So Halloween trick or treat started at 5:30. I thought I’d log the hordes of kids I had (Last year I had SIX) as we get them.

My first kid comes at 5:45. He’s about 10, and wearing a ghoul mask and a cape thing. Not bad.

5:51: Girl about 11, in Pj’s with a bottle, for some reason (and the prerequisite coat since it’s 50 degrees and wet outside.), it’s a pretty sorry costume. With her is probably her mom with a baby dressed as a bee.

6:05: Two girls about 10, one is a witch and the other is a pirate. (best costumes thus far)

6:15: One little girl about 6, in a feathery green/black ensemble that I think was a witch. Cute though. Her parents were dressed up as love bead wearin’ psychedelic shirted hippies complete with glasses and wigs. They got candy too!

Total: 6 (and 2 adults)

And that’s it. It’s 7:30. It’s done. We had *5* kids. I should have given the whole bowl to the last family.

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In the last paragraph of the last post I originally wrote something different but Moveabletype would give me an blank error page anytime I tried to post it saying only:

Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /cgi-bin/mt.cgi could not be found on this server.

It took me a full hour of removing and adding paragraphs one by one. Once I had a paragraph nailed down, And couldn’t figure out the problem, so I actually retyped, rephrased and even removed all punctuation to find the offender. No luck. Finally, still with no answer, I went with the sentences in the identified paragraph and at last discovered the very WORD causing the problem… C-h-a-r-d-o-n-n-a-y!!!

I had to put dashes in here to even make it take it now! It wouldn’t take it with a single dash after “char”, and “char” by itself works. “Donna” works, but put a Y on the end and it won’t. WTF?

And what happens if someone’s name is d-o-n-n-a-y?

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Even for me three in a week is a lot. This kinda annoyed me this weekend and I wanted to share it.

Kroger’s had Pepsi 2-liters on sale for 88 cents. Thats a bit of a deal. One of the brands is the what we’ve moved over to, Diet Rite Zero, which I have to say is fabulous stuff and even if it had caffeine (which Mr Man is trying to cut down on) we’d still prolly choose it over Diet Pepsi (what Mr Man preferred till now) since it’s really danged tasty.

Anyway we decided to stock up on it since we/I drink a lot of pop. I have never been a water person, I came from a heavy pop drinking house and that’s just what I drink. I’m not making this up but I can’t drink much plain water. Even small glasses can actually make me queesy to the point I’ll have to puke it up - unless it’s ungodly hot and I’m dehydrated that is, then it’s no problem. Even my gastro doc is stumped by that one.

So, back to the story, earlier in the week I went and noticed the same pop shelves were cleaned out bare. We went Saturday before the sale ended and I enter the aisle a foot behind a couple who each have a cart. They stop right at the rack and start filling BOTH CARTS up with the Diet Rite, the product I came for as well.

I went “Hey, I need a few of those.” The woman stops looks at her hubby, and says “How many?” I say we’d like to have 10. (the rack is FULL) The husband says, “ure I think we can swing that.” Then his wife snaps into gear and proceeds to then start filling the cart FASTER. Now both their carts are blocking me so I jump into gear and squeeze through and grab three, squeeze back and dump them in and grab two and then turn around - and there is one left which they realize they’ve just screwed me and don’t take. That’s right - They filled up two cart loads and I got 6. (My guess they ran a drive through, church or store and were scoring a cheaper supply.) They also bought a few other dozen bottles of other Pepsi stuff.

I head to the front and tell the service counter it’s empty because two pigs cleaned it out as I was there and ask for a rain check. The woman at the counter is as stunned as I am when I tell her the story and says that produce has a supply as well and go check there as she hands me the rain check for some more. She was right, there is a decent supply and I grab a few more, (I was tempted to grab more than a couple but after that show I wanted to leave some more for others).

As we approach the line the the sodapigs are there and we’d be right behind them. We walk a few aisles so they don’t notice we have more than we did before when I was in the aisle with them and tip them off there is more to grab.

Now after this is all said and done Mr Man said he fully expected me to issue a screaming public smack down as I’ll freely admit I’m apt to do time to time when someone is being stupid or unbearable but I was a remarkably good girl. I’m sorta surprised too because in my brain while this is all happening I’m beating her over the head with a bottle of Merlot from the rack to my left, then kicking her teeth in and stealing her cart.

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This happened (I think) Wednesday but it’s been eating at me and I wanted to see if I was the only one who thought it was insane:

A local talkshow host on 700 WLW (a former lawyer and pal of Sean Hannity), who makes Hitler look like a Vegan Greenpeacer, who is also a catholic who objects to abortion so adamantly that he thinks women who get it should be punished criminally, actually suggested on his show that ALL illegal immigrant women be implanted with IUDs so they can’t reproduce and have native children that will ensure their eventual citizenship.

As abhorrent as he and these various statements are, let’s just deal with the hipocracy here… Who here knows what an IUD does? Anyone? Anyone? (It’s Okay if you don’t, I had to explain it to Mr Man.)

It is essentially a tiny wire or plastic form that floats in the uterus that scrapes or knocks loose any eggs that have attached there after fertilization. (It’s kind of like those wire brushes they put on building ledges to keep pigeons off.)

His stand on abortion is that life begins at conception and we know that IUD keeps concepted (fertilized) eggs from attaching… That’s right, he is all but advocating compulsory abortions by wanting to implant a device in women (who are almost assuredly also catholic) that removes removes fertilized eggs.

Am I right? I am seriously tempted to finally call his show and point it out after 15 years of nearly throwing up every time I tune by.

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The Today Show just had you on singing in the street. Ugh.

Here’s my problems with you…

1: MR. ORIGINAL
I’ll give you that Bat out of Hell is a GREAT title for a rock album, the FIRST TIME. But, you have named your three albums, of music that all sounds exactly the same, the same name with roman numerals at the end. Do you realize it’s not witty but lame? Naming albums aren’t hard Einstein. If you have to you can give up and call one the “Black Album”.

2: LET GO ALREADY…
The highlight of your career was being in a a nearly obscene (at the time)and campy cult hit musical b-film and hve been riding that and your mystifying first album’s success for almost 30 years. Stop already. Please. It’s just sad.

3: EW.
You always have some different hot rock chic singing with you (and she’s always a better signer) that at some point have to kiss you or climb on you like a sex kitten. Have you seen you? Do you have to pay her extra for that?

4: ACTING!
When you act out some kind of car make out or couples squabble during a song it’s not musical theatre no matter how much you want, it’s freaking lame. Just sing the damn song.
Laaaaaaame!

5: Yawn.
Three albums in three decades is not a career so much of a long drawn out spasm.

And oh yeah, your voice ain’t what it used to be Bud, a few of those things you sang today weren’t notes. It was pretty sad.

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Just mainly posting this for those flickr folks who pay attention to my photostream.

I got the letter today from girl at the publisher, a ton of mine made the cut for the pincushions book. Mostly my tiny bottle cap ones (flower basket, violets, eyeballs, lady bug, mushroom), my fried egg with bacon needlecase, the retro one with feet, and the bright flowery ones… I have to write up project sheets and instructions on each, and either draw or photograph pics of the the steps along the way.

I’ll get almost a grand all totaled, not too bad!

My flickr account just paid for itself for a few years since that’s how they found the group, and me. Woo!

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This link has TONS of vintage spooky halloween music and sound albums for the free grabbing. Each is over 80MB so grabbing them all will take a while, so try to be nice and steal in moderation and don’t kill the guy’s bandwidth.

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Didn’t anyone on the set of the old PBS series Cosmos have a comb? I swear Carl Sagan’s eyebrows are spooking the hell out of me. I mean his hair is awful too, but his eyebrows are actually waving in the wind (and the hair, oddly, is not).

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Celebrity Paranormal Experiment on VH1 (It’s oogy boogy month, get over it): I have come to the conclusion that Gary Busey needs to be on every reality show in the world. Reality for him is not the world we live in.

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Desperate Housewives on Tivo: I still say Terri Hatcher needs to fix her crooked flat nostril.

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The new ABC Series Daybreak: It’s Groundhog day with drama - big freaking woop. I give it six weeks.

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I’m still thinking about Battlestar Galactica and how much that episode freaking rocked.

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Travel show host and writer Rick Steves: There is no way in heck I’d ever take on of his tours into Europe. It’d be like traveling with Ned Flanders and I’d have to harm myself, or him, in someway. ::hudder:::

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Okay, something else is bugging me and I wish to hell I’d included it in my letter. Maybe I’ll resend it with it included.

WHEN did taking the high ground, not returning the cheap shots and lies, become a sign of weakness anyway? Historically taking the high ground was the grown up thing to do, a sign of strength and great mental fortitude.

And WHAT the hell makes them think that what Blackwell wants to do, the stance they seem to be endorsing, is the truth? How can you tell what the truth from him is if he’s proven he’ll say ANYTHING to win no matter how despicable.

Argh!!!

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More on Blackwell: Paint Ohio Blue Blog with this post about Blackwell being UN-endorsed by a newspaper after last Monday’s Gubernatorial debate when he claimed a vote of Strickland’s was to make NAMBLA happy. He’s also trying to start a classic Bush-like whisper campaign that Strikland’s gay. (He’s been married 18 years…

The Cincinnati Enquirer of course endorses him enough though they denounce his filthy lies.

I sent them this letter:

Shame on you.

You’re right this Gubernatorial race is about honesty and character, yet you endorse Blackwell as you in the same breath denounce his campaign of lies and deceit to discredit a man who by your own admission is honorable.

You admit Blackwell’s playing dirty and outright lying, and that just peachy keen I guess because he’s SUCH a man of character afterall.

Character matters or it doesn’t, make up your mind. You admit Strickland is a worthy man of good standing who is taking the high ground, and you endorse a childish, petty, angry and decitful opponent who is so desperate he is stopping at nothing to win.

And why not, he’s just like George W Bush. Just what Ohio needs. Look how well the republicans have treated Ohio and it’s interests so far, they all but invested our money in a Nigergian email scam.

I have to say it’s almost predicatable with the history Blackwell has in this city that you would endorse him despite his obvious desperate character flaws. I think you fear if you endorsed a democrat you’d lose too many subscribers, and in Cinci you’d probably be dead right on that.

But you could sleep at night.

Jen Segrest, Middletown

Other Ohio election news: The week of October 30th The Daily Show is going to be doing shows from Ohio State University ALL that WEEK! Of course if you aren’t a student you are SOL. If they do just one jailhouse interview with Traficant (that nutbag) I’ll forgive them.

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That was amazing. I was screaming, hooting and throwing popcorn - what a stunning episode. Ellen and Tigh… and The Pegasus… and Starbuck’s mind frag… and the battle scenes - OMFG. Woah. Just woah.

I’m watching it again gawdammit… and I’m still staring gapejawed at the screen while typing this.

Holy hell. If tonight’s episode of Battlestar Galactica does not get a Emmy for Best Drama, the academy voters all need to surrender their SAG cards and get lobotomies.

Fraking hell. Woah.

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This is purportedly running in 10 states including Ohio I think on TV, but more likely radio: GOP to Black Women: You are “HO’s”

Blackwell is trying to get Strickland ruled ineligibleto run over a techinicality - both are running for Govenor, and Black well for those not in Ohio is currently our Secretary of State and as greasy, sneaky and conniving as they come. Pretty much every thing qustionable regarding elections in the past four years is thanks to him. What an utter bastard.

Please let him lose, please let him lose, God I’ll pretend to belive in you if you let him lose… Ohio is better than he is.

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In iTunes, the title graphic for Battlestar Galactica has TWO Baltars. I know they were making a composite and they probably just did a arrow move probably with the option key down by accident and cloned his layer, but come on, that’s PS Amateur 101.

Thought I’m sure some will read into it as a secret clue Baltar IS a cylon… I’m still undecided…

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I found my slipper, spank my butt can call me Cinderella!

I know I hadn’t mentioend I’d lost it here, but it was a point of much consternation here at the Miester von Mannhausen.

And there was much rejoicing — until I realized the wash (where it had snuck in) had ruined it and it didn’t fit now like the other and put holes in the sole and so I have to buy a new pair anyway. I loved that pair, they were like fuzzy easy bake ovens for my feet. Winter is a coming.
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I need a job, if anyone local knows of a place worthy of my unique talents and abilities, let me know.
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I’ve had to put Sophie the giant retard calico in a cone collar this last week. She got a big case of OCD about grooming her nether regions and gave herself a brazilian with a bad case of razor rash. Of course the first few days of watching her hit corners with it then just stop dead and stare at the wall for three hours were hilairous.
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Our Directv tivo I thought was dying is being kept in the land of the living after finding out that they Directv won’t send you a replacement that is a tivo because the agreement ran out, though updates and support will continue for god knows how much longer. They now send the generic DTV DVR, and i’m sorry there is a HUGE difference. Tivo is like a family member. The guy at DTV thought I was nuts and actually was surprisewd when I said I was upset at getting a generic DVR, but if you have one yo know what I’m saying (right Shannon?) It thinks about you, it knows what you like and records it for you and tries to make you happy, It’s like the perfect spouse.

Anyway I managed to track that the horrid noise ours is making is the fan (since this house is a fur, and dust trap thanks to the steel plant) I bought a replacement on ebay for $4 (inc shipping) which should be here soon. I think thats the only thing wrong with it so I’ll be sneding back the new DTV DVR unopened to Directv and will be asking for the last two years of monthly payments for replacement as a bill credit. We can buy a working replacement of the model we have on ebay for like $20 or so, so we have a back up there as well. Just keep swapping hard drives and junk I guess. That’s what the other dtv guys on the Tivo communtiy forums do. I guess alot of people have been returning the new nontivo units, and complaining, so who knows maybe it will come back.

Top this all off with the fact that someone on freecycle today gave me a nearly new, and I mean that, 80-hour series 2 Tivo in box and all for free. They said they got it for xmas in 2005 and used it for six months and boxed it back up when they didn’t use it much. How sweet is that? So if the one we have drops out for real we’ll go to pure Tivo with even more whistles and bells with the directv alone. We’ll have to sub to Tivo seperatly ($12 mo), but once you drop the replacement plan monthly fee ($6) and the DTV DVR monthly fee ($6) it pays for itself. But in the mean time It’ll live on a shelf in the back room.
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I scare myself with my ability to make incredibly cute crafty things as of late. ew.
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I haven’t mentioned it here, mainly because I forgot, but I’ve been asked to present said cute things in a book by Lark Books to be called “Creative Pincushions” that they are prepping to come out in 2007. I’m pretty excited. Cool part of this is they discovered the Flickr Pincushions group and went “WOW, we need to do a book on these!” and asked several of us specifially to submit participate. I will have several projects in there it looks like. (Cha ching!) See? Flickr pays.

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Go tell it on the mountain!

Word is Ohio is going blue rouge this election and high ranking republicans have already written it off as a republican loss. I certianly hope that’s true. Anyone I’ve heard (who isn’t on local radio that is) are saying things like they are voting for “anyone with a D after thier name”. God knows our state republican hiearchy certainly hasn’t earned anything other jailtime as of late with the various scandals, corrpution hearings and the like.

The democratic party sunk three signs in my yards last week and my nieghbors across the street gave our yard such a look.

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Been meaning to write this up a while… slow news week, so here we go:

If you live on Flickr (like I do) you need to see firefox pimped out for it. There are alot of folks writing these great scripts to make flickr behave easier, or make repetive tasks far less so. Also if you are a group whore, to make it easier to submits one popic to multiple groups at once, and faster, than Flickr’s organizer.

First: Install this one little extention and restart Firefox (and it ONLY works with FF).
After you install there will be a little smiling monkey along the bottom right side of your status bar in FF. If you click him you can turn him frowny. It turns Greasemonkey on/off. But if you right click him, you get a pop up and you can go to “manage user scripts” and go in to each script and personlize some them, add urls for the promotional scripts, etc… or dis/able scripts you do/don’t like individually. It’s very easy, very handy.

Once installed boogie over to Steeev’s Flickr Projects and take a look and pick what you want.
I have most all of these installed… Steeev makes some killer handy things. You can even change how F looks (want a black background?) and behaves just for you. If you spend any time on Flickr half of this is stuff you’ve wished for.

To install a GM script it’s easy as hell. Just click the download, link under the ones you want and you’ll see a code page pop up, up above you will see a bar with something like “YO, this is a greasemonkey script, you want to install it?” on it, just click the button. Done!

Another one I think everyone should use (and a bookmarklet version is aviable for other browser users) is: Flickr: Add referer into comments by Mortimer.

It will add a dynamic footer to each of your comments on anyone’s photos saying where you clicked on the thumbnail to get to the pic (group, set, photostream, contacts page, another site, explore page…etc) Iand adds the code for it right inthe comment field ready for you to add your comment above. It’s fabulous. And if you choose not to use it on some comment you are making you can just delete it from the comment field before you hit the button. If you aren’t afirad of raking some code, you can do what I did and use the Greasemonkey editor on this one to make the scripted comments in the code sound less dry and more like yourself (like I replaced “een in your stream” with “potted in your spiffy photostream, etc, an across the board Jenifying. It’s fine as is though too!)

Under neath the GM script download is intructions for Sfari. IE users to get the bookmarklet. Everyone should use this, it’s awesome.

And last but not least, the Flickr Hacks Group good place to check for new scripts, ssee if one has been updated if the page hasn’t, or request a new script of the massive programming geeks there.

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I think I can take Big Huge Blog in a armored combat. I got over four years on you sucka! (it’s run by the guy who does the fd Flicker toys, so I can’t be mad, he’s awesomeness incarnate).

Other blog names up for grabs if anyone wants to join the beat-down as well:

Freaking Large Blog
Mucking Enormous Blog
Moderatly Overweight Blog
Blog of Unusual Size

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Woah. Lots of little AHAs.

The others are based around an old zoo, thus where the polar bear came from. We felt and heard the magentic explosion, and saw the plane break up. Creepy. The are underwater and likely underground as the other hatches are - though the nice little bunaglows are a interetsing thought. Where are those at? I’m back to thinking this is a seven deadly sins thing… Jack is SO “jealousy”. What did they do to Kate after she put the handcuffs on and since she and Sawyer are in cages is thier fate to be different than Jack? What happened to Hurley when he got back to camp? Juliette is a prisoner too, just she’s not in a cage me thinks.

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Thats the scariest thing I can think of for Halloween…

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There was NOTHING on last night and Tivo was picked bare. It looks like we’re going to have to hoarde programs on the Tivo for Tuesdays now. NOTHING ON!

I saw some clips of 30 Rock on NBC’s YouTube feed, THAT NBC show about late night sketch shows might be worth watching. Did I mention I HATE Studio 60? HATE.

Lost is on tonight, and Battlestar is tommorrow Friday! I can’t wait!!!! I’ve been dying over here.

This morning I got to witness a NBC reporter chase a older Amish man into a circle (so they could get his face) asking him how he feels, and if he forgives the murderer of thier children with that loud insistant nasal voice. I want to drive to Pennsylvania right now and just beat the all the reporters with sticks (they are period to the 1800’s.) I’m writing them next to shame them, the bastids.

Former CONgressman Mark Foley has released that not only was he an alocoholic (doubted even by other repubs), molested by a clergymen when he was 14 (too old for pedos), gay (gay men don’t molest children, pedos do) but apparently according to Bill O’Reilly on FoxNews he’s now also suddenly a Democrat.

Here’s some future excuses I’m sure he’ll use next:
1: His puppy died when he was five and left a hole in his heart
2: He has butt cancer
3: His mother was a democrat who never loved him and dressed him funny
4: The Chrisptopher Lowell show came on while he was alseep and he woke up gay
5: He was a vicitim of fraternity hazing
6: His gym teacher in school smacked him on the butt that one time in class
7: He never got a date for his senior prom so he went stag
8: He was secretly undercover for that damned liberal media outlet DatelineNBC and got carried away
9: Clinton got a blowjob! Remember???
10: Abortion is a bigger sin than being hot for sinewy lucious teenage boys, the Pope said so!

(thanks to my bro for helping me write the list)

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