Category: politicos
11/02/06 01:35 - 41ºF - ID#29618
This election season and what it teaches
I bet John Kerry reads his scripts a little more thoroughly next time he works without a prompter.
Jeannine Pirro is running for Attorney General and is picking a fight with Alan Hevesi, who she isn't running against. I'm not sure I get that one fully. Other than a loose allusion to Andrew Cuomo who hasn't said much of anything about Hevesi, the ad doesn't make a lot of sense to this seasoned political watcher.
Alan Hevesi is getting crucified for not initially paying expenses for a state funded driver for a sick relative. He didn't pay initially, but has since made full restitution for all the expenses. It is wrong, and I feel bad that I don't feel worse. Given all the crappy things that need fixing in NY state, can we just move on already?
At the rate Keith Olbermann is calling out the President, I'm pretty sure he's getting audited for the during of the GOP being in power. He gave an interesting comment on his show last night. I'm not sure I agree with it entirely, but I do admire his actually having a spine and speaking up, instead of ranting a la The Jerkass Factor on Fox.
Not sure who pointed it out, but I concur with how the storm helped all of the politicians in the area deflect from their foibles. The only thing more vexing is how many of them tried to take credit for getting the throughway tolls down. All those cretins have been in office for some time and all could have gotten it done a lot sooner, but none would have if Carl Paladino hadn't taken the heat with his lawsuit.
The Buffalo Teachers Federation is upset with the Buffalo News. I just think it's a crappy paper, but they believe they are getting a raw deal. It's been documented that the district (distressingly cash poor) could save a crapload of money by consolidating the health care coverage. All their Napoleonic leader, Phil Rumore, can do is whine about negotiations logistics and how that needs to be talked about. Instead of sitting down and talking about it, he carps to any tv camera he can find. I'd be a lot more sympathetic if this guy who insists that he's for the children would quite whing and get his butt to the negotiating table and save the district some money, so my kids can have a music teacher intead of him getting another useless sound bite.
James Carville just sent me a junk email -- the subject line was "Desperate"
Vote, peeps, it's a cruel world out there
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Category: candy
11/01/06 10:16 - 42ºF - ID#29617
Does anybody really like Mounds Bars?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: all hallows eve
10/31/06 09:17 - 54ºF - ID#29616
Socially bumfuzzled
I think if it wasn't halloween, my darling daughter would have been stuffed into my car before it was dark out. She's grounded through the weekend, but we didn't deny candy. Whole thing left me a little tense throughout the whole party. It was a room full of "Acquaintances" which I guess is good, but it was one of those if I wasn't here, it wouldn't have mattered kind of things. On the upside, an escape was an easy fix. There are some circles you travelin and there are some you visit. This was definitely a visit. Gets easier with practice I guess.
Aren't there kids who know that if the light is off, the house is off limits. Educate your young, people!
Sigh, I think I hear a Guinness calling.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: upswing
10/29/06 09:11 - 42ºF - ID#29615
A good weekend for a change
The Ex's uncle got remarried yesterday and it did feel both weird and a bit of a relief to be the uninvited. I popped in at my in-laws to grab my kids for dinner tonight and it did feel a little bit of a polite interloper to sort of sneak in, scoop my guys up and head out again.
Took them out to my folks who hadn't seem them in a month and spoiled them (and me) appropriately. We hung out, ate a big pile of pasta for dinner and gave Fantasia the Mystery Science Theater treatment, a good time fo sho.
Twas a hoot to watch the hockey game and have number one son hanging out last night. A "guys night" in.
See, I'm not be antisocial, just semi responsible.
I'm sort of looking forward to the work week I get to go in at 8 like in days of yore for the first part of this week. May have to partake of some El Canelo. If you've never been, they are over on Dingens and do lunch right. It usually is insanely quick, portioned right, and really good. I haven't been able to swing in it recent months and for the longest time it was a regular feature of my cable routine.
But three well prepared chicken tacos and a coke can repair the damages of even the toughest mondays.
Got the first Coco Moco of the season this afternoon. Nothing like a Mocha hug from the inside.
Hope everybody survived the halloween revelry intact.
Be well
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
10/25/06 10:33 - 40ºF - ID#29614
Score one for the misused marketing dood
A few minutes later, his boss comes in and tells him to get in front of the camera more and away from the phone.
I smirked all the way back to my desk.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/24/06 05:01 - 41ºF - ID#29613
The Tree Munchers are coming
Called in sick to finish shaking off the weekend bug and the other effects of the weekend. Got caught up with my all too dormant DVR and enjoyed "Studio 60" over breakfast. I got myself into a quandry with my child's doctors office. They wouldn't schedule an appointment with number one son for a checkup because insurance hasn't paid them back for when the girls went in early October. The explanation was that I had other insurance.
Well, no, who has surplus insurance??
I called the blue cross rep and who was alarmingly helpful. I wasn't used to that. I had a rant all set to go and had to postpone it as he found that the billing office chuckleheads committed a typo in filing the girls billing and transposes a few digits in my account, to the tune of over $300.00. He is processing their payment as we speak. I just got off the phone with the Billing Department chief having effectively, yet succinicting voicing my displeasure are being such a long term customer getting their files handed in such a slipshod way.
Take your victories where you can folks.
On a totally unrelated topic, I got a tchotckey from a tv network at home today. You get those periodically from the cable networks for running their commercials in your system. Most of the time, it's useless stuff like "Dead Like Me" Bobbleheads or "Six Feet Under" caskets filled with gummy worms, but today I received a "rollaway laptop pack" from NBC. It looked like a fancy backpack to me, but it came complete with instructions on how to "pack up my portable pc for those times on the go." Mac-hating bastards.
Nice bookbag tho.
Random thought from Saturday: whilst cleaning up puke and baking I thought some kick ass muffins, couldn't there have been a single woman between 30-50 who knew I was capable of such things and be impressed.
oh yeah, Today's home sick feature was Be Cool, nowhere near as good as Walk the Line, but Andre 3000 made the movie for me. I think I'll rejoin the working world tomorrow.
Time to venture out to Spot for Tea
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: ill
10/23/06 05:53 - 42ºF - ID#29612
The Technicolor Yawns
Sure enough he erupted saturday morning from both ends. I'm trying to make breakfast for the girls, clean him up and my landlord wants to stop to chat, mostly to nag me about getting cable back on. Assmunch!
The girls are sitting on the floor of my kitchen when the younger tells me "I don't want to be here." Just what you want to hear. I walked into my bedroom were number 1 son was sleeping and just sobbed. It was one of those weird sensations of the harder you try, the more you kept slipping back. They walked the two blocks back to the ex's house and young son slept it off. The ex came to get him later that day so I got a fun Saturday night at the village laundramat on Elmwood.
I got up early and had to work the Bills game/debacle. That was hard enough. I drove to Wegmans and got a few necessities and after stopping to check on number one son, I got a call from number 1 daughter's friend that she was now sick. I went and retrieved her and finally stumbled in my own door about 9, roughly 13 hours after I left.
Whenever the kids get sick, I've always gotten this weird sensation that goes away after we get them squared away. This one didn't so, without getting graphic, it got me during the overnight hours. So, I've been doing the little old man covered up in a blanket today. Proof God has a sense of humor, I got my cable back so I was able to fall asleep in front of "Walk the Line." Nice film, what I saw.
Hope everybody is well.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/20/06 10:48 - 45ºF - ID#29611
That was a helluva catch
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/18/06 05:08 - 58ºF - ID#29610
This is what was on my mind on Friday
Drink in hand, I'm sitting in my home office amongst piles of absolutely useless technology having a major geek withdrawl. If you didn't lose power during this, good for you. I'm mad at this storm. My kids are at my former in-laws. I've missed the Office and Grey's Anatomy (twice).
Wondering how our new peeps are liking Buffalo now.
I was supposed to work, but that wasn't going to happen. A tree from the next door fell across one driveway and 18 inches of snow fell on the other. I figured I'd let other people fuck their cars up instead of me.
So, I read instead. It was sunny so I took a stroll. Utica reminded me of the "Day After." All of the survivors were out to inspect the carnage. I thought I saw (e:theecarey) but I wasn't sure. Making down to Elmwood was a bit of a chore, with all the schrapnel laying like an angry toddler just tossed toys.
My journey took me past Anderson and up to see what there was to see. University Hots was fully powered so I partook of a perfectly mediorce cheeseburger and a big plate of fries. On a regular day, perfect average. Today, it hit the spot.
We Never Close nearly got drained of beer. Got to love that.
I live across the street from Timon Towers and if it was any more lit up there would have been a star on top. Well electricated bastards.
This sucks, no tunes, no tube, no peeps to read up on, and most importantly, no chillens. Felt weird to be that isolated.
Later, I saw Voelkers opened and half wondered if the lilho bowling was still going on.
It's Wednesday and the lights still aren't on at my folks house so I guess I can handle watching the Mets game on my crappy little bedroom tv.
My whole apt complex knows where I work and the cable customers are gently giving me a little crap about getting their cable back.
Alas.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: fookin weather
10/17/06 01:49 - 50ºF - ID#29609
God has a sick sense of humor
I was trapped at work until 7:30 on Thursday and got to drive home in the midst of it. All the traffic lights on Michigan were down, yet there were still people standing in the middle of the friggin street staring into traffic as if that would make the bus get there faster. IT DOESN"T!!!!
As I came up Michigan, the traffic light at Main was working, so was the Linwood, so was the Delaware, so far so good. I have off street parking and I got out of my car to have the garage lights go out. This is where I'm thinking God was fucking with me. They came back on till I got into my courtyard. Got to my door, lights off. Half way up the stairs, on, my own door, off, On long enough for dinner then gone for two days. It was light it was dark It was light it was dark -- as the old joke goes.
Two days of monastical bliss. Yes, you can be alone with your thoughts too long. I'll post the handwritten journals later, but it was a little bit of disconnect. The kids were safely enscounced with my former in-laws. I steered clear Friday to give the ex some breathing room to help her think. Swooped in Saturday to get caught up. After departing them, I drove out to my parents place in Clarence to inspect. My folks just got back into town today after a week away. It was a mind blower because you only then got a sense of how extensive all this was. Last time, I saw lines at Eastern Hills Mall like that were back in the day that you got your concert tickets there.
Nirvana was found by the fully functional Anchor Bar. A couple of pints and chicken parts later I headed back to the apartment to see the traffic light at Lexington and Delaware suddenly click on, then the adjacent apartment building turn on, then mine - Yahtzee!!
No cable, I could deal. More later and back fully online soon
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I've gotten so bad that listening to the Bill Press show in the mornings on 1520 is the highlight of my day.
You're right about the dilema about Reynolds. Western New York has not had as much "pull" in Congress since Bill Miller was the running mate with Goldwater. Ironically his daughter Stephanie is a left wing talkshow host on 1520.
It's just if Reynoldsis sent packing we better hope they Dems do take control.
A: Have you seen her district? :::link::: I believe she lives in Fairport, 85mi east of Buffalo. She's totally senile, of course, but I don't think she can be blamed for having to represent the Earmuff District.
Q: What's the deal with the teachers?
A: [As explained by my mother, a 4th grade teacher at Discovery School] The teachers themselves could not care less who their health provider is, as long as they don't lose coverage as a result of the restructuring. Though the Board of Ed has made absolute assurances this won't happen, they don't seem to believe their own assertions enough to agree to be legally bound by them.
- Z
You have a lot of astute observations about the elections. Maybe people will decide to write in their own candidates, or pick from other parties besides the main two.