Category: random

03/21/14 12:18 - ID#58807

Basra's Jumbo Rainbow Snack

Apparently sometime on St. Patrick's day, Basra ordered some snacks on (e:terry)'s office computer. I didn't even realize he was there (he may have done it with the help of (e:paul), (e:mike) and I). Terry saw this open when he went into work on Monday.

Since Basra didn't ask before he ordered $82 worth of penis pops, I called to cancel it. The woman on the phone pretty much understood when I told her it was St. Patrick's day. I told her Basra was a tortoise and wouldn't be needing any penis candy. She never fufilled the order because she was confused why the name didn't match the card. She also told me it was flagged because of something inappropriate written in the memo section, but she wouldn't tell me what it was. Must have been terrible if the dirty candy company won't say it. I feel kind of bad for their wasted time although I am sure it happens a lot.

Posted 3/16/2014 4:04:48 PM
Order # 768420509
Name=BASRA MICKELSON
Care Of=WENDY THE GHOST
Address=24 LINWWOD A\VE
City=Buffalo
State=NY
Postal Code=14202
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Quantity=10
Style Number=Penis Food
Unit Price=6.30
Product=Jumbo Rainbow Cock Pop, 8 oz-
___________________________
Sub Total=$63.00
Shipping Cost=$19.90
Sales Tax=$0.00
Grand Total=$82.90

Poor Bas doesn't know his address or zip code either!

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/21/14 12:48

Category: food

03/21/14 12:17 - ID#58806

Vanilla Cupcake Fish

I think I want to be some sort of snack engineer from now on. Someone comes up with all these ridiculous variations on snacks. Vanilla cupcake goldfish, they didn't taste very good but something about them made me finish the package. The taste was weird and fake cake flavored, kind of like a sugar-ier cake vodka.

It reminds me how I used to inhale Cupcake Pebbles when it was a thing. Those probably tasted the same flavorwise but I could eat a box in an evening.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/21/14 01:16

Category: cleaning

03/19/14 06:41 - ID#58802

Clean drawers

On Saturday (e:paul) and O tackled cleaning out the junk drawer and cabinet in the kitchen. I wish I took a before picture because the end pic is about a tenth as messy as it was. We dumped a bunch of old recipie print outs, ancient medicine (sunscreen that was expired in 2006?) It took us about 2 hours, including trying to fix the saggy cabinet door. The kitchen really didn't look different after but its mentally the antidote to hoarding.

After we went to go take a bunch of old clothes to Amvets and went St Patrick's day shopping at Wegmans with my brother. Paul and I rewarded our work with Ethiopian at Gaturs. They're selling Scientology books now.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: holiday

03/16/14 11:53 - ID#58798

St. Patrick's day

I'll have to post captions later, I have a headacheee
Update: We started somewhat early around 12 after getting decked out in green. I wore (e:paul)'s green zunfthosen

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We got to the parade but weren't actually there too long. Everyone brought St. Patrick's day to the roof for a bit where it got a little cray. Then we came home and stuffed our faces with La Nova. (e:paul) and I took a 5 hour nap before I got back up with a second wind. (e:terry) on the otherhand powered through the whole day. All in all an amazing St. Patrick's day.

Breakfast of champions.

Halloween costume for next year?

Mike advertising estrip with what he's got

Heidi after she unzipped the zunfthosen at the parade... I forgot how I was wearing them.

Union floats - a good fuck you to the people that were booing them. You just wish you had a union, I know I do.

Terry safely repeating his stunt

(e:dianne) finishing her day like a champ

The spoon came out for Mike of course

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/18/14 09:29

Category: going out

03/16/14 11:45 - ID#58796

ELAB Circus at Dnipro

(e:terry), (e:paul) and I went with (e:Keith) to the ELAB circus fundraiser at Dnipro. It was pretty good. The Ukranian beers were humongous. (e:paul) decided to speed his tooth healing with cotton candy. Dancing to Soma was pretty good but there weren't many in such a huge space. The coolest part was the full moon projection camera which took your shadows and put them on projecters inside and out of the building.

Then we came back and played street fighter. I beat Terry once with Chun Li, what what.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: estrip

03/13/14 11:55 - ID#58783

Throwback Thursday

Yesterday I was listening to Blümchen (die beste Künstler) with (e:paul) and was reading this post that (e:terry,35355) wrote about loving her back in 2003.

(just listen to her sing about verrückte jungs - crazy boys. she's amazing, 90's, and she'll earworm you forever)

I read a couple of his other posts and they were redonk. And the other day when (e:Mike) was over we were reading some of (e:paul)'s posts from a less bougie time (e:paul,32125).

It made me think it's pretty awesome that a journal like estrip lets you go back and see what you or someone else was like at different points in their life. Even boring shiz about food or being bored at some bar somehow ends up being fun to read. It's like a record of Buffalo - I know I always came across estrip posts on google before I even knew anyone on it. Emily's brother would see what Paul said about a restaurant before he went there. There's so much written on estrip about Buffalo that otherwise would fall to the wayside.

Seems like there are less people that post now than before. I'm interested in knowing what makes people post/not post and what would change that. Maybe we could chalk advertise again like we tried (e:joe,58289) when it doesn't rain the same afternoon. I should try to get my friends to sign up now that facebook is over.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/14/14 12:39

Category: cars

03/13/14 12:23 - ID#58781

Car share

I fucking hate having a car. I know that sounds like a garbage first world problem, but I do.

I just worked it out today that if I didn't have this lease and was able to be in the car share, I would have only spent $200 (counting the days I actually needed to drive for work) this year instead of $600, even more with the other months I took over the lease. And this is in the winter with the few times I actually had to drive. I could have probably taken transit on almost every day I drove anyway.

I barely ever drive it and still pay for it on the off chance I need it. When I get rid of this car I am going to take the money I save and do something fun with it, besides paying the Sallie Mae the bloodsucker (what could be better?).

Too bad I can't car share yet, I've had a license for less than the two years you need. Has anyone had experience with Buffalo Car Share?

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/14/14 12:40

Category: winter

03/12/14 12:21 - ID#58780

Snow Day again

I can't believe I have another snow day. It wasn't that bad when I left this morning, but by the time I rode down to Delaware and Tupper, I got a call from work saying not to bother coming in since the office was closing at 12. So I went back home to sleep in. On the way home a truck driver started honking at me asking "What the fuck are you doing?" referring to my bike.

Now it's time for working from home (or programming and Deutsch). I'd still much rather have it be spring and be stuck at work than have another freaking foot and a half of snow.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/12/14 12:27

Category: food

03/11/14 12:04 - ID#58778

Supermarket Sweep

After the hike (e:paul) and I went shopping everywhere - Wegmans, Target and the coop. At Target we noticed they were clearing out the best granola ever - the coconut macroon kind - for only $2.50. So we cleared them out. There almost wasnt enough room to store them all at home.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/11/14 12:04

Category: hiking

03/11/14 12:01 - ID#58777

Tifft Hike

On Sunday we went for a walk out on the ice. Well, we were going to, but as soon as we got out on the ice at Times Beach we heard cracking and booked it back to land.

Tifft was a much better and less windy option anyway.

We found this shell of a water tank along the rail tracks. I think it was a water tank, there were four old piles in the ground on the inside. They took off the roof at some point so all that was left was the concrete shell.