Posts from February 2009

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 @drew & @janelle's for spicy lentil dip, Hotels, beer, and Gilmore Girls. @drew, @metalpeter, & @mrmike wer very noisy in the other room, but I don't know what they were doing ;-) @jim, @james, @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.

@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 @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: )

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

Found on via @jim's evil time-suction device,

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



Sunshine, daydreams!

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!

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

I'm sure @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.

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

To celebrate the end of my first semester in law school, I invited A and Nisha up from Tioga County and @tinypliny over from the Mayflower and we made cookies and cholay! It was certainly a cross-cultural experience - @tinypliny got to lick the beaters for the first time ever and we got to saute cumin seeds in peanut oil! (@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 @tinypliny rolled out the dough and cut out the cookies.




@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 @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. @heidi #45816)