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Category: weather

09/28/07 08:43 - 62ºF - ID#41387

Looks like pleasant weather ahead

I guess we will be able to use the scaffolding we rented to paint the house after all.
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Category: life

09/28/07 07:58 - 62ºF - ID#41386

I am tired

I wish I had something better to say but I am in an angry mood right now.

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I am going to go back to programming because it entertains me a little more than the rest of my life.

At least I am not being bombed or something horrible.
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Category: linwood

09/24/07 09:43 - 65ºF - ID#41298

Scaffolding Is Fun

It's kind of like being a doozer at your own house. P.S. Can you believe there is a muppet wiki ? Who knew there were so many kinds of doozers.

Our very nice roommate Dave helped us by taking me to home depot to pick up the giant 3 story scaffolding parts.

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I couldn't believe how many parts there were.
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It seemed high enough at this point, lol. I am not afraid of sturdy heights, say a building or such - but a half built scaffold is a little freaky.
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Then it got higher.
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And higher.. There was still one more level to go, you can see it in the pic below. It is so hard to carry up the sections on the yet to be completed scaffold.
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We completed on section
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Here you can see when we had completed half that section. By the time we finished all the way to the brick, it was too dark to take a picture.
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Who the fuck wrote this on my garage? I think I might have to kill you if I found out.
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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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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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