"tick tock tick tock tick" written by Fellyconnelly on estrip.org

Category: moving

06/28/07 01:38 - 80ºF - ID#39835

tick tock tick tock tick

times a tick tockin away!
tonight after work begins crunch time.

everything we own is getting moved to the garage. or to kathis. tomorrow morning lauren and i will be wrestling with the hoardes of ny city folk who are all on a mission of mass exodus of the hot and steamy city in favor of the ever so pristine jersey shore (sarcasm? noooo)
spending the weekend at the beach with a ridiculous amount of assholes i'm sure. but hey, sun and ocean and a free house a block away from the shore? sure.

i intend on mild inebriation throughout the weekend.

ending sunday morning, when we again will be facing the hoardes of (holyshiti'vegottagobacktowork)
in time to get lauren to work
and me to the budget rental truck
and then pack all night

monday afternoon, you will see me, there in buffalo
i'll be the one swearing under my breath at the 47 boxes of books(bricks) that have lauren's name all over them.

here we go!

chico writes at 03:16:34 06/28/07 - Comment #20220: oops, posted that last item to the wrong journal entry, my bad.

maybe you should take Lauren's books down the shore with you?

hmm. it seems some posts are best kept separate.

chico writes at 03:14:26 06/28/07 - Comment #20219: I have a book problem, and it's worse than Lauren's. My old friend Joe was in town for a visit recently and he reminded me that we moved over 75 boxes of books into my office last August, and I have to admit that I just moved another 15 (different) boxes from my old place to the new digs. Having to move multiple dozens of boxes of books is a good way to test friendships, haha.

Of course, the problem with selling/giving away books is that, unlike weeding a garden, you might end up missing the "weeds". My buddy Tom in Albany once weeded his library of books he felt he "never used" and subsequently spent the next year or two going to the shelf to look for a title that -- sure enough -- he'd sold or given away in that weeding frenzy. His advice: NEVER weed your library.

So I guess I'd say, 47 boxes of books -- a pain, yes, but what is life without pain, after all? And better the pain now than later. :-)

fellyconnelly writes at 03:08:16 06/28/07 - Comment #20218: (E:hodown) just the thought of NYC in this heat makes my skin crawl... i don't envy you....

(e:james) - lauren will NEVER sell her books. even if she never reads a single one of them again. and being that she will soon be attending grad school for a degree in that which requires enough books to put encyclopedia britannica to shame.... oh i might have just gotten a little depressed just now...

and dammit why isn't that pic of steven coming up?

james writes at 02:47:09 06/28/07 - Comment #20217: Before moving I decided to sell 1/3 of my books. Amazon payed for my moving expenses and our security deposit. So, with that volume in mind I have an idea what you are in store for. God speed.

hodown writes at 02:07:13 06/28/07 - Comment #20216: Im totally jealous. Its so hot an miserable in NYC right now. Even if the shore is gross, its better than nothing :)

fellyconnelly writes at 01:52:02 06/28/07 - Comment #20215: oh and by the by....
stephen
[img]0607/StevenAndLauren0603.jpg[/img]
will be accompanying us!
i'm trying to imagine what 6 hours in the car with stephen is going to be like... probably just crazy...

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Category: fwuffy

06/26/07 04:23 - 91ºF - ID#39815

cuuuute with chris

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Category: pain

06/24/07 05:41 - 82ºF - ID#39795

grumble grumble

my throat hurts.

which sucks. i don't enjoy that very much. i thought that was supposed to end when i quit smoking. that was 9 months ago.

i think we have made a decision to move on the 2nd. so if anyone wants to stop by, we will be there. moving. and then we have to get back in the car and head back to NP on the morning of the 3rd so that we could go back to work. lovely, eh?

anyway, i need to go close my store. i think i'm going to go home, get ice cream and then nap.

ice cream + sore throat = mildly complacent.

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Category: randomo

06/23/07 12:08 - 65ºF - ID#39783

my grandpap made dandelion wine

i drank a little too much blue moon last night...
but luckily i started out the day snuggling with a purring kitten... unless you are (e:paul), there is no way a bad day could start out with a purring kitten!

lauren just went out to lunch with her ex boyfriend... i wish she would hurry back with some food...

so my question is this...

what is everyones favorite hot spots around elmwood? (and i don't mean for wireless internet access)

coffee spots?
cafes?
bars?

there is a place in NPZ that has the greatest food ever....

and I need to find a similar place..

also... i have a menu for 'just pizza' and noticed dandelions on several menu items... what is up with that? buffalo doesn't seem like the type of place to go all hippie tofu on me... whats the deal people?

ummmm yeah thats all for now.

oh wait....
one other question: is amy winehouse is really a white chick?

leetee writes at 07:58:16 06/23/07 - Comment #20064: Holy mother of... how could i forget Saigon?!? It was the first restaurant (e:Uncutsaniflush) and i ate a meal in after moving to Buffalo 2 1/2 years ago! (e:jenks), thanks for the reminder. They have some good eats there... yummm...

Buffalo has a plethora of very good places to eat, not just on the strip. We have been known.. *gasp* to drive out to the 'burbs to eat food.

Our latest discovery is Zhang's Buffet, on Union near the Walden Galleria Mall. They have pretty good sushi and made to order stir fry.

theecarey writes at 05:15:32 06/23/07 - Comment #20060: purring kittens rock. Stopped at a landscape nursery yesterday, and two older kittens demanded attention and a lap to nap on. I sat down an obliged-- what else was I to do?

You wont be hurting to find food places around WNY--all kinds all over the place. On elmwood, among all the other places peeps mentioned, I dig Louis Hotdog joint--Yummy turkey burgers, sweet potato fries. Jims Steak Out is always good at 4am..

Coles- good food and micro brews! (on Elmwood)

venture a bit further out to Pearl Street Brewery- great bar and grill.

hungry now..

fellyconnelly writes at 05:02:20 06/23/07 - Comment #20057: FOOD APLENTY! yay.

and hi baby!

james writes at 04:15:27 06/23/07 - Comment #20053: When I go back down state to visit my folks (they are just north of Westchester) what amazes me is that a mom and pop restaurant serving alright food costs about the same as some of the most wonderful restaurants in Buffalo.

So, don't be afraid to go to places like Left Bank (amazing French/American) or Toro (a tapas bar) or Betty's (brunch never had it so good). You wont find much off beat or new cuisine here, but good food is aplenty.

scarlette writes at 02:55:46 06/23/07 - Comment #20051: Hi baby!

fellyconnelly writes at 02:41:57 06/23/07 - Comment #20049: wow! you guys all rock, in case i haven't told you that before.... so much info... Crazy!

there are hookas @ sahara grill??

i really did know that amy winehouse was a crazy drunken white chick from britain, i just was incredulous. but 'drunk london white version of lauryn hill' is probably the best description i've heard yet...

i remember seeing 'spot' in my drives - i can't wait to hang out in the coolest place until they realize that i'm not really cool and they kick me out!

i love the bistro in new paltz. i will be so sorry to see it go.

and i guess i'm going to have to take the plunge and try these crazy dandelions...

thanks again for all the info!

paul writes at 01:48:20 06/23/07 - Comment #20043: Ya, as (e:leetee) said dandelions are traditional italian food, you can find them made into many different types of dishes in Buffalo and the Dandelion greens are available at almost every grocery store.

jenks writes at 01:36:54 06/23/07 - Comment #20038: yep, amy winehouse is white. my BOL called her "a drunk london white version of lauryn hill", hehe.

I agree with everyone on the recs...
falafel bar is great. Sahara grill not as much so. Panos is 'eh', but I'll go. India gate- cheap buffet on wed night, and daily for lunch. Saigon cafe (thai), right next door, one of my faves. Solid grounds great breakfast. Bistro europa is good too, great wine list. Toro [neo-tapas], faherty's- good too. (no food at faherty's.) Globe is good for takeout lunch.
Spot is the 'social' coffee place, aroma a little quieter.

elmwood bars... there's coles and goodbar up towards 'my' end (north)- goodbar has a good beer list. as does coles. but i rarely go to either. then the faherty's/toro scene. I like allen st, too. Then there's a bunch of stuff on delaware, not too far away- colter bay, stillwater, and now the snooty fox [anyone been there yet? i haven't, but i've heard good things.]

joshua writes at 01:18:20 06/23/07 - Comment #20034: Globe Market - I like the food and they have Teany teas, which I love and haven't found anywhere else around here. They also have a gourmet shop in there as well which is interesting to look at, but I've never found myself interested in buying any of it.

BTW what a neat spot you have there in New Paltz! The menu looks cool.

Pano's I love - but then again I love mimosas and a little brunch on a sunny Sunday morning. Pano's is legendary, the food is good and the owner is a great guy. If you like Indian food, a local favorite is the India Gate near Forest on Elmwood - they do a lunch buffet and I like their samosas. You'll find a ton of things to check out and decent variety right on the street. I can't really say anything bad about any of whats available. There is a new European-style bistro called Bistro Europa which I hear is good, and also Mode (used to be Le Metro) on Utica and Elmwood is alright - I just checked it out last week and had a decent sandwich. Falafel bar - no frills and fabulous - near Bidwell on Elmwood. In the summer you may be interested in the Farmer's Market - local produce and products like fresh honey, dairy, loose leaf teas and other things. Lots of good looking berries if thats your thing for $4-6 a quart.

Spot or Caffe Aroma for your coffee - IMO the mochas at Caffe Aroma are better. Spot does have decent sandwiches, wraps, cold salads, etc. - if I'm up early enough on the weekends I head over and get a "Mike" which is ham, cheese and egg on a bagel with some aioli. If you like cookies with your coffee or tea I think Spot has some decent selections and all of them are good. Caffe Aroma serves alcohol and Spot doesn't.

I hear Solid Grounds is good but I've never been there. Its close to where you are going to live, so check it out and let me know =D

Pizza - you are sandwiched in between two good ones - Casa Di Pizza and Just Pizza. I love Just Pizza but it can be pricey. La Nova is another favorite and they have some frickin' great BBQ wings.

Bars - tough to say. For some offbeat fun (and if you don't mind chain smoking locals, which is illegal here and goes unenforced) then I would check out The Pink and Hardware, which are on Allen. Further down Allen towards Main St. you'll find Gabriel's Gate, which I love, and even still further down the street you'll see a selection of gay bars. I've never been in them so I can't attest to their quality so you may want to ask Paul or someone else which ones are better. On Elmwood the bars aren't bad but tend to attract suburban idiots who can't find any culture in Clarence or Williamsville. If I just want a drink and am trying to fly below the radar I go to Cole's (great beer on tap and in bottles!), McGharrets (hippiesh college age to twenty somethings bar, absolutely no frills and isn't for everybody), Faherty's (I know the bartenders but this bar does attract said suburbanites), Colter Bay and in general the Allen St. bars.

mike writes at 12:55:09 06/23/07 - Comment #20032: sahara grill has terrible service. I like the food, so take out is a better option but I have never had a good experience in the restaurant itself!

leetee writes at 12:45:52 06/23/07 - Comment #20031: :::link::: that should be the link to Globe Market. I forgot a space and the link didn't work.

leetee writes at 12:44:14 06/23/07 - Comment #20030: Yeah, Amy Winehouse is not only white.. but British!! Go figure, huh?

Lots of folks 'round here like Globe :::link::: as a place to lunch. Personally, i think the staff there are morons and the food is overpriced pap. But who's to argue with popularity?

Spot :::link::: seems to be the place the cool people hang (hence why i'm very rarely there) for coffee. Their tea selection is not too bad, the desserts i've had there are decent. I hear the food is good, too, but i haven't had any.

I hear Solid Grounds has great breakfast and lunch...

My fav food place on Elmwood is further north, between Potomac and Bird, Falafel Bar. Small place, but good mediterranean and great falafel. Some people like Sahara Grill better(might be the hookas, not the food though?), but the service there is the world's worst. Only go if you have a day to wait for your salad and think that misogynist assholes make good restaurant owners.

Hmm... this is getting wordy... well, what can i say? I'm a fat chick foodie...

As for dandelions -- in these here parts, that's more of an old school Italian thing than a hippie vegetarian thing. So no worries about Buffalo beomig a hippie town.. whew, eh?

mike writes at 12:25:23 06/23/07 - Comment #20029: haha dandelions are not hippie tofu here, they are a very italian thing and one thing buffalo has an abundance of is Italians and their eateries. Though i actually tihnk you could prolly eat pretty well hippie tofu style here if you wanted too.

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Category: randomo

06/22/07 01:10 - 67ºF - ID#39763

stick your beef between two buns....

yesterday i spent about a half an hour filling out an online resume / questionairre for cingular. they called this morning and wanted me to come in for an interview.

umm... sorry i don't live there yet...

but the fella said to call him when i made it to buffalo and he would set me up with an interview.

SCORE!

anyway, i managed to deposit approximately 16 envelopes filled with resumes and sparkly clean delicious cover letters with addresses of many different sprint/nextel/cingular/cricket/etc addresses on them. I sent none to verizon as i have beef with the verizon store here in the mall.

did i really just say that i have 'beef' ?

anyway, in hopes of attracting all kinds of star wars lovers that may open up said envelopes, i was sure to affix a lovely star wars stamp on each of the envelopes. I saved Darth Vader for the Sprint store.

its going to be tough juggling all the interviews i'm going to have, and even tougher deciding which company deserves me the most...

sigh*

I just invited my boss and his wife to my going away party, and lured him in with the seduction of 'drunken slip and slide' he was panting with excitement.... at least that is what he said.

tonight i;m going to kick back with a 6 pack of blue moon and enjoy me friday night... just wish i could get out of here now.

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Category: randomo pix

06/21/07 08:07 - 75ºF - ID#39758

trip pics

pics of our trip to buffalo... there are not i know...

drivin drivin drivin

but this is our new home!

and this is our balcony!

anyway, i feel the need to inform you that one of my cats just jumped onto my shelf and stuck his head into a box of tampons and ran off with two of them. just what i need.

back to work!

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06/19/07 10:03 - 69ºF - ID#39738

OFFICIAL NOTICE!

We just got back from Buffalo
(pics later)

We went first to esquared's sheldon apartments wherein they started showing us this first apartment....

"the guys who lived here before were artsy"

and when i mentioned (e:jim) and (e:james) she promptly said that it was their apartment!

we saw your plaaaaacceee...

lauren loves your color preference, but we have no idea how you could have lived with that kitchen...

and i have to ask... they were really going to raise your rent due to the 'balcony'?

anyway - we went over to the other place and fell in love. we took it.
we are official (e:strip)peerrss!!! 367 elmwood baby!

more soon...

leetee writes at 08:25:10 06/20/07 - Comment #19936: Congrats on finding a place. Well done! I hope the move is a smooth one...

fellyconnelly writes at 07:58:04 06/20/07 - Comment #19935: apartment is cozy but we don't really need huge amounts of space...
James: they were asking $750 for that apartment.... i don't know how you managed to peel OR roast a carrot in that kitchen!
and yeah... maybe they meant 'gay' when they said 'artsy'... or maybe she said 'colorful' that is kinda gay right?

thanks for all the well wishing... i think we homos and our homo cats will fit in just nicely....

ladycroft writes at 04:52:56 06/20/07 - Comment #19925: welcome to the hood :)

metalpeter writes at 04:50:27 06/20/07 - Comment #19924: First of all congratulations on getting a place that you both like. I'm not sure of the numbers on elmwood I can never remember them but I don't think you two are to far away from me, maybe I'll see ya around the hood.

libertad writes at 04:37:32 06/20/07 - Comment #19920: Do you think that she equates artsy with gayness? Maybe it was her way of saying yeah two homos lived here before, you will fit right in. Artsy Friendly housing.

james writes at 10:22:21 06/20/07 - Comment #19909: artsy? More like farsy.

They were going to raise our rent $40. After we moved out they were renting that place for $135 more than we were paying.

And that kitchen.... the stove it too small to roast anything bigger than a carrot, not enough counter space to peel said carrot. I turned the dining room into our kitchen and had to... oh, I am going on.

Congrats. I hope you like the place. That is a cool part of town to be in.

jason writes at 09:40:03 06/20/07 - Comment #19908: Congrats Felly. See, things have a way of working out one way or another.

chico writes at 09:25:45 06/20/07 - Comment #19906: Great location... right in the middle of everything, close to Allentown and walking distance to downtown in good weather. Well done! What's the apartment like? When do you move in?

Best of luck in the new digs!

joshua writes at 08:47:51 06/20/07 - Comment #19904: Sweet - you are my neighbor although you live a few blocks away. Congrats! =) =) =)

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Category: randomo

06/17/07 12:56 - ID#39704

rooaaaddd trip.

buffalo HERE I COME!

i think we are leaving around 5 am. lauren hates me for that. but i'm driving, right?

we have to get up to wilson and drop off a bunch of my stuff at my brothers house, visit, and make it over to my other brothers house in ransomville before heading back into buffalo for a 2 oclock double appointment at sheldon apartments and elmwood village apartments.

then i have to run around putting in applications all over b-lo

tuesday morning at 9 we are to call and confirm a noon showing of another apartment.

we also have to call about a 2 bedroom on ashland.

and do some more job hunting

and lauren has to go visit the college at some point.

BUSY BUSY BUSY

and I still do not know where i'm going to end up staying. the problem is now that my family is guilting me into staying with them. oh sweet jesus if they were to find out that i came to western ny and did not stay with them then they would be convinced that the world is ending... so lauren and i are just going and saying the hell with it - we will get to where we are getting and do what we have to do....

okay i need to get some food and look for more apartments online

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06/16/07 10:27 - 69ºF - ID#39696

pop goes the brain cells

so i'm recounting the deposits for the last week so that i can make a bank deposit....

and as i'm counting i'm noticing something strange...

i keep losing count between 14 and 15.

i say 14 in my head and then 15 and then i'm like... wait... was that right?

i did this about ten times just now and it makes me wonder if there is some reason i have forgotten that after 13 comes 14 then 15 and so on... perhaps its true...

this job has eaten my brain.

or maybe its just the zombies...

okay at any rate its time to go home, thank god.

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Category: archaic

06/14/07 10:44 - 68ºF - ID#39664

360 days in a year

There is something about ancient knowledge that fascinates the crap out of me. The kind of ancient evidence that goes against what we know. We have an established history and millions of books that say 'this is the way it is'. And what interests me is the stuff that gets the panties of scientists and historians in a major knot. There are so many phenomena that are simply ignored because to actually look at it realistically would cause such an enormous shift in our paradigm of the world that nobody wants to even bother.
Anyway, I would go on forever about it, but instead I'll present you with my most recent findings.

This is from a book I'm presently reading.

The Aryabhatiya, an ancient Indian mathematical/astronomical work states:'A year consists of 12 months. A month consists of 30 days'

The ancient Babylonian year consisted of a 12 months and 30 days in a month.

The old Egyptian year consisted of 12 months of 30 days.

Plutarch wrote that ancient Rome (during the time of Romulus) the year was made of twelve 30 day months.

The Mayan year consisted of 360 days.

The Incan year was divided into 12 quilla of 30 days.

The Ancient Chinese Calendar consisted of 12 months each of 30 days.

In all the previous cultures, the addition of 5 extra days to the yearly calendar (and in some cases even the addition of a day every fourth) is indicated to have occurred around the same time.

This is the basis of the theory that at some point in the archaic past the earths orbital position underwent a change. Which leads to many other theories that I won't even get into. Because they involve everything from pole shifting, the changing height of human beings, floods, Atlantis, dual moons and the like.

Okay I've bored you all enough.

jenks writes at 09:47:52 06/16/07 - Comment #19794: hehe ridonkulous. I love that word.

fellyconnelly writes at 08:29:53 06/16/07 - Comment #19792

sigh* those evil clones and their silly games...

and yes mr stick in the mudpants, height and nutrition go hand and hand, but i think this theory was moreso suggesting that

a) long long long long long ago humans were much taller (in the 7 foot range)
b) at some point the gravitational pull of the earth increased and people started getting shorter..

theeeennnn all of us slowly started getting taller due to the sudden desire to eat our leafy greens...

but again, this is all a fun little theory, and even the notion that at one point we were 7 foot tall is viewed as highly ridonkulous by most...

james writes at 11:18:30 06/15/07 - Comment #19764: Oh no, that was a most foul typo put in by my evil clone/copy editor who was banished to an digital prison replete with horrid special effects like Superman II.

Not to be a stick in the mud, but the change in human height is most often explained by nutrition.

We gargantuan whities of the west are a head taller than we were a century ago because more people have access to better nutrition (agrarian France was covered with fast food chains until the 30 years war 1784-1787),

During the US occupation of Japan and the following economic boom the height of the average Japanese person has grown like it did in europe over a few hundred years.

I have records in my villa in Hyperboria Thule

fellyconnelly writes at 05:31:00 06/15/07 - Comment #19744: holy crap i love you people!

the whole idea of height being related to gravity is a new one to me and only briefly touched upon in the book. It seems as though the idea is that the less the pull of gravity downward, the less resistance there is for humans to grow taller. There is speculation that there was some type of celestial happening that involved the moon, gravity and resulting in a pole reversal, axis tilt and a sling shot action of the earth moving further away from the sun in its orbit.

Anyway, the book that I'm reading is actually about Atlantis, but once you skip through the 'channelling of the ancient high priests of atlantis' parts then you get to the good info about ancient myths, stories and some scientific stuff that is all quite fascinating.

And James - i'll keep an eye out for those authors. And I don't know if you MEANT to say that we are NOT history buddies, but if you did i'm crying on the inside right now. It is a flood of tears enough to sink atlantis. And Mu.

james writes at 10:06:52 06/15/07 - Comment #19717: Since we are not history buddies allow me to make a few recommendations.

Danial Borstein doesn't write hard academic history, which is good as that allows him to write fascinating stuff. You might enjoy The Discoverers. It deals with ancient knowledge, how we have come to know what we know, and the people who made those changes.

Loren Eisely. Anything by Loren Eisely. He was a paleontologist who would write about the human condition in the context of his field. Knowledge of the world is a central issue. You can get his work, which is some of my favorite writing, for pennies on Amazon. Phelestines.

These various civilizations each based their models on the universe on ones they imported from other places. Indian astronomers knowledge of the solar system spread into China, Babylon, to Egypt and finally into Europe.

By the Mayan's and Incans? They didn't even have metal tools and they built pyramids larger than in Egypt? But they totally received knowledge from aliens or astral beings or something. That is like having the combustion engine before fire.

theecarey writes at 12:25:39 06/15/07 - Comment #19708: bored? hardly! ooh, I am all about paradigm shifts. I often say- "learn and unlearn"-- think outside the box!

and yeh, i am always fascinated by streams of information that were left out along the way. Like, if history as we know it is a mathematical formula, and all of the variables of the formula are things that we know and accept (ie, textbooks, controlled lab experiments, and anything else generally accepted as truth), which add up and form a tidy equation.
Then explorers, seekers of information, "unlearners" and others, bring forth new/forgotten/hidden information, this blows the former equation to bits (ah, paradigm shift)!!

Those new variables change everything- excites some people, scares the hell out of other people.

ie; what do you mean the earth isnt flat?!

panty bunching doozies off the top of my head--creation of antibiotics and hygiene standards, Dead Sea Scrolls, Mayan mysticism, cave drawings, unearthed vessels, The Arybhatiya, quantum physics, Barney, space exploration, stem cell research, --etc etc etc-- variables that keep having to be added to this giant "life formula".

and yeh, like you said, new info gets a whole bunch of "this is the way it is" peoples panties in a major knot. And thats ok!

The book you are reading sounds cool. As a science nut (while believing that everything is related on some level), its neat to read about different theories. Would llike to hear more about your take on the changing height of human beings.

museumchick writes at 11:14:57 06/14/07 - Comment #19700: I think its fascinating, actually. I never knew that theory about the earth's orbital position. I could see how that could cause floods. How would it affect people's heights, though?