Category: housing

08/01/08 06:01 - ID#45221

Mortar - Repointing my parents chimney

I convinced my father to go with the real stuff for his chimney! No color mixing they only need sand color. The bag was $4.25 for 60 lbs of mortar mix. It was so cheap we bought that one even though we only needed like 20lbs. Smaller portions cost about 3 times as much, lol.


This is what we were going to use at like ~$10 per tube but I talked him out of.


Here it is after beign repointed. I wish I had a picture of before but my hands were so dirty from mixing mortar. It basically had no mortar in lots of parts and crumbly mortar in others.



As a reward I got dinner which included yummy fish.


And my favorite food in the world - seafood salad - which is clams, mussels, shrimp, calamari rings, and legs which green pepper and celery.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: body

08/01/08 04:17 - 78ºF - ID#45218

Getting Buffer

I wish I could gain more than a pound or two a week. I want to be 160 so bad. So far I have put one month of gym 5 days a week for about an hour. Right now I am 152 and minus all traces of fat. Unfortunately, that means 160 will not longer be summer time. Now I know why people want steroids, lol.



I guess I am so busy I cannot put the phone down. I was scheuling with my mother to go work on my parents mortar problem this evening. My father insists on using some sort of plastic/rubber based mortor for the chimney. His neighbor started the trend. I wish I could just be using the normal stuff like we did at my house.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

08/01/08 12:01 - ID#45207

Apparently the navy shirt was too gay

So at ETS we ordered some wings after some fat people and we got
served first. Then we left to eat outside. Not our fault. Fat dudes
got angry and starting yelling/ screaming/ turning red in the store.
Then other customers started screaming and fighting. We are merrily
eating our wings being entertained by fat people fighting.

Turn out the one group of guys called us cock suckers and butt fuckers
and the other people got angry and caught them. At least according to
the other people.

We couldn't hear anything from outside but the other guys who
supposedly stuck up for us came out screaming we stuck up for you,
blah, blah while thwy called you cocksuckers, etc at the top of his
lungs while his boyfriend? Dragged him away.

Then the police came and everyone in the store was pointing at us
outside. Three police cars and like 5 police responded. That is 5
cops more than came to help us when the puerto ricans tried to knife
us ok elmwood and Johnson park back on the day.

Still not sure what's really going on? I mean the wings are good but
not start a fight and go to jail good. (e:libertad) called them blood
wings.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

07/31/08 11:39 - ID#45205

Chicken wings

Are good dipped in nacho cheese. This is not heart smart.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

07/31/08 11:28 - ID#45204

Elmwod taco and subs

It really is such a different atmosphere since they remodeled. It's
amzing what a makeover can do. I need one, ok. According to
(e:libertad) someone has scratched up amd tagged the bathroom.

Why are people so obsessed with tagging? It's so super lame. Maybe
they feel lkke they have nothing to claim and thats it. The one that
is the lamest is atak. It's so boring.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: environment

07/30/08 01:18 - ID#45191

Toxic mulch

At Roswell Park's IT building where I work they have laid down wood
styled mulch made of recycled tires. Sounds green but really it
smells toxic like rubber and doesn't the nastiness leach into the
ground. (e:enknot) said that it is used around the electric box to
prevent shocks, is that the case?

Either way who ever invented it is brilliant. Dumping rubber is
illegal in most places and it is expensive to dispose of. Now some
company has convinced people to buy the old tires and dump it all over
their own properties.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

07/29/08 03:49 - ID#45185

Fuji grill sushi

As a treat for going to the doctors, I treat myself to Fuji grill down
the street from his office.

It was about 50% the quality of Kuni's for about the same price. Not
sure if I would go back as I had bones in my mackerel, which I
complained about and they didn't comp it. I never had bones, ley
alpne multiple bones in sushi. That's bullshit I should have just
choked and made a scene, LOL. At least the waiter was cute and the
wakame salad was delicious.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: swimming

07/28/08 11:50 - 73ºF - ID#45176

Bennett Beach Swimming Fun

I went to Bennett Beach with (e:jim), (e:james), (e:terry), and (e:matthew). I think it was probably the most fun I ever had at the beach. The waves were really like up to 5+ feet high and slammin. At first the life guards made us get out of the water. After a short while we just went down the beach far enough away from their overlording and jumped in. It was so awesome. Lots of other people soon followed.

I think it might have been the most fun moment of the summer besides dancing to Andy C at WEMF 2008. For once we were all having fun doing the same thing. Well, accept for (e:jim) - he sat on the beach and read programming books about erlang - dork!

I wish I took pictures but I totally forgot about it for once because I was so involved in the moment. I want to go back the next time it is warm and windy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/28/08 03:10 - ID#45173

Scientologists want your blood

Why would anyone go to the church of Scientology to give blood when
there are so many less sketchy, secular places to donate.

Surely once you are tied down they eat your brains.

The fact that the signs are done with paper taped to the boards and
that American red cross part is almost entirely scratched off makes it
even weirder.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/27/08 01:57 - ID#45164

Visiting dave at ecmc

Wow, he got really smashed up from that car. He is in the ICU at
ECMC. It is so great that he has such a close, caring family. It
makes me want to have kids. The nurse said he responded to some
commands this morning, which is good. It so hard to see such a
physically active guy so broken down.

The hospital itself is kind of strange. It looks a bit like a prison
and is blocked off from the sidestreets with barbwire fences. The
neighborhood on the other hand is much nicer than you would expect
with the barbwire fences. Tended gardens, painted houses, cut lawns,
cobble stone street - it was actually pretty cute.

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Location: Buffalo, NY