7410 - Walks on the beach are nicer with a cohort.

Lovely night. MP was a sweetheart. I got off work at 4, she didn't start until 7, so we got a chance to hang for a few hours by the beach. I'm really glad that she'll be back in 3-4 months. I'm getting a little attached, though I think I'll know enough to ease up once she sets sail. I've tried long distance relationships, and they don't seem to work out for me in the long run. (in the short run, they're just fine, though.)

We got plantains, and we fed them to one another. (that's as romantic as anyone will see in a public post of mine, I suspect)

At the club:

Tony the Bartender, meh.
Chuck the barback, blah.
Miyah, Bartender / Waitstaff in training: Awesome.
Steve of all trades: Nice guy
Gil - Day Manager - *great guy*
Phil - Night manager - Nice guy
Fred - What if George Hamilton and Andre the Giant Had a Love-child. Whitest teeth in the known universe.
MP - Woo!
Parish - sharky
Diane - Sweet as pie, likes white russians (the drink) a lot

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( Quick moment of Politics in image format )

via uberbastard and freewayblogger

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Keyhole Becomes Google Earth - Holy Moley, quite an upgrade! - thanks wickenden!

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1 year ago - , hurricane season begins, diseases database, map24's awesome zoom, WAKAW!, Dan Tardy visit, piccies of fembots & crane boats, found sounds

2 years ago - MacGuffin, New TV (broken), There Shirts, hoverboarding

3 years ago - new 2nd monitor, tasty tea

4 years ago - anchorite, Iraq frog missile, my first sighting of that annoying java kill email that fooled Danny's wife, evil news, poll about how you feel about people, banjo player joke, rave reviews of Zone alarm & commentary about spyware, coprolite, I hear the first story about Ornj's fish Genocide & panda hut

5 years ago - Awakened too early, used to have an embedded real genius sound file.

7412 -

Raining like all the doggies in doggie heaven were let out into the yard at the same time.

First day of hurricane season, and it looks like Ma Nature is making the effort to drive a point home. I had food delivered for lunch today - BBQ tofu burger and fries. yummy, and they made a point of giving me lots of hot tater-sticks this time. (last go-round, I suspect the driver may've gotten munchies on the way over.)

any hurricane-related purchases for the next 2 weeks is tax-exempt, and home depot is doing an additional discount too. I'm due to pick up a new cooler, I think.

Water is coming down in huge, heavy drops, and the sky's cloudy.

I'd love to be home curled up in a ball under a cool sheet with a nice nap now.

7413 - via samizdata

It is astonishing that a potential law could even reach the stage of being voted on in the USA that says if you witness or 'become aware' that neighbors or friends have broken the law with narcotics (which presumes you are a competent judge of that), you will be compelled by law to denounce them to the police. Failure to do so means prosecution and the threat of a two year sentence yourself if convicted of simply minding your own business. Even if you disagree with the drug laws, you will be threatened with prison if you do not actively help enforce them against other people.