#6234 awake & entish

Snapped awake out of a sound sleep at 3am, my body refuses to rest anymore right now. Is it because it's doctor day? I don't know, but I'm bright eyed and bushy-tailed, almost as if someone sneaked a shot of b12 into my system when I wasn't lookin'.

Well, I've surfed a little, and I'll try and get a spot more snooze-time in before the trip.

( Middle earth Race quiz )

# 6236 super shower, newt pic, eclipse

I've returned from having the staples out... didn't hurt a bit, only one even pinched at all on removal. I think that the bandage glue was more irritating to me than the staples were. I now have a row of butterflies there that will come off over time as I wash. I took pictures, but the shots don't really show anything special, so I won't bother hosting or posting. But I did get a shot of Newt getting all in the camera, so I'll throw that in. The sounds of the staples coming out were not unlike someone clipping overly long toenails, and tossing the chaff into a plastic cup.

( Newt, 20k jpg. )

So, I just had the *BEST SHOWER EVER*. Scalding hot water hitting pores that seemed to have a direct connection to my brain, all of them cheering in extended waves. My neck, shoulders and back were the most appreciative, though the whole of my skin reacted in a positively euphoric way to having finally getting that dead layer off, and the rest back to a level of clean that I prefer. After the hot and soapy, I rinsed, and then went to a cold shower (just as well, I pretty much used all of the hot water), to brace up. I feel *fantastic*! There were a couple of times that I thought I might lose consciousness from the aforementioned euphoria.. I was very careful about standing and positioning, just in case. Seriously, it was without exaggeration, a near religious experience, and took my breath away. Quite blissful.

I haven't shaved down to my goatee yet... I'm going to wait a little while for the hot water to recharge so that when I go to rinse off any stray shorn scruff I can have another happy scald-fest. I've got 4 weeks of physical therapy and then I go back to the doctor for a follow-up. I can use the same folk I had before, so across the street it is!

I'm still not very tired now, but I may try for a nap later in the day. We'll see.

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Lunar Eclipse This weekend (Sat Night, Sunday Morning) It's going to be short, but sweet.

#6237 palm cartoon, haiku

From the palm, I chase after Sauron on my walker. (drawn in the waiting room at the doctor's this morning)



Haiku to celebrate -

Movin' Right along
Sauron's Eye of Evil Laughs
He owes me five bucks.


During my nap earlier, I dreamt my sweetie was wearing an eye-patch and kissing me like crazy. Works for me! I didn't find the eye-patch unusual at the time... I feel it was just costuming.

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Japan Politician, Cultist Resort to Haiku ( Read more... )

#6238 Miami book fair, voyager, found ruins

The 20th Anniversary Miami Book Fair International has been going on all week, but the street fair portion starts today and ends Sunday. I worked there with the Boynton Beach City Library many, many years ago. I think it was the 3-4th annual, if the timing is right. I met some really nice people there at the time, including Ron Wiggins, who was one of the only reasons for me to read the Palm Beach Post's Accent section as a teenager. I'd really like to go this weekend, but I'm not up to that level of milling around for hours and hours yet. A pity, because Will Eisner is going to be there, and he's always a fascinating speaker. Other folks that are attending that I'd like to hear from are Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry, and Carl Hiaasen... Highly entertaining people who can give any writer great ideas and handy tips on the field. It's something not to miss, if you can help it.

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Danny reminded me to post about Voyager's distance now.. This Wired article sums it up nicely. ( Read more... )

I didn't know that we were still getting data from the DSC1! That in itself is amazing to me.

As a question of scale -

A simple way of explaining Voyager's current distance from the Earth (via Slashdot): if our galaxy was just 100 KM wide, within 20 meters in any direction of the sun would be approximately 20 other stars. The nearest star would be 3-4 meters away. Yet Voyager would only be 1.5 mm away from our sun. This disc is now the most distant thing in the history of humanity.

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I heard on the radio today that Pure Platinum changed hands and is now called... Spearmint Rhino? I wonder what happened to the Russian Mafia guy that used to run PP and SG? I bet it was a real-life version of Miami Vice. Looking at the website, it looks like Rhino is an up and coming franchise.. another "McDonald's strip club". It looks like these guys are all over the US, UK, Russia and Australia! Looking at the FAQ, it seems that the club rules have changed drastically too.

Q. Are customers allowed to touch the dancers?
A. Customers are not permitted to touch any dancer or employee of the club.

Something tells me that's only vaguely enforced...Or Maybe they've really cleaned up their act? Hard to believe, but I suppose anything's possible. Well, that's enough dwelling on that subject... strip clubs are mostly a sad thing.

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Cow hit by train lands on farmer's wife ( Read more... )

Fling the Cow, anyone?

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Cool... a lost Incan city has been rediscovered by archeologists using fancy-pants satellite technology. ( Read more... )

Once again, Doctor Jones, we see that there is no city you can find which I cannot steal.

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New cellphone uses finger as earpiece ( Read more... )