Category: pets

01/12/09 10:48 - 23ºF - ID#47387

Puddle of poodles, music

Before I left Tioga County yesterday, A and I visited our friends Kell & Lori who happen to have two of Nisha's siblings (not littermates), Cooper and Buster Brown. Everyone needs more poodles.




Nisha and Buster Brown very similar in coloring (he's a couple shades lighter), size and shape.



Buster Brown and Nisha



Buster Brown, Cooper and Nisha



(Nisha needs a haircut bad!)

(Just so it's clear that I do things other than take pix of my pets... )

A's new band had a gig New Years Eve. It was the first time I had heard them play out and I was tickled by what they've accomplished since I left in August.




A and his sister



Mike the drummer, Kell (poodle owner referenced above), and Adrian.







I'm back in Buffalo for a while... *phew* having two places that are "home" can be rough!

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Category: roller derby

01/04/09 07:39 - 31ºF - ID#47284

Queen City Roller Girls

I went to the roller derby last night, too! I had to ask my phone what the heck was going on

I'm sure (e:dragonlady7) had no idea who I was when I got this shot:


Love the Suicidal Saucies' socks!





Part of the Nickel City Knockout team



If I want to take good pix of the derby, I'll have to spring for the front row seats.



The will-call line is pretty long, ya might wanna get tix at one of the retail locations.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

12/31/08 02:21 - 15ºF - ID#47233

Christmas Nisha

Nisha & Mataya were playing at my office today :-)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: cooking

12/27/08 09:11 - 56ºF - ID#47202

Cookies!!!!

To celebrate the end of my first semester in law school, I invited A and Nisha up from Tioga County and (e:TinyPliny) over from the Mayflower and we made cookies and cholay! It was certainly a cross-cultural experience - (e:TinyPliny) got to lick the beaters for the first time ever and we got to saute cumin seeds in peanut oil! ((e:heidi) is a dork!)


Cholay and pulao - mmmmm now I understand how to make a proper garam masala. My apartment smells like an Indian restaurant! :-)



We made my great-grandmother's molasses cookie recipe and made oodles of tiny cookies, perfect little bites of yummy goodness. A and (e:tinypliny) rolled out the dough and cut out the cookies.




(e:tinypliny,47194) was horrified by the amount of butter and sugar involved in making cookies - this recipe calls for 1 cup butter, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar AND 1 cup molasses, then sprinkle sugar on top before baking. She requested that some cookies be left naked (see cows below).



We also made molasses crinkle cookies, someone else's great-grandmother's recipe, which uses very similar ingredients but has a very different result - a sharper cookie, less cakey. They get rolled into little balls of dough, then dipped in sugar before baking. Here (e:tinypliny) becomes enthusiastic about butter and sugar :-) I've spent a little bit of time trying to figure out how to make these ones without butter and sugar - honey & applesauce seem like the best substitutes for the white sugar and butter - does anyone have any other suggestions?



(Nisha was pretty good and stayed on her turtle most of the time. (e:heidi,45816))

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Location: Buffalo, NY

12/26/08 06:46 - 36ºF - ID#47191

Cute pet pix

Here's China Cat checking us out from her temporary basement home (basement kitteh!)





Nisha considers any available lap an appropriate place to perch.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: weather

12/23/08 12:42 - 17ºF - ID#47151

what's up with the plowing?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: crime

12/17/08 04:07 - 32ºF - ID#47093

Homicide in Tioga County

Since y'all were talking about crime in the downtown area (e:paul,47085)

The last time there was a murder in Tioga County was about 1984, a love-triangle murder-suicide. Last gun-related homicide was in 1997. (Last homicide: a woman riding her new horse down Main Street in Blossburg got hit by a drunk driver, both woman and horse were killed.)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: bus

12/12/08 06:01 - 27ºF - ID#47045

Google Maps Transit: Now in Buffalo!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: politics

12/10/08 09:00 - 26ºF - ID#47020

Yea for science!

Obama's pick to solve the energy crisis
- Andrew Leonard

"You should interview Steven Chu," the scientist at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif., told me. "He already has one Nobel Prize. He wants to get a second one for solving the energy crisis."

That was two years ago, and I sorely regret not following through and landing an interview with Chu, a physicist who has dedicated his post-Nobel Prize career to the development of alternative sources of energy. Because as Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of energy, Steven Chu is going to get a chance to make his dreams come true, with the full backing of the U.S. government.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

12/07/08 11:38 - 11ºF - ID#46995

Ridiculous puppy cuteness

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Location: Buffalo, NY