08/16/06 05:00 - ID#32726

cat allergy, metal, gossip and trees

Dear Diary, At 8:30 this morning I went for allergy testing with Dr Reisman of Buffalo medical group over on ess jay. He has the best bed side manor of any doctor I ever had. He is friendly, ask s lots of questions and genuinely seems like he cares.










I hours later


It's kind of funny to get allergy tested for cat allergies. I think my lif e is pretty much a constant battle between me and those fucking furballs.

The test starts out as a couple little pin pricks loaded with the allergen. Let me tell you it doesn't end that way. Eight hours later the cat hive dot grew to the size of a silver dollar and the redness started traveling u p my vein and up my bicep. Well now I am officially allergic to cats and c an start getting shots next Monday. I am so excited. Luckily, the shots a re given out on High St right next to my work.

Turns out I am allergic to grass and ragweed too. He gave me some zyrtek t o try for that and a new kind of inhaler for cat expsosure.

After that we came home to get ready for the camping trip. I brought a pai r of pants and a sweater with some white teeshirts. I figure I won't need that many clothes on an island in the sun. I am so excited to think about nothing and [dict]chillax[/dict]. Unfortunately, I still need to send my r evised thesis ciatations.

Chopped down a really tall sumac tree in our backyard with and axe.



I like weilding an axe now that my arms are stronger.



Walmart sells metal microwaves with metal inserts. How can this be possibl e? Says it browns too.


There is a new toy called a tap a tune. What a freakin ripoff on the fisher price 'pull a tune.' I was obsessed with it and still have my original wood and metal one. (GOOGLE - xyloworld)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

08/16/06 01:55 - 66ºF - ID#32725

Pets make the move and vaccums

I have a vaccu addiction. I now own around 8 vaccums. These are three new ones from this week. I almost bought one that was a vacuum/broom.







We built a giant tortoise encloser and a giant walking squirrel cage in the house. Both of them were major tasks.

Some cop at the pet store decided to park in the handicap spot.


We bought $192 worth of pen supplies at home depot.




The squirrel enclose on its side.


Basra moving from the old house. Basra is still not ready to accept the new hole I dug for him. I think he thinks it is another animals hole in the ground. He is afraid to stay in it but finally decided to fall asleep half in and half out.


Basra at the new house with more space, more food and a bigger hole to live in at night.





He tried to get out for a while


Tehn he found one of the pears. He loves the pears.


Finally he eats pears and is happy.

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I a still getting stronger even without the gym. I almost think I gained more muscle moving than going to the gym. It is nice to finally be a solid 150 where I never go below it, even if I don't eat much for the day because I a busy.

My butt is in the next pic stop scrolling if you don't want to see it

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: life

08/15/06 04:56 - 77ºF - ID#32724

Mobile Crunch

I have been so freakin busy that I haven't had a chance to post. It's the kind of busy where my hands are to dirty to touch the phone. No, not the kind of busy you are thinking. I have been cleaning cat hair for days but I think I am generally not alergic to the house anymore. Well at least not floor one and two.

Here are some random pics from mobile living.

There is a bees nest in my closet.


Charlotee has been missing since the rain.


This Chinese money is as worthless as monopoly money, should I just throw it out?


My Office is great.


The squirrels love to eat the pears, I should make pear jelly for humans.




(e:terry) hates birds but this one got his attention.


When I was at the pet store the other day in the rain, there was a man with sorts on and a rain coat. From the back he looked like a flasher. It was hard to get a good pic.


I left the hot tub open and the worms found it. It was gross

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: flash

08/14/06 07:23 - 71ºF - ID#32723

Flash Sin Grid

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: housing

08/12/06 11:32 - 67ºF - ID#32722

More House

We worked on the house so much more last night. (e:leetee) and (e:theecarey) helped us out a bunch with dusting. My mother cleaned the refrigerator. It looks like it is new. I actually took out a toilet, repaired it and put it back. It turns out it wa sthe toilet that was leaking onto the floor and causing the daage in the bathroom. I never thought I would do able to do it, but luckily my phone and the internet gave me some on the spot tips that made it all work.

Yesterday was the night of the strange bugs. (e:theecarey) and I found a preying mantis at home depot and brought it home. They are the coolest bugs. I think she got a pic of it on her phone. Then when we got home there was this crazy huge spider. A type of which I had never seen before.



We met our new neighbors and hung out with them for the evening. Their house is fancetastic and they see like pretty cool people. On the other side of them are some gay republicans. Weird.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: programming

08/11/06 03:16 - 70ºF - ID#32721

Curing Cancer One Pixel at a Time

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: housing

08/11/06 01:51 - 68ºF - ID#32720

Working on 24 Linwood

It has already been a long journey working on the house We have accomplished so much this week. Unfortunately, finish my thesis was not one of the things, which leaves me with this weekend. Also the weekend I have to move during.

Here I am cleaning the chamber under the stairs. The furnace cleaners wanted to charge me $400 to clean that chamber but luckily I fit in the vent so I went down there myself and lceaned it.



I tore up the bathroom floor which was tacky lineloeum that was molding underneath. It was super moldy and disgusting. Thank god I tore it up before it got worse.









It was huge process. I had only a crobar, a scredriver and an axe. A full size axe. I must have lookied really scary with a full size qaxe and my gas mask.









Under it was the original wood floor that the rest of the central hall ( notice I said central hall instead of foyer, (e:matthew) ) has.





I love this doorknob but had a hard itme getting a good picture because my hands were shaking from axing and ripping up the bathroom floor.







Here is on of the fireplaces

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: housing

08/09/06 08:28 - 80ºF - ID#32719

2 floors empty

If anyone wants to see it stop by tonight.

Two floors worth of stuff is on the street. There wee garbage pickers on it like ants on sugar. You can't even imagine.

There were more computer parts than at computers for children.



tHAT'S TONY'S HAND. People were all over that even if they were from 1989. There is still one whole room of computer crap and lots of other junk around but at last it seems like we can finally start cleaning more and moving in.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: travel

08/09/06 11:37 - 64ºF - ID#32718

I'm leaving on a jet plane

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: linwood

08/06/06 09:11 - 81ºF - ID#32717

Ripping Up the Rug

Well, all there shit is in the attic and the basement. Supposedly they are going to move it out in the middle of the night. I a very doubtful and it freaks me the fuck out because we are getting the ducts cleaned in the morning. I am going to line the with plastic afterwards. I know its so italian couch in plastic but they are virgin ducts.



First of all thanks for (e:kookcity2000) for coming out to help, it was really awesome of you.


My mom helped a lot too.


I braved it with a gas mask that my dad bought me as a house warming gift. Now that I have taken it off I realize I smell like cat.



There was so much cat pissy rug.


Okay I am really freaked out about this furnace pipe dripping with yuck. I wish our inspection guy had caught it.






This bathroom is pretty awesome.


So is the view out the shower window.


Kitchen cabinets are nice




There is aprt of a grave in the backyard. That is kind freaky.


This part of the floor is pretty.


The stove seems nice.


All the windows and doors in the house are so huge.

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Location: Buffalo, NY