Let's see... to recap the weekend -

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Friday - Gem show was fairly nifty... I got to fool with a $109,000 aquamarine stone, and ate some tasty dessert with the in-laws and BHK.

Positives : Played with Rocks, Tasty food, Obtained a little knowledge on Lapidary, Got some ideas about what to get BHK as presents, Rock Cutter reminded me of Todd, discovered "sno cone" cut

Negatives: 4-5 hours is too long in a folding chair, Mouthy lady across from me, Had to wear nice clothes, heavy rain, we were tardy, I notice occlusions and stone flaws too easily, BHK low blood sugar, Newt accidentally in the walk-in closet the whole time we were gone.

Final Score: More win than fail. If I had to do it again I wouldn't complain, but would plan for uncomfy chairs a bit.

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Saturday - We were going to spend a little time doing chores and then go to the flyball tourney with Amy and her sisters, but got sidetracked after we were invited to breakfast with Larry and Chris. Post Bob Evans, we got the tickle to pick up our copy of Zombie Fluxx at Aardvark in Solomon's.... That sort of turned in to a family trip to BJ's Wholesale with the in-laws, once they heard we were heading south for a moment. Larry And Chris suffered a little bit from sensory overload at Aardvark's, but we were in and out quickly. Just fast enough to grab our ZF and go. I found out that they don't carry warhammer minis, but instead do war machine. I wonder if Eryx and his crew mix and match figures, or if they're purely WH? Once we got to BJ's, a quick trip for some tires for Larry's car turned into Shop-o-rama 2007. BHK and I picked up a few things that we needed, Halloween candy for the kiddies, and two wonderfully discounted wii games ($20 each) - Rampage and Ninjabread Man. Chris decided to play Santa, and bought our cart of goodies as well as their own!

While grocery Shopping, we found some Theme Chocolate -



Sexual Chocolate I've heard of... Forgiveness? interesting. Tranquil and Renew... what happens if you eat all of these at once?

On our way south, there was a trailer on the side of the road hawking flowers, apples and baked goods. By the style of dress, I thought at first that one of the vendors was Amish, but on evaluation of the trailer, she must've been Mennonite - Horses would've had a tough time pulling the thing, but a truck hitch would be fine. Also went to the post office, and got Danny's Anniversary Present, and a Fluxx card "Zombies Eat Brains" promo... you use it in the standard deck, but has a Zombie theme, to be sure (The player who has Death on the table wins if the Brain is on the table.) The Boxed version of HEY! That's My Fish! I was a cruel and heartless player, and beat BHK 3 out of 3 games. I fear my victories will grow fewer in number as we get more players - I'm much better with 4 penguins than with 2.

We also stopped off at Maerten's to get our wedding rings engraved - inside of mine will be "Wing To Wing" and BHK's will be "Oar To Oar", referencing Robert Frost's The Master Speed - last lines of which are:

Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

The full poem is on my bio page here.

Positives: Zombie Fluxx obtained (Aardvark sold out and was on it's second order!), Hey! That's My Fish!, Free Candy, Free Wii Games, Free Houshold supplies, Social time with the in-laws, ginger snaps and apples, offer to teach me old school biscuit baking techniques.

Negatives: Delayed visit to Amy for a day, no chores done - will probably have to buckle down next weekend, a little skittish about not having my wedding ring

Final Score: BIG WIN! I really can't find much to complain about getting games, chocolate and a lot of good conversation and giggles out of a Saturday. Tried Ninjabread Man, and the controls are tricky, but not bad once you're used to 'em. I bet Bugah will be quite good at it.

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Sunday (Today) - I slept in until 10:30! I never sleep that late, but it must've been quite needed.

BHK and I hustled out the door to visit with Amy before she headed back for New York - got to give a friendly wave and offer support. We didn't ge tto eat together, but BHK and I took in some gorgeous weather, and went for pizza at 3 brothers - Sicilian with ricotta and garlic, BHK got meatballs on the side. Really, really good. Enough left over for dinner and for me to take to work tomorrow for lunch... and for BHK to have a nibble for lunch, too.

Stopped in Annapolis to look at couches at Jennifer's to replace the pink Torquemada-inspired beasties on the living room wall. Some solid, affordable options there... most light at the end of that tunnel yet. Nothing totally sings, but we have a few ideas about what to do now.

ATW man changed to Spidey for Halloween!

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I dig his boots.

We got home and flopped in front of the TV in the treehouse, caught up with The Office, Earl, and Midnight.... and just enjoyed snuggles with Newt in bed. Chris called to invite us over for Veggie soup, but I was too pooped out to get dressed and head over there. They understood, and BHK worked our way downstairs to catch up with some of the Ugly betty and cake making challenge video we had saved there - got sleepy, and we hit the sack shortly thereafter.

Positives: walkabout, moon pies on the road with diet cranberry splash, super good pizza, maybe a new couch soon, offered Amy a chance to come visit, ATW man, Further along on couch search, lots of nice time with BHK.

Negatives: The day was too short!

Final Score: Solid win. Comfy, Autumnal, lovey day.

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1 year ago - on honeymoon in SC, ripley's, voice posts
many pages of pictures taken that day! 1 2 3 4 5 Hooray for Honeymoon!

2 years ago - wilma update, peanuts meets lovecraft
more hurricane fallout pictures taken that day

3 years ago - adp and ri battle, kamal, punkinheads, clock change, katherine harris run over, willed body lawsuits

4 years ago - hospital trip, mr Charlie

5 years ago - babynamer, Drawbacks of a name, newt-tadpole pics, candy-corn thoughts, cat heroclix sculpts, PBS-SOP

6 years ago - musical coding, Network

7 years ago - Hanging out with buddies.

8 years ago - Newt's eyes begin to turn color

A few bumps and potential knee-scrapes with the new MAS90 software, but nothing that a little tender care and cautious observation didn't fix.

The word "chalupa" and "chupacabra" are inexorably and inexplicably linked in my brain. Chalupacabra? Apparently I'm not the only one.

Kev and I are probably not the only two nerds to want this Ultimate Blade Runner set. It comes with a toy spinner and an origami unicorn, for pity's sake. I have the director's cut already, but would much prefer the theatrical release, not to mention all of the other goodies.

Amy headed back to New York this morning, and she seems to have enjoyed her time with us. I think that she's my favorite house guest, possibly short of Bugah. Very friendly, low maintenance, and likes to do "whatever". I'm going to miss having someone to play all of our "3-or-more" games with!

quick night tonight... BHK went to the library, picked me up the hardbound All Star Superman to read and enjoy. GP and Kat got me hooked on the first issue or two when they visited a while back, and it's nice to have more Morroson-y Superman, served up with just the right mix of super-science, villany and golden/silver age weirdness thrown into a Frank Quietly artwork. She also nabbed the new Harry Potter (how, I don't know), and The Tale of One Bad Rat.
 

via Lore -

Wikipedia article on Metatron, the voice of God. It mentions in passing that according to the Talmud, in Heaven only God is allowed to sit down. The hey? I hate to be making the cheap and obvious joke here, but paradise is a place you have to stand for all eternity? I associate that more with BART trips and poorly-planned cocktail parties than the rewards of the afterlife.

1 year ago - first pente loss to bhk, newt and squirrel pic, dice wars, proximity, nobility, vista speech off, clip art movie, hotspot hacks, gamelan,

2 years ago - entry loss, sky high good, Danny wins prizes, calls while not on-call, 10k superballs, Newtcam Law and Order, meme stuff, pics of lisas, and autostitch garage

3 years ago - museum pics, slippery, Loveless

4 years ago - tv shows, comic fonts, paper money, sound resource, gay high, starmark, CA2, tunnel walkies pix, Dan visit, toys

5 years ago - random voog glimpse, infrasound, dinner timeline, GRASP, hate group mapping, Jen plans on being wed, FMM steals paid time from me, mach 8 jets

6 years ago - animal traits poll, Museum of Black Superheroes, remonstrate, Pompano info, evil news, mental health day, rainbow newt poll, icq/lj tech trouble

7 years ago - April stress, New everway group review, Babel fish translations, green lantern, Jerrys Birthday bash, Discover marquee, Bev Preggers, Bro working at Amici's, We Like Pie, 29th Scroll, 6th Verse

Blueberry pancake breakfast! Yum. What more can be said? The in-laws came over and we devoured the pancakes, after a visit to the garden. Too hot to do much outside.

Well, today I slept midday, just to regain some lost time during the past week - I intended to do a 30 minute quickie, but ended up grabbing quite the 2-hour snooze. I spooked BHK and Amy a smidgen when I awoke, as I ascended the creaky stairs to the loft while they were watching Kolchak (both the old and the new series) - I creeped them out during the "cult leader" episode of the 2005 series.

We got a lot of parlor games in over the afternoon and evening, paused in the middle with a fantastic dinner at Mama Lucias with the in-laws. They were really on top of their business tonight - all of the food was delicious, arrived quickly, was presented well, and service was right on the money. BHK and I did halfsies on Tortellini and peas with sun-dried tomatoes in Alfredo sauce supplemented by eggplant parm and spaghetti. It was all done just the way I like, and I was in gustatory heaven.

Games played were:

Lunch Money - didn't go over so well... maybe with a different crowd it'd do better. I liked it, but the gals weren't into the combat.

Chez Goth - not popular with Amy, but BHK liked it.  i think I liked the color more than the actual rule set. 2 games of that, I won one, and BHK got one. I'd try it again, but I think Looney Labs has spoiled us a bit.

Chrononauts - I think that was the clear winner of the week, actually. We played two games, and I *really* want to do a few alternate nexus points in history versions.

Aquarius - always a fun, quickie game. I think we got 3 games or so in before we had to head out to supper.

Pirates - 2 games, 40 points each. BHK played the 2nd game with a pair of Crabs that ended up at the bottom of Davy Jones' Locker. We didn't get to fight Amy's giant shark, but she did quite well with human-crewed vessels, winning the last game by whittling one of my 6-masted junks down to kindling. Playing over appletinis didn't slow her down a bit. My maggie moo's cake-batter w/brownie-fueled aggression didn't help me in the end. (I blame the scoop of chocolate banana for throwing off my internal clock... or maybe not.)

Next thought - Car wars... card game, and if it sticks, evolution to the wargame.

1 year ago - starting yoga, newtcam pics, visiting pals, comics, wrestler name, Jonathan Coulton - Bigfoot & Leonard Nimoy, cool cartoon, spoof caller id service,

2 years ago - met the Lisas, strawberry shortcake, Kamandi, cat cartoons, I remind JL of Rob from High Fidelity, meme-y thing, out with Dan

3 years ago - turtlenecks, skinbags, touchscreen, firestarter, recent tunes, oomiaq, walkies, manatees

4 years ago - tour guides, politics, bollywood, starmark, windows psa

5 years ago - swastika, dreams, newt, birds of prey, lizard droppings, zebrelle

6 years ago -WoG III, Chai, bro, coloring book, lj down

7 years ago -no-thang

An abandoned village in Italy. The Village redux? (Found when looking for an abandoned radio facility near where I live)

I'm really happy that the coloringbook community is getting some action. Thanks peradouro !

Fantasy Island - minisode... what a great idea. trim all the fat out of classic tv shows, and distill 'em into 5 minute chunks. the one I linked to is a "Most Dangerous game" type plot - Chuck Connors guest stars as a big game hunter who wants to hunt Mr. Roarke like an animal.



( quiz )

Girls (TM, Amy, and BHK) are off to watch tennis and do some shopping - I'm taking a little breather and slept in, and got a chance to catch up with some work that needed to be done at headquarters here. After Tennis - they stopped off at the Macaroni Grill.


When they get back, I figure we'll put in a few more hours of gaming, movie watching or what have you. I'll update on that tomorrow.

1 year ago - 8484, monet, 12 monkeys, talking with danny, walkabout pictures, crypto trivia (useful for playing hangman!), netflix goodies, I get my yoga pack from BHK, hungarian wellness mud, bus stop, sunrise

2 years ago - shots, Danny and wee free men, glowing breast implants, saturn's radio emissions, little 12-toes, cool flying star wars ships, Teele suicides

3 years ago -thoughts on journaling, $20 recovered, retro science book covers

4 years ago - bro, woolly panda, mood scents, anti-piracy vid, alphabet meme, bubba ho-tep, visible embryo, deaths, reunified my homepage

5 years ago -Peter Gabriel bald, change the flavor of your sexual secretions, abunch of broken picture links, worh1000 coolness - Persian elephant

6 years ago -chores, Tron 2.0, tick quote

7 years ago - got invited to an everway group, palindromes, food, translations

Dreams of being in Colonial Williamsburg with BHK - pursued by the police in minuteman garb... muskets with bayonets, breeches, the full uniform of Paul Revere-type garb. Most disturbing were the tri-cornered hats and braided ponytail, tied with blue bows.

When we were spotted, they blew into a silver whistle - standard pipe style, and the tri-corner hats unfurled into flying stingrays, the ponytails becoming some sort of antenna or navigational aid - remaining attached to the hat rather than the colonial-style policeman. A high-pitched wailing rose up from them, not too unlike a police siren - fortunately they were easily dispatched by running indoors.

I have no idea what were were supposed to have done to warrant a chase. Maybe because we weren't dressed in period clothing?

Yeah, that's it... because colonist law enforcement used flying, screaming stingrays to fight crimes against continuity.

After work, BHK, Amy and I came back to the house and noshed on queso and pizza with the in-laws and TM - TM headed home before the pizza arrived, poor gal's beat after putting in a double time week. We watched Bridget Jone's Diary (the first time I'd seen it in one piece) and then after the in-laws left, the remainders put in a couple of rousing games of Chronoauts. It was better than I thought it'd be, and I had some fairly high hopes. I wouldn't mind getting Early American Chrononauts so we can play UberChronauts, now.

We still haven't done Chez Goth or Lunch Money yet, but perhaps tomorrow after the girls comeback from the tennis / shopping spree they have planned. I've started an account at board game geek just to keep track, at this point.

1 year ago - Japan's underground photography, free wifi attractive nuisance, 2nd life updates, tough times in the congo, fishbone, ape-o-naut doodle / gays in space

2 years ago - A/c unhappy, Lisa/Lisa plans, Jacques the Monkey, Candice fickle, shots, Tom Waits, Abandoned amusement and theme parks, grumping, "shut it", mallah and the brain

3 years ago - monkey doodle, palm pictures from the bus, lavender-newt, notes from the road, atm jam, CoH, lj-flower, monkey yawn

4 years ago - palm doodles, power-outage, all consuming, power of burqas, sonic bullets

5 years ago - some day tripping, cool squirrel, Belgium is a myth, tongue-trimming, lj hot-or-not, Life imitates Real Genius!!!

6 years ago - overtired & grumpy, cockaigne, evil news, flash, evil news

7 years ago - wanting to go on a group outing, discover marquee

Last night's tasty dinner of baked pasta in tomato sauce with cheese and last of our zucchini, baked and parmed just the way I like it. Absolutely delicious. Farewell, dear zucchini... I have new appreciation for you that I didn't before they were grown at home. I look forward to the autumn crop, now.


After I went to bed last night, Amy and BHK played more than a few games of Aquarius and Carcassone - Hunters & Gatherers. From my understanding, Amy won the bulk of them, but BHK wasn't totally skunked. Nifty - There's an online play version of C:H&G at Yucata and a solo self-play of Aquarius on the Aquarius link prior. If anyone wants in on a turn-based game or two, look for me there, or at superdupergames for icehouse -type stuff. I'm username scottobear in both, and try to log in once a night for a move or three. BHK and AMy also turned me on to Tribal Wars , which also looks pretty cool. I'd like to start a community or something to track all the different stuff!

Tonight - Witch Trial was a good time and we played more Aquarius, but we did'nt get a chance to play Chrononauts (All I wanted was a souvenir T-rex named Emily - or a Stegosaurus of any name.)

Ape Lad posted a picture in response to the death kitty: His lolcats cartoons are pretty dang cute variations on an otherwise dead meme.

Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.

1 year ago - snakes on a plane burnout, newtcam flipside, still waitin', talking with bhk, old book scans, hal jordan (green lantern) head injuries, 5x$2, gig upgrade, hoff - king of the Internet

2 years ago - M&M bday, there will come soft rains, yahoo widgets, maybe a visit from the lisas, mp bday in 18

3 years ago - Newt hates Mondays, Beaucoupkev nominates me for prez, Solar Filament, Bradbury, Math atlas, P.I.s, Obvious Movie title

4 years ago -Bambi hunt a hoax, online games, lj diversity, comic book/cartoon thoughts, including the doom song.

5 years ago - some missing pictures, wondering about my eyes, watching TV, evil news, some palm pics, Newt pics

6 years ago - senescence, thegosis, arrival as a pod, loving thoughts

7 years ago - Buds for lunch (I'll miss that rare treat), dealing ok with winding down

Gummi Chicken feet. They're tasty and disturbing.

I neglected to mention the taste sensation that BHK and I enjoyed throughout last night's movie. (Amy chose to stick with M&Ms.)


Gummi Chicken feet.

Pretty dang good, actually. right thickness and texture for a good gummy candy - fruit flavored. Grotesque to look at, but still nifty. (ours weren't in this cool packaging, but rather just a big plastic bag, which is all the more cool, as far as I'm concerned.

Who thought that it was a good idea?

Who hired a sculptor to carve chicken foot molds for candy?

I wish that I'd counted them before eating - I wonder now if there were an even number to account for 2-per chicken, or if one of the Gummi-creatures was a pegleg.

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via evandorkin -

A plan to sell classic novellas in retro cigarette packs via cigarette vending machines after a U.K smoking ban in enclosed public places goes into effect. At least I think they're going to (try to?) sell these in actual vending machines. Whatever the case, they're called Tankbooks, and are being produced by Tank, a think tank, creative agency and publishing outfit. Dunno if this is a P.R. stunt, an art project, an honest effort to sell books in an interesting manner, or all of the above. Nifty-looking packages, whatever the case.

I think that decks of cards would be cool, too. Standard Decks of 52, or even some Fluxx flavors, maybe? Possibly a Barfly version of Munchkin ? Speaking of which, BHK won at Munchkin Bites tonight.

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For future reference, as I think it's pretty generally known right now:

LiveJournal was unavailable between approximately 2pm and 9:30pm PDT on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Apparently, they weren't the only ones with a power outage issue. Sites that are affected include CNET, Craigstlist, Technorati, Yelp and all Six Apart properties, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox. I didn't even notice, as I was at work and at the movies - I wonder how many people too the opportunity to breathe a little fresh air and feel sunlight on their skin?

See what happens when you don't have geographically split clusters? I wonder how hard it would be to back up all of those guys... there's got to be a monster amount of data there.

I find myself looking forward to being snowed in at home, with BHK, the kitties and me all playing card or board games in the living room. I think that maybe we can call a "virtual snow day" at the house sometime where we can just do that very thing, without waiting for a total power outage.

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Netflix must think we're insane. "We've received Apocalypto - and have sent out your copy of My Super Sweet 16: The Movie"

Adam's off to his missionary work in Guatamala -A quick summary of his itinerary:

6:30 PM tonight - he arrives at the Hope of Life Mission Center.
Tomorrow- Sr. Center, plant flowers and trees, painting
Friday- mostly off-site construction
Saturday- visit orphans
Sunday- Boat Trip
Monday- More construction, painting, etc.
Tuesday- Food Distribution/Evangelism
Wednesday- more painting, hand out meals
Thursday- arrive home

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For work, I'm doing a distillation of a few hundred pages of documentation into bite size bullet-point chunks for next week... Tricky, but not impossible.

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Farewell, Weekly World News. I'm glad you lasted for as long as you could. I hope that the website will at least continue for a bit.

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1 year ago - break in dream, barometric pressure?, ogden nash, wtc movie, I'm a lucky, lucky boy, no danny, cost of being poor, hide the navstrip, food delivery, paintbot, times are changing

2 years ago - secret agent dream, teachers, dan reads wee free men, humor-type, vnc2swf, magic, don ho shock the monkey mp3, v for vendetta trailer, blood cholesterol, travel journal gig, net times journalist trouble, survey, scary villain picture

3 years ago - candy, incense, my mental room, cannibals, ka-boom, CoH

4 years ago - viking on newtcam, hulk adds my graphic to his journal, starmark, poop, Chinese food, mage knight

5 years ago - ISS, bear-lynching, beauty, Conroy books

6 years ago - bro's breakup, cej, exhort, more majestic, mailing tardiness, news, Dr. Ernest Freaky Bootygrabber, Radio, time for life poll

7 years ago - Friends assessment, Spiritual Beliefs

Tricycle's Daily Dharma:

The Theory of Karma

The theory of karma should not be confused with so-called "moral justice" or "reward and punishment." The idea of moral justice, or reward and punishment, arises out of the conception of a supreme being, a God, who sits in judgment, who is a law-giver and who decides what is right and wrong. The term "justice" is ambiguous and dangerous, and in its name more harm than good is done to humanity. The theory of karma is the theory of cause and effect, of action and reaction; it is a natural law, which has nothing to do with the idea of justice or reward and punishment. Every volitional action produces its effects or results. If a good action produces good effects and a bad action bad effects, it is not justice, or reward, or punishment meted out by anybody or any power sitting in judgment on your action, but this is in virtue of its own nature, its own law. This is not difficult to understand. But what is difficult is that, according to karma theory, the effects of a volitional action may continue to manifest themselves even in a life after death.

--Walpola Rahula

If you click this link you can read all about Jon Lovitz's recent beating of the tar out of Andy Dick. (Karma? Nah.)

Tonight, BHK and Amy picked me up after almost being squashed like bugs with hair in ponytails by the Father-in-law's poorly planned car-moving scheme. Fortunately, they were neither compressed under tons of steel and rubber, nor were they kneecapped by a renegade trailer careening off into the next world. I think that if the MiL finds out, poor FiL is going to get quite an earful.

We journeyed off to the Giant-man store (no relation to Hank Pym ) and I got a 2 pair of Deer Stags, one in brown and one in black. That should take care of wardrobe for a bit. They seem pretty comfortable - I hope they last a bit longer than my usual wear and tear.

After that, BHK, Amy and I all went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - linked, in case you haven't heard of it, dear journal. Taken on its own, I liked it. Of course, when I read the book, I thought it was in dire need of editing, and parsing it down to a movie script seems to have done a good job of trimming the fat. My biggest complaint is that it seems that the thespian playing Hermione has forgotten most of her acting lessons.

Off to Johnny Rockets for burger and fries - I like that they'll do any of the stuff they have in a boca burger. It's seldom that I can get a double cheeseburger with the works when I'm out. Bonus - Movie stubs got us 20% off the bill. Bigger bonus - Amy paid the bill!

Yesterday, we unpacked a few things from the Salem house, including BHK's old yearbook from 4th grade, and a lot of her drawings circa 5-yrs old, 10 yr old and points in between. I'm glad we got to keep 'em.

It rarely fails to surprise how much music can energize me. Thanks again for the summer mix, Matt!

1 year ago - movies, writing, housebound, heifer.org, king kong song, monday meeting, planetary mass comparisons, I doubt fate/design, lego jesus, oh don piano!

2 years ago - visited with constance1010 and tarpo, book meme, fanfic folks angry with original Harry Potter Author, zefrank's sing-along, AIM email, bananaman

3 years ago - zombies, urine, veggies, pagerank test

4 years ago - celeb divorce, there-sales, batman movie, witch game, hulk's diary

5 years ago - palm doodle-strip, lost hosted photos, crank yankers 80% sucks. Fortean times, F-ing Mongorians!

6 years ago - important people, ne plus ultra, anile, evil news, more majestic, now defunct Newton ICQ-bot

7 years ago - junky food, prepped April for launch, budgeting, hung out with bro, me no like stinky

I meant to mention yesterday that Cyn's house is lovely... I especially like the location. Highest spot in the town, I suspect, and very private. Her art is there throughout, but it doesn't clutter - all of it is placed in a nice way. I also got a chance to meet her daughter, who is as friendly and charming as her mom.

Fooling with nationstates again - this time it's Salmagundia. (Newtonia has faded from the map)

Mr. Tawky Tawny just killed a guy with a stick! (he also sleeps in the nude.)

Mm.. I'd forgotten that I have a broadcast plugin on my winamp that shows my most recently listened to tracks. You can tell that BHK has influenced my listening habits a bit. (Plus, there's stuff on there that I've grabbed for her use, too.)

I'm glad to see the Devil has got his due. - But I think that I prefer Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks

The Raven

There once was a girl named Lenore
And a bird and a bust and a door
And a guy with depression
And a whole lot of questions
And the bird always says "Nevermore."

Amy arrived! i was surprised to hear that she was in Baltimore by 8:30a - She must've left New York at about 5-5:30. We had a lovely dinner at Friendly's, helped the in-laws move boxes from the u-haul truck, and got in a game of super munchkin before bed. BHK pulled out a win at the very last minute, when it looked like I had it all wrapped up. Nicely played, hon!

One of the weirder aspects of Edgewater, MD. There's a store called ATW hardware that always has an unusual manikin tableau on the roof. This time, a Hunter Thompson-esque Zombie torments a pirate with an angry rat. It was hard to get shots at that range at twilight, but I think they look ok at full size.



Other ones have been rows of legs sticking straight up from the roof, a man and son fishing, and a chorus line.

oh! I do - from my first week of honeymoon! hard to see, but the leg-up one... can click for bigger. Taken when I was one day into being married. (It'll be nine months tomorrow)





1 year ago - this will be our year (it still makes me cry every time I hear it), ring wearing, flemish ( The TRUTH About "Belgium" - The New World Order's Belgian Conspiracy) , cat's got knees / I like your pants, rust monster, underground city, lake okeechobee, ninja turtles /zoom, good sleeps,

2 years ago - GrayP, Allergy results, Candice gives me her number, google hybrid, love song / mind control

3 years ago - I Robot, The Flo, LiveJournal Gallery, 1000 white cards revisited

4 years ago - Evil Fish, Bro, Brace, bazillion questions meme, crow tools, Elton Ock, LJ pings for you

5 years ago - Janet Reno, 1000 blank white cards, lost links, Dumpster Diving,singing kitty, palm sketches, snickitty-snackitty man, managing activism

6 years ago - melted heart, epizootic, hair bears, playing majestic

7 years ago - bedtime thoughts

Best word about current media frenzy - Potterdämmerung. That is *perfect*. I figure that I'll get around to reading it eventually, but I'll blaspheme by using the public library (or if BHK wants to own a copy, I'll read hers when she's done.) I don't really care who lives or who dies, but I am interested in seeing how it all wraps up. I'm almost more interested in knowing what the "next big thing" will be, now that this is essentially all over; not counting the remaining movies, spin-offs, comics and whatnot.

We had a nice, luxuriously casual post-party day.

Originally, we intended to brunch with Cyn, but it seems that Joss doesn't have a Sunday brunch... besides, we're all sleepyheads anyhow. (Plus, Cyn was shaking off the effects of her prior-night's festivities.)

Instead, we opted to head to the new Jasper's (sort of a Bennigan's-type place), and munch some lunch. It was a mixed bag, but mostly good, I think. The bar area has 12 hypnotically eye-attracting TVs... even if just golf is showing on-air. I was more distracted by the pseudo-southwestern-indian rhino-sculpture with the bright red tail. Unfortunate choice of color for that region, as Cyn's first thought was urzbeeubvq, and mine was nany svfghyn. Hover over the text or use rot-13 to translate.

Apparently whenever we three get together, there's a common conversational theme that tends to crop up. I will not be linking to the terms Filthy Sanchez, Tony Danza, Cleveland Steamer, Dutch Oven or Satchmo... but if you do search for them, I'll just say it's not safe for work. (see the prior paragraph's last six words or so for a starter concept.

The food varied in quality - the veggie burger was probably my favorite, after the sweet potato. Crab dip was not the best, and that's going to be tough for 'em, given that this is crab country. The partner visited our table and asked how everything was.... and we gave a lot of compliments and a fair amount of criticism. I think that he appreciated our input, and that they'll do very well.

Since I haven't uploaded the rhino picture yet, here's a honeymoon photo of me in touristy-black socks & shorts, golfing with a gorilla, and BHK being beautiful in St. Augustine. I love that pic of her... it just makes me smile every time I look at her.



BHK and I watched Apocalypto across three houses, due to assorted cat-sitting duties for Tigger, Kiki and Chai - and polished off the last of it in our living room while munching on leftover party food. I really liked it. The story was really secondary to the setting and activity inside. The costume designer did a phenominal job, and if you get the dvd, check out "the making of" section. There were some moments that could've been scripted better, but the visuals were absolutely beautiful. I really liked that all of the actors were unknown to me - it made it much easier for me to take the characters as they were, rather than "that's the Rock, and Robin Williams, and Robert DeNiro!" Definately the best art direction that I can remember seeing in a film recently.

We never did get around to playing lunch money or Chez goth - we'll learn with Amy tomorrow! (if she doesn't prefer to play pirates, or video games) - I hear she's got a giant shark to trot out for our next battle.

New games BHK and I have or will be getting in the near future, in a loose order of when we'll be playing 'em:

(I've also started a freebie account at superdupergames - mainly to try out online ice house sprawl - maybe BHK will start hitting it like we did with pente.net lots of stuff to choose from!)

• Chrononauts
• Lunch Money
• Chez Goth
• Treehouse / 3House (3 games) / Playing with Pyramids(A *whole lot* of games) more info here and especially here
  
• We may get a treehouse die depending on how we get our pyramids.
  
• you can play with a regula