12/31/08 01:31 - ID#47227

What Happend To The Fairwest

I appologize if someone has already written about this but I have
been pretty much out of commission all week. I finally feel okay today.

Anyways, when I walked by I noticed the fairwest building at the
corner of allen and north pearl is boarded up. That now makes a whole
block that is out of commision. Plus friends across the street. I
wonder what happened to fairwest? I hope they knock it all down and
start over. The last building connected with all the junk in the
window smells so bad in the warm weather. I called the police once
when like 10,000,000 flies were inside. I figures it meant something
was dead inside. Then someone else broke the window.

It looks so freakin ghetto now.

ajay writes at 06:09:45 12/31/08 - Comment #43922: I think the problems with the Ellicott district lie with the store owners.

I once had a series of conversations with the owner of a store who is quite active. This was around the time when Pano's wanted to tear down that house for a fuckin' parking lot; and some big-box store wanted to move into a building near Utica(?). Anyways: this guy was all about bringing such big stores in there. He was all for tearing down the old houses and putting up Walmarts and KMarts.

The problem is: there _are_ enough of those around. The future of Ellicott district lies in specialty stores, upscale restaurants, etc. (and less bars). As a matter of fact, it is good that people have to park at a distance and walk; then they're walking by lots of other stores and make impulse buys.

james writes at 05:38:27 12/31/08 - Comment #43918: And when I first noticed that building was boarded up I had a rare "I need to get out of this town" moment. If a whole block of Allen can be boarded up, what hope is there for the rest of the city? But, I am sure with some better leadership for the Ellicot district and in the mayor's office that part of Allen can turn around.

james writes at 05:36:27 12/31/08 - Comment #43917: In that store window are two martini glasses with clear gelatin inside, as to give the illusion of a full cocktail at all times. The combination of libations and horrible ass hole of hell stank makes me want to throw up. When I walk past it I have to hold my breath. There is no rehabilitating that building.

tinypliny writes at 01:51:58 12/31/08 - Comment #43909: OH I see. I just figured out which building this is. Slow me. It was a storefront with all sort of random old stuff, then they just took everything off the windows and heaped it up on the floor and threw other random stuff on top. It was really bizarre -- almost as if they were building a funeral pyre for someone murdered underneath. All the makings of a morbid Edgar Allan Poe- Peter Wimsy mystery.

tinypliny writes at 01:46:19 12/31/08 - Comment #43908: LOL @ (e:libertad), good idea though. :D Make a sort of hippie we love life statement.

libertad writes at 01:41:48 12/31/08 - Comment #43907: We should go and paint some rainbows on it and make it pretty.

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Category: health

12/29/08 09:39 - 31ºF - ID#47208

Back to work

At least I am not nauseus anymore. I still don't know if it was the flu or crohn's as now I kind of feel the crohn's is coming out of remission - a place I prefered it to be. I am just hoping it is instead the lingering affects of the flu. I can't wait for the next extremely stressful three days of work.

With all the fun of the weekend, I managed to lose about 6 pounds. So much for all that work at the gym. Hopefully, I am just super dehydrated and some of it will come back.

In my dream ast night, the guy, who had been trying to kill me in my dreams throughout the weekend drama, made up and he promised not to kill me. So thats good I guess.

Luckily, the playstation had this fun game to occupy my the few hours I was up.

I really like the playstation network, they have so many games you can demo or buy. I beats having to go to the store, escpecially when your car and yourself are both broken.

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Category: health

12/27/08 07:52 - 57ºF - ID#47201

The shittiest day ever

Either I have been food poisoned, I have the flu or it's some new level of crohns. I spent all day feeling so terribly sick with fever wretching, aching etc.. Our car battery broke, our basement window got flooded and our roof is leak.

I just want my mom or (e:lilho).

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Location: Buffalo, NY

12/25/08 02:27 - ID#47184

Mike and his new phone

He finally entered the world of keyboard phones. I remember when
everyone made fun of mr for typing on my phone. Now everyone wants a
keyboard.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

12/25/08 11:42 - ID#47182

Nothing says Christmas brunch

Like Manischewitz homestyle Potato Latkes!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

12/25/08 11:34 - ID#47181

Wrapping gifts

I get better at it every year. This year I moved onto envelopes. The
gem is really my primitive use of pseudo perspective. Nothing screams
MFA like this masterpeice.

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12/25/08 11:06 - ID#47180

Christmas eve

We went to my aunts house for Christmas eve. The kids were so excited
about Santa Claus. I think it was the first year that none of them
were scared of him.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: family

12/23/08 12:28 - ID#47150

Nonna's bandaid

Last night I somehow cut the top of my toe. It was one of those really painful cuts where the top layer of skin is sliced off but not enough to bleed so there is no scab.

So today I was dreading the walk to work because we were out of bandaids. Then I found this leftover box of bandaids from nonna's medicine cabinet with one little mini bandaid in it. It fit
perfectly, kind of like she left it for this occasion. Okay, that's cheesy but I smiled on the way to work thinking about it.

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Category: computers

12/22/08 08:20 - 16ºF - ID#47146

As simple as that

After about 5+ years of using the command line every freakin day, like 80 hours a week I still find myself typing ks instead ls.

Today I decided to just deal with it once and for all.
ln -s /bin/ls ~/bin/ks

I wish I would have just admitted failure and done that before.