Another *busybusy* day at work, but eased when I got home - BHK made supper of the remainder of the sloppy joe mix became taco salad fodder, with a side of veggie taquitos. Good stuff... BHK and I watched the Vampire Ventriloquist's Dummy episode of Middleman - the show continues to shine. Venture brother's first half was pretty spiffy, too.

Other things that brought cheer - seeing these kitty pictures in the archive... both were taken at the same time - both kitties sucking up as much sunlight as they could hold. Newt was totally whited out, and pye looks very comfy on the purple couch.

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Metro's official stance on begging on the trains and buses -

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The nice folks at NPR have done us all a favor and taken some used Kinoki foot pads to be tested to see if they'd drawn anything out of a guinea pig reporter's body. Guess what? They didn't.

Reporter Sarah Varney bought some Kinoki foot pads and wore them to bed. She also subjected her husband to the (alleged) detox treatment. In the morning, they both awoke to the stinky brown mess that the advertisement had promised. Not convinced that the brown stuff had actually come from their bodies, our hero took the foot pads to a lab and had them analyzed and compared with unused pads.

"Compared to the blank that's almost identical," said the scientists. "It looks like three of the same sample, basically."

A doctor from UC Berkeley confirms the scam diagnoses. Your body already eliminates "metabolic waste" and "toxins" through, um, other means...

"For many hundreds of thousands of years we've been successfully eliminating them through the usual means, which is urine and feces, and there has been no demonstrated need to accelerate that."

So what is all that gunk in the pad? We're not really sure, but it shows up if you hold the pad over a pot of boiling water. Who knew distilled water had "metabolic waste"?

Japanese Foot Pad Is Latest Health Fad [NPR]

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1 year ago - coolpix dies, 365, icehouse games comp, car wars card game, misc gaming, Illusionist

2 years ago - gateway theater pic, steam shovels, zap guns, dr octagon

3 years ago - bro out, pay links, looking back meme, friday 5, monkeys in gov't

4 years ago - Scotto as the prisoner, TV/Game idea, nazi weddings, adsense poof, steven tyler is a salt vampire, lj permanence, sick at work, poo humor, skin dry

5 years ago - </b></a>menstrualhut cloned, vampire game, pam visits, eagles vs giant gerbils, under nyc

6 years ago - A/C issues, Everyone Guilty of Enron, cake, Hurricane Andrew, bus stop photos, keywords

7 years ago - I photoshop my dream, coloringbook, fecund

8 years ago - time of darkness

I neglected to mention that the love cube (our Honda element) is now repaired... they replaced the whole hood - BHK think that it may be from a different model, and she might be right. I haven't seen any good photos of 2006 vs other element hoods online yet, but we'll get to the bottom of it, if it requires us to go to a car lot somewhere and look in person.

Last night at about 5:30ish, there was a storm that knocked out power to both Chesapeake Beach and North Beach... not to mention the surrounding towns, too. No juice means no oven, and since I was still dressed from work, I figured it'd be nice to take BHK out to dinner, seeing as she's been craving meatballs all day. We tried Ledos, Asia Cafe and Mama Lucia's north to no avail.. apparently everyone else had the same idea about eating out... even mexico was too mobbed, so we continued onwards to Mama Lucia's south - The service was a bit on the weak side until BHK politely asked the waitress (while I was washing my hands in the men's room) . Service improved after that.... we got home and both towns were still dark, save for places with generators.

I used the flashlight on my key chain to get us inside, and we lit a few rechargeable candle-style lamps for some ambient light. We have access to a lot of battery-powered light - cell phones, pda, laptops, flashlights... I think we could go days without running totally out of lamp-juice. That said - I want to recharge the candle-lights, since we hadn't done them fully beforehand.The emergency flashlight and radio lit up the bathroom area nicely as a night lite - we opened the bedroom windows and went to bed, hoping that the heat wouldn't be too bad... it wasn't... but poor BHK didn't sleep very well... I was snoring big time, as the CPAP runs on juice, too. Next time, I'll bring the UPS from the computer room in to run it.

So, power was restored at about 2am this morning, and we were all able to get an hour or two's rest before it was time for me to get up and get rolling to work. I hope to catch a little nap sometime tomorrow in order to try and catch up.

See also - BHK's version of what happened -




Today is Chris and Larry's 33rd wedding anniversary, and plans are to hit Selby Sub Shop for a nice little nosh. We've got to pick up a lemon meringue pie and sneakily get it past the parental guards.

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The longest service disruption in Netflix history has apparently been resolved, with normal service resuming today. The company will compensate affected customers by adding a 15% credit automatically to their next bill. via Physorg

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Random pictures from the pyecam archive. of particular interest to me are the leaping/motion ones. No special preference is being given to Newt - he just goes on cam more.


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The above are all shots of the boys leaping to the top tier of the cat tower.


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Stetchy / yawny shots

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1 year ago - train issues, farewell to R & P, tasty supper, covenant

2 years ago - raccoons, giant ants, moldy bread and freemasons make me smile, movies, geocaching, lj on venture brothers, gentle morning off, quotes meme

3 years ago - greasemap, foreign ducktales, apricot scarves... Tony Randall and vanity, Jean Charles de Menezes, bckev's keeno covers, kayla/susie drama, hugs, top 20 pics, elvis the robo-cat, newton nibble pic, tubby newt pic

4 years ago - AvP movie. bus schedules switch, walkabout pics, Punta Gorda - Yikes

5 years ago - last skeletor and gang, insect macro photos, apartments made from text,hello kitty warhammer, human/rabbit chimera, scotto is a fuzzy monkey,frankie knocks, wondering about crusaders planting vinyards, drunkensailor quiz, complete sherlock holmes, some detective work, pursecontents, fun with google calc

6 years ago - both machines upgraded and cleaned up, fun linkies, MRE talks about writing his junk, signage systems

7 years ago - eye dialect, latitudinarian, weird dream poll, set up alternates to LJ, Newt comes to work, cool news, freaky dream

8 years ago - loony, first hints suzy using, foodies

Middleman, Monk and a combo of ratatouille, noodles and tofu patties for supper. Both BHK and were bushed tonight. Where has all of our energy gone?!

I feel for Morgan Freeman, re: his car accident.... and surprised I haven't heard and "driving miss daisy" jokes yet.

Pye napping on cam - stretching out his big ol' fluffy paw!

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Bread... made up to look like far too realistic body parts. Don't look if you're at all squeamish.

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Ohh.. I thought my video card shipped, but really - "Status: Electronic Shipping Info Received

So... I can expect it later this week or next. RAM is going out tomorrow.

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Cukes and Newton hanging on the ledge... leg all pork-chop like!

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Today was mostly rest after work- busy weekend of lounging, work me out. BHK, Newt and Pye all snuggled up close while we watched top gear and venture brothers over more tasty ratatouille ... now it's time to crash. g'nite, dear journal.

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1 year ago - picked up some icehouse pieces at aardvark, tv watching, no hits on amnesty day, kids today (super sweet 16)

2 years ago - Danny's last summer vacation day, pictures, hovering sombrero, many memes done in comments, hidden gp address in comments

3 years ago - cute mousie, taken, chatitn', elevator express, ks sex preds

4 years ago - riding the bus, mystery creature, tv music in my head, a great new euphemism, maps, dr who, avengers, creep

5 years ago - COPS, nifty interfaces, Creatures, TV, Clay-o-rama rules

6 years ago - Signs movie, cancerless cigs, hellboy movie, scary bunny, 2nd wishes,Oz scary, zombies land on beach, Anna Nicole show hurt to watch

7 years ago - Oz quiz, Dictionaraoke, Day planning

8 years ago - Florida panthers, everglades restoration efforts, lj adds interests

Oh My Goff! -Emmy award winner Angie Goff profiled me, the kitties and Alan & JC's pup Chae on her blog entry today ! (Picture here from the entry... eek and awesome. BHK is going to tease me mercilessly - She'd better watch it, or she'll get She-Ra'ed.) The WUSA9 team all have blogs it seems, and the bulk of them are very entertaining!

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Called Dr. Wolfe - cracked my back tooth, the one with the composite filling. I'm taking antibiotics starting tonight, and I'll be seeing him in a week for a fix-up. It only hurt a wee bit yesterday, but has progressed to headache level annoyance now. I wonder if the tooth will come out of my noggin before thursday... it feels a bit loose.

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recent Pyecam captures of Newton in the "treehouse" - as always, click to embiggen them!

We need to get pye in the light like that, so he doesn't look like the phantom blot !

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A very interesting graph of the estimated ideological positions of US voters, senators, and representatives shows that members of Congress are much more liberal and conservative than are US voters, who fall somewhere in the middle. (via 3qd)

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Maryland Renaissance Fest is coming up. I figure we'll go again, probably for one weekend, this time to just people watch, if nothing else. Scottish Weekend might be fun.

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Got a postcard from the bro. He sounds better when he's sobered up. I'll be writing him sometime between tomorrow night and this weekend. It breaks my heart every time I think of him... I thought I was mostly over it, but I'm really still fairly tender about it at times. If luck enters the picture, maybe he'll get some good, solid treatment, but I won't get my hopes up.

His arraignment was supposed to have been on Monday - I wonder how long before public records will give me follow-up info? He's got a calendar call on 9/2/08 - I guess I'll know more then.

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1 year ago - payday, mas90, chalupacabra, Ultimate Blade Runner set, Amy on her way home, All Star Superman, Harry Potter, Metatron

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

3 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

4 years ago - museum pics, slippery, Loveless

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

6 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

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

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

I am so thankful that today is Friday... I'm ready for a weekend. Lots of hustling around, getting ducks in a row, lately at work.

Dagwood night! BHK sneakily added Bethesda, MD -centric Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to Netflix, and I suspect that'll be what we watch, rather than Machine Girl, given that the in-laws are coming over... It also seems that she bumped up Introducing the Dwights, which I'm actually fairly interested in seeing.

The longer I wait to see Indiana Jones 4, the less I even want to see it. My mind will likely be changed once it gets viewed.

Sandwich for me - Veggie Sub -fried eggplant and provolone, on fresh Italian bread. Yum.

Pye still seems to prefer to appear on Newtcam... and Newt lingers a lot in Pyecam's window. Go figure.

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1 year ago - gummi chicken feet, classic novellas in cigarette pack vending machines, lj down, Adam off to Guatamala, documentation simplification, WWN RIP

2 years 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

3 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

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

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

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

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

8 years ago - Friends assessment, Spiritual Beliefs

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ADAM!!



BHK managed to grease Adam's nose, with a minimum of struggle. total surprise. We watched The Seeker: The Dark is Rising -(not bad, but seemed more than a little "Mary Sue"-ish, even for a fantasy movie. Christopher Eccleston was totally misused in the film. I know he can act, I've seen it.) and re-watched National Treasure 2. (BHK and Adam really like the sequel... while I like the first, the second fell a bit flat for me.... I am looking forward to the next one.)

Chips and dip, Hot dogs and corn on the cob for all, with a confetti-birthday cake, yellow cake with whipped white icing and sprinkles. It was devoured before a photograph could be recorded. I fear we may soon grow weary of hot dogs, but I'm doing OK so far. In-laws left at about 6, and Adam at 7. We hit the sack pretty early again tonight.. need to recharge the batteries for tomorrow.

We gave Adam coupons for his birthday, as we couldn't find anything his size that was something special.

Coupons included:

• 1 use - Get out of being nagged by BHK Free. (He almost had to use it re: cigar smoking on special occasions.)
• Hug from Pyewacket (renewable)
  
• Headbutt from Newt (renewable)
• 1 full tank of gas (please to use before it gets higher than $10 a gallon, and no more than 18 gallons - (his car holds 12))
• Girl advice from either a girl (BHK) or a Boy (me) or both - he is not obligated to take said advice.
• free trip to the drive in
• free pizza night!
• emergency help, anytime he needs it.

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via eavesdrop dc -

1 year ago - rated r, simpsons doughnut tongue / t-rex arm picture, Harry Potter spoiler fear, Slow Mexico, Busy weekend plans, Andy Rooney quote, lollipop, mosquito-hunting dream, return to disney world, told Aardvark about Compleat Strategist, got Chez Goth, too much ice cream.

2 years ago - world jump day, world party, mom heading north, netflix wakes up, availabot, electric bill, stress and sleep

3 years ago - pics, singing fountain, atarax, google moon, charity paypal link, digg, hurricane emily, operation predators, fishstories, ID badge, random wifi

4 years ago - I Robot, working with wimmin, Operation Valkyrie, moon landing.

5 years ago - bro, monkey mummy, teen titans, moon landing hoaxes, animal sounds asring tones, hunting for bambi, newtcam, consumer reports condoms,awesome earth image, pancakes

6 years ago - bike name poll, palm doodles, planning to visit Danny with his busted leg

7 years ago - rough night, slake, ambisinister, voice activated tech, how far would you go poll

8 years ago - counting days, finished first Harry Potter, books I repeat read, abortive attempt to track intake

Forgot to mention - Very Clever Pipe game - I won 20 to 13, BHK beat me at Carcassonne H&G - by like 50 points!

We still haven't dug into Canasta Caliente or Rook yet. I suspect next weekend will be good for that. Maybe Chinese Checkers, depending, too. (Perhaps just 2-player Halma.)

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BHK made dinner tonight of veggie brats with onion and green pepper (on a baguette from the farmer's market) , along with sides of Mexican-style corn on the cob. Good stuff!

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Pye on "Monitor Duty" this morning. He looks like he just woke up, but he's been flipping around for at least an hour.

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I can't believe my Dad would've been 62 this year. I can't even imagine how he might've aged.


Just checked on my Brother's record online, and it says he's in 12MM (Male Infirmary). I wonder what happened to him? He's now in the North Broward Bureau, which is already a bad sign.

From the site -

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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1 year ago - Jalapenos, bug on me, Sputnik, Gibson Island, Fred and Marilyn get hitched, grape soda discovery, couch quest, groundhogs and dragonflies, qwik-e-mart pictures, 4th pics, flowers

2 years ago - prepping for keys launch, first pirates sea monster, a Brain in a jar quoting Nietzsche to a Super-intelligent Gorilla, phone breaks, questions-meme,

3 years ago - busy, tiny text, hurricanes gone?, pedometer, one, London explosions, waterspouts, 48 questions

4 years ago - condo bid, There-updated, MORE vizcaya pictures, pelvic thrust stormtrooper, spidey2, @ poll

5 years ago - Frankie, restoration of library, lovejoy, danny, lj-interests, health, baby tats

6 years ago - Newt (</b></a>jamacianjungle dreamed that she got to play with him!), palm entry, grim reaper song

7 years ago - wereturtle, moved into new place

8 years ago - no ihop, replan for movies, april trying to soften me up, jenjen peeking

Watched the last episodes of New Amsterdam - I can almost see where they got the cancellation notice, and decided to stop effort in the writing. and Burn NoticePsych are both coming back in the summer (this week and next, I think), so I figure that Amsterdam would've fallen out of rotation, anyhow.

Caught another 10-20 of Duck, you Sucker (Or A Fist Full of Dynamite), (158 minutes!) - I don't know if I could sit through it all in one sitting. I like spaghetti westerns, but this one is best taken in smaller doses.

New desk in the office - BHK and I went through more sweat than we needed to put it in and install it - my fault on that. But, we've got it in and it looks to be a good, sturdy bit of furniture. Slightly different angle on Newtcam now, but I'll work out the particulars of that later on. Seems like the cam suffered a little bit in transition - I can't get auto-tilt to work now, nor does the mic want to pick up. I still need to reactivate Pyecam - it's been sleeping for the last week or so.

Pinched my back and had a monster headache, so I slept a bit, and read some of the Planet Hulk hardcover I got from the library. I'm blessed by the fact that there's a comic book guy working at our local branch, and he hooks me up with just about anything I might like. He's been on the money more often than not, thus far!

The holiday was 4 days long, but it went by swiftly. Lots of junk food and time consumed at a mammoth rate. I'm going to hav eot be a bit better about that sort of thing in the future... first things first, clean up the office desk and then a MWF walking schedule.

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1 year ago - frogmen and octopus toy, autorealm, sweeney todd play, qwik-e-mart, Gottfried von Bismark obit

2 years ago - gamer soap, Christian Democracy myth, death bypasses convictions, ln quiz

3 years ago - Bard's Tale, bro/snarly, solfeggio, Easter manatee rush, Tropical Storms Cindy and Dennis, heroclix, bro relocating

4 years ago - creepy Vizcaya pictures, cake man, Lego zombies, edible panties with twizzlers, Helped Danny set up website, JLU

5 years ago - harry potter quiz, history returns

6 years ago - bad sleeps, odd dreams, bed frame replaced, stats, LJ scam, villain supply, reading Earth, getting used to bro as neighbor, Scotto factoid poll

7 years ago - tirade, suberic, slinky/cult, evil news

8 years ago - got a nice letter from Christin, Emo Philips

Back to work - but it's a short week this go 'round.

Newtcam and Pyecam may be a bit messy for the next couple of days as the house gets put back in order. Or maybe not... the images are a bit outside the primary shuffle-zones.

Hits on the side links for both have been down lately - I wonder why? They've been mighty cute recently and viewings is still pretty high, but nobody wants to go through the ads. I can understand that. I'm just surprised that there aren't more things interesting to folks on the sidebar. I should probably add more text at the bottom to mix the feed up a bit.

In-laws came over for pizza and the 2nd half of astronaut farmer - movie didn't do much for me, but I didn't totally hate it either. BHK was about the same, I think.

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I keep thinking of Winston Churchill's quotation, made in a radio broadcast in October 1939:

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

Just the "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma" part.

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Nutmeg J Salmonella - the little box turtle that lives in our back yard, near the vegetable garden. Nutmeg - named for a turtle I had as a Kid in Delray Beach (named nutmeg, because that was the name on the pen we had for him to live in - prior resident was a brown rabbit of the same name.) Salmonella - well, because he's a turtle nothing personal, I assure you, dear journal. I love his shell-patterns.. remind me of raccoon footprints. J, because it's standard procedure to give J as the middle initial, isn't it?

We also have a multitude of tadpoles living right next to our bedside window - there's a drainage ditch filled with water that gets just the right amount of sun. I hope all the little froggies are viable, and take care of the mosquitoes that have been appearing since summer hit. They can leave the lightning bugs alone if possible, too.

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1 year ago - desktop tower defense, space views, annoyance update, newsoms arrive, games and hot dogs

2 years ago - goodbye june, i live for you, teddy bear gun

3 years ago - Missing the good ol' days- Sam and Max, a9 maps, Chee-chee gone, pumpkins are berries, flickr-google earth hack, movie plans, maps

4 years ago - planning a trip, big rock candy mountain, getting journal-spam

5 years ago - Heroclix Icon, Playboy Mystery, The Thorns, Octopus hot dogs, KingKong, Acme Illustrated Catalog, Newtcam pic (see the day prior for oneof his gut sticking out), Lunch with Danny, Las Olas Walkies, awonderful surprise chat.

6 years ago - settling in, south beach remote cam, Newt-lassie comparisons, power puff/marley

7 years ago - Rookie Bodine, good thoughts, crash test dummy plot seeds, redolent, the power of cheese, Ornj goes camping

8 years ago - shotgun

Friday! Weekend! Yahooties!

Cathy's Yard Sale Preview went well. We got 3 bookshelves, confirmed out swap of the china cabinet for the huge red sectional, and got a few additional bits of loot - rechargable candle lights, a pizza stone for the oven, a cooler bag.

Farmers Market Dinner was awesome - I had a veggie-meatloaf sammich with cheese, garden veggies and bread & butter pickles. a meal fit for a king. dessert was pound cake with vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberries. All while Watching O Brother Where Art Thou?

Life is good.

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Newt and Pye Wrestling.


Pye, caught on cam bug hunting, while Newton Lounges.

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This site lets you track the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle (when in orbit), and all sorts of other satellites in relation to their position over the earth with a familiar Google Maps interface. Very cool.

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"...even if tomorrow we opened up every square mile of the outer Continental Shelf to offshore rigs, even if we drilled the entire state of Alaska and pulled new refineries out of thin air, the impact on gas prices would be minimal and delayed at best. A 2004 study by the government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) found that drilling in ANWR would trim the price of gas by 3.5 cents a gallon by 2027."

via Brian Wood

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1 year ago - Emerson, Heat, popular items, Danny and BHK see knocked up - poorly received, Shaolin Soccer & Kung Fu hustle well received, too many pirate ships, port authority links, re-inking thor, gaming thoughts, naughty CIA

2 years ago - cavort, lambchop looks like mother jefferson, sing the blues, gravity's rainbow, ze frank, hoff, more doodles, rain!

3 years ago - Work and junk, call tails, 8 facts, Roy Orbison in Cling-film, rectangles, monster toys, giant popsicle flood, Christian fundamentalist monkey breeders, creatureless jello, found footage, dumb laws, paris by night, phone post, things with many legs pictures,

4 years ago - le prince bleu, abandoned airfields, warwalking, bus census, Nepal and a sweating god, giganticus / fin fang foom, bro

5 years ago - new ren & stimpy poor, battlestar galactica back, evil lj typo-site, physical therapy, no-call list

6 years ago - Arsenic & peg legs, Dan's Dad out of the hospital, Kevin Prescribed daily pills, last bit of magonia (relocation)

7 years ago - nutraceutical, blackguard, caucasians pre amerind?, Santie stays, WOrecord sheets, Bohemian queen sends me eyeball holos!, evil news,Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass, AOK scripting, PaulaPoundstone arrested for child abuse

8 years ago - Pre-breakup confrontation with April

That Meme -

Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another. Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

1.  met my wife as a result of livejournal. (and honeymooned by visiting a whole mess of the ripley's believe it or not museums up and down the east coast - from St. Augustine, FL  to Myrtle Beach, SC)
1. became a vegetarian on the 5th of july, 1990. (still do dairy and eggs - now crustaceans, too. )

2. discovered (after we broke up) that one of my ex-girlfriends was married and had kids the entire time we were romantically entangled.

3.adopted 2 cats, despite a strong allergy to them. (Fortunately, I'm used to Newt and Pye now!)
3. Helped recover hundreds of missing kids and elderly/confused adults (most just wander-offs, but at least six real kidnappings) over the course of three and some years.

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The irony of course is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.

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Another Mummy movie coming out, in two months? I didn't even know it was being filmed! Looks like no Rachel Weisz though. That's not really a big loss - I liked her in the first film, but she sort of bleemed out on the sequel for me.

That, and I didn't hear about the new Blood Bowl game. I'm really out of the entertainment loop lately! At least I can have a good violent Dwarfs vs Lizardmen football combat game before end of year.

See also - G is the latest kaiju monster mash to take Japan like storm, and features a giant robot made of tin.

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Bill Clinton has offered his support to Barack Obama. When asked about his attacks on Obama during the primaries, Clinton remarked, “It depends on what your definition of ‘hollow, fork-tongued, naïve, flip-flopping little diaper baby’ is.”

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Green beans from our garden! Zucchini is soon to follow, and the eggplant is coming in nicely. We're having the beans tonight for supper. yum-yummo!

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1 year ago - pirate battle royale with BHK and Danny, tough schedule, visitors, good condo news, gigantor memorial, Danny with simpsons standee

2 years ago - Norman E. Borlaug, cartoons and superheo database, hitler cats, wildflower guide, words pants and trousers obscene, go your own way, lj vs Vox = FUD, the Zombies - music, comment meme, snake pic, bad day at work - amber link made by kids for kids - "we pass the slavings on to you!"

3 years ago - opening three of four windows, Batman Begins, keel evening, beverly domain, cjr's guide to ownership, tickle a girl simulator, kind of creepy bumper sticker, broadcast list, las olas pic,

4 years ago - webalizer, laser keyboard, heat vision & jack, steak-umms, rasputin's penis, bro issues, bandwidth

5 years ago - tired, mark twain burial, harrison ford finger-pointy, hot dogs, ditko, sodomy, sleepy

6 years ago - walkies, 1800autopsy, poddish feelings, Captain Kirk’s chair auctioned, peg legs, signed lease.

7 years ago - Noticing Newt's getting to be so big (remember, I have a size 15 foot), got an email from Robin Tunkel, Evil News, horrible dream, Santie "quits" FMM, top 100 banned/challenged books of 1990-2000, why read poll, my free pc didn't work out

8 years ago - Ockdiggity, poop troop

Just a note to mention how much I love BHK. beyond quantification. Lots. and Lots. She's the most amazing person I've ever had the pleasure to know.

Misc doodles done recently on the palm - the medical stats are from my last epidural, both before and after. The fish or carrot eating firebutt and frank oz (with hair) guy are from the avectra meeting break. I was surprised, because I was the only one there wearing a tie... Frank Oz guy was hypnotic in his tone of voice.

Other stuff is from the bus ride - still congested, doc's appt, and a random blue ghost with newtcam. the little gray slug is something pye was chasing that night.

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via peradouro - knitted food!

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1 year ago - work stuff - trains and code

2 years ago - toys r us with danny, thai food, videos, sleestak, healing monkey man

3 years ago - Dr Who finale review, goateed, I'm a bad sci-fi tv fan / rpg guy, book prefs, tony the tiger, poop-chute, monkey steals the peach, moonmama passes away, blurty-spam, vanity search, bk wants to spam blogs,

4 years ago - atlfanghost (turns out the creator go his own website, too), ft laud guerrilla art, CoH, Mr Chan's Chinatown Almond Cookies (still the only hit), recent search terms

5 years ago - Island boy quits (he returns about a month or so later), Orrin hatch pirate, power spike, rainy day

6 years ago - apt hunting, tiling my current apt, NexGen Money, planning Breakfast, remembering jsw vs freakshow

7 years ago - ogee, waxing mushy, sambo white in some ads, either-or poll, house of leaves

8 years ago - blank

Watched the quiz boy episode of Venture brothers last night... mostly character filler and "spot the reference". This season hasn't been as good as last, so far - I hope it catches speed soon. Speaking of TV - I haven't viewed middleman yet, but I keep hearing good things. It should be on our tivo - need to check and see if it was snagged.

I've been at my gig for a year today - hard to believe. In some ways it seems like I've been there a lot longer... in others, only a few months.

Looks like DV has moved on from my old gig as head of MIS at ACIM ... and Tiff is gone, too. They just can't hang on to folks there. I noticed that Obama earmarked $300k from his state to support the ACIM service - I wonder how much of that actually went to help Illinois?

Nice light dinner of sammiches over some silly reality TV. BHK was disappointed when the guy on Farmer takes a wife snuffed out the one she (and I) thought would take it. I still think the whole thing is more scripted than ugly betty, but I'm a reality show cynic.

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Why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police - per a law professor and a policeman. (5th amendment - youtube)

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newton and pye sleepin!

a year ago, they'd never have slept this close together.

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1 year ago - father's day stuff, der singleringen!, first day at IANA, (office and server room views via cameraphone), lightning bug hitches a ride

2 years ago - Newt grumps at tina, tiki idea, mango fest, Danny movies, flash pages bad, miami pic, baby gorilla news

3 years ago - hobo sign icons, Goodyear blimp crash, pictures, Guide to Hobo / '30s slang

4 years ago - slow email, drunken sailor song, testing remote palm broadcast, running away, nice letter of thanks

5 years ago - creaky knee, infrared zoo (Graypumpkin's first visit?), remote cpu destruction of file-sharers, tiny robots, ghetto fries

6 years ago - tiling my old place, chocolate doughnuts, happy pill, instinct of awareness, how to make a smoke bomb

7 years ago - Evil News, blimpies heroin story, poop-poll

8 years ago - nuffin

Happy Birthday to Ldy, my littler big sis! she's ...what, 5 again this year?

I *still* have "froggy went a-coutrin', he did ride" in my head.

I must've done something dreadfully bad to deserve this. Great... now I have pet shop boys in my head.

"What have I done? What have I done? What have I done to deserve this