"beer and cookies?" written by Fellyconnelly on estrip.org

11/09/08 09:27 - 35ºF - ID#46619

beer and cookies?

why is it snowing?

today i made cookies AND beer.

And by cookies - i mean sweet bread cakes. since i used wheat flour and applesauce its not very cookie like.

And by beer I mean I brewed a red ale and added butterscotch schnapps. Its called a 'Wee Heavy'. how exciting.

Also ate at Sahara Grill. Food was ok (we tried new things that I couldn't even begin to remember much less pronounce!) but it was cold as hell and they sat us right in front of the big screen tv so we watched the simpsons while we ate.

Now we are going to watch waking life. I hear you need to be stoned to watch this movie.

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Location: New Paltz, NY

11/07/08 04:58 - 70ºF - ID#46592

long gratuitous post.

i'm sitting on my balcony posting. Its nice to be outside and warm in November. Even if I get wierded out by the neighbors so close by on their balcony.
Today we drove out to Lockport to drop off (e:lauren)'s car at the shop for an inspection. We decided to spend the day off playing. We stopped by my work (on my day off even i can't stay away) and lauren picked out the phone she wants when our sprint contract come up in the middle of the month.

My boss took us out to lunch at Quiznos - which was more than wonderful. Then we drove out to the cemetery in lock port and walked around in search of my uncle ralph. after finding him, we took photos of ralphie on uncle ralphs gravestone. We wandered around quite a bit - and ralphie was ecstatic since we let him be off the leash quite a bit.

Then we drove around, hit a coffee place and then went to Reids - which really is probably the greatest thing in Lockport.

Ralphie got a new sweater today, and I can't wait to take pictures of him in it.

Last night we bottled the Chai beer - not sure if its going to taste too much like chai by the time i'm done. I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing.

Today we received another brew club order, and i'll be making a 'scottish wee heavy' which is an amber ale with malts, brown sugars and butterscotch schnapps. I'm sure it will be amazing. That should be ready right around time for me to take with me to the new years party in Lake George this year.

Tonight we are going to an art opening at Buffalo State.

Opening is from 7 to 10. You should check it out, It looks like it's going to be inspiring.

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11/04/08 10:21 - 53ºF - ID#46532

hobby

Been crazy busy since the party. I spent saturday sleeping and sanding down a bookshelf that lauren decided to purchase friday night RIGHT before the party.

Sunday and yesterday evenings I spent painting it. Tonight I was going to find a place for it in my already overcrowded apt, but alas... I have no idea where that would be.

so instead i'm watching obama kick the mac's ass.

A few weeks ago, I came across (e:janelle) at wegmans, around the soda and chips aisle, and, during the course of a brief chat, she helped me realize that i'm ridiculous in terms of needing to have projects to do. As in several. I'm very restless. Maybe I feel as though I need to prove my worth.

So now that halloween is over (and the mask making with it) and I just finished killing off brain cells by inhaling enamel paint with the bookshelf..... i need a new hobby. a new obsession to obsess over.

the documentary thing? screwed over by a faulty codec. fail.

i guess i'll just make more beer.

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10/30/08 09:35 - 43ºF - ID#46436

warning....

If you don't enjoy the taste of vodka - stay far away from the jello shots at the party tomorrow. (E:Lauren) and I soaked gummy worms and gummy tarantulas in vodka and encased them lovingly in vodka filled jello.

unfortunately we only went with two batches of jello - so there isn't as many as last year. But from the couple of gummy worms I ate while making the shots... damn.

And just so you all know... I may be rather crafty and brewing beer and creating jello shots... but I don't drink much. Its more so leftovers from my wild youth.

See ya'll tomorrow!

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10/27/08 06:43 - 43ºF - ID#46362

time time time time to post

This weeks schedule is scary.
Mon-8 am to 6 pm East Aurora. Inventory
Tues- 8:30 am. Springville for meeting. Otherwise my day off.
Weds 7 am to 6 pm. Springville. Inventory
Thurs 9:30 am to 6 pm.
Fri 9:30 am to 6 pm.

I'm going to be exhausted friday night. And drunk.

This brings me to my next point. I'm running out of time for my costume! I have so many intricate parts to fabricate and so little time left! Its scaring me!

Last night we carved pumpkins.Laurens design is pretty sweet. My pumpkin turned out to be way too involved to finish. So I have a pumpkin with no mouth. Now its raining/snowing/sleeting whatever on my pumpkin. I have no time to finish. NO TIME TO FINISH!

ahhhh this is why I shouldn't try and do 8 gazillion things at once!

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10/23/08 11:44 - 38ºF - ID#46275

days off are never easy.

I love it when Lauren sings bob marley in the morning.

Day off.

Clean: Lauren's bro is coming tonight for a NoFX concert. That includes vacuuming the couch where Lauren and I have using twine for an element of my mask and getting twine particles all over the couch.

Find cheap fabric store. I need like.... 4 yards of muslin for Halloween costume. Also some liquid stitch as I do not own a sewing machine.

Make costume. As in the cloth part of the costume. Do not ask me what I will be. I don't really know.

Work on mask. Maybe hope that somewhere in the next week and 1 day I will finish it. Holy crap I'm running out of time.

make cookies. John from work promised to detail my car. (fancy way of saying he is going to clean it for me). I couldn't let him just detail my car, so I'll bake him cookies. We will see if they last till Saturday when I work in lockport.

try (again) to get the codecs on my video editing software working so i can finally get this documentary working. Bastards.

Find out how to remove the whiny out of Ralph.

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10/16/08 10:45 - 54ºF - ID#46140

Survey and halloween

Survey:

With food prices skyrocketing, where do you do your grocery shopping?

Do you prefer to shop in one location, or many?

Do you shop at farmers markets? If so, which ones and why?

Is there such a thing as 'whole spice chai'? As in, whole cardamon, cinnamon sticks, ginger, etc in one packet, as opposed to purchasing each separately or purchasing a ground chai spice?

When you think of a Chai Beer, does it make you disgusted or intrigued?

* * * * * * * * *

I am making my own halloween costume today. Or I guess I should say, I am working on it. I can't tell you what it is, because its a work in progress.

I will tease you with its very beginnings as a cheerio box...

and then after I added an Artvoice and some whole wheat flour.

jenks writes at 07:41:42 10/31/08 - Comment #41349: I haven't seen it in a while, but Republic of Tea makes a good chai that comes in teabags, or just loose. Yummy.

tinypliny writes at 08:54:01 10/17/08 - Comment #40437: Maybe I should maintain a journal about the prices as well... Good idea, (e:pmrk)

tinypliny writes at 08:52:49 10/17/08 - Comment #40436: yEAH!! Double votes for Super Bazaar, their produce is fresh and cheaper than the rest - comparable to Guercios. :)

pmrk writes at 04:51:54 10/17/08 - Comment #40419: I forgot to add that I grew up on the west side and have shopped for a long time at Guercio's. If the old Italian Grandmas shop there its a good sign. :-)

The Ni Hoowa Supermarket on Sheridan has a good and reasonably priced selection of Asian foods.

The Super Bazaar on Sheridan specializes in Indian food and I have found their prices on spices to be very competitive.

pmrk writes at 04:44:14 10/17/08 - Comment #40418: The Farmers market at Bidwell and Elmwood often has reasonably priced seasonal produce. We shop there weekly. It helps to know your prices. All summer red bell peppers were 75 cents each at the Farmers as compared to $3.99 a lb at Wegmans. I'm sure somewhere I have a note to myself about how much my farmers market peppers weighed vs. Wegmans peppers so I could get a more accurate cost comparison, I just don't know where that note is.

The lady with the eggs charges $3.50 per dozen which is expensive if you compare them to Wegmans but if you want to know where your eggs come from and like farm fresh eggs and I do care about these things the cost is worth it for me but we don't eat many eggs and I don't bake much.

I recently stopped by the Hertel Farmers Market. They also have a small deli in back but I didn't check it out. I found they had butternut squash for 49 cents per ld. vs. Wegmans 99 per pound. Limited selection but ok prices.

Aldi has cheap bagged and shredded cheese that tastes fine to me.

Target on NFB has a big dairy section that is often cheaper than anywhere else.

Lexington Food Co-Op for bulk grains.

As you can tell, I do most of the grocery shopping for my household and I often keep a notebook of prices.

metalpeter writes at 06:42:57 10/16/08 - Comment #40365: The way I shop is by what place has stuff I like on sale, sometimes it is tops,Wegmans, Rite Aid, or even Walgreens. I haven't been to Aldi to shop ever. On a side note I have no idea if it will open in a month or in two years but I read that the quality Markets on Elmwood that closed is going to be another supermarket it is some cheap place I have never heard of.

tinypliny writes at 11:45:51 10/16/08 - Comment #40349: Survey:
1. Another vote for Guercios (Grant and Lafayette)

2. Many. Produce is cheap and fresh at Guercios. Dairy is reasonable at Wegmans. Cheese is reasonable in Guercios. Non-edible groceries are cheap at Big Lots.

3. Some times, the farmer's market at Roswell. Because it's where I work. It too expensive and small though. :/ Clinton and Bailey is a good one too buts its two bus rides away from me so its not that practical to go there. The Rochester Public market is the cheapest and the most awesomest an the biggest farmer's market I have seen and experienced. Only, its in Rochester. :(

4. Sure there is. You just toss all the unground spices in one bag and sell it. It's just like unground garam masala. It doesn't work when its consumers are as lazy as I am.

5. I like most types of Chai (hindi for "Tea"). It's the most awesome drink in the world. I don't like beer. But I don't have a specific opinion as to what might happen when you pour your tea into beer.

Halloween:
Dammit, I need to get some wool yarn for mine and some pieces of fabric and get cracking. :(

james writes at 11:18:58 10/16/08 - Comment #40347: Guercio's at 250 Grant is the bestest. Their produce is generally very good and very cheap. They always have a dozen different kinds of hot peppers, a great mescaline salad mix, lots of great fruit and other vegies. They deliver produce to most of the restaurants in Buffalo, and for good reason. Also, it is DIRT cheap. Seriously dirt cheap. I bough heirloom tomatoes there this summer for 99 cents a pound. RIDICULOUS!

Their deli counter is also very good, and again, dirt cheap. They have a dozen different salads in the case all of which have been very good. And olives.... can we talk about olives for a second? Every olive you have eaten so far has been merely the shadow of an olive. The olives they have here are so good you will do a little dance while eating them. Just thinking about them I have my toes tapping.

They have full dairy case too, again cheap. Several coffee bean varieties. A freezer filled with Gondola brand ravioli and shells. A pasta section with more variety than you know what to do with.

Felly, I could not make a more impassioned plea for you to do most of your shopping at Guercio's.

And I would be willing to try Chai beer. I know you can buy the whole herbs at, where else, Guercio's but I am not sure if you want that quantity.

Cheers.

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10/12/08 07:23 - 67ºF - ID#46077

Hairy naked showering neighbor guy.

the neighbor doesn't seem to be aware or doesn't care that when he showers and leaves the shower window open, we see him scrubbing his hairy asshole.

seriously... between mid thigh and navel is what we are subjected to. And before any of you get excited and invite yourself over - even I can tell you that if that isn't a cold shower he is taking, he should probably just be a priest.

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10/12/08 09:55 - 57ºF - ID#46074

catacombs

Haunted House of Horrors and Haunted Catacombs and Shady Acre's blah blah blah.

If you may go there, you may not want to read this, as I will be giving away some of the details...

Okay this was a pretty intense haunted house. I'm not one who gets scared very easily - and there were a few times that I jumped. I mostly enjoy other people getting scared. There were a few things that were odd here. There were so many really dark and really confusing mazes.
sometimes there was strobe lights that fucked you up. Sometimes its was black as the blackest night. Sometimes they put strobe lights up, and made all the walls different shades of black, so you think - oh this way looks lighter! but no you are just walking directly into a wall.

There are mirrors that fuck with you too. At one point we couldn't get out of the strobe light filled, different colored wall maze and we couldn't find help and we felt like we were going crazy! When a worker finally emerged, (e:lauren) must have looked like a lunatic running up and asking for help.

Then there was crawling through a wet maze of hanging vines so thick you couldn't see where you were going.

Or, the most disturbing part of the whole thing - was when you came across the outhouse and you looked inside and it was full of poo and you felt revolted, but then they squirt water at you from out of the middle of the poo and then you throw up in your mouth a little.

Very elaborate set, very cool. Definetely worth the $20 a ticket.
Peace my friends.

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10/10/08 09:37 - 58ºF - ID#46052

Hauuunnted!

we have decided to head to the Haunted House of Horrors and Catacombs blah blah tomorrow at 7pm. So if anybody is interested in heading over, it will be awesome.

I'm really excited for it all. I especially enjoy people who scream and cry. Seriously, I'm all about it. So ah... yeah... come on and lets go! and stuff.