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Category: buffalo

07/21/07 04:34 - 74ºF - ID#40195

The First Half Of The Weekend

On friday night (e:tinypliny) stopped by and we made indian food. It was quite delicious.

First we made the indian spice power. It was some powerful and pleasantly tasty stuff.
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I didn't realize this pic of (e:tinypliny) in the kitchen came out so crappy. I guess we will need to take a better one next time.
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Wow Chippewa is covered in gum stains. I never really noticed before. I guess people really just spit there gum out waitin gin line to go to Level and McMonkies.
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I am so fascinated with this house on franklin. What happend to it? I mean what did it used to be. I wrote about it before but no one seems to have said anythign about its past. Like what are the chess tables from.

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My other favorite house on Summer. They have faux slate asphalt roof.

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I feel bad for the owner of this porch on Summer. It looks like it needs some serious help.

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(e:matthew) and (e:terry) tried to fit through this alley on Franklin. It hate things you can't turn around in.

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Neo is closing on Franklin. What the heck is gonna go there. I hope it becomes something and doesn't end up empty or yet another crappy antique shop. It would be terrible for Cafe 59 but if a Spot Coffee moved in there I think they would make a killing. Check out that car outside.
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This is how (e:matthew) generally looks on the weekend.
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I wanted to go to the beach today but they were closed for contamination, blah. It makes me sad that the beaches are always closed when I want to go. Then again it is better they are closed than if I got sick.

I was content with going to Zoar Valley but that was nixed too. We ended up going to Salsaritas. Ya exactly, it might as well have been lunch on monday. I really wanted to do something exercise filled and away from the city.

I hate weekends. If you think is hard to make up your mind what to do when you are single, or even in a two person relationship - just imagine how difficult it is with three people that all like completely different things. We usually just end up really mad at each other, go nowhere and don't have sex because we are angry about not deciding what to do.

Instead I thinking I am going to go to Home Depot and buy supplies so that I have something to do. I am thinking that filling the mortar gaps in the back might be fun!

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Category: buffalo

07/20/07 05:50 - 74ºF - ID#40180

A short work day

I left work early today because I stayed so late the other days this week. I have been stressing about my job - and not bad way. I just can't stop thinking about certain projects - which is making everyone around me insane I think.

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I went to Panaro's on Delaware for lunch with (e:enknot) and (e:terry). It was delicious, I don't know how I never saw it before. Plus the blond waitress we had was awesome. I would recommend that place anyday - the prices were very reasonable. I think it may be one of my new favorite places. I wish I took pictures but I forgot that I had my camera back. It is weird to have it back after it been broken and then gone for so long.

We cleanup up the yard at the rental property today. I can't believe how tall the weeds got in such a short amount of time.

There were so many daisies and other weeds.
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The prickery weeds had wood like roots.
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I found this weird witches broom in the backyard of the property. I wonder if my tenants made it?
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It looked nice when we were done.
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It looks like Medina Deli over on North and Main is almost ready. I am so excited to see something be on that corner. It has come such a long was see we did public transphere a couple years back. At that time it looked like the bombed out shell of a building.

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Now the question is what will happen with the yellow mansion at 23 North. It is the last thing waiting to be redone. There has been a big sign out front that said apartments were coming soon since last season but it has remained boarded up and they haven't done any work over the entire summer which is not a good sign. I remember when (e:matthew) wanted to buy it and we took a tour with the realtor (e:paul,32592) . Man that place was disgusting.

Ridiculous Rant You Can Just Ignore
Okay, this is ridiculous - I am really not poor - but I am sad I am not going to Hutches tonight because I am "too poor". I wanted to go to Hutches with (e:imk2) and her boyfriend and (e:terry) said we are too poor because he spent all our money on pharmacy school. I know, I know - money that will turn into more money - but not right now while I want to go to Hutches. It is like the one restaurant I have never been to and everyone raves about it. After writing that I feel like someone should kill me but - damn it - I really wanted to go to Hutches. Okay, enough of that drama.
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Category: programming

07/18/07 05:18 - 78ºF - ID#40156

Surebert 3.1 is here!

I significantly improved the codebase in this last release of surebert adding some fixes for safari now that I have a mac, in addition to a CSS selector compliant updated sb.$, an extended sb.element, a few new array prototypes emulating javascript 1.8 and more. See the changelog

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Category: food

07/16/07 10:48 - 70ºF - ID#40140

Guercios On Grant Street

I I noticed our sunflowers were in bloom as we were leaving our house to go get some veggies.
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I went to Guercios with (e:terry) this afternoon to get some fresh veggies and fruit so I could get well.

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The prices are so great here and the selection is awesome.
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I love capers, they had so many varieties.
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Look how huge these capers are!
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This guy, I assume guercio, looks just like my nonno, it is unreal.
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They had fair trade etxra virgin olive oil at really fair prices.
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Ok, this is clearly not for resale, they didn't even bother with yellow ink in the print job.
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Category: work

07/16/07 06:14 - 75ºF - ID#40128

Dave Doyle's Retirement Party

On Sunday we hosted my friend Dave Doyle's surprise retirement party at our house. His ex-wife and daughters planned it all and thought that by having it at our house he would have no idea. We told him we were having a barbeque. Needless to say he was totally freakin' surprised when all his friends and family jumped out and yelled surprise! from behind our garage.

I invited my co-workers (e:jim) and (e:enknot) and their signfy-os - sorry everyone else but this was a family affair and not an estrip party - sorry (e:leetee)

This video says it all. In Dave's his daughter Erin gives a speech about his commitment to their family and what an awesome dad, dave is. It might make you cry if you are the emotional type.



Dave Doyle and his daughters Erin and Crescent
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Dave Doyle's daughters and wife Lynn - who organized the party
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Dave Doyle and his retirement cake
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The cake gave everyone smurf tongues
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Dave got a GPS navigation system - so now we won't get lost on trips anymore. I guess (e:terry) is out of a job.
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Everyone looking for basra
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(e:enknot) and megan and the almost ready baby ?
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(e:enknot) and (e:matthew)
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(e:jim) and (e:james)
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We got our chiminea going and burned the rest of october surprise debris
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Making Faces
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Category: food

07/15/07 11:55 - 67ºF - ID#40111

I got my camera back

Unfortunately, at the very same time I got sick. I think it has to do with going to the Dr. McClurr, my dentist over on West Utica last wednesday. The last time I visited that dentist I got sick afterwards too. The same thing happend to Nameless Bitch who also went there. Maybe its just coincidence. I think I will try another dentist next time. In fact the lazy dentist did not even show up for the appointment which was scheduled for 8:30 so instead I only saw the hygenist and I had to reschedule for the dentist. The hygenist kept telling me I needed braces. I am so over that after the visit to the orthodontist they recommended last time (e:paul,37587) .

I hate being sick in the summer. It really sucks. My throat and sinuses are all swollen and I have a massive headache, blah.

In order to feel better I made myself some clam and crab soup. I am really seafood obsessed. At the coop they have frozen baby clams for $2.99 a pack. They are quite tasty and make a great addition to soup and are quite pretty.
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I think it is much better to eat the abby clams because compared to say cherry stone clams, the meat is about the same size, but the shell is tiny. And who needs all that extra shell to discard.
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There is this really pretty beetle that is killing all our hollyhocks. They eat all the leaves, to the point where the hollyhocks didn't bother flowering this year.
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My mother send my fur-E wallet back to me. I am using it as my normal waller now.
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(e:terry) and I met (e:enknot) and megan for lunch on friday at Brodo. I had one of their yummy italian sausage focaccia pizzas.

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It was good but I was so jealous of meagan who got the shrimp salad.
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Afterwards I got a cinco from Spot. It is quite possibly the tastiest drink I ever had.
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This weekend someone also stole of the people who works at the church's bike. Another girl who works there saw saw black dude leaning on the girls bike with his hand behind him. She didn't realize however, that he was cutting the chain. I found the chain aroudn the corner. Goes to show you that chain type locks are useless.
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At 2:30am (e:oda) showed up on friday night to give her friend a tour of the house and hang out. I thought the days of 2:30 am visits were over now. I took this picture of our fireplace then.
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07/12/07 01:14 - 75ºF - ID#40079 pmobl

In love


Flowers from a wonderful boyfriend.

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Category: computers

07/12/07 01:20 - 60ºF - ID#40071

Mobile Hot Plate

I love my brand new 4GB 256MB vid Santa Rosa 2.4ghz powerbook but it is also cooking my legs. I have decided I simply need to stop touching it to my lap as I am getting lapburn. So much for laptop. At least 90% of the time I am using it at one desk or another.

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I looked more closely into the mobile mail processing and realized that apple was weirdly encoding some mail and that I had a typo where I typed $email->delete when I meant to type $email->deleted, oops.

It was a great day for computing for me, wrote some major enhancements for the surebert toolkit and framework and they came out with a skype client for my nokia n800 along with flash player 9. Not to mention that it now takes up to 16GB of external memory.

Unfortunately, the built-in video camera on the n800 takes about as quality a picture as my gameboy color camera attachment did. It is much better in the light.

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On a really good note, my Nikon s7c camera arrived back in the mail after repairs today but I wasn't there to pick it up. I am going to work from home tomorrow morning until it shows up because it says I have to sign for delivery and i seriously don't think I could handle living without it much more.
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Category: war

07/10/07 08:57 - 86ºF - ID#40042

Troop Withdrawl

That question is "not going to face this government," Bush said, chuckling slightly at a news conference with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, "because we made up our mind. We've made that part clear. It'll face future governments. There will be future opportunities for people to say, 'Well, it's not worth it. Let's just retreat.' "

Since then, nearly 700 more American soldiers have died in a war that has now lasted more than four years, lost the lives of more than 3,600 U.S. troops, cost $10 billion a month -- and cost Republicans control of the House and Senate.



I love how it costs 10 billion dollars a month. I wish it was better phrased top money was transfered from the people to a select group of mega corporations. I am sure some of it is for the troops but a whole heck of a lot of it is for war machinery and infrastructure, which results in big companies getting richer and the American People losing money that could otherwise pay for a fucking hell of a lot of services. Imagine if our government had an additional 10 billion to spend on domestic programs.

I can't wait to read about how terrible Bush was in history books. Unfortunately, I will be one of those people that children ask why I didn't do anything about it.
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Category: web

07/09/07 08:43 - 82ºF - ID#40026

myspace.com

Sorry we weren't able to find "paul visco" " on MySpace.com



Holy crap, I went on a little tour de myspace for the first time today - it kind of gives me that scummy feeling I get after hanging out at the pink.

Robert at work told me that Nick Battaglia, someone he knows, knew me. The name sounded familiar but I couldn't exactly remember who it was. So I searched their name online and ended up at ,which led me to myspace, which led me to see a hole bunch of people I know tangentially but did not know were interrelated. I realized through the connections that he was in fact the younger brother of someone I went to school with.

It all took me back to (e:chris)

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