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Category: music

03/03/15 01:06 - 11.ºF - ID#59877

Excision at the Town Ballroom

(e:paul) and I got to go out to see the Excision show at Town Ballroom tonight while (e:terry) hopefully relaxed a little from tax time. Like the Datsik show it was a packed house and out of control.


The opener was kind of boring and lame but Excision had to be the most ridiculous sound I have ever witnessed. It reminds me I need to seriously get some real earplugs. Instead immediately stuffed some napkins in my ear so I wouldn't go deaf. It worked well enough because I don't have tinnitus like I usually do after the Town Ballroom.

The bass vibrated your whole body - skin, eyes, hands, everything was shaking. The pressure of the sound in the opening to his set was almost too much. His projections were pretty amazing too on the big robot speaker set they had set up.


There were also a ton of cute sweaty beardy bros there. Even though they make me feel old already it's fun to dance with them. I'd like to mosh too but I can't promise that I or someone else isn't going to end up really punching somebody.

Lisa was there going crazy per the usual, and invited us to her birthday at Lift this Friday. We haven't gone there but that could be fun. I have to think it's probably the same crowd of that goes to this type of EDM.
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The snowbanks have become so high its redonk. Paul and I decided to document them.
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Category: hiking

03/03/15 12:57 - 11.ºF - ID#59876

Snowshoeing at Hunter's Creek

We went down to East Aurora and Hunter's creek to snowshoe with Mark, (e:paul)'s uncle and (e:czarkasm)'s dad. All of the little valleys, creeks and cliffs were completely filled with snow, and we would only about a foot in.
I wonder what Little Rock City is like now - i bet you can fall right off some of the rocks without breaking your arm.

It was tons of fun. Despite the fact the snowshoes have spikes climbing the hill was mostly scrambling on hands and knees. Going down hills I had to just sort of run and home I didn't slide down on my ass.

I definitely want to go again - if we ever try again I'd like to try bigger shoes since I was using Erica's mother's old pair.

Afterwards we ate amazing homemade bread, veggie chili, and brownies from Erica's mom. It was the perfect way to fill up after.

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Category: flowers

03/03/15 12:53 - 11.ºF - ID#59874

Saturday at the Botan Gardens

(e:paul) and I took an afternoon to go to the botan. It was so nice to bask in the heat like a tortoise. Surprisingly they have a three adult family membership so we renewed and are now all members.

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These poor ducks were freezing their little duck butts off. We wondered how pissed they all must be at the duck leader who decided it was time to fly north.

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The orchid show was going on but sadly not too many of them smelled.

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How can we grow one of these? The leaves smelled amazing.
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So did this curry plant (aka CP). It had a nice spicy smell to it
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Cacti are so strange. This one had a little flower crown
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Category: music

03/03/15 12:50 - 11.ºF - ID#59873

Boom! at Nietzsche's

Congrats to (e:czarkasm) for winning the second round of the Artvoice Boom competition. It was by something redonk like 70 votes.

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Category: nfta

02/27/15 06:09 - 8.0ºF - ID#59868 pmobl

Fun times on the NFTA

I took the NFTA for many years and I don't think I ever had as good of a time as these people are. Especially the guy standing in the front with the girl waist high.

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Category: dreams

02/26/15 02:14 - 7.0ºF - ID#59864 pmobl

Sunny days and crazy dreams

Ever since I started living and working in a two block radius for most of the time I forgot that the sun comes up over buildings sometimes. Even in winter.

Conventus looks much nicer in the sun
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This week I've been losing sleep getting up for an 8:30 MLM class (another story) at work. Since I get out at 4:30 instead of 7:30 this week, it seems crazy bright outside. Spring ( and daylight savings) is almost here.

Speaking of sleep, I've had some crazy dreams lately. Mostly programming related but my brain has been super weird.

Last night I dreamt I was struggling to stay awake and program Squeaky. So I decided to take meth to stay focused. (e:terry) tried to warn me but I didn't listen. instead I ended up with a >200bpm heart rate and I was so stressed I couldn't work at all.

To relax we went to Cleveland, which was so beautiful, warm, had great transit, people everywhere and fountains made of gold. Paul didn't want to go, but at the last second he rode his bike down (for the gold fountains maybe?) and met us on the Detroit-Superior bridge. The sky started turning black and I woke up.

The night before I had sleep paralysis but remember only laughing uncontrollably. I think it was real.

The week before I had a dream I was physically trapped in a surebert framework Index controller. I'm not sure what that means really but that's what I took from it when I woke up.

So close to warmer days and barer butts.

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Category: computer

02/26/15 01:01 - 7.0ºF - ID#59863 pmobl

Media hoarding

Sunday I went over to my parents house to chip ice off their roof that started a leak in their house. It was so freaking thick - I probably chiselled off a foot, and had to get the rest off with a giant torch attached to a propane tank. What an environmental disaster. The pyro in (e:paul) would have loved it.

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Got to chill with Mid too

While I was there my mom wanted me to go dehoard some old electronics for recycling. She still has the old 3.5" floppies we used to play. Probably one of the first games I remember playing was this DOS game called "Barbie Supermodel". My sister and I would go insane trying to play it

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I don't remember ever beating it or getting past the second level. I also remember not having a sound card so the motherboard speaker would just kind of screech the games music.

Transferring data with physical media has been irrelevant to me for so long now I almost forgot how terrible it was. Floppy disks becoming demagnitized and getting that WIndows "Abort, Retry, Ignore" message, CD's and DVD's becoming scratched and failing out halfway through loading, I almost never even use USB drives anymore. Why would you when you can scp almost everything. I'm so glad we're past that.

I did keep my favorite old game, Sim City 4. I usually can't keep interest in most games but little engineer me put thousands of hours into this game. I almost want to play it now. It was to me what Warcraft probably was to (e:terry) - it kept me up all hours of the night.
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Category: gay

02/26/15 12:46 - 7.0ºF - ID#59862

Bear night take 2

After the burst pipe situation (e:joe,59857) we headed out to bear night. (e:mike) and (e:libertad) were able to join. It's really how crazy bear night gets when there's literally no women around. (e:paul) thinks it's kind of how all male social clubs were. I'm not sure about that.

We met beardsly, another Roswell employee. He has the most amazing beard and speaks equally amazing German.
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The whole night turned into a shirts off dance off.

Afterwards the half of the bar came over to our house, where (e:terry) immediately started snoring. (e:mike) came up with a hit musical, <<Goldstar Gay>> (can I post the video of the lead song?)
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Category: house

02/22/15 10:59 - 17.ºF - ID#59857 pmobl

Pipes Burst

Scheiße. The freezing subzero temperatures froze our pipes along e basement wall last week. I've never dealt with frozen pipes before but because it started confined to the lines to the washing machine, and shutting off the water in that line meant shutting it off to half the house we never turned it off. We just went without doing laundry for a week and bought new underwear. (Tightly whities)

When we came back from skiing, we found all the water gushing from hot and cold pipes, flooding the basement. It was so crazy I didn't even manage a good picture.

(E:terry) and I were able to get the water off and shopvac pump the water down the drain. Thankfully we were able to have bathroom hot water.

While the cleanup happened (e:paul) cooked a delicious spaghetti dinner with coconut oil, which we shared with Jeremy and Chris.

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Category: winter

02/21/15 05:24 - 23.ºF - ID#59856 pmobl

Cross country skiing

Today we went down to Allegheny with Jeremy and Chris to cross country ski.

It was crazy fun and not too cold. I love working to climb up a hill and then speeding down. I wiped out a few times at first but by the end I think I got pretty good. (e:Terry) was freaking fast.

We spent most of the time slithering down the snow snake trail, which is black diamond. Alleghany is real nice in the winter. they even have a shack where you can rent the skis and buy snacks.

I want to go downhill (e:YesThatCasey) but I think I'd hate the mechanical part of it.

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Jeremy had an interesting park job in the driveway.
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City living in Elicottviles historic Tim Horton's Lofts
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