blather, Scotto! ramble about unconnected things!

[scottobear]

too many meetings at work today! bleh bleh bleh!

tomorrow will be more of the same. I do like having a fresh project to work on though... now it's just a question of finding out *exactly* what people want and expect of the program.

As this will be internal, a "do what I want, not what I say" client won't be as much of a problem. (gadzooks...I hope, anyhow)

The back is better today, a minor twinge still, but not enough to be any kind of distraction from my work, fortunately. I forsee walkies being reactivated by thursday or so.

brain is in gearhead mode... producing more code than story-stuff. lovely forms, queries, and variables are coming together in a very pleasing way. Also, Tulpa is blooming as a seed in the back of my head, though. I think I have a better idea of the island where the people live, and the mediterranian culture. I have been hearing and reading a bit about the Romany culture, and I suspect a little of that will find its way into there. sweetalyssm is a muse, I admit. dreamdancer is also helping out quite a lot. Thanks!

Rowanda beat out South Florida for the lightning strike capital of earth. We're number 2!



Scientists cross pigs with spinach?

I'm curious...how many of you guys remember 1979? Like Jimmy Carter, The Energy Crisis, All the gas stations with no fuel?

I was 10 years old then...I didn't live in Florida yet, but we visited friends there in the keys. I remember carrying a 1978 world almanac with me *all the time* places. It was my source for nifty numbers and information, all kinds of trivia. Within a month that summer... July... I knew the whole book front to back, back to front. I still have a lot of that information locked inside my head, taking up space that phone numbers or some other memory use other folks might have. I sort of wish I had a stronger interest in music or language at that age... science and history was much more appealing to me at the time. I was one of those weirdo kids that actually knew all the presidents and vice presidents from Geroge Washington on, and could tell little goofy factoids about at least the more interesting ones, like Grover Cleveland (who was extra cool to me, because he was named for a muppet and a city in Ohio) being president two different terms, with Benjamin Harrison in between. I remember wanting John Anderson to win the 1980 election, because I didn't like Reagan or Carter...it was the first year that I paid attention to elections and ad campaigns, though I didn't understand very much of it. I thought the debates were interesting, and remember asking my Dad about Ayatollah Khomeni, and why the hostages were taken in Iran.

Weird, what flashes back, spinning off of the back of my skull... I remember news reports telling what day it was with the hostages... day 59, day 134, day 332. it lasted longer than a year.

Well, I'm going to bed... maybe to dream of my sweetheart and I as kids, running around, and goofing. Sweet dreams, dear journal, and wish me the same.

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[shoo.livejournal.com]

YIKES that looks bad.....

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

*chaka-BOOM!*

[lonita.livejournal.com]

<u gawd that photo is stunningly gorgeous... wow.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hmmm?

[lonita.livejournal.com]

Doh! I typed a < in there by accident!

I said the photo was stunningly gorgeous. :>

[ldy.livejournal.com]

I remember listening to an AM transistor radio in 1979 and thinking it was cool.

Here are the top songs from that year :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

babe by styx!!

ymca!

what a hoot!

[edbook.livejournal.com]

we rarely have lightning here in western WA... having grown up in PA, and living a few other places, I miss it. we have no hurricanes or tornados either.... but volcanos and earthquakes and californicators moving here we do have.... When I travel and see lightning, its a bit unnerving because I have gotten used to being without...

Peace

[kidalicious.livejournal.com]

That is an awesom picture!! I really miss big electrical storms. Where I gerw up in Australia was incredibly dry - we had droughts that lasted years - my sister was 3yrs old the first time she saw rain, and she freaked out totally!! But I digress - we used to get the most amazing electrical storms - huge banks of boiling purple blue black clouds that swept across the sky from side to side and then lightning that split the sky into fragments - it came out diagonally - across the sky not just down, and forked off into jagged shards. It would last for hours and not a single drop of rain would be part of the storm. The hair all over your body would rise up to greet the storm, and crackle for hours afterwards. I miss lightning so much. My parents were Americans who hadn't really seen storms like this before so they were in as much awe as we kids - and would even wake us as youngsters so we could all sit on the verandah and watch the storms - the neighbours thought they were mad to do that - but those are some of my favourite memories.

Your picture has really made me nostalgic! Thanks!!:)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

:)

[meredith.livejournal.com]

that picture is 100% florida. :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

land of sunshine! :)

[meredith.livejournal.com]

i was just thinking... FLAT... :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

flat and sprawling, too!

biggest "natural hills" are landfill.

[meredith.livejournal.com]

i think the most elevated area where i lived was the mall (in fort myers)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

2 stories, was it?

[laurak.livejournal.com]

I was 6 in 1979 so I don't remember lots of specific things, but I do remember having to wait in long lines at the gas station. We also only had one car then, a 1976 V8 Olds Cutlass (I'd kill to have that car now!) so I remember my mom and dad making a really tight "car budget" and we didn't do a lot of extra driving for a while.

I also remember Carter, and the hostages. I was watching the news with my parents the night the hostages were released (although that was actually in '80, wasn't it? the same day Reagan was sworn in?) I remember we had a toast for the hostages' freedom with Pepsi, it was my suggestion. :) Funny how you remember things sometimes. :)

Oh and BTW that's a great picture. Lightning is so cool!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

the piccie sums up florida storms for me.... hurricanes and lightning.

[lunalyn.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... this really dates you Scotto. I was having my first child in 1981. I have the same fuzzy type remembrances of the early 1970's and Watergate. ....and that dates me ;)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

no worries about being dated, here. :)

I wonder how many news stories are like that... hostages, john lennon being shot, first shuttle launch, loss of the discovery, and so on...

[lunalyn.livejournal.com]

I was pregnant when John Lennon was killed. I remember that day clearly. I nearly miscarried I was so overcome with grief.

"We're all Christ and we're all Hitler. We are trying to make Christ's message contemporary. We want Christ to win. What would he have done if he had advertisements, T.V., records, films and newspapers? The miracle today is communication. So let's use it."
-John Lennon '69

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

"When he said we were bigger than Jesus, I think that he meant we were taller." - Ringo

[lunalyn.livejournal.com]

"I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dream weaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40." "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dream weaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40." –John

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

I remember staying up late to watch the election stuff for the first time. I also remember staying up late into the night to watch the Jerry Lewis telethon for the first time at that age..so that's not saying much. We lived in Phoenix, my mom and I sat for what seemed like hours sometimes in order to get gas. I placed yellow ribbons around all the trees in our front yard for the hostages. i was blessed by a priest in robes who didn't speak any english & (I) became buddhist about that time, too.

yay! romani people are in my list of interests in my lj bio. :0)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Whee!

I should've known you'd be into that, too!:)

you're very cool, JB. Thought I'd let you know.