7272 - Bro stuff, mostly.

[scottobear]

Vaykay Day off to a poor start.

Did I sleep in? No, because my brother called and woke me up at 6:20 this morning, but hung up before I could talk to him. (he must've realized he was calling too early. He called back at about ten past seven, to give me his latest sob story about his bike going stolen and living on the street and how he needs money for a daily bus pass to get to work. I know that's likely a pile of bs, because day labor stops reeling in at 6am.

I went to my change jar and set him aside the money in nickels and dimes, because I don't currently have any folding cash on me... and I won't give him anything more than a fiver at any rate. He picked up his food card here yesterday, and apparently he's cashed that all out already, too... so I made him a few PB&Js to take with him on the road. It hurts that I can't do anything to really help him, and I feel squeamish about giving him even bus fare's worth of dinero, because I worry that he's going to spend it on drugs.

[update: 7:30 - he called back and asked if I could write him a check for $20 to pay someone to "give him a ride around today", and look for his bike. I told him that I was sorry, but I couldn't do that. He said that he understood, but said that he figured he would ask. In a way, I'm glad he did, because it actually helped to strengthen my resolve about refusing him bigger funds.]

He says that he'll be by inside of an hour... he was surprised when I told him I wasn't going into work this morning... I think that he'd prefer to pick up the money and not face me. He mentioned that I could leave the money in the mailbox if I was heading out to the job.. that also means that he'll have to come by sooner than later if he wants his story to hold water.

In other family news: Mom bailed on supper out last night, and it's just as well. Her leg was bothering her, and I was beat from the day... we gabbed on the phone for about 20 minutes and that went well.

I gave GEO (big Kahuna's Husband) another tutorial on the computer after work, and showed him how to scan, print and burn images to CD (and rewrite) he's a swift guy, and grasps technology quickly for a guy in his mid-70s. His photography is amazing, too.

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All new Making Fiends! (Special 4/1 edition!)

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More spam-comments from

248.114.7.57
87.119.46.108
16.30.198.6

this time about diet, loans and Viagra, all in the same post (My birthday, 2003). did they figure out how to bypass the catchpa?

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Random walkabout photo from lunchtime yesterday.

More Sticky-letters. Kram? Mark Backwards? Same guy that did Buk-50?

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Contemplating a new cammy-cam-cam. Vacation-time. Save Money, Or Spend it? Probably save it.. I need to get some bucks to Dave and to Kev.

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American Social Hygiene Posters ca. 1910-1970

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Moment of Lyric:

I saw you 'cross the dance floor (dancin')
I thought of birds and bees (reproductive system baby)
And when I tried to speak to ya (talk talk)
My tongue unraveled to my knees (flippety-flippety-flop)

I tried to say I love you (love you)
But it came out kind of wrong, girl (wrong girl)
It sounded like "Nunubididoo" (tongue tied)
Nuh mur nuh murh ni nong nurl

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I was just offered a small donation from a guy to use my "combover" doodle (I come up pretty early in google searches for that hairstyle) on his letterhead if I'd put his name on it. Apparently he's losing his hair. I said, sure! and promptly modded the doodle for him. I'll donate the money to my charity fund. That'll be my first piece of sold and commissioned art done on the palmtop.

I still prefer monkeysaw or Newt.

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Christopher Eccleston (who did a fantastic job) the Doctor in the new Doctor Who tv show, now he's quitting. Bah.

Eccleston, whose first appearance as the ninth Time Lord attracted around 10 million viewers, feared being typecast.

Talks are taking place to replace him with Casanova star David Tennant.

A second series of the new Doctor Who, which will again be written by Russell T Davies and produced by BBC Wales, has already been commissioned.

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1 year ago - Ossuaries, CoH, LJ 4/1 gag, impression meme

2 years ago - If I were a, fuel cells, JKG, 20,000 leagues

3 years ago - reprint, life changes, teacher with 17 dogs, that's my baby whale, critter poll, pikachu vs badger, doc visit, mario moonlighting

4 years ago - midget wrestler, glow worm, april fools, nice dreams, I don't like AFD, Computer update, midget wrestler-scotto

Comments

Family

[intrepidite.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you have to go though a run around with your family. Family sucks sometimes. I have a brother who tells us stories so we don’t worry about him. He lives in Texas and has never met Bruce, or seen my son. Bruce and I have been married for a little over two years and David is turning one in 13 days. I haven’t seen him since my mom dies three years ago. Family sucks some times. (but he can afford to go to Calf., New York, or the Caribbean with is friends. He is a bartender and only works three days a week. He has promise several times and I say that would be nice. I have not asked for him to come but he keeps say maybe in a month. I don’t like to talk to him because it just makes me depressed. My dad told me that about two months ago he was beat to a pulp by three guys. He couldn’t work for a couple of weeks but not to tell me so we wouldn’t worry. I love my brother but how can I not be a little worried about him. You know what I mean, you want to help but you can’t help them if they don’t want to admit they have a problem.

Re: Family

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

All you can do is hope for the best, and be prepared for the worst.

I hope good things come to your brother too.

[myid8myego.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, Scotto; that sounds incredibly hard. Good thoughts are with you.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It's tough, but I've been dealing with the situation for years now... nothing really new, so it's easier to handle these days.

Thanks.

You are more than Abel

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

You are a good brother I think. Hey, as long as you fair better than Cain I guess. Or Abel for that matter.

Mark. You're probably right. I'm not quick enough to get stuff like that. My wife on the other had likes to ruin movies for me as we watch them because she can guess what's going to happen. It's like a savant thing, I sware.

feh.

Re: You are more than Abel

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

True, no marks on my head or Murder in/on my soul.

I hope she didn't wreck too many twist endings.

Re: You are more than Abel

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

She ruins them all. All of them Scott. It's a sickness. And then she gets all proud and giddy. Insult to injury stuff.

I'm capitilizing on it though. Her and I should collaborate on the perfect screenplay.

now all we need is a plot...

Re: You are more than Abel

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Plot is just a side dish to cool explosions and irony in movies these days.

Any time you hit a bump, do like Michael Chrichton does.. Make something explode!

Re: You are more than Abel

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

Or turn it into a theme park. He's good at that one too. Plus it's important to have kids involved at some point. It makes marketing toys easier. I suppose.

Re: You are more than Abel

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Where are all the westworld and andromeda strain toys??

At least congo had a talking monkey.

Re: You are more than Abel

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

True. Those would have been cool. I want the Underground Facility Playset from AS.

Congo made me want to flee the theater like a monkey. A grey monkey. A mad grey monkey.

Sphere was good. Not the movie. But yeah, I liked the book. I am almost as ashamed of that as I am of having once been a big Jewel fan...

Re: You are more than Abel

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hey, I liked jewel too. Her crooked teeth, healthy breasts and lovely voice were quite a fine combo.

Re: You are more than Abel

[mootpoint.livejournal.com]

Who knew yodeling could be sexy?

I was an EDA. I was on the Jewel Kilcher mailing list. Scott. I have a t-shirt. Or had, I don't know what happened to it... I don't know, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Re: You are more than Abel

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Yodeling is only sexy from an already foxy-mama. ask slim whitman how many babes he got!

[greenelvish.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your brother... I have an aunt in the same situation. Hate that helpless feeling.

I like your pictures of mysterious words. There's something very magical about finding an indecipherable word in an odd place.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Thanks, to both.

I think the mystery words can act as a sort of modern runic or glyph writing... who knows what magic might happen if you find the right ones in the right combination?

[greenelvish.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in your icon (the one you used for the original post). Is it from a movie?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

memento (but I put myself in the photograph he was asking abuot.)

[greenelvish.livejournal.com]

My psych professor said some really good things about that movie. I should check it out.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

go for it! spooky, though.