"driving, snow & sun" written by Heidi on estrip.org

02/04/09 09:20 - 11ºF - ID#47645

driving, snow & sun

Look what I found at the coop! Not to name names...

I was stuck all day Sunday in the basement of the law school building at North Campus. A schoolmate gave me a ride back to Allen. My truck had been stuck all week on Irving Place...

(Truck on Friday 1/30)

... and I thought I'd try to get it unstuck since I had the assistance of the sun. Someone along Irving had left their snow shovel on the edge of the street so I borrowed it for a few minutes and freed my truck. (Thank you, parking gods!) Then I went for a ride before going to (e:Drew) & (e:Janelle)'s for spicy lentil dip, Hotels, beer, and Gilmore Girls. (e:Drew), (e:metalpeter), & (e:mrmike) wer very noisy in the other room, but I don't know what they were doing ;-) (e:jim), (e:james), (e:janelle) & i were quietly enjoying ourselves!

The ride was gorgeous. I went to that little bit of land that has the sewer plant on it and signs for Riverwalk. (Can anyone tell me its real name?) I should have grabbed my real camera - the angle of the sun was perfect.

I drove to school on Tuesday because... well, I guess I was feeling lazy and didn't want to take my big laptop on the metro. I pulled into the metered spots because I'd only be there 1.5 hrs and the lot was already full. Too bad the meters were all frozen! I left 3 quarters just in case the parking gods were no longer pleased with me.

My substantive classes start tomorrow. I'm dreading it because now I have to focus again, but I'm excited because it's stuff I'm more interested in and it'll be good to have a routine again. This semester I have property, contracts, and civil procedure & ethics. The property book starts with how the U.S. government justified taking all the land from the Native Americans. It really is shameful.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: possums

01/29/09 10:35 - 25ºF - ID#47567

you need a title to publish

(e:tinypliny), it was so nice to see you this morning! Such a warm bright treat on a cold windy day. I wish I was going to keep taking that bus this semester!

I visited this foyer recently and wanted to share with (e:matthew)! I wish I had taken a couple more shots to show the detailing.

Now this is some Buffalove (seen outside Cafe 59 1/12):

The Inauguration Ale at Village Beer Merchant was $25.99/growler. Yikes! The guy said it was really good and that he really couldn't charge his usual markup for it - it would have been about $36.

This possum has been terrorizing my buddies Jill & Kelly at the office. They're afraid of it. Meanwhile, Jill's husband has been feeding it cat food. (more about oppossums:

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/17/09 03:28 - 11ºF - ID#47430

tonight?

Anyone wanna hang out tonight? I'm here in Buffalo but I don't have enough schoolwork to keep me occupied.

theli writes at 12:10:49 01/19/09 - Comment #44612: Cool.

james writes at 12:08:50 01/19/09 - Comment #44610: If I can convince a crowd of people to play I will invite you along for zombie near-fun.

theli writes at 11:57:31 01/19/09 - Comment #44608: Ahh. Don't think I've played that one yet.

james writes at 11:51:09 01/19/09 - Comment #44606: "Zombies!!!" by Twilight Creations. They also made an HP Lovecraft game.

theli writes at 11:39:44 01/19/09 - Comment #44605: Nice. There are some pretty good zombie boardgames out there. Which one did you play?

james writes at 03:17:15 01/18/09 - Comment #44587: It was fun hanging out heidi. Next time I promise we wont play that zombie game. Rather, I will use the zombie pieces to mod Risk. Can you escape the growing zombie pandemic to Australia?

heidi writes at 11:47:37 01/18/09 - Comment #44583: I won the complicated Zombie game! (Only because I had a special card that let me jump ahead of everyone else.)

Thanks for inviting me, (e:drew) & (e:janelle)! (e:jim) & (e:james) - always a pleasure!

Others - feel free to invite me to hang out sometime. I'm often alone more than what's good for me.

jim writes at 09:59:05 01/18/09 - Comment #44579: We also played a very complicated zombie game, that I did not win.

jim writes at 09:58:37 01/18/09 - Comment #44578: Heidi went with us to Drew and Janelle's where I kicked everyone's ass at scrabble! Wahoo! Go me!

vincent writes at 01:33:15 01/18/09 - Comment #44577: I'm sorry I just saw this now as well. I have been chilling at home due to the snowfall.

paul writes at 01:06:17 01/18/09 - Comment #44576: Sorry I just saw this now ;(

imk2 writes at 05:58:12 01/17/09 - Comment #44575: sorry, too cold to move.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: youtube

01/15/09 09:10 - 7ºF - ID#47421

Durex ad

Found on

via (e:jim)'s evil time-suction device,

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: music

01/13/09 12:24 - 32ºF - ID#47392

The Dead in Buffalo

The Dead (remaining members of the Grateful Dead) will be playing at the HSBC arena 4/21... anyone else going?

Sunshine, daydreams!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

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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Location: Buffalo, NY

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?