Scotto's Wall Scrawls

I’ve been cheating quite a bit – I prefer to post verbal over visual content. I’ll admit that I like to see pictures of Christmas, family and the kitties as much as the next guy, but to me, a photograph with just a small caption is strangely silent, especially coming from me.

What have I been up to lately, dear journal? Let’s see.

On Wednesday, I went to a job fair in Northern Virginia… I’m thankful that my background allows me to qualify for a good clearance ranking. DC area seems to prefer folks with an ability to do so.

Yesterday, BHK, Chris and I went to the Mexico restaurant for supper – aside from that, I went to physical therapy and rested in bed with the boys. Tonight we’re scheduled to visit the Manspergers for some baked Ziti and good conversation – Sean has been very helpful, in helping me to seek out opportunities in this region.

I’m looking forward to a snowy day tomorrow. Supposed to be 12-20 inches in my neck of the woods!

Amy is coming to visit from the 26th to the 30th! Right on!

I’m digging the new statistics page for livejournal. Makes it easier to track hits than by hiding little sensors in each post, certainly. The “my guests” feature is especially engrossing – I never know so many flyby’s happened to old entries!

I’m glad the tv show lost is in it’s final season. I don’t hate the show… but I am tired of the hype. I watched the first season or so, and then stopped, when it occurred to me that they’d keep making shows as long as advertisers would pay to keep ‘em on the air, and not because there’s a solid plot going from beginning to end. I feel the same about Heroes, sadly.  If there had been something more engaging than “what is the answer” and one I’d never get, I’d probably dig both of those shows.

Also, I think Blade should’ve been in Twilight, not Buffy.

New Years, I’m planning on doing the Polar bear plunge, unless my health isn’t into it. Current holiday loot breakdown – all of it wonderful!

• Mom and Wilton – Oranges, Honey and assorted grove goodness from Florida.
• Ish & company –  a tin of yummy cookies, a picture of Newt drawn by Li’l bit, two wonderful tree ornaments – one says “we <3 u infinity”, and a pair of sea stars in beach gear and a great hand-done card, complete with glitter!
• Karen (Kev’s sis)– super friends Cartoon DVD (via Amazon… BHK and I didn’t recognize her married name, so it took me a sec to figure out who it was!)
• Cathy and Dave – Cookies! and three wrapped gifts to put under the tree!

Just a reminder to folks on Steam or Windows live gaming – I’m user Scottobear there (and just about everywhere else, too) – If you want to friend me there, please do! I’d love to do a little left 4 dead or borderlands with a pal. My official new year’s resolution for 2010 – do the yearly countdown daily again, if possible.
 
1 year ago – Dexter season 1, gifts from Kev, and the folks in Florida, tired but getting better,
2 years ago - started my minicity - (still doing ok, though neglected), icy footing, f'ing programming, tell me meme, my snazzy new custom sneakers
3 years ago - Dinner with C&D, Big Brain, Xmas card, silly holiday lj toys
4 years ago - Xmas card, condo Xmas party, calm a llama down
5 years ago - salty seas, Christmas toy, year in review, Celebrex, anime fans, con folk
6 years ago - trade invites for play $$, dreams
7 years ago - How to attain old age, got my epidural
8 years ago - Crime & Punishment, heterodox, evil news, HP question, pooter poop, bagpipe, egoboo, giant bee
9 years ago - met Tarpo (I still have the holiday mix cd) and Isis, LJ sea Chantey, AOK-ing, Christmas Blues
10 years ago – heat miser / snow miser song.

This morning, We all made a dunkin’ donuts run and then saw Adam off to school. Got more than our share of “DD car / firdge magnets” – I may do some crafts with them later.

Adjusted Newtcam for a bigger pic – 640 x 480 now, rather than half that. . Just looked at the cam- I’m reflected in the window.

Interview for a system administrator gig tomorrow – If it goes well, I’ll get some good clearance as well as a good job. We’ll see. In any event, since it’s a government gig I shaved off the beard and ‘stache.

A little bit rainy today… best time to do my work research.

1 year ago – newtcam pyecam pix

2 years ago – office bird/window washer, ring o rama, knight rider xmas, dentist

3 years ago - Visiting Weez & Boop @ Sanibel
Pictures - Sanibel Island

4 years ago - grammy hospice, moving, ts gamma
Pictures - Storm Path

5 years ago - time goes, visitors, beard, music, walkies thoughts, gd on archive, weekend check-'em-outs

6 years ago - memes, rubber monsters, super heroes, pestered by CS, whistles, newtcam by skylight, mild MD drama

7 years ago - Haiku, Robert Culp, projects, bro lies to me

8 years ago - walking, TG pressures, Astley and his grey market goods, abc meme, morning move poll, misc news

9 years ago - gloating, monkey brains, Alton brown

10 years ago - Newt breaks 2 lbs

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Saw Chris Naille on TV yesterday morning - forgot to mention what a great job he does on the weather. I wouldn't mind seeing him go full-time on either 7 or 8 !

Rough day, got walkies in - saw a wet puffball kitty, and cross-eyed orange under an awning. 

Dinner with the in-laws - they brought over creamy peas and ziti, plus lettuce wedges and chocolate silk pie!

Picture - clicks embiggen.



1 year ago - napkin hangman, bhk pic, got pyecam at a yard sale, many games, Oshi, (Did I ever send Ray & Kat the Larry the Zombie for Fluxx??), mid-air dolphin collision, naked gardening.

2 years ago - Bro arrested, 40 lb cat, freecol

3 years ago - lj bumps, free legal streaming shows, mail form ilene and bubbles, superman returns, ad-free lyrics, wooden pc case mods,

4 years ago - no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song

5 years ago - teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos

6 years ago - words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties

7 years ago - entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such

8 years ago - diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin poll

Rainy day this morning - took the raincoat rather than the overcoat. Slipped a bit in the mud at the station - kept balance, but my shoes and my back are paying the price.

Saw the "Truth Truck " at L'enfant Plaza (note - link can be easily considered offensive)

Reading the first book from the Nightside series BHK found for me off of bookmooch - . Fantasy Noir stuff... first 30 pages are entertaining so far. I got the fourth book at a B.I.G. booksale about a year ago, and hadn't opened it yet.

Need to play munchkin, or one of our other games - nice to have a no tv night.

Feeling pretty sore - hitting the sack early. g'nite, dear journal.

1 year ago - drop.io (gimme something!), creaky, taxes, body/health issues, NPPR cookie monster interview, IE7 only sites bleah, writers block quiz answer

2 years ago - Pictures of Llamas!, Slugs, video game goodies for BHK and me, booksale, BHK invades my journal caveman-style

3 years ago - hanging out at murphy's, dan plans, music sharing, quizzes, good friday, commander usa

4 years ago - work, club visit, poorhouse, Tomi visit, mai kai tiki torch night, figa, aliases, admiration meme (999 entries ago)

5 years ago - memory sparks, adp issues with new hire

6 years ago - jkg, stikfas, pictures

7 years ago - library cats, vending machine art, The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, & Body Language Cues, plants, middle earth poll, poop

8 years ago - touch of evil, dsl, love, sperm

HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY, Li'L BIT!

It freaks me out a little that I've been keeping a journal here since before she was a year old.

Fat flakes of Snow today! Turned to rain later on, but at least I got a little touch of white all over the landscape for an hour or so.

A World Without Chocolate? Without Conservation Efforts, Cacao Could One Day Be in Short Supply

Newt gets around for a sleepyhead.

Veggie-style frito pie for dinner tonight! Played scratch -offs - we got two $1 tickets, won a $1.

1 year ago - Li'l Bit 8, reading harry dresden, shots, lemongrass, best buy, xmas lights down, resting

2 years ago - tracks in the snow pic, ghost rider, synchronicity with GP and Kat.

3 years ago - compusa saga continues, C&C generals, Li'l Bit 6!, song meme, newtcam up,

4 years ago - Lil Bit #5!, basketball w/danny, netflix du jour, loonatics 2.0

5 years ago - There 2.0, stress

6 years ago - expected last day at FMM, web-subscribers, barbie sex, Nordis hoses me.

7 years ago - Newt wakies, proxo, palm entry, haiku/ D&D class alignment

8 years ago - SOP, Territorial, haiku combat

Back to work! Light dusting of big fat flakes of powdery snow which was pretty in the morning, but melted away before noon came.

Larry and Chris came over for dinner of potluck leftovers - and made fresh hot dogs. Well, it was nice having them over, in any event!

BHK is worried about neighborhood kitty - she's already named it Priscilla. I think Pris will be ok - she's very healthy and clean... If we keep seeing her, we'll make her a little bed and give her some food.

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"Google is adding the option to Google Maps to track your position based on your cell phone's proximity to towers, or internal gps.. Think 'locator beacon.' Paraphrased: This would be good for people wanting to let their friends know where they are or for parents wanting to know where their children are at all times."

I'm scottobear@gmail.com there if you want to add me and try to track where I'm going. :)
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Men's Health has a listing of the 20 worst foods of 2009, all of which fit the description of "calorie bombs". For instance, the worst "healthy" sandwich is the Blimpie Veggie Supreme, which contains 1100 calories, and 33 grams of saturated fat. The worst food is a shake from Baskin Robbins that has 2600 calories.
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1 year ago - coughing, eggplant lasagna, black diamond question, blue crab harvest worst

2 years ago - planning the garden w/pix, DRYER FIRE, pomonkey, updated bio, newt and pye touching in the loft pix (this is still one of my faves )

3 years ago - childhood goat trauma foundation, sleepless in seattle (stalker),
Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches, deerfield has a different sort of fauna than ftl, rainy, quizzes,

4 years ago - smoother sailing, sleeping in airports, Bigfoot 911, weather, Trism lyric

5 years ago - 7 sins meme, hand-foot coordination, stood up for b-day dinner

6 years ago - dreams, haiku, Irish curses, random politeness factoid, more palm-cam pics, nice cards!

7 years ago - Moonflower haiku, bus rides, tulpa-folk, what do people see quiz, miss cleo got in trubbah, quiet apartments

8 years ago - Snorks vs. Smurfs, recovering from sickies, lovey-loves, butch or femme

Taken on Walkabout with BHK - beautiful day - it's like spring outside. I hear snow is coming for my birthday, though.


I slept late - gut was bugging me well into the night. We did our "morning walk" at about 1pm. Spent much of the day taking it easy, reading.


1 year ago - ejector seat chair, stone pillows, international race and gender political thoughts, waxy monkey frogs, rain, M$ to buy Y!, nose buttering,

2 years ago - party planning, haircut, TV

3 years ago - The Matador, rock the casbah, bday card, fp with kev, Superman, Batman, Jesus-man and the problem of the corpse on Hollywood Blvd.

4 years ago - no new drama, eryx b'day giftie, sick day, tea-orisinal, nifty mashups, musical mel, movie meme, oddest book titles, be a prostitute or lose your benefits

5 years ago - word association poll, top 100 movies, Trapping Jehovah's Witnesses in forcefields, Division of Forestry, Farewell KB!

6 years ago - Happy New Year!, palm-cam pics, e-texts

7 years ago - moon/Menstruation connection(or not), dreamy-dreams, elephant talk, pictures, including Newt in a box. Man lives in an airport for 11 years, cousin stuff

8 years ago - Got Birthday arranged to be off, dreams of ancient rome, schedule, shrunken head apples, my first b-day card

Back to work today - Still plenty sick, but I need to get things taken care of, and I'm not dying or anything.

Snow falling as I hopped aboard the train - and it stuck to the ground, crunching underfoot as I walked the last bit from the bus to the office door. It stuck until about midday. It's about 14 degrees tonight, got up to 32 with the sun out.

Confirmation on Feb 2 off - looks like I'm going to see Punxy Phil after all! Also got the 19th off, so nice long weekend - 20th is off for all in dc - inauguration traffic nightmare averted!

Christmas Tree is outside, drying by the fire pit. I suspect we'll use it to heat the ring, or cover it in suet and feed the little birdies. We still have fairy lights on the gutter of the house, but they are unlit - probably will come down this weekend.

BHK and I have been listening to old Time radio on XM - She seemed to really enjoy Lucy Ball in "my favorite Husband" on the ride home.

Picked up $4 worth of scratch offs of our weekly gambling habit - won $6! a $2 profit quickly absorbed by her craving for slim jims.

1 year ago - ides of January, snow, sublimation, veggie meatloaf yum!, 1970's tv detectives, chimp declared a person, psych

2 years ago - moved into the brown house

3 years ago - nudge (I like it now), my latest superpower, electrocution dream, soloing, caribs, pandas make more sense, stardust probe returns,

4 years ago - Jambi back after the great LJ crash of '05, William Schmidt's art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA

5 years ago - DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck

6 years ago - smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires

7 years ago - nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols

8 years ago - pictures of me with tarpo at No-nose maldanado's, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things

Still pretty darned psyched about going to see Punxatawney Phil on my B'day. I am concerned a bit about the weather, though. Last year, it was 27 degrees, not horrid, but pretty dang cold.

It's been snowing there all this week, and it's only going to get chillier!

We should stock up the love cube with some hot cocoa, cider, and plenty of blankets, too. Oh, and plenty of Polka Music for the 5 hour drive. :)


Best? I'll just go with first that comes to mind. Maybe I'll come back and fill in more detail - maybe not.

Allison - my love.
Barefoot
Creaky - Back, hip, jaw... a little work around the joints would be nice.
Determined - not much of a quitter here.
Eyesight - one of my better physical traits, at least as far as viewing the surface of things. No x-ray vision, sadly.
Food - When food is prepared to my liking, I get a sense of comfort. BHK is an amazing cook. MD has far better food than FL, too.
Goofy
Helpful
Intelligent
Journal-y
Kind
Large. (I'm fairly close to Bluto's not as mean Twin - tall and overweight both)
Monkeys!
Newton
Orcs
Pyewacket
Queries (both SQL, and everyday life)
Reading
Sleepy 
Telephone-hater
Ubuntu
Vegetarian - (Not too severe - I'll do eggs/diary, and the occasional sea creature with more than 4 legs)
Wombat
Xorn. Why? Because I have a soft spot in my heart for tripod creatures... the mouth-on-top eating precious metals and gems is a bonus. What was I going to say? X-ray? Xylophone? I nearly went with XXXL, but I figure it's covered at L.
Yeti
Zombies (though they are getting a trifle passe')



1 year ago - discombobulated, capsule tv reviews, tigger love

2 years ago - newt and pye pix, saw night at the museum

3 years ago - 2 week delay on big brain, skipper chuck, cool for Florida, movie meme

4 years ago - Bonded bro, lj 6a, comment spam from south of the border

5 years ago - enjoying 2-monitors, PT working

6 years ago - bad day, the ice cube defense, SOP, sexual predator data

7 years ago - Telefutura, game show network, newt shenanigans, my first recorded post on the Usenet, meemee deleted, wonka

8 years ago - Pix quit, Victorian love, spongebob, angry beavers, sweetalyssm's art, Chinese zodiac, Cold Mountain (Everyone I've talked to about it has loved the book, but hated the ending.), peanut butter and nanner sammiches, mother goose