoint, I left home at Thanksgiving (1987), collection of questions, Bwain, quiz results, Herm gets snow!, thank you songs, grover smash puny human

4 years ago – toasted orange marmalade sammiches, weather, getting porn spam, Italian vampires must have it rough, comic books, non-net folks, Frost, I want to…, GREG photoplay made by me from secret squirrel episode way back when!, I like bananas

5 years ago – Dr. Who, Mail, Ellies, Pods, mininukes

6 years ago – chores, 7 seas, supah-tofutti, Proverbs 15:1

7 years ago – met with tarpo and isis, tarot, fair-palm synch, LJ-ish quotes

8 years agoKids in the Hall bits, things I’m thankful for, what’s love?, dream Geotarget