Posts from September 2011

Pirates rock, sunset over frack pond.life is both wonderful and crazy awful. Such beauty and destruction.. Ganesha, are you the one who guides? Informs? How do I understand this multiplicity of realities?

Happy oktoberfest! (and other random pix)

Pomegranate on transit is really yummy. It's the highlight of trips to see clients out in clarence. Super tasty and be sure to get the brown rice. @terry says the chicken is cooked and spiced "professionally marinated" to perfection. The hummus was one of the best we've ever had. I had the pomegranate-walnut stew over brown rice today. Yum. I've had the eggplant delight a couple times and I love it. The eggplant comes with a bit of the stew on it as a sauce.

I just rode my bike over to Tops & Rite Aid over on Niagara. Rite Aid's bike rack was at least identifiable as a bike rack, but it wasn't securely secured to the ground. Tops' bike rack was insufficient, so I locked my bike to a locked cart. Carlos the Cart Guard (that's what his nametag said) kinda scolded me, so I asked him what I should do next time since the rack was clearly inadequate. He suggested I get a different kind of lock. :-p



I've been trying to increase the amount of biking-as-transportation I do and I've found that bike racks are not evenly distributed around the city. At the First Niagara where we have our business account, we have to use a street sign. The account rep we spoke with said the racks have been stolen in the past and they don't want to keep replacing them. At the Washington Street post office, we use the hand rail. Allentown has lots of bike racks.

Jill & Shane let me have this awesome globe lamp. We've been cleaning out and organizing the office and lots of random things are being tossed or given away. I also scored a four-drawer vertical fling cabinet.



Nisha & Blu, a bluetick coonhound, hanging out. (A's dog Whitey is a treeing Walker coonhound.)


Classic chair in the 2nd floor women's room at DNIPRO.


I took a cruise on the Miss Buffalo Sunday. I hadn't seen the West Ferry drawbridge up before.


Cruise included Stripteasers :-)


10-person double qwirkle!

Full article



gmap of approximately where the plane flew

Nineteen Buffalo Queer Women went to Spicy Thai last night. I had an excellent basil eggplant, Thai spicy. Nice place and they were very gracious about having 75 percent of their seating taken up. I didn't get the impression that Thursday nights are hoppin'.


Nisha is visiting and loves all the attention at Taza. Fausto & Paula let her sit on their laps.





My truck broke down on Edward between Franklin & Delaware on Wednesday. The Midas on Niagara Street came and towed me and then the mechanics huddled around like it was the coolest new mystery. Ignition coil failed.

A took this picture yesterday of a spot on near the headwaters of the Tioga by County Bridge.



Approximately where the lat-long marker is:

It's DCNR land so it's unlikely that the sluice will be replaced. The other end of the path also has sluices washed out. We get back there with A's 4wd F150 but it's rough.

I have a neat video of a road and its sluice pipe being washed way in Broome County, NY, but it looks like it's in icky FB format and I can't share outside. My favorite amusement park, Knoebel's Grove in Elysburg, PA, has been hit pretty hard but they've always bounced back from flooding. You can see their pix here

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Carcassonne with the piggies & hydrants expansion; Ecoey; the wine that Uncle Dudley keeps in her fridge is not nearly the quality of wine I've been drinking lately, including some excellent homemade zinfandel and muscata (maybe).



A couple shots from Friday night's gallery walk by Erin & Aurora - I love that flamingo. @heidi #54913

Photobooth pix from the wedding @heidi #54937 A & me, A's dad & me.

Some shots I took during allentown first friday and a pic a cute woman sent me ;-)