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Category: linwood

09/23/07 08:38 - 72ºF - ID#41275

Making a mansion turn green...

one dormer at a time.

We picked out colors today, and then I decided to paint one dormer to test it. We are going with greens. I think it is going to be a long journey but it should be fun and look nice, so long as I don't fall out a window.

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It was so hot up there today.
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I think the green looks nice. We finished more than this but we couldn't get any more pics because it got dark out.
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Location: Buffalo, NY


Category: central terminal

09/23/07 12:38 - 67ºF - ID#41264

Blogtoberfest at the Terminal

Well after reading I thought it would be a good idea to attend Buffalo's Annual Blogtoberfest and get our peeps to meet some of Buffalo's other bloggers. The flyer was so damn misleading because it has no mention of the actual Octoberfest going on there. When we arrived and there were like 600 cars in the parking lot, I though, "Holy shit - I have totally underestimated Buffalo's blogging community." Now I do kind of live in my own web bubble here at estrip.

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I barely, venture out to the other blogs but I was totally astounded when we also saw lots of elderly people.

(e:jim) - so many of these bloggers are elderly, that's awesome! it's great things are spreading out through the population!



Slowly, once inside - I realized that it was by no means a blogtoberfest but rather a regular octoberfest. We found the table where (e:zobar) and (e:dragonlady) were waiting. Luckily, I just his chatter on my phone and knew they were there.

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So we were pretty much the only bloggers there - either that or we scared all the other ones away. It was (e:metalpeter), (e:mike), (e:libertad), (e:jim), :james, (e:terry), (e:zobar), (e:dragonlady) and I. I met one guy from punaro.com

I am pretty sure that this is the last non estrip, blogging event I will attend until some of the other bloggers attend one of our parties.

As for the octoberfest itself, I was totally disappointed in the food. It sucked. It was like they removed everything good that was german and replaced it polish. It seems to be every buffalo German event is somehow way too polish. I guess Buffalo is just a polish town. We even brought up how you can get pirogies at the Italian Festival now.

Also Steel Drums had jerk chicken there. It just seemed so out of place. I wish that German events ever had more than bland hot dog like sausages and sauerkraut. That is only a fraction of what Germans eat. If you went to a festival in Germany, the food is just so much better.

I am pretty sure that this was my terminal, terminal event. (e:jim) and (e:metalpeter) took lots of pictures.

Other pics from Saturday
The park lane with a sky crane out front. When are they knocking it down?
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Someones end the war sign from a lawn over on Lafayette.
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(e:matthew) and (e:terry) sitting out front what used to be a giant house and is now a parking lot for the Saturn Club on Linwood.
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Another dead squirrel. This one looks like it just fell out of the tree.

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Category: food

09/22/07 11:58 - 78ºF - ID#41248

Canning Tomatoes

So like, no journals all week and then three this morning.

(e:terry) and my mother canned 50 jars of tomatoes on Wednesday. That is a heck of a lot of tomatoes but it means we can have fresh pasta sauce again for the next year. It is amazing how much yummier it is. It looks like lots of work. I missed the actual process though because I was at work.

Here they are looking really happy with their work.
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Last night (e:terry) and I went out with (e:libertad), (e:mike), (e:jim), and (e:james). It was a pretty fun evening of eating at Mode (formerly Le Metro) on elmwood and then drinking. We ended it flying a kite down elmwood, I wish I had any pictures but I forgot my camera. One of the hilights was walking down elmwood and having a car full of girls cat call to us, lol.
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Category: food

09/22/07 11:56 - 78ºF - ID#41247

Wendy's On Main Street In Buffalo

The Wendy's on Main street is usually the worst quality food you can get. Not Wendy's in general, just that location is borderline sick sometimes, although it has been a little better recently.

ANyways, they must make so much money off the hospital lunch corwd. It is always so freakin' packed at lunch with everyone from Roswell. Check out how many cars are in line for the drive-though.

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Here we have (e:enknot) as wendy herself.
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Category: food

09/22/07 11:54 - 78ºF - ID#41246

Elmwood Village Water

I still can't believe that there is Elmwood Village Water. It sounds disgusting. I realize the water doesn't actually come from the Elmwood Village (at least I hope so.) I can't ebeliev anyone woudl choose that over any other water.

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On a totally unrelated note, this is how I dealt with my cubicle issue from the other day (e:paul,41100)

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Category: housing

09/16/07 08:41 - 59ºF - ID#41137

Fixing (Breakin) Windows

We decided to repair some window sashes and fix the counter weights. One window is awesome, two are shattered. The weights we had for the windows didn't match the weight of the window, so it wasn't working right. I think there used ot be leaded or stained glass there.
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Looks liek the inside of the window panel says XVIIII C, seem slike 1900 which would eb the ryear the house was supposedly built.
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After I eft the other window in the living room on the floor so it could not falll and (e:terry) walked on it with his boots on.
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This one Holy Hock is the only one that survived the japanese beetle plague. Only on eo fof hundreds, and every flower on it survived, it was also kinda drawf. I should probably save the seeds

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Category: pets

09/16/07 08:37 - 59ºF - ID#41135

Basra, sorry it is winter

It got so cold on saturday I had to take Basra in the house. He had started to dig really deep into his cave. I think he was trying to hibernate.

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He got so dirty digging in his cave.

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He look like he is being coy here.
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Location: Buffalo, NY


Category: buffalo

09/16/07 08:16 - 59ºF - ID#41134

The Weekend

Was pretty crazy. I did a lot of programming as usual, managed to break two windows, fix one window, and went to two shows in the Beyond In Western New York art opening.

The Beyond In Western New York 2007 Art Show just started. You should check out some of the events, both Rockwell Hall an dthe Albright Know were both bumping.
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It rained so much the other night.
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Looks like this squirrel just couldn't give up the chesnut.
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He smushed.
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Hm, railroad vacation land? (e:terry) caught that one.
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Category: estrip

09/15/07 02:26 - 55ºF - ID#41115

I know this is a little pretentious

But happy 1,000,000 journal views to myself. It has been a long time since I started counting in december of 2003. It doesn't count when I am logged in looking at my own journal either, so no - these aren't all me looking at myself.

Thanks to all of you that have listened to my rants along the way. I hope that I at least exposed some people to some new ideas or food or that you at least had fun laughing at me or sharing the horrors and treasures that I uncovered over the last several years.

I needed to port the particle code over to surebert for the snowflakes this winter so I decided to do it today and use it for my balloons. We can use it for other special occasions too.

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Location: Buffalo, NY


Category: buffalo

09/14/07 10:24 - 57ºF - ID#41106

A Tour of North Street

On a lighter now. We decided to do a tour of the Carapelli museum in the old Christian Scientist Church. The building seem so empty and lifeless. It looks like what would be the the government's Ministry ministry if there was one. It has a few manuscripts that you can freely look at. Currently, the selection includes hand written notes by famous criminals. The one from Charles Manson was peed on, he even wrote the word pee on the pee spot.

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I do not believe that the hand written note from Gallileo, once of the only ones in the western hemisphere is sitting, unprotected in that empty building that you can just wander around in.

Their guest book seemed rather slim.

I have to say they had the nicest urinals I have probably ever seen. If they ever go out of business I would buy them. In buffalo you can actually wish for that kind of thing and have it be possible, lol.

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I really love the Bemis house. I wish someday I could own a house like that one. Also, maybe could be possible in Buffalo.

Can you imagine having those bricks or those gargoyles.
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The Mark Twain house was also pretty aweosme. You can't really tell how big it is till you go right up to it, or you see a picture with a person in it.

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Look how big that freakin window is!
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They are really fixin it up.
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Three assholes on North, lol

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And then there is this insane remudled house across the street. What the fuck is up with that upside down brick thing in front of the natural doorway. How did anyone decide to do that?

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