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Rise and Shine! Early Bird gets the worm! Road trip to Virginia today with BHK! (in-laws and Louise will caravan with us, in another car)


One of the ideas that BHK and I bandied about on the road trip after making up random drink names... like "The devil's shoelaces", "Cool Breeze" and "Bag o' Tremors", we started thinking about magical drinks that replicate experiences - "skydiving", "slap in the face", "Karate victory" were some of the more tame ones.

Stopped at Sheetz to get a nibble mid-trip...
Observations:

• garlic fries good but swimming in oil at the bottom
• mac and cheese bleh.
• Cinnamon pretzel needs no frosting.
• Coffee drink was sort of weak.
• How many teenagers lurk there as a social thing?
• Cups leap out an attack patrons.

I think we'll stick to pre-packaged foods next time.

While at Bugah and Em's b-day, met Nana (great Gramma), The Gramma and Roy. We all went to an Italian place for supper - Joe's. From the school of "HUGE portions of OK food" The spaghetti looked great, as did the lasagna. I tried a bite of the eggplant parm, which was a little bitter - my veggie sub did fine.

Speaking of the birthday, I was surprised to see that BHK and I were the only ones to get the 10 and 5 year old any toys! Next closest thing to a toy was a gumball machine bank. Oh, wait - I forgot. Louise got Em a toy cell phone and necklace. Bugah seems to dig the skateboard, but it looks like the learning curve may be a bit more steep than we had initially thought. I'm confident that he'll be all over it soon.

After playing tanks and a few other mini-games, Bugah's given me the Wii bug again. We may try and pick one up this weekend. I also played Destroy all Humans 2 on the xbox with Bugah, which seems to be a nice sequel to the one we have for our Xbox at home.

Em was a sweetie - leading me around by the hand - we played some concentration (using dominoes to match the number of pips) before leaving for dinner.

We made it back to our place about 11:30 - worn out from the day's ruining around and socializing. My hip was a little creaky after the drive, but no ill effects aside from that.


1 year ago - work sickies, Internet lawsuit fraud, giant prehistoric Syrian camels, free hp Lovecraft audio books, john Mayer and Sheryl crow bear costume,

2 years ago - supercar, monkeytown usa, pi song, obey the bunny, nazi?

3 years ago - h-bot, walkabout pics, sammich girls, mockery troopers, living tissuejacket, ff2, dan dog, bro evicted, Eau de humanity, Templar

4 years ago - nightmare, tri-bloc embalming, bra sizes, angry kid, sex resource guide, sweetalyssm's bday, alien abduction tags

5 years ago - restless, newt, poo-fuel, baby costumes, bike ride w/bro, chupacabra,laser jet temp tats, honest opinion, kung fu channel, quizzes

6 years ago - hector, ap bday, sleepies, landlord issues, luxury

7 years ago - kingdomality, jobs, ghost dog-bears

Went to Game night yesterday at the Clampets - met some nice folks and chitty chatted... didn't do a lot of gaming.

A pair of CPAs, Clare- a Teacher of chemistry at the Naval academy, a network cable guy (Eric) in addition to Brent (travel agent), Alison (Pampered Chef Home sales), Nick (not sure what he does) A pretty fascinating study in "nice people who don't share any of my opinions on things". A pretty conservative, heavily church-going bunch, but very kind and tolerant. I think that Amy would like Nick, and that Kev would really dig Clare, if I was of a match-making bent. The game we played was a "get to know you" sort of thing, where you have cards, and try to figure out what a person say if asked questions like "Where'd you last get groceries" / "How often do you Vacuum a month" / "How many Piercings do you Have" / "Favorite Politician".

It was a little shocking to me to hear otherwise similar to myself types say that they thought George Bush was their favorite politician, without a shred of sarcasm or irony. I'll do better to pretend I'm in bizarro-world next time I make my guesses.

Picked up lots of goodies for Bugah and Em for the co-birthday celebration next weekend - Em got Moon Sand, Aqua Dots and a little robot-kitten - Bugah got a Wave-style skateboard, and a 4-up Nerf rocket launcher. I think that they'll be pleased. Plus, I want to play with the Moon Sand and Nerf Gun. BHK picked up some glow in the dark filler Aqua Dots too, so I imagine she'll be "helping" Em make some neat designs as well.

Tonight, we did a more game-oriented game night (One long game of Apples to Apples, and a quick game of Aquarius - Chris won both!) with the in-laws and Louise, after Pizza and watching When Harry Met Sally and a Carol Burnett show blooper reel/retrospective. Strange that there was no mention of Lyle Waggoner.


1 year ago - haircut reviews, felix woos whoopee, BHK off to VT with TM, JLU good, the hoff says KITT was gay / how to woo hoff, motorcycle bear, pictures

2 years ago - HBO/Rome torrent issues, lj portal, medical Friday 5, local graffiti pics Dose

 3 years ago - met some VIPs, mooks, pente, Kiwanis, free stuff, Everything you can think of is true

4 years ago - land art, land shark, MOND, vamp hint, Nice weather, pesky people, squids, space, sea and starburst fruit chews.

5 years ago - gps, Cheney scary face, bro bawl out, star wars gangsta rap

6 years ago - hubris, birfdaze, AOE2-Con, religious words as verbs, on working local outwards

7 years ago - Ray Ig & Robbo, Salty dog pub

A brief summary: BHK's Birthday!


I managed to butter her nose by sneaking caches of a dollop in the nightstand (on a plate), and then by instilling enough paranoia in her to make looking for it in there ridiculous. A year ago today, I proposed to her - more a gift to myself, or us both. I'm happy that she said yes.

We visited the bayfest from about 11:30 to 1:30... got home before we both spontaneously combusted. We quite enjoyed the fest, and it's sort of a shame that it'll be the last one. (Or at least, there are no plans for more in the immediate future, anyhow.)

Items consumed:

• Funnel Cake.
• Kettle Corn
• Egg Rolls
• Orangeade
• Water, lots of Water.

Items of note - toothless man gumming a hot dog and beer

BHK bought me a classic 60's style Spider-man lunch box for 50¢ - good find.

Very cute but brief parade of:

• a fire truck
• a local celebrity I don't know
• 7 men in fuzzy admiral's hats
• several little girls with pom-poms
• several kids in gi uniforms, swinging shiny golden nun-chucks
• a stilt-walker in a Frankenstein costume about 10 feet tall.

On the way home we stopped in at a storefront spa that recently surfaced - it might be a place for BHK to visit to redeem her birthday "beauty coupon" I put a hand made thing in there for whatever she wants to do at Scalped, but it's totally transferable.

After we recovered from the heat (drank a lot of cold drinks once inside, we realized that there were no soft pretzels at the fair, but we did have some in the freezer, so we continued the fair-food experience in the comfort of our air conditioned living room by consuming pretzels and remaining kettle corn while watching Ace of Cakes... we didn't have any energy to do much more than that, despite the highly event-filled weekend here. Due to the heat, we skipped the local B.I.G. book sale at the tobacco warehouse, the opening of the Ren-fest (not a problem, it runs for 9 weekends!), and totally forgot about the Greek fest until late in the evening. It was simply too effin' hot.

Once the sun turned the heat back a notch, we headed over to the in-laws for Chinese Food, a little present-opening and viewing of one of BHK's presents... Grease and Grease 2... the heat turned into storms, so we had to shut off the tube and a/c for a bit at their house, but aside from that, it was a pleasant evening... Louise made it over, too!

We headed back right before the end of Grease two - BHK and I were both tuckered out, and were fairly sleeping through the video.

Tomorrow, we have a birthday party at Tina's place!


( tarot test )

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1 year ago - robo-post while I'm on vaykay with BHK, dragonfly-kitty pic

2 years ago - google talk, web-surfing, Katrina, Robertson apologizes, v05-blueberry, medieval career, book meme, palm doodle, weather, power-out phone post

3 years ago - bag lady update, Twilight Zone: Planet of the Apes

4 years ago - got bro a Ganesh, (but I skipped the digeridoo), law and order coloring book, first day at new gig as good server king of the south, gabbed with mi Hala re: jhumkas and moonstones, and happy thoughts of working with her, Shal'weez.

5 years ago - heroclix improvised weapons, deadly toys, poemtag

6 years ago - pirate joke, selectivity, amor, warning label poll

7 years ago - aliens operate on my body, rhymes, colors, stevie

119 years ago - A plant grows in Mexteca, Mexico, which the natives call the "herb of prophecy." A dose of it produces sleep similar in all respects to the hypnotic state. The subject answers with closed eyes all questions that are put to him, and is completely insensible. The pathologic state brings with it a kind of prophetic gift and doublesight. Furthermore he loses his will and is completely under the control of another. On returning to himself he remembers nothing of what he has done. -Excelsior Cottager, August 25, 1888

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First time using mass transit to get *to* work. Not bad, but it seems harder to arrive than it is to depart, contrary to the toilet roll hypothesis. Rode in to the station with mom-in-law, and aside from the lack of knee room in some of the seats, I've got no gripes. It means getting up a little bit earlier, but I think that this will save us a ton of wear on the love cube and even more fuel. Total round-trip cost for a day is under $10. (just). Of course, my trip home threatened to rain on me at the bus stop - only one place I have to wait under cover is right as I leave the office. I think that if I leave about 10 minutes earlier, I can get into the office about 30 minutes quicker. We'll see.

BHK made Louise an awesome birthday cake... 4 layers! (see above - Neopolitain style, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry - with a milk chocolate frosting.) also barely-seen are some cupcakes spelling out her name, too. (I took the S cupcake to work today. :) ) The cake is more of a silo than a disc, but that's aok with me. Initially, it was to be a ckae for both Doug and Louise, but Doug broke it off with TM - moved out of the townhouse, and gathered up his belongings. I hope it's what is best for the both of 'em... they're both pretty nice folks from what I've seen. I imagine he's back on the base now, and will be going back overseas shortly. Kind of a bummer way to enjoy leave. Louise, however made out like a bandit. We got her a nice purse, TM got her some really pretty earrings, and the inlaws hooked her up with outback gift certs. I'm not sure what will become of Doug's presents... I imagine they'll be recycled or reprocessed. (I suspect father-in-law is going to get a Bass Pro shops gift card fairly soon for his B-day in August, and Adam may reap the TM rewards.)

via boingboing - The OpenMoko is a $300, Linux-based open smartphone. Unlike the iPhone, it doesn't come locked to any provider (and certainly not to the crooks at AT&T), it doesn't come with DRM, and it allows you to install any third party app you like, even if Steve Jobs worries that it might spoil your experience. It's still in "developer preview," but this might just be my next phone. The current version of the Neo1973 has built-in GPS too, and the mass-market unit that will ship in October will have wifi and accelerated graphics.

The Neo 1973 boasts the following hardware specifications

* 2.8" VGA TFT color display
* Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers
* 266MHz Samsung System on a Chip (SOC)
* USB 1.1, switchable between Client and Host (unpowered)
* Integrated AGPS
* 2.5G GSM – quad band, voice, CSD, GPRS
* Bluetooth 2.0
* Micro SD slot
* High Quality audio codec

In the year 2000... (probably my favorite Conan O'Brian skit music) : Predictions of the Year 2000 - from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900

1 year ago - wiggle chicken / keys trip / ripley's pix, one night in bangkok, scotto-dungeon game

2 years ago - diggers, sky high/ff, career personality, dr zaius, ugly dog, choosing wrong, 12.5% inked, bike thief, presidential medical histories, people like slinkies

3 years ago - thermo-issues, helping cockeyed find spammers

4 years ago - bro, health, monkey, sun-sentinel cam, clown lovin'.

5 years ago - hard rain, dream thoughts, tests, IM spam

6 years ago - evil news, louche, fill in the blank, gush, insane beautiful people journal nonsense (he's now suspended)

7 years ago - Mr. Rogers, April hassles, H is pregnant with B's kid, inevitable slippery, mootpoint adds me to his reading list