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

RULES:
1. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag at least 10 friends
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.
Cut and past this entire document into a Note. Delete my answers and type in your own.

IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?.
Don't stand so close to me - police (about right)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF
road to nowhere - talking heads (I've got a more optimistic view, really!)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
I want you to want me - cheap trick (that's nice... but I like more than that!)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
sugar magnolia - grateful dead (I'll buy that)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
the worlds address - tmbg

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
life during wartime - talking heads

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
y'alld think she'd be good 2 me - c c adcock

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
one way or another - blondie

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
hey mr dj I though you said we had a deal - tmbj

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
bad things - everett - true blood ost

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
red eyes and tears - rebel motorcycle

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
super bon bon - soul coughing

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
love shack - b-5s

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
green shirt - elvis costello

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
barbie girl - aqua

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
it's business time - flight of the conchords

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
sleeping in the flowers - tmbg

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
robotz - the children nightmare

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
house work - b52s (uh, no.)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
theme from hawaii 5 0 - sammy davis lyrics

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
rapture - blondie

ok - that was pretty silly.

Dear Journal -

Well, we're off on the first leg of our trip tomorrow!

Want to say hi?

My number on google voice is - (410) 929-6473 - it will go either straight to my cellphone or to voicemail. You can sms message me there, too!

Updates will be from the road later ... until then, Cheers!

Today we'll be celebrating Adam's 20th birthday a day early.

I was born on the day of a full moon, 40 years, 5 months, 15 days ago, about an hour after sunrise on the 33rd day of 1969. Candlemas, Groundhog Day, National Change your Windshiel Wipers Day. (I really dig wolframalpha)

We've got to butter his nose today, and get him some razzles. Grill up some hot dogs, give him a cake to munch - maybe some ice cream.

It's cloudy, but hot as heck.. thankfully it rained to cool tihngs off during Adam's party.

We left so BHK could finish her studies - just as well, my back is really crimped today.

Walter Cronkite has died; he was 92. CBS News has a nice remembrance.

1 year ago - Bengies Drive-in, Mosquito / Hive game, Pipeline, Aaep, Bro got 2 years probation

2 years ago - tasty garden foods picture, family tree math, too much soda-pop, fox news hates mr rogers, human-sized penguins

3 years ago - defective materials, algo march 2, control freak, McCain on Lieberman, Michigan fairy doors, random flickr

4 years ago - Kev day, pictures of train station/toys/etc, mr moonlight

5 years ago - mind flayer doodle, travel plans, blue ink, Warriors...., phone posts

6 years ago - odd dreams, Gary hart, pizza box solar oven, hunting for Bambi hoax, walnut walks with a belly dancer

7 years ago - CHiPs, Spreading rumors

8 years ago - Music Mystery Solved, exegesis, evil news, Earhart's wreck perhaps found, I discover Google image search, sea creature poll, why poop is brown

9 years ago - Scheduled Departure time set in stone, something at Archie McPhee no longer there, sitcom nudity-logic

BHK pretends to take my picture while asking if I think my hat is dorky.


1 year ago - shots, trott's farm, BHK veggie crazed, selby, free concert by the bay, MIL with nude sombrero, Dead Men Don't wear plaid, the cloud minders, jersey walk, efficient solar energy, voice gun

2 years ago - factoids about folks I know, armed car chase through the neighborhood, Perseid shower reminder, brits start to ditch wigs in court

3 years ago - venture bros good, lj ugly nav bar, bye bye black rhino, angel / shovel / burrito, simulated lost case-630am, Arvis book in comments!

4 years ago - Last Day w/Magda, invisi-bro, chrono-lifting, breakfast foods, zombies invade sca event, crab, autostitch bus, minor drama, commendation

5 years ago - KoL, Bollywood, Patriot Act, Felix the Cat

6 years ago - sleep troubles, Andromeda Strain, 4-legged man , system crash - modem drivers (Service pack 4 for win2k caused Norton trouble) , Stalin vs Hitler comic, newtcam pic, discovered title-tags, strickland a/c die-lemma

7 years ago - more swell chatties, Roanoke (including odd reply from Boughman), Dreams of Lake Conoy with zombie mist, sweet possum sugar, mother goose

8 years ago - Evil news, riposte, dream of the jungle, If I were... meme, time, sleepy, Dumbass Tenochtitlan Saucermen,chat, aura colors, personality disorder test, Louvre

9 years ago - Bad things with April, super power question

following BHK through the Cypress swamp in Calvert County

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.

Testing google docs doodle.

Got my allergy shots today, and Dr. Moody was in - fortunately for me, as I was really pretty sore and my epidural isn't for 2 weeks yet. She gave me a scrip for prednisone, some knockout drops for nighttime, and a nice dose of muscle relaxer for when I need to function at work.

While BHK was getting the scrip filled, I visited the radio shack next door for a power cord to juice my $1 police scanner - no dice, but I did get a tv tuner for the pc - much fun, but need to get a better antenna for more signal. (right now I get one analog pbs channel (poorly), and 3 digital channels.)

Picked up our mail, and then ducked in out of the rain at the candy store (I had to help E. Bunny with BHK's basket) - we discover grape-flavored wax mustaches... bhk augmented hers with a candy cigarette. far superior to cherry wax lips of my youth.

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After that, I was pretty tuckered out, spent the rest of the day taking it easy - back was really out of whack.

1 year ago - palm doodles, shazam, green bubble guy, no sir! sure, dream of the bathroom being tiled with sweets, dinner with Chris and BHK, corker vs hoot, homestead exemtion, pixar all in 3-d, wal-mart video

2 years ago - a day in the life animated doodle, bhk's lasagna, feeling draggy, busy at work

3 year ago - mp3, gp & kat missed, b5 / dr who, blue tarps, cloud pic

4 years ago - tv-shoot, whale cam, regional anthropology, sesame street, dream Bhk & Pye, Gamer quiz, illuminati, little cowpoke, celeb diaries, i feel great, moist towelettes, astronaut jones, 9 years for spammer, bush toy

5 years ago - easter, peeps, image collages, pelicans, spidey-2

6 years ago - first 4 children in the vampire game, got my offer from JKG

7 years ago - Programmer / Engineer gag, lovely private entries, including Blackstone's Reading.

8 years ago - pork taco brain worm, Power-puff Scotto, grove meeting, An open letter to browser sniffers, agog

I really liked Disney movies as a kid - I didn't get to watch many over and over, though - I would guess that the stuff that came on the Wonderful World of Disney werethose that got the most replay value.

Of that lot, I'd have to go with Donald in Mathemagic land, though it's not really a movie.. Maybe Blackbeard's Ghost  or possibly the Scarecrow.
Neither are really my favorite now, but I still hold them in a place of nostalgia.

Hard to sleep last night - restless, nightmares, and all that.

I was still feeling a bit out of sorts at lunchtime... see below.



BHK picked me up after work, and we headed to selby for some supper with the in-laws.

Nice dinner, and now a bit of rest. Tomorrow is Breakfast with the Mansbergers!

1 year ago - jerk doctor, games workshop, atw man, wwcalc

2 years ago - wrongly accused have to pay back rent for jail time

3 years ago - sunday walkies, path and pics

4 years ago - calle ocho, aroo, writing, chronic, tulips, mummified head of Mata Hari,Idahos mugshots, Girl Scout cookies remind me of Kat and Wendy, Monkeyhot or not, fonts, cool tools, Yu-Gi-Oh! suicide

5 years ago - CoH, Batroc, Bro, uncles, crazy yarn, comic styles, DP reboot (dang Byrne), dance cyclopedia, people as mexican food (metaphor)

6 years ago - Nordis = el sucko, LAN setup, Bellsouth, Lovely gifits from Dani, palm update

7 years ago - Applelard's BDAY!, the moon, cadbury craving, dead website linkies,bill hicks, hairball poll, skijump, silly supers, network names

8 years ago - sweet dreams, evil news, why blowing up buddha isn't so bad

Newton slept on my hands - must've been seeking bonus warmth, or he was jealous of my rubbing BHK's arm.
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meme-time - snagged from Sean

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it!

Here is my list, narrowed to 15. (Scotto isn't tagging anyone, but is happy to see any other entries)

Let's see... this could be fairly tricky - I'm not sure of music that changed me forever... I've never really been one of those folks to play the same album over and over again... a few that come to mind -

Stuff that was significant to me, and I still dig -

1. Beach boys - I went through a major Beach Boys phase as a kid - Pet Sounds was something that got a lot of play both in my home and on my walkman. The album still cheers me up quite a lot.

2. Beatles - Yellow Submarine / Octopus's Garden (not really an album, but the first music I had as a kid.. that I remember. It wasn't even the Beatles, it was the Sesame Street Version) If I had to pick an actual Beatles  album, I really liked Rubber Soul.

3. Talking Heads - Little Creatures Great album - started me on that Band, and despite the "art student snob" aspect, I really like 'em.
 
4. Tubes - Outside Inside Got this form a yard sale - I was very pleasantly surprised. (Wild Women of Wongo is what got me to drop 25¢ for it. ) I figure I've gotten well worth my penny a play just for that track.
 
5. ELO - Time - first Album bought with my own money, played a *lot*

6. Steve Martin - A Wild And Crazy Guy Not really a music album, though it had banjo and The KingTut single.

7. B-52s - Whammy Discovered them late - mostly via gaming with Ray & Kat. (Specifically for Trism)

8. Zombies - Odessey and Oracle This one keeps coming back, and I love it every time. (Most recently for "This will be our year")

9. XTC - Oranges and Lemons  So Sue me... I like Mayor of Simpleton.

10. They Might Be Giants - Lincoln I first heard them on Dr. Demento when I was in High School - I've been hooked since. Hard to believe it's been 20 years+

11. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound Very different stuff than the Phil Collins-centric bits in later years. It may be my all-time fave Genesis Album.

12. Chuck Mangione - Chase the Clouds Away - One of the five 8-track tapes I had for my first car, the blue bomber. played repeatedly, because we only had 5 albums, and eventually the AC/DC and Beach Boys tapes wore out.

13. Rusted root - When I Woke - first really fun time with the hippies - post concert. I like them quite a lot.

14. Poi Dog Pondering - Poi Dog Pondering - "and I said YEAH!" - discovered by accident. Thanks, tape-traders in college!

15. Queen - Flash Gordon Soundtrack - FLASH ! AHAHHHHH! HE'LL SAVE EVERY ONE OF US!

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PSA -

This site could contain the Ultimate List of software created by Microsoft for Office 2007.

Free Office 2007 Software from Microsoft

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1 year ago - transformer at mexico, veggie pocket pies!, back surgery

2 years ago - bhk takes a pic of Newt and I snoozin'

3 years ago - bday via eryx, monkeys and kitties, compusa fails me, quizzes, morrisey vs van halen

4 years ago - apheresis skip, cocktail party, banana man snippet, netflix queue,Ultima 4 Virtue Quiz, system tweaking, ethiopian skellie, dr. who shipping, health and family review, Broward slots, SCI

5 years ago - food, gator bus ride, Voting, business cards, spammed again, MONKEY POPS!

6 years ago - prepared to pee in a cup for TAG, after Nordis tried to toss mysalad... Painted minis in the haunted tunnel... Rockford Scientist

7 years ago - bro came by apt, multi-journal quiz, fear vs love, Fire and Ice, Pliny the Younger

8 years ago - Brad Mentions adding a photo server and chat to live journal.... speed hasn't been a real priority on that dev. Meat-eating robots, top atrocities... and the return of a hero

I played a little bit of Fallout 3 this afternoon while waiting for the in-laws to show up for supper - pigs in blankets!

Once they got here, I got a telephone call from my mom - just gabbed a bit, but when I came back out, the in-laws were ready to take off. I guess they weren't too into The Fall.   BHK and I liked it - I really enjoyed just staring through it - nifty costumes and sets.

Photos from this evening. Featuring snow that looks like ping pong balls in the light of a flash, blue lit room due to pausing the tv, and a phantom kiss from BHK due to a long shutter opening. Also seen is the "Rosy Glow" due to light diffraction outside.

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Funny to me that we get more snow on the first day of March than the rest of winter combined. Looks like about 8 inches tonight... powdery, no crust... like confectioners sugar with some glitter tossed in for effect. Maybe tomorrow will be a "Snow Day" and I can work from home!

1 year ago - outsider art museum with BHK and David, pictures, poe's burial site, cheeburger w/ larry

2 years ago - newt and pye's distant relative - Kiddo - the transatlantic airship kitty, GP, tina, gaming, and 2003, transfusion song

3 years ago - memes & links, dino pic, windows live pigs in space mefi, hop sing, haha ray

4 years ago - torn mime video awesome, zombie-like news story, book, idiopathic, Japanese Macaque, choicepoint data theft, duckie bath, yahoo video, kaleidoscope, mapper of doom, viva broward pictures

5 years ago - Blueberry Doughnuts, Meme, Factoid and so on

6 years ago - Dorky-Newt explanation, Vet Visit, AI 20 questions, TV schedule

7 years ago - Evil proggy struggle, baby critters, folks getting fired over weblogs, palm piccies

8 years ago - why wiccans suck

I am both amused and a little dismayed that our town uses a very similar font as The Prisoner for all of their emailed town announcements. Mostly Amused.

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Firsts Meme (snagged from Kat)

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Repost from a few years back - Free, Legal games for download.

http://www.liberatedgames.com/gamelisting.php

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1 year ago - voice post - general gripes about americantina, foggy day, dentist, Garf-garf, death industry, will writing

2 years ago - BHK and I on a snowy drive video, bass guitar, kitties, joe magnolia, heroes meme

3 years ago - dan bailed, don knotts (Mr Limpet) RIP, what do you want poll, netjaxer, mk12, Darren MCGavin RIP (Kolchak), dipkiss

4 years ago - Splenda downside, Pinkerton's Superman, Geourl back, text to speech test, palm doodles, hiring the a-team

5 years ago - I'm a radioactive zombie, monkey hate clown!, got a $13.86 check, land mine detection flower, action figure art, desires in life poll, barbie prowler

6 years ago - pipe snag, Jim Rockford, Newt Vet, Movie idea, Pravda Headlines, I'm awesome, palm doodles

7 years ago - Star Wars Pants, spy-cow, Reizan, Scientists cross pigs with spinach, 1979

8 years ago - lj comments burpy, Kitty love, monkey-news, Proposed Indian Names for Certain White People, Hatt-Baby, Twist Endings, ineffable, Bozo Matic, Callipygean, cool picture of a grasshopper, poetry is all in the format, In the Skin of the Lion

Reading Booster Gold on the EEE on the ride home and listening to Free Audio books .

BHK made TVP with Mac & Cheese - Tasty stuff!

We relaxed quite a bit, watched TV, read and snuggled the night away. My kind of evening.

1 year ago - newtcam leap, sunday relaxing, in-laws, vallies day atw man

2 years ago - buttered Chris's nose at tinas

3 years ago - songbird, Opa, micro retro, FREE PANCAKES!, personality awareness, scary mary

4 years ago - Bro & HI, website income to AmeriCares, I miss CJ, Danny gets Debate, mirror newt pics, still talking to mel, #3 for kp/rs shenanigans, Newt Love, Danny sick (and he was again last year), sedef & crew adorable, MmmmMMMmonkey, masked grader

5 years ago - shopping for condos, zombie night club

6 years ago - memes, dreams, Streets of San Fran, computer sculptures, Pith, Good quote of the day, interviewing, hot shower

7 years ago - up early on a Sunday, Finished reading FAFCwGM, nice weather, tulpa plot

8 years ago - kid tv-memories, valentines

 

Oh, at last. Updated the EEE with a book reader, an art program and new drivers, not to mention useful utilities for work, like openoffice and adobe. - should be a really solid palmtop replacement, and then some. Big thing will be doodling - we'll see how that works with the trackpad, or a little external mouse.

There was a fire 2 doors down tonight - It seems that someone didn't clean thier chimney, and it caught fire. (If feel guilty a bit for thinking DRYER FIRE at first.) Nobody was hurt, but there was a lot of smoke.

Random pictures from tonight. BHK, Pye watching the firetruck, my upper desk, and our windows need to be cleaned after all the kitty nose touches and snow time. Clicking should embiggen and open in a new window.

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1 year ago - 70 out, buses leaky, Mexico dindin, Danny Prezzies, Helen Killer, Czolgosz!

2 years ago - a ton of walkabout pics, fossil hunting during a Snowy day on the bay, microsoft and openID, kitties

3 years ago - "Chilly" - in the 40s.ha. Today it was less than half that, before wind chill!, best buy wall numbers, absurd inventions, Superbowl. Scientology SP, Black/white vs right/wrong

4 years ago - Beetlejuice thoughts, evergreen boneyard photo-walk, domestic cats stay at adolescent mentality, interactive autopsy, girls sued for being nice

5 years ago - Super-loved ones, 2-headed baby surgery, fox wedding weather, meat eaters, scale, ruins

6 years ago - Nice thoughts, torture, LCD, note to Newt, Latrave b-day card, Class action suit.. I got my $12 check, eventually, Chandlerisms

7 years ago - MP pay delay, tron, #10 tight, naughty work thoughts, Scripts, system lockdowns and short tempers

8 years ago - At Last, first find hero machine (now in my toybox), bug, Dani and Rhonda hook me up!

Phil's official forecast as read February 2nd, 2009 at sunrise at Gobbler's Knob:

Hear Ye Hear Ye

On Gobbler's Knob this glorious Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2009

Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators

Awoke to the call of President Bill Cooper

And greeted his handlers, Ben Hughes and John Griffiths

After casting a joyful eye towards thousands of his faithful followers,

Phil proclaimed that his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers were World Champions one more time

And a bright sky above me

Showed my shadow beside me.

So 6 more weeks of winter it will be.
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Also, Happy 40th Birthday to me!