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8628 – Happy All Saint’s Day!

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Bhk in St. Aug at the “Old City House Bed & Breakfast” – fantastic food. Isn’t she purdy?

Having a lovely time just puttering around, getting ready for work…a pity I have to return today, but returning home will be much sweeter!

Since I’m being brief this am, have some Pictures from the Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach –

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Skates & Rays tank

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More.. flash makes for fun glowy eyeballs.

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It’s a Jelly.

Off to the races… until later, dear journal! More text later.

1 year ago – a/c out, back to the office from bso, costumes seen, power robot,

2 years ago – robotman punkin, drac, mom’s b-day, life overview, keywords,

3 years ago – Mending up the back (staple-pic), term metrosexual, fun linkies & news items, buddy map meme

4 years ago – Expedition with Danny

5 years ago – Love-o-lantern, candy corn and smiling fortune

6 years ago – Saint Isidore, Fake Penis, Steve Allen, Destroy the Moon, Kokinoshu

7 years ago – Newt not skin and bones any more… broke a poundGeotarget

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8613 –

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Happy Birthday, eryx_uk!
Happy bday

Say! Speaking of the UK, My keyword auto-downloader picked up episodes one and two of torchwood! Does that mean I’ll be getting dr who episodes soon? That’ll make up for the ended season of Venture Brothers.

Got to thinking about my old superhero concept for Stigmata yesterday… then Billy Crystal / Bruno Kirby with blackhellkat… Which invited the Burger King / Burger Christ comparison via initials.

Burger Christ. What a great, blasphemous name for a fast food joint.

Many terrible biblical puns came up for foodstuffs afterward.

“The Flood” – Jumbo Drink, served with a toy ark for the kiddies.
“Pound of Flesh” burger
Gadzooks – french fries shaped like nails. (ketchup or graypumpkin‘s sacred dipping sauce on the side)
Garden of eden apple/walnut salad – you can only order it once, then you’re barred from the restaurant. bhk added the idea of a snakey crouton.

The others aren’t leaping immediately to mind.. oh! “Lot’s Wife” Salt shakers and Noah’s Animal Crackers (comes in pairs)

Just terrible.

It seems I’m not the first to think of Burger Christ.
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Watched Open Season yesterday, as it got a trifle too hot at Viva Broward. (I did get my Arepa, so the journey was worth it.) The movie was *a lot* more funny than I’d thought a vehicle featuring the voices of Ashton Kutchner and Martin Lawrence could be.

Walkabout pics from yesterday. Mostly construction and the Mexican place at riverwalk. (Compare Saturday’s walkies pic with Sunday’s… pretty dang similar.)

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Our tree’s face lost an eye. I like him better as a cyclops.

Sneaky guy in sunglasses found his way into my wacky statuary picture. I like it better with a friendly wave. He offered to take my picture with stuff, but I politely declined – he seemed a little off-kilter, and I didn’t want him to break or steal my camera. When he walked away, he yelled over his shoulder “We’re the people our parents warned us about!”.

1 year ago – wilma approaching, pirate scotto, chakra poll, Terry in Cancun, newt-wiggle pic, torchwood arcticle, newt grump-sphynx pic

2 years ago – Newt entry, voted, bittorrent, 33 questions, randomness

3 years ago – German Dukes of Hazzard, the finger, vanishing penises, prepping for the doctor, spidey-doodle, SA.com gets PMing!

4 years ago – Paper Airplane sim, freebie movies, Dave got a hill giant, Newt head-waggy, Where’s George bill comes back, belarc

5 years ago – Walkin’ Pneumonia, chat proggies poopin out, 5 hours in ER/pharmacy.. waiting, mostly. palm-stream post

6 years ago – First use of GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING as a joke, Summertime, heavy work dayGeotarget

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8608 – Saturday continues –

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On the porch with Newt while Fatima gives the place a a scrub down… later, I meet up with the house sitter to make sure everything is good for my trip next week… basics, like where the sand and kibble are, some fundamental newt rules, and phone numbers to reach me in any time of need.

mp3 of current music. Hey, it was the spice girls earlier, too. Polka Inspired Nostalgia kick.

Just rec’d via netflix – First 3 eps of season 3 of the Shield, Barbarella, and the Skeleton Key. Skeleton Key is on reserve for Tuesday night, methinks. The other two will get watched before then.

Hey! Tomorrow is graypumpkin‘s birthday!

I think a trip to “¡Viva Broward!” is in order – I hear that there’ll be a few good musical guests, and I could go for some walkabout fun this weekend. Maybe pick up some arepas, too.

Places to take BHK in November – (just spitballing, not an actual itinerary)

The Bonnet House

Morikami Museum And Japanese Gardens

Vizcaya (and a stop off at the Planetarium and science museum, too!)

Fairchild

Butterfly world

Miami Metrozoo (It’s cageless, plus it has the “Scoop on Poop” – the biggest excrement exhibit in the world!)

Speaking of poop and no cages… maybe Monkey Jungle?

Sawgrass Mills Mall

Maybe the Norton? It’s been a while since I’ve been there.

Of course, bigger drives will be to the Keys (for kayaking, maybe?), or Tampa-stuff (Like the Florida Aquarium ), and St. Augustine’s goodies.

It’s fun to think like a tourist in my own region. (Plus, it’s cool to go any place that has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not. (Florida, that means Orlando, St. Aug, Panama City and the Keys) – I think St. Aug might be a good choice, given the reviewGeotarget

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8607 – some pictures, I saw damien.

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Saw Damien on the bus – he didn’t recognize me.. last time he saw me, I had a full bear, long hair down, and was dancing with Willow.

I think the last time I spoke to him was Christmas at the ‘Borgs, about a decade ago.

Yup, I’ve got a picture, though Damien isn’t in it.
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Ah, here’s one with him in it from about the same time – He’s on the left, in the tie dye, hands on his knees. I’m practically invisible on the right, a hovering set of cheekbones and a forehead. A lot fo people in that picture that I haven’t seen in a while. Notably Kenny the Klown (he’s in NC right now), The Three Brians, Eryn, Nate/Nug, Leisa, and the rest. I miss the drum circle / guitars on the beach days, when I remember to remember them. Lots of good cheer, good vibes, and positive thoughts. Very little negativity then… I think I learned a lot from those guys.

Anyhow… Damien.. he’s not doing so well. He was drinking vodka from a bottle in the back of the bus, with some older woman (maybe 25 years his senior… and not his mom Deirdre, either.) and taking some transparent caps… could’ve been acid, but I’m not sure. He was looking quite worn… a few days growth of beard, cuts and sores on his face and arms. I didn’t know who he was at first, until I heard him talking in the nasal slur to his seat mate.

Moment of Lyric –

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8599 –

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Time with Danny was pretty straightforward and fun.

We:

  • Got together at about 10am, and shot the breeze
  • Decided to catch the 11:45 showing of “Employee of the Month” (entertaining little formula movie – dane cook and jessica simpson vehicle)
  • Grabbed a beer and a chowder at crabby jack’s
  • We were too late to pick up my suit at the store. Lame Sat. hours.
  • Went back to the condo to chat around the pond, and to talk to the iguanas
  • Went upstairs to watch Heroes ep 3. (The show’s getting better, but still too much pointless gore)
  • Dan took a nap while I played some counterstrike
  • we watched some strong bad emails
  • then headed out – he dropped me a the sushi/thai place, and he went off to dance night with the mrs.

Assorted pics from yesterday –

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Danny under the big tree out back

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Outtake – Dan Sneezing under the big tree out back

Danny with a Pink pistol and a dour look

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8598 – Saturday. Mostly pictures and video.

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Getting together with Danny today. Mid-morning, we’ll get a bite to eat, and then goof off. Maybe play some pirates, or Axis and Allies Minis. I slept hard last night – from 11pm to just about 7am, with little a solid sea of black in between.. I don’t recall tossing, turning or dreaming at all.

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Weird Advert-looking version of me for 365 days.
How I envision I’d look on an old newsprint ad for…
oh, I don’t know. Lithium? Monkey Diapers?

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I think I prefer the Sleepy-time picture of Newton and me, instead.

2 non-scotto shots

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8582 – Lazy man return from vaykay post.

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Some Maryland shots taken last weekend – clicken to emgiggen!

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Slutty Mermaid – Downtown Car wash. Word about town is that she’s easy.

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ATV guy in the punkin patch, and a couple of pov shots – last is a giant Halloween spider made from a hay bale.

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Courthouse! very important appointment there on 10/25!

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Baltimore and/or Annapolis

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The Airport: Mr Crab Again, Spirally Parking Lot, and sunset on the plane’s wing.

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Farm area… horsies askew, silo drive-by, and some amish signs selling squirrel feed.
I really like the center one full sized.

Got quite a lot done on the weekend, with only a few setbacks due to my size. (it’s hard to find snappy clothes in my size.) I had a wonderful time, as always, and look quite forward to my return. I have to remember to go back and geocode all of my recent pictures, too. Locks for Love may’ve been stymied – the bag with my ponytail seems othave a rupture in it, and part of the tail was sucked through it. a Freak accident, due to cabin pressure?

1 year ago – bloody foot, gp quiet, video mem shot, silly youtube video, flow-er, rainbow raider, Alternate supernatural, animal cams, fortune cookie, cowboy dog joke, lost

2 years ago – weekend working, sketch-a-move toy, brain transport, y’all, VS and I debate hooters girls training, Andy-coma, skin-theft dream

3 years ago – prop2 losing cred, I’m going to be in Popular Science, Deep thought, hand shadows, lj-drama, lj-gender

4 years ago – MH maint, flatworm sex, [info]missv engaged, Pacifists to head for Baghdad, work drama, palm doodles, coworkers in the box

5 years ago – dishabille, Kipling, writing freeflow, SA poll, lj-bounce, moving out poll, love

6 years ago – cpap, bumper sticker, cybersitter filtration, people think I’m DTGeotarget

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8575 – 2 nights and 28 days to go!

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First Episode of Legion of Super Heroes wasn’t too bad. Not sure how I feel about the “greatest american hero – needs training” superman. I think it’s probably ok as a kid hero thing.

Nice cameo of skeets, Booster gold and a lot of Green Lantern Races at the museum, they did a pretty sharp update.

Contrast that with “Heroes”… my jury’s still out on that one. It has potential, but needs a little more oomph, I think.

The C in CW stands for CBS and the W stands for WB – Columbia Warner? (CBS&WB) – something weird about an abbreviation of 2 abbreviations.

So, is the actor playing Luke leaving Gilmore Girls, or are they just getting really uppity with the writing?

How to crack a walnut with one hand:

  • First, place two hard-shelled walnuts in the palm of your hand.
  • Carefully line up the seams, and wrap your fingers around them.
  • With your hand slightly cupped, get a good grip – One walnut should rested against the base of the thumb, while the other one presses against the curved second and third fingers.
  • Squeeze *HARD* until the weaker one of the two walnuts gives in to the pressure.

That move *really* impresses folks… I once got a “Woo!” from John, the first time I showed it to him.

Good during the winter holidays, when there are walnuts all over the place.

I’m a little envious of folks that are in a place (MD) where they can see their breath… I’ll get to do that this weekend- airports have reduced restrictions on liquids again, which means that I can bring a drink aboard. Non-stop flights this time, so no layovers! Most Excellent!

I’m looking forward to late October walkabouts and after. Basic thoughts include the Keys, Vizcaya, and maybe assorted South Florida locales.

Citgo is owned by Venezuela, eh?

Angry with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for calling President Bush “the devil,” state Rep. Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is calling on the Florida Secretary of Transportation to pull the plug on gasoline stations along the Florida Turnpike run by Venezuelan-owned Citgo. Continue reading 8575 – 2 nights and 28 days to go! →

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8569 –

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Dear Journal,

Doesn’t that look official! Too hard on the eyes, for me, though. A more standard font is what I prefer.

One of the few truly selfish things you can do that doesn’t make you an asshole is to make yourself happy by making someone else happy.

Right you are, Ze.

Charge your AAs over USB

Aw! Hulk have 2 kitties! (See Icon)

Moment of Lyric is – Track 23 on X-entertainment’s halloween jukebox. (mp3)

Postal Goodie Basket is an Awesome Halloween Score!

One, first and foremost – A lovely Headless Horseman card, complete with bonus commentary

On the candy side of things –

  • Two more Skybars
  • a fistful of Caramel Apple Chews
  • 5 mini packs of Necco Wafers
  • A Chocolate Marshmallow Vulture egg
  • a chocolate vulture’s nest
  • 3 Reeses Peanut Butter Pumpkins
  • A marshmallow ghostie

MmmMmMM Sugar Shock.

Peektures –

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Crane, Newt at Night, Blown out windows and Caution below

The Crane was in the parking lot outside of the Grotto – took birdie’s pic right as I got to the bottom of the stairs.

Newt is just chillin’ with my psp and some small denomination currency, wedged comfortably between my monitors.

Last Two – The Wachovia Building (or whichever, now that a Nation’s Bank took it over) – top windows blown out of the tower, and someone put danger tape all around the breakout area. No visible glass or debris, so I guess they cleaned it all up before I got there. Fortunately, no chalk outline. One of the poles marking off the danger zone is my bus stop to work.

For Glass and Debris pictures, feel free to look at my post hurricane wilma shots, instead. I can’t believe it will only be a year ago in October.. it feels like it was ages since it happened.

Quiz type stuff

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8561 – Fart Knocker. Heh.

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Went to the Seminole Casino on Coconut Creek as a mini-walkabout. I dropped a few bucks, trying slots, and I *really* don’t get it. I totally felt like a monkey pushing a bar to get a banana pellet…. the only trouble was, I had to feed the machine banana pellets to make it work. Poorly.

Not really on a par with the hard rock, but interesting to see the variety of machines and people doing the pushbutton thing. Retirees, doctor-types in scrubs, people smoking and eating chili dogs, all poking that spin button over and over again, putting in bills of all denominations, or the really hardcore just using some special sort of debit card.

I’ll just keep my banana pellets to myself, and cut out the pellet-stealing machine, thank you very much. My Fave machine to look at was was “Blues Brothers” themed… most were branded in some way, Wheel of Fortune, Monopoly, and Tobasco Hot Pepper sauce all had slot machines.

Poker was upstairs, and doubly smoky… I couldn’t find the high-speed bingo anywhere.

Odd that the Seminole Flag is very similar to the German Flag, but with a white bar on top. I guess there are only so many color combinations you can hit with stripes, before you have some replication going on.

Slept soundly last night, with odd dreams of being underwater.. maybe because the road trip in October might include the Georgia Aquarium, now? It’s so big that they have flippin’ whale sharks! Maybe I won’t have to wait until my last day on earth to visit a chunk of the great barrier reef, after all? A little scary… I saw Jaws 3-D, after all.

Reclusive German, reading reclusively in his grotto? Sounds right.

I'm Ludvig II, the Swan King of Bavaria!
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
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8517 – some pictures before launch – click to embiggen

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Photos taken on the bus to work yesterday

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The perfect marquee for the Gateway theater in Fort Lauderdale (near Victoria Park – a very gay-friendly community)

I have a soft spot for this place… one of the few joints that’ll show art house / revival / non mainstream type stuff. Last thing I saw there was Superman – old-school seating… I’ve been spoiled by recliners and stadium-style. The last indy film I caught was the They Might Be Giants documentary.

They just need to get more interest in 70s kung fu movies or giant atomic-breathing dinosaurs and we’ll be right on.

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Two pictures of them tearing down the post office… I have a strange fondness for urban ruin / visible rebar.

You’ve Changed 44% in 10 Years

You’ve done a good job changing with the times, but deep down, you’re still the same person.
You’re clothes, job, and friends may have changed some – but it hasn’t changed you.

Dr. Grordbort does it again. “Ready to Use” the ManMelter 3600 ZX comes prepped to vaporise all and sundry down to a molecular level. Featuring many of the latest ameliorations in Raygun Technology, it comes with Phlogiston cannisters, cleaning apparatus and wingdings, so that you may commence atomising Moon Soldiers or neighborhood dogs at your earliest convenience.

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Someone remind me to pick up a Manmelter 3600ZX Sub-Atomic Disintegrator Pistol while I’m out picking up Newton-treats today…I’m not sure what the moon man situation is up north right now.

Here’s my walkabout mp3 for the journey out. until later, dear journal! (music via)

1 year ago – bro out, pay links, looking back meme, friday 5, monkeys in gov’t

2 years ago – Scotto as the prisoner, TV/Game idea, nazi weddings, adsense poof, steven tyler is a salt vampire, lj permanence, sick at work, poo humor, skin dry

3 years ago – menstrualhut cloned, vampire game, pam visits, eagles vs giant gerbils, under nyc

4 years ago – A/C issues, Everyone Guilty of Enron, cake, Hurricane Andrew, bus stop photos, keywords

5 years ago – I photoshop my dream, coloringbook, fecund

6 years ago – time of darknessGeotarget

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8511 – “vacation day”

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About 45 minutes ago, work called and woke me up – the two machines in accounting are not talking to each other for some reason – some sort of sharing issue.

If they can’t get it to work, I may have to take the 90-minute commute all the way down there to spend two minutes reestablishing a network connection. That’d be quite annoying. We’ll see if I can walk them through it.

[edit – Ah, thank goodness. 10:49am, and I didn’t have to cruise all the way down there. back on track]

Some walkabout pictures from yesterday – Hover over the thumbnail for a title, or click to make with the bigger.

The 3-d movie yesterday was fun, as was the trip to the museum of art. Tina was nice company, too. I could eat another couple of those 3-cheese empenadas.

Last night was a delight, cooing into the wee hours of the morning with Allison until I was drifting into snoozetown. Pleasant, happy dreams followed.

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Ghosts, bird flu, more giraffes, hellhounds, skulls, many stickers

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Skaters at the Broward County Library. I have quite a few of these.. could make an animated icon, perhaps.

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fountain geocache, RR tracks, Wrecked GPS marker by imax

Well, now that I’m officially free, I think I’ll take myself out to breakfast, and work my way to Sugar Sand Park. Have a happy one, dear journal!

Bonus – I can get to Sugar Sand via one bus from Hillsboro & Fed – 92 westbound to loggers run, once an hour at 20 past. (I’ll make it to the 12:20, no problem, but 11:20 may be over-optimistic)

And now, the archives –

1 year ago – goth girl, walken ’08, dane cook re: superman shirts, silly tiger, scotto is, strikeout meme, newt pic at my old apt,

2 years ago – palm doodle, storm disastrous, necco wafers, hurricane journal-guy

3 years ago – wwcalc, Mexican casserole, newt sniffing, sewer travels, blackouts

4 years ago – cool comics, broken links, memories from 1981, hump-day

5 years ago – good feelings, abusive employee/employer relations, wonder tomato condiment poll, evil news, taught chmod

6 years ago – sleep study follow-up, peaceGeotarget