The North Broward Bureau is a minimum to medium security, special needs detention facility housing male and female offenders. The facility also houses protective custody female offenders and female juveniles. The facility currently holds 1,200 inmates.

The primary mission of the facility is to house and manage the mentally ill, medically infirm and special needs inmate population.

Momster pulled his police report - It seems he'd parked in a handicapped space, and when the police ran his tags, the car he was in was reported stolen. Apparently his license was expired, as well. It was certainly enough to violate probation.

[Edit - in 11c now, out of the infirmary. Bro has been there before. My guess is he is detoxing or being treated for bi-polar as he has claimed that in the past.]

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• Bro's Birthday in about 2 weeks.
• Wedding anniversary and Halloween at the end of October. Trip? Party?
• Graypumpkin's Birthday
• Eryx's Birthday
• Mom's Birthday
• Bro will be out and about mid-November, but will not be in our vicinity.
• Thanksgiving.
• Mom and Wilt will be visiting my family up here for Christmas week.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, said new dress rules would mean the requirement for the wigs, which legal professionals have worn since the 17th century, would not be needed in civil or family court cases.

"While there will never be unanimity of view about court dress, the desirability of these changes has a broad measure of agreement," Phillips said.

Work is interviewing for the network position today. I wonder when or if they’ll be asking me to sit with them today? I’m curious about the number of applicants.

Cable Modem... *NOT*. The guys came by, and it turns out the cable box on the outside pole hadn't changed yet... 2 hours later, a cherry picker drives by and upgrades the pole. I've called back, and the internet will be supposedly installed tomorrow between 8am-Noon. We shall See!

Happy Birthday, graypumpkin!

What would happen if everyone on Earth suddenly vanished without a trace? Although that's totally impossible, of course, a new article speculates on how long it would take for all traces of today's human civilization to be reclaimed by the earth's natural processes.

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There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background.

Sakes, insane night so far tonight on call.

Brief Summary of my cases in the first *HOUR* from 5pm-6-pm EST -

• Sexual Predator in Okeechobee County, FL



• Mother in Jesup, GA who first reported her 3 year old as kidnapped, and then it turns out she killed her child - searching for the body over three counties I'm guessing this one will be all over the news - I wonder if they'll get many of the facts right?



• Habitual Runaway in Hollywood, FL



• 11 yr old wander-off Autistic kid in MI



• two school pals who hit the road for some reason in Nye County, NV - ran off into the desert [edit - the two girls in Nye were recovered, and they're safe and sound, save for whatever punishment a pissed off parent might give.]



• A kid in Thomaston, CT - Another habitual, fresh move [edit - called home for a pickup when he got cold and tired of being out and about]

I don't know what I was thinking... that all of the homeless would pack up and go into lockdown, but they seemed even more populous than ever on the ride to work yesterday. I mentally tallied 36 as the bus rolled by them.

This card is my problem with compusa, along with really poor communication or support /offering of alternatives.

In a nutshell, it's been since November 10th that my Computer has been at the shop... everything else needing repair is fixed according to them.

Verto GeForce FX 5950 Ultra Video Card, AGP, 256MB DDR
Nvidia
Manufacturer: PNY   
Mfg Part #: VCGFX595APB
Product Number: 308120
$499.88

However, that bad boy has been out of stock at the manufacturer, and at all known compusa stores in a 50-mile radius for the last 8 weeks.

With a $500 price tag, I'm obliged to wait, because I really can't drop that chunk of change on something that I should be getting under warranty.

The guys at the shop have given me two timelines, both of which have passed, now. I'm not quite sure what I can do, save for waiting.

Meanwhile, I have to do my work on poor ol' Battered lappie, My Toshiba satillite back from a time when Windows Me (I've long since replaced that with win2k pro) was "cutting edge".

I'd say that the only time I've had worse customer service/ communication was with Comcast... I have since boycotted them, though I've heard that they might not be so bad in other areas outside of SoFla.

Not having big brain has cost me some very significant social chat and play time in 2nd Life, LAN party activities with the old FMM crowd are out of the picture... plus, all of my downloaded movies / Netflix DVD archives are ground to a halt while the machine is gone... not to mention a lack of Newtcam.

I never realised how many people watched good ol' Newt during the day... I've gotten somthing like 80 emails politely requesting when he'll be back online again. If Big Brain is down another week, I'll hook Newtcam up to Lappie so folks can get an orange kitty fix.

I can only imagine what happens when pretty girls shut off their webcams. I suspect horny stalker-type guys aren't nearly as polite as cat fanciers.

Bro's pal Andy was arrested today. He's under wraps until September 26 for that grand theft charge and "resisting a merchant"... I'll have to look that one up.

See mugshot gallery to compare, or entries on 2/24/04, 2/25/04, 11/21/04, 1/30/05, 6/7/05, somewhere in 7/2005, 8/3/05.

I really hope that means bro will keep his nose clean for a little while.

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Dr Who Christmas Special was pretty groovy, and I think that I like the new actor as the doc. (I was worried he'd be too much of a pretty boy. The preview for the next episode looks good, too.

re: the get together at mom's place... bro was asked specifically to show up in a drug/alcohol-free state, so mom wouldn't be embarrassed in front of Wilts' folks. He arrived after having stopped off at the bar, looking grimy and disheveled. He mentioned that his pressure cleaning biz is taking off and showed me that he had some funds in the bank... good for him. Maybe he can pay back some of the dinero he owes the momster or me. I caught him in lies a few times during the day, including how he got there "a friend" "a bus" and if he'd been drinking.

I don't think that I'll be sharing me addy with him anytime soon, especially since he lied to me about being in Boynton. He declined a ride home, I suspect because he didn't want to have to turn around and go back to Hollywood.

On the upside, Wilt, mom, Rosa, Yitzi and the rest of the guests were cool enough, and there was a ton of food. (I brought home a lot of broccoli casserole and a tin of cookies). There was an interesting blend of Portuguese, Hebrew and English conversations going on....I wish I understood more of the non-English stuff that was going on in my periphery.

I'd already received my big giftie, (the futon mattress and cover), but my sticking had some more goodies in it. A few Newt toys (I think he's still partial to the toys he got from the Strawberry shortcake bag when Lisa/Lisa visited) and I got the usual stocking fare. Lip Balm, a new toothbrush, hand sanitizer, some chocolates, a notepad and sharpie pen.

Bro woke me at 2am on Christmas morning by calling me on the phone and asking me to look up some woman on the police blotters for Broward and palm beach counties. He claimed that they were going to hit midnight mass and she doesn't have a phone. She supposedly has outstanding warrants, but I didn't see any. When I told him that he was calling and waking me up at 2 f'ing in the morning, he barely apologized. I told him to call the police the next time he wanted to do a criminal search, or at least wait until a civil hour to ring me for a non-emergency.

Someone remind me to kick his keister when I wake back up.

Went on a long walkabout yesterday... down Hillsboro to the beach, and then around to the Deerfield mall out on Powerline to see the Narnia movie and get $3.99 all you can eat buffet pizza at Cici's. Shared a table with a Jamacian lady on "holiday" in the states - I put holiday in quotes, because she was working her vaykay in a child care center. I dug Narnia... the Christian allegory was there, but it wasn't so heavy handed as to annoy any but folks that got offended at Tron or E.T. for the same stuff are going to bark louder over this.

That said, I quite enjoyed Narnia. The kids chosen to play were well-picked, and Edmund would make an excellent "Kid Miracleman" should someone decide to kick Alan Moore in the ribs and squeeze out the rights to make a movie. I quite enjoyed the CGI, which was smooth and believable despite what I'd heard earlier. I wonder how people that are unfamiliar with the books will do with the talking animals and other remarkable characters in the movie? Some might say it makes for a younger audience, but there are some grim parts that a little kid might not fare so well with, especially in regards to Aslan. (it is bloodless, but still strong content) I might've picked another person than Tilda Swinton to play the White Witch in the film, despite the fact that she did a fine job, I kept seeing the Borg Queen (even though Alice Krige is a totally different actress). The movie is as loyal to the story as I remember it (hasn't been read for years... possibly/probably a decade or more.)

If I had a kid, I'd certainly take 'em to see it over any Harry Potter flick. I may look for the Narnia stuff as Audiobooks.. I suspect that it'll transfer to listening-stuff better than Lord of the Rings.

Walkabout stats - 12.2 miles, burned 3034 calories. Good thing, considering that I scarfed down a pile o'pizza at Cici's. I'm glad there isn't one closer to work, or I'd be in diet danger.

Nose is a little sunburned from being out and about all day. Adds to the "Santa Look".

Hm. That brings up a question.

Poll #632040 Santa? Your twinkle is in the way.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What color are Santa's Eyes?

Talked with Val yesterday... Rhonnie (22) is dating her paramedic instructor (38). Kind of gross, but I don't know the whole story. I'm just glad that she's happy and having a good time. Russ is doing well, looking for places to do his residency. Grew a beard so that he wouldn't look so "doogie houser". $15,000 just in flights around the USA looking for a place to set up his gig. He's going to have to be a doctor to pay off all of the debt he's accrued, it seems.

Kreuger gets out of jail this weekend, but the sex offender thing is going to follow him until he gets cleared. I honestly wonder if he's innocent.

Police called me up, looking for my bro to act as state's witness... I was right about my guess regarding my brother's "accident". He was badly beaten up by someone that didn't like his smart mouth. I contacted the office in charge of the case, (who left a subpoena at my old address) and passed along my bro's phone information. I suspect this might be why he's moving north, too... it's probably just not safe for him to be in this neck of the woods anymore. Maybe a severe beating is what it took to get him the hell out of Dodge. I hope he can keep his stuff together.

• The most poisonous jellyfish is the Australian sea wasp, or box jellyfish, with enough venom to kill 60 people. Wearing tights is an effective defense


• The largest jellyfish ever found was a lion’s mane, with a bell 2m (7ft) across, and tentacles extending more than 35m


• The notorious Portuguese man o’war is not a jellyfish at all but a collection of different organisms including stinging tentacles


• Jellyfish have both male and female characteristics. A group releases sperm and eggs which mix in the water


• A collection of jellyfish is known as a smack

Meal with Momster, Wilt, Rosmary and Yizzy went well... unfortunately bro could not come with us. I ate to bursting, and napped for an hour when I got home. After the nap, I procrastinated for a bit, by surfing the net on borrowed wireless and gave b