Category: idle musing
08/09/07 10:52 - 69ºF - ID#40464
Some questions w/o answers
Why did MIA feel the need to try and cozy up to the Elmwood Festival when they would have been fine to put on their own thing?
If Ch 2 has two dollar day at the Fair Wednesday night and Ch 4 has four dollar day Thursday, Can I skip Ch 29 day?
Why do some drivers do 30 mph when going from the 198 onto the Niagara Section of the thruway where the sprint is even faster?
Why did my Mom feel the need to tell me my car sounded different when I pulled up when I didn't notice a thing?
How come the Buffalo Airport takes a decidely more serious and thorough approach to security than JFK?
Why is it going to rain on the only day we had set aside this week for the beach?
Am I not meant to swim this summer?
Is that God's way of saying "Keep your shirt on, fat boy?"
Should I be flattered when my son says the bald spot looks smaller?
Why do people get so excited over Chef's or LaNova's when there is also DiTondo's and Bocce's?
Can I count one for me when my younger sister told me that she is cribbing copy for her wedding announcement from the one I wrote back in 90?
Is Antoinette's Ice Cream sundaes the true cure for ails ya?
When did the prizes at Dave and Buster's turn to such crap?
Why did it take three trips at the IHOP this morning to get the correct check for breakfast?
Jus Wonderin
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Category: wanderin'
08/08/07 10:50 - 81ºF - ID#40439
Perspective is a funny thing
Something kinda eerie about them. These propellers are huge and I never noticed them in all my trips last year coming back from work at the Bills games. It's nice to get a new look at the surroundings now and again.
CHico and Chica's pictures remind me it's been too long for a good gorge hike. Fun to watch the "terrified" jetboat riders.
The pending storm yesterday did a funny thing. On the way back home, we swung by the marina for overpriced cold beverages and the blackness of the clouds created an unusual effect for a steamy August day, a near deserted Marina.
We had a good time anyway.
Off to the Fair tonight --- Preview night.
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Category: outdoor movie
08/07/07 11:56 - 74ºF - ID#40422
The Drive In
Other blockbusters were on the other screens.
Something different, but worth the bargain price.
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08/05/07 12:34 - 78ºF - ID#40390
Goin' to the Drive In Tonight
I read the current Harry Potter book this week. It was a really good book. The thing is huge, but written in a way that you can lose yourself in the narrative. Only secret that I'll spill is that Col. Mustard did it in the conservatory with the lead pipe.
Got the week off and already life feels a little brighter. My direct supervisor changed and who she "Is" varies from day to day. It's a little surreal watching somebody else deal with being overwhelmed. The downside is the answer to a question can change depending on when you ask it. I do pretty well on commissions and was expecting a nice pile to come with the check that is arriving this week, but somebody (her) forgot something and now we have to wait another two weeks to see the $ for July. Argh.
Stole out of work early to see Lucinda Williams at Artpark and it was well worth it. Aside from having a 'thing" for her, it dawned on me that both Artpark and the Canal Concerts have better lineups then the Square does this year. Although, I do plan on showing up for Dropkick Murphys when they get here in September -- certain freedoms to staghood I guess.
It's nice out, we're going golfin'
Later peeps
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: potpourri
08/02/07 01:30 - ID#40356
"Hot enough for you"
I had to stop downtown to apply for another position and stepped into see my current supervisor and I wound up getting dressed down for a few errors in the billing system. Makes you wish you don't show up sometimes. I was on my own time, and quietly hpoing to sneak out, instead I wound up refreshing my mind over what happened to one customer abour 10 days ago. No problem except that I talk to over 100 people typically on a variety of issues.
Feh, two days from vacation. Boy do I need it. The folks out here are spoiled, lazy and whiny but I do what I do what I do.
94 in Amherst at the moment -- Tell me there is nothing to global warming, go ahead, go ahead.
Not going anyplace on this vacation, just going to be nice to get some time away from the work to relax and hang with number one son while his sisters and Mom head off to the Women's Music Fest in Michigan. Tis' our time for guy stuff, rainy day at Dave and Buster's, sunny day golfin or going to a Bisons game and stuff like that.
I was mesmorized at the coverage of the Bridge disaster in Minneapolis last night. Given the vicisstudes of rush hour there, I'm amazed the death tally isn't higher. We've got CNN on in the office at the moment and they are on the edge of not having much new to say. The Minneapolis paper had a headline of "Down, Down, Down." It's a Rupert Murdoch world and we're just living in it.
Did win a Weggies gift card the other day, so the beer will be quality this evening.
Stay cool, peeps
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: traffic
07/31/07 08:08 - 62ºF - ID#40323
Yield doesn't mean "Goafuckinghead"
I get to my current office and had to seperate two customers who were actually grumbling out their place in line. One of my colleagues screwed her wrist up and couldn't lift anything. She was trying and doing the best she could, downside was all that stuff came to me and that spoiled rotten overprivileged middle aged fucksticks don't know how to behave.
I actually yelled "Do I have to pull this store over?" I guess with enough elan that no one said a word. I love my job.
Going home, I felt like I had a finished a 15 round fight. Cruising back via the 290, I watched as two separate SUVs (Must be something about them that cause brain damage) slip right in front of a Semi to make their lane change with about half a car length to spare.
Very grateful that there was some Labatt's in the fridge.
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Category: omens
07/26/07 11:54 - ID#40262
It's gonna be a good day.....
Got back in the car and the IPOD cranks up my u2 Buffalo Bootleg for the jaunt down the 290.
These are positive signs.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: monday
07/23/07 09:32 - 62ºF - ID#40217
Grumble, grumble
I do wonder about the buffoons who own the place. They had a watermain break near the pool that put a serious crimp on operations out there. Shit happens, I understand that. They are getting ready to open the pool for what is left of the summer. Since two thirds of their usual swimming season is shot, the Hotel isn't going to run a pool club since the fucksticks in management couldn't come to any kind of consensus on how to price it. Two thirds of the season is gone. Deduct two thirds from the price, doesn't seem that hard to me. That sort of logic made me the befuddled male I am today. It's that sort of muddleheaded thinking that just pisses me off. You'd think they want to cultivate previous pool club so we all come back in 08.
Jerkasses.
In other news, here's a sign that I spent too much time fixing computers of the weekend. Simpsonized myself
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Category: news
07/19/07 09:05 - 66ºF - ID#40168
NYC Chaos
They saw the "Big fun" start, but nobody in her place could be cool to run a camera. Can't say I blame em. Boss got her a car service home tonight though.
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Category: humor
07/19/07 09:01 - 71ºF - ID#40163
Chuckleworthy
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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and do you mean to say that I should add DiTondo's and Bocce's in your recommendations for best pizza?