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Visited MP for a bit in the morning, and it was certainly the highlight of my day. We had breakfast and hung out a bit, and then she headed to her sister's place in Miami for a BBQ. She's staying in town until the 14th, and then will be in Colombia until Mid-September. I'll miss her quite a bit... thank goodness for email and telephony!
I stayed in Fort Lauderdale to visit with my brother. It took a while... he took the route 50 up, and was out of sorts... fell asleep on the bus, and hopped off in a semi-stupor. He met me at the Movie theater, and I bought us tickets to see Land of the Dead. He Sprung for nachos, and we settled in for some down and dirty zombie-action.
About 30 minutes into the film, he asked me if he was on a bike when we met... I replied no, and he got distressed... turns out he left it on the bus bike rack, and forgot it when he hopped off at 2pm. He stepped into the aisle to call Broward County Transit and report it missing, while I continued to watch the movie.
An hour later, I'm stepping out of the theater, wondering where my brother is. It turns out he was on hold, and fell asleep waiting for someone from lost and found to answer him because it was the 4th holiday.
So, he missed the movie. He didn't seem too upset about it. We walked back to the bus terminal, where we asked f the bike had been turned in yet.... the 5:30 bus was just rolling up, and lucky for him, bro's bike was riding on the front. Happy ending there, anyhow.
Oh, I nearly forgot, between the theater and the terminal, two homeless guys walking together tried to shake us down for a handout. Bro said "sorry, I've got nothing..." and one of the bums gave him a dirty look and said "bullshit". There was almost a fight, but avoided it because nobody wanted to get the police involved. I held bro back, and BS's friend restrained him. I thought for sure that I was either going to have to take some swings in myself.
Random Scotto factoid: I used carry a straight razor for self-defense. I don't now. I'm more worried about AIDS than I am of an attacker's fists. I've thought about walking with a cane again, in order to have some sort of club handy, but I'd rather have two hands free during my walks... same reason I'm not crazy about umbrellas. I fear carrying a gun.
Land of the Dead was good... and I actually sympathized a little for the zombies. A few pointless scenes, but I rather liked the Cameo by Simon Pegg, too. I especially liked Zombie Clown and Zombie Moses.
Evil Dead: Regeneration - looks good.
A 2,600-year-old corpse has been discovered in the moors of northern Germany. It's not the only one. Such finds are frequent, but have posed an increasingly large riddle: Why were so many of the bodies victims of violence and dismemberment?
Were ancient Germans fiendish torturers, or did these anthropologists watch too many horror flicks?
Lil bit is too much of a cutie! I need Insulin!
Pictures from yesterday's walkies, Post-MP, pre-Bro ... clicking sends to larger sizes.
These are the things in my neighborhood... ( want to see? )
If you'd like to visit them yourself, feel free... geoblogger map locations
UJIKO search engine... pretty cute interface.
Basic principle: each time you visit a new site, you are gaining one point of expertise. With every 10 points, you move to the next level. Your search engine is mutating, new buttons appear giving you access to advanced features.
The journal of the man who has been arrested for allegedly having something to do with taking that Idaho brother and sister (they disappeared 3 days after his last journal entry. - thanks for the update, jb! (see also, his removed website, saved at archive.org) ( Read more... )
He went to prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year old boy at gun point...got out and was then charged with sexually assaulting another child in Minnesota. Now, the Idaho brother & sister issue.
from his 8/24/04 entry - "I am now 99.99 percent sure I will move to a different state as soon as I graduate and can find a job in a state where I'm not required to register. "
Moment of Lyric:
( ... )
Time is flying like an arrow
And the clock hands go so fast they make the wind blow
And it makes the pages of the calender go flying out the window one by one
Til a hundred years are on the front lawn
And the old familiar things are mostly all gone
But the old sombrero just keep hovering on
Hovering sombrero hover on
Don't be burdened by regrets
Or make your failures an obsession
Or become embittered or possessed
By ruined hopes remember
( ... )
( Question & Answer time )
1 year ago - more Vizcaya pics, vandal of Venice, veggie benefits, Lego Spidey, Estonian wife-carrying, small-world syndrome
2 years ago - Newt and fireworks, bacta tank, printing plate castle, giant monster games
3 years ago - 8-legged freaks, planting, many pictures that no longer link (curse you picture stage!), Harry potter fake book out, baby laff, octothorpe poll, 7
4 years ago - Growing impatient, beverage poll, evil news, cudgel
5 years ago - horrid stream of thought unformatted entry...I still eat much the same stuff, introspection
