08/06/15 01:02 - 62.ºF - ID#60151
Bikes vs cars
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food
08/02/15 08:46 - 79.ºF - ID#60149
Dinner on the porch
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/05/15 12:52
Category: camping
08/02/15 08:44 - 79.ºF - ID#60148
Dionysis at Brushwood
We headed to Brushwood on Saturday for Dionysis with (e:Terry)'s mom. The weather was sunny and perfect. A ton of Buffalo people including Mike, Seth and Dana were down there.
The night itself was crazy and I talked to a ton of people. Not that I remember any of them. Terry even had a conversation with a skunk.
We blew ourself up a breakfast fire in the morning and had some delicious cheesy eggs courtesy of Terry. (Too bad it was full of plastic and garbage - Brushwood hippies are really the worst kind of hippies.)
And (e:paul) weaved us some beautiful flower tails, which ended up in Terry's hair.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/06/15 01:43
08/02/15 08:43 - 79.ºF - ID#60147
Farmers Market trip
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/02/15 08:43
Category: family
08/02/15 08:42 - 79.ºF - ID#60146
Family reunion (almost)
I saw two of the three cousins that used to live with my family for about 4 summers. It's insane how much of an impact we had on each other. I can barely imagine how we fit 4 additional people in our house for that long. But we were basically inseparable. I haven't seen them since 2010.
We used to be really into making stupid home movies, especially my oldest cousin Andy. Sadly they are all still on mini8 cassettes. How have they not been digitized yet?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/06/15 01:50
Category: music
08/02/15 08:41 - 79.ºF - ID#60145
Thursday night Karaoke
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Words: 38
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/06/15 01:46
Category: tv
07/29/15 08:47 - 86.ºF - ID#60140
Assasination Classroom
If you ever want to see a show about a boob and candy loving anthropomorphic octopus, who has one year to teach middle school students to assasinate him before he blows up the earth (after he already destroyed half the moon) - this is it.
The first season covers a year where he teaches his "E" class students to become the best students in the school by beating the "A" class. He also trains them to become master assassins. Also every episode wraps up with him giving a 5 minute speech to his students on education, and how much he cares for his students.
I can't really summarize the weird Japan-ness this show embodies so here's a picture of the cute octopus, Koro Sensei.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/29/15 08:47
Category: money
07/29/15 02:31 - 72.ºF - ID#60139
Minimum wage
Seeing this reception makes me question why this wasn't across the board minimum wage hike. The conspiracy theorist in me would say it was aimed at rallying most workers against the idea of any hike (the thought process going "why should a Tim Horton's worker get $15 an hour, when I'm still going to make $10 as a trained paramedic paramedic?") The optimist hopes that it will keep drawing more people's attention to wage inequality - like how for anyone outside the top 20% (of household income), wages have not kept up with productivity and inflation since the 70's!
I've noticed a similar attitude with unions, even from normally liberal people. Those not protected by a union want to know why union workers should be compensated more than a non-union worker, when they also work over 40 hour weeks for no additional benefit. The real question they should be asking is why are they willing to do more for less?
At some point in time, it looks like every worker ended up in a bizarre race to the bottom, where the winner gets to brag about who works the most while getting paid the least.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 08/01/15 10:02
Category: bikes
07/29/15 01:53 - 72.ºF - ID#60138
Woodlawn Beach
We continued our bike exploration of Buffalo with a trip down Route 5 to Woodlawn beach. They were having a karaoke night - (e:Terry) was cringing to the JLo tributes going on.
The tiki bar area was pretty nice. I never stuck around for it when I worked next door.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/29/15 01:53
Category: swimming
07/28/15 10:23 - 80.ºF - ID#60137
Quarry quickie
I got to swim for 20 minutes, but not before I heard the life story of the security guard and his immigration from Hungary. He met Sylvester Stallone in the 80s and was supposed to be his stunt man. But the US wouldn't let him in, so he got sent back to the Hungary where he had to flee the communists. After running across the border under gunfire, he made his way to France where he met his Canadian wife, who brought him to Montreal.
There was much more to it, but it was long and rambling. I felt bad walking away to swim, but he seemed so excited to tell his story. What else can you do?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/29/15 01:50
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