06/18/04 01:27 - ID#31002

Matthew Rocks

I feel guilty sometimes that we haven't re-caned the rocking chair that makes (e:matthew) so happy.

Stickboy [inlink]stickboy,88[/inlink], I am a mafia prince, if you watch my back too long they will find you, right (e:mike) hahaha. This leads me to a great war story from Nonna [inlink]paul,558[/inlink].

SET: WWII NEAR VENICE
She told me that one time during WWII in Italy, her brother was bombed in a nearby and broke his back. She and her family were farm people living in rural Italy.

After a long stay in a military hospital she had him brought home so that she could take him to a venician hospital that specialized in bonecare. After she got there, via a multitude of transit methods (the train tracks were bombed out and he was in an almost full body cast) she was told they couldn't take him. She was really angered, first of all, because she had the proper paperwork and secondly because she said he would die within a day or two if they didn't take him and she couldn't turn around cause it would be impossible to get back.

Then she remembered her brother was police man in that area before the war and knew the police there. So she called them and told them the situation. They instructed her tell the people at the hospital that if they did not take her brother immediately, they would come down with machine guns and promptly kill everyone.

Needless to say he was taken by the hospital and received great care. His other sister, stayed there near the hospital for two years and worked as a house servant in order to have a place to stay and to take care of him. Now that's dedication.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/16/04 10:42 - ID#31001

Cheapest Fucking Expensiveness

I went to see the outdoor movie downtown at Bacchus on Chippewa (Note: NOT MY NEIGHBORHOOD). Matthew, Rachel and I each got near 10 dollar glasses of wine. Mine was the Soave Classico Superiore at 9 dollars/glass in a super classy place. Here is the catch it comes in a plastic cup and its raining out. Also, the bar tender took ten minutes getting our change and then told us he didn't have enough, so come back later.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/15/04 08:36 - ID#31000

Junk Shopping

I had to go to compusa to buy the Unreal
Tournament 2004 DVD set with developer tools. It was on sale and
includes a DVD tutorial. Hopefully, my students can get some of their
cemetary models

into the game
engine.

On the way their my mother and I stopped at Michael's. They had a major
clearance sale on junk. Here is a

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/15/04 10:47 - ID#30998

Twin's Birthday

We started out with some games of bocce? For those of you that don't know, it's a lawn bowling game played by Italians. Here are the rules.

What else could you play at an Italian birthday celebration.

Here is a picture of my dad and my uncle. They are identical.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

06/15/04 10:47 - ID#30997

Louie the Dog

This is the closest I have been to a dog in about 5 years. It was freaky, thank you loratadine.

As an update to this I am now thoroughly sick and wait another five years before I get that close to a dog again.

Same Party - I am actually having fun riding a tricycle build for a two year old. It's amazing that I fit this seeing as I am 6'1 but it works fine.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/15/04 11:00 - ID#30996

The four journal entries below

The four entries below were actually from Saturday. Unfortunately, my email was down that whole time, due to a server upgrade at our web hosting facility, so they didn't post until today.

Actually, the web hosting service we use sucks. They used to be really good, and then they just started going seriously downhill. I would like to move the site to another location but I am having so many issues with the move.

1. Host it myself - the best solution. Seeing as I own a really nice server, I would like to use it. The problem is the connection is to damn expensive for me. Sounds like I really need to write for a grant.

2. Move it somewhere local - I could move it somewhere local but I have a lot of issues with maintaining the anonymity of keeping it far away. I like the fact that some tech dork out west does not care about our community at all. I cannot guarantee that someone local wouldn't. I mean what if some local person had a vendetta against us then fucked the site up. It's too much trust for people I do not know. Why would someone far, far away at a giant tech headquarters want to know who was writing this or that journal entry? It's simply not an issue. Someone here in town, might have more curiosity and that's what worries me.

I also like the anonymity of calling joe techie when there is a problem and getting mad at him a lot more then being pissed off at some local person with a face, when something goes wrong.

I need to make a decision soon, or hope that now that our hosting service upgraded that everything will be great again.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/15/04 10:19 - ID#30995

Dad's Gift

After examing the ton's of arty stuff that my father for sure would never want I ended up getting him a gift certificate to Gabriel's Gate, my favorite restaurant in Allentown

Well, seeing entry this came to my journal 3 days late, now I have more to say about it. Turns out my father deosn't like Gabriel's Gate, my mother told me. So Terry, matthew, and I went there yesterday with the gift certificate. You should try that sometime, it's pretty fun because you feel special that you have a gift certificate even though you bought it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/13/04 02:27 - ID#30994

Five Missing Journals

I wrote five journals today and sent them along with pictures via email to my journal. Unfortunately, the lame ISP had some email drama and are installing a new cisco systems router. Until then the email is all on hold. So someday soon, all the journal entries will come all at once out of time order.

Argh, I wish I had a grant right now. I have so many ideas and I want my own line, so I can ditch this server and use my own. I mean I have the server, I just need the connection.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/11/04 01:43 - ID#30993

Calamari Squid and e:peeps mixup

[inlink]lisa,32[/inlink]

Funny that you mention squid. Most of the calories that were used to produce the code for this site came from calamari. Simply put calamari energy = happy paul = quick thinking paul = programmer paul. Thank you calamari for making elmwoodstrip.com possible.

On a side note, I did not have calamri yesterday morning when I made the stupidest error. I was trying to purchase the rights to epeeps.com and instead got epeers.com. Which sound so lame. Errors like that make me so mad, but it's my own fault for not double checking. So now I own epeers.com and don't want it. I was planning on starting my social networking site, a subsidiary of (e:Strip) at epeeps. I probably still will, but I have to get over my anger about the mixup first. The idea is that elmwoodstrip.com will be about your ideas, links, pictures, etc and (e:peeps) will help you find your friends in town via cell-phone, IM, SMS, computer, networking connections. Who knows.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/11/04 03:26 - ID#30992

Sun Glasses on Terry

Someone had some crazy sunglasses
that our friend Paul had. The pink was great, we handed out 50
fliers.