Category: people

12/10/05 06:34 - 29ºF - ID#32399

beggin in the burbs

We are in the best buy parking lot on Niagara Falls Blvd again. This time I got a better pic of the former field gone parking lot.

I love it when the snow drifts eat shopping carts. I bet hitting them in a snow plow is really fun.

We saw a beggar, or a man appearing to be one here in the lot. How do beggars get to the outer suburbs? Do you think the prospects are better than in the city during christmas time.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: transport

12/10/05 02:59 - 29ºF - ID#32398

snowy car trash

Does anyone have snowy car trash? Every year at this time we forget that the garbage which normally can peacefully exist in the back seat foot area of our car has the potential potential to become a nasty slush of paper waiting to be recycled.

We ate the yummy steak sandwich at the pink. If you never tried it and you don't mind eating animals you have to get it. The only downside is that it costs $9.00. It is definitely enough for two.

(e:lilho) and (e:terry) were really into th hunk hunt machin last night at the Pink.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

12/09/05 10:45 - 30ºF - ID#32397

girl drinks and ho oats

(E:terry) and (e:lilho) went ot to get some drinks. They got 40s but bought me a girl drink. Well I asked for something like it but I was expecting lemon flavor and it was some super fruity raspberry, not my fav.

Do you think raspberries are called raspberries because the plant rasps your skin?

On another note what does everyone think about knocking down the ho oats building?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: drugs

12/09/05 07:53 - 27ºF - ID#32396

Bus Stop To The Afterlife

So yesterday I was talking about the smoking hut bus stop in the middle of the roswell campus. Today I got a pic.

It is the middle of everything with no access road or anythin but it looks just like a metro bus stop.

Today for lunch we had Casa Di Pizza at an IT meeting followed by all kinds of food at a Holiday party.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

12/09/05 01:34 - 25ºF - ID#32395

PPC 6700 modem on the go

I am writing this from my laptop using my mobile phone as a modem. Right now it is getting over 250k per second. That is freakin incredible. I cannot wait to test it out with google maps the next time I am lost.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: unions

12/08/05 11:15 - 25ºF - ID#32394

Union Life

I went to a union lunch party today. I heart my union

. I realize they take a lot of money and they are bad for business. I also realize everyone else hates them. But damnit, I love the union and the fact that I have health insurance and a living wage with holidays and a retirement plan. I know that it's the union that makes that all possible. I have definately tried working for the non-union jobs. I never made more than $20,000 and I never had health insurance.

They had some pretty tasty "free" sandwiches and we were able to choose between a free FM radio or a plastic waterbottle. I actually chose the water bottle now that my phone does internet streaming radio. I think it is funny that an FM radio is now worth as much as an empty waterbottle. It wasn't even a particularly nice one. Now that I think about it, I forgot it in the meeting, lol.

At the meeting we voted if we think it is good to make roswell a smoke free zone. I voted for it. I can't believ it isn't one already. In the middle of the cmapus there is an area locked between fences and buildings and in the center of it, next to the praxair compressions tanks is a smoker hut, that is most likely an old metro bus stop. It looks exactly liek one. I will try and get a picture tomorrow. Some referred to it as the Bus Stop that to afterlife.

As a side note, I did think it was funny that on the newsletter the clipart with the article was money but that there was nothing really about money in the article.

jason writes at 11:15:14 12/09/05 - Comment #2804: Couldn't disagree more with Robin. Making a hospital a smoke free zone is a no brainer imo.

About unions - I can't possibly put all of my thoughts into a comment but I will say that Unions can be either extremely good or extremely bad. Like their corporate executive counterparts the Union leadership are not always interested in negotiations which by their very definition suggest said parties have to both give concessions. Like I said, some are very good, some are very bad.

robin writes at 06:08:13 12/09/05 - Comment #2800: paul, is it a hospital you work at?
if so I think s smoking ban is a total assaloe idea. I'll tell you why.
When I lived with Matthew P we got into a fight one day and i stormed out. I went shopping at thrift stores and then to my friend Tenas house. Matthew called to tena's and asked me to come home and talk. He told me he did my laundry. I told him I wanted to visit with tena a little longer.
When I returned to our apartment out roommate kristen called to tell me she was in the hospital whith matthew and he had swallowed 50 of his anti depressiants. I went to the hospital and Matthew was in the emergency room out of his head. He had black charchol all over his teeth, mouth, face, and little bare chest. I got a cloth and cleaned him up while he talked delusional stories, slurring his words. Then he started having a terrible seizure and the doctors came in and kicked me out. I curled into a ball in the hallway and sobbed for a while. Then I decided I needed a cigarette to calm my nerves. I walked outdoor and over to a little bench. It was night and the place was deserted except for a security guard who came from somewhere and told me no smoking. Thaat I would need to walk a half a mile to the road to smoke a cigarette. I remember screaming at the guy, crying, and walking down to the road. the bastard.
Hospitals are stressful places. Smokers need their smokes in stressful situations and usually waiting for someone u love in the hospital is very stressful.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: school

12/07/05 10:55 - 19ºF - ID#32393

Big Spending in all the wrong places

It's nice to say goodbye to this waiting area. I am tired of sitting in it and looking at the totally unecessary giant flat panel.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

12/07/05 09:26 - 19ºF - ID#32392

Working

I have been working for about 12 hours now. I am really tired. I have no idea why I said yes to finsihing at Canisius and especially why I am here late right now.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: transport

12/07/05 07:11 - 24ºF - ID#32391

the metro

Who designed the advertisements for the Buffalo metro? They look like they were designed by intro to graphic design students of a pre computer era. Only the craptastic dropshadow guves it away. These ones can be found at the Allen Street station.

I am supposed to be at Canisius teaching but the subway is late. One more station to go.

Some man on the subway was telling this long winded story about how all the stars came from buffalo before there was Hollywood. He just kept screaming it at these girls and paul, the other Paul that worked at Kunis and the coop.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

12/07/05 04:22 - 24ºF - ID#32390

Lunch of the Dead

The lunches only get better at Roswell. I just wish I didn't have to listen to the shooting drama over and over again. My entire lunch was dominated by the death of that crazy man on the television.

The way the news anchors talked about it, it seems like they were hoping it was in fact a terrorist.