6515 Remainder of the day

Hopped the city cruiser to tri rail, from the las olas stop, and took the 2pm (Sat.) Fort Lauderdale up to Palm Beach. Kev and I got together, exchanged Christmas and birthday gifts, dined on Bud's fantastic french fries, and watched the newish Looney Toons movie on DVD. Paul and Bheesh skipped out, as is the normal pattern, but Brad came by for the movie, and left shortly afterward. We played some Simpsons' Road Rage and Mechassault head to head on his Xbox, and had a good time catching up and shooting the breeze. He's got a 50-inch lcd TV that makes playing games quite a hoot.

Karen has a new boyfriend that drives down to see her all the time from Cocoa Beach... Lauren Had a fourth child, and apparently she's getting her tubes tied now. Al looks like he's lost some weight, too.

Felix and Jinxie are big now, and Dexter is just about a hundred pounds. Strange that Indy and Tippy are long gone now... Ripley is an old Maid now, and still the bottom rung on the pack's totem pole... even servile to the kitties.

The gifts I received were Command and Conquer:Generals (for Christmas) and Call of Duty (for my birthday). Looks like I've moved from driving and throwing games to some war for a while. Not sure which I'll run with, first... probably call of duty.

I lent Kev Tron 2.0 and Simpsons: Hit and Run to keep him busy now that he's just coming down off of some of his older games.

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( 12 items meme that's floating around )

6516 bro update, Newt update, train ride piccies, CoD fun.

Call of Duty is pretty keen! I tried out the multi-player, and I'm not quite ready for it yet... the first solo player mission is pretty nifty so far.

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I think I'm going to pass on going grocery shopping today, and save it for tomorrow or Tuesday... I have enough to get by fairly well, and was out far too long on Saturday for my liking, though I enjoyed it.

( An assortment of piccies from yesterday's train ride - 9 shots total )

Boca Raton was dead, too.. Geosyntec building had no cars in it.. I wonder if Danny talks to any of the old crew there at all anymore.

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Brother was moved to N Broward, after he requested help for anxiety. He seems to be doing better, a lower population and he'll get more assistance for drug and/or other issues there. I got off the phone, and he's pretty upset that he's still in jail, but he still hasn't figured out that it's his own damn fault. I explained to him in a loud voice that he can't afford to be highly aggressive or tweaked out in jail.. that he'd better keep his cool, or it'll be that much harder to get anyone to listen to him.

I'm pretty sure that Andy will sell all of my brother's stuff, and Bro is equally concerned. He's positive that Andy would be more than happy to take his money, and pawn anything Andy could get a penny for. We have a call into the landlord to call use when he makes an appearance again, but my feelings about the LL's reliability in that department are not terribly strong. What really needs to happen is to get his truck out of impound. It's got to be about at $400 or so by now, maybe a lot more. for a $1200 truck, that's a killer. if it takes too much longer, it might be just as worthwhile to abandon it.

( bro update-9:15pm )

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In much better news, Newt is showing no fever or ill effects from his shots... last year must've been a fluke. The vet said if he wasn't looking good, that I could give him half of a benadryl, which was a surprise... but it's a non-aspirin alternative (since kitties and aspirin don't mix at all well.) Fortunately, I haven't had to rely on that advice yet.