pyewacket and his portrait (given to us by amy as a wedding prezzie)

Physical Therapy today, and the rest spent absorbing the drizzle, and doing job search. BHK has had Holly on the XM radio going since midday. I have seen hints of coming meals after her trip to the grocer, and my tummy is happy.

Adam and Anna are coming over tomorrow night - more bbq chips and good eats all the way through TG!

1 year ago - holoiday lights pics, bhk's laptop craps out, a mighty salad
really good.

2 years ago - I love traveling with BHK, train set at motorcycle shop, festival of trees (Hospice), getting my head in order

3 years ago - gobble gobble - turkey day

4 years ago - talked to bro in hospital, local music, reader quiz

5 years ago - good counters bad, beard, heroin traffic in sofla, Melissa not Alyssa, evo vs creationism beliefs in the usa, googlewhacked, crimes against children task force

6 years ago - Whatever comes to mind, kid memory, cent sign, elephants

7 years ago - Mayah's Birthday with pics, mage knight, cosplayers, Newtpics, ACCExpo, Lemmiwinks song

8 years ago - Superpowers, assoil, holiday icon musing

9 years ago - Golden Rice, survey, myths over Miami

It seems that Christmas is in the air in this part of North Beach. BHK and the Nailles… not even thanksgiving! however, I don’t mind the music, especially if we get sugar cookies with red and green sprinkles, while watching Christmas Vacation. The Naille’s already have 5 or more trees up at home… BHK and I aren’t going to do a tree until at least after Turkey Day.
Dinner was with the in-laws – hot dogs on the grill, baked beans and smokin’ sweet bbq chips.
Jungle Speed yet again. Lion is my lucky animal… no bears there.
1 year ago – leftover Halloween pics, allergy shots, walking and twilight – hobbits in bikinis.

2 years ago - one year out from ACIM, turkey doodle, tg pics to color, ze on thanks, BHK cooks, bacon salt, fry on americans, newt and pye pics, lj reads, 27 questions,
3 years ago - Mr.T on fashion, Bully Charlie Brown, Bro incognito, Last day at ACIM.
4 years ago - chilly for fl, many entries, foot amputee dream, bro in hospital
5 years ago - newtcam button, hercules & newton, bueller thoughts, jam sammiches, g-cans, flu bug, survey, LH quits, bro back in the pokey
6 years ago - DC Earths, Shrunken Heads, Police Cars, mix cds, South park, origin ofRaj KAJ, An awesome Weekly World News Issue, I am DNA, Bro Issues
7 years ago - classic kids audio books, history, forms in LJ work, goodbye to work-Pam, Mojo has a hissy fit vs Bonbon/Kev
8 years ago - beatnik, thanksgiving, harry potter quiz, wandering
9 years ago - thanksgiving

atw man smoking peace pipe with local native.

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atw man smoking peace pipe

Thank you, Thank you to everyone in the military, past and present devoted to protecting us.

In honor of Veterans day, I post a picture of me as G.I Joe, fighting an evil yeti.

It isn't all commies, nazis and terrorists, you know!



Disclaimer, that isn't really me... I was just told that it looked like me, by David. I hope he was referring to the Joe, not the Yeti. :)

1 year ago - avg uhoh, tim powers hand loss, bro ticket, xm and sirius fusion official,

2 years ago - rayman, check mii out, some scotto dislikes

3 years ago - pf chang pix, played pirates with BHK and Danny (BHK's first game ever!), sleepy

4 years ago - power on, big brain going away, packing, suprglu

5 years ago - Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, lost on torrent, pixar, who links here, Wanna know your consistence?

6 years ago - incas & guinea pigs, minefield, earth photos, anagrams, Sirenity baby!, high school memories, norman saunders

7 years ago - I win cookies!, owie-back, keywords

8 years ago - went to see fishies, walkies

9 years ago - good news / bad news, Boogie Pop Phantom, African Frog Myth

only one more day until Halloween!

Volunteering at the Poe Gravesite tomorrow - I'll be at the front gate, and I'm not sure where BHK will be doing her thing.

I can't believe we've been married 3 years since the 25th of this month. (or that I've had Newton for 10 years and Pye for 3 years on the same date.)

Third of July. The twin beaches always celebrate a day early, because everyone likes to go to DC or someplace else for the 4th.

Andrew was looking dapper, and the fireworks were a-ok by me. we spent the day grilling - thankfully, it was cool and comfy at windward key. I grilled the dogs and etc, while bhk made a funfetti cake.

We played some Can't stop, Huggermugger and of course, apples to apples. I was hoping for a little try at dictionary dabble  (aka Balderdash, but dabble has much cooler pawns)

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BHK took most of the Dock pics, I experimented a bit with the camera settings for the fireworks.

Recapping -

Got my 401k comp check from my last gig - That worked out well. I told a little fib to BHk, and said that I expected about $500, and we got about eight times that amount. (I was planning for about six times.)

Went to Annapolis and promptly deposited that little windfall in the bank - then stopped off at the Amish Farmer's Market for breakfast. BHK and I split two - ate half and then swapped Chocolate Chip Pancakes, home fries, cheddar cheese omelet, wheat toast - I let BHK eat up all of the bacon, of course.

Opted out of going to a movie - nothing we want to see just this moment.. maybe next week when it's less crowded.  We did get a few other goodies at the farmer's market - cheese, strawberries, trinket's for our 4'th of July cake (gummy stars and confetti sprinkles), a blueberry fritter for me for tomorrow's breakfast (or tonight's midnight snack)

BHK remembered that I was due for shots (skipped when em was here) and we went there for a bit. Adam called, and mentioned that he was coming down for the 3rd's fireworks, an was bringing Anna - so, it was a quick trip to the grocery to be sure he had a full belly.

I was feeling pretty out of it at that point, so I rested in the car. Going to nap now that we're home. sweet dreams, dear journal.

added for no reason, except that I like Em and Otters -

happy 4th of july from the atw man - watch your fingers!
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note - seen after we went out too catch the Land of the Lost Movie today - I rather liked it, and I'm a fan of the original show.

memorial day

birthday of Apollo, god of music, poetry, and inspiration

cookout at in-laws for mom's day - pictures worth a thousand words, right? I hope so, because I don't have much to post, otherwise.

1 year ago - plants for the garden, agression cookies, episcopal church, shakespeare n the boardwalk, Kim Martucci, deck chair whale skeleton, friday 5

2 years ago - Elephant escape doodle, payday, Calvert County work info, dream fragments, books: both digital and paper, weather love, shaved ice / "dumb ol' cherry", railway museum trip

3 years ago - red mood doodle, super power desire as a lad, waiting room pic, newton and I on the porch pics, sand art

4 years ago - story stuck, food cravings, national ID, locla lj leads to illegal sex, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.

5 years ago - net out, bro bonds out, walkabout pics, sci-fi cliches, gabbed with sedef, bee vs wasp massacre.

6 years ago - Nature vs Pringles, Dan delivers Groceries, menstrualhut breaks 1000 users (now a bit more than twice that), Bush's Military Record

7 years ago - J-bee points me at CBS Mystery theater, Sat tracking, Newtie yawn icon source, Friday five

8 years ago - swollen uvula (side effect of no cpap, snoring beat me up), dumbass Astley late with his bargain basement hardware

Happy Muddah's Day, to all muddah types!

We celebrated mother's day at clarke's landing - seafood was ok, but not up to normal par. Chris liked it, and that was the goal.

Had a nice day - Larry had to go tend to Prom, so we came over to our place and watched Wuthering Heights.

I split time between the movie, and installing Adobe CS4 - got a good deal on it from a friend, and now I may finally take scottobear.com out of its old look. Still debating a theme, but it'll be cleaner, and will incorporate bHK, pye, newt and myself all on our own pages.

1 year ago - Ratatouille, tornado warings, cctv doesn't reduce crime, film chest cartoon collection, living jacket made of stem cells

2 years ago - Pictures: Steve the Caterpillar is missing, Lime vanilla Ice, Kitty hugs, and green leaves - also lasagna, not shown.

3 years ago - allergies, ultraman, money scans, feng-shui phone, map thingie

4 years ago - little scotto, work, spanish, bimini boatyard, hot dog water, missed free comic book day, Carnivale, rufus, tv, dan and kev scarce, blood donation factoids/excuses, sweater fashion, work form

5 years ago - MD, Nat'l Lampoon, RPG database mail (never came to fruition), Celestia, DIE DUCKS, added by kscare

6 years ago - owie sleeps, There Quest victory, telecommuting, clear channel hubbub, Hala finished Portalzilla, CitizenX closed down

7 years ago - cleanup, and milk crate shelf, did new code that's all over Ramada,playing with Newtie, real estate invaders. newt pics I need to locate and rehost

8 years ago - </a></b></a>menstrualhut grows rapidly, journal types, mp3s in rotation, illegal confessions (feel free to keep adding to it.)

Cinco De Mayo... Cheers! We had ratatouille and baked potato for supper. (But the bagel I ate had jalapenos on it!)

Contemplating going to Bengie's Drive-in this weekend. Triple feature of Fanboys, Monsters vs. Aliens and Star Trek a fun, dorky night.
I'm not sure though - I'd prefer to see MvsA in 3-d.

Talked to Danny on the phone tonight - he might be jumping into a game of Champions at his local game store this summer. 150 points - the store used to be the Dragon's Lair, but it's now Adventure something or another.

Bro sent me a text from his new phone - I'll call him tomorrow and see how he sounds. I'm sure he's happy to be out and about.

No Franklin again this morning - I noticed that the lawn was treated with chemicals - hopefully that kept him away, along with the cold, drizzly rain.

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Pull in your tum,
stick out your tush,
wiggle your hips,
now give 'em a push

Godspeed, Captain Chaos

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As I was starting to say, I'm glad it's staying a bit rainy and cool outside... I'm probably the only one who is loving a little soft, cool rain over sun and heat. I'm a hairy, big beast... hm, an excuse for another old Ditko picture, I think, dear journal.




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Freeware Eurorails game  -  Thanks, Rock, paper, shotgun!

also discovered OpenTTD for a freeware version of Transport Tycoon, and SimuTrans .

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1 year ago - stern face pic, best public potties in somd, thinky-doodle, FPS games, never say hopeless

2 years ago - Cinco de mayo - extended description

3 years ago - fleet week, cinco de mayo, network neutrality, kitten & rooster, mega m&ms, options, friday 5, dr who, prisoner, lj drama

4 years ago - 555, fishbone & dose pics, reference librarian scotto, oops-i did it again (30's style), questions asked

5 years ago - not loving the phone, porno bob cut ? (it took until last month), amy's diary, iconners, cookies, Florida state rock

6 years ago - ortho, There-folks giving me cool virtual clothes, WMD, star wars kid

7 years ago - I'm a sexy cusser, pop vs soda, digger mole, puppyfrog, maps, bad show, verisign, a date with destiny that was doomedCinco de Mayo, panda killer, Man Imprisoned 30 Years for Crime FBI knew he Didn't Commit, other evil news, what's your sign poll (Gemini won again!), C&I nightmare, smart sweater

8 years ago - Cinco de Mayo, panda killer, Man Imprisoned 30 Years for Crime FBI knew he Didn't Commit, other evil news, what's your sign poll (Gemini won again!), C&I nightmare, smart sweater

Happy Cuatro De Mayo! BHK brought home a few fun things from the thrift store - Aztec statuary for the lawn - a temple, an Idol, and a terra-cotta dancer!

BHK drove me in to work today - made the transition the first day back a lot simpler. We scanned for Franklin, but it was raining. He isn't as silly as the puff from yesterday - knows when to get out of the rain (unlike Pyewacket, who likes to stick his head under any faucet he can. Hurricane baby.




Some days, I feel a bit like Lennie from Of Mice and Men... I feel that I have to be extra gentle, just so I don't demolish everything in my path. I don't want to break any necks, either figuratively or otherwise.

I'm getting better about it, though. Today was exhausting, but I'm glad I'm back at my gig.

Big Bang was cute tonight - lots of nods to nerds, and dinner was a broad assortment of nibs and nabs... veggie spare ribs, taquitos, rice, jalepeno poppers, and edamame! very tasty, and I'm going to pop in a moment.

Sweet dreams, dear journal.

1 year ago - Oshi, Tasty Eats, cool secret door, XP sp3

2 years ago - 2 fun days coming up, super sleepy, ace of cakes, blood donation, cath engaged (now married!), first journey to Aardvark, car heartbeat sensor useless vs undead, sliders pic

3 years ago - pizza hut pondering, inc. PamM, Brent Ashland, and Steve Jacoby, carrageenan, southerner, wayward son, pictures of golden morning, sniffy newt

4 years ago - enzyte, fishbone, newton at kittenwar, bro lesson, interview meme

5 years ago - crazy-face pic, rainy-day pictures, jb finds me a local house on ebay (only 3.8 Mil!)

6 years ago - Mayah talk, D&C 2 months into another kidlet, icepacks, thinking about 5/5

7 years ago - Kazaa lite, passing osbournes along, gamelan music

8 years ago - mushy, ullage, purple cow, backdating implemented

My access pass made it to work, but too late for me to get there at a reasonable hour - I'm back on Monday.

Meanwhile, I can catch up with old emails, and go see Wolverine with BHK! Not a bad flick, but I suspect fans of wolvie might not dig it.

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via shoebox - President Obama says he does not want to run auto companies, hoping they can recover soon.  He does, however, want to keep the giant inflatable gorilla because it’s awesome and really draws attention to the White House.

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1 year ago - may day, mama lucias, no ghosts, reassembling robot, scottobear vs owlbear, she's just bein' miley, artomatic, cute overload elephant, palm doodle, waiting for the bus

2 years ago - May day thoughts, newt and pye sharing, my zombie eyes, chimney cleaners, Walpurgisnacht

3 years ago - charmed and dr who, bob ross, 20% , houses and kitties, tummy ache, lennon quote, i like monkeys, may day

4 years ago - family factoids, mail forwarding booboo, skipped air show, costco cremation urns, Classic Cheesy Comics, Minneapolis Beggars Guild?,Burrito Weapon

5 years ago - rough night on call, may day, Spanish channel family feud answers,budget assist, air and sea, Dan's students put up a site, Newt-parrot,mum issue, memories, cam pics

6 years ago - There, mayday, top40 drop, ortho, on Workmans comp

7 years ago - free scoop, invaders, stuff meme

8 years ago - buck rogers, geography and climate, nightclub, trundle, lj-cut ponder, misc evil news, organ donor poll, wild party

Happy Walpurgisnacht!

Not at work - workers comp / work in general needed a tighter definition of "light duty". (I got the email last night after the doctor's office closed - so I get another day from the house. Kind of annoying - not sure if worker's comp is going to pay for my day off today.)

Should be self explanatory, but I have to wait. I guess back tomorrow. Spoke to the doc, and she's sending over more info this morning.

As of now (approx 3:20pm) they still haven't faxed the information over. I tried calling a little while ago, but no answer. Going to try again in about 10 minutes.

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Chicken in a can

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1 year ago - farewell April, drop.io, dinner with in-laws, atw and robot pix, scotto homebrew, fishing orangutan

2 years ago - TM sullen, gardening, ohio offer, heroes, rpg supers, free software

3 years ago - plazes, car accident, mustache finger tattoos, bibliochaise, rush arrested, barking kitty, orbit cam, Guten Drudennacht! Time for der Hexen-Orgie!, greathatsby

4 years ago - Hitchhiker's, Dr. Who, Dont Cry Kitty, torrents, ebay victory, front pages, walkies pix, key/class quiz

5 years ago - Drudennacht (Walpurgisnacht), email dopes, gmail auction, gamedevelopers, Mod a disposable cam into a stun-gun, Chickens like to eat scorpions, T2 espanol question

6 years ago - Where the hell meme, boobah, timetable entry, tripped and went to the hospital on my back, slow trip home

7 years ago - a day in the life doodle, Osbournes, Chupa/tia fight, Star Map (Awesome! I forgot about this!), give bro some DVD-fu, broken pic links I have to fix

8 years ago - music confession, bug farts, fiction, wrote a encryption toy for CEJ and me to chit chat, underwear poll, AL Amarjan Slang, McCafe, lederhosen,SOP - "you forgot the gravy"

Book fair in Annapolis - taking it slow and easy though. Yard sale, and sat in on a panel of writers. Saw the Wayne Alan - writer of Magical Meatless Meals. More in-depth reviews to follow.

Scholastic was there - lots of flashbacks to the days when filling out a little strip of paper and ordering books through school came back. 

Book fair was at the Keys school private education pre-k - 12- the mascot is the obezegs (Gazebo backwards)

Also shown - Easter egg tree, gazebo roof, and some video of the local color.

Happy Easter / springtime / fertility / whatever from Newton and all of us, dear Journal!


We woke early this morning - exchanged easter baskets! BHK loaded me up with jellybeans, gummi lobsters and chocolate covered potato chips, while I got her peanut butter eggs, tie-dye plastic eggs, lip balm and ceramic bowls. :)

Kitties were happy to play with catnip from the garden - growing well already.

BHK gave Mr. Woods an assortment of flowers from our garden to put on his wife's grave - colorful... yellows, reds, and lavender.

I was really beat - back bothering me - I had some lunch and had a nap - woke up at 8:30pm.

Have a wornderful day, dear journal!

1 year ago - cimnim nuts video, no pimpernel, but italian, tough sleep, hacienda / wishes were fishes, doom patrol movie?, JL:New Frontier, Batman Brave & Bold, gaming / cartoon, GP & Kat

2 years ago - rainy day, auto-deploy lj, tk experiments fail, small town feel

3 years ago - Newt in Zefrank's video, yoink doodle, met with gp and kat, cool gifitis, squishie photos, kev at gimo, mady at chem lab, ab fired

4 years ago - new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards

5 years ago - wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA

6 years ago - Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.

7 years ago - angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!

8 years ago - identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up

Happy St. Patty's, All you Irish!
(And I think everyone is Irish today.)



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In-laws and Adam came over tonight - BHK made wonderful Thai Curry soup, and it was a meal fit for a king!

Added Bonus of the day - she got a food processor for $13 - price must've been marked wrong, as it said $26 (on sale from $40ish)

It's a school night - just enough time to fix Adam's mac and hit the sack! G'nite, dear journal!

I'm a little out of whack today - hopefully tomorrow will be better.
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Quiz-meme -


1 year ago - St. Pat's, dinner with family, ww info, goat robot - needs lasers

2 years ago - St. Pat's, the ikea nightmare begins, newtcam returns to 24/7

3 years ago - st pats, snake son a plane, 4 things poll, lighter elements

4 years ago - Irish stuff, work, dog, hippie, writing

5 years ago - St Pats, Ordered CoH, email fixed, bro rant, work issues

6 years ago - St Pats, Purim, post #5490

7 years ago - many now-dead links, last sentence quiz, doctor, newt fetch

8 years ago - St Pats

Happy PI day! To celebrate, we went out for pancakes at the Main Ingredient with Duncan, J, and Sean. A nice time, and we piddled around the stationary store next door to digest afterward. (Picked up a set of cute barrettes for BHK!)

For the record, Pyewacket could care less if it was PI day, Pie day or Pye-day.

Midday, we headed home, swung by the candy store and got our mail, a brief stop at Coffee, Tea & Whimsy for a wine-tasting (well, I was there for the snacks), picked up some crabby crackers, a loaf of italian brad and some pasta sauce, spent $10 to support breast cancer awareness (BHK got a homemade pin, I got a sleeve of sugar cookies)

and watched Mr. Meaty. BHK said that it's like that show is in my head... episodes today were about Zombies and a Planet of the Apes sort of parody.. the show just hits things right on the nose. Thanks, Canada!

This evening, we had a minimalist supper (nibbles above), and watched the 2008 Bangkok Dangerous - I was a little disappointed, and BHK was more so.

BHK enjoyed the Sex in the City movie in part tow of our "flush out our old netflix" film fest more, and I thought it was a passable chick flick based on a girl's TV show, but not much more than that.

1 year ago - Dinner with Cathy & Dave, "the good life" pic, gardening, ad-free basic accounts go bye-bye, icehouse design, eats

2 years ago - kitty feeding, the host, no cable modem yet.

3 years ago - sleepy, newt playing and chitty chatting, palm doodle, wifi hotsync, safety ape, sex offenders, mulligrubs

4 years ago - hello tomorrow, Robots movie, found art pictures, alligator sounds/swamp witch, silly putty, pi day, IR webcam hack, free fonts, tallyhall, ashes scattered, polar bears, open records, memory meme

5 years ago - subpages broken, Shazam!, Dead Like Me, CS sucks as a tech, vamp game

6 years ago - walkabout pics, lovieness, got unreal server hopping

7 years ago - mush, Roman tub, dreams of owning a pet grooming store, insurance woes, and palm doodles

8 years ago - Happy b'day kundalinidreams (no longer ljing), Dkmfkmkglklkgbkvbkbv,looking for a job as demagogue...(I'll still take it, if anyone's wanting), happy unbirthday to me, uck!, edit this page (now dead),sop, a timeline of Scotto history,veggie lo mein, muppet trivia, and Rolf singing you and I and George