Scotto's Wall Scrawls

picking lettuce from the garden for the tonights taco salad

Never did make it to Surrat house - Instead, we watched My Name is Bruce with Sean and Duncan. Teddy Grahams, hummus and hot dogs w/ kraut for all! Jay missed out, because he was sick at home.

Today was another stay at home day - took a hard walk around the neighborhood, and some chitty-chats with William Callas and Chris.

Visited Coffee Tea and Whimsy, and got some crabber crackers, a keychain giftie for BHK and caramel sauce for all!

Chris won her first-played game of Can't Stop vs BHK and me, while Larry mowed the yard.

Later, the in-laws came back over for quiche with peas & broccoli from the garden, and we watched some ocean documntaries and ate vanilla ice cream with the aforementioned sauce... and blueberries!

Did I mention that BHK and I went to see Star Trek last Tuesday, dear journal? I seem to have skipped over it. I liked it just fine, thinking it's #3 on my list of favorite star Trek movies, after #1 (Galaxy Quest) and #2 (Wrath of Khan). BHK enjoyed it, too, probably more than I did! We may be taking William to see UP on Tuesday matinee. (Which I've been looking more forward to than Trek, actually!)

1 year ago - haircut for alan's party, blooming tea, tina & matt, epidural, robokill, RIP Bill Elder

2 years ago - mortgage, topology, newtcam2, condo issues, firefly and mosquitoes are out, linkdump

3 years ago - may ends, dr octagon, mad now unfunny in color, key west flare vigilante, fragged with bro, blood / allergy sticks, me as jeanbunny, mm flakes back

4 years ago - depth perception, bald oscars, intel drm chips, santana, nice monday, mp3 mashups (new locations here), pros and cons, Lost is Zork (even moreso with the green monitor), connections to people, fish heads, chipmunk stripes

5 years ago - Memorial day, hell in miniature, new mouse, zombie, quiet day, little house

6 years ago - comment screening, monty burns, ch-57, silly newt, matrix reloaded explanation

7 years ago - Prezzies and rain, springer, peanut butter soda, tempestmir introduces Newt to Newt. LRsetup program crashes out, sleeping Friday five

8 years ago - pervicacious, time changes, Mikey passes away, walkies, Hubris and Gnosis, heh yuh dun?, evil news

9 years ago - polytron, country music

The English Beat put on a really good show - did a few songs from their General Public days, too.

Chris and BHK went hog wild in the front of the house... Chris got a little... exuberant with the trimming of our now non-existent hedge.

1 year ago - nutshell list, happy toy galactus pic, mexico, cranky

2 years ago - follow-up interview at IANA, fixing linkedin to meet then-current info

3 years ago - walnut gold-trading babies, house guest plans, bro to court, get crank radio-light, scooby guests,

4 years ago - wep key cracking, chico crime, martial arts and felt, sentences, RR fixit, Sweet Strawberry Jam!, stopped someone from doing something stupid and permanent.

5 years ago - Bro crap (status remains the same), vaseline, singing science, speak & spell, moved to madcow

6 years ago - Skull dream, Scooby-doo fun & book henge in There, Ghetto Fries?

7 years ago - Pam got bell's Palsy that lasted for a bit. Ann and Bob have adisagreement. Beans. Gummi Bears vs. Fingerprint Sensors, Charlie's LJ mentioned

8 years ago - connubial, cadaverine, flamingos pink because they eat shrimp, tension thinking

9 years ago - My livejournal will be born in 1 day

Slow wake up day, taking it easy. I'm pretty creaky, and BHK is in more need of an oil can than I am, today.

BHK made me some lovely chocolate pancakes for breakfast... so much that we couldn't finish 'em. There's still one mammoth tasty circle in the fridge for later.

We went upstairs and relaxed a bit - caught up with afew episodes of reaper (end of season 1) and then I went on walkabout on my own - BHK was too out of it to go today, so I made a quick route, but saw Zorro and a few of the other kitties - see photos below. Garden is coming along - cauliflower and cabbage both are growing nicely.

Watched Castle, the Unusuals (BHK fell asleep, so I also started meet the spartans... dumb movie, but it was what I was looking for at the moment.)


1 year ago - mother's day, south county cafe, set up pyecam

2 years ago - guessing c gets the gig, suspecting my temp gig will dry up, hot chips, palm doodle, time dilation

3 years ago - 8m of water flood sim, 12 hours at air and sea, bunny-newt, brush fire sunset, dolphins use names

4 years ago - bro on my list, sickies, quiz, why's it called a fly?, summer holidays

5 years ago - Bear Armor on ebay, smile, Man Fatally Bitten by Sexually Aroused Horse, random lj poems

6 years ago - first incident of Frankie the mooch, I win my 4th There-buggy, Newt Brings me a Lizard for Mom's Day, Condompillars, I join friendster (and never really do anything with it.)

7 years ago - saw Robb online, Saw Spidey with Jenjen, playing a lot of computer games, a tattoo that is lost, and I don't remember.

8 years ago - evil world news, nice evening at home

our first cauliflour of the new garden blooms!

Also, Free comic book day... third since we've been married. :)

Cosmic Encounter at Aardvark - maybe we'll pick it up sometime? We got an apples to apples expansion set.

1 year ago - technology make us ruder?, 27 dresses, massive

2 years ago - freeciv / freecol, lj posts turned to audio posts, annmarie garden

3 years ago - 8333, palm diet, catagoriz, meanface, bro drama, stupid math tricks, tales to astonish

4 years ago - Cyberman cameo, all caps, bush mashup, best way to fight a vampire, Spanish frog, near-noggin hit, bus-cam pics, pulp book covers, zombie raccoon pic, geek/travel, interview meme

5 years ago - nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes

6 years ago - highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues

7 years ago - lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving

8 years ago - misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUP

Farmers Market - BHK and Chris picked up a great number of flowers and plants for the garden, I spent the day seated for the most part. 

Garden was dusted for slugs and bugs - hopefully the squirrels will stay out of the lettuce.

Got the 2nd book in the Nightside series at th library - #3 came via bookmooch, and #4 was the BIG book sale a few months back. another book sale tomorrow - I hope I'm up to making the rounds.

1 year ago - Gypsy moths and tent caterpillars, married 18 months, shot?, ledo's, haiku2, hardy heron, people lost in the past, ban_set, many many palm doodles, almost Friday

2 years ago - Family Icon introduced, palm doodle of a crab and pollen, Maryland links, concert people observed, odd spam, new AV guy, deerfield lien, awesome difference between calvert and broward counties.

3 years ago - dr who, alabam, perm press, botswana rain, open dir, dionysus, ain't misbehavin', letter meme

4 years ago - anarchy online, internal monologue quiet, h-words, walkabout piccies, step into history, exploding toads, brain games

5 years ago - phone off the hook, hell froze over, pina colada almond joy, saw the hippies at a Wiggles-mania, walkabout pics

6 years ago - chupacabra, dreams, geoblog

7 years ago - bro, robomop, smurf-coloring,victim's rights amendment

8 years ago - good css, zuba pants, reds are cool, mushy

Day was a blur. Let's see -

We were up late last night - stayed nestled in bed until about 10am when we realized I had to be to the doc's by 11 in order to get my shots. (Doing it a week early, so I can skip next weekend - City-wide yard sale is something we want to hit early!

Got shots, and BHK showed me the menu to a local BBQ shack that she and the mom-in-law went to for lunch yesterday. I of course got the fried clams, which were very tasty. Most entertaining food was cornbread in the shape of a pickup truck - eaten before photographed. I'll snap the next one - it was very tasty.

We went on a little shopping expedition with the in-laws - K-mart for plants in the garden - bok choy, broccoli, cabbage - picked up some robin's eggs and nonpareils - kept the eggs (candy-coated, chocolate covered malted milk balls) and gave biscuits and non-p's to the inlaws. got more pot pie squares and tomato sauce for a future meal or two, as well.

Visited Compter Renaissance, and they really didn't have any tech that was newer than circa 1995. so much for me getting a memory upgrade or car charger for the EEE. While at K-mart, I looked into a power inverter for the love cube - all of the $30 ones were out, and the $80 was a bit too spendy for me.. not going to run a chainsaw or a fridge just yet.

Saw puppies in baby cribs again. Guy insisted that dogs I'm allergic to are hypoallergenic. Just because it doesn't shed much doesn't mean I'm not allergic.

Got home, rested a smidgen, and we had buffalo shrimp salad for dinner. I went into the other room to fix our router's security since Comcast reset it - noticed that they had the router to go to only one computer at a time. (ip locked) - fixed router, it' snow called "Green Glow" for springtime, and is passworded.

I got sick about 10 minutes after resetting the router. could be the shrimp, or just the fact that I overate - I scarfed down a lot of baked potato.

We did lights out from 8:30-9:30pm as part of an energy saving gesture called earth hour .

And now, the in-laws have gone home - We watched the Thomas Crown Affair . Not the best flick in the world - first time i had seen it all at once. Surprising that they're making a sequel next year, 11 years later.  Newton was a little trickster tonight and got all sweet at Larry, and then made an effort to smack the glasses off his face.

G'nite, dear journal! A little soda-pop to soothe the stomach, and it's off to bed!

1 year ago - alice's bar exam party, smothers brothers, eating policy, assorted piccies of my office, newt and pye getting along, doodled voice post, bus stop pic of spring,

2 years ago - nice folks at the county, cherry blossoms, spring started - pear trees, BHK into reality tv, EPC a flop, adam & tennis, easter coming up.

3 years ago - code template, interest cloud, pda cam dies, p&B in german, song tapper, bus on fire doodle

4 years ago - easter manatee, complimented, server/servant, spliced people, germs

5 years ago - Lj then and now (I spend less time now), bro, ice cream cake, Smokey & the Bandit

6 years ago - bro got me some Godzilla movies at the gift store up the road.

7 years ago - minority report poll, breakfast with Danny, grabber rabbit meme spreads, Words describing animal traits, Ketchup packet bear, Klaatu's speech, scary dream, link-to poll

8 years ago - babelizer, mushy-feelings, book-burning

Sean, Jay and Duncan came over, and brought me 40 mini blueberry muffins! Yum! also, the EEE pc came in the mail! so far, so good.

Didn't have too much time to play with the new laptop - brought home some work to do on the big machine - got it out of the way before our visitors came by.

We all chitty-chatted until just now, and it's pretty much time to hit the sack - but first a little supper of spaghetti - Gut is doing better tonight, not going to push it with anything too seasoned or spicy.

No sign of Pris anywhere... I'm confident that she's back with her folks, happy and warm (or Adam took her in across the road.). We'll be keeping watch for her pretty closely, anyhow.


Just as well - got cold last night - Mr. Carrot-fish is frozen in his pond. We're going to bury the carving in our garden as a sacrifice - Perhaps veggies will grow better! (If it works, beware our wicker man next year.)


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1 year ago - Fat Tuesday / Pancake day, a little sick, pneumonia shot, last mimzy, hot dog thought, deer blood at the post office, anti-riot police, ghostface killah

2 years ago - slow day with family

3 years ago - manatee mailbox, fp with Kev and Tomi, Bailey-pooch, GUN, train ride pics, bhk vaio trouble

4 years ago - bro probation, Shoo's B'day! (Happy Happy Again today!), flying solo, keywords, Zogg, florida research tools, baby cheetah

5 years ago - stop motion, scrabble experiment, palm doodles, feelin' ill

6 years ago - 80s dream, oddtodd, crackle bars, warm, face-picker kid

7 years ago - Shoo's Birfday!, Missed the bus, fruit2O, razor dream, bull sperm thieves, bellyaching, Tsar Piccies, TV news, meatloaf quiz, wacky linkies, tron

8 years ago - License plates, Bob Marley Movement, Vallies roll in

Slept much of the day, but we did get some good walkies in.

Harvested some apples and grapes (BHK made pie, and inlaws made jelly) -  I just helped with long arm-reach.

Below are random shots from walkabout and the keys to the brown house. clicks embiggen, as usual.

We still have a few key-covers... just waiting to see what the next one will be.


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my house key. woogity woogity!

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"I'm in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets" from New York Times Blog - psa

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1 year ago - programming, freaky potato baby from the garden, true or not true, helpful coconuts, EST for autism?, mistress of spices

2 years ago - time flies, state plate icons, wedding plans, landscape, x365 project, newsdirectory, quiz thing

3 years ago - katrina good murder alibi, vampires in hurricanes, New Orleans issues, Warriors Urge, monkey squeeze, playmobil hellboy, gaming meme, interests meme, miami 3rd poorest city, condo vitals

4 years ago - Newt Blah-blah, note to M. Night Shyamalan, gmail as a file system, Critical Mass bicycle riders arrested, Hurricane Frances, 3 Musketeers, earache, FL. child-protection agency chief quits

5 years ago - Stubbed toe, bro & Danny, Hurricane Fabian, Newt Rejected as Governor of California, keywords

6 years ago - Lauper, new desk, Hot Wax Zombies On Wheels, mr fixit

7 years ago - mush, coterminous, newt-slob, vomit with dignity, barking, labor day

8 years ago - fun names/words, ufo, grumpy, underdog, africa, work, added by applelard

The backyard cornucopia strikes again!

More from the garden. Pumpkin, squash, a ton of white eggplant, some skinny purple and green eggplant, tomato and cucumber. Nice mix of colors in the back yard!

BHK made pseudo-chicken in cream sauce with peas over a bed of egg noodles... side of green beans in sesame oil. yummmy goodness.

Middleman - titanic tuba episode is maintaining quality nicely.

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http://rolcogames.com/ -cool site for pawns, little meeples, whatnot. The Game inventor kit is brilliant.

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Matt Thompson has some advice for you: stop buying cheap-ish pseudo-generic drugs from Walgreens, Rite-Aid, and Duane Reade and start buying really cheap true generics.

As you might know, Benadryl (available at Walgreens.com for $5.29 for a box of 24 capsules) and Wal-dryl ($3.99 / 24 capsules) are otherwise known as "25 mg. of diphenhydramine HCI." Compare [with the true generic available at Amazon]. Yes, that is 400 tablets containing 25 mg. of diphenhydramine HCI, for about $10 when you factor in shipping.

Heed his words. Here's 300 tablets of generic Claritin for $11.00, 100 tablets of generic Zyrtec for $6.99, 240 tablets of generic Zantac, 1000 capsules of generic Benadryl for $20.34, 1000 tablets of generic Advil for $11.70, and 1000 caplets of generic Tylenol for $13.91.

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Seek the Six - New Prisoner "puzzle" promo. Fairly slow loading a the start, but nifty. (I am number 952805... apparently it's not news to most!)

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1 year ago - Blueberry pancakes, naptime, gaming with BHK and Amy

2 years ago - starting yoga, newtcam pics, visiting pals, comics, wrestler name, Jonathan Coulton - Bigfoot & Leonard Nimoy, cool cartoon, spoof caller id service

3 years ago - met the Lisas, strawberry shortcake, Kamandi, cat cartoons, I remind JL of Rob from High Fidelity, meme-y thing, out with Dan

4 years ago - turtlenecks, skinbags, touchscreen, firestarter, recent tunes, oomiaq, walkies, manatees

5 years ago - tour guides, politics, bollywood, starmark, windows psa

6 years ago - swastika, dreams, newt, birds of prey, lizard droppings, zebrelle

7 years ago -WoG III, Chai, bro, coloring book, lj down

8 years ago -no-thang