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I should at least have a monthly post. That wouldn't be so bad. A guy I worked with a few years ago called me yesterday and sort of offered me a job that sounds interesting. In Buffalo. I0 . . .
advacado & peanut butter on the wholest wheat possible. Also put some black bean dip and some of that crazy hot sauce. Then go drink old fashioneds & listen to jazz. -+- 0 . . .
Hola Amigos, its been a while since I rapped at ya! Tonights Feature: MOBILE TELEPHONE PICTURES comparing the price of various nuts at local dry goods shop: 0709/A04130915550708.jpg 0 . . .
holy toledo, I am way remiss in postings estrip. I am drunk and sorry abot that and I miss the whole stinking lot of you. I am in washington dc tonight but I am expecting to find myself in wonderful0 . . .
I saw this band that was a bunch of music school kids. They had Four trombones and their bass was a sousaphone. If someone had described this to me I don't think I would have been into them b0 . . .
I was in Washington DC to see the Pogues this week and on the drive back home I stopped in Centralia, PA Centralia is was a coal town in the PA mountains. One of the coal seams caught fire and h0 . . .
Not going to Buffalo for NE was a stupid thing to do. It probably rivals burning myself with an iron* for dumbest moment of 2008. It was good to see everyone in DC, but fuuuuck that party looked g0 . . .
Dear Estrip: I love you and I love this wine. Like this wine, I have no idea what varietal you are or what soil you've grown in. I just like the way you "pair" with stuff. Li0 . . .
This is me procrastinating. I should finish updating my resume and apply for this job but its freaking me out. My college roommate's wife's father's coworker's wife works at a 0 . . .
Its not that I don't like to get up in the morning, its just that the Time just before you wake up is some of the best sleeping possible. Is it really that bad to extend that super-quality a lit0 . . .
Hey look what I got. My cousin broke up with his girlfriend and I guess she gave me this old book. (Thanks Sara!) 1108/PostCover1119.jpg Its an old Atlas from the mid 1930s. So its k0 . . .
Its so cold and terrible outside. I just want to stay inside for a long time. This apartment has radiant heat and I think its the best thing since indoor plumbing. THE BEST. 4-day week this 0 . . .
Even though I knew it would happen its still giving me waves.0 . . .
That was fun eh? I seriously never get tired of talking to people. Or going on the roof for that matter. It was good to see people again and to meet people I hadn't yet. Of course I missed 0 . . .
OH MAN its been so long since I've last posted! It just kind of got away from me there. Plus a portion of the gap between posts was from not having internet access while I moved into a differe0 . . .
It struck me the other day that it was a really good idea to buy an old diesel truck and drive the old Route 66. Since then I've been trying to talk myself out of it, but have been pretty unpe0 . . .
its certainly been a while since my last post. Time just seems to go by so fast. It seems like every day is garbage day again and people are rolling garbage cans to and from the street. The houses 0 . . .
I have a mountain bicycle that I haven't ridden in years. Its really awesome to be riding it again. I've seen bike seats before with lady parts cut out but did you know they have them 0 . . .
when my alarm clock went off this morning I was in the middle of a really vivid and real dream. I got out of bed and it was like only part of my head knew it was awake and the rest was still dreaming0 . . .
IOU: I owe estrip (1) post this is just to get to 1000 . . .
Four day weekends are awesome because they beget (2) four day weeks. I've had blog stage fright lately. I've been avoiding writing anything thats too dorky or complainy. I still like re0 . . .
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HEATS BACK! Also, I got 99 problems and Carbon Monoxide ain't one cause I got 3 different kinds of CO monitors. were way more level-headed than me and talked to a bunch of City Health pe0 . . .
I am so entirely pissed right now. I haven't had heat at my apartment since Tuesday morning. Maybe I'll get it tomorrow who knows. But the entire house is certainly filled with CO as th0 . . .
I tried to enroll in a party to vote in the primaries but I got this letter from my County Board of Elections: Dear Voter Your present enrollment is Blank - No Party and must remain the same,0 . . .
For real: yesterday the sidestreet my house is on was real icy. I forgot about how icy it was until I tried parking behind someone and slid right into their bumper. What a pisser, it was a new 0 . . .
I've been putting off writing this for a few days now. Instead of writing a super-post I'm just going to break it up into a few nuggets. That will be easier for me to write and probably ea0 . . .
We got back last night. I'll write a proper post tonight 0108/SmallHouse0113.jpg0 . . .
Dudes I'm goin to Nawlins tomorrow. This should be pretty cool. I think I'll bring my camera.0 . . .
These are crazy, tasey times. In terms of a yearly retrospective: The way I lived 2007 was, although technically competent, only about 2 alarms in the chili competition that is life. Allow me to0 . . .
Four days this week and I just might make it. I used to think I could do this job standing on my head but lately a lot of its been sitting on my ass. We haven't had a solid busy week in our are0 . . .
Leetee beat me to posting the Hippopotamus song, but I got the Stooges version! IWantAHippopotamusForChristmas: 1207/02TheThreeStoogesIWantAHippopotamusForChristmas1204.mp3 plus! the c0 . . .
I'm not really tired but I spent hours on Sunday playing with tempos on Beatles Albums. I went through Abbey Road and like half the White Album. 1107/IMSlowTired1127.mp3 In other new0 . . .
rest in peace Pennsylvania Angler! rest in peace Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires! rest in peache blue shirt that smelled like Florida mangroves even after I washed you 3 tiems! Truly, you 0 . . .
I think I got a lot of rocketry out of my system. When I tell people about it their response is usually cool and reserved, like I'm some retarded boy-man who still eats Flintstones vitamins and0 . . .
At some point in 2007 I decided I wanted to become a hobbyist. Ships in a bottle and model making are way out of my patience/attention span. RC stuff is cool too, I even had a business idea based on0 . . .
Went down to Zoar today with me cuz. boy what a perfect day for it. It felt exceedingly good to run up to the Knife's Edge aka the Hog's Back aka that really big hill up there. I wish t0 . . .
This year at my job I got (11.25) days off of which I've taken (3) So the remaining eight days need to be used before the end of the year. These are on top of the traditional US holidays pl0 . . .
Hey how much would you guess you pee a day? A guy I work with was out a few days last week with kidney stones. This prompted us to to look on Wikipedia (they call it Peteypedia at work because I a0 . . .
What a true pleasure it was to attend the party Sat night. As always, everyone was true blue fun as hell. Happy Birthday Mike & Terry and thanks Paul, Matt and Terry for another sweet party. 0 . . .
I saw a shootin star last night and it made me think about a firefly I hit with my truck in July. At first it was a little streak of light in the dark but then it hit the windshield and the little 0 . . .
Wow I still like this place (estrip). I mean I don't post much anymore but coming around here and reading everybody else's stuff kindof makes me happy. If nothing else you are all intere0 . . .
0707/BlackFlagWhiteMinority0704.mp3 I was going to write something about "America," maybe political or cultural but I just realized how feeble that would be. Instead: Speak Sof0 . . .
hey guess what just listen to my usersound ESPN Classic has been playing American Gladiator lately. HOLYSHIT this is the best show. Why did I not understand this 17 years ago? The goddamn a0 . . .
I think I can never live in a suburb again. Once I lived in Amherst for 1 year andI think that will be it. I like where I lived in Buffalo. Right there by Childrens Hospital. There was this mu0 . . .
HA! who would have thought that f uelcel l R&D would be so sweet? Thats all I have to say. That my job is really cool and I'm happy with it and everything else. I wish I didn'0 . . .
I had a dream last night instead of having a cat named Jack, my parents had a bulldog and a chimpanzee named Chester. And oh, the fun we had. 0 . . .
Flight attendants are important. They have to deal with people, which is euphanism to say they have to deal with retarded assholes. (This is ironic because retarded people pretty much can not be as0 . . .
- I read this article (wish I could find it to link to) about kids' attention spans. The article was mostly about entertainment, especially TV shows. It was saying that what with all the intern0 . . .
You know how people, people who need people, are the luckiest people? I think people, people who fart in crowded public spaces deserve an express escalator to hell. Wherein for every honest soul0 . . .
today's that day that people go out and drink in the middle of the week. Sweet. I haven't been to a bar in months, this might be fun. Also: I just checked again. There is no 0 . . .
Check out my user sound: I can't stop listening to it, its so ballsy/brassy. I tried making a psuedo-uv filter like the one I commented in Paul's journal e:paul,4887 The basic0 . . .
IT was fucking supra-hairy down in Fredonia/Dunkirk this weekend. Robin Williams hairy. So much fucking snow and so much fucking wind and so little visibility. Driving to work I couldn't eve0 . . .
Goddamn doesn't this town love talking about the blizzard of 77? When its mentioned, over and over, on TV and in the paper, I can't help feeling the same way when you watch a dog roll in 0 . . .
My favorite coworkers are the ones who come into my office to tell me how sick they are. Sneezes and noserubs only sweeten the deal The best defense is to keep a a low level of germs in your sys0 . . .
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My work week ends Sunday mornings, and Sunday nights have been strange on the night schedule. While it would be nice to catch up with people Sunday afternoon and night, I'm not good for much and0 . . .
yep I had a good time in DC. I think I can interpolate that people had a good time at the Linwood house too. I've been having really weird dreams. People have been speaking in geometri0 . . .
On monday me and some friends did some Urban Exploring in rochester. We checked out the old American Laundry Machine Factory. An old shop or parts room: There was a newspaper in there with 0 . . .
this is the middle of the day for me. 4:02AM is the middle of the day on this stupid schedule FUCK THE WORLD I don't want to work on this schedule any more or work at juice factories at0 . . .
I mean HEY DUDES This whole night schedule has me fucked up. The first week of it I hardly slept at all and the 2nd week all I did was sleep. I have to think, all cerebral like, what time to 0 . . .
As you all know I'm really big into fences and fence related technologies. The Mexico Border Fence is one of the most exciting fence events in decades. I find it fucking delicious that the Bor0 . . .
Why talk about work on the weekend? My boss moved me to a supervisor position. On nights, weekend nights. 6PM to 6AM Holy fuck, could it get any better? My prediction: yes. My predictio0 . . .
I got an email the other day. I guess I found some time-capsule email deal last year and put something in to get sent this year. this is what it said: Here is the text of your message: This n0 . . .
I stopped by a towel store today (target) to purchase a towel. A blue towel was lost this summer when me and some friends drank a bottle of vodka and went tubing down a river. This is the river I 0 . . .
man it is crisp outside. Back during the storm, when I was sleeping on peoples couches/floors, I lost my lucky knife. There is nothing lucky about this jackknife, its just more whimsical to say 0 . . .
I just toasted a 250 gig HDD. The power connecter I was using was this shitty one that is always hard to put in, so I didn't notice that I was putting it in backwards. Fuck The smell of the b0 . . .
oh boy its great. tonight I hung out with my boss' boss' boss. ( acutally he will be my boss' boss' boss' boss under a new org chart in the works.) we drank beer and ate wings but I think the o0 . . .
still no power I'm on WiFi somone left open need caffeine0 . . .
as I turned north towards the city this evening, the sky was glaring. There was a cloud that looked like a big clenched fist. Pointed towards Buffalo. A lot of times I want to punch my computer0 . . .
Clarity of vision is the most important thing in life. Maybe its my meaning of life. Its whats on top of the Mountain. Its hard to explain and it means different things to different people. I 0 . . .
It was a blast seeing everyone Saturday. Although it was more of a sprint than a marathon for me I guess. Heretowith I resolve more marathons than sprints for future Strip-related events. Also, a0 . . .
today I saw a car downtown with a Guam liscense plate0 . . .
My folks were in town today and I met them down at Graycliff. Pretty interesting. Wright used a lot of straight lines but it was more about proportion than anything else. That house it beat. Lea0 . . .
In Orchard Park I'm thinking about going0 . . .
about a year ago I was at the high water mark of discontent at a job that was pretty fuckying awful. It was my first job out of school and I was pretty damn dumb. I still am goddamn dumb, but maybe 0 . . .
cider season for me means rum season They go hand in hand. (thsi is another boring one btw) I got my raise at work. It was pretty much what I was looking for. So no more being late to wor0 . . .
I was sittin at the light in front of Filmore hospital on Deleware. I looked over past the sidewalk, theres a bench, some grass, and some shade-trees. There was a dog chilling out in the grass. He0 . . .
Do you or someone you know enjoy the fuck out of Rock&Roll? Do you enjoy breaking drumsticks and beating through drumskins? Do you enjoy tolerate shit-hole bars, load-ins, load-outs, and get0 . . .
24 party was cool. I snuck in kinda late but it was cool to meet the people I did. Matt: this is that link I was telling you about in the backyard. About the trains down on the waterfr0 . . .
I was kinda bummed out Thursday driving home from work. A guy I work with was found dead Wednesday. I hadn't seen him since Friday the 11th. He said he had cellulitis in his leg and he was lim0 . . .
you tube is great for watching videos of people beating each other up. don't tell anybody about my favorite video though: my favorite is the sigh at 0:130 . . .
Chicago tomorrow for work Anyone ever park at that place SunPark before? 0 . . .
0806/cropper4146.jpg (Lorna Doom and I comparing fists) This was at the Germs show onThurs. Sombody said the Violent Femmes came over too but I didn't notice them. 0 . . .
VILOENT FEMMES!!! the 'Germs' are playing Icon tonight too. I got tomorrow off from work for this 0 . . .
Boy I haven't posted in a while. I guess I feel like a post is a way of getting attention, and I don't want any attention latley I can only write about pretty average boring shit, but I guess that0 . . .
(A) A squirel chewed a hole in one of the screens in my kitchen and ate some hamburger buns and a loaf of bread. I was freaked at first because I didn't see the animal, and thought it was a rat tha0 . . .
I swear, calling in sick today is the best move I've made in ages 0 . . .
I need advice Some of my college friends recently got married. Long story short, I overdrew my bank account at dude's bachelor party (strippers, 'cleanup' fee on limo, etc) and did not buy t0 . . .
Toronto was fun. Metric was good. Today I mostly ate popsicles. I was reading my prior post(#30) and it struck me as funny because there was no Plutonium in the 1920's. (Pluton0 . . .
today is my day to go into work early Sometimes I hate that but sometimes I get enormous clarity of vision being up early. So I"ll skip out of work early as well, come home, short nap, an0 . . .
we missed ted leo Just as I walked into the pavilion they ended But BSS and B&S were awesome I feel like I got beat up from sleeping on the ground, and from rafting in some rive0 . . .
SATURDAY JULY 8th Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD BELLE & SEBASTIAN BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE TED LEO + PHARMACISTS oh hell yeah 0706/200505301242.gif 0 . . .
If you had to have a dashboard, like status lights, on your forehead, what lights would you pick? I 'm going to call it right here: someday body piercings <; status lights < tattoos < o0 . . .
did anyone see (or better yet, know) that green girl at the square yesterday? Seriously, there was a girl that was like Kermit-the-Frog or Incredible-Hulk green. She was kind of hanging on the b0 . . .
My friend Milhouse called me today and asked for help moving a futon. I met him after work at this place only a few houses down from mine on Elmwood. It was power muggy out, and the futon was la0 . . .
If I don't die from lack of rest Seriously though I'm tired. I've stopped drinking caffeine (d pepsi) for the most part and I think its for the best. Coffee, baby, you know I love you. 0 . . .
so I saw my burka lady again on Monday morining e:kookcity2000#3 . But it was early Monday monring, and I didn't reconize her. I thought it was a beekeeper walking up the street And I 0 . . .
yesterday I had a 90 day new-hire review. My boss rated me higher than I would have. I guess he's really happy with me. he was going to put me in for a raise, but he said he could give me a big0 . . .
Have you ever, all of a sudden, realized that you are in love with someone? And then have you ever been cerebrally pissed off at your feelings, but couldn't change anyways? Naw me neither. 0 . . .
Lilho cut my hair the other day. I dunno, I think she did a good job, shes a good haircutter. My dome is huge though so she had to charge me extra. Work is stupid but fun lately. Today the0 . . .
This stuff: 0606/debil1350.gif is good hot sauce. [Backstory: My folks go on vacations down in South Carolina, et all. One year they bought back this really good sweeet hot sauce. 0 . . .
buy my carpet! cheap!0 . . .
Where are all the Bullet fucking trains?? FUCK I very clearly remember reading in Weekly Reader that we would have Mag mutherfucking Lev trains in the future! 0606/WR3629.jpg Dammit w0 . . .
A college roomate of mine is getting married in June. His bachelor party was Sat. No need to go on in detail about that, except that I have finally figured out how to have fun at strip clubs. S0 . . .
I think I'm going to stop drinking. In like 35 years. Wed night was the game, and that was fun. I walked down the block to Faherty's. Its fun in there when its packed. You end up meea0 . . .
OK so time can hit in (3) ways. HAMSTER WHEEL. This is when time just keeps wrapping back on itself. You can keep going and going, but the faster you go, the faster stuff repeats.0 . . .
I had a dream last night about a bird woman. Actually it was a bird (like an ostrich? or maybe another flightless bird) that became anthropomorphic and kept changing into a lady. At first I wa0 . . .
One time, a few months ago, I was at a popular local bar with a friend. (Coles) She got me a drink, it was supposed to be a White Russian. But the dude got the container of milk mixed up with a c0 . . .
***Positivity*** It is a good thing that the Violent Femmes are playing in August at the Square. Work is fun now that I don't hate my boss. We all laugh a lot more during the day now. Band0 . . .
holy shit I am so happy with the schedule for the Square this summer. More at 110 . . .
Fuuuck, my boss finally got fired. He made it 3 months. He was probably the perfect bad boss. He had no redeeming values. Not only did he talk about his sexual shit, he went on in great detail0 . . .
I took some days off last week on bereavement. And this was good, and I traveled some. Went to Cornell to see my sister. Stayed at my folks house for a couple nights and took care of some stuff t0 . . .
I found an old tape (cassette) today. I made it in high school, maybe 9th or 10th grade. It was Descendents Milo Goes to College on on side and Angry Samoans Back From Samoa on the other. Dude 0 . . .
I had a boss that would call you into his office and say " couple things..." That was always scary hearing that. He was so stupid and "couple things" always meant he got yelled 0 . . .
I left (think quit) the band I was playing in a few weeks ago It wasn't happening like I wanted it to, blah blah, the whole story is actually longer, but not interesting or important. But they as0 . . .
um, my mom called me tonight to tell me that my grandma (her mother) had died. We had moved grandma to a house my aunt owned, just a few houses down from my mom and dad's house a few years ago. Be0 . . .
I don't know if anyone else has ever seen this, but there is a lady I sometimes see on Elmwood between Allen & North. She usually is walking in the street, just off the sidewalk. Always saw h0 . . .
Hi, I'm new: let me explain why I'm here. After I lost a job in Novemeber, I got a really easy temp assignment at the 'Factory'. It was so easy that I was done (2) months ahead of schedule. Of c0 . . .