Category: buy
07/18/06 07:51 - 80ºF - ID#25002
Buy our Boat
(e:ladycroft)'s entry made me ask myself: does anyone else on (e:strip) have a boat? Like, a real boat, that you can sail - not a noisy motorboat that wastes gas and hurts eardrums.
We have a Potter 15 and it's the cutest thing. If we didn't already have the Catalina 22 in the marina, this would be our main boat. It's trailerable with a decent sized van or SUV, and comes with an engine and all necessary rigging and sails. I have more pictures and other details available; it's perfect for someone who wants to get into sailing, but who wants to start small. What better way to enjoy a western New York summer than out on the water - this is easily launched into Lake Erie, Chautauqua, or any of the Finger Lakes.
If you're interested, or if you know someone who should be, send them my way. Depending on how committed they are to a sale, we could be tempted to take the Potter out for a cruise.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: clothes
07/17/06 08:30 - 81ºF - ID#25001
Ruined
A question for the (e:peeps) - what's the worst laundry experience you've ever had? Mine just happened tonight . . .
And what made it even worse was having my dear J show me, again, the wife school clip
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: places
07/05/06 10:32 - 67ºF - ID#25000
Alaska
This weekend I picked up the novel Alaska by James Michener and haven't been able to put it down. At this rate I'll finish the thing by the end of tomorrow, and for a book that measures at 900 pages, that's a pretty good clip.
I've read Michener before, starting with The Source in a high school global studies class. Michener's standard style is to take a place (or, for his novel Space, a concept), and weave a set of stories throughout history, beginning with the start of time itself and ending with present day. You get used to his weighty, layered historical detail after a few hundred pages, and if you can get past the sheer volume of his words, the pages reveal a compelling story. This book makes me want to go to this strange state and travel around for a bit, and I imagine that the author would take this as a compiment if he were still alive .
It's hardly a bit of light summer reading - but it does give me an idea - would anyone here like to start up a book club? Something like, we read the same book, then post about it at some point(s). There are a few other Michener books I'd like to try, but I need to take a break after this one, maybe with some non-fiction or a really trashy chick-lit paperback.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: music
06/28/06 09:45 - 71ºF - ID#24999
Pandora
My current stations include:
Jem, Tori Amos, Sarah Slean, Nickelback, Tegan and Sarah, Armin Van Buuren (creator of the 24 Longest Day Remix , my favorite techno song in the history of favorite techno songs), DJ Tiesto and The Cranberries.
Any other suggestions?
[I just watched the 24 music video, again. That's almost too much Jack Bauer for me to handle. Almost.]
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: potpourri
06/23/06 08:22 - 67ºF - ID#24998
I love my coop
Ilovemycoop:
Today is also special, as it is Take your Pet to Work day
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Words: 82
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: pop
06/20/06 06:14 - 71ºF - ID#24997
Connie and Maury
After seeing that video I am not sure that insane is the right word for it.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
06/19/06 06:26 - 75ºF - ID#24996
Pasta, Spritzer
- 2-3 chicken breasts, diced into bite-sized pieces;
- season with cumin, chili powder, salt, pepper, italian seasoning (this is where I lost the "southwest" part of it);
- put EVOO in the saute pan, twice around the pan;
- heat, toss in chicky;
- stir until cooked, splashing a bunch (a tablespoon?) of lemon juice halfway through;
- add to something that is not my horrific pasta disaster. Maybe a quesadilla? Or with some rice.
(e:matthew), did I tell you about Gluten Free Girl? She's incredible.
So here's a recipe for a Saratoga Spritzer. I can't find a reference for it online, so I'll go with the recipe in my head (courtesy of my mama):
In a chilled glass (ALWAYS keep glasses chillin in the freezer), combine a tablespoon of lemon juice (more or less, to taste) and 2 sugar cubes.
Add Ginger Ale and some ice.
Add a few dashes of Angostura Bitters on top.
Swirl.
Enjoy.
You can use sprite or sierra mist or 7up too.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: sailing
06/16/06 05:29 - 78ºF - ID#24995
Marina
my captain, showboating in the laser :)
my dear puppy, demonstrating how easy it is to walk around our deck.
my dog eats ropes. she also falls in lakes, but she has her own life preserver. Yes I love my dog, what of it?
on the dock.
an after sunset view, facing west.
See all the sailboats? If you go out in a motorchoker, and hear a dog barking at you, that's my puppy. We've already trained her to bark and growl when the words "george bush" or "dick cheney" are spoken; now she's starting to bark when hearing the roar of a speedboat engine too.
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Words: 145
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
06/16/06 12:07 - 78ºF - ID#24994
the ten commandments
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Words: 20
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: web
06/14/06 08:26 - 59ºF - ID#24993
New Site
Thanks to Paul's API system, I can pull in content from my journal here directly to my site. For those of you who have other web domains and a willingness to muck around with some PHP, it's a great way to spruce up your site.
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Words: 73
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Go into the bathroom with several handfuls of $20 bills.
Stand in the shower, fully clothed.
Turn the shower on, and as your clothes are becoming totally soaked, start flushing those $20s down the toilet. That is the closest you can come to sailing without actually getting on a boat.
On the smaller boats, it's no big deal. If you have to spend $13 on some special little bolt, fine. But when you have a gigantic boat, or are big into racing, and all of the sudden those little bolts are $83 and you need 12 of them - well, see my anecdote.