We cleaned the hosue up so much for the party. It actually looked liek people lived in it for once. (e:southernyankee) surprised us by flying up from DC for the birthday party with her friend lisa.



Throughout the evening so many people showed up. It definately got craziest after midnight and ended around 6am. I didn't take any pictures besides the one above. I cannot wait to see your pics (e:metalpeter)

(e:carolinian), I hope you made it home okay.

There were ~35 people at our house: me, matt, terry, carey, tk, metalpeter, lee, walt, oda(the friend formelly known as emily), carolinian, mike, mrmike, lisa, southernyankee, enknot, chirs scuito , andy, josh, matthew, neil, blond guy, willy, carrie chillberg, tina, her bf, chris, chris, their new sidekick, lilho, nick, tina wang, bf, kookcity

(e:kookcity), I am totally gonna hit you up on that offer to help paint.

(e:imk2)'s ex tried to convince me to built a sex dungeon in the attack. Now I have to say, when we did our house purchasing facilitation with a creative professional last year (e:paul,3559) , one of our prerequisities that got listed during the free association, no feedback component was a the requirement of a sex dungeon in the basement, lol. Here is the post it
on my face after the facilitiation. However, he meant to open a sex club in the attic - not my thing. Basement and attic are so different.

I guess we had really too short of notice and didn't do a good job contacting some people as we just got back from vacation and were moving and I had to deal with my thesis all of last week. Most notably absent was (e:ladycroft) , (e:jenks) , (e:imk2) , (e:vincent) , (e:zobar) , (e:dragonlady) , (e:jason) , (e:joshua) , (e:springfaire) , (e:e):trisha and (e:dimartiste). Their was a definate lack of friends from school too. Everyone is either moved away now ((e:shawnr) and (e:robin)), or I am out of communication with them ((e:liz) , (e:churchofjulie) , (e:soyeon) , etc). I tried to email them but it was a very last minute effort. Maybe, in a way it was reflective of my graduation from UB. (e:holly) was at another party and all of (e:mike)'s friends didn't make it because they were at (e:jill)'s sister's wedding before and (e:libertad) had some previous engagement.

The world of scented plastic has a new united front. If you don't believe me check out Record you own strawbeery dance here.

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They have combined strawberry shortcake and my little pony into one sweet world of narcotically strong plastic fullfillment. I met a straweberry shortcake at the Salvation Army recently and she still smelled after living through the 80s and 90s. It makes me wonder what kind of toxic compounds make her have such an exceptional "half-life"



Last night at (e:robins) party I though there was this bowl of ashes in the food area. Turned out to be a bowl fill of zauberpilze. I ate a handfull figuring why not, it isn't often they have these kind of snacks materialize.

It ended up being the strangest evening. First of all never watch the Chuckie movie before such an adventure. I spent the entire night thinking about chuckie. At one point I convinced myself the only thing that could stop him was strawberry shortcakes sweet scented plastic smell. In my dream I would see evil chuckie and everything was lik black and red and burned. Then a my little pony would ride in with sparkle glitter and stars trailing behind her and a strawberry shortcake doll on her back. Her strawberry smell would cover everything and my dream would return to a natural green scheme which was much more calming.

Saw (e:enknot) for a bit and we taked about new rss like feeds that are pure javascript. We bored everyone but ourselves with out computer talk. Frankly, it was some of the most interesting conversation of the night. I bet you will see more javascript feeds.

There was tons of crazy teacher to student flirt action which was so bizarre considering it all started with a conversation about Mary Kay Letourneau (WIKIPEDIA - Mary_Kay_Letourneau), the teacher with the 13 year old boyfriend that ended up in jail and latter married him.

I had a someone confess their crush on me.

Hate me because I am white and middle class
On the way walking home from (e:robins) there was this increasingly large group of black people that was walking ahead of us. It started out with two guys double riding on a bike but they got off and went slow right next to us, then more and more of them gathered.

As more and more of them gathered I would have normally avoided it (any group of ten people - even hippies) by myself but (e:terry) and (e:matthew) just trudged through. Of course this caused a commotion. The people patted us down to scope and size us up, all in the guise of a hug for the sabres victory which I had no idea about.

I think the main dude was trying to show off in front of the ladies. I think they really wanted to beat up (e:terry) because of his overwhelming whiteness but I think the guy realized he wasn't a little guy when he patted him down. It was the first time in my life I would have been ready to fight, even though they still woud have taken me down. That felt good.

It is kind of ridiculous that I have to be threatended walking home just because I am white and not poor.

Usually, this kind of stuff doesn't happen to me so much alone because I am not so white. But mix (e:terry) and (e:matthew) in and it gets a lot crazier. It's like when I was in Mexico with (e:terry) - we were the target of every scam artist and prostitute.

It made me realize that is exactly why people live in the suburbs. I mean this (e:paul,692) kind of stuff doesn't happen in Kenmore but you do get stuff like this (e:zobar,44) that would drive me just as insane.

Stop hugging my in the name of intimidation
I am really sick of strangers trying to hug me to find out what i have on me. It is such a perversion of a peaceful move. It kind of makes me want a tazer. This one night some guy at the subway stop at Utica and Main put his arm around my neck and talked for like 10 minutes about how he wanted more money for beer but he didn't know where to get it, insinuating that I had it. Anytime I tried to move he would just tighten his arm a bit untill he finally realized I really didn't have anything but a subway token with me and let me go. That was before the gym. I think now it wouldn't happen so much because I would have just punched the drunk in the face. It is precisely why I will not live on Prospect though and why the houses on Normal Street cost about 12k and always will.

I just don't understand what makes people act that way. There is no way I would do the same thing to poor people walking through my neighborhood. But honestly, I can't just pretend like it is just a economic class thing, it is totally racist that they target us. We are totally targeted because we are white. I have noticed the same thing on elmwood. It used to be that poor people asked me for money. But now it often hapens that black guy's in nicer clothes than I have harass me for money and get angry when I say I don't have any. What the hell is up with that?

Well happy 29th birthday to (e:hodown). I hope you had fun at your party. It looked like it the way you were popping the champagne. I am all partied out for a while.

There was lots of screaming toward the end until about 5 in the morning. I have learned my lesson about arguing with drunk polish people so I just went to bed. (e:enknot) you having amazing patience.



The baked goods were out of this world. My favs being ladycrofts yellow cookies and leetee amazing chocolate bark. You guys rock.

It was nice to see everyone, I didn't take any pictures because I was trying to be less tech more social. It's my new weekend lifestyle. I hope someone posts pictures on the site. (e:metalpeter), I will download some of your pics from ebshots and see whats up with them.

The pinata part was the next phase of the party. (e:ladycroft) made the most amazing pinata out of paper mache and a bunch of things she found on the ground off elmwood. It was need to see what kind of refuse she found. We spent about an hour trying to bust through its solid iron construction.

























(e:mike) started to feel sick.




(e:terry) gave (e:theecarey) a lapdance followed by turning into a chocobo goat

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After that (e:mattew) and (e:terry) had gone to bed yet (e:theecarey), (e:mike), and I partied it up for another hour or so. We played with glo sticks and got a visit from our neighbor.

The night got crazier once people started drinking from (e:ladycroft)'s over the top bar. People drank a lot of beer. I think (e:cutsaniflush) or (e:terry) won the prize for that. But many people drank vodka. this was a full bottle of sky vodka when the party started. It is empty now.



I put it next to a 2 liter coke bottle so you could get an idea about how much vodka it represents. (e:ladycroft) also brought me a mini bottle of goldschlagger. She really knows how to keep a programmer happy.



(e:ladycroft) also brought melon shots. We consumed every single one.


So then the craziness began.

(e:drchlorine) got a makeover from some of the ladies. Later he got locked out and (e:lilho) refused to pick him up. SHe can be so mean sometimes.


While we were ont he scavenger hunt, (e:jim) (write a freakin journal already) and James, and (e:uncut) and (e:matthew) got in a fight about the home schooling system.



At some point my brother (e:mike) decided to get in his underwear and put on a show with (e:lilho) and (e:jill). The show was an extravaganza involving flashing lights, daning, a spray bottle and the casio keyboard in demo mode.



Some of you may have experience the magic of demo mode before.











He spent the rest of the night in his undies, even outside, even humping jesse's car.



(e:ladycroft) got a dance tease out of the show. At this point I realized she really looks like (e:holly).

My cell phone can hold 800 pictures and 1GB of music so eat that Steve Jobs.
Needless to say I have plenty of media from the party. So much in fact that you dialuppers should view these entries in low bandwidth mode.

(e:ladycroft)'s birthday was supposed to start out with a scavanger. unfortunately, people came late and not enough people had car's with CD player or sober drivers by the time it was really began at around midnight.



As soon as (e:terry) pulled in the door from his work at FEMA, (e:alison) and I jumped in and the scavenger hunt began. (e:jill), (e:mike), and (e:lilho) were the other team.

We didn't realize that the other teams all needed to see the balloon and considering they left ten minutes before us, we though we were set.

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The first clue took us to Sister's Hospital where our team promptly stole the balloon.


The ballonn lead us to McDonald's where (e:alison) ate fries and I had my first taste of a McDonald's product since 1995. It tastes ill.like crap still.

In the end none of us got to the finish



At some point we were supposed to be presented with the choice between several version of the true (e:ladycroft) and then pick which one was her. We didn't get that far. Poor (e:ladycroft) and Theecarey spent like 2 hours waiting for everyone at the finish. I will let her explain the rest. Either way, we kicked (e:mike)'s team's ass because they never even found the balloon (even though we stole it.)



[size=m]Oh ya and (e:jason) sucks[/size]

(e:lilho)'s party was nice, we eventually moved most of the party to (e:keith)'s party which was one of the best ever held on elmwood [inlink]keith,42[/inlink]. There were so many skyclad people. They cut down the fence dividing two back yards and made one massive party area complete with a swimming pool. I am guessing there were like 150 people dancing to nice big speakers and a turn table.

I didn't take any picture but (e:tina) did so maybe you will get to see some of it after all.

(e:jesse) built an entire outfit out of porn magazines pics that we cut out at (e:lilho)'s party. There were so many (e:peeps) out for the night. I also got to see lauren from UB which was nice. At some point (e:matthew) had to go home to get something and when he came back we lost track of the keys. Hours went by. Everyone blamed everyone. Did matthew drop them? Did I lose them? Did terry lose them? Did we give them to TK or Lilho or alison? Eventually we decided it had to be (e:lilho) because she was the only one with pockets and/or a purse. We asked (e:lilho) a couple times? Terry even tried to get them out of her purse and she insisted they wern't there. She left in a huff, I think because of some boy drama. At that point it was about 5:30 and the rest of us had no ride home.

Jesse and terry went with lilho because terry forgot street clothes and could not walk home like that. Poor mike was supposed to take our car to work at 8:30. So mike, matthew, and I walked home. Spent an hour looking for spare keys and then sent mike back to the car. Unfortunately, he couldn't find it as matthew was the one who parked it. AT that point it was like 6:30 and (e:matthew) and I had to walk back from Linwood and West Ferry to Elmwood and Bidwell to help (e:mike) find the car and get it started with our ghetto key copy that barely works.

Needless to say we didn't get home until the sun rose, poor mike having to work in like an hour and then stupid fucking bitch (e:lilho) calls us today to say she is sorry she was such a bitch last night and the keys were in fact in her purse. At leats she admits it.

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I am so mad at her that if she was here I would punch her in the face if she were here.

I just finished my "firewire" costume for the anything but clothes party. We are off to (e:lilho)'s house warming party first. See you all after midnight.

So the summer ends with two parties in one night. The first party is (e:lilho)'s house warming. It sounds like it will be nice. I still haven't seen her apartment! Then afterwards we are heading over to (e:keith)'s for the anything but clothes party. It should be very entertaining. I am wearing parts from a firewire drive.