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PSP time in the sitting room 🙂 Terra and I each playing Final Fantasy IX with headphones and Wesley playing Lego Star Wars.

@themantrass FF7-9 are all available on the PlayStation Store for $10 each. 9 came out yesterday, completing the set.

So, a scoop of lime fat free sherbet in a small glass of Sprite is a good idea after all. I suspected it might be. Pic otw.

Lime sherbet in Sprite http://flic.kr/p/8aXFJf

@Jaeckle It’s pretty tasty. One could even use a taller glass and one scoop lemon, one lime, now that I think of it.

(Btw, i’m recently using a magnifying glass in front of my phone cam lens for drink pics. Sheesh. Next phone MUST have better cam.)

(I keep a mag glass at the bar and even have a couple of those magni-cards in my wallet (LifeHacker.com suggestion) for phone cam close-ups)

If it were Halloween now, my hair is just the right length to dye it black, get a headset mic, leather vest, etc. and be Frank T.J. Mackey.

(Frank T.J. Mackey is Tom Cruise’s misunderstood-but-still-despicable character in Magnolia.)

Erm, but i’m built more like the cop, so, I guess that idea’s out. Maybe a girdle 😀 (HRMPF!)

I still want to get a bathrobe, thermos, paddle game, etc., and be The Jerk. But, what if no one got the joke? Then i’d just be an idiot 😛

Yeah, that’s me. Always trying to think of good band names and good halloween costumes.

behold The Jerk http://tinyurl.com/3xr425b See? That’d be a GREAT costume! (maybe alter some pants to be able to walk better?)

Doing housework, listening to KEXP out of Seattle via the internet. Been listening to it a lot the last few weeks – great station.

Taking a litle break, playing Gauntlet Legends on the Dreamcast with Wesley 🙂

FINALLY downloading Final Fantasy IX 🙂 This will help me stay calm while I wait for my new cups 😛 (just need time to play it!)

I’m tempted to say that after – what? – two years? – of owning a PSP, I finally have a good RPG for it. (FFT:WotL is an SRPG.)

"Right now, he’s probly makin’ her some sug-ry coffee drink ’cause she can’t shoot espresso. Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats."

"I dug my key into the side of his Gaggia Classic, his joy and pride" … "Took a Louisville Slugger to all his cappuccino bowls."

@ABQChristopher WTF?? You’re cut off!

Thanks for the heads up, @don_rivers. (Hey @Twitter, why don’t we have "member since" on our profiles? Make tweet count more meaningful!)

I desire to be attentive to right and wrong above all else and let that decide every action. http://read.ly/Prov14.9.NCV

@BanhiDancer yeah, I know some apps have it (mine does, too) and that makes it even harder to understand why the profiles on the site don’t.

Ok, I did some math and my cappuccinos will be a whopping 320% yummier in the new cups I have on order 🙂

(you have to measure diameter of the cup at top, middle, bottom – assign a numerical value to color, finish – divide by cup volume, etc.)

Singing: "Tooooomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya’, tomorrow! Final Fantasy 9 on our PSPeeeees!"

Experimenting with what we’ll call Latte Pops for now – popsicles made of just 1oz espresso, 2oz milk – first trial: need better texture.

I have to google for recipes, but maybe a little cream? Hm. A LITTLE sweetness would be good but want the espresso flavor to come through.

Now, if I could flash freeze, I’d froth the milk. But, I’m assuming the milk would separate before frozen and you’d have part frozen foam.

watching Magnolia with @nurseterra (her 3rd viewing in the last two years). Possibly the top of my list of films I can’t live without.

Btw, this is our first viewing of the Blu-ray of Magnolia. I’ve seen it dozens of times and am surprised by visual details i’m catching.

I take this as explaining my own inner fulfillment or lack thereof. http://read.ly/Prov13.4.ESV

Yes, I DO think my coffee would be much better if served in this $75 set of cups i’m looking at on Amazon. (I can dream, can’t I???)

@baristaonduty well, then I should probably get that Cafelat group brush and Cuisinox frothing pitcher I’ve been looking at, too 😀

Though, pretty much anything from Cafelat is something I want on my bar – pitcher, group brush, tubbi knock box. Sigh…

The day they start making these toy Gaggia espresso machines, I am totally buying one for Wesley http://tinyurl.com/2vxo263

(Btw, the toy Gaggia is made to look like the Gaggia Baby http://tinyurl.com/34j24pb , I own the Gaggia Classic http://tinyurl.com/297wd9s )

Meh, I settled for these cups instead http://tinyurl.com/34kbwwu More economical but I still like ’em – just wanted a few plain 5oz tulips.

(btw, the cups are a late bday present. Had them bookmarked on the ‘puter that died and just now got around to finding them again.)

SPN! Josie & The Pussycats – the director of photography is Matthew Libatique – he’s Aronofsky’s guy – filmed Pi, Requiem for a Dream, etc..

In Josie & the Pussycats, behind Alan Cumming in the cd store (and a couple other shots), is a whole bunch of Space Channel 5 display stuff!

I can’t get over how much Josie in this movie reminds me of a gal friend back home, Rence.

Sigh… Time is indeed the fire in which we burn.

Cooking chicken, wheat penne, sauce with lots of black olives 🙂 , salad of cukes, romas, bell peppers, and my garlic bread. Nummay!!

Drain pasta, turn off fire under sauce, pull garlic bread out of oven, it’s 6:45 – everything done at the same time, on time! Huzzah!

Made breakfast with @nurseterra and had them with iced coffee. We have two days off, today is get stuff done day so we are FREE tomorrow.

Ooooops. That should have read made breakfast burritos with @nurseterra.

Oh and tonight is slumber party! 🙂

RT @vasquesso: Let us not be in auto pilot today… let’s live life today

RT @PSLifeStyle: Final Fantasy is Nigh-ne – http://bit.ly/c3bDrt

After a long time trying many, I’ve finally found a GREAT shopping list app for my phone! 🙂 (sigh… this is what my life has become.)

(There is a shopping prog for the Psion 5 I’ve never found a good replacement for so I’ve still been using it. Another Psion need gone.)

But, hey, I’ve been using a Psion for how many YEARS?? If it still has even a FEW unrivaled apps, that’s really saying something for it.

(Devoted owner of a rare green Psion 5mx Pro – it still goes with me everywhere. I started up the model ladder with a 3a some 15 yrs ago.)

(I never much cared for models that came out after the 5mx Pro, so the ladder stops there for me.)

I look at Washington Park and I see great potential for a nice little nine-hole disc golf course.

Gettin’ Brown Bag Deli for slumber party dinner, gonna’ go home, grub and listen to old Dr. Demento tape before the movie and junk food 🙂

Gonna head up to Plateau Espresso in a bit (yeah, early for the get-together, I know.) but i’ve missed the plce and wanna hang out 🙂

When I first moved here and Dad required constant care, I’d go to Plateau for a couple hours every night at his bedtime and Mom took over.

At my nightly Plateau visits, I didn’t really talk about my life much, preferring the escape of listening to all the people there talk 🙂

I am at Plateau Espresso 🙂 (Having a "cappuccino"(?). Still. Very cool to be here 🙂 )

At Plateau Espresso, playing spades with Sarah (my old Plateau friend), Mary, and Beth. Hypno is watching.

I pray all my words be encouraging, even if just for today. http://read.ly/Prov10.32.NLT

RT @totalgaming: Dreamcast coming to PSN, Xbox Live – Official http://bit.ly/btNHHX

Podcasts and housework. Sooo low energy today, like trying to move around under water. Probably not drinking enough fluids in this heat.

Btw, it seems Plateau no longer staffs only teenage girls, the only two working last night were young guys. Still no skills, though.

"Once you knew his first few digits, they repeated in a predictable pattern." – heard that in a story on the Escape Pod podcast.

Out of the blue today, I added a rear surround channel to the living room sound system to bring it back up to the 6.1 I had back home 🙂

After testing a couple discs, it would seem the PS3 won’t pass anything higher than 5.1 over an optical cable. (???!!!!)

Soooo, that won’t affect DD-EX, I assume, but DTS-ES (and everything since?) is discreet 🙁 Grrrrrrr. This sucks!

I don’t think I have even one DTS-ES DVD anymore. The Descent blu-ray has 6.1 PCM and the receiver shows 5.1 discreet 🙁

I am almost 100% positive that the PS2 via optical is all the ex and I ever used for DVDs and IT output 6.1! WTF!?

Grrrr, I was right – I have no DTS-ES DVDs – I’m pretty sure the the only one I’ve owned was Evil Dead and I’ve long parted with that one.

Ah HA!! Crash on blu-ray is DTS-ES 6.1 discrete and shows up as such on my receiver 🙂 Now, if only all my crises were so short-lived 😛

Um, I should point out that I meant Crash by Paul Haggis in 2004(?) – not, uh, the other movie by that title.

Off today, REALLY feeling nine holes in Cloudcroft in a bit. Second attempt at our first throw in almost a year! Anyone wanna come with?

@don_rivers D’OH!! Maybe come for coffee and we’ll hit you over the head with a frothing pitcher and you can say you were forced?

@don_rivers and you have a disc??

Whoa. Overnight, the mobile version of twitter.com got a make-over and it’s quite nice.

RT @PSLifeStyle: Sony: PSPgo Release was to Test "Consumer Behavior" – http://bit.ly/c4oYfF

RT @PSLifeStyle: PSN Down, Big Changes Ahead? – http://bit.ly/bBBPG7

Last call for disc golf in Cloudcroft with us! (We do have extra discs.) @1prdpgn @TheLordHypno @Thorobredz 😛 @ whoever – leaving soon!

Chris Dunn aka @Thorobredz is my original "throw bro" – my phone even plays sound of a disc hitting the chains when I get a text from him 😉

@TheLordHypno Ack! REALLY want to go but that’s really late for us 🙁 I’m gonna strongly consider breaking the rules. Thanks for heads up!

🙁 🙁 RT @TheLordHypno: Plateau Esspresso 8 8:30ish Sara 1.0 is leaving alamogordo this is you last chance to say good bye and hang out too

@laeryg Not the weather outside 😛

@TheLordHypno Done and done. I will be there 🙂

Oh oh. Halfway there and Cloudcroft appears to be more clouds than croft.

CURSES!! This is twice the car has failed to get us to Cloudcroft!!! Going back home, defeated 🙁

@1prdpgn well, read my more recent tweets and you’ll be glad you didn’t make it 😛

@1prdpgn maybe, but I strongly recommend not buying until you try out some discs and figure out your best weight class, stability, etc.

@1prdpgn and you’ll find out what those words mean and why it matters when you play a few times 😛

@don_rivers it suddennly was losing power – err, the fuel kind – press gas and nothing happens, eventually sputtered out…….

@don_rivers called the auto hotline (her dad) and he theorizes various fuel issues but could just be a thermostat. Now waking the old truck.

@don_rivers no matter what’s wrong, car may well be in shop, will need truck.

Dad’s old truck lives. (I first learned to drive with this thing.) (’87(?) Chevy Silverado, single owner. People tell me it’s "cherry".)

When I argue it don’t LOOK "cherry", they say it just needs a little work and external stuff but there isn’t a dent or major issue anywhere.

The car may need shop time so, we revived the truck. Thanks to Dad Benton, Lance, and Dunn Dawg for the work done to it in the last 2 years.

If it weren’t for their help, it might not have been so easily awoken for our hour of need.

The truck stereo even has an input so Terra hooked her PSP to it and she’s all vacuuming and cleaning and singing. Making it hers 🙂

Frack! Came out of wal-mart to a tire going flat rapidly, walmart tire is booked for the day – suggestions (asap)?

Guess I should have been more specific – I put the donut on, I was hoping for a miraculous repair place open before she has to drive in morn

But, we’re home now, so, the alert is cancelled 😛

Dr. Demento ends 40 years of radio http://www.drdemento.com/ [via waxy.org]

RT @PSLifeStyle: Sony E3 2010 Predictions – http://bit.ly/9qOcFG

I Blogged: ok, this blog post from my phone should auto-twitter – http://tinyurl.com/25bmfol

RT @RageWritter: ‘To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.’