Category: funny

10/19/07 12:54 - 71ºF - ID#41713

Hammer Time!

I wonder if she does govt. passport issuing offices?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: moving

10/17/07 01:55 - 69ºF - ID#41689

Single White Male ISO Tan Cardboard Box

I'm moving. Anyone got any suggestions for where I can nab lots of cardbox boxes for little or no $$$ in Buffalo?

theecarey writes at 10:39:18 10/17/07 - Comment #26518: Your title made me laugh. Anyway, I used to pick up banana boxes from Tops whenever I was moving. Give them a call to find out when their shipments come in. They are a manageable size with a handle of the sort to make transport easier. Especially good for books :)

tinypliny writes at 10:14:08 10/17/07 - Comment #26514: If nothing else works out Walgreens is a good place to go for boxes on Thursdays.

leetee writes at 05:34:04 10/17/07 - Comment #26490: Sally Beauty on Elmwood (in the Tops plaza, between Sears Optical and some shoe store i forget the name of right now). Go tonight if you can. We got a truck load yesterday and they are probably throwing away boxes as i write this. They are open until 9pm. Go ahead and say that i sent you. They call me Lettuce there. :)

mrmike writes at 04:47:43 10/17/07 - Comment #26488: To fill in, UHaul on Main will sell shipping boxes. Lacking wherewithwal when I moved I bought a bunch from them. Prices weren't too horrible and you actually got sturdy containers for the money

jbeatty writes at 02:38:27 10/17/07 - Comment #26472: I have about ten left over from my move if you would like them.

hodown writes at 02:12:03 10/17/07 - Comment #26466: Premier Liquors. They'll give you as many as you want and they are bug free (most liquor stores will give you boxes and because food is not stored in them you dont get bugs).

jenks writes at 02:07:04 10/17/07 - Comment #26465: Try wegmans. The boxes that boxes of cereal come in are a particularly good size. And if you go at the right time, you can usually get tons and tons. At least, that's what I did in NO.

janelle writes at 02:01:09 10/17/07 - Comment #26464: We may still have some left from our move Carolinian. I'll take a look in the basement/attic.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: humor

10/04/07 06:19 - 77ºF - ID#41495

Original Drawing Unconvered

Saw (e:jim)'s picture. A stance that wide can't go unphotoshopped (even if my Photoshop skills are pretty lame).

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: moving

10/03/07 04:01 - 72ºF - ID#41476

Last three days in three lines

Moving, back achy
So much stuff, so little time
Kitties happy, though.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: life

09/30/07 10:56 - 59ºF - ID#41417

Mantra of the day

I will not get angry when others say my ideas aren't good; instead, I will take it as them daring me to show the world there's a better way.

I need to keep telling myself that.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: life

09/28/07 03:35 - 67ºF - ID#41383

Moving Blues

I guess I feel a little better about leaving Elmwood and moving to N. Buffalo now that other people are doing it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: religion

09/23/07 07:00 - 74ºF - ID#41273

Post Yom Kippur update

Had a decent Yom Kippur, at least as decent as you can have for a day where you're supposed to be remorseful for all of the bad things you've done. For me my remorse was largely remorse for all of the tremendous anger I felt about my past relationship with the ex (and her mother) back in NC. Need to move on, as folks in the current relationship are counting on me and I shouldn't dwell in the past.

Wish I could have attended the blogtoberfest...it just had to be scheduled on Yom Kippur...aargh! Was it actually devoted just to bloggers, or was it a general octoberfest? For some reason I'd never imagine that there were that many enthusiastic Buffalo bloggers outside of (e:strip). I'd like to see Central Terminal sometime before there's some huge bat guano problem and they have to knock it down to prevent an epidemic. I wonder if they give tours...

Today at an estate sale (e:inscrutable) and I got a chest of drawers for $40 for our move to the new apartment. It's kinda moldy and the drawers don't open because the humidity of the basement made them swell shut. I'm really more worried about the mold, as the thought of the mold spreading throughout the house and making my existing respiratory situation (already exacerbated by (e:inscrutable)'s cat zeke and (e:ktmuffin)) gives me the willies. I need to find a can of "mold nuke" (if it exists) and apply liberally to said dresser. The dresser does have substantially dovetail joints and looks circa 40's-50's, so I'm hoping it turns out to be a good deal. It's going to be a pain in the butt to move it from the storage warehouse we're storing it in to the apartment, but hopefully we'll round up some of (e:inscrutable)'s friends to help us.

Oh, yeah, I'm moving from Elmwood Village to north buffalo on Sanders St. I'll probably writing more about this event in a future journal entry.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: religion

09/20/07 07:07 - 76ºF - ID#41219

Who shall live and who shall die

With the coming of Yom Kippur, there's the inevitable thoughts of death. There is the thought of death in the future (will I make sufficient amends for g-d to inscribe me in the book of life for another year) as well as thoughts of those around you who have died in the past.

Buffalo, I've noticed, is also a city of death. I see so much around me that was once beautiful and grand being subject to endless decay and destruction. I thought I had seen it all until I saw Beth Jacob cemetery, an abandoned Jewish cemetery in eastern Buffalo that is pretty much as destroyed and desecrated as a place in Buffalo can be. Until I had seen Beth Jacob, I've had been able to somehow stomach much of the blight in the city, but seeing blight on this level was the ultimate outrage.

In spite of my feelings that this situation with the Beth Jacob cememtery has got to change, the one thing that sets this place apart from all of the other decaying places in this city is that it's the only place where I have found decay and growth, death and life, in equillibrium. The area has so devolved that nature has taken over, and the decaying headstones are covered over with vines and surrounded by tall green grass. It's awful, yet quite eerily beautful at the same time; when I went about two weeks ago (with (e:inscrutable)) we saw deer in resting out in the open, as if to stake nature's own claim on the area.

"The Gates of Repentance are always Open"

The Deer we saw

The rest

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: birthday

09/20/07 09:11 - 64ºF - ID#41209

Happy Birthday

Happy b-day, spud girl (aka (e:lizabeth)).

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Words: 7
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: religion

09/14/07 02:43 - 58ºF - ID#41089

Cycles

Today, I spent the first day in the year of our lord 5768 reflecting long and hard about the person I want to be. The gates of repentance have been opened with the blast of a horn, and it is up to me whether I will be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year, or whether I will part from the life I want to lead ten days from now.

There's so much that I'd like to write right now, but I don't have the time tonight. However I think that my posts for the next nine Days Of Awe will be a little more deeper than usual, especially considering the challenges and life-changing events in the coming year.

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Words: 120
Location: Buffalo, NY

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