Shots, and off to southern states to grab a couple of pepper plants - saw an adorable pair of kids. Little girl in riding pants and very friendly, and her little brother who reminded me of JD at 6 years old. We also picked up some thistle seed for the finches (so Pye and Newt have a little outside wildlife to watch)
After that a lovely church wine and craft show... We got a Christmas ornament with a pair of origami cranes (cherry blossom pattern paper) inside of a rounded cube.... and a lovely packet of bake sale goodies. Aggression cookies (oatmeal), molasses and chocolate chip.
Episcopal church had the following on the bulletin board:
The comedian Robin Williams is an Episcopalian, and he has created a funny "Top Ten" List of reasons to be an Episcopalian.
10. No snake handling.
9. You can believe in dinosaurs.
8. Male and female, God created them; male and female, we ordain them.
7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.
6. Pew aerobics.
5. Church year is color coded!
4. Free wine on Sunday.
3. All of the pageantry, none of the guilt.
2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.
And the number one reason for being an Episcopalian:
1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.
I can dig that.
After the Church shindig, we Shakespeare on the Boardwalk - Much ado about nothing. TM's neighbor Kevin was in it, as was Guppy (twin beach players )
after a bit of local and classic culture, we headed home to catch up with The Office and My Name is Earl.
Added a syndicated feed of BHK's favorite meteorolgist - Kim Martucci - I should notify Kim that she's being syndicated here, just so she knows to check. It's not a full feed, just a clip and a link to the main site - which is *quite* active and colorful, if you follow my fonts. Her journal gave BHK a quickie girl-crush on Kim.
also via BHK -
"Artist made a plastic whale skeleton from plastic deck chairs! Also made recreations of native ceremonial masks out of Nike shoes----pretty cool art!"
Friday Five on a Saturday -
1. Who do you adore?
BHK, Newton and Pye
2. Who adores you?
BHK, Newton and Pye
3. What's in your pockets?
Wallet holding a red thread, trinkets, petty cash and ID, inhaler, keys
4. Who can you talk with for hours?
BHK, Danny, GP and Kat (haven't in a long time, though), Dave, Kev... most nice people with common interests, I guess!
5. What sounds great today?
Playtime with the family!
1 year 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
2 years ago - red mood doodle, super power desire as a lad, waiting room pic, newton and I on the porch pics, sand art
3 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.
4 years ago - net out, bro bonds out, walkabout pics, sci-fi cliches, gabbed with sedef, bee vs wasp massacre.
5 years ago - Nature vs Pringles, Dan delivers Groceries, menstrualhut breaks 1000 users (now a bit more than twice that), Bush's Military Record
6 years ago - J-bee points me at CBS Mystery theater, Sat tracking, Newtie yawn icon source, Friday five
7 years ago - swollen uvula (side effect of no cpap, snoring beat me up), dumbass Astley late with his bargain basement hardware
- Location:20714
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:psych guys singing shout
sent 5/1/08 5:32 pm
-sitting tight in my personal space, my world fades to fewer colors, but
brighter ones, usually.
sent via palmtop
woman @ bus stop, loudly repeating "yes, god / thank you jesus" into her
phone... over and over again for the entire time I was waiting. thankfully,
she wasn't taking my ride. I halfway wonder if the phone was even active.
sent via palmtop
- Location:greenbelt , md
- Mood:
curious - Music:see entry
woman @ bus stop, loudly repeating "yes, god / thank you jesus" into her
phone... over and over again for the entire time I was waiting. thankfully,
she wasn't taking my ride. I halfway wonder if the phone was even active.
sent via palmtop
- Location:greenbelt , md
- Music:see entry
Potential other things post needle-stick are the Eastern Shore, Marine Museum and maybe General Tanuki's.
Or Maybe something different! It got to 87 degrees yesterday.. we might have to find a place to play in the shade!
Evening update-
Saw a yard sale on the way to shots - Neighborhood cul-de-sac family collection on Limerick Lane. BHK got a spiffy cap for 50 cents - another Mao-meets surfer girl type cap. Not much else out there for us.
Got Stuck for allergies. Hardly a soul there, so it went quickly.
Skipped the Eastern shore - Decided to hit the Vegetable Garden in Rockville, by way of a long, meandering tour through DC. Flew through Chinatown and some of the more seedy parts of town en route.
From there, a bit of an extended shopping trip. Eyeballed some workout equipment, picked up some ram for my laptop at Micro Center, (checked out the EEE pc - cute, and maybe in a month, once the 900 model is out) - Bought the father in law a e-tuner keychain, bhk an ipod clock-radio dock alarm clock, and myself an evil universal remote keychan.
Continuing on - Dream Wizards for Balloon Cup and Gloom (and a ten in ten die - opaque d10 inside a transparent one. pretty nifty.)
Casual Male XL for a few pairs of work pants, some v-neck shirts, and a new pair of shoes.
Back home the short way, for supper of pb&j on rice cakes. (sideline - made hot dogs for in-laws and BHK last night - both dinners were dandy)
Watched some TV, and now, it's time for bed. g'nite dear journal.
Hey, WotC have a bunch of classic D&D modules available for download - Including White plume mountain ! Probably the third commercial module I ever played after Keep on the Borderlands and Isle of Dread - certainly the first one I played that wasn't included with a set of the game rules itself...
Wiki info on White Plume Mountain here.
Of the three, White Plume was the most fun.. I had characters that had a decent skill set and abilities, but it was still tricky - held a goodly dose of puzzles and challenges. All of the S-modules were fun, but I liked plume more than tomb of horrors, and Barrier Peaks. (Peaks was cool - great setting, but just too deadly for my lower level guys to deal with. It could be nicely reworked into something a bit more survivable and plotted, I think.)
If I had to pick my favorite low-level module, I'd have to go with Against the Cult of the Reptile God - I think the setting was a lot more fun than any of the other 1-3 level modules we played back in the day, and it was the first one I successfully ran for the library group as a DM. Sort of funny to see them listed as classic - I remember picking them up when they came out - still wrapped in plastic, most of them 3-hole punched at the factory.
Larry's coming along nicely with the electric guitar. He's got the body just about done... needs holes for the pickups in the back, and then some stain and coat next. This is the first time in a while that he's taken time to work on it - it's a beautiful bit of craftsmanship thus far, and I look forward to hearing how it sounds. There's talk of him making me a bass after this one is finished, too. (Made from the maple that's growing far to close to our house's foundation... not to mention the branches that could take out the roof in a bad storm.
I wonder how his projects will be affected when they rent out the blue house? The workshop half of the two-car garage there... not sure how tenants would feel about him running power tools here and there. Of course, that also begs the question of where I'll run off and hide to wrap Christmas presents, come next Yuletide season.
Ah well, no big fears either way. I expect he'll continue to do projects for many, many years to come. This weekend, we're tilling the garden - and hopefully planting my blueberry seedling. BHK has already potted the daisies and put them outside - I'm looking more forward to plants that produce food items, and the possibility of keeping a beehive.
1 year ago - falafel with the gang, adapting to a higher house-population, personality test results,
2 years ago - how to glue 2 things, sketch-it, mgum, moonies and sushi
3 years ago - on call techs, residence addresses, 45,800 scottobear entries [now 84,100], 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
4 years ago - using lappie (broken big brain), teleconference prep
5 years ago - got all 30 eggs, there folks, palm pictures and more doodles, bro n upswing, SQ/EQ, brain chart
6 years ago - Vampires around the world and how to snuff 'em, mushiness, good, simple food.
7 years ago - mix CD, flying capybara quote, missing girl
- Location:20714
- Mood: sleepy
- Music:some movie about chuck barris in the background
Sending good thoughts to all friends in the dumps, too. If you're not feeling so hot... cheery thoughts to you.
I'm tempted to get BHK and / or Chris Pink T-shirts that read "HYPERBOLE IS THE BEST THING EVER!"
BHK made tasty, tasty meatball-type substance in bbq sauce, with sides of garlic-y yum broccoli.
The Tiki Bar in Solomons Island will be opening this weekend for 2008. I guess pope traffic wasn't enough! I guess we'll stick to less congested realms... maybe we can hit the eastern shore and lurk around the marine museum after my shots on Saturday.
Maybe check out some local farmers markets? (now that it's season.. thanks for the hint, DCist!)
I just remembered to look this up - Sarcastic vs Sardonic
sarcastic = a cutting or ironic remark
sardonic = scornful or mocking
Trees- Vandalised trees reoriented, creating new landscapes and giving the trees a new reality.
Speaking of DCist - want to see the pope's snappy red shoes ? ( I also dig the "We Love Our German Shepherd" sign.)
I didn't realise that the rerelease of Tally Hall's album has a few new tracks on it - I'll have to see if I can chase down Mucka Blucka and Dream as MP3s, or snag 'em from Itunes.
[edit - THANK YOU for the drop of the music! :D]
1 year ago - palm doodle, power outage, VT info arrives to me late, blackout house-fun
2 year ago - dr who, secret wars, monday, sweet tomatoes, disney vault, keep cool pic
3 years ago - Homeless seen while on walkabout, mzk nearly shoots my eye out, Bo Rhap, Newt pics, mzk pic, robot doodle, lethal injections not painless?, tv interview
4 years ago - odd email, D's bday/vanishment, manatee doodle, sammy's sister syndicated, garlic, moon scarab, blu-ray dvd tech developing, froggie super pic
5 years ago - egg hunt stats
6 years ago - annoying day, doc trip, search terms
7 years ago - AJ's Bday, Recording freakazoid, dsl, </b></a>![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
menstrualhut fan letter at mum.org
The Tiki Bar in Solomons Island will be opening this weekend for 2008. I guess pope traffic wasn't enough! I guess we'll stick to less congested realms... maybe we can hit the eastern shore and lurk around the marine museum after my shots on Saturday.
Maybe check out some local farmers markets? (now that it's season.. thanks for the hint, DCist!)
I just remembered to look this up - Sarcastic vs Sardonic
sarcastic = a cutting or ironic remark
sardonic = scornful or mocking
Speaking of DCist - want to see the pope's snappy red shoes ? ( I also dig the "We Love Our German Shepherd" sign.)
I didn't realise that the rerelease of Tally Hall's album has a few new tracks on it - I'll have to see if I can chase down Mucka Blucka and Dream as MP3s, or snag 'em from Itunes.
[edit - THANK YOU for the drop of the music! :D]
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Two 19th century rhino horns stolen from a South African museum could be deadly if sold as a popular aphrodisiac because they are drenched in poison, a museum official said on Monday.
The "priceless" horns were snatched from a display at the historic mammal gallery in Cape Town on Saturday evening, said Jatti Bredekamp, chief executive of Iziko Museums.
"Unknowingly, the thieves have exposed themselves to more than the danger of arrest and prosecution," Bredekamp said in a statement.
"Before the mid-twentieth century, taxidermy mounts were prepared by being soaked in arsenic and preserved from insect infestation through regular applications of DDT, both highly toxic poisons that retain their toxicity over time," he said.
Bredekamp said the horns were deliberately targeted in a carefully planned robbery, and might be destined for Asia, where ground rhino horns are a prized aphrodisiac.
"This could have unforeseen consequences," he said.
Rhino populations have fallen dramatically over the last few decades as poaching decimated the animals across Africa.
Bredekamp said museums worldwide were being targeted by organized crime to help supply lucrative markets with a wide range of artifacts. After a previous robbery attempt, South African museum officials removed several other specimens of rhino horn from public display, he said.
1 year ago - palm doodle, power outage, VT info arrives to me late, blackout house-fun
2 year ago - dr who, secret wars, monday, sweet tomatoes, disney vault, keep cool pic
3 years ago - Homeless seen while on walkabout, mzk nearly shoots my eye out, Bo Rhap, Newt pics, mzk pic, robot doodle, lethal injections not painless?, tv interview
4 years ago - odd email, D's bday/vanishment, manatee doodle, sammy's sister syndicated, garlic, moon scarab, blu-ray dvd tech developing, froggie super pic
5 years ago - egg hunt stats
6 years ago - annoying day, doc trip, search terms
7 years ago - AJ's Bday, Recording freakazoid, dsl, </b></a>
menstrualhut fan letter at mum.org- Location:20714
- Mood:
chipper - Music:mucka blucka
We polished off our sammiches, and got back in the car just in time to beat the rain - it was still coming down pretty hard when we picked up our rosebushes - They look like bundles of dirty stick for now, but just wait a month... they'll be in the ground by May 1... after the worst chance of another cold snap has passed.
Went to Sneade's for some more seeding trays, a springtime flag for our pole (it's cute - a beehive - "home is where my honey is" I need to check permissions for putting in a hive of my own out back this year), and a few grilly-items. Saw Larry there, and invited him and Chris over to do some grilling on Sunday... he reminded us that the United States Navy Band was playing - for some reason, we thought it was Sunday night... so we headed home, had a little nap, got cleaned up, and enjoyed some note-perfect music. It was a band, not an orchestra - BHK was missing the strings section, but made up for it by enjoying the percussion and giggling at the high cheese factor of the announcer / vocalist's styling of Man of La Mancha.
The concert was only an hour long - we picked up Chris (who wasn't interested in attending), and all headed to Thursday's. It was quite good.
Anyhow - We did chores and stayed close to home today. BHK worked on the yard, while I got us caught up with last minute Taxes (That's why Chris didn't attend - running last minute scenarios.) My first year of filing jointly as a married sort of fellow - a bit different than filing alone. Lots of deductions this year - health care, homestead, school loan interest... I guess I'm a grownup after all. Good thing is that we're getting some going back, not to mention the "gimme" from the govt that everyone's getting.
We'll sock some of it away, put some towards furniture, I suspect - a new mattress, or upholstering the coming couch, maybe?
BHK beat me at Hacienda again, but it was dang close. If I had one more turn, I might've beaten her. Alas, I did not! Still, it was a good game, and I think we had a lot of fun playing.
Rules of thumb - get as many markets as you can, as fast as you can! Don't bother saving money... the three turn limit cuts what you can spend pretty hard.
I suspect I'll sneak in a game of Wishes Were Fishes next week. Failing that - maybe if we go do paint your own pottery, I'll make us a set of Tally-Ho! (I discovered it at Yucata... it's close to a combination of my plans for Brier Patch and Pumpkin with Icehouse pyramids - likely a better play design, too)
Pizza and Nature documentary time with the in-laws tonight! Until Later, Dear Journal!
1 year ago - Friday the 13th, picture of me as hector hammond, talkers, palm doodle under the sea, eclairs, shocking cats
2 years ago - get together?, odds & ends mp3, reality settings, on call stuff, dr who remixes (& scooby doo), transit links
3 years ago - headhunter, dr who, hovering sombrero, little cowpoke didn't take, Dworkin, Belle & Jen interested in remixed cds, ADP adds junk, KJ and Oona arrive.
4 years ago - easter afters, THC high enough to be considered hard drugs, rainy photo, leaping gnome scotto
5 years ago - bro issues, jkg, landlord
6 years ago - bigfoot research, local cams, lazy, SANTO!, Yellow pestilence, superhero movies, Bill & Ted
7 years ago - food & feelings, good friday, virtual om
- Location:20714
- Mood:
sore - Music:Man of La Mancha - in my head
- Location:20714
- Mood:grumpy at lj size limits
- Music:one day at a time!
This is it! This. Is. It.
This is life, the one you get
So go and have a ball.
This is it! This. Is. It.
Straight ahead and rest assured
You can't be sure at all.
So while you're here enjoy the view
Keep on doing what you do
So hold on tight we'll muddle through
One day at a time, One day at a time.
So up on your feet. Up on your feet
Somewhere there's music playing.
Don't you worry none
We'll just take it like it comes.
One day at a time, one day at a time.
One day at a time, one day at a time.
One day at a time, one day at a time.
One day at a time, one day at a time.
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graypumpkin and I were working on the same frequency this morning, regarding gags about prying the gun from Charlton Heston's cold, dead, hand. Body mightily resisted getting out of bed this morning, but I had to do it. Home now... only 4 more days until the next weekend!
Chris drove me to my stop this AM, but BHK picked me up. It's hard to spend even 8 hours away from her, after I've been so spoiled by a 3-day weekend. We zipped to California Tortilla for dindin, and now we're going to have a lovely night!
It's getting warmer, and the trees are getting greener every day. Sure, I'll be hot and sweaty sometime soon.. but then we'll have fireflies.
Every season has something awesome.
DC pics from Friday for later ref - this area, mostly. Our walk was about 3-4 miles total, but the ground was hilly.. I wonder how much more that added?
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1 year ago - old shacks, karaoke, easter bunnies everywhere!, wetter walking or running somewhere?, openoffice easter egg
2 year ago- devo on fridays, lost, icon, SL designing, virus trained to build batteries, false alarm abduction, hurricane stockpile, took over
haikuarena, quizzes
3 years ago- Dr Russell, MASS, undercover brother, kitty cuteness, meet force with force, walkabout pictures, America we stand as one, BCT commercial
4 years ago - +20 min, underage girl charged with child pornography, LSD
5 years ago - creaky, PotC, Bro
6 years ago - put all of oz on my palm, boat name poll, vending machines, Newt activities
7 years ago - laundry, Herb Kornfeld
- Location:20714
- Mood: good
- Music:one day at a time !
Best of the pictures to follow in a later post - but here's a link to what was taken yesterday.
A ton of spam journals have added me recently... had to go through the console and ban_set them.
The Following are recent offenders that I've reported, and banned from posting in my journal (and removes them from my friend od list in my profile, so they don't get any stray links from my site)
henrydwalters45Those have all appeared in the last week, most of them within the same hour.
fakevisacard
gabrielahewitt
nancybconner58
abbyarleytown
karmavancity
nancybconner64
erinrharding
indyank
naked_panter
ralphrbanks
andrewg1953
randalllbeck27
nancybconner19
cutejennifer
nancybconner55
jenifferd
[sneakily added by bhk, all of it untrue!:
Also I want to publicly apologize to BHK for assuming that there was pumpkin ice cream in the fridge. There wasn't! Also in a recent doodle I depicted her as a cover hog--she isn't by any means!]
1 year ago - 3-d movies, snow, jd, county work review, petals falling, karaoke, What in Sam Hill?, psptv
2 years ago - zombie horde counterstrike, pyramid house, bugs bunny, tmbg, devo, tom delay, top40,
3 years ago - Badge shape pref poll, flickery power, Jasmine, stupid comic deaths, Dr Who episode 2, KANG KANG KANG KANG!, Monkey awe, hukilau, driver 8 pic, 23/5 bibliomancy
4 years ago - Itchies, chocolate dodge, Miami fires, sweetalyssm.com goes down due toa hack. (sadly, never to return), palm-doodle entry, Denny's lunch
5 years ago - hung out with </b></a>
ldy & grrwoo, JKG wants me, prep for TAG6 years ago - Freedom Force, Poem tag, new tech, THE poll.
7 years ago - morning walk, goals, online people, people that didn't want my help, kindness triage, cartoon stereotypes, Hey, The Dusty Miller, hair color poll
- Location:20714
- Mood: amused
- Music:cats running around like crazy
Slept in a bit this morning... vacation day!!
Our neighbor's wife passed away the first of December, last year... BHK just found out about it midweek. We've invited him over for dinner next week (we initially were going to do it Wednesday, but he begged off), and are bringing him some tidbits here and there. I can't imagine losing someone that close and having to go it alone.
Last night after work, BHK and I went to Red Robin to eat while we decided on which movie to see... we were torn between two critically paned stinkers - 10,000 BC and Superhero Movie. We consumed tasty items, while watching a girl in a robin suit greet the kiddies... businss was booming for a thursday night... and continued to the Borders where we meandered andshopped a bit. Picked up a new Zagat's guid to DC and Baltimore, and a collapsable tote for BHK... fit sin a teensy keychain pouch. I teased her a little unmercifully about it, but she took it in stride. Visted the Kayak / Outdoor store and came close to getting another pair of crocs or two... army green shoes with day-glo orange straps, but sadly, they didn't have my mammoth foot size in stock. BHK passed on keanes, too.
Eventually, we settled on superhero movie... bought the tickets, and changed our minds. So, we saw 10,000 BC. It didn't stink too badly, and was entertaining in its way.
Guest Doodles supplied by BHK: (when she sees me messing with the palmtop, she always wants a turn.) Seems she always accuses me of gassiness, but this time it was true.
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Nifty Links also from BHK - Cool Robots! (I'm partial to Kemore 3.)
and these two were right next to one another on her news page - Irony?
McCain Says Many Americans Are Too Cynical 3rd-Graders Plotted to Attack Teacher, Cops Say
Picture meme -
a. Go to www.photobucket.com (don't sign in)
b. Type in your answer to the question in particular (see questions below) in the "search" box
c. Use only the first page
d. Copy the image code & paste for the answer
(I've added a width modifier of 320 pix, just for my own viewing ease.)
1. What's your first name?
Scotto
Picture meme -
a. Go to www.photobucket.com (don't sign in)
b. Type in your answer to the question in particular (see questions below) in the "search" box
c. Use only the first page
d. Copy the image code & paste for the answer
(I've added a width modifier of 320 pix, just for my own viewing ease.)
1. What's your first name?
Scotto
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1 year ago - victim of the 80s / transformers, time flies, movies. (still haven't seen blades of glory.), local blooms pic
2 years ago - wearing purple, dan break, bug inspectors, doc, firewall,
3 years ago - apology-but, making fiends in bulgarian, free photos, broken people, TSiC
4 years ago - 22 questions, DST, Ft. Laud Mellowed, 4-4-4
5 years ago - Met with Meter Made, don't confuse courtesy with subservience, pics for the day, Speedy off CN, Sample McDougald house letter
6 years ago - walkies, dream, taking stuff poll, Moment of Waponi, Killian's, bkveggie (the old one), long music ramble, production meeting at IMT
7 years ago - Slander-drama / resolution (Honestly, I think that part of the issue started from here.) I still wonder how that "FBI Investigation" turned out
- Location:20714
- Mood:
awake - Music:bhks ipod, american boy by estelle