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9089 – friday

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current music – driver 8 (in my head)

Sputnik Cafe is closing… ah well. One trip was really enough.

Friday 5 –

1. Are you married?

Yup! BHK all the way! 😀

2. When do your claws come out?

When people I love are seriously threatened. (Including me!)

3. Have you ever been in a car accident?

More than one! I’ve been the passenger all times but one, though.

4. Who is the last person you held?

BHK, and she was holding Pye at the time! (Newt was curled up next to my leg. Love fest!)

5. Describe a time you’ve gone overboard:
Hard to recall… I fell out of a canoe once, back when I was 17 or 18, trying to woo a gal by moonlight. That never panned out for me.

Hmm… I’m surprised this wifi sensing t-shirt only goes to XXL… they’ve got to know that geeks are prone to running larger than that. It’s a pretty cool thing… I wouldn’t mind having that woven into a laptop bag or a pda pouch.

After work, I got with BHK and we grabbed a little nibble at *$. Also got her a pre-christmas present, glittery green coffee travel mug… it eased the day a bit, given the assorted annoyances of the day brought earlier in the forms of Condo, Health Care, Bar, Bills and so on. Amazing what a little hot tea and milk will do to ease the mind. We eventually toddled home to a light supper and and early bedtime.

1 year ago – General dynamics, watched barbarella, prep for directv

2 years ago – big brain waiting on repair, foggy morning pics

3 years ago – mel’s new place, zombie survival, what’s a hoe, 8/20/2000 last day without a post

4 years ago – JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart

5 years ago – Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.

6 years ago – I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.

7 years ago – Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes. Geotarget

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9087 – thursday

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A study from Mental Health America ranks the most depressed states in America. Here they are, ranked from happiest to saddest. (via fallentoad)

The study ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on rates of depression and suicide. Researchers found that states with easier access to mental health resources had lower suicide rates. (see also – Smaller babies grow up to be sadder adults / Study links low birth rate to depression, anxiety later in life)

Highlighted below are places I’ve spent the majority of my formative years, plus my current setting of Maryland.

1. South Dakota

2. Hawaii

3. New Jersey

4. Iowa

5. Maryland

 

6. Minnesota

7. Louisiana

8. Illinois

9. North Dakota

10. Texas

11. Georgia

12. Vermont

13. Nebraska

14. Florida

15. California

16. Massachusetts

17. Pennsylvania

18. Virginia

19. New York

20. New Hampshire

 

21. Alaska

22. Michigan

23. District of Columbia

24. Delaware

25. Arizona

26. Alabama

27. North Carolina

28. South Carolina

29. Kansas

30. Wisconsin

31. Tennessee

32. Montana

33. Mississippi

34. Colorado

35. Washington

36. New Mexico

37. Oregon

38. Connecticut

39. Indiana

40. Arkansas

41. Maine

42. Wyoming

43. Ohio

44. Missouri

45. Idaho

46. Oklahoma

Lowest

 

47. Nevada

48. Rhode Island

49. Kentucky

50. West Virginia

51. Utah

We’re number 5!

I know I’m a lot happier in Maryland than I was in Florida, but that environment could travel with me anywhere, and I’d feel better…. just as long as I have BHK, Pye and Newt along for the ride.

Depression is a serious medical illness that comes in many forms with a variety of symptoms.
If you have any of the following symptoms for a prolonged period, it may be time to seek help.

  1. Persistent sad or anxious mood
  2. Feelings of hopelessness or pessimism
  3. Feelings of guilt or worthlessness
  4. Loss of interest in hobbies or activities
  5. Fatigue or decreased energy
  6. Difficulty concentrating or making decisions
  7. Insomnia or oversleeping
  8. Changes in appetite or weight
  9. Thoughts of death or suicide
  10. Restlessness or irritability
  11. Headaches or chronic pain

Of the above, I tend meet the qualifications from number 6 (not so much), 10 and 11, though I don’t think that I suffer from depression, rather, physical issues are causing them.

Speaking of which, I went to the doc for a reviewing of the back situation. Aside from the standard “eat better, exercise more” bit, there wasn’t much else to report just yet. I make an appointment for an MRI tomorrow.

First (publicly posted) Sentences of the month in 2007 –

  1. Jan – Something I post at the top of every new year, and I appreciate the words more with every additional trip around the sun.
  2. Feb – Gentle day, all told – Went out to Jerry’s for lunch, shopped for party food, got a haircut ( short, but I think it looks good.)
  3. Mar – Chatted a bit with graypumpkin online about gaming, road trips and whatnot while I was doing online research about gigs and following up on resumes (not to mention found info about MCSE server 2003).
  4. Apr – Rode with Tina and BHK to urgent care over chest congestion – seems like sinus infections related to allergies is the rule of the day.
  5. May – BHK and I might do something special for May Day.
  6. Jun – They offered me the gig!
  7. Jul – We spent most of the day out and about, Geocaching with the Newsoms.
  8. Aug – So, it’s August… only a couple of weeks until BHK’s birthday, Father in-laws birthday, and we’re looking to have Emily over in a weekend – and then the all of the Newsoms over perhaps two weeks after that.
  9. Sep – Rennfest was a hoot! Much larger venue than South Florida’s, and more professionally done.
  10. Oct – Cathy and Dave over tonight for Lasagna, conversation (they’re moving to Colorado once the house is sold) and a couple of games of apples to apples.
  11. Nov – Skipped the jacket on the commute to and from work today – 55-65F isn’t too bad with a long sleeved shirt.
  12. Dec – Nice morning, until I got out of bed and pulled my back.

An assortment of recent keywords locating my site – Surprisingly, Melons isn’t there!

hero machine
mothra
beatnik
freaky
boners
freaky gif
prettygirl
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a ding don dandy christmas three suns download
batgirl
bill cosby picture pages mortimer ichabod marker
bittorrent chaos nipple removal
chlorophyll man
french chef.wav
godzilla vs destroyer downloads
healthy%20poo
hydroevacuator
james demedicis
kitty hawk
freaky pictures
keen
prison stripes
newtcam
jail uniforms
weiners

Added bonus tonight – went with in-laws to Ledo’s, and BHK finally got to hear crabs for christmas this season!

1 year 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

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

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

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

5 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

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

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

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9082 – tuesday

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So windy yesterday and today, that the windows in the building are creaking… sounds like a ship at sea. One of my coworkers claims that she can feel the building move.. I’m not that sensitive to motion – the tower seems pretty dang sturdy to me.

Somehow I doubt this will happen here any time soon, let alone this. Sakes… was Wilma two years ago, already?

We’ve been pretty fortunate, storm-wise lately. One Ice storm on Valentine’s Day… what more reason do you need to stay indoors?

BHK picked me up from work, rather than have me take the Metro home… That shaved 2 hours off of my commute – more quality time with the Missus. We stopped off at *$ for cocoa, and then grabbed a little California Tortilla for take home… watched open season with the in-laws and then played a little classic mario bros before retiring.

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
— Ellen Parr

The Doodleboard in my website’s toybox is getting a little activity again.. I dig the two newest pix.

Odd that my wordpress backup journal has already gotten a half dozen spam-hits (all removed by akismet before publishing.) just random gibberish, no links or anything.

Christmas reminder.. Santa’s Pals, not so sinister elf-replaced Black Pete and the sinister Krampus. (More Krampus here ! – Found while Searching for James Ensor… Belgium’s Famous Painter. )

Holiday Q&A, via eryx and kat
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9070 – Happy Thanksgiving!

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turkey
A year away from ACIM. Who’d have thought it? Good to have moved on, though I’m very proud of the good I accomplished while I was there.

I’m so thankful that I’m here now… I have a loving family, some nice local friends, a good job… let alone the default things like a roof over my head, regular feedings and the ability to read!

To hear BHK and me gobbling, listen to last year’s holiday entry.

Pictures to color! Embiggen at will!
thanksgiving native pilgrim corn

thanksgiving2 hat acorns

turkey

Ze has a good talk about thanks, from a year ago.

Off to the in-laws with BHK… she prepared a quorn “turkey” roast, veggies, cake, stuffing, and all manner of goodness. I don’t know how it could possibly beat the shepherds pie she made for me last night, but if anyone can do it, she can. I’m truly blessed to be married to such a warm, loving, beautiful, brilliant woman who can cook, too!

Baconsalt – Our mission in life is to make everything taste like real, delicious bacon, without the fat or calories. (Vegetarian friendly!) I like that they call themselves “Bacontrepreneurs”

I tend to agree with Mr. Fry’s assessment about Americans (as opposed to folks in the UK) and debate. Just because I disagree with you, it’s not an attack on you, personally. (Scroll down to “Getting Overheated).

Newtnewtie and Pyepyecam1 have been activenewtcam … BHK sent me samples of lunchtime travels.

I’m glad Newtcam continues to get a good workout!

They’re getting more and more tolerant and friendly with one another – see below.
newt and pye close

Just because someone isn’t on my “friends list” here on LJ, it doesn’t mean I’m not reading other ones… I wonder why folks are so surprised when I comment on something that they wrote and I don’t auto link them? There are a lot of reasons not to… maybe I don’t want them reading my “friend’s only” posts… or maybe they write so often that it floods out my aggregator. Or Maybe I’m just nosy, and want to peek in on random people from time to time, rather than every day.

meme from talonvaki

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
“Teeth are cool… I wonder how you’d replace them with Gemstones, like in Miracleman’s Adrian Cream”

2. How much cash do you have on you?
Very little. Maybe $.045? I’m overdue to hit the ol’ ATM

3. What’s a word that rhymes with “DOOR?”
Score!

4. Favorite planet?
Earth works best for me… excluding the obvious, I like Uranus, because it has a sideways axis, rings, and is a childish word-joke for some folks.

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
Larry, about a week ago. Probably trying to call me re:dinner plans.

6. What is your favorite ring on your phone?
one sounds a bit like dance of the sugarplum fairy… gentle, but so quiet I can hardly hear it.

7. What shirt are you wearing?
Green longsleeved button-down

8. Do you “label” yourself?
Why do I see finger-quotes on this one? I tend to label myself as the helper-guy or the nice guy.

9. Name the brand of your shoes you’re currently wearing?
Crocs, baby. closest thing to barefoot, these days.

10. Bright or Dark Room?
I prefer a room that’s pretty shaded, unless I’m trying to read.

11. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?
We have pretty divergent interests – makes for interesting reading. Never really met her.

13. What were you doing at midnight last night?
ZZzzZZZzzz.

14. What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
BHK letting me know she’s out front, so I can pick up the cake for work!

15. Where is your nearest 7-11?
A 10 minute drive from here. There’s a little unaffiliated convenience store about 5 or so blocks away, though.

16. What’s a word that you say a lot?
Cheers!

17.Who told you he/she loved you last?
BHK!

18. Last furry thing you touched?
Pye… or maybe Newt. Does my goatee count?

19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days?
Caffiene and vitamins are about the only drug-like substances entering my system, short of perscriptions

20. How many rolls of film do you need developed?
I have a few pictures on cd/hd that would be pretty printed out… but no film.

21. Favorite age you have been so far?
Hmm… I liked myself most physically at about 21. I rather like where I am mentally and socially, now.

22. Worst enemy?
I don’t have any active enemies, that I know of.

23. What is your current desktop picture?
BHK at St. Aug on our honeymoon.

24. What was the last thing you said to someone?
I love you – to BHK.

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be?
Fly… how? Like superman, effortlessly? On the surface… I’d take flight. If I lived in the “real world”, I’d fear all kinds of crazy scientists and the like trying to track me down and dissect me for my secret… if that’s the case, I’ll take the cash.

26. Do you like someone?
Sure, I like lots of people.

27. The last song you listened to?
Alice’s Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie

1 year ago – Mr.T on fashion, Bully Charlie Brown, Bro incognito, Last day at ACIM.

2 years ago – chilly for fl, many entries, foot amputee dream, bro in hospital

3 years ago – newtcam button, hercules & newton, bueller thoughts, jam sammiches, g-cans, flu bug, survey, LH quits, bro back in the pokey

4 years ago – DC Earths, Shrunken Heads, Police Cars, mix cds, South park, origin ofRaj KAJ, An awesome Weekly World News Issue, I am DNA, Bro Issues

5 years ago – classic kids audio books, history, forms in LJ work, goodbye to work-Pam, Mojo has a hissy fit vs Bonbon/Kev

6 years ago – beatnik, thanksgiving, harry potter quiz, wandering

7 years ago – thanksgiving

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9063 – fri

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I like this web page. Fun little toys scattered throughout.

via eryx_uk, kat78731 and who knows who else!

1. Where were you 1 hour ago?
sixty minutes in the past! Getting ready for work. (filling this out on the train for later posting)

2. Who will be your next kiss?
BHK, I expect, unless someone rushes me with a pair of lips before I see her next!

3. Do you kiss a lot of people?
nope!

4. Are you wearing socks right now?
Yup! Blue Dress socks.

5. When was the last time you went out of state?
Heck, all the time. I cross Maryland into DC every work day. I guess last time was about 6:15pm yesterday.

6. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days?
Nope…. we’re overdue for a date night.

7. What was the last thing you had to drink?
a bit of  Blueberry-pomegranite syrup mixed with soda water. yum!

8. What are you wearing right now?
Bottom to top – Black dress shoes, blue dress socks, blue slacks with a black belt/silver buckle, black boxers, white t-shirt, green long-sleeved polo shirt, blue and white windbreaker, psp headphones. in pockets: PDA, Wallet, Metro Card, keys, inhaler, security badge

9. What was your last purchase?
Added $75 to my metro transit card.

10. Last food you ate?
home made chex mix

11. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Larry – dialed him for Chris on our carpool last night.

12. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week?
Nope!

13. Do you have a pet?
Newton and Pyewacket: kitties.

14. What did you do last night?
Snuggled with BHK, ate tacos, ice cream / shaved ice, watched TV, read in bed, snuggled some more

15. Are you a vampire?
I am, but just in a game (I haven’t played actively in a while) –
I have drunk 90231 pints of blood.
Powers: Second-sight Suction Celerity(1) Thievery(3)
Money: 78 coins
Possessions:

  • Scroll of Turning (7) 
  • Garlic Spray (3) 

Location: Torment and 4th
I am sire to 361 other vampires

16. If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?
comfortably relaxing with loved ones.

17. What is the last thing you purchased online?
Renewal of scottobear.com

18. One thing you hate about yourself?
The physical hindrances of my person.
(No teleportation, I grow old, etc – I don’t really hate that… but I am mildly annoyed by it at times.)

19. What’s your favorite soup?
Tough call. Spicy Lentil is pretty dang good… as is Broccoli and Cheese.

20. Do you miss anyone?
My Dad, at times – My Brother sometimes, too. Sad thing is I miss who my brother was… not sure if he can be recovered. Dad’s dead, so he remains as… remains, I guess. I miss who he was, and sometimes, who he wasn’t.

22. What are your plans for the day?
go to work, get picked up by BHK, pick up Chris, go to La Tolteca for din-din, return home and maybe watch pathfinder, play a little wii.

23. Did you have fun today?
so far, so good!

24. Who is your last text message from?
BHK – re: Diet Grape Soda.

25. Were you an honor roll student in school?
Ramma-frazzin High School Spanish, wrecking my average! I was on the Honor roll in college, though!

26. What do you know about the future?
it lies ahead.

27. Who rode in a car with you last?
Chris, on our way to the train.

28. What is your all time favorite band?
all-time? are you on crack? My favorite band at the moment is The Zombies.

29. Do you have a car?
The Love Cube is a Blue and Silver Honda Element

30. How old do you want to be when you have kids?
Not really looking to have kids. That’s like asking “Have you stopped beating your wife?” When you never had.

31. Did you meet anyone new today?
Not in the conversational sense, but a JW tried to hand me a bit of literature.

32. Do you have any tattoos or piercings?
I’ve been pierced by sharp objects, but no jewelry. Stepped on nails, stung by bees, flesh split by a surgical blade and glass shards.

33. How do you like your soda?
Thrown into the eyes of those who would offend me… ok.. I’ve never thrown my drink in someone’s face… it looks like fun in the movies though.
Actually… in a glass, with ice and a straw, is just fine.

34. Do you like hot sauce?
Aye, Aye, Cap’n!

35. What are you doing tomorrow?
Planned is housework, unpacking some long overdue boxes, straightening the office, and then maybe movie night with BHK.

36. What day is tomorrow?.
Saturday, the 16th.

37. What is your current mood?
Pretty good! A little sleepy, but I’ll catch up later.

38. Are you someone’s best friend?
Yes.

39. What did you get for Christmas day?
That was a while back – Last Christmas I got a nice red flannel shirt, a cell phone, and lots of other goodies.

40. Someone who last bought you something?
The in-laws bought us din-din at East Cafe a few nights back. Yum.

via talonvaki (with some edits by me)

Reply to this entry and I will…
1. Tell you why I friended you.(If I can remember)
2. Associate you with something – fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I’ve always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, please post this in your journal.

Supper at La Tolteca tonight… not so great. Flavorless beans, lackluster chips and salsa… enchiladas were blah. The Potato & Onion Burrito was pretty good, as were the spinach-veggie thingies, but it was a no go. The decor of Meso-American Indians performing sacrifices had far more flavor than the food.


1 year ago – more walkabout pics – vizcaya

2 years ago – frito bandito, monkey pic, dang hialeah, bk’s bday, RI out of office, MM quits, shot patience, newt thought bubbles, doodle selfport

3 years ago – rain on glass, Afrocaribbean religions, postcard, heroclix, fosters home, edbook, wal-mart, ray romano, crackheads and thugs

4 years ago – Frankie the mooch timeline [MUCHO DRAMA FURIOSO!], 3-minute 4am phone post, Justice league, Spectre

5 years ago – Chevy Tahoe Commercial poem, Green Banana Moon, cool words, twilight

6 years ago – caption picture poll, turtle-butt breathing, big brain’s 2nd incarnation

7 years ago – memories feature added, strip mall of sin, mall of the dead, hunter thompson returns to reportingGeotarget Geotarget

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9062 – Thursday

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I need a trim. Maybe a haircut this weekend, too? I feel more than a little shaggy.

I found out today that ol’ RobbChar got engaged! I’m really glad to hear he’s got a partner and a happy life! I may be going to the wedding, in a year’s time or so.

BHK made tasty Tacos / Taco salad… good eats! I’ve been spoiled this week food-wise!

That silly letter meme:Guidelines for propagation: Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the preceding…they have to be actual places, names, things… nothing you fabricate! You must use a name other than your own for the boy and/or girl name prompt(s).What is your name? ScottoFirst word you think of –

4 letter word: Stop
Vehicle: Sputnik
TV Show: Six Million Dollar Man
City: SPARTA!!!
Boy Name: Steve
Girl Name: Sandy
Drink: Sprite
Occupation: Special Olympian (I thought of this before Spy? and Super-hero??)
Something you wear: Socks
Celebrity: Suzanne Somers
Food: Spuds
Something found in a bathroom: Soap (My second answer, actually… translate last answer to English for my first thought)
Reason for Being Late: Sniper (Hey, I do live in DelMarVa now.)
Cartoon Character: Spongebob Squarepants
Something You Shout: Scheisse!

Abandoned laboratory of studying a human brain – Via Ectomo.

Three pictures from recent walkabout. Click to embiggen

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Two homeless guys from the other day – The PG station on the green line is a pretty sad place. these two had enough resources to stagger on and shamble to a seat…. both were massively out of it, due to disabilities either ingrained or added with outside substances. Possibly both. The next sop, a policeman came aboard and lurked next to them for the bulk of the trip… as soon as he left, they began slap-fist fighting. Nothing serious, but I’m glad I got off at the following stop… it’s just sort of depressing to see folks like that.

HAM-A-RAMA!
Ham-A-Rama! – First sighting of Hickory Farms product…. and it’s called HAM-A-RAMA… contains “cheese food” called Chub, “Beef Stick”, and those little strawberry candies in addition to the aforementioned Ham (with water added).

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Flyball – When we went to visit with Amy, I snagged a quick snap of the pooches running… there are some pretty speedy critters that like to play fetch! It was good to see her and her family, however briefly.

I hate it when Ty is right about stuff like this. I’m pretty sure I’d throw in with robot overlords, too. (Also, Zod in 2008 might work.)From his entry –

We’re already giving up our freedoms — our right to privacy, gone. Warrant-less arrest, gone. Right to have your vote counted is super-gone depending on the state you live in, right to stand trial, gone — we have torture. We already have all the downsides of a supposed robotic takeover, but we’re being cheated of the upside! I say, if this is the world we’re gonna live in anyway, at least let the robot overlords have their shot. World peace, technological utopia — and no crime! The robot overlords’ crime control is swift and merciless.

1 year ago – little hellcat via ltms, walkabout pics

2 years ago – linen suit, hospital-b’day, no hurricane wilma pay, king kong marketing, olympic mascots, carl douglas, bebop, bus lady pics
pictures taken – bus lady

3 years ago – sleepy, book fair, mcD toys, Mr’s 5 & 11, $ meme, mozilla, NH child sacrifice

4 years ago – GP mails me about glued things, National hits, vampire duck of death, reverse dictionary, top 10 scientific hoaxes.

5 years ago – Judge Newt-pic, average debt, boo-bees, elephant veggie burgers

6 years ago – Mongo, EOWM, frugivore, folivore

7 years ago – bare feet, clowns, in your eyes, DB swipes laptop from IMT Geotarget

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9054 – fri

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BHK, Chris and I went to Ledo’s for supper… Tina and Matt might’ve gone with us, but they opted not to go. I figure they’ll be more interested in socializing later on down the line.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the average height for an adult female in the United States is 63.8 inches (5 feet, 3.8 inches) and for a man it is 69.2 inches (5 feet, 9.2 inches)

That seems a bit shorter than the average women I see every day, but about right for men.

I wonder if the height difference between women and men contributes very much to gender roles?

random statement – I’m in the mood for popcorn.

another random statement – I’d like to see the northern lights.

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Neutral

You’re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you’re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don’t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

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Strange Maps reproduces a map from the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies showing UFO incidents per capita by county in the contiguous US.

Hm. Somehow, I’d have thought Florida would’ve been more populous.. or the whole east coast for that matter.

Two Reasons I know it’s important for me to think long and hard before getting a tattoo. In addition to the artwork, I like the mottoes – “Malamor” and “Nehil” / “I should not be”, respectively.

1 year ago – george washington, whale’s rib/pier, my head explodes (GP lyrics in comments), forgot to do dot-story.....

  • More florida pics – the pool at night, blimp sighting, iguana, tobasco, goggle-dog

2 years ago – google map risk, sexy archie, personality meme

3 years ago – bro issues, MM/Islam, light and shadow, mallah and brain, walking annual post, famous cat, truthout

4 years ago – Eclipso, Lady From Shanghai, Tomacco, fonts, Book Fair, pondering, maggot art, mirror, Witch

5 years ago – poetry search, Newtcam pic, Zombie, DTH, Stupidty, Rachel

6 years ago – evil news, tattoo poll, shirty, Bizarro, Da Vinci

7 years ago – Apologies for FL, clown, log sheets, sweet disorder, I knew a woman, crimson dreams, chupacabra Geotarget

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9050 – Wednesday

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I discovered Public domain torrents. Good place to go if you want legal stuff to snag from the internet. See Also Emol.

Hm, this is interesting to me. A fairly elaborate flickr stats pageView my DNA at bighugelabs.com

Quiche and Soup for supper tonight… tasty tasty tasty. Samantha Who was weaker tonight than usual, but is a neat concept.

The latest episode of The Office is probably one of the best ones this season. I want to be in a “Finer Things” club with BHK, but I fear I would suffer the same pitfalls.

I have Flight of the Conchords’ “It’s Business Time” in my head, sung with the Lyrics of “It’s Christmas Time” – At least it’s not what poor BHK has stuck in hers… “Crabs for Christmas“

Her Lyric in question –

Santa said, Put that man down this instant!
Now, my boy, want you want’s not that odd.
But there’s no crabs till May,
So hop in my sleigh,
And we’ll fly to New England and I’ll get you scrod.
No, not scrod!!!!!!!

NO, NAWWWWT SCRAWWWWWD!!!!

I guess you had to be there, dear journal.

Q&A doing the rounds –

1. What would hurt more: seeing your best friend make out with your ex, or finding out that your ex never liked you? Seeing as I’m married to my best friend, the former would be pretty traumatic.

2. What was your last alcoholic drink? Hard Cider on Halloween!

3. Where do you live? Southern Maryland

4. Where do you go to school? I work right near DC

5. How many friends do you have? A goodly sized crew. Were I to load them on a longship, we could row across the sea.

6. Did you speak to your mother today? no, but I got an email.

7. What color reminds you of your school? Blue – usually reminds me of FAU

8. Star wars or star trek? Trek

9. At this very moment what should you be doing? Heading to bed.

10. Who has your heart? BHK

11. How many months until your birthday? A little under 3 months… Feb 2 is coming quick!

So, items 20-30 were lost in a fire, or something? Why even number these things?

31. Where is your sister right now? No sisters, but Bro is in a correctional facility for the next 3 weeks.

32. Last place you kissed someone? I was on the side porch, kissing bhk on the lips.

33. Last person who called you? Insurance broker to clear up some hospital issues.

The fire has spread to dissolve two more!

36. What are you listening to? A little ELO – Time

37. What color is your hair? Sandy with more and more silver every day.

38. What color are your eyes? Blue

39. What is the last movie you watched? American Haunting (not haunting at hill house) on TV.. sort of weak.

40. Are you mentally disabled? All of those other questions gone, and this one they keep? No.

41. Who is bothering you right now? Nobody at the moment.

42. What makes you happy? BHK, Newton and Pye.

43. When’s the last time you told someone you loved them? Tonight, BHK.

44. What bothers you? Carelessness. Willful Ignorance. Pain without purpose.

46. When was the last time you talked to one of your siblings? Letter from bro a few days ago.

47. Where’s your favorite place in the world? Snuggled up with BHK, Pye and Newt.

48. Are you happy? Yup!

49. Do you miss someone? Sure do.

50. Have you ever liked a cheerleader/football player? Crushed on a cheerleader or two in high school… Nothing serious / Nobody Professionally

Eat more chocolate and help the environment.

LONDON (Reuters) – Chocoholics can assuage any guilt they may feel after a new process was developed that turns the by-products of making chocolate into a biofuel — meaning you can eat your chocolate and be eco-friendly.

A truck, fuelled by the biofuel, will set out from Poole on the English south coast to Mali in West Africa later this month on a charity mission.

“The chocolate waste used to be used in landfill. But now we can make it travel as biofuel,” said organiser Andy Pag who will be one of the two drivers on the trip.

North western English firm Ecotec has taken waste from the chocolate manufacturing process, turned it into bio-ethanol and mixed it with vegetable oil to produce biodiesel.

Some biofuels have come under fire for either diverting much-needed food crops or leading to massive deforestation as land is cleared to grow crops specially for biofuel production.

“This is to show that you can have environmentally-friendly biofuels and that you don’t have to convert normal diesel engines to use it,” Pag told Reuters.

The BioTruck will depart on November 26 and is expected to take about three weeks to drive the 4,500 miles to Timbuktu where it will off-load a small biofuel production unit with the local MFC charity.

But vehicles using the novel product will not exude the sweet smell of success. “No! I’m afraid the exhaust doesn’t smell of chocolate,” said Pag.

 

 

I have a feeling that I could get BHK to play Warhammer if these were her troops.
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Whee!


1 year ago – day shift, vote, yummy dinner, reg mail, pix, hugin vs autostitch

2 years ago – thc is sandman, caramel corn, web switch, mooch protection, UF bugs, pinkerton on TG, robot poll, sensualism, jetpack doodle, monster island

3 years ago – renfaire, newt butt pic, incredibles great, 46 freeware, super dictionary, end of a world notes

4 years ago – Enty, Gum, Staples out!, Big Newt Face, palm doodle, haiku, book fair, stick a finger in your ear for cell phone

5 years ago – Haunted ft. Lauderdale, Suzy at LOA, Doggies at IMT

6 years ago – Evil News, SS-cam, Sparticus, Poem Poll, Pay-surf poll, Read this

7 years ago – Lorax, I voted, factoids (that may be false!) Geotarget

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Amongst the top keywords locating my website this week-

melons
hero machine
freaky
heromachine
mothra
beatnik
boners
wench
shenanigans
weinerflap
batgirl
monkey robot arm
saucermen
keen
newt
kitty hawk
newtcam
pictures of jetpacks
prettygirl
tunneling babies

current magical drink – Autumn colors are shifted 55mhz on the visual spectrum. I think BHK slipped me some.

This is the world’s largest online collection of found grocery lists. Why am I fascinated by this sort of thing? I think it’s the handwriting.

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English 40% Yankee 5% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
Quote of the day –

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
— Mark Twain

Click to view my Personality Profile page

Definitions – ESTP

Multiple intelligences –

Naturalist
Visual/Spatial
Verbal/Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Bodily/Kinesthetic

Moment of Lyric – They Might Be Giants – The Mesopotamians (video via Kat)

We’ve been driving around
From one end of this town to the other and back
But no one’s ever seen us (No one’s ever seen us)
Driving our Econoline van (And no one’s ever heard of our band)
And no one’s ever heard of our band

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

Then they wouldn’t understand a word we say
So we’ll scratch it all down into the clay
Half believing there will sometime come a day
Someone gives a damn
Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

The Mesopotamish sun is beating down
And making cracks in the ground
But there’s nowhere else to stand
In Mesopotamia (No one’s ever seen us)
The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one’s ever heard of our band)
The land where we invisibly rule

As the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

This is my last stick of gum
I’m going to cut it up so everybody else gets some
Except for Ashurbanipal, who says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-Daren

Hey, Ashurbanipal
I’m a Mesopotamian
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

“Hey, man, I thought that you were dead
I thought you crashed your car”
“No, man, I’ve been right here this whole time playing bass guitar
For the Mesopotamians”

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

Happy 7th B-day, Miz Lexie Luthor! I can’t believe you’ve grown so much!

I will sing the umlaut song for you.

umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut

That is what I play all day long

umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut

Night and day I play this song

umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut

1 year ago – Gilmore-phooey, self port, CSI, deep sleep, emergency contact info for Floridians, fried coke, choco-skulls, Erlking

2 years ago – Lex 5, condo, bro leaves sh, mugshots odf stuffed animals, flavor quiz, Lost figs, hurricane wilma boomerangs around on us, briny breezes bro, cat-o-lantern, cthulhu lp

3 years ago – Lex is 4, Superman: Secret ID, Detlev, Ultimate Windows Boot CD,Walkabout pics, Jon Stewart on Crossfire, Conspiracy Cartoon,Abba/Cthulhu, flaming text msgs, Jeb sucks

4 years ago – lovechat, transubstantiation, D, Lost in translation, Green Bean drink, Japanese Ice Cream, Lemon diet coke=yuk

5 years ago – tombstone icon, lazer tag, taco viva (it’s gone?!), Wachovia, spam headers

6 years ago – Horror, Noir, bad resumes, Sappho and her partner split, first viewing of Enterprise, Reading Dhalgren

7 years ago – Alexis Rose is Born!, Floyd, people come, people go Geotarget

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9022 – fri

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Ahhh.. now *there* is the October weather I’ve been waiting for! 55 degrees! That’s the stuff!

Random bit of fun – the other day I saw a cyclist riding around on a penny-farthing bicycle… in helmet, spandex shorts and so on. I would’ve almost preferred to see a bowler hat and waxed moustache, but the clash of modern and historical was even better, I think.

Halloweenie Survey –

Childhood

What is the first costume you remember wearing?
Masque of the Red Death

What was your favorite costume?
Tin foil robot was a fun one… glowstick eyes!

Best Halloween memory as a kid?
CANDY! CANDY! CANDY!

Worst Halloween memory as a kid?
Going to the Li’l Demon Disco way back when, and dealing with dumb older kids bossing little kids around.

Ever TP or egg a house?
Not houses… but we did egg some kids that were mean to us… see above. We got punished – rightfully so.

Did you steal other kids candy?
Nope… but I did make some trades that seemed awfully in my favor – I give you my smarties, and you give me your fun size snicker bars? sure!

Misc Questions

If you were a character in a horror movie, would you survive?
I hope so! I’d probably be the “safe guy” that dies after you think the monster was dispatched, but really wasn’t.

Would you live in a house that was rumored to be haunted?
Sure… I’d at least check it out.

Would you live in a house where someone had been murdered?
As long as the killer wasn’t around to repeat the crime, sure.

Other than a gun, name the first murder weapon that comes to mind?
Cinder Block. Oh, ouch. Why didn’t I think of poison or a knife?

Would you ever be a mortician?
Depends… I think maybe yes.

Do U fit serial killer profile?
I don’t think that I’m antisocial enough.

Do you believe people can be possessed?
No, I don’t.

What is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life?
Seeing my dad on his deathbed is pretty enduring.

How do you feel about death and dying?
I think that it’s something that happens – I can be pretty sensitive or pretty well-armored to it, depending on the situation.

Have you ever seen a dead body, other than in a funeral home?
Yup.

Were you afraid to go in the ocean after you saw Jaws?
I was, but I was a little kid! I got over it in under a week.

Would you eat a human if your life depended on it?
Probably. I hope I never have to find out.

What was your last nightmare?
I dreamed that my body was made of plastic squares, and pieces were left behind wherever I went… I was worried that I’d run out, because I couldn’t put the acrylic/lego type squares back on.

Rather be buried alive for a night or sleep next to a dead body?
Sleep next to a dead body.

As an Adult

Did you decorate your house?
Sure!

Did you decorate your livejournal/myspace/website?
Homepage, yes – lj, no.

Do you still dress up for Halloween?
Sometimes! I don’t know if we are this year.

How long have been thinking about this years costume?
Hasn’t leapt to mind yet – but last minute works.

Planing on attending any parties?
If we get invites yes… a kid-built haunted house is in the works!

What will you be this year?
Not sure… I might just be a candy vendor!

What was your favorite costume you wore?
Flaming Carrot

Favorite costume somone else wore?
Six-limbed gorilla!

Funniest Halloween moment?
Seeing a mime and a guy in a fairy princess outfit duke it out in the parking lot.

If money was not an issue, what is your dream costume?
I’ve wanted to be God before… with two hand puppets… right hand is a Jesus Puppet, left hand a Devil – Just me in blue jeans and a T-shirt with the word “God” on it. not that expensive… maybe a functional ED-209 ?

Supernatural

Do you believe in ghosts?
I’d like to, but I suspect they don’t exist – at least not in any way defined that I’ve seen.

Have you ever seen one?
I’ve dreamt of them.

First thing that pops into your mind….

Murder weapon?
Cinder Block – same as before!

Scary movie?
Alien

Halloween?
Chernabog

Vampire?
Holy Water

Monster?
Sea Serpent

Haunted?
Mansion

The Small Press Expo will be held in Bethesda this weekend, Friday and Saturday. SPX is the biggest gathering of independent comic artists and cartoonists on the east coast and will feature many local artists from DC, Maryland and Virginia. I’ve got other plans (birthday party – even more fun, and pre-scheduled)

Movies I haven’t seen yet, but wouldn’t mind catching in the theater while they’re still out –

3:10 to Yuma
Darjeeling Limited
Michael Clayton
Eastern Promises
We Own The Night
The Dark Is Rising – yikes… really poor reviews. Maybe not.

Whoops – Dragon Wars movie is already kaput? That didn’t take long. I guess it’s just as well.

No movie tonight, however. We’re preparing for the previously mentioned party for Bugah and Em’s… we’re going to be pulling the in-laws and louise in tow, so it should be a humdinger.

1 year ago – autostitch selfport, lost city, acim guest speaker

2 years ago – amusement park pics, halloween card, paper batmobile, hello, fl deadly force law, lost on itunes

3 years ago – bro drama, holidays, frontiers, world atlas

4 years ago – big brain breaks, hunters / harvest moon

5 years ago – Newt tuckered, Mage knight, independent woman

6 years ago – mulct, poo-spray, error handling

7 years ago – syndicate wars, Doom Patrol, ups and downs, suffixes, sw quiz Geotarget

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9019 – wed

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Nice simple, rustic dinner tonight – Deviled eggs and salad (both egg salad and salad-salad). yum.

Speaking of simple and Rustic – Watched “The F word” with Gordon Ramsey… it’s out of rotation… just isn’t compelling at all. Kitchen Nightmares UK is the best of his lot so far, I think.

Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!

A bare trickle of rain tonight… cool weather tomorrow?

Washington DC’s Pedestrian Master Plan – good thing, given about 700 pedestrians a year are hit by cars in the District, which factors out to about two a day.

Book meme – Don’t hold these to me too tightly – “favorite” is a tough word regarding something as vast as literature.

1. Hardcover or paperback, and why?
Paperback – portability… I’d even prefer e-book format over that, if the reader is comfortable.

2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it…
Salmagundi or Argosy

3. My favorite quote from a book (mention the title) is…

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury –

It was this then, the mystery of man seizing from the land and the land seizing back, year after year, that drew Douglas, knowing the towns never really won, they merely existed in calm peril, fully accoutered with lawn mower, bug spray and hedge shears, swimming steadily as long as civilization said to swim, but each house ready to sink in green tides, buried forever, when the last man ceased and his trowels and mowers shattered to cereal flakes of rust.

4. The author (alive or diseased) I would love to have lunch with would be…
Ray Bradbury… about 35 years ago.

5. If I was going to a deserted island and could only bring one book, except from the SAS survival guide, it would be…
Some sort of large compilation volume, if I were to go against the spirit of the question. Just one? Robinson Crusoe might be a too ironic choice. Actually, I think I’d prefer to take a blank book, and as many writing implements as I could.

6. I would love someone to invent a bookish gadget that…
Had a decently sized screen and was comfortably portable.

7. The smell of an old book reminds me of…
back wen I worked a the library… hiding spots among the deep stacks in the 780s.

8. If I could be the lead character in a book (mention the title), it would be…
I’ll have to lead with Doug in Dandelion Wine, again.

9. The most overestimated book of all times is…
Joyce’s Ulysses would be high on that list, at least for me.

10. I hate it when a book…
holds its own just fine, and then the author (or worse, some other author) writes a really terrible sequel… or series of sequels. see: Ender’s Game or Pern Series for example.

1 year ago – BHK back, Danny plans, bro invisible, google bought youtube, elephant crackup (long article), sure ’nuff yes I do, YOP!

2 years ago – leeches, reclusive, aoe3, bear-cave, W&G thoughts, halloween movies, scotto needs/wants, red hot riding hood, faking depth of field in photoshop, tom cruise – corinthian, things about me list, yahoo podcast search, shy street penguin

3 years ago – long bets, ‘ween, dark victoria, Frederik Ruysch body part dioramas, google translator

4 years ago – Newt bips me, penis snatcher beaten up, hulk closes for a while, and a nice chat. palm drawing

5 years ago – scary dreams, palm drawings, I’m 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon, moon pies 100 years old, starry night, From Beyond

6 years ago – egg recipe, dorkgirl sends me treats, recherche / chichi, evil news, me no likey xp, birding talk with hala

7 years ago – doc trip, duck echoes, Rhino crackheads, sea chantey, memes, shel silverstein Geotarget

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9009- mon

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Cathy and Dave over tonight for Lasagna, conversation (they’re moving to Colorado once the house is sold) and a couple of games of apples to apples. BHK swept the night by winning both games, despite Cathy’s extending the winning conditions from 8 to 10, and then 12 cards on the 2nd game.

Oddball winner of the night – “Cuddly” – Al Pacino, Quicksand, and Warts. Pacino won over Quicksand by a smidgen.

True or False – unasked for help is interference.

via lore – Hey, I didn’t know that there was a blog devoted to redesigns of superhero costumes. That’s neat. Some are serious (in a fun sort of way), while others are a little more invested in subverting the superhero paradigm (also in a fun way).

Current meme thingie –

Comment on this post. If you’re interested, I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

Christin picked – animal rights, exotic cuisine, horror, libraries, pyewacket, roadside attractions, vikings

  • animal rights – Critters have been a pet project for me for as long as I can remember. Something just feels fundamentally wrong when folks don’t hurting something – why not, if it’s only a “stupid animal”. I’ve been around a number of creatures that are more than just food or clothing, and would prefer that they be neither in a perfect world. I understand that it isn’t a perfect world… but I try to treat critters well.

  • exotic cuisine – I like new foods and flavors… it seems like every place has a different idea about what is tasty and what flavors work well together. I’ve developed a special fondness for some of the more commonly available ethnic foods… Thai, Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Ethiopian, German, Italian all bring something spiffy to the table both in traditional and Americanized forms. Nothing that walks on more than one foot, or less than six to eat, though… thanks.

  • horror – I enjoy the genre. More in literature than in film lately, though I can get into a scary movie here and there. Some of the best books I know shine a light at odd angles on stuff that lurks in my imagination, making the shadows large and frightening.

  • libraries – worked in one the better part of high school and college. great places, lots to see and do – plus there are books out the wazoo. I have many fond memories from the library. It’s where I first gamed, back in 6th grade.

  • Pyewacket – he got his name from bell, book and candle (which in turn got it from this Pyewacket) – He’s the baby of our family, 4ish to Newton’s 7ish years old. He’s very laid back, and when you pick him up, you can cradle him like an infant. He’s been a wonderful addition to my family, and I love him dearly.

  • roadside attractions – BHK and I stopped at a number of Ripley’s Believe it or Not locations on the side of the road during our honeymoon, and there’s something equally fascinating to me about oddball bits of Americana… Urban Ruin plus Muffler Men = wonder to my mind. Weird water towers, tourist traps and whatnot. The chintz factor bleeds over a little bit into horror for me, too. Best place for a zombie uprising is an old mini golf course. See also recent entries on the ATW man, or http://www.lostamerica.com/roadside.html

  • vikings – Some people favor pirates… I lean to the more Norse cousins… the romanticized version, of course… sailing to new worlds in ships with serpent heads, burying an axe in your oath-breaking cousin, casting runes and thinking about times when the world was a still cooling body of a giant. What’s not to like? The Norse Eddas are some of my favorite old stories.
1 year ago – kissy pic – with ponytail and without, rockin little guy,

2 years ago – newton kitten war stats, nice compliment, newt nudges newtcam, pulp book d/l, quizzes, ND thanks

3 years ago – newt smokes, pelt fade, botmail, fake gyno

4 years ago – mobile phones destroy ghosts, lego casemod, LotR sand sculpt, Newbie/RI don’t take call, bro care, Escher ,camel sim

5 years ago – work drama, october, finn/big boss, talking head thingie, wedding traditions

6 years ago – enterprise prem, simarena, headache, poll, birthdays, zugzwang &approbation, candy corn pops, macro for work, gator warning, rainthoughts, windows services

7 years ago – peace river, bro bails, exorcist, Song of Solomon 6: 8, bible porn, meanies, latin, sodaplay, road to wellville Geotarget

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I’m feeling a little sick today – sore joints, sore throat, only on the right-hand side. Getting chills – I rarely get cold. (edit – I’m full blown destroyed. by the time I got home, I could barely walk or function. Severe fever, muscle aches. went to bed on arrival, and burned up all night)

Surprised that nobody commented on the video. I may start putting more in there, depending on what happens where.
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Also forgot to post the giant sponge bob in the hay maze. He’s about 25 feet tall.

BHK spotted Cranium Triple Triumph at target – I wonder how hard it’d be to convert to icehouse? (Rules here) Maybe a variant, at least, using stacking and mono-colors.

She also brought home lots of fun loot for Halloween. Orange/mango candy corn, Dwight Schrute fridge magnets, and a cool back-lit pirate silhouette!

Yesterday was national punctuation day… flying blind let me know a bit late… I was fortunate to slip in an interrobang, but didn’t get to use some great marks that are non-standard, but highly useful –

asterism ( ⁂ )
index/fist ( ☞ )
therefore sign ( ∴ )
lozenge ( ◊ )
interrobang ( ‽ )
irony mark ( ؟ )
reference mark ( ※ )
sarcasm mark

The quiz that’s making the rounds… it looks like all the numbers are intact… or at least they’re in sequence. I wonder how many there were from the beginning?
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8997 – Thurs

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Overslept – quick post while BHK gets ready. I feel bad – I wasn’t ready when my ride came to get me to the train.

Yummy, simple meals lately. Stir-fry broccoli w/tofu and carrot over brown rice day before yesterday and garden burgers with fried potatoes last night. Good stick to your ribs type stuff.

Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares – USA is a bit different than the UK version. I anticipate a physical fight in one of these, given our continent’s “Wild West” proclivities. You just can’t bawl some people out like he does.

Good synopsis here.

Game ideas developing in my head – Giants and Dwarfs, Pumpkin, and Rabbit, Fox, Bear (Brier Patch) – all are in the most germ-like beginnings.

Giants and Dwarfs is an “ants vs elephant” or Ogre “Big tank(s) vs many infantry” type theme.

Pumpkin is a multi-player maze game through a pumpkin patch. Possibly Team oriented, or every man for himself. (or both.) I like the idea of using eeore’s chessboard wedges for each player. Complexity seems to go up per increment/player.

RFB is a variation on King’s Table. (Hunter vs hunted) – Added theme of a Brier patch, and Uncle Remus.

Fun Quiz… I’m especially partial to the program that assembles the blueprint parts together!

Your home is a

Gamer’s Hideout

Your kitchen is stocked with chips, dips, and assorted caffeinated beverages. There’s a pantry with emergency backup caffeinated beverages. You also have some breakfast cereals in there, but you haven’t had breakfast since last Spring. Your master bedroom has blankets printed with images of Mario and Link. Your study includes unread copies of various gamer magazines, each purchased for the free demo CDs.

Your home also includes a roost for griffons. You’ve never actually seen a griffon, but you keep the roost ready anyway. Your guests enjoy your collection of every console and associated game ever made. Except the Intellivision — those controllers drive them NUTS. Outside is the moat that protects your home from goblin invaders and extended family.

Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

Find YOUR Dream Home!

We do have a moat, actually – and our pantry is similar.

1 year ago – Hump-day, shh-pirates, Rapture Riders, John Byrne, penis transplant, armed gorilla week, Harlan Ellison suing,

2 years ago – rita – schools closed, buses don’t run, caramel creams, hamster ball gun, cork soakers, political test, poopdeck, hurricane news, browardnoaa, beauty products made from executed chinese prisoners, lj interests meme, big bunny

3 years ago – sema photo, Prisoner / Columbo, Brazil / slavery, mirrors, sneaky work pic

4 years ago – Button Men, Cully, on the bridge, jeb, weight loss, scampi, ready for ‘ween

5 years ago – mst, ipod, hubzilla, cancer research, newton screen saver, cool paper models, riker vs riaa, palm doodle

6 years ago – annus mirabilis, phoons, nice weather, burger king, WHAT IS GRIMACE poll

7 years ago – UAS, Hodey-ohten-doten-day, 7 deadly sins, other employees burnout at acim, registered sex offender counts Geotarget

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8991 – fri

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Thinking good thoughts for mootpoint, Mol, and Dominic.

Payday! Just in time, as BHK and I both got to the doc and I get a pair of fillings on my right side. BHK’s teeth are jim-dandy… remember to floss!

I grabbed this from yoames / phillykat / pilarcruz and countless others.

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post your top ten results.

Here’s mine – (I kept going, to answer all the questions. My first pass had a lot more computer/social worker stuff)

  1. Epidemiologist – Sounds interesting, but I don’t have *any* solid training for it. Could come in handy for the coming zombie apocalypse… or preventing one! Best case, already in a clean house-type bunker. Worst case, that’s where the epidemic starts. I guess if I worked for a villain, before dying, I could at least say that I worked in a lair fashioned inside of a dormant volcano, under the sea in a bubble-city, or from a satellite lab in high-earth orbit.
  2. Oceanographer – I still haven’t finished reading Fluke, but I do enjoy marine biology. I imagine the optimal life doing that sort of thing… maybe like an idyllic remake of the Flipper TV or Jonny Quest. Living in the keys, fighting pirates, discovering sea-monsters, etc. Would I get a hydrofoil and cool gadgets?
  3. Anthropologist – Humans are pretty fascinating critters. I suspect that I’d be more interested in this than Oceanographer. Field work at the ocean would be more palatable to me, though. Again with the Jonny Quest. Maybe with a little less or Race Bannon’s “Take that, you heathen savages!” I will, however accept bad guys that die with a scream of “AIeeee!” as they fall from a cliff, get disemboweled by Yeti, or are shot by whatever helpful bodyguard/guide-types are along for the ride.
  4. Writer – I try to do that here and again, but the time factor keeps popping up. I really need to devote an hour a day to it, and I simply don’t have the will to set aside the time to do it properly. I’ll always love doing it, but I’d have to have a way to support myself and my family if it were my full-time gig. I know quite a few writers, both professional, “wannabe” pro, and strong amateur, most of them very talented at word-craft. Given the amount of junk writing that’s out there, I’m fairly confident that I could find a niche with the right publicist. Also would be handy for “Murder, HE wrote” mysteries later in life. If Angela Lansbury can do it, so can I.
  5. Botanist – I do like plants. Do I like ’em enough to make them my life? Not sure. The Sea and Humans certainly have more of my interest. Now, if it were the phytoplankton people from Atlantis, I guess I’d be set… especially if they need some Research done on their databases. see below. I know what happens to Botanists. Ask Jason Woodrue, Ted Sallis, Alec Holland, Pam Isley, or any of dozens of folks turned into plant-critters, green psychos, pod people or muck-encrusted mockeries of men. Maybe when pot is legal, or if I lived on the planet Mardru.
  6. Library Technician – been there, done that. Fun and rewarding if you surround yourself with the right people. (true of most any job, really) It can be pretty thankless, and while I like books, I’m a far stretch from Burgess Meredith in that Twilight Zone episode.
  7. Historian – So very variable. Some parts of the past are amazing… other bits are deadly dull. Plus, the pay issue again- I imagine it’s difficult to live on the average historian’s wages. How do I become an authority?
  8. Researcher – If I could make any good, livable wage doing this for an organization that wasn’t a super-villain, I’d probably dig it. Depends on the research, though… do I really want data about women’s shoe sizes, and how they compare to hemlines? Fairly close to historian, Above. Job description is too vague.
  9. Database Developer – Heck, that’s a chunk of what I’m doing in my gig right now! I enjoy the challenges and solving the puzzles that arise in most of the larger builds that I’ve had to do.
  10. Multimedia Developer – I’ve dabbled with this… seems like a very competitive field to get a gig that’s worthwhile.

Web Developer, Systems Programmer and such all appear in the top 40, further down the list.

Limited edition Raspberry M&M’s are pretty good. Not amazing, but not too shabby. I prefer the holiday mint ones….and wouldn’t mind if they did orange-chocolate M’s.

Getting this entry out of the way early, as I don’t forsee much computer time tonight… see two lines up. I’m looking forward to a nice evening of Movies and games in our little treehouse loft, or in the living room. (depending on our desire to watch stuff on the laptop or the dvd player.

[edit – Strike that, we had Chinese at in-laws and watching “Because I said so”. Maybe Games and yo-yo tomorrow! Good food and good company tonight – movie was meh.]

Until Saturday-ish, dear journal!

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