First off, the gliders. Unrelated, the male sugar glider escaped yesterday. I wasn't sure if he was coming back or not. This evening though - he showed up in the den, covered in soot and dust. He was all gray. The baby is so cute now. I also have a video but I have to wait to get it off my camera. It was so hard to get a pic of him because it was really low light (sensitive baby eyes) and he refused to stay still.



As for the journals, I am having a hard time deciding if I should post them all or just the "good" ones. I decided I would just post them all. These are the beginning of September 1985, including my first journal ever.



They get better, lots of reagan, school budgets, challenger explosion goodness to come. I preserved most of the spelling error and some are probably added because my M key isn't working right. It is hard to spell check with so many intention misspellings. Welcome to September 1985.

Yes, I really wrote it helps me think twice.

Friday, September 6th 1985
Dear Journal,
It is fun to write stories in this book. It helps me think. It helps me think. It helps me remember what is too special to forget. Today, Friday September 6, 1985 - Dear Mike, these are my exact word the the first day of school. I am Paul Visco. I like gymnastics and math.

I had so many bikes stolen over the year and damn I loved the muppets. There is even a postcard I got back from Muppet magazine after writing to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and an autographed picture of Jim Hensen in my box of stuff. Wow I have a hard time concentrating one thing. Or is it just the lack of punctuation.

Today is Monday, September 9, 1985
Dear Mike, Great Name!
Over the weekend I woched muper babbies Drods, get alog gang out of all the tv shose I like muppet babies I like piggy kermit gonso skider sckdor anamle fozy bear and I went to the gymnastics. I named my journal mike because it is my brothers name. yesterday night some one stoled my bike sorry to hear about your bike! and I went to Dairy queen and to my friends house and church I went to the played at the playground.

You certainly were busy. Interesting fun weekend. Yummy!

I really liked this teacher, I was not just an ass kisser.

Today is Friday September 10th
It's been about a week since we've been in school. So far we did watermelon math, counting calistenics, finger writing exercises Reading tests, Math, our journal, spelling, study, launched out rockets. I have the best teacher in the school.

Thank you Paul! You are an excellent student! You did a super job with the Spelling Lessen! Thanks. I like you~

Man, I was born to blog.

Wednesday September 11th, 1985
Yesterday, we had a guest visitor. Let me tell you about him. He has lived in a glass house about six years. He eat worms and frogs yum - he sticks out his tongue, wiggles, and wears a camouflage suit. He is cool. Dany is his best friend. Myorm our gest is a ... snake. Tonight is open house where parents come to our school, and meet our teacher Mrs. Costello. Its at 7:30PM in the auditorium.

Thursday, September 12, 1985
Dear Mike,
We met the Minus Monster in Math class. He is green with greed. Minus monster wants the hole set first before subtracting. e.x. 8-5=3 The biggest number first. We saw a huge stuffed snake and real snake skin.

I just couldn't get over that poor people could be kind and generous.

Today is Friday 9/13/85
Dear Mike,
Mrs Costello is reading Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factery to us. Charlie's Parents are so poor they only have cabbage to eat yet Charly is kind and generous. He sure would like to win the golden ticket. This afternoon, someone in our class will find a golden ticket in their candybar and will become Leader of the Week.

What the hell is Amaican. Did I really mean America, and if so did I think Nonno and Nonna meant grandparents in American. What is a nasonail gagrfack.

Monday, September 16, 1985
Dear Mike,
Over the weekend I got a new bike. I wacht T/V. I wacht muppet babbies, well muppet babbies and monsters today. My nonno and nonna wich stands for grandparents in Amaican. It's a very good week end. I have 100 books I kood read some day. I even have the groanups set of nasonail gagrfack.

My teacher loved Kool and The Gang

Today is Tuesday, September 17, 1985
Dear Mike,
We are doing Science Experiments someone asked, "Are these magic tricks?" yes in a way, but there is a Scientific reason for each trick . Kool and the Gang says, "Cherish the love you have! Cherish the life you live!"

I think my grandparents were visiting relatives in Italy at the time. I don't think they ever got to go back. Looking back I wonder if they knew it was their last trip to their homeland. What would that feel like. I guess if I stay in Buffalo forever, I will not have to know, lol.

Random Date
I have bine sick in bed, my nonno and nonna came home. I bilt a castle - no further deatales.

Today is September 23rd
Dear Mike,
Over the weekend I went to my grandmothers house. I went to the buffelow sinese senter and herd about spase and earth and a lot more
It's a fascinating place!

The word precipitation ends up being in a lot of journals. Apparently, a lifetime obsession as my current journal here, reminds me to bring an umbrella when it is raining. I love how innocently I believed that the u.s.a helps other nations. The 80s were a good time to be young because there was no war fro the past that meant anything to me at that age, and we were not in the midst of any war.

Today is Tuesday September 24, 85
Dear Mike,
There was precipitation (rain) the morning. However, it will evaperate (go away into the air) it is expecdead to be cloudy with a chase of precipitation later too. We are sending help to Mexico after their tragic earthquake. The u.s.a helps other nations.

The poor Mexicans.

Today is Wednesday, September 25, 1985
Tomorrow, We will have our class pichers in school. Since wwe have gy at 10:50am, our pichers will be taken before gym. I must remember to smile. the Mexican government is worried that tourists may not want to come to Mexico to visit.

More precipitation, more smile propaganda - no wonder we all smile in pictures now.

Today is September 26th, 1985
Today is Picher Day. We were first! I smiled for the camera! We lind up according to hight first, second, third, forth, fifth, sizth, seventh, eight, ninth, tenth and so on. It iwll be mostly cloudy with a high chase of precipitation.

Little did I know that most of my life would consist of hit return twice for a new paragraph in a world of endless digital space. It makes e wonder if humans would have always preferred the extra line return but couldn't afford it in the paper world.

Today is Friday September 27th, 1985
We are studying paragraphs A paragraph is a group of setenses on a certain topic. To show a new parahraph, indent (go in 3 fingers of a spase)
There was precipitation and Gloria is expected. For school pichers .. the lady told me to smile and so did miss costelo and my mom and dad.

I guess we all had the same idea and you have such a super smile!

Over the weekend Monday, September 30th,
Dear Mike,
yesterday and the day before I was at my grandmothers with my brother mike I named my journal after my broth mike we made a tent we took cahres and blankets and suffed anaimals some chars were big and some were small we had tonals under the tabble and around the table fun fun fun !

I bet mike enjoyed that !! Does mike know (?) you named your journal after him?

My favorite kind of things to do are fixing computer emergencies I am totally not familiar with. Okay, really my favorite thing to do is build big systems but sometimes, it is fun to test your skills out being thrown into a problem you didn't really know anything about.

(e:enknot) was out sick today ;( and he normally controls the online directory but the SMTP server that handles the critical online messaging system was down.

I had to hijack the messages being sent and switch it from using the old smtp system to a escalating new communication system that Roswell purchased. It required connecting to an oracle database through odbc and then sending the hijacked messages as an XML service. I wrote a little logger to keep track of the lost messages while the old system was down.

Solving these kind of problems on the fly is kind of like solving those story with holes game you would play as a kid. Sometimes I wish I was just a contractor - I would be so much richer.

Mother's Day was a smash hit. We had a ton of food and ate outside. It was nice for my mom to not have to do anything. (e:terry) , (e:mike) and I worked so hard to get it all ready. And thanks to (e:matthew) who cleaned up in the house before having to go to his mom's.







Grilled Lobster is good, now I know.


Somehow I lost the picture of the buffalo burgers.

First time using the fancy crystal bowl. We decided to have a homage to my mothers multi meat meals by having every type of berry. This is a strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry fruit salad we served with marscopone.



My mother requested shrimp, we made it three different ways. It seriously took like 45 minutes to clean the all.

Gosh, I have so much to post about, I am starting to feel overwhelmed. The latest box from my mother includes all my journal entries for 1985. I have a years worth screaming to be let onto the internet. It is nice to know that I dreamed of being a computer specialist and thats what happened. Not everyone realizes their dreams I guess. Some of it is really funny.

Anyways, so before that can happen I have to post about nameless bitch's graduation and Mother's Day.

It started out with (e:lilho) dressing up nameless bitch





Unfortunately, the shoes she choose for her


I can't believe how commercialized this stand makes graduating.


There was the sign with sangia on it. Imagine being the butt of everyones joke.



Someone lost their toupe in the parking lot.


Hot wrestler guys in the painting - does anyone know this painting


(e:lilho) was being her usual celebtritant (celebrity-debutant)







Then off to cozumel for cocktails and food.

Missing Image ;(

I had the blue crab tacos.






We stopped by the new head shop on elmwood where squeeky wheel was. They tried to sell (e:lilho) a pair of sunglasses for $300. She talked them down to $200 despite the fact she was not buying them. It was all very sketchy. I mean who is to say they are real.




Ensuing Drunkness


I peeled lots more paint. Soon it will be painting time. I kind of love the pressure washer. I just wish that it would be 3500 psi instead of 2200 psi.

Tonight, after fixing some site stuff I might get my blog on. I think I have about 30 posts to make. My mother sent me these boxes of stuff from my child to early adulthood which are ripe with blogging potential. Included are all the love letter from the various girls, poems and papers from high school minus my relationship with (e:hodown) because I think we burned those during a fight. In addition to lets of other nicknacks.

Today is mother's day and (e:mike) and I are doing a barbeque for my mom here at our house. I will have pictures up later, if it turns out. We bought lots of fancy stuff to eat but unfortunately, neither of us are cooks - so lets home for the best.

Kunis To Go
If you haven't tried it yet, eat the Bento box at Kunis for lunch. It is only $8.



The Drain
I have off today and tomorrow and wanted to get a lot of house stuff done. I excavated this crazy hole in the wall where the access panel to ur tub should be. It seems as though someone put the tub in and then set the whole thing in concrete and metal so that you could never access the drain pipes again. I just don't get it.

The drain shut mechanism had fallen down the pipe. Seeing as there was no real way to disconnect it, I used an industrial strength vacuum to suck pressure up the pipe while sliding a metal stent into the pipe. Now the tub drains perfect, but really there has to be a better solution.

There is nothing better in life than my industrial vaccuum. I tried to search for a pic of it but couldn't find it, these are just my second tier vacuums (e:paul,32725) I will take pictures of it next week.

All the area you see was completely filled in with concrete and insulation and then bound by a rusty metal grate. I really don't understand it. Than god for sledge hammers and industrial vacuums. Don't worry this whole is just in a closet wall.













The Porch
I am stripping the paint off the porch and decided to go the route of power washer pressure gun. I got a gas powered 2200psi one for like $240. I figured it makes sense seeing as they were like $49.00 a day to rent and I am sure I would rent it many times to strip all kinds of things and to power wash for paint preparation.

I got a lot of the paint off the stairs with it, but it was too loud as I started at 8:30PM so at 9:00PM I stopped and will continue tomorrow. I am excited to finally get all the paint off the concrete so I can reseal and paint it properly with a darkish brown color to match the brick and brownstone.

Rollerblades
I tried to buy rollerblades. Seems like a no go. I went to Dick's in the Galleria and the only sizes they had in mens were 9 and 13. The 13s were okay but no what I was looking for exactly. I think a 12 would have been better. Then I tried sears - no luck. Eventually, I ended up going to target where they did have 11s - even if they did have 12s I wasn't buying them for $29.00. I feel that just like there has to be an upwards limit on how much you would spend on something, there also has to be a lower limit to insure quality and I wasn't getting the cheep ones only to have them break a week later. Anyone have an idea where to buy them?

City Life
I find it annoying that I cannot be naked in my backyard because of all the building around. I wish I could just put a big tent over it, but then it would essentially be part of the house.

The nightmare rental situation I had going on in one of the apartments I rent out is over. It has been several years of constant drama and I am so happy it is over. Unfortunately, they left in the middle of the night it looks like. There was even food on the stove and in the microwave, which is so freakin' weird. I can't believe they didn't clean up anything.

Luckily, my mother helped me clean it last night (garbage day) and now it is under control. I took her out to icecream afterwards. Like the reverse of when I was a kid.

Who leaves an apartment like this. Especially considering I gave the a break on the rent for like 3 months.






This is the view from backyward the showhouse tour we went to on Sunday. I thought it was cool to see those buildings from another angle.


I can't believe they shelaced newspaper on the floor as a decorative style. That is so tacky.

Here are some pics from the camera.

I got a dremel and a bunch of other home repair electronics this weekend. It seems pretty fantastic for stripping paint away from those hard to get to places on the fireplace.




Ate at empire with (e:lilho) and (e:terry) They have the best Lime calamari with rock shrimp appetizer.


Here it is up close.


Afterwards we got a picture of our reflection in their Hertel side window.


I love Ming Tea Cafe. I ate there again - you really need to check it out if you have not been there. They do not have bubble tea though (e:james,39169)





On saturday, we toured the Lockport Caves. At first I thought it was going to be dumb but the tour was pretty neat and there is even a cave boat ride.




It was almost impossible to get pictures down there. These were taken at ISO 1600 but we were moving on the boat and it would really require stillness.


I am scarping the porch to repaint it dark brown.

Last night at like 3am I was standing with (e:lilho) and (e:tina) in front of underground on Delaware waiting for jeremy to pick up (e:tina) when (e:lilho) had a breakdown that no one would ever love her, etc.

During the episode, some thugs in a car pull up and start threatening to "kill all the faggots."

(e:lilho) is oblivious to the whole thing. I have to admit I was scared after our car was knifed on that corner two years ago while we were in it. This time thoug, some big gay dudes step in a walk up the car saying, "Go ahead and call me a faggot to my face" and the thugs got scared and left. You can hear that somewhere in the clip.

So there are no pictures but (e:lilho) says at least enough words to be worth one.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

I wish I had my camera to record both incidences.

I just don't get the cushion structure on this couch at New York Pizza On Allen. It is clearly uphostered with macthing fabric but the cushions don't match up? Seems like a lot of re-uphostery work for something that doesn't fit properly.