Raj KAJ
22 November 2009 @ 07:35 pm
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
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Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Badass - Ben Thompson - Xerxes
 
 
Raj KAJ
12 September 2009 @ 09:57 pm
Got up at 6:30 this morning and went for an hour walk with Chris before heading off to some of the last gasp yard sales of the summer.

Yard Saling stuff - not showm, more legos, bake sale goodies consumed.

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I find the toys, BHK the antiques. We both find the hot air balloon / pregnant women / overpopulation picture cool, then creepy. It is already hanging in next to the office.

After the sale, we headed home, while Chris and Mandy went on to Annapolis, BHK and I stopped off at the local historical society and did a treasure hunt with a 4-year-old boy named Annikin. (I guess the parents are star wars fans... was that a "real name" before the movies?

In-laws took us to dinner at outbakc - made use of gift certificats Adam and Anna gave 'em on the 4th of July - I had a lovely baked potato, salad, and shrimp.

Returned home to play some monopoly dice with Chris and Mandy, but the boys were wiped out - Mandy and BHK played Balloon Cup, instead.


1 year ago - atw man and cigar-smoking monkey on tandem bike, silly bhk on cam, more nice weather

2 years ago
- Newt seeks content pic, restful day

3 years ago - venture bros, house, matt starts halloween, mention of 10/25/06 - 2pm, vade mecum, pretty vids

4 years ago - 2nd life, raccoon icon, newt sleepies pic, halloween jukebox, condo doesn't like newt, ADP ship-out prep

5 years ago - Ivan raises the dead, BK covers call, Shaun of the dead, JLU, Weather pictures, Safe!

6 years ago - Photo Friday - faith, I have a cell phone, soundless music, skunk ape

7 years ago - nice dreams, wargaming terrain tips, $25 benefit for being a non-litterbug, Tony gave me Ants, Brains, Cities and Software

8 years ago- Helping, act more - gripe less, Rant about people who say "we deserved it", Long chat with Hala, Worried about DelMarVa, chickenpoo dream

9 years ago - looking for things to do, Newtcam reactivated Geotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: tired
 
 
Raj KAJ

Yesterday - Larry's Birthday
Hot Dogs, corn, Banana Pudding, Chris, Larry, Amy, BHK, Nailles

Today -
annapolis, more lego, rain, au pair, red robin, dokapon

 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: surfer girl - beach boys
 
 
Raj KAJ
07 August 2009 @ 05:53 pm
Hard to believe it's only been 3 years since I was first planning to visit BHK on her birthday. Funny to me how little I can think of life prior to being married to her, and having our crew of four under the roof.

I'm in the office now, taknig a brief break from gig-searching to catch myself up on LJ. Larry is setting up BHK's Best Birthday Present Ever (tm)- a widening of the closet door in our bedroom. For the record, I also proposed to BHK on her birthday, 3 years ago in two weeks. Heck, she'd have wanted closet spasce, even if single.

33333333333333333333333333333333  - Newton's left foot on the number pad says hello. Pye is sleeping on the purple chair to my left, and Netwon has leapt to the couch on my right (newtcam couch) and will be in sleepytown soon.



Here's a breakdown of my music via Media Go -

music layout

According to my SenseMe playlist - the fastest/happiest song is a three way tie -


  • Get a Job - The English Beat

  • The Famous Polka - They Might Be Giants

  • B-52s Cosmic Thing.

Slowest Saddest songs are also a 3-way tie -

  • Matt Lauer can suck it - Michael Gaicchino (Land of the Lost Soundtrack)

  • Running to the Rain - Peter Gabriel

  • Ballero - War

I seem to have mostly happy, mid-speed songs in my library.




I am really interested in a few new looney labs releases - Aquarius 2.0 and Chrononauts: The Gore Years expansion

(Chrononauts 1.4 The Gore Years: Like Aquarius, Chrononauts is also about to get upgraded to the new uniform box. But although it will feature a couple of new cards and a new rulesheet, the new edition of Chrononauts won't be very different from the original. For this reason, and since it's the fourth printing, they've decided to call it version 1.4. However, since a lot has happened since 1999 and Chrononauts is really showing its age, theyere also creating an expansion product that brings the TimeLine into the 21st Century. This packet of 11 cards will feature 5 new Timeline cards (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2008) along with 3 new Patches and 3 new characters who need to change recent events in order to get home. (Of course, it's called the Gore Years because that's what the last 8 years are known as to certain time travelers.). Release date: October 23th.
(Martian Fluxx, too, but not as much as the other two)

Additionally - I'd like to try Apophis sometime as a game. Looks neat, and I have all the pieces already to play!



from the lj status page, earlier -

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1 year ago - temp filling, need crown, knife wilding robot doodle, pedegg, german boardgames usually lack dice, Bengies, Mayor's Drug raid - he's innocent, cops shot his dogs, bro at 44 points, faces of evil project

2 years ago - dc to nyc bus, pg county car chase update, chocolate gum, ex debt, louise fadeout, ljopoly, cruel 2 b kind assassination game

3 years ago - finished pride & pred / monkey politics, Newt pic, kid rolling ajoint on the bus, solar powered sun bricks, firkin, 8500, flying model plane in miami, flight plans to maryland

4 years ago - deepest sender, jumping pictures, walkabout autostitch, mangrove tunnels

5 years ago - tmbg thoughts, sugar water vid, space issues, Rick James dead, Burpin' at Newt, Magical Trevor, cocktail demons, nifty charts, Newt Videos, CoH Pix

6 years ago - Zombies, Army Men, mean cannibal pudding, time travel spam, vampire game, celeb phone calls, cej chat, bro request

7 years ago - Earth and Beyond Playtest, Kev & Bailey, fat parrots, french fry girl palm doodle

8 years ago - harried, inculpate, plane lands just down the road on andrews as a makeshift runway and kits my regular bus, wondering about lj's image server (still not ready!), happy thoughts, magic can of soda

9 years ago - grumping, Space cowboys shows old man butts Geotarget

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Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: sore
Current Music: The Dirty Dozen - bottom corner of my computer screen
 
 
Raj KAJ
25 July 2009 @ 11:48 am

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Current Location: chesapeake beach, md
Current Music: bones - little big town
 
 
Raj KAJ
24 July 2009 @ 07:50 pm

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at the in-laws - we have to get up extra early tomorrow to get bugah home. bedtime early tonight after a grill feast!
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Current Location: chesapeake beach, md
Current Music: I live for you - george harrison
 
 
Raj KAJ
06 June 2009 @ 11:22 pm
Nice day today - went to Annapolis with Larry, Chris and BHK - went to see Jerry Douglas and toured St. Anne's Church graveyard.

just about wiped out my back, but it was worth it. a few pics from the day - concert, downtown, yellow fever graves and newton / pye pix

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1 year ago - dream memories fading, house, gut, hive and other boardgames, paper foldables, there will be blood / bambi, l. ron hubbards most impressive lies besides scientology, i catch up with ellen re:the library team

2 years ago - 150 questions meme

3 years ago - tuesday like buddy holly, poetry, long phone talk, csi project, under cold blue stars, 3 girl rhumba,

4 years ago - Org of American States, South America, Local Journals, burlesque, rain to sun, icons, journey to the center of the earth, I don't much like Cap'n Jack, PO CHU-I, florida slave labor, rose garden, the Way-Outs, Spanish mixup at work.

5 years ago - D-Day / Normandy, Cold Reading, plague cookies, shockwave, meme, chill out, first appearance of </a></b></a>[info]eryx_uk in my comments.

6 years ago - Hobbit Pub w/danny pics, DARPA

7 years ago - Troublesome evacuation issues for fumigation

8 years ago - evil news, laconic, hobbit names, aimbot, hungry, lj DDos, glow text abuse, misc wacky html, Scotto quirk, COPS, long chat with CEJ, Rudy-fibber, poo-health chart.

9 years ago - no-thangGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: annapolis, md
Current Music: jerry douglas - glide
 
 
Raj KAJ
19 May 2009 @ 09:36 pm
Happy Anniversary, LJ - 9 years doing entries. Hard to believe, though my posts of late have been petty scanty. I need to get back on the wagon and produce something I'll want to look back on in a few years.

IN back news, I got my second epidural today... not working so great - may be due to scar tissue issues. next one will be injected through my side rather than the back, if I get another.

After my shot to the spine (pictures to follow), we visited at the in-laws for a few - had chinese food and hung out - Adam came over and played a little guitar with Larry and Stone.

Adam fessed up to trying adderall before his finals... not sure how happy  / unhappy I am with that. Not prescribed to him. Misuse can easily become abuse.

Watched Children of Men - not bad, but not mind-blowing, either. Worth seeing on tv, but perhaps not a non-netflix rental.

1 year ago - voice post, journal 8th year, hyperdrive, obama with kitty, journal review, adam in haiti

2 years ago - 7th year entry, milk and cheese figures, bhk takes care of tm's kitties, lunch with in-laws, David and Gill move to Charlotte

3 years ago - 6th anniversary, clothes shopping, busy recovery week, Don't ask for directions in Baltimore

4 years ago - Star Wars, Dead Riddler, PETA kills animals, Newt @ kittenwar, neobrara, hong kong bun-snatching, sex offender sweep

5 years ago - wet week, duckling videos, lots of wander-pics, you're so vain (odd couple sing), using wifi for plausible deniability, Feast Day of St. Dunstan, Florida Black Bear

6 years ago - bro fishing, Eh.net, asteroid probe, bookhenge in There, Drunk Man Hurt After Running Into Elephant, PT, severe weather, #21 in top 40, ljer ages, compat quiz

7 years ago - no cpap, broken pic links for me to fix later, grocery,waste to energy, Mayan symbols, ginger orange tofu, hot mail copying yahoo jerkiness

8 years ago - Iron Chef, Family Guy, Lj troublesome, feeling coarse, gals system down, astley hoses me over.

9 years ago - Scottobear's LJ is Born - just a marker, really.
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: sore
Current Music: end credits to Children of Men
 
 
Raj KAJ
17 May 2009 @ 11:01 pm
As always, Happy Birthday, Oneeyedcat! We Love you and yours!

We slept in this morning, after the late night out... Chris and Larry stopped by to check out the garden, and bring us some biscuits and bacon... (I focused on the former, BHK, the latter, of course.)

While folding laundry, We watched the first episode of Primeval: Season 3 . Looks like it's off to a good start.

Later, Chris and Larry came back over, and we grilled, as is our thing lately... meat burgers for the in-laws, veggie-burgs for BHK and me. Baked beans, cole slaw, some of the most awesome corn on the cob of the season, and tasty mac & cheese. It's hard to diet with this much good food nearby.

BHK made key lime pie for dessert, and we watched the end of The Last Templar - it started strong, but petered out - I can't recommend it. I do recommend BHK's key lime pie, though.

mrfixit

I spent a little time working on the computer - we're having connectivity issues- it seems like comcast has trouble after rainstorms, especially.

1 year ago - oneeyed's bday!, dance recital, bbq

2 years ago - Oneeyed b'day, cleaning up the tech area pics, sugar free cherry sno-cone.

3 years ago - day in moods, bears kill and eat monkeys, auto stitched clouds, new interfaces for flickr and yahoo, police music

4 years ago - Tracy Ullman, Hotcakes and Sausage, tummy owie, who to GP&K, bad hurricane season predicted, movies, work stuff, doctor beat up by a corpse, missing kid case foul up, ernie's, chicago crime, finish the sentence, triple homicide

5 years ago - Oneyed is 21!, Birthday Stars, warmer out, 2-point smart ones, company to php, yahoo mail to 100mb (now it's 1 gig), being left behind in CoH,gumball cards, boy with a bunker, silly amazon stuff, wireless broadcast test, sample memo, bro

6 years ago - trouble with downloads, friday 5, there-quest, publix direct

7 years ago - layout planning, link popularity, now dead cam-ring

8 years ago - jimmy johns, Adipocere, purity test meme, nice chitty chat, mushies, gated communities, super hero casting pollGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: calm
 
 
Raj KAJ
10 May 2009 @ 09:44 pm


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.

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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 hardwareGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Larry on his guitar
 
 
Raj KAJ
09 May 2009 @ 09:46 pm
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>[info]menstrualhut grows rapidly, journal types, mp3s in rotation, illegal confessions (feel free to keep adding to it.)Geotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: full
Current Music: pbs theme in the other room
 
 
Raj KAJ
26 April 2009 @ 09:53 pm
Cookout on the porch with in-laws - burgers on the grill, baked potato, Brussels sprouts, lemon meringue pie

Very nice night - warm, a few lightning bugs are making appearances already.

Getting a wee bit tired of all the hype that twitter is getting. (Mine is usually just a link relocator or an automated alert mechanism for larger journal posts)

Lilacs are booming and are fragrant.

UPS battery needs to be replaced on the main computer.

Jonah Hex movie info.

Sex Attacks based on Bat Demon.

Men in parts of Tanzania's main city, Dar es Salaam, are living in fear of a night-time sex attacker.

A BBC correspondent says the attacks are being blamed by some on a demon called "Popo Bawa" meaning winged bat.

Some men are staying awake or sleeping in groups outside their homes. Others are smearing themselves with pig's oil, believing this repels attacks.

Reports of the demon's existence have been common for many years in Zanzibar, where locals claim it originated.

The BBC's John Ngahyoma in Dar es Salaam says not many people actually believe that the demon exists and there have been no sightings.

But Mbaruku Ibrahim, who hails from Zanzibar, says the story of the demon is common there and people in his village on Pemba island sleep beside a huge fire outside their houses whenever it is said to appear.

The story goes that the bat is able to transform itself into a man at night and it has also been blamed for rapes of women.

Sheikh Yahya Hussein, a prominent astrologer in Tanzania, claims that the demon is a spirit that is unleashed by witches to torment their opponents.

Belief in witchcraft and superstitions is widespread in Tanzania, especially in rural areas. 


1 year ago - lego robot monkey, puzzles, cabbage soup, wind up robots

2 years ago - calvert coworkers, 6 months thoughts, palm doodles, mr mind, pollen

3 years ago - world history, folkvine, pocket charger, jw cordon 

4 years ago - Egyptian origins, clown confession, big brown bear, trix returns to simplicity, hugs, fleet week, chitchat w myid8myego, kind entry, country bears movie, human gene in rice, funeral dance, FL gun law self defense, energy crisis, Cheney & Abadullah

5 years ago - Godchecker's Mythology Encyclopedia, Andy Griffith factoid, CS out, Cute Newt Pic

6 years ago - seafood fest, gift exchange

7 years ago - Foomy goes poof, nifty human tricks, Quick little story, full moon thoughts, Prof. Eben Norton Horsford. 

8 years ago - bricolage, misc news, email tags, lj burp, uck, how to catch a polar bear, prezziesGeotargetVisitor Map
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: full
Current Music: Lost s01-ep17 ... in translation (hurley's batteries just died)
 
 
Raj KAJ
25 April 2009 @ 08:38 pm

9692 - sat

Nutshelling.

BHK and I have been married 30 months today!

Book fair at the BIG warehouse. I stocked up on some Bradbury, Phil Farmer, and Laura Lippman.

Got a little walking in, but there was no way I could haul the huge pile of books about.

BHK made Homemade chili - she thinks it's burned, but I like it fine!

Lawn cut, and a lot of planting done by the family.

Dinner at Selby's - Bought Larry a Lemon Meringue pie. Veggie sub was good - Linda the cook is in the hospital, but her replacement did a great job of making a sammich.

More wii games from the library. (Wario Shake it / Super Brawl) - Wario is cute, from an old-school Mario-brothers perspective. Super Brawl didn't wow me.

Bea Arthur, RIP.

1 year ago - met up with [info]sirenity, [info]legal_beagle555 and [info]chrishaas for a bite to eat. New back drugs, comparing netbooks, XP extension, free comic book day, pistol-whipping, question memes, penis-shrinking sorcerers arrested

2 years ago - concert recap, license plate seen, wendy's, lj-spam, highland fest promo / tree pics

3 years ago - camo man, free cone, gorillaz, dictator octopus

4 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

5 years ago - RHL, dumb laws, Rubezahl

6 years ago - doctor and drugs, grasshoppers and micropet, letter to bro, distractions (anagrams, phone spellings, etc)

7 years ago - SOP, copyright, scarecrows in the herb garden, Tunguska, kisses, wind dreams

8 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 KellieGeotargetVisitor Map 

 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Lost s1 - ep16 outlaws
 
 
Raj KAJ
19 April 2009 @ 07:47 pm

Took it easy. in-laws came over for Chinese food.

Getting caught up on my light reading – Laura Lippman’s Baltimore Blues is pretty good – Simon R Green’s Nightside stuff is a bit too Mary Sue (Marty Lou?) – not as good as Jim Butcher’s Dresden books, but entertaining popcorn novels.

Reverting a bit to childplay – petting the cats, watcinhg tv, but mixing it up with catching up on my sql skills and visual studio strengths when not too stupid on muscle relaxers.

1 year ago – beehive, guitar, yard sales, D&D modules, new games, vegetable garden, eee pc

2 years ago - falafel with the gang, adapting to a higher house-population, personality test results

3 years ago - how to glue 2 things, sketch-it, mgum, moonies and sushi

4 years ago - on call techs, residence addresses, 45,800 scottobear entries, flickr letter gizmo, krypto cartoon, Tomi says hi, speech recog test, luxie_loo, pics from tv interview, monkey swat team, new Sophocles, Euripides and Hesiod, new pope

5 years ago - using lappie (broken big brain), teleconference prep

6 years ago - got all 30 eggs, there folks, palm pictures and more doodles, bro n upswing, SQ/EQ, brain chart

7 years ago - Vampires around the world and how to snuff 'em, mushiness, good, simple food.

8 years ago - mix CD, flying capybara quote, missing girlGeotarget

 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: lost season 1 ep13 - hearts and minds
 
 
Raj KAJ
15 April 2009 @ 09:52 pm
Back too far gone - didn't make it to work today. I still had to do work, however, and take a sick day, besides. Not much one can do about that, but at least I could work from the bedside, and stay in my pjs.

In-laws came over with Chinese food, and I primarily slept off my back with some prescribed night-night pills.

I should be ok to head to work tomorrow - I can't afford not to! If I do stay home, I'd still have to visit the doc to get a time off slip, and transit is transit - no fun. The in-laws wanted to go to Selby bay for pizza, but also didn't want to leave me behind.

I'm convinced that Dollhouse is better because we're seeing less and less of the lead actress. Castle is still doing pretty well, too.

1 year ago - drop.io files, Newton pictures, Neil Armstrong and me, newtcam factoids, sleepy, pope arrives in dc

2 years ago - breakfast with in-laws, Tina, taxes, soda pop lids

3 years ago - good saturday, dream, masamune, police thingum, spain's easter, dr who

4 years ago - sleepy, mr t sings, music videos, flash gordon moment, sanjay patel, lobster vs sea hare, guy killed at my bus stop, orbital mind control lasers!

5 years ago - Ella Enchanted, army-men bowl, palm doodles

6 years ago - April Winchell's media, pda burp, sleepy kitten song with some profanity

7 years ago - spam radio, falling dreams, walkies, fabric softener, story seed, NEWWWTON IS A GOOOOLEM

8 years ago - Easter, working on a shopping cart, my first 10 lj friends, family meal, walkies, css issueGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: restless
Current Music: Catsle Credits - the voodoo purse one
 
 
Raj KAJ
07 April 2009 @ 09:29 pm
I forgot to show the latest update to Larry's homemade guitar. It's truly a thing of beauty. He wet-sanded it to a high gloss, and it really makes the wood grain pop. He's practically finished with it... I'm going to have to see what good deeds I'll have to do to get him to make me a bass guitar to jam along with him. For that matter, I need to pick up the guitar and practice my chords some more. I figure I'll have time to do more practice this summer, while BHK is studying for her exams.

Fw: Fwd: (no subject)

Back bothering me some more - My left hip and knee are bugging me, as well as more sciatica issues. Took the bus this morning, and I suspect that didn't help too much.

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Best part about getting to work this morning was that I saw Franklin! No treats for him today, but gave him some nice head scritchies. He's a total little lover... if I knew of anyone in the DC/MD/VA area looking for a sweet cat, he'd be adopted. I haven't seen the scaredy-cat girl kitty lately, but I suspect that she hides out if Franklin is anywhere nearby.

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Random thoughts - I'm amazed that gay marriage is legal in Iowa, but not in California. Given that Arnold is the Gov, maybe there is more Right-wing thought there than I perceive.

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When BHK picked me up at the train station tonight, there was a moment of snow ... didn't last long, but was just momentary enough to be a little fun. BHK thought it was cherry blossoms in the wind, until they melted on the hood of the love cube.

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1 year ago - one day at a time stuck in my head, charleton heston's cold, dead hand, good seasons, many cherry blossom pics

2 years ago - old shacks, karaoke, easter bunnies everywhere!, wetter walking or running somewhere?, openoffice easter egg

3 year ago- devo on fridays, lost, icon, SL designing, virus trained to build batteries, false alarm abduction, hurricane stockpile, took over
haikuarena, quizzes

4 years ago- Dr Russell, MASS, undercover brother, kitty cuteness, meet force with force, walkabout pictures, America we stand as one, BCT commercial

5 years ago - +20 min, underage girl charged with child pornography, LSD

6 years ago - creaky, PotC, Bro

7 years ago - put all of oz on my palm, boat name poll, vending machines, Newt activities

8 years ago - laundry, Herb KornfeldGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: chex mix
Current Music: some bass guitar riffs in my head
 
 
Raj KAJ
06 April 2009 @ 10:03 pm
Well, back is still being tricky, but I was ok enough to go gently back to the office!

Back is sore, and poor BHK has contact allergy / dermatitis - We're both just sort of shambling around for the moment, and trying to keep our heads together.

Fortunately, we're both in pretty good moods, despite my nagging her not to scratch.

We were blessed by not having to make dinner tonight - Chris and Larry came back from the camping / Environmental trip with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and they picked up Chinese food and a 10-layer cake for us to gobble up while they regaled us with tales of no electricity, mud and guides with Elvis sideburns.

We cooled our heels, and watched a little NCIS (and In-law staple that I don't mind at all) and then a really good Annie Oakley documentary on PBS. I have a new found respect for the lady.

Here, dear journal -  have a Pyewacket pic and a newton movie! Pye looking outside from my comfy zone on the couch, and Newton running around while BHK and I relax from the same area.


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1 year ago - Aardvark (jonah hex & diplomacy), diarRhita's, car show rained out, apples to apples

2 years ago - walkabout pictures (DC area), SMIB

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6 years ago - sleeveless smock, downloadable toons, bunky kabalarians, colossal squid, CoC props.

7 years ago - landlord visit, green monkey pizza, pop pardoned the knights templar,nazi-looking stamp, Japanese business card etiquette, movies, tubers

8 years ago - Killer noise, looking for a job as a flaneur, Dave & Cathi PreggersGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Music: BHK singing the McDs filet o fish song
 
 
Raj KAJ
28 March 2009 @ 10:21 pm
Day was a blur. Let's see -

We were up late last night - stayed nestled in bed until about 10am when we realized I had to be to the doc's by 11 in order to get my shots. (Doing it a week early, so I can skip next weekend - City-wide yard sale is something we want to hit early!

Got shots, and BHK showed me the menu to a local BBQ shack that she and the mom-in-law went to for lunch yesterday. I of course got the fried clams, which were very tasty. Most entertaining food was cornbread in the shape of a pickup truck - eaten before photographed. I'll snap the next one - it was very tasty.

We went on a little shopping expedition with the in-laws - K-mart for plants in the garden - bok choy, broccoli, cabbage - picked up some robin's eggs and nonpareils - kept the eggs (candy-coated, chocolate covered malted milk balls) and gave biscuits and non-p's to the inlaws. got more pot pie squares and tomato sauce for a future meal or two, as well.

Visited Compter Renaissance, and they really didn't have any tech that was newer than circa 1995. so much for me getting a memory upgrade or car charger for the EEE. While at K-mart, I looked into a power inverter for the love cube - all of the $30 ones were out, and the $80 was a bit too spendy for me.. not going to run a chainsaw or a fridge just yet.

Saw puppies in baby cribs again. Guy insisted that dogs I'm allergic to are hypoallergenic. Just because it doesn't shed much doesn't mean I'm not allergic.

Got home, rested a smidgen, and we had buffalo shrimp salad for dinner. I went into the other room to fix our router's security since Comcast reset it - noticed that they had the router to go to only one computer at a time. (ip locked) - fixed router, it' snow called "Green Glow" for springtime, and is passworded.

I got sick about 10 minutes after resetting the router. could be the shrimp, or just the fact that I overate - I scarfed down a lot of baked potato.

We did lights out from 8:30-9:30pm as part of an energy saving gesture called earth hour .

And now, the in-laws have gone home - We watched the Thomas Crown Affair . Not the best flick in the world - first time i had seen it all at once. Surprising that they're making a sequel next year, 11 years later.  Newton was a little trickster tonight and got all sweet at Larry, and then made an effort to smack the glasses off his face.

G'nite, dear journal! A little soda-pop to soothe the stomach, and it's off to bed!

1 year ago - alice's bar exam party, smothers brothers, eating policy, assorted piccies of my office, newt and pye getting along, doodled voice post, bus stop pic of spring,

2 years ago - nice folks at the county, cherry blossoms, spring started - pear trees, BHK into reality tv, EPC a flop, adam & tennis, easter coming up.

3 years ago - code template, interest cloud, pda cam dies, p&B in german, song tapper, bus on fire doodle

4 years ago - easter manatee, complimented, server/servant, spliced people, germs

5 years ago - Lj then and now (I spend less time now), bro, ice cream cake, Smokey & the Bandit

6 years ago - bro got me some Godzilla movies at the gift store up the road.

7 years ago - minority report poll, breakfast with Danny, grabber rabbit meme spreads, Words describing animal traits, Ketchup packet bear, Klaatu's speech, scary dream, link-to poll

8 years ago - babelizer, mushy-feelings, book-burningGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: kashmir - curse of being a girl
 
 
Raj KAJ
24 March 2009 @ 09:53 pm
Again slow to rise this morning - I need to hit the sack earlier during the week.

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I brought some snacks for Franklin, but he was nowhere to be found this morning.

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Open BVE Train sim!  - probably only interesting to me and Larry, dear journal.
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European researchers have discovered that chimpanzees have a built-in mental GPS, keeping 'a geometric mental map of their home range, moving from point to point in nearly straight lines.' Using GPS, two primatologists followed 15 chimpanzees for 217 days, and determined that the apes were 'using a mental map built around geometric coordinates.' They're not just identifying landmarks in their surroundings, and in fact, even when swinging through trees, the chimps planned out their route several trees in advance. Here's the paper in the journal Animal Behavior.

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Comcast was difficult again this evening, but I called and they reset the modem - hopefully it'll be smooth sailing, now. BHK made tasty pretend chicken and creamy noodles with peas for supper.. until later!
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1 year ago - into the wild, easter basket contents

2 years ago - buzz-cut pic, shoofly pie, arizona pizza, a little sick

3 years ago - funnel clouds, nice gabbing, alligators door-to-door, you go to my head, black and white 2, v for vendetta, musical meme

4 years ago - readablog, banksy, laughing boy audio, pictures, birth chart

5 years ago - condo falls through, lj being bad, GIMP, AIM games, chimp mask, first remarked on how the Roanoke/Lumbee entry is still active, origin poll, Calliope fest

6 years ago - cool chemical reactions, pronunciation query, gael returns , a pic of newt

7 years ago - Happy chats, urban ruins links, some website renewal ideas, old icons

8 years ago - Baron Munchausen, computer needs fixifying, Coconut song, Oscar Picks, Crayola Crayon color time lineGeotargetVisitor MapGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Johnny dollar - echoing from XM radio
 
 
Raj KAJ
22 March 2009 @ 10:12 pm
Lazy day today, to make up for yesterday's jaunt. We had a leisurely morning at home - woke up slowly and got ready to head out for the day.

After BHK got out of the shower, we took another nap... so walkies were out.

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Via DCist -

This morning the National Park Service announced it has revised the peak bloom dates for D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms, to April 1-4. They've also added on an overall "Blooming Period," from March 28-April 11, which nicely overlaps the dates of the National Cherry Blossom Festival (March 28-April 12).

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The Chesapeake Bay's health isn't looking so hot these days.

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Totday, we hung back - got up, showered, had a nibble, rested, opted out of boardwalking and watchmen

instead, we went with the in-laws to outback, shopped for groceries, and I was frightened by the evil bunny pigs.


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1 year ago - bro out on bail, fuddruckers, atw easter basket, cell jammer, lunch with the boys, hoverlounger

2 years ago - haircut local color pic

3 year ago - time distortion, senior kitties, shleep, movie meme, acim worker overview

4 years ago - Calimocho, escort crazy man (with sound files), netflix slacking, LEACH

5 years ago - morning has broken, weak Spanish knowledge, Wondering about JTD, winged sandals, Kenya, free movies legit, robo-predators, word count, 2! 2! undead movies nearby

6 years ago - Bro pissing me off, haiku, bro meets porn stars.

7 years ago - pen refill dream, baby llamas

8 years ago - cool weather, my 1376th post, talked to ckirk, ornj, and Devil-troll ticks me offGeotarget
 
 
Current Location: 20714
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: newton snoring on my lap