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9610 – sunday – more nutshelling

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Got up, ready to head out for morning constitutional.

Stopped walkies, due to bad back

Stretched while BHK worked on the computer – watched Batman B&B. (Atom & Aquaman / Chemo & Brain ep)

Comfy stretch so went on walkabout – Back much better.

Watched a bald eagle circle overhead for about 15 minutes

amazing weather! like spring!

Burning house from fri night – has a fresh fire in chimney

Installed the new router – named mr meaty (bending hurts back some more)

Last of the outside christmas lights are taken off of the house – (they haven’t been lit since the first week in jan)

I grill hot dogs for in-laws and bhk – good baked beans courtesy of Chris

1 year ago – Jane Austen Book club, bushed, yahoo live (now gone), mogulus, veodia, pvk2, Zombie Cyborg Bugs!, WiFi attractive nuisance

2 years ago – picnic in the loft, local interests, interview meme, rpg class quiz

3 years ago – 1-year breakup, newt monkey, flavor crave poll, haiku, 3-d painted rooms, pigs in space, phone-post fog walking, guilt meme

4 years ago – jb gives me filth for my birthday, cable out, bad juju, taco ninja viagp, superman jerk, river walkabout pics, Mel and I are done.

5 years ago – Residence / Faire / ‘Zilla / Shapes , Memory Fragment, Z-squad, Money

6 years ago – playing with palm-modem, dream of hot applesauce vendor & snuggling up at a basketball game.

7 years ago – bro hit on his bike by a cop, bibles in hotels, walkies, FMM lost use of the Net during working hours, Talk about Chupa / small hands,tiffany in playboy.

8 years ago – 100 monkeys debunked, FMM sold Tampa, fending off the end of a flu (history repeats itself, I guess!), Suzy’s crappy computerGeotarget

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9601- sunday

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Taken on Walkabout with BHK – beautiful day – it’s like spring outside. I hear snow is coming for my birthday, though.
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I slept late – gut was bugging me well into the night. We did our "morning walk" at about 1pm. Spent much of the day taking it easy, reading.

1 year ago – ejector seat chair, stone pillows, international race and gender political thoughts, waxy monkey frogs, rain, M$ to buy Y!, nose buttering,

2 years ago – party planning, haircut, TV

3 years ago – The Matador, rock the casbah, bday card, fp with kev, Superman, Batman, Jesus-man and the problem of the corpse on Hollywood Blvd.

4 years ago – no new drama, eryx b’day giftie, sick day, tea-orisinal, nifty mashups, musical mel, movie meme, oddest book titles, be a prostitute or lose your benefits

5 years ago – word association poll, top 100 movies, Trapping Jehovah’s Witnesses in forcefields, Division of Forestry, Farewell KB!

6 years ago – Happy New Year!, palm-cam pics, e-texts

7 years ago – moon/Menstruation connection(or not), dreamy-dreams, elephant talk, pictures, including Newt in a box. Man lives in an airport for 11 years, cousin stuff

8 years ago – Got Birthday arranged to be off, dreams of ancient rome, schedule, shrunken head apples, my first b-day cardGeotarget

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BHK seems to really like Orioles!

She and I went to Geppi’s ( http://www.geppismuseum.com/ ) and the Ravens / Orioles Stadium was between the parking and the entrance – see also, the Babe Ruth Museum, not shown.

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 Gabby Hayes has been a running gag for us, since before we were married.

in other news –
 

According to Bulletin C of the International Earth Rotation Service:

 

A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:

    2008 December 31, 23h 59m 59s
    2008 December 31, 23h 59m 60s
    2009 January     1,   0h   0m   0s

The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:

    from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = – 33s
    from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice           : UTC-TAI = – 34s

This means that tomorrow, 3:59:59 PM PST will be followed by 3:59:60 PM PST prior to the advent of 4:00:00 PM PST.

 

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Went to the invasive species exhibit, featuring the Snakehead. (see other photos below.)

(see also, Muskrat, Nutria, and Scotto levitating a fish.)

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Today, I stopped shaving, and won’t start again until I go back ot the office. Caveman Scotto. Ugh Ugh!

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9505 – Saturday

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Beard all the way off today! Zip-zip! Not sure when it’ll be back, but I wager it’ll return eventually.

Shots were a little rough – I think Danielle was preoccupied.

A couple of nifty things today –

installed the new power supply and fan for the PC today – seems to be going well – the video chip varies between 133F and 171F, depending on if I’m surfing the web or playing fallout 3 for an extended period. seems a little hot, but the blower cools the guts of the system pretty quickly.

Had a little late lunch, BHK made a wonderful early supper at 4ish with Jay, Shaun, Baby Duncan and the in-laws. – veggie "turkey" roast, stuffed peppers for the carnivores (with ground real turkey) roasted root veggies, pumpkin bread, and mac and cheese – really good stuff!

Chris and Larry brought chick-fil-a nuggets, and homemade baked apples – which were a hit with 1 year old Duncan.

Shaun and Jay brought some spicy deviled eggs – good stuff… I was the slacker, and just arranged crackers, olives, cheese, dip and veggies.

Autumn is hitting us like gangbusters… sweep the back porch off, wait 20 minutes and repeat. I’m not talking about just a few leaves, either – layers inches deep, in some places. The trees won’t have much more to drop next week, if this keeps up.

The colors outside right now are beautiful. lots of oranges, bright reds and yellows. BHK and I are in agreement – we both like the trees that go through a progressive change, all on the same plant. green leave son the bottom, bright yellow in the middle, and darker orange-brown on top.

edit – added a pic of one – camera phone doesn’t do it a whit of justice.

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day in brief – will be buffed later, perhaps

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Went back to gina’s cantina, this time with the in-laws in tow.

my “hair of the dog” brunch was pretty close to the 8 layer “slop bucket” I noshed on the day prior, but it had scrambled eggs and a tostada shell rather than a mound of guac. (aok by me.)

had the same table and the same waiter as yesterday. nice guy, chris thinks he looks like alan.

my layers today were… hummus, jalepenos, refried veggie beans (a lovely purple), cheese, scrambled egg, sour cream sauce of a sort, black olives.

bhk made up for my lack of guac by getting an avacado boat, filled with hummus, too. additionally, a couple of soft tacos – beef.

larry got a really good looking burger, and chris got a drunken taco salad, which had similar sauce to my drunken tacos yesterday.

finished off with sopapillas – yum.

we went to the antique store, and bhk found mr peanut salt an pepper shakers for $2, which have sold recently on ebay for $25. (however, it’s likely we won’t sell ’em. Mr. peanut is a cool cat.)

got some other toys – wimpy and bluto, mac tonight, papa smurf and something else. I forget who. [edit: Foghorn Leghorn, and Henery! – why do I have such a mental block?]

Picked up a book of hard-boiled detective stories, and BHK got a few cookbooks.

then went to the purple poppy, and what used to be sputnik (now lures.)

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after – we wet to sam’s and picked up some essentials (cheesy poofs and garden burger) – but they didn’t have a wireless cable router… or decent clothes bleach!

Sams… you let us down. fortunately, your muffins make up for it.

we went home, watched a little tv – primeval and iron chef cooking “offal”.

gnite for now dear journal… picturs and a broadened post may follow, if I get time.

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Went to homestead gardens for the fall festival – My Mother and Witon came up for a quickie visit on the weekend. My back wasn’t up to doing the corn maze, but BHK and Wilton had fun running around in there!

After some autumnal shenanigans, we headed to Jasper’s for dinner. a yelp review is sure to follow, but for now, let’s just say that the family time was good, the food was meh.

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Yesterday’s paths we took on the corn maze – yellow was phase 1 – red was a misstep , blue was phase two. We rode the green around the perimeter on the tractor afterward

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9432 – Saturday

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Got my serum at last/ at last, and EKG was done. I’ll know more after my doc reviews it.

Yellow Trike at Starbucks, man with bumblebee helmet – Man not shown. Nice Guy – goofy fan of his new ride… made a comment about lack of cup holders.

We went to Starbucks – BHK found a $15 gift card, so we figured we’d go – BHK’s pumpkin spice coffee was pretty nasty – I remember why we don’t go to that starbucks (or really any these days.) My lemonade/ passion fruit tea was jim-dandy.

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Went to the BIG book sale, but I didn’t get anything, and BHK only got maybe 5 rather than our usual take of a big ikea bag’s worth. I think it got fairly picked over before we got there… earlier next time, perhaps.

Selby Sub Shop with in-laws, I had egg salad which was yummy. prior to that, I played spore for a bit while BHK dug on her new books, and Larry cut down the dead bits of our garden with the edge trimmer.

Amy’s taking a pass on vacationing here this week – sick mom at home and she want’s to stick by her there. Hopefully her mom feels better soon. We’ll likely see her in October-December sometime.

Best part of the night was coming home and having a "no power night" – lights low, relaxing to 40s music on the couch, reading a book while curled up with BHK.

Google Maps map annotated with all the places Marco Polo visited during his travels to China and back. Larger map here. (via short schrift)

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79.

Saturday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

1 year ago – figuring out my volume and time spent on lj, shopped for presents, DuClaw, Deal Bluegrass show planned

2 years ago – goodies, 008 is landon, kill windows nag, mr t – be somebody, rfjason – wtf prank, kitty combo

3 years ago – Red Thread, Postcard, walking weather, work, 2nd life, battersea

4 years ago – visit meme, case against voodoo, freeflow thought, Mexico Wal-mart Protest

5 years ago – Newt-vet, shoutcast, tiny cities, Why I dislike leiberman, Frankie mooches again, Turkish Hairballs

6 years ago – Lots of robots, World Affairs, palm art

7 years ago – Shocked awake, Nostia, folks scamming relief, weather, programming, lovely chat

8 years ago – Pompano Weather, Warghetz, Suzy News, Censorship, Loved Geotarget

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9427 – Tuesday

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Got epidural (ouch.), appointment with cardio, met with back doc, got spore, Mexican food and maggie moo’s.

Wal-mart drew the last straw, and is now on the official boycott list – poor service plus bad business practices in the pharmacy.

While BHK was reading bergdorf blonds, I played spore – somehow I can’t use the critter I created in the demo creator in a spore game -still investigating why that is.

Went grocery shopping – Cranberry sierra mist is back and I  got creme de menthe altoids – sad to see the mandarin orange mist gone.

As for walkies – we’ve laid out a reward plan – we have a bundle of space-critter buttons, and for each goal, we get an additional "merit badge" – after we get up to distance, it’ll be repetition. My goal is 5 miles a walk, three walks a week.

So far –

5 badges each–earned

1 after 5x 1 mile walks—Allison got a space piggy, Scott got a red astro-kitty

2 after 4x 2 mile walks

3 after 3x 3 mile walks

4 after 2x 4 mile walks

5 after 1x 5 miles walk!

Recent walkies

Sat – 8/23/08 -1.5968  addl -~1.2mi (total =2.7641 counting whole day )
Sat – 8/31/08 – 1.7333 miles
Sun – 9/1/08 – 2.0166 miles
Sat – 9/6/08 1.2279 miles
Sun – 9/7/08 1.631 miles

Tues – Today – Before going to the doc – 9/9/08 2.0234 miles

Walkabout pics – mostly flowers, fruit/berries and birds along the view from the boardwalk – I really like the little red star flowers – forgive the repetition, dear journal – trying out aspects of macro and zoom.

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Spoke to Brittney about getting serum ready for Saturday, and maybe an EKG at the same time. *please* let it be ready – this’ll be the third week out. I think it’s likely that we’ll get some this go ’round.

1 year ago – many pictures!, renfest, swami yo, hack & slash, johnny fox, kadon, bhk participation, many boardgames, food sample list, quiz-meme questions

2 years ago – october plans for in-laws meetup, geotagged photos, comedy show, go game

3 years ago – confirmed Deerfield condo, iguanas, wonder woman, pb&h, 2nd life, songs meme, quizzies

4 years ago -future life, fly-eating bot, living in Broward, Maroon, tracking Ivan,Danny’s students read my lj, on call all weekend, HIP/Bag lady

5 years ago – Run, Trism-Gollum, Run, robot zoo, dirty-sounding words, palm-day at work, lifetime membership in there, time marks the beginning of the end for prop2

6 years ago – oatmeal, remembrance rant, touch screen voting, flash CAD thingie.

7 years ago – hardscrabble, Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, (and other daily life books), good things

8 years ago – saw a black tip shark, conch fritters, everway Geotarget

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9425 – Sunday

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Better Walkies today – cooler weather – lady with cats in a screened in stroller (Abby and Gabby – her name was Merle), spent much of the day at home.

Adam paid a visit, brought Chinese food. Played some Wii / lego star wars, took it easy.

Additionally, we saw the polydactyl cats who were more than friendly and lovable – they flop over and show belly for petting as soon as we get within 10 feet of them. clicks embiggen as always. I think the white belly is pregnant. Are mitten-footed cats just more friendly? I seem to recall the ones in the Keys to be especially lovey, too.

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Chewing on a bagel yanked out my filling and root canal. I now have a pretty big hole in my jaw – not painful, but after calling Dr Wolf, I’m to keep food out as best I can, and call him on Monday for an appointment – this was the tooth that was going to ge tthe crown, so I guess I may have more than two appointments ahead of me now (1 for temp crown, one to install perm)

1 year ago – falafel, sick bhk, gardenburger, comics and games and stuff, change, very clever pipe game, cosmic coasters, eryx sends us ecofluxx, twin win, apes and cadbury, 3000 year old beehives, population doubling by 1 human and 1 cat, how scotto makes himself angry, Madeline L’engle RIP, stolen catalytic converter from the parking lot at work, palm doodles, top murderous cities

2 years ago – jojo again, Chase is a creep, acim scuttlebutt (RS came back and left since then)

3 years ago– First notice of SNAKES ON A PLANE, smokin’ with Newt and Firpo,morning pre-work report, interdictor shenanigans, ADP and RI duke it out, second life free

4 years ago – Broward PSA, hurricane doodles, freeware

5 years ago – Harvest moon, auto-cashiers, acim two-level split, lynching, cluster move, gender genie, newt-bounce

6 years ago – Sleestaks and Oatmeal, Sculpey and Fimo, Bewitched, cave photo, bad prefixes, dog snoods

7 years ago– lj drama regarding cheaters,lovely long chat where blackie burped, thescents of rose, lavender, gardenia, violette, and muguet (burts bees),Skeletor, Back in 1997, there was an exorcism performed on Mother Teresa, saints.

8 years ago – poopy day, Suzy, Walt Whitman, American Cannibals, Mush, interests, overheard, jail visits Geotarget

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9424 – Saturday

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Minor walkies in the heavy rain – got too wet and my back wasn’t into the march, so we headed home a bit early. Found a nice grove to walk down. – Stayed in due to rain most of the day.

Larry and Chris came over – they had cabin fever – brought pizza  – I was pretty kaput, but doing ok.

Got a few phone calls –  my mom worried about Ike / spoke with Amy about coming down next weekend.

Still no Serum ready from allergist – that’s twice now. too much of this, and my dosage is going to get all out of whack.

1 year ago – lobotomy planters, bhk is my lower case n, little hoff doll, got my office furniture, zombie fluxx, orange isn’t many a person’s fave, Why so serious, scotto?, seeqpod / traffic

2 years ago – Illuminati perfection, venture brothers, aerial photos Miami, voting, heifer.org charity, America’s Most (And Least) Efficient Charities, Affie Jones, stand on your own head for a change

3 years ago – stream of thought, arcade games, newt, tolerance, comics, Danny elfman, tv, newtcam pic, rome, gaming, sheep don’t you know the road, fema issues, bob denver RIP

4 years ago – hurricane home movie, happy to be home, pentagon crash snopes

5 years ago – annoying LL, death, IRC pix, gender genie, toys, sunset, rainy day

6 years ago – Crash Bonsai, sticky song poll

7 years ago – Hammer-Wheel, Beijing, Stephen Foster, Mystery men Hiring, soap hair

8 years ago – Suzy goes to the Clink Geotarget