Scotto's Wall Scrawls

Saw David and Gill to the Metro station... from there, they're off to New York.

Piccies from metro [edit - to follow once a better net connection appears]

Emergency Preparedness meeting went ok, plans have to be drawn up for notifications, evacuations, and other levels of distress (boil water, etc)

After the meeting, I took a little walk by the store, an got some of those St. Patty's Day Irish "Potato" candies for BHK (coconut cream rolled in cinnamon - the candy, not Bhk)... dang yummy (both BHK and the candy)! (not these that missv pointed me to, but dang tasty, nonetheless)

We returned late, and missed going to see 300 with chrishaas and cath555 - maybe next go 'round!

Birdwatching / dinner with the In-laws (Bhk made a ploy for them to get Tigger adopted - if they don't take him, we'll very likely integrate him here with us.)

Had yummy chinese food at the in-laws with bhk, some of the best I've had in quite a while. odd not having so many delivery places, but the food is superior.

It's like reading fan fiction. It's that bad. How depressing. I love Thomas Harris' books, but this one...it even has a climax where our hero looks skyward and yells, "NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Which is what I did, when I read it.

I thought I posted my 6am entry, but maybe I forgot to hit submit. I'll check when I get back to the grotto. D'oh!

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Warm, still air on the balcony this morning. Newt's lazing on the edge of the table, and we're both enjoying sounds of the outdoors. The fountain in center of the lake, a light variety of birdsong, and Blackie having an argument with Faraday while I type on lappie's mushy keyboard.

Slacking by spending far too long on lj, catching up with my reading and commenting hither and yon, where applicable. graypumpkin had a moment of synchronization with one of the artists for Teen Titans (and The Coming Legion of Super Heroes cartoon) over a third-rate Marvel villain by the name of Gamecock.

I don't mind 'em, but if you wantot avoid LJ's Cprod boxes, check out this post on how to block 'em from your browser.

There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background.

Met with the momster after work yesterday, and reviewed some options regarding the grandmomster. Her brother has power of attorney, but it looks like he's cleaning her out while grandmuh-mah slowly fades from reality on double doses of sedatives and Alzheimer's's. minimal highlights for future ref: mom 25%, di 25%, doug 50%, after sig's college is paid. Speaking of little sig, bigger sig's bought a building in Colorado and will be doing some more real estate shortly. There are a lot of sibling infighting on mom's side of the family. Dad's side just dies early from accidents.

GP and Kat are in Florida for the next week or so, arrived Saturday sometime. May get together with 'em either tonight or tomorrow, if the stars are right. (They have a very demanding schedule when in town, and understandably so... both sets of parents live down here, and they want 'em as much as they can get 'em.), got to talk to GP yesterday on the phone for a while, and it was a fine time - mentions were made of the insanity of genius, and how people can breed for a longer period now, and family politics. (The youngest child will be the baby, even if they have children of their own. Interesting that both GP and Kat are both last-borns to older parents. My Folks had me when my dad was 23, and Mom was 21.)

(Though it seems other vacationers are Killer bees)

Wonderful rain today... classic Florida big drops in wind that causes it to fall at about a 45 degree angle. I'm glad my porch has enough of a roof overhang to stop things from getting soaked... nice to sit out there, soak up the ozone smell from the thunderstorm, and just soak up the sights and sounds around me. Not a bad time to do laundry... made everything smell sort of rainy-fresh that was hung up out back, though it took forever to dry.

Finally finished re-downloading Dr. Who 2005 season and the Christmas special; Burned the dvd. Hopefully, I'll remember to hand them off to GP and Kat. (and another set to Danny when I see him next week). They look even better in High Def.

Next series, HBO's Rome. I need to get that to a few people on my reading list.

from an old Marvel Super heroes activity book - I colored it a bit, but just to clean up a photograph used as a scan. That's the original quote, looking weird in a square voice "balloon".

I just updated the geocode location on my journal... it's a lot simpler to do now.

Now I just have to reapply it to Newtcam and my homepage proper.

Maybe if I get bored enough, I'll write a greasemonkey script and submit it to LJ to sort of automate it... but I know they're not too crazy about stuff messing with the console.

There's also a current location field now for updating via the web, but it seems to be unrelated. (Though that one will make carrying my gps around kind of neat for walkabout posts in the future, or location-encoding photos taken)