Scotto's Wall Scrawls

"Come out... come out... where-ever you are. To meet the young la-ady who fell from a star" Glenda was such a cool witch. Seemed like she was out of it the whole time, but then again, she did ride around in a bubble.

Dave might be giving me his old Mac this weekend... which would be very cool for doing development even more cross-platform. Now, I'm thinking about what the Network name on the Hive might be. (Current Network elements are Queen (big Brain), Worker (Lappie), and Drone (Palm).) So far, Pupa was offered, and I like that... but I figure I have until it gets strapped into the network (oh boy! AppleTalk! I haven't dealt with that in about 2 years...we'll see how hard or easy it is to add it to the hive at all. I'd like to share the dsl net connection and files) . I'm excited... I had a line on a free mac before, but the bottom fell out of that deal. This machine is the last one before the IMAC candy-colored ones came out... it's beige. :)

You know, one day, I'll have a lovely library in my home, with overstuffed chairs, wireless net connections, tasty scents of sandalwood and such, high bookcases reaching to the ceiling, and plenty of well read, loved books on the shelves. Meanwhile, I'll have to be happy with boxes in my closet. Maybe this weekend I'll get some shelves, and make more of my texts simpler to access.

Against the voting public, I went to see lost souls, on the logic that the others will be around longer, and therefore more accessible in the future. I'm glad that we went... it was quite well done, frightening, and well done. Lots of twists and turns, a few plot holes, but a nice scary ride. Also Picked up pumpkins for next weekend's gourd-carving... now I have a week to decide what sort of face/design to put on Ol' Jack.

Robb's is a very cool shape, sort of a "muppet Bert" slightly tapered cone, with a neat haircut-swirly stem on top. Mine's a more classic rusty-orange, and round. I opted out of picking up two...Also went to best buy, and decided against buying crimson skies or the AOE2 update... I'm doing ok in the games department.... besides, it gives folks stuff to get me for Xmas and B-day. :)

Got to shop for the rest of my costume tomorrow, but aside from that, the day is free...

http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2000/10/10/local/VETT10.htm

Illegal here in Florida, the distribution of N2O is controlled... not like we couldn't get it...

That stuff is like hippie crack. I've done it once or twice, but do not plan on doing it again. I mean, if Hunter S. Thompson says it's bad... well. Damn. My big fear is that it cuts of oxygen to the brain. thats what makes it work. Uh... no more for me thanks... I'm glad that that stuff is a part of my past. A fine source of short-term hallucination and tunnel-vision... but that was my only real experience. some mild geometrics and flashing light.

Anyway, good morning!

Last night at the Salty dog... it was interesting, if rather uneventful. Did something unusual, I drank a large quantity of beer. About 9. Had a conversation with a couple of folks who appeared intelligent, until they demanded to talk politics. feh. I opt out of that one, and play some pool with the only other neutral party in that debate, a guy named Mike. Nice fellow, a better pool player than I am. Apparently he has a band that plays at the pier on Tuesday nights (right across the street) so, I may go and see what the band is about... he says mostly cover stuff, but a couple of original bits.

Got a few lovely invites over the past week. Cathi & Dave want me, little Bro, and Robb to come over for the 5th annual gourd-slaughter and knifing in a few weeks. I never seem to make it to that, for some reason... hopefully, with 2 buddies reminding me about it, it'll be doable this time around.

I missed seeing Cider out and about online this weekend. :( I hope she'll poke a nose in soon.

No everway.

No movie with Dave.

Looks like I'll have time to pick up my groceries today after all.

Dang. Empty day. S'ok, though....I got a more than reasonable share of funtime yesterday.

::chortle::

A delightful day was had, indeed.

Got up at about 6am, showered and took a trip up coast about an hour to Jupiter (Juno Beach) where the swells were breaking at about chest to head level with Dave, Cathi, Derek and Luna the dog. (Juno is a dog beach, so it was cool) As the swells were so high, it was a little too rough for me to do any real surfing, but Dave and Derek did quite well, riding for a good 40-60 yards out there at times, cutting back and forth up to the pier. Cathi did a lot of boogie boarding, but the tide got to her, and she came back and rested after a very brief stay out there. I, on the other hand, remained on the shore, tossing the tennis ball and walking up and down the beach with Luna. Lots of really neat people out there, other dog walkers, girlfriends of the surfers out in the water, folks out getting tans. On the boardwalk area leading to the parking lot, I met a lovely family from Australia, and we talked about how spiffy each other's accents were. The one guy did a good impersonation of a New Zealander, and a New Jersey brogue too. They laughed at my Paul Hogan 'Guh-day Mite' bit, and were very prod of the whole Olympic thing coming up. I got some color, especially on my legs, which rarely see daylight. It was kind of sharky out, some blacktips, saw one about 6 feet, so that was the end of that. End of beach day, about 2pm, finished with peanut butter & honey sammiches and watermelon chunks. So good. We drove home, and I took a nap for about an hour. What is it about a day in the sun that wears me out? The Nap was solid, and Newton nestled comfortably along my right side, head resting on my shoulder. I wish I'd had the cam on to capture him... so cute. I got up about an hour later, and gave Robby a ring,to see if he wanted to catch a flick, as we'd previously planned. We went to 'The Art of War' a surprisingly good action flick. Very full movie, no boring bits, and quite entertaining. We went to the 50's diner for supper, I ate like a horse, drank about 3 or 4 liters of pop with my conch fritters. Yes the 50's diner serves fountain drinks and conch fritters. is good. that was my opener for grilled cheese, and the pickle and even the slaw (which I rarely enjoy anywhere) was quite tasty.

Now settling down with a tape of the Jackie Chan Cartoon, (hopefully the schedule kept on target) I'm not expecting to enjoy it, but I'm going to give it 3 chances anyhow, as old Jackie is just a neato dude.

Tomorrow is the everway game, hopefully finishing up plot thread of field agent researching the source of a new trade commodity.... It's getting a little old, and hard to develop the character for me. Trying hard not to be a sarcastic wise-ass guy, as the character is a driven, hard ass type. I broke character a few times last one there.