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clay monster gotten at artsfest. his head opens up into a jar.
more info about the creators at www.claymonster.net/
bad dream, bad handwriting.
bad dream — written upon waking up – translate at whim.
9434 – Monday
BHK made tofu curry / vinegar soup – pumpkin muffins. Awesomely good food, and it makes it feel like autumn is coming.
Tomorrow at work is "football team" day – I don’t have much in football-wear that’s work appropriate, but hopefully my virginia tech denim shirt will suffice.
the concept ships blog – nifty spaceship design and development for sci-fi series.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 83.
Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 61.
1 year ago – Bluegrass festival with pictures, moon pies, kitties
2 years ago – wedding announcement, hacking the psp, skybar, justice
3 years ago – choco chippie cookies from the great mazinga, 2nd life, python quiz, newt and I horseplay pic, gave RS the smoking image, lj security issues, ADP vs RI, morning picture
4 years ago – skeeters are coming, Approached to hoax, enron should be glad it’s not Chinese, bro’s gf in jail, Colee contacts me
5 years ago – cej gab, goober and nims, Bottle Imps, Napellus, Salamander’s Feather, Screech Owl, Sycomancy, Tiromancy, sex x-rays, pass this on, first night of 24 hour call, universe POVs, super leaping dancers (my standing leap is now about a foot, guinness, anti-spam
6 years ago – rave, dave, mageknight
7 years ago – Ziito, Vulkon, and helpful hints re: gremlins
8 years ago – applelard comes out of the Bon Jovi closet, present reminder, and federal spending thoughts 
our new rug – matches the couch!
our house has a lot more red than I’d have thought, but I like it!
We traded our old china hutch for it – I think we did aok!
9432 – Saturday
Got my serum at last/ at last, and EKG was done. I’ll know more after my doc reviews it.
Yellow Trike at Starbucks, man with bumblebee helmet – Man not shown. Nice Guy – goofy fan of his new ride… made a comment about lack of cup holders.
We went to Starbucks – BHK found a $15 gift card, so we figured we’d go – BHK’s pumpkin spice coffee was pretty nasty – I remember why we don’t go to that starbucks (or really any these days.) My lemonade/ passion fruit tea was jim-dandy.
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Went to the BIG book sale, but I didn’t get anything, and BHK only got maybe 5 rather than our usual take of a big ikea bag’s worth. I think it got fairly picked over before we got there… earlier next time, perhaps.
Selby Sub Shop with in-laws, I had egg salad which was yummy. prior to that, I played spore for a bit while BHK dug on her new books, and Larry cut down the dead bits of our garden with the edge trimmer.
Amy’s taking a pass on vacationing here this week – sick mom at home and she want’s to stick by her there. Hopefully her mom feels better soon. We’ll likely see her in October-December sometime.
Best part of the night was coming home and having a "no power night" – lights low, relaxing to 40s music on the couch, reading a book while curled up with BHK.
Google Maps map annotated with all the places Marco Polo visited during his travels to China and back. Larger map here. (via short schrift)
Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
1 year ago – figuring out my volume and time spent on lj, shopped for presents, DuClaw, Deal Bluegrass show planned
2 years ago – goodies, 008 is landon, kill windows nag, mr t – be somebody, rfjason – wtf prank, kitty combo
3 years ago – Red Thread, Postcard, walking weather, work, 2nd life, battersea
4 years ago – visit meme, case against voodoo, freeflow thought, Mexico Wal-mart Protest
5 years ago – Newt-vet, shoutcast, tiny cities, Why I dislike leiberman, Frankie mooches again, Turkish Hairballs
6 years ago – Lots of robots, World Affairs, palm art
7 years ago – Shocked awake, Nostia, folks scamming relief, weather, programming, lovely chat
8 years ago – Pompano Weather, Warghetz, Suzy News, Censorship, Loved
9431 – Friday
Headed up to Annapolis to do some Vietnamese food with the Mom-in-law while the Dad-in-law worked late at school. (He doesn’t much like viet food, so it’s ok by him.)
BHK was being very silly on cam last night while I worked –
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I’m always happy to have her bouncing around the house like a goof.
Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. South wind between 7 and 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
1 year ago – Newt seeks content pic, restful day
2 years ago – venture bros, house, matt starts halloween, mention of 10/25/06 – 2pm, vade mecum, pretty vids
3 years ago – 2nd life, raccoon icon, newt sleepies pic, halloween jukebox, condo doesn’t like newt, ADP ship-out prep
4 years ago – Ivan raises the dead, BK covers call, Shaun of the dead, JLU, Weather pictures, Safe!
5 years ago – Photo Friday – faith, I have a cell phone, soundless music, skunk ape
6 years ago – nice dreams, wargaming terrain tips, $25 benefit for being a non-litterbug, Tony gave me Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
7 years ago– Helping, act more – gripe less, Rant about people who say "we deserved it", Long chat with Hala, Worried about DelMarVa, chickenpoo dream
8 years ago – looking for things to do, Newtcam reactivated
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
9426 – Monday
I left work a bit late due to meeting, but from there BHK and I went to University of Maryland to hang out a bit before heading home.
Chili with Matt, Adam and BHK at Hard Times – drove around college park, visited his dorm, and BHK put a C**k-block on Adam vs Sarah our server by telling her he had a facebook and liked her, Saw the Kermit / Jim Henson statue, lots of squirrels, and tons of college kids going from place to place.
Interesting to revisit that sort of hive after being out of it for so long.
The Chili mac superior to Frito pie.. but I suspect they didn’t put the Frito pie in the properly sized bowl. If it had been in my mac bowl, it’d have been more than sufficient.
Chris passed the PMP exam – we’ll have to take her out to supper for that! (studied for it all week.)
Roller Derby episode of Psych and BHK fell asleep mid-view – good day overall. Tomorrow is a busy day – g’nite for now, dear journal!
1 year ago – league of gentlemen, feeling lousy, Annapolis Games Club, Power Grid & Manila, many of our games, cheeky monkey sideshow, 100 reasons to get rid of it
2 years ago – land lobster, argenti’s lets me down, tired, heart walk, Nairobi trio
3 years ago – vtm quiz, hole digging, checking out the condo, fake red cross, voice of Vince, teachers, lost and found poll, 65 questions
4 years ago – Work power out, disco-Hitler, Ivan, WoW, Chocolate 3-d printer, making fiends, America’s army, Giant strip-miner of dooom
5 years ago – Meredith moves out, Frankie mooch’s wank machine, saw Ray-I, Dubai-mail, some cool links
6 years ago – Got Dave into mage knight, Saw Mark Archilla, 12 dragons smells of cat pee, I got some perfect pre-dyed sheets.
7 years ago – If I were, nice night, purple monkey dishwasher
8 years ago – rant and UB-X
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
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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
9407 – Friday
Hell of a long day at work, but BHK and I started to make her Birthday weekend roll with dinner out at Saigon Palace for dinner. We’d never been there before, so it was a bit of an adventure… Our traveler’s luck served us well this time:
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The place was pretty empty for a Friday night… food was delicious and our servers very attentive and friendly. I’ll happily go back there again and again – lots of veggie goodies to try, and the Pho will be super come colder months ahead. (I got the bird’s nest, bhk got the lemon tofu. I think she won, but mine was mighty tasty, too!)
Hopefully this puts us on a solid roll toward Birthday goodness!
Ray Bradbury is 88! Happy birthday, one time great writer, now crotchety old guy! Dandelion Wine is still my one of my all-time faves. Thanks for that… I wouldn’t have a lime-vanilla ice, otherwise.
In an online survey, 42 percent of Internet users admitted to logging into other people’s email and social networking accounts without their knowledge. The poll doesn’t ask if passwords were found, granted, or stolen — which would make for further interesting results. The write-up summarizing the results defines the respondents as part of an “educated tech-readership” and questions the ethics of logging onto someone else’s account, and whether those differ depending on the person and relationship.”
1 year ago – local pictures of a local house coming down and Larry on his riding mower, stuffed peppers, Mrs. Pollifax – Spy, Quotes, Tired
2 years ago – tweaking web page, radioactive volcanoes?, wooley imbibe, venture bros, voice post burgers
3 years ago – forgotten nightmares, laughing puppets, sickies, gov rss feeds, paycheck to paycheck, audio hidden, i loves me some waffles, music, otr, 25 food hacks, smarts
4 years ago – no dwarf dice, swap shop instead, I live in a pulp universe, walkabout pictures, froggies, gorillas in comics, email post – image host
5 years ago – ACIM invites me back, new sound card, “don’t go there” is gone, DSA, keywords, gil gerard ages, commanding my minions, publix cancels home delivery
6 years ago – run tel dat, newt playing, gaming, cow teeth, trivia cookies!
7 years ago – ichnology, phantom blot, no-so-evil news
8 years ago – Newtcam, replicating interests