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( egyptian god )

Cleaning out the oven was a beast, but it's happy and good, now.... seeds outside are nicely moist, Newtie's box is fresh and clean. The cheap $30 frame that came with the box spring and mattress broke a wheel-leg, so that's been tossed... I'll get a decent headboard and frame shortly. I'm glad Newt didn't like going under the bed.. if he'd been under that corner, he could've been badly hurt. I got pretty upset about that, after falling out, and landing on my tailbone. I don't mind wounded pride, but don't dare put the little guy in an environment where danger is an element. Heck, I worry if he ever has a little mat in his fur, until I can confirm that it's not a bug bite or something. So, I've officially cussed my first in the new place.

Only chores left to do this weekend are laundry, pick up the assorted cardboard shreds from Newtie’s chew-box and I need to go shopping for queen sized sheets for my bed. I think I'll save those for tomorrow, or later tonight, if I get the gumption.

I slept poorly last night... not sure why, just kept tossing and turning, getting up and sitting down, reading in spurts, but not absorbing what's on the page. A case of sleepy-brain / wakeful body. I do remember one of my dreams last night.. I was in an old church and there was some sort of deadly gas outside. I was with a few people, and we had to raid the supplies to survive, eating bread and wine.. for some reason they had cheese & white grapes in there too. (Not all that bad, really, come to think of it.) We had to keep one person riding a bicycle or on a rowing machine at all times to insure the church was airtight... the gargoyles on the outside had blowers for mouths that kept the fumes at bay. Those statues weren't all standard grotesques, by the way... among the impish ones there were an assortment of birds and four-legged beasts... a pelican, an owl, a ram, a pug dog.... I'm sure there were others that I don't recall. There were a few good points of view... the belfry was exceptional, but we must've been crazy to go up there.. no seals, but it was safe. I don't recall there being any bells up there... I don't know where they might've been.

as of this writing

menstrualhut community now has 680 members.
coloringbook has 72 members

and scottobear has 138 readers (That's about 1/5 of the menstrualhut, or twice the coloringbook)... though about 10% or so are phantoms... linked to me, and then left LiveJournal for parts unknown.

for humility's sake...

paidmembers has 41884 members. (I believe that's the most populated community on LJ)

In other news, Newton’s cuteness ratings went down, as did the number of votes... do older votes die off after a while?

sleeping late with a cat was retired, with a rating of 156.

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Ah... this is what I was looking for.

There it is... SUBTERRANEAN ISLAND BASE WITH OPTIONAL VOLCANO UPGRADE. set that up about 15/20 miles off the coast, and I'll be ready. Maybe the undersea city option instead?

Chewing on Earth by David Brin right now... a big, thick paperback, I'm about 30 pages into it. It was given to me to read about two years ago, and am just getting around to it. Not as engrossing as the Uplift books yet, more of an environmental theme, so far. I think that after I finish it, I'll be technically refreshed enough to focus on a few of the programming projects that've been on the back burner.

Bro's being a swell guy today...picked up ice cream for me at 7-11... he fly, I buy. It's too bad that he's allergic to Newtie. They both like one another, too. Ah well... they get to say hi every now and then...the bro just can't stay inside for too long, and has to wash his hands after giving or getting Newtie loves.

Speaking of Newt... he's found someplace in the house to hide my hair ties. Not by the food dish, by the litter box or in it (thank goodness... bleh!)... I haven't discovered all the nooks and crannies here yet. I know he likes to sneak behind my books on the lower shelf (it's deep).. hopefully he's not putting them in a cache there.... Hard to get to .

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are those stars, or fireflies, or what? urk!

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Without your lungs,
You would be too."

Guess the true Scotto factoid(s) -

[Poll #44996]