Showered and shaved in the rainy dawn-dark this morning - fortunately, I had a company polo shirt to wear, since the iron doesn't work sans juice, either.
I wonder how the Old Order Amish feel when they hear that the "English" (non-Amish) are fretting about not having any electricity?
Worse than the lack of power was the severe flooding and high winds.
Statement as of 6:39 AM EDT on May 12, 2008
... Flood Watch remains in effect until 2 PM EDT this afternoon...
* expect moderate to heavy rain to continue through the early
morning hours. Rain will taper off from the southwest to
northeast in the afternoon. An additional one to two inches of
rain is possible.
* The heavy rain will cause streams and creeks to overflow their
banks. Also... urban areas prone to poor drainage will be
susceptible to flooding. As the water works its way into the
rivers... river flooding will be possible in the upper Potomac
and Shenandoah basins.
Now - power is back on at the house, and no more flood warning for Calvert County.
After work, went to the back doctor - much more fruitful response this time. getting my epidural, physical therapy and etc... hopefully a bit more productive than "no hope blah blah" from last one. I get my epi in about a week, a flexion exercise program, ultrasound, electrical stim, and massage.
Saw Aardvark's Tara in her other work duds at Panera... she cleans up well! BHK and she gabbed a bit - the 2nd store is now closed primarily due to crooked employees making off with merch. Upside, that's more time for them to be social.. maybe we'll hang with them sometime soon! The Lusby store rocks the party that much more, too.
Ah, Virginia. You never let me down with the custom plates.
No relation to the flooding post, prior.
Two books for me to investigate library-wise. We saw 'em at the bookstore last week, and I think they'll be better as temporary reads rather than permanent additions to our collection. I may change my mind after reading 'em.
Don't Throw It Out, and Monster 1959.
1 year ago - clematis and tigger pics, chris hijacks bhk, saturday car pics
2 years ago - poofy newt pic, plans for sept, new monkey species, score as beast
3 years ago - Bro drama, Kidz Bop doing "Since U Been Gone", Regressive Imagery Analysis, movie meme, chimp paintings on auction, Oscar Wilde on Journals, RID analysis
4 years ago - got a new pda, payphones vanishing, invisible landlord, bro house arrest
5 years ago - PT, PI snooping about tom, cream soda, bro caught with mike & other craziness
6 years ago - Mom's day Breakfast, dsl breaks, quality time with SA, poem
7 years ago - New Star trek series, freedom fighting fiction, DNA passes, hot shower and walkies. (glowfilter)
- Location:20714
- Mood:
hopeful - Music:red rain keeps faling down all over me... in my head
Additionally, BHK got some cute crafty hair-clips, I got my grubby mitts on assorted baked goods. (A cupcake, a brownie and half of a chocolate nut cookie)
Additionally, we obtained a few boardgames and a card game - all in well-loved boxes, medieval or ancient Greece themes, and with all the pieces. Reviews to follow.
After the sale, we hit Free Comic Book Day. Did we get lots of loot there? Why, yes, dear journal! The only thing we didn't get was the Gumby comic... I eased that wound with a new game - Oshi. We also got a pair of Iron Man movie heroclix and two bounty hunters from the star wars miniatures game. We beat the Aardvark staff to the store by about 10 minutes. (They open at noon.)
That reminds me, I need to send a Larry the zombie to Kat and GP.
After Aardvark - we hit Maerten's to pick up BHK's silver bean necklace and box chain; then off to Cheeseburger in Paradise to play hangman and have some lunchies.
It didn't agree much with BHK and my guts... maybe a bit more greasy than we're used to.
More new arrivals at drop.io/scottobear. Thanks!
I could go for some banana bread, or a blueberry muffin.
Hey! It's World Naked Gardening Day!(nsfw) (via flying-blind, via an unknown quantity.)
I won't be participating - I'm sure my neighbors would thank me.
totally unrelated:
A DOLPHIN was killed when it collided with another dolphin while performing a mid-air trick at a Florida marine park.
1 year ago - Bro arrested, 40 lb cat, freecol
2 years ago - lj bumps, free legal streaming shows, mail form ilene and bubbles, superman returns, ad-free lyrics, wooden pc case mods,
3 years ago - no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song
4 years ago - teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos
5 years ago - words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties
6 years ago - entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such
7 years ago - diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin poll
- Location:20714
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:heinz 57 and french fried potato... bleagh... in my head
I forgot my camera, so I'm depending on Sirenity for picture documentation later on. We had a nice time and conversation over supper - more to follow as I think of it.
Ultraportable / subnotebook comparisons
New back drugs are - Lyrica, Cyclobenzaprine and Nabumetone. I want to do a bit more research on 'em before I take them. Nabumetone in particular had a lot of nasty, scary warnings in the information text.
I am glad that they're not habit-forming, and have a lot of pretty decent write-ups so far.
Dell will be offering Windows XP pre-installed on their computers past the June 30 cut-off date. Computers purchased with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate past June 30 will come with a copy of XP Pro. Dell plans to simply install that copy upon request to save users a step. Perhaps this will help Microsoft officials make up their minds about another extension.
According to F-Secure, over 500,000 webservers across the world, including some from the United Nations and UK government, have been victims of a SQL injection. The attack uses an SQL injection to reroute clients to a malicious javascript at nmidahena.com, aspder.com or nihaorr1.com, which use another set of exploits to install a Trojan on the client's computer. As per usual, Firefox users with NoScript should be safe from the client exploit, but server admins should be alert for the server-side injection. Brian Krebs has a decent writeup on his Washington Post Security Blog, Dynamoo has a list of some of the high-profile sites that has been hacked, and for fun you can watch some of the IIS admins run around in circles at one of the many IIS forums on the 'net.
I need to remember that free comic book day is coming May 3... next weekend! Will I forget? Probably. But it's exciting to not write it down anywhere else and then rediscover. I wonder what loot Aardvark will have for us? I hope issues of Gumby and Hellboy (and maybe an Iron Man heroclix figure?) will be left.
I should scope out umbrella academy - probably my fave freebie book from last time - I could go for a trade paperback, if available.
Just so you know - I have never, ever pistol-whipped anyone, dear journal. Please don't make me change that situation.
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Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur. ( Read more... )
"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
1 year ago - concert recap, license plate seen, wendy's, lj-spam, highland fest promo / tree pics
2 years ago - camo man, free cone, gorillaz, dictator octopus
3 years ago - Commercial, Dr Who poot episode, hair-neck-man, good weather, pope palpatine, Tomi voice, Newt sleepies, Dave at Poorhouse, Condoms to saris, ashcroft not scared of calicos, King Tut Coming (it ends this week), kind words from mootpoint
4 years ago - RHL, dumb laws, Rubezahl
5 years ago - doctor and drugs, grasshoppers and micropet, letter to bro, distractions (anagrams, phone spellings, etc)
6 years ago - SOP, copyright, scarecrows in the herb garden, Tunguska, kisses, wind dreams
7 years ago - BJ's Bday, hobbledehoy, ages of sexual consent around the world, sleep-station pictures, hungry, more rights gone, character / gaming memories,xfl=pos, teeny tiny farm animals and milk ring from Kellie
- Location:silver spring, md
- Music:natternatter
Today, Lounged most of the morning, - Was going to hit the car show with Larry and BHK, but it was rained out. Left the house abuot noon, got a haircut, and then zipped off with BHK to have lunch with Cathi & Dave at Mexico. Mexico was a little off of their game, but it was still yummy. Post feeding, we paused at the Dunkirk Starbucks for a couple of hours of Apples to Apples over water, coffee and a little late dessert. (I won all games played... I feel a little bad about that, because I'm not really there to win, just to socialise and be silly. Psych-ops tactics work especially well with that crew.) Ended the day with a quick buzz of the local wal-mart, and then home to chill out and prep for Monday.
1 year ago - walkabout pictures (DC area), SMIB
2 years ago - loki, fundraiser, 33 questions, morning pictures, palm post bro, tree dream
3 years ago - appointment, bro homeless, electron thoughts, videos, broken umbrellas, space 1999:waka waka, 300 island resort, typo on bus, walkies pictures, beaten barricade
4 years ago - smelly books, surreal compliments, passover joke, vampire game
5 years ago - sleeveless smock, downloadable toons, bunky kabalarians, colossal squid, CoC props.
6 years ago - landlord visit, green monkey pizza, pop pardoned the knights templar,nazi-looking stamp, Japanese business card etiquette, movies, tubers
7 years ago - Killer noise, looking for a job as a flaneur, Dave & Cathi Preggers
- Location:20714
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:top gear on tv
I neglected to mention our trip to the B.I.G. book sale after shots yesterday... one giant blue ikea bag's worth of books for $30. BHK got a ton of cookbooks, Edith Wharton, and some Ursula LeGuin - about 17 or so - I got a time-life book for Larry (with the "look and feel" of real hand-tooled leather!) on railroading, and picked myself up a few things, too (about 15 books) - Including Gene Wilder's Autobiography, John Stewart's Naked Pictures of Famous People (already read... it's no Cruel Shoes. Additionally, I snagged a bunch of random stuff - Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett ,(fun to see the Baltimore side of classic pulp fiction) a ton of other pulps and misc sci fi/ fantasy. Biggest weakness of being such a book magpie is our lack of shelving (see left side of image in newtcam ). BHK will be grabbing some more shelves for us later this week, I think.
I think we made out AOK there! - Thanks to BHK for reminding me of probably the best part of yesterday!
Anyhow, as far as sunday goes - We rose late, grabbed a sammich or two for the road - BHK, the love cube and I all rolled comfortably to points south. First stop was Aarvarks.. sadly, my schedule was off, and none of my books had arrived yet. I hope my Jonah Hex Showcase is there next time! They still have a ton of treehouse and fluxx... and I realised we *still* are late about sending off eryx's loot. at this rate, it'll be easter before he gets a christmas treat!
Instead of normal fare, we got the new Tank Girl Compilation and Gloom Cookie - Tank girl is looking pretty good these days.. she's weathered the movie well. I'll probably pick one up to give to ol' danny for next time.
Post Aardvark, we swung by McD's for a shamrock shake. It's a tradition! The taste was good, though the mint was subtle... the shake itself was a fine neon green.
From last year - still the same - I wonder if we'll see my rainy-day chicken stalker this year? I sort of hope so.
Nicely dosed on dairy, mint and dye - it was time to sally forth to the wal-mart. Obtained much-needed undershirts, and not so needed, but still cool dinosaur and robot easter eggs... pictures to follow. Surprisingly, BHK didn't want the girly-girl eggs. Also snagged into the wild for larry.. the kids parents live nearby, interesting to see someone you know represented in movie form.
Closed the day with a trip to Mexico to visit with Tina M and Matt O... Tina was a little quiet, but we all chitty chatted about misc stuff - mostly food and travel.
1 year ago - David and Gill visit, movies and feed.
2 years ago - New brain arrives, peel, crack sellin', swing on a star
3 years ago - banana man, dindin with mom, hollow men, voted, did a good deed, renewed domain until 3/11/2008
4 years ago - cool snail mail, Best commentary on "the Passion", star trek on ice, Spalding Gray found, lj spam, SOP
5 years ago - Laundry w/bro, flaming justice, birds with arms, hulk dance
6 years ago - Who are you quiz, seven wonders, breakfast for dinner, Bfast poll
7 years ago - declaration of love, celeb pet names, payday, tmbg, yeti-scotto
- Location:20714
- Mood: sleepy
- Music:xm radio mix of poop
cad development shots -
Cameraphone shot - doesn't really capture the color, but the size is there... I'll have to take a side view to show the ports better. I'm pleased at how well it goes with her wedding band.
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see Dandelion Wine, chapters 28-29.
Chapter 28-29 (The Swan) — Bill Forrester, with Douglas at his side, orders lime-vanilla ice at the soda fountain. His unusual request catches the attention of ninety-five year old Helen Loomis who invites him to visit her house tomorrow. Bill complies, and he and Helen start a friendly conversation about the appearances people keep up for each other, that soon diverges into Loomis acting as a "Time Machine" similar to Colonel Freeleigh to transport Bill into the pyramids of Egypt . Bill comments on how comfortable he feels talking to her, and Helen replies by reminding him that she's only an old woman. While lounging in his chair, Bill attempts to envision her as being young again; he succeeds for a moment in seeing "the swan," which he unintentionally says out loud, strangely disquieting Helen.
Bill continues to visit Helen every day for two and a half weeks, but only on the last day does he tell her what motivated him to visit her in the first place: a photograph taken of her when she was twenty. He had seen the picture in the newspaper for the town ball and intended to go to the ball to seek the beautiful girl it showed, until someone told him that the picture had been taken a long time ago and had been used by the newspaper every year since then to advertise the ball. Helen replies with an overview of a young man she once knew in her youth who was handsome but wild and reckless; he left her, but when she saw Bill at the fountain that day, she was strongly reminded of him — almost as if he was a reincarnation of her former companion.
Some time later, Bill finds Helen writing a letter addressed to him. Helen explains to him that she will be dead in a few days, and that the letter she is writing will come to him then. When Bill attempts to protest about the lack of time they have had together, Helen says that she believes that they will meet again sometime later — possibly in reincarnated forms. She tells him to marry and live happily, but says that he has to die before the age of fifty in order to ensure that when they are reincarnated, they will be of the correct ages and be able to meet and fall in love with each other.
Two days later, Bill receives the letter. Inside it is a note reading, "A dish of lime-vanilla ice."
BHK and I timed it right.
My turn to get some goodies... we stopped off to pick up some comics at aardvark - noticed they have a lot of treehouse and a more looney labs games in stock. I picked up showcase presents - justice league of america (eyed metamorpho, and ordered jonah hex ) , new abe sapien mini series, devi for bhk, all star superman #8 w/ zibarro
Stopped off at Mexico on the way home for some veggie taquitos, and full as happy little ticks, we rolled home in order to spend much of the rest of the day in bed, reading comics and snuggled up under the covers with the kitties.
Visited the in-laws for a moment to show off the ring and just say howdy...They were going to come over later for supper, but never made it. We'll catch up with 'em tomorrow.
About 6-7pm, I got notice that the conversion to the new software at work had gone through, so I spent a few hours making sure elements were up to snuff for monday... I'm going to review it more tomorrow morning, but it was nice to get the bulk of it out of my hair this early. Sooner it's looked at, the sooner the problem spots can be removed - or so the theory goes.
1 year ago - taste test, dave at codered, BHK girls day out
2 years ago - an owl!, tree pic, space piggy hits, plans with Dan to see wicked (canceled), home cost estimator, floating wind turbines, homeless man beating,
3 years ago - Rooster year, Kerby, palm doodle, nifty dolls, web-flowers, ljers who kill, machine gun vs katana, google maps, living with a corpse
4 years ago - RIP, J.S. , meme, Long distance , layers, GA success
5 years ago - tittles, palm pics, Pondering Newt getting pooch bro, incubus
6 years ago - bro email, morty the cylon, Emily Dickinson, Tulpas, links
7 years ago - Mooning over lies, lj drama, lonelies
- Location:20714
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:I got my new shoes on song - in my head
If all goes according to plan, Bugah will be staying with us next weekend - I'll be recovering from the dentist, but playing wii and just generally goofing around should be a great time for us all. Maybe we can convert him to playing fluxx, too.
In other gaming news - Half-life 2 progressing in a fun way, slowly - about 10 min of game play each time... playing on the airboat right now. Just made it to the red barn. Total Playing time: 4 hrs past 2 weeks (all pc games, including peggle, portal, team fortress 2, counterstrike, hl2, and so on) I'm just not hardcore anymore... if I ever was. Too much fun stuff to do in meat-space - video gaming is usually what I do while I wait for BHK to get ready to go out.
We were planning on heading over get groceries and then to the in-laws to set up some trains, but we grew too fatigued, and just headed home to watch our backlog of psych episodes and began the business of packing up Christmas decor for another 11 months.
I don't even remember what I had for supper... Oh, wait, got it. Cheese crackers. I skipped the leftover spaghetti - will lunch that tomorrow.
1 year ago - dream ramble - voice post
2 years ago - icon snatching, lost, dr who, flickr tools, books, compusa, meeting of the daves, cool weather, birds ate my brains, prejudice map, findory,
3 years ago - Lost, romainan pop inspires .htaccess, supercar, anonymous statement meme, age act meme
4 years ago - That Stretchy Guy & That Clay Guy.
5 years ago - cops, prezzies, kidthinks
6 years ago - space commies and monkeys, dream, haiku, mothman, tarot
7 years ago - SOS, folk fest, annoyed with collapsing tabs, brian howdy, super friends drinking game
- Location:20714
- Mood: sleepy
- Music:good eats - wake up little sushi
The only thing we did today was go out and get the mail... nice grab - Kev got me the 4 DVD "final edition / directors cut / us / euro release" set for Blade Runner, and Misti & Co. hooked us up with a $50 gift certificate to Aardvark's - our friendly neighborhood gaming/comic shop.
Polar Bear Plunge will still happen, unless it gets *really* cold by Tuesday morning.
BHK and I are recovering well from the visits of my Mom and Wilton... it's fun to host folks, but it's also nice for some alone-time too.
I'll be slowly catching up with last week's entries - so much happening that I've not had too much time to document the events.
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- Location:20714
- Mood:
lazy - Music:the last remaining xm christmas music stations.
Took off early this morning to snag a few allergy shots, and then we swung by Maerten's to check out plans for BHK's ring. I was going to have it be a surprise, but when design considerations came up, I opted for her input... she's the one that'll be wearing it after all.
I wonder how many people buy an engagement ring for their spouse, 14 months after the wedding day?
We hashed out a few designs with Heather, and I think that the one that was finalized will be lovely. I'm looking forward to the CAD images sometime this week before the casting. If this one works out well, I think a Mexican Day of the Dead "skull ring" could be next on the list.
Later, we went to the local farm grocer, grabbed lunch and a broad assortment of candy-type stuff to put in X-mas stockings.
The chocolate drops intended for Larry were not destined to survive.
They were, however, delicious. He'll get other candy, love it and never be the wiser. We're not bad people.
The in-laws had a little trouble finding the train store, so we met with them for a little bit... Larry and I talked trains while BHK and Chris went to the kids bookstore and got a little treat or two for Em and maybe Bugah.
We parted company - BHK got a flash of brilliance - and we stopped and got the final piece of Chris's prezzie.... not mentioned in case she's reading this. (I don't think she is, but better safe than sorry.)
Following that, we hit our favorite friendly neighborhood gaming store, Aardvark's - got some goodies for Louise, Cathy and Dave. Added bonus, Mike gave us the Fluxx Party pack and a Larry the Zombie to go with our Looney Labs purchases. Score! I've been wanting a radioactive potato, and now we have two! (Larry {the card, not the father-in-law} is the zombie equivalent.)
I think we've got everyone covered for presents except for Adam and Matt. That shouldn't be too traumatic.
I ran out of juice by the end of the day... not sure where all my energy went, unless it was the sugar blues post about 1000 chocolate drops.
1 year ago - huge number of Christmas lights pictures from Solomon's Island and more. Snow!
2 years ago - monkey day, kong, slow lj, dsl issues, santa question
3 years ago - Mel & Scotto facts, Gorilla Girl, Monkey Day, Massive Frog eats 3-legged dog, Beatles Christmas Records, 7070, Santa hates damn contemporary, bullshit architecture!, I break Christmas bonuses to ADP
4 years ago - spelling poll, pandas, turtles, and a bed of fresh noodles
5 years ago - keywords, Newt likes Broccoli!, Lauderdale cams, bah on bush, gore and grover Cleveland, mh trim, J-lo nose picker, shoe-doodle
6 years ago - holiday shopping, good advice, winter depression folk
7 years ago - moment of RAW, Santa Claus - geek, holidays, donations
- Location:20714
- Mood: tired but accomplished
- Music:Johnny Mathis sings Christmas
Slept in a little, but we made it for my allergy shots by 10am.
After the obligatory injections, a quit stop at starbucks for a lackluster peppermint latte - we won't go back there again. The Giant across the street has a starbucks inside, and if I'm going to pay $5 for a coffee, I'll get one that's excellent - not that poorly assembled mess I had for breakfast. The sugar cookie was ok... I think the fac tthat it was shaped like a penguin added flavor.
Headed out to Maerten's - went to look at BHK's ring lemon quartz in white gold... sort of our own lime-vanilla ice. The staff there was very kind and helpful; Jamie in particular had more than a few good ideas about setting the stone and we'll be meeting for sketches soon. I'm glad we could find a place that we like and trust so much to do what we want.
went to Aardvark - picked up a few fun little items to fool with in the days and years ahead.
Easter Island (I love the game pieces ) Reminds me more than a little of Laser Battle, but with added nifty bits here and there.
This game speculates that the easter island statues were, in fact, beam weapons created by two very powerful wizards. These wizards used the statues in a giant game, with the island itself as the board. You are now one of those wizards...If fishes were wishes - again, the game pieces are cute.Easter Island lets you place your statues and move them into position. Then, when everything is ready, call upon the power of the Sun to topple your opponent's statues and thus your opponent.
"Players are fishermen, trying to catch the most valuable fish and sell them in the market for the best prices. With limited space for storing caught fish, players must use their wits to get the right fish to market at the right times. This is where the granting of wishes is most helpful. Just catch the fish who will grant the wish you want, throw it back, and you get your wish. Sounds simple, but the game does require a bit of thinking and planning. The wishes can help you increase the value of fish when sold, grant you extra storage space, and several other useful things."Spree - Shopping, gunfire and violence. How could I resist a Cheapass Game we didn't already have?
"Springtime. Midnight. The Mall is beckoning.In addition to our normal game purchases... BHK convinced me (with very little arm-twisting) to pick up some comics - all miniseries at the moment.
Welcome to LeGrand Mall, the oldest and most poorly secured indoor mall in the world. It's as airtight as the Titanic and as solid as a wet paper bag. This place just begs to be robbed.Enter you, and your infantile collection of friends. It's not enough to simply loot this mall. No, you have to do it with a certain amount of flair. Which boils down to an all-night looting race, with shopping carts, flashlights, and guns.
The object? Park your car, dash into the mall, and load your shopping cart with the goodies on your list. You can snitch stuff out of the stores if you like, but it's even more fun (and easier) to steal it from your friends. And that would explain why you're carrying a huge gun."
- includes a variant of "a bunch of extra violence we've never tested", such Running People Over.
Current story lines about -
- Groo the Wanderer (first learned about Groo with Steve Jacoby, back in the ol' High School days)
- Lobster Johnson
- After the Cape II - interesting art style, but I was surprised at the mood of the book, so far.
- Howard the Duck (Featuring AIM and MODOT - unfortunately, not MODOK)
- Flash's Rogues Gallery.
Started getting hungry and went on a quest for a Pizza Hut... Stuffed Crust pie, in particular. When all we could locate were take-out places, we chanced upon the Do Dah Deli. Good find. BHK had a foot-long corn dog and shared pinwheel fries with me - I had a build your own sammich.... I just went with an assortment of cheeses, sprouts and veggies with honey mustard. It was all quite tasty, though there was a mix-up with our order. Easily fixed, and no worries.
Side Track Hobbies - I think we've found a place to fill Larry (and my own) Model train needs. The place looks tiny from the outside, but once you're in there, it's warehouse-level storage of all sorts of stuff, from z-scale on up to big ol' yard stuff. The Marklin Selection was really quite nice. I wish I'd had access to this kind of loot when I was tabletop gaming... I bet Danny'd have a field day with dioramas.
Lastly, we hit the Children's Bookstore next door. We got more than a little bit of Christmas Shopping done there.. not all for kids, either. Bugah and Em were the highlights, however. Once the lady running the place found out that I did computer stuff and having a little discussion of her fondness of Mac over PC (I feel it's a religious discussion... only seldom to people get converted one way or the other) - I showed her how to upgrade both her MacBook and PC workstation's software. She was an older lady, maybe in her early 80's, but was very vital and possessed of strong opinoins and beliefs.
Comments of note from her included commentary on Univeristy of Maryland / Virginia Tech teachers from the 1950s, fairy dolls, and her firm beliefs about Macs vs PCs. However her most memorable comment to me was - "Pomonkey indians are in a terrible state, especially since they started intermarrying with colored folks".
(In early Colonial days, Pomonkey was known as "Pomonkey Indian Land," for it was heavily populated by "Pomonceaks" as John Smith called them on his map of 1608. Pomonkey is a plateau of land surrounded by the Great Mattawoman Swamp. The Indians had followed many trails from every point in Southern Maryland for the rich hunting and fishing in Pomonkey. These converging trails became roads for the European settlers. Hence, Pomonkey very early became a site of local commerce.)
A slight Soda-spill later, and we headed on home, with a brief stopover at the in-laws. We caught up with My name is earl, and then hit the sack.
Not a bad day, all in all.
1 year ago - training my replacement, dinner with Dan and BHK
2 years ago - vanity search / publishing, whimsy, COA, fact meme
3 years ago - penguins desalinate, western thoughts, duck butts, rss drama, bro grabs xbox, drama
4 years ago - sagas, dirty food chains
5 years ago - I am Augustine, brain thieves, kazaa gets me mst3k
6 years ago - Scooby-doo freedoms, disease test, new lj client
7 years ago - paperwad fetch, bad breakfast, drugs
- Location:20714
- Mood: sleepy
- Music:Dwight with a scope in the background on The Office
BHK playing XM-christmas all day long - Country Christmas replacing U-pop for the season? UNFAIR, I cry!
Allergy shots
- painless, quick.
- ATMs nearby charge too much
- coffee at Giant's Starbucks and cash back
Craft show
- nice wreath
- got a few little trinkets for Em
- not much there of value
- cookies.
Christmas Shopping
- got some stuff for the kitties, adam and larry. Also, Hickory Farms nibble platter purchased
Candy Store
- more treats for Chris and Larry, Chocolate-covered pretzels for me, java-cocoa for BHK
In-laws -
- Watched Sabrina at with Adam, BHK and in-laws
- just a snacky hickory farms / dip chip dinner
- Happiness (french accent/ phallus joking)
got our wedding bands back -
- BHK's now inscribed - "oar to oar"
- mine now inscribed - "wing to wing"
- discussed lime-vanilla ice ring
Drove to Aardvark's
- 8-point buck sighted
- BHK wants me to rescue a baby deer with a lasso.
- Bought some treats for Danny and Eryx
- Got promotional D&D figure/character sheet, d20
- Got promotional Flying Dutchman Pirates Ship
- Glow in the dark dice
- unicorn dice
- alien dice
- crooked sided dice
- bella sara cards
1 year ago - poetry I didn't write, ran out of juice, newt pix in comments, GG sacked
- pictures taken - Nighttime condo