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6866- 09/04/04 – 11:58 am

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Reading in Dan’s room while he grades lab reports. The poor guy spends more time grading than the student takes to do the report, I suspect. He’s putting together grading templates now, to make the job easier.

It’s quiet right now, the only sounds being those of Dan typing, Janet
working on a pattern, and Newt bebopping around the house, in search of
that hidden cricket.

Dan talks to himself a bit while grading. I’m going to watch myself over the next few days, to see if I gab solo as often as these guys… I suspect that most of my internal monologues stay inside.

some hurricane piccies:

Dan walking by the lake, pre-storm – we visited the ducks, which looked
rather like a crossbred crew of lovely mallard and ugly muskie.

it was pretty dark inside the house with all the aluminum shutters up – the only natural light available was via the front door.

newt seemed to like the new terrains available to explore, lots of
surfaces, nooks and crannies to sniff out. He doesn’t seem to like hanging out with Dan or Janet much… I suspect that they’re a confusing “new furniture” to him.

I haven’t shaved since Wednesday, so scruffy is the fashion statement this week.

sent via palmtop

very little natural light
dan by the duck pond
newt on the sewing table
danny and newt playing with the flashlight
non-chalant duckies
newt chillin'

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6860 – Dial-up is slo-ow.

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Dan snores, and it makes me laugh. He’s about 1/3 Doug sound level.

The 2nd movie – Return of Gaimajin was even better than the first. good hurricane karma, I got them by helping with Charley.

Newt’s being naughty… hissing at Janet a lot. (A bit at Dan, too. I don’t think he’s happy sharing space with them.) If I pick Newt up, he quiets down and purrs like a fiend… I’m an anchor of familiarity in this place.

Danny pointed something out to me on the way to his place yesterday… how do new and used car lots empty out so fast? Where do they put ’em? I theorized that there’s some hidden underground parking or more likely that they’re accordianed in the back. I got a call from Wilt, and he told me that no wood is going on my windows.. just tape. Ugh… I’m glad I was smart and packed up all my important tech and took it with me.

I’m glad I left on Thursday, because I hear that the roads are now mobbed with folks trying to get the heck out of there.

Dan’s house is super-prone to little power-flickers at this point I’m glad I had a candle in the bathroom while I took my morning shower.. I’m glad that I’ve got a surge bar and that lappie is on battery power.

Wind’s kicking up pretty good, now… I’ll have some nifty movies to upload from the palm after the storm.

Another J factoid – She’s never, ever stopped talking when I’ve been within earshot. Talks back to the TV, and steps on other people talking, too. I wonder if she ever has a quiet time? I think that maybe her own voice is a comfort to herself? I suspect it’s a nervous habit, to take her mind off of other things.

Mighty windy and wet at this point. Lots of boil water orders, though not in my region quite yet.

Waffles for late breakfast today – clearing out the freezer in case of a long term power out.

All in all, Still safe and sound. Still mostly have power, a/c and light.

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6859 – Friday

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I can’t rightly call this a vacation, considering that I’m still taking call.

three so far today… I was a little difficult to train D&J to shut the pie-holes while I’m making a call, but it seems to be working out ok, now.

We took a little walk around the neighborhood… it looks like the brunt of the storm is going to pass to the north, now.

I’d forgotten how J speaks in monologues, disguised as dialogues. I think she could have the exact conversation with or without a partner.

Shutters are up throughout the neighborhood, clouds are rolling by quickly, some comfy breeze, but no rain.

It’s a little tricky training Newt to stay off of the counters here.. I don’t want him wandering around where food is prepared.

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6858 – in the box with D & J.

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At Dan’s, and it’s going better than expected. My panic was misplaced.

Tonight, we watched gaimajin, and had quorn nuggets for supper, with new potatoes and brussels sprouts. I abstained from the sprouts… they remind me of my formative years as a podling.

Newt’s digging the plants (no pun intended) and is enjoying all of the new places to nose around and check out. Minimal missing person calls tonight, and I’m only on call until tomorrow at 5pm.

Tomorrow, I’m introducing Danny to invader zim.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DCL! thanks again for the CDs!

I haven’t used this laptop for quite a span… the windows update and anti-virus both took forever on dialup.

Hitting the sack soon. See you later, Dear journal.

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6858 – in the box with D & J.

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At Dan’s, and it’s going better than expected. My panic was misplaced.

Tonight, we watched gaimajin, and had quorn nuggets for supper, with new potatoes and brussels sprouts. I abstained from the sprouts… they remind me of my formative years as a podling.

Newt’s digging the plants (no pun intended) and is enjoying all of the new places to nose around and check out. Minimal missing person calls tonight, and I’m only on call until tomorrow at 5pm.

Tomorrow, I’m introducing Danny to invader zim.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DCL! thanks again for the CDs!

I haven’t used this laptop for quite a span… the windows update and anti-virus both took forever on dialup.

Hitting the sack soon. See you later, Dear journal.

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6865 – backdated from Thursday

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backdated.

I decided briefly that I wasn’t comfortable with the C’s around Newt. I think that Jan or even Danny might get careless, and do something that would cause Newt to somehow get hurt out of the house… I’m being irrational. I came close to having a panic attack just thinking of poor Newt, out in a hurricane. It sort of saddens me to be this distrustful of Dan and his wife, but they just don’t know better, and are prone to carelessness. I don’t think that I should stay, here, but if I go to Danny’s place, I’m going to have to lay down some ground rules. Maybe I’ll stay with Newt in the guest bathroom the whole time. [update: Of course ,I ended up going to Dan and Janet’s, and everything turned out fine)

pretend-sushi made with twinkies and dried fruit… I think I’m more partial to the kebabs.

Looking for more potential hurricane cams? Check this old entry for lots o’ links. note that some links may be broken, but the Sun-Sentinel’s has always been pretty reliable.

I tried out the evil genius demo… pretty cute, but I’m not sure how much repeat game play it holds. Being a Bond-style villain is fun… and the music is groovy. Sort of a sim-city version of Evil base management.

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6855 – office secure/ Hurricane Frances PSA

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Ok, Office is disassembled, network secure, and everything is safe there.

Now to research what to do for myself.

Hurricane Frances Information Hotline 954-831-4000

Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman announced at a media conference today at 8:00 a.m. the following action Broward County residents and visitors should take in preparation for Hurricane Frances.

• In anticipation of a hurricane warning later today and an in an abundance of caution, a mandatory evacuation has been ordered effective 2:00 p.m. today for the Barrier Islands and all mobile homes. Residents are strongly urged to evacuate. Voluntary evacuations can take place at any time.

• A recommended evacuation has been ordered for those areas east of US1 and for those residents who live on tidal bodies of water. [that’s me. I’m looking into pet-friendly hotels now.]

• Red Cross shelters will open at 2:00 p.m. today. Buses will begin running to assist with the evacuation at approximately 1:45 p.m. along A-1-A.

• Those persons who need to evacuate should first attempt to stay with friends or relatives outside the evacuation zone. The Red Cross Shelters will be available for those that need a safe refuge.

• Shelter guidelines:

– Shelters are a place of refuge only
– No pets are permitted in shelters – a list of pet friendly hotels is posted on the web site
– No smoking is permitted
– Items to bring: medication, battery-operated radio, special diet foods, baby food, personal items, pillows and blankets
– Shelter location information is available on the Broward County web site www.broward.org or by calling the Hurricane Hotline at 954-831-4000

• The Broward County special needs shelters will also open at 2:00 p.m. today. These shelters are for people who have special health care needs and require assistance. Residents in need have pre-registered and will be notified by telephone this morning to schedule transportation.

• There are approximately 17,000 visitors to Broward County staying in hotels in the evacuation area. Hotels in western Broward County are at capacity. Our Red Cross shelters are available as refuge for our visitors.

• Travelers should call the airlines before arriving at the airport to ensure that their flights are still scheduled.

• Port Everglades closed at 8:00 a.m. this morning to all vessel traffic including cargo and cruise ships.

• Homeless persons in Broward County should seek shelter at any of the Red Cross shelters or at the four shelters designated specifically to assist homeless persons. The shelters are:

Broward Outreach Center, 2056 Scott St., Hollywood, 954-926-7417
Salvation Army Lodge, 1445 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-524-6991
Central Homeless Assistance Center, 920 N.W. 7th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-779-3990
North Homeless Assistance Center, 1700 Blount Rd., Pompano Beach 954-979-6365

• All Broward County offices are closed today, as well as all public schools.Site Meter

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6852 – blah, blah, blah

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I don’t know why, but I got the urge to make a cartoon out of Newt talking.
(no doubt he’s making fun of how pointless many of my entries are.)

I’m really looking forward to The Incredibles.

Good team. A stretchy, a brick, a speedster, invisi-forcefields, ice… looks like what little I’ve seen is well-written, too.

Dear M. Night Shyamalan,

It seems you can’t make a good movie without Bruce Willis. Call him back for the next flick you make. I loved 6th sense, and Unbreakable.

Signs and The Village, while having good bits in the middle at times, had poo endings.

Your Viewer in FL,
Scotto

Turn Gmail storage into a mountable file system

GmailFS provides a mountable Linux file system which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland file system infrastructure to help provide the file system, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favorite Unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).

Cool.

Woo! I got my check from Google Adsense! Good deal, I wasn’t totally ripped off, after all. A lot of little financial windfalls lately!

Mike from Satan’s Laundromat photographs Critical Mass bicycle riders getting arrested Friday night and finds himself arrested and in jail overnight.

“they suddenly decided to start making arrests without warning, penning people in and arresting entire blocks’ worth of people, including hapless tourists and people getting off work who just happened to be in the area watching. And they couldn’t have been bothered to clean the diesel sludge off the floor of the holding pens where they made us sleep? Someone will pay.”

I hope *somebody* catches hell for that.

I’m glad to see that Cap’n Pete in Disney’s Three Musketeers cartoon has gone back to having a peg leg. Of course, the novel itself is public domain and available online. (you can always download and print it out if you prefer text on dead trees.)

It’s also the origin of GrayPumpkin & Katt’s little cow-kitty’s name. D’Art! (The first Kitty I was ever really social with.)

Hmm… Hurricane Frances travel projection looks like it’s headed this way, around midday Saturday. A lot can happen over the course of a week, but I’d wager it’ll hit the states *somewhere*.

Current Plot

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Today was supposed to be a day of rest and comfort. From 3PM on, that simply wasn’t the case. Tomorrow will be a better day… I’ll be able to focus on other issues. There were a few positives about the day… Fortunately, I have some good anchors to keep me grounded. Added bonus, short week ahead.

I get to be a piglet for dessert snack tonight, because I need to catch up on my points, and I’m not in the mood for orange juice.

Esteem meme

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Labor day

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I’m looking forward to spending some quality time today… so far, so good. It’s going to get better, too, I’m sure.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on TV last night.. I haven’t seen it in ages, and forgot how fun it was, though I think Benny Hill was underused.

Red-Haired Barbarians: The Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865 40 Japanese prints from the NEHA collection.

Who was Aunt Jemima? (via art for housewives)

Fart costs bank 100,000 dollars Continue reading Labor day →

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I dreamt that I fought off two dogs chasing me on my bike to work. I did this by getting off of my bike, and using it lion-tamer style to keep them at bay while I tied ropes around them. I have no idea where the ropes came from.

From Matrix-

So a gasoline tanker falls off an elevated ramp in Miami and lands by the women’s jail, bursting into very big flames, but the weirder part is that firefighters have to dodge bullets while they fight the fire because it engulfed a bunch of jail guards’ cars that contained ammunition. Eeek.

Straight dope about Asian BO (or lack thereof) and Spicy food making you sweat.