An anonymous guest wrote:

I find you a little hypocritical. First off, those fire pit things you get at Home Depot can be considered illegal in the city. Not to mention the burning things isn't the greatest thing for the environment, remember? Secondly, your talk of living in a mansion is wonderful, i guess i would like to hear about some serious energy saving improvements, windows? insulation?

Dear anonymous person,
I suppose you are talking about the fact I criticized the Central Terminal for being heated by a coal plant all its own and for having a solid stone structure over a hundred feet high which is hard to heat.

We keep our house really cold in the winter to save energy. I wear a hat and scarf in the house and we keep all the lights off in the places we are not. We plastic the windows in the winter, use heavy drapes, recycle and have a compost pile for all the food scraps that the squirrels and tortoise don't eat.

We also bought vent-free gas stoves to heat localized area in the house that are 98% efficient and cost only about $1/day to run on high because of the way they use the gas so efficiently. In fact, our heating bill was only higher than $300 for the coldest month and that is for about 3500 sq. ft. of living space.

But really I don't care what you believe. I think you are just jealous but we can't all live in mansions.

Fuck you.
--paul

Here is the offensive chiminea being assembled by (e:matthew) and (e:terry) as they plot to destroy the earth.





Where is (e:matthew)


In my crazy earth destroying rage, I threw out all the Teflon pans in our house. In this case my environmental concerns were overpowered by my unwillingness to battle cancer.



Luckily, I replaced them with long term copper-bottomed, steel pans. I figured that way I should never need to replace the pans again, like you have to with the Teflon ones as they "decay." Normally they cost $360 pans but my bargain hunting mother found the on sale for $154. Here they are being washed in our environmentally sound dish washer. Paid $700 for an energy efficient one, instead of the cheaper high energy/water use ones. It is supposed to adjust the amount of water based on the weight of the dishes.



(e:matthew) found this root with a boner in the yard


This robin likes our worms


Got rid of all the remaining trash from the previous owner. Finally, we are done. None of the remaining crap was even worth bringing to amvets, most of it was molded due to a leak in the garage roof.


When we brought the garbage to the garbage transfer station on South Ogden I noticed someone lives right next door. Holy crap. It smells so bad there. The only way I can describe it is liek a mix of bologna and oregano with diarrhea. The previous time we were there it was a Saturday, I would not suggest ever going to the dump on a garbage day - although it was so busy they didn't weigh us or even check if we were citizens.








Here is (e:lilho) saying she wants to move to the rianforest, lol.

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And then the food

Globe market on Elmwood - ate the turkey sage and cranberry mayo sandwich


I also bought the strawberry, whip crea puff


Then I ate at Ming Tea Cafe on Main Street again. This was (e:enknot)'s chicken with eggplant. This place really renews my faith in the tastiness of chinese food. Lunch is only $8.


Found this picture of chinese girls on the wall there that reminds me of the painting in (e:twisted)'s bedroom.



I'll leave you with basra eating.

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The Queen City Roller Girls game at Rainbow Rink was packed. We went to go see (e:rachel) and (e:dragonlady) play. We seriously had to park like a block away and walk down some railroad tracks (as with any good trip to the tonawandas) to get to the place we were going. North Tonawanda smelled exactly how I remembered it - a faint smell of burning rubber.













Rainbow rink - 101 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY was exactly how I remembered it. It was downright freakish to hear Mr. Roboto playing when we got there. I think it may have been the last song I heard there the last time I left, sometime in the 80s. It was nice to be able to drink beer this time around.




(e:terry) glowing in the blacklight




Gave a buck for fleshette. I would have given more but I had forgotten my wallet and that was my remaining change.




Even though she played for the "other team" - I think my favorite was crashinova - she reminded me of (e:robin) for some reason.

(e:lilho) was really stressed that the teams didn't have proper fashion consultation.

Sidenote: I wish I had a powerful mac capable of runnning Safari and IE along side both version of firefox. It is really a necessity in the business I am in. Right now I am really angry because something has changed and firefox is not uploading images for me on my linux install? I have no idea what the deal is seeing as I did not change the site code this week and that I can upload the images from Safari. I am seriously considering a new computer career that involves less complicated testing on diverse systems.

Well here they are - this weekend we went shopping for the garden and did lots of house work. Then we went to the Queen City Roller Girls Game. I also piled lost of garbage up for the dump, my first stop tomorrow morning before work, fun!

It was so foggy downtown on our way to the Rudolph and Son's nursery way down on Clinton Street.





Just before it is this giant white house. Does anyone know what it is?


They had lots of pretty blue and purple flowers. I tried taking pics of the same flowers with and without flash.








They removed more of the paint on the old club heat on Delaware. What is it going to become?


Ate another pitts burger from Jimmy Macs.

There is nothing as good as ramen noodles and lobster. I think it the culinary equivalent of drinking kristal in a trailer.

It is kind of sad that this is my last visit to compusa in Buffalo. Things are at 50% off which seems like a great deal but its still not competitive with internet prices in most cases.

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I was so excited with the prospect of buying stuff cheaply and reslling it on ebay, but wap.ebay.com went down as I began looking up prices.

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Never has ebay gone down on my, why now while I am in the midde of shopping.

10 minutes later: I have decided to just give up and go home. It think there was potential but I am not in the mood anymore.

Byebye compusa - we had good times.

So I am just finishing a 60 hour work week in which I completed lots of really cool stuff. Unfortunately, I am not paid hourly anymore.

I really just want to go dancing but all my friends fell asleep already. I contemplated just going back to work as I know (e:enknot) is still there and I guess programming beats surfing for electronic gadgets I don't need to buy.

The other option is to work on estrip, or maybe even just watch television. I wonder what it would be like if I lived in a city whose nightlife was compatible with what I want to do. For sure, it is not go drink beer and hang out at the pink.

Artvoice Awards
I am in a pre-artvoice award depressed funk. I hate going to the Best Of Buffalo awards thing every year. I mean the food is great , it was great because it led to Artvoice hosting us and it is really fun, but it sucks to always lose. Part of me doesn't even want to go. (e:mike) told me that Susan Lucci lost 19 times before winning so there still is hope.

Tuber Madness
What is this tuberous monstrosity. They old had one giant one with that slit in it at the store. It weighed like 10 lbs.






(e:terry) got a haircut


I ate octopus at Kosta's again. I really like it.

When reading the local news tonight after my third ~twelve hour day in a row, I noticed that there was a shooting in Kenmore way back on April 4th. The drive by shooting actually took place in North Buffalo across from St. Joe's on the Kenmore border. I guess I am just really behind the times. I like to think when I was younger stuff like that did not happen around Kenmore, but honestly, I am not sure if I was just young and isolated.

I am amazed at all the comments on it

MONTY MASSIMI IS MY BROTHER. HE WAS GUNNED DOWN IN COLD BLOOD BY COWARDS WHO SET HIM UP AND ARE ON CRACK. HE LEFT BEHIND A BEAUTIFUL BABY BOY AND FIANCE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION REGARDING HIS MURDER AND THE 6 INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED PLEASE CALL THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE ASK FOR SEDITA . MY FAMILY IS POSTING A REWARD IN THE BUFFALO EVENING NEWS THIS MONTH. PLEASE HELP ME BRING THESE SCUMBAGS TO JUSTICE!!! THANK YOU. WE KNOW WHO IS INVOLVED AND NEED ALL OF YOUR HELP AND STATEMENTS .IF YOU LOVED MONTY AND HE EVER HELPED YOU NOW IS THE TIME TO HELP US!!!!! THANK YOU

I can't even imagine if my brother (e:mike) was gunned down on the Kenbuf border.

The Monti Cristo and Chris's Sandwich shop on Delaware looks so amazing. (e:enknot) ate it.


It loosk very bright. I have had a considerable amount of time to work on a new interface for publishing that is much more dynamic. Hopefully, I will have a change to integrate it at some point in the near future. Lots of other stuff planned too.

There were so many African (like recently from another continent) people in robes today. I think I saw 4. That is 4 more than I have ever seen and they weren't altogether. I wonder where they came from. Robes kind of look comfortable but I would surely be mistaken for a terrorist if I wore one.





On the way back we had a photo opportunity with the best boss's boss I have ever had, the famous Joanne Ruh - also the winner of a BETA award this year.


Saw a poster for the roller girls on main street while flirting the scientologists (firefox keeps trying to make me change this to gerontologist, lol! )through the window on Main Street. There is some about men in a cult that makes me want to brainwash them.


Time to go start a fire and burn the ton of wood around my house.

I am emabarssed to admit that this is how I spent my Earth Day. Dave drove us to Watkins Glen in a giant van today to do the gorge trail Holy crap this website got stuck in the mid 90s

Unfortunately, the gorge trail is not open until mid May. So that was accpetionally disappointing as we spent about 5 hours in the car to not be able to hike the trail.

That didn't stop them from keeping the frickin' gift shop open








Found this cool hollow tree trunk and took a picture down the top of it.


The creek looked so awesome, I wish we could have gone down there.






In the end we ended up hiking around a cemetary.




The cemetary was huge, the magee family had their own section.

Watkins Glen History
The village of Watkins Glen, in Schuyler County, NY, has been called different names and had many people influence its history since people started settling there in 1779. That year the Clinton-Sullivan campaign against the Seneca Indian villages was launched to rid the area of Indian hostilities who were siding with the British in the American Revolution

Apparently, indians are not people. Seems like time for a rewrite?

I spent all day Friday and Saturday working on house stuff. Started with the garage - which is now our personal dump.



The squirrels in the attic also built this crazy insulation nest.


I am getting rid of these skeleton paintings if anyone wants them. I was going to put them on Craig's list but I thought I would mention it here first in case anyone wants them.





I wanted to bring all the junk to the east side transfer station (dump) but they close at 11am on Saturday. It is pretty much impossible to find out their hours on the weekend without driving all the way there on S ogden street. The Buffalo-city site site sucks. I can never find what I am looking for. Try and looking up garbage or dump. Something that it seems a lot of citizens would be interested in. I think they have some info if you search under refuse but then it gives you a phone number (the mayor's hotline) which is only open monday through friday.

So here it is for you on estrip.org - the hours of Buffalo's east side transfer station Monday-Friday 7am-3pm and Saturday 7am-11am.
(e:lilho) and I had to drive there to find out. First ton free, $40/ton after that. It is amazing how many tons of garbage we have had to remove this year. I think more than in my whole life combined.



Then we went to home depot to buy an outdoor furnace/fire pit thing so we could dispose of the huge amount of post october surprise.

While we were there (e:lilho) tried on these large boots.


I can't believe how much waste Boston Market's makes. The plates and silverware are reusable quality plastic.



The side salad takes the cake for refuse.


(e:matthew) dug up the nasty pile of cat shit the previous owners had piled in the back of the yard.



Choxie from target is really amazing chocolate. It is very high quality.




We got this grill from Kmart last year for the housewarming but hadn't opened it until yesterday. First (e:terry) noticed the handle was broken and then that the side was totally dented. It is way to late to return it.



There were so many primitive electronics in the garage. I can't believe how easy they look to fix. Look how big the transistors and capacitors are.




Saw this ridiculous princess bottle at Target. Who buys this. It made me think of (e:mike)