05/23/05 07:05 - ID#31980

Nonna Throughout Time

I just can't believe she is dying right now. It seems so crazy, like I knew it would happen sometime. It just kills me that the last semester I didn't spend more time with her and that the last conversation I got to have with her was about me not getting the job. I thought school was so important last semester that I pretty much turned everything else off. What a stupid idiot I was, especially seeing as nothing paid off and now I don't get another chance at seeing my nonna.

In our last phonecall, last week all we talked about was Canisius and how she was so sad for me. I said I would see her when I got back from vacation but by the time I had the internet again she was gone.

Here she is as a baby

Nonna 1922

Nonna 1922

Nonna 1933

Nonno and Nonna on a bike before they came to america

Nonna 1950

Here she is arriving in America.

Our Family in the 80s

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/23/05 06:39 - ID#31979

The Nonna's House

This is where she lived for 40 years.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/23/05 06:10 - ID#31978

An era change is approaching

I think I just started to realize today that everything is going to change right now. When Nonna dies I will no longer be little Paolo and it's time to get serious about my future. Like when do I start making the virtual Paul database so trhat I can preserve myself in digital format. I want to be able to exist in an iPod and to be shared on the internet.

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05/23/05 05:02 - ID#31977

Waiting While Nonna is dying

I am sitting here. She keeps holding on but she doesn't move anymore.

It looks like I might the landlord of a house in Buffalo from Nonna. It will be interesting to be a landlord. Maybe I will enjoy it and buy a hundred houses as part of my consume Buffalo before it consumes me plan.

My mother just said that she wants me to be her health care proxy because my brother would keep her hooked to a machine in closet for eternity.

To pass the time I was reading about housing costs to pass the time and San Francisco doesn't have the largest rate of housing cost growth but it does have the highest housing costs in the entire county. There is no city even close.

The only city even remotely close was honalulu

2004q1 2005q1 (thousands)
Honalulu $420.0 $529.1 + 26.0%
Phoenix $155.8 $193.8 +24.4%
San francisco $600.5 $689.2 +14.8%
Buffalo $86.2 $93.9 +8.9%

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05/23/05 09:57 - ID#31976

Gamesfirst Moblogfrom E3

(e:shawnr) kept a moblog of images from the E3 games expo. I know he talked about it before but just in case anyone hadn't seen it, I thought I would mention it. GamesFirst! E3 2005 Moblog

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05/22/05 09:56 - ID#31975

Everything is Crazy Right Now

I got an emergency message to get home ASAP. T-mobiles internet has been down so it was really hard for me to get messages. Turns out Nonna [search]nonna[/search] is in the hospital and is very at the end. I hope they can ease the suffering at this point. She is supposed to get a morphine drip for the pain she is having breating.

She had a massive stroke and is pretty much not there. She moves one arm every once in a while, but only to reach up to nothing in front of her. Sometimes she tries to pull the tubes out.

I hope I never get to that point in life. I want to die of a sudden heart attack. I feel bad for (e:mike) He was going to pick her up for his graduation dinner and she was passed out on her kitchen chair, writing his graduation card. I guess they have been at the hospital ever since. I will update my vacation info later.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/20/05 10:09 - ID#31974

It rained all night

I slept ina puddle in an inernet free zone. It was basically like being dead only colder.

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05/18/05 07:38 - ID#31973

The largest beer selection

At brickskeller in DC they have the largest selection of Bier in the world. I decided to eat a cheeseburger, drink beer, and smoke cigarettes. It is fun to pretend that it's not dangerous. Elephant beer is the first ber I ever got drunk on, when I lived in Flensburg

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05/20/05 10:06 - ID#31972

So many ideas and no computer

I have had a million good business ideas this week. I need to talk with so many people when I get back. I decided to just finish the projects I want to work on and start my own business (details withheld) This gives Buffalo one last chance seeing as we have a lease for a while and (e:matthew) doesn't want to move yet and (e:terry) has a good job.

I need to make a minimum of $1200 per month while I work on my business. I got three job offers this month but the places are OH, NH, and NYC. I guess this will dispell the rumours that I am moving to California.

I really have an interest in being super rich and working for the dark side now and Buffalo is the only place where I can be "super rich" considering I was born to a not wealthy family in a poor city and I no longer believe in merrit based upward mobility.

P.S. I am still waiting for that call from the mafia. This picture is terry dancing and driving.