Shopping with inlaws went very well. Good stuff for bhk, newtie, pye and tina, too – Also got a prezzie in the mail from Kev via amazon… BHK wisely confiscated the invoice, so it’ll be a surprise to me when it’s opened on Christmas.
via scans_daily. Good ol’ Rebis. I’m Sill partial to Cliff, though.
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Diabetes breakthrough
Toronto scientists cure disease in mice
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more lights, featuring what Chris called The Sasquatch – “The Abdominal Snowman… he’s a Jedi, Right? (As opposed to abominable / yeti)
note to self – Write Liz / Chad letters.. good to hear from them both after so long! I have to send a note to Tomi, too.
Pics of Newt, the Xmas tree trimming, the in laws, bhk, adam and me. Bhk had me downright holiday giddy today… maybe too much rankin-bass in the bloodstream.
Spam content is getting more interesting – most recent:
The cool air is a welcome relief, after a week of record-breaking temperatures.
I think that I may return to Hagerstown on Wednesday, so I can watch the students solo. It all started for me with a father employed by IBM.
Many of our family members who are over five years old joined the church choir and shared their musical gifts. Copies of the Championship game can be viewed on the LegalMatch television network in an office near you, courtesy of Ben. The ability to shape easily information, especially on a global scale, is democratizing. Arguably, as an academic, I often find the freely available web based dictionaries to lack substance and reliability, especially when comparing synonyms. I love to look at it, but I dislike feeling it. The value of timeshifting makes podcasting one of the most useful digital applications. How the PC has affected the face of America is one of the questions that have been rolling around inside of my head for over two decades. and I am not a normally a computer gamer! CAP Cadets Solo – flying – Says Dave CAP Cadets Solo I received word today that all of the cadets at the solo school in Hagerstown, Maryland had completd their first solo flights. As a child, I was taught to accurately compute my sales totals, estimate the sales tax, and determine the anticipated change that I would receive for each purchase that I made. Looking past the functional steps toward the applicability and the outcome-creation potential forms the bond of trust that is inherent in an embracing of any technology. I would have to ask my wife to be sure; she has a better memory for these mundane details, than I. I have found another helpful use for my handheld computer: logging my aircraft flights. These are brisk, factual and come out my recent experience; the content is often dispassionate and dry. She created a convenient dining experience, without intruding on our private conversation. The video recording that we made and burned to DVD will surely be one of our favorites, even fifty years from now. Skills not practiced are lost. We learn to like those we love across the piles of crab shells. The legal decisions require law enforcement to first show probable cause to believe that a crime has been or is being committed: the same standard that applies to search warrant requests. Dad felt that he owed much of his personal success to his being fortunate to earn a job with IBM after returning home from the Korean Conflict. now let’s go over to the losers where Diane is standing by. I have noticed this behavior before, on the part of the locals. A single e-mail message or web page download my comprise dozens of packets, each of which takes a different route to reach its intended destination. However, when listening to digital audio or watching online video, a delayed packet or two is not only noticeable, it is annoying.
1 year ago – val & rhonnie news, kreuger, bro issue, rs shopping, jellyfish
2 years ago – working with cubase / fruityloops, pork chop assault, manatee window kiss, mel 5
3 years ago – Ghost Bugs, Missing Chairs, News Stories about cats and physics.
4 years ago – holiday oranges, Joe Ostezewski, letter-words
5 years ago – evil news, bear suit update, walkies, visions
6 years ago – stinky week start, a pair of email fallacies, rhonnie has her incident
Got the Christmas Tree with BHK and the in laws .. went to Friendship and got a pair of bang-up trees.. one for us and one for them. BHK likes trees *BIG*. No dinky little charlie brownies for her, no sir! We dropped the trees off and then went out to din-din at Applebee’s, and closed at the local giant box store to get some holiday supplies.
some peektures here –
1 year ago – tmbg, bro in tampa, tolld a new motherboard, music, musical mice, windows live local
2 years ago – gorilla wake, dcf snag, favorite things
3 years ago – Yuletide toe-warmer poll, creepy news, Cute Newt Pic, Medicare, clucks
4 years ago – desert dreams, “no hands” kitty, palm doodles, nice cards
5 years ago – menstruation/bear attack, Bear armor, tic tac poll
6 years ago – hungrybaby/mcnoggin, Hello Kitty Smelting furnace, Asplundh letter, why web journals suck, meat hats, comic book wrapping
Dined on the Weezle’s dad’s grapefruit for breakfast this morning (with a couple of tasty bagels), and they were jim-dandy, to say the least. Good stuff from Sanibel!
Young Master Newton continues his silly habit of licking the condensation off of the windows of the living room. I think his purpose is twofold… tasty water, fresh from the pane, and clear view of outdoor squirrels!
pictures from the licks this morning –
ah fink mah tug ith thuk.
Um, what?
The Family Un-Planner The Bush administration’s crazy new HHS appointment.
By Amanda Schaffer
Originally Posted Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at 4:50 PM ET in Slate
On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation’s family-planning program got a new boss who doesn’t believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms “offer virtually no protection” against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage. Continue reading 8670 –
Had a nice time shopping with bhk, tina and chris – got a few stocking stuffers and some much needed sneakers. Newtcam is back up, now that I’m on the local network on lappie, though big brain is still packed. it won’t be 24/7 until I can find a good spot for it.
after shopping, we hit tt’s diner for some dinner, with mixed levels of culinary success, and then drove home through holiday lights, and a viewing of Elf while bhk slept on my lap on the couch. a good day, indeed.
a smidgen chillier out today, and I’m looking forward to the possibility of a white christmas… or maybe birthday. two christmases this year, one for doug, before he ships out for Iraq on the 15th, and another at the proper time. I’m pleased that doug makes tina happy… she deserves someone to make her feel good.
went with misti, bhk and em to see buga and neil tote a balloon in the richmond christmas parade – had a great time – aside from the obvious perq of bugah, there were also tiny shriner cars, a really overweight darth vader, cowboys, balloons of odd things blowing like the hindenberg, and more sousaphones than even john phillips could ask for. Odd thing, since the giant balloons were being hoisted through downtown richmond, they had to be lowered to duck under the street lights every few blocks.
misc pictures from road trip to md (including newt in lockdown, south of the border, and electric palm trees, as well as the parade) click here.
bro still is where he is… writing him a letter tomorrow or first thing monday.
after the parade and a quick trip to target to look for some xmas lights, we visited with misti, neil & co, bfore heading to the in-laws for dinner. long day, but a solid one… on the way back, we drove through DC, and I got to eyeball the washington monument and nation’a capital from the potomac bridge. more photos from that neck of the woods soon.
with that, I’m hitting the sack. until later, dear journal.
made it to manning south carolina safe! newt was a gem.
Last day of packing before venture north… Newt seems to dig his little riding house, and we’ve got most of the supplies we need. Now it’s just a matter of sorting and storing today. BHK and I had a nice time at danny’s yesterday – I cleaned up at balderdash. Janet was pretty good at the fake out definitions, but I won with psychology and knowledge of what a howdah was.
phone is being turned off on 11/30, so if you need my number, email me or post here for it. I still need ot get a book or two from folks I lent to, and so on, but I imagine I’ll pick ’em up on my next visit down, if I don’t get them before I leave.
Bhk’s perspective on our trip north, with pictures. (originally posted in a dear friend’s private entry post, but this portion is suitable for public consumption.)
Pirate Husband
Originally uploaded by blackhellkat.
arr, avast ye hearties!
1 year ago – red lobster, class struggle, black friday, chubby checker
2 years ago – pirates, giraffes, incredibles, bro,
3 years ago – Marvel Family, Countdown meme, garden pictures
4 years ago – Free audio books, hubcap monsters, discover empanadas nearby, GIMP
5 years ago – cloture, pocketlj, single card tarot spreads, meeting lj folks confirmed
6 years ago – air cools, Young Frankenstein poetry, sleepyhead, country bear jamboree
7 years ago – very basic Newt stats
random photos from yesterday. Sanibel is beautiful, and the shells were pretty dang amazing. we chitty chatted with weez and boop, met weez’s folks, and spent a nice period beach combing before the sun went down. on the way to and back, we saw all sorts of wildlife, especially birds like blue heron, spoonbill and other “storky” sorts, as well as a eyeload of alligators sunning themselves on the banks of the nature sanctuary. the was a fire burning way off in the north… I wonder if it was the cane fields that get slashed and lit periodically? it was a sweet smoke, and pretty particulate.. we both have slightly rough throats this morning as a result. As always, the journey was as swell as the destination. Bhk is a really wonderful traveling companion.
1 year ago – arsenic & old lace, book fair, gamma passes, newt pics, missed uber, NYPL Digital Gallery, broward #1 for AIDS
2 years ago – torrenting, Brisco’s Pete, theme music, dictionareoke, flash games, cosplayers, mel
3 years ago – bro responsored by viper, GP stuff, palm art
4 years ago – accexpo, gossamer and gollum (later Jinx and Felix), Christmas specials
5 years ago – Cranberry Sauce, walkies, haiku, wacky news
6 years ago – Bob Marley, Roy likes to destroy, danigolden asks if she can add me to her friends list. (I say sure!)
trip to sanibel island and visit with boop and weez went swimmingly…as always, all too brief, but loads of fun.
bhk is already wanting to return for more beach combing treasures and sweet walks.
more peekturers to follow
1 year ago – grammy hospice, moving, ts gamma
2 years ago – time goes, visitors, beard, music, walkies thoughts, gd on archive, weekend check-’em-outs
3 years ago – memes, rubber monsters, super heroes, pestered by CS, whistles, newtcam by skylight, mild MD drama
4 years ago – Haiku, Robert Culp, projects, bro lies to me
5 years ago – walking, TG pressures, Astley and his grey market goods, abc meme, morning move poll, misc news
6 years ago – gloating, monkey brains, Alton brown
7 years ago – Newt breaks 2 lbs
