Well, it's a little over a year since Obama has taken office.

I haven't looked for a while, but I looked at the Obameter just to see where he stands. Off the 500 promises being tracked.... see below.

Promise Kept 54
Compromise 14
Promise Broken 7
Stalled 17
In the Works 149
Not yet rated 274

Two of my touchpoints, the use of torture and closing guantanamo are both listed as "in the works", more detail at the links.

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far too many pictures from yesterday's walkabout - lots of fun with Larry, Chris, and BHK on a lovely autumn hike. Did a bit of geocaching, too - dropped off the meagan and paris bugs.

We also met Aaron Greene at the Cypress Swamp... he's a very talented photographer!



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1 year ago- decorative cabbage pic, moring walkies

2 years ago - la tolteca stinky, silly web page, q&A meme

3 years ago - more walkabout pics - vizcaya

4 years ago - frito bandito, monkey pic, dang hialeah, bk's bday, RI out of office, MM quits, shot patience, newt thought bubbles, doodle selfport

5 years ago - rain on glass, Afrocaribbean religions, postcard, heroclix, fosters home, edbook, wal-mart, ray romano, crackheads and thugs

6 years ago - Frankie the mooch timeline [MUCHO DRAMA FURIOSO!], 3-minute 4am phone post, Justice league, Spectre

7 years ago - Chevy Tahoe Commercial poem, Green Banana Moon, cool words, twilight

8 years ago - caption picture poll, turtle-butt breathing, big brain's 2nd incarnation

9 years ago - memories feature added, strip mall of sin, mall of the dead, hunter thompson returns to reporting

panorama of where I walk most mornings. clickery makes biggery

Walkies today - featuring pictures of a chilly-kitty knot and a kite-surfer.


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Back is throbbing like crazy today - looking forward to the doc's appt on friday.

Blokus and dinner with Cathi, Dave, Mayah and Hailey! visited Zen-kitty, Sage, Luna, and Kissy.

Started the day off with an early morning walk with Chris - Pictures previous and below. Also updated the newtcam archive - a few images here for reference.

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The flowers were from the neighbor up the road a few blocks - he's got a colossal garden that is really well maintained.

1 year ago - monitary density, google chrome eula, dinner with in-laws

2 years ago - more enchanted forest pics, skipped game convention, new camera (one year old today!), The Host, Godzilla quiz, Nerd Test

3 years ago - yub nub, Manger scenes with skittles, Godzilla and baby-llama Jesus on the brain, old time radio, silly quizzes,

4 years ago - had to take call, dan and I gabbed, missing kids, color/citizen test, suzy bday, walkabout map plan, wetlands commercial well before hurricane

5 years ago - hurricane frances - evac to Danny's

6 years ago - bad toon rising, international supers, Turkish accidents

7 years ago - flock of seagulls, speed racer custom cars, newt steals sabretooth, Plato, custom clix

8 years ago - location quiz, feelings, dead picture links

9 years ago - Norman and the walnut, old school observational junk

walking this morning with Chris and ducks
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on walkies and found a new kitty girl - very sweet. kept walking ahead of me and then flopping over to show me her tummy when I got closer
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magnetic disturbance - lost in the restricted area?

Ugh... really feeling out of it today. Not sure if it's medicine, combination of aches, or just having a "hormonal" day, but I think I'm being overly stressed out and hypersensitive.

Pictures from this afternoon's walk - trying to stop back or noggin from bugging me.

Quest for Kitties, Froggies, Cute Kids, Bunnies and Flowers! Mission Accomplished!

Below is the neighborhood rabbit, a frog found in the bottom of our swimming pool, Pumpkin the cat, the north beach boardwalk pov of the bay, many flowers, a cat that looks a lot like a brown version of Pyewacket, Neighborhood Kitties of all sorts - tuxedo, tabby, kitten and adult.

BHK cheered me up with the walk, her very presence, and just letting me rest today.


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1 year ago - lots of tv, new desk, newtcam, pyecam, pinched back, read comics,

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

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

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

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

6 years ago - harry potter quiz, history returns

7 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

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

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

can be found here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottobear/archives/date-taken/2009/06/14/

exorcist steps send love!

more info -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist_(film)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zj--3bQMzA

http://www.oddthingsiveseen.com/2007/10/exorcist-stairs.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottobear/archives/date-taken/2009/06/08/

 

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We went to "kids at the farm" day w/ jay, duncan, sean, and Jay's sister & nephew.

Jay's sister is basically Flip Wilson's Geraldine incarnate. I kid you not, dear journal.

After visiting the baby animals, we swung by the Lusby Mexico - the food there is still great, and the cost is cheap. Thank goodness for buy one/get one coupons! I suspect that Lusby's cook is a smidgen better than the closer one.

Seen below - security tricycle from last weekend, annapolis police, a plant we're trying to ID, dolly-doggie, monty-doggie, misc flowers, Maize lawn darts (Indian style!), oyster shells and a spine in a food refuse pile, totem pole head thingie, assorted huts, (a pano interior photo), scarecrows, bunnies, engine of destruction, goats, tiny pony, more bunnies, duck, more horses, activity for being a pig or a sheep, duncan, pelts, tractors and cows.

1 year ago - bhk & I sick, blueberries - pie, bugah's ballgame, aardvark's, boardgames

2 years ago - garden pepper pic

3 years ago - LOTR online beta, valleyschwag, Newt defends me during a pirate game, yawny-poll, mermaids- traditional and feegee, monkey chow diaries, abc mp3, stealth-wing parachute, router hack, bro case update, of mice & men, freaturing superman and bizarro

4 years ago - teensy work text, human hamster balls, google-found webcams, old gi joe comics, jogging for jesus, Florida judges are tossing out DUI cases when defendants ask to see the source code for the breathalysers that busted them, Ex-deputy gets life for molesting boys, bro picked up for trespassing

5 years ago - zombie quiz, metamorpho with GP, Square-boy, Walken sings, Chainsaw owies, ST emulator, Bulldozer rampage, I go to a new host.

6 years ago - bro, pub-crawling with Danny, flowerpop clones my interests and flies off.

7 years ago - hero costume poll, sogyo poetry, fumigation finished, scopes sea monkey trial

8 years ago - baby helmet, deep sleep, grogginess, wag, folks sick all over LJ, shoe size poll, adaptation of science, spark words.

9 years ago - My life unapproved by the Comic's Code Authority

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




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>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-thang

Later today, we're heading to the Surratt House today with BHK, Jay, Sean and Duncan. 

note -

http://www.surratt.org/mudd/muddcase.html
http://www.surratt.org/events/manhunt_movie.html
http://www.surratt.org/

Last night BHK and I had a lights out night - no power, just played boardgames and cards by rechargeable "candlelight" lamps.

Can't stop bhk won 1, I won one 

Probe - bhk won  **

Canasta Caliente - bhk won one, I won one

Charge it! - I won one

All were fun - I recommend a family game night to anyone!

more to follow when we return, dear journal!

1 year ago - poitics test, Great Gazoo, RIP, Hard knocks life, tigger/pye smoking dream, geister and other fun online games, gimlet, alan's bday prezzie

2 years ago - hot in the courthouse, shaved ice, adam and jimmy's graduation, more lj spam, move to own domain?

3 years ago - nice time with danny, rocker meme, mm call

4 years ago - memorial day, bhk fridge magnet pic, dr who

5 years ago - spotty notepad frenzy, mood theme editor fixed, General Tao's tofu, My cam catches right before lights out, Newt-bt pic, Nose beeps, streams of thought, sleepy newt wallpaper (or why using arrow keys is hard with the boy on the desk)

6 years ago - google news, kev, easter island, barcode, got a lovely peek-in.

7 years ago - complaining about the weather, disappearing languages, palm piccies that need to be re-uploaded, smoke ring gun

8 years ago - hoi polloi, nice walk, memory stream, super chicken, ask me a question, ostriches

9 years ago - stream of thought re:Newt, Fritz & April

1 year ago - food, cough, house and hell's kitchen, lifelock fails and is sued, James Garner, Opheera McDoom vs Cinnamon Stouffer, SQL union command handy, newt tackle pye pic again, insane highway cloverleaf

2 years ago - acceptable in the 80s, shrek 3, pictures of otters, fireplugs and dressed up geese.

3 years ago - black adder / house, play-doh perfume, historical sounds, marco polo, a mouthful of crabs, paul anka, ninja name meme

4 years ago - breakdancing bodybuilding, bus trip with mzk pics, no magda, ear whispers

5 years ago - tman & pix, Confucius, there 'closing', wireless at the 'mat, warchalking

6 years ago - PT, hoverbikes, rain, laundry video

7 years ago - more LJ reflecting (I averaged 3 posts a day back then), "VanityDeleters" and keeping LJ for the future, broken pic links to repair,awesome cd from sholanda

8 years ago - Life improved for me, LJ has gained more features, egress, rubber track conversion, ramen noodles, kumbaya, answer to the woodchuck question.

9 years ago - Fritz gave Newt a parasite, my first actual entry

following BHK through the Cypress swamp in Calvert County

walkabout - who saw kittens?? We did!( Read more... )

BHK is getting tons of tomes from both book mooch and paperback swap . It seems that paperback swap is the more reliable of the two, but both seem solid.

Probably going to see Star trek this weeked with Sean - and maybe "Let The Right One In" tomorrow night.


1 year ago - pea soup, tv show kind, ugly betty, worldwide telescope, einsteins religious beliefs, flood pics, cat pics, polar bears like watermelon, atw man, burn notice

2 years ago - mother's day w/ family, gaia hypothesis, gavagan's, jd's party

3 years ago - fp with kev, rain, Pelosi kma, goofy armor, stairway to heaven backwards

4 years ago - work related, friday 13th, mood poll, zombie hunting, phone-sleeping, book meme, mp3, scientology vs fictionology

5 years ago - fam stuff, toe socks

6 years ago - recycling into fuel oil, kitty quiz, PT, Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator, potty poll, perfect toast

7 years ago - answer to oil dependency, iespell, memory of being a little kid w/ vampires, goofing around, dani postcard, 334, rain week

8 years ago - nonpareil, "hamburger helper, antibacterial", family hangout, old coversheet, daydream, dead guy in living room, watermelons, a basic truth, lj-smell poll, cleaning up oil using human hair (and you don't even need Superman to do it!)

Rough day, got walkies in - saw a wet puffball kitty, and cross-eyed orange under an awning. 

Dinner with the in-laws - they brought over creamy peas and ziti, plus lettuce wedges and chocolate silk pie!

Picture - clicks embiggen.



1 year ago - napkin hangman, bhk pic, got pyecam at a yard sale, many games, Oshi, (Did I ever send Ray & Kat the Larry the Zombie for Fluxx??), mid-air dolphin collision, naked gardening.

2 years ago - Bro arrested, 40 lb cat, freecol

3 years ago - lj bumps, free legal streaming shows, mail form ilene and bubbles, superman returns, ad-free lyrics, wooden pc case mods,

4 years ago - no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song

5 years ago - teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos

6 years ago - words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties

7 years ago - entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such

8 years ago - diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin poll