Category: words

05/27/09 10:14 - ID#48771

Staycations?

Seriously, news channel 4 just did a special report about the "growing
trend of staycations."

There is a wikipedia page

explaining staycation.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/27/09 05:14 - ID#48768

The pear tree

Despite the wind throwing lots of pear babies on the ground, it looks like we might have the most pears ever. This year I am just doing pots of juice and a pear themed party.

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Words: 44
Location: Buffalo, NY

05/26/09 10:34 - ID#48757

The cutest sidewalkkill

This one kicks the squirrel face's butt.

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Words: 13
Location: Buffalo, NY

05/25/09 06:34 - ID#48753

Mike rocking it at the BBQ

It's a little chilly on the porch so (e:mike) is bundling in this cute
multi-print ensemble.

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Words: 24
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: sports

05/25/09 01:48 - 68ºF - ID#48750

The Cornish Game Hen

Nameless Bitch is going into women's boxing. She needed a name and I thought "Cornish Game Hen" is awesome because she is from cornwall and game hen's are great.

So for the first time in a long itme, I fired up illustrator and here is what I came up with.

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Words: 52
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 06/03/11 03:11

Category: holidays

05/25/09 11:47 - 65ºF - ID#48747

The estrip memorial day BBQ

The BBQ yesterday was awesome - (e:metalpeter,48749) has pics. We had a great mix of people. No one got too drunk for once and the food was delicious. In addition, we got to catch up with (e:leetee) and (e:uncutsaniflush). My phone was dead for most of the day so I got no pictures ;( I think (e:metalpeter) got a bunch.

(e:southernyankee) arrived with an amazing fruit basket complete with mini-bananas, we had a bunch of cakes. Robert and James made delicious salads and some testy orange jello marshmallow suspension. (E:tinypliny) made that cake from (e:tinypliny,48738) which I thought tasted great although I suggested she add bananas next time.

After the BBQ (e:sounthernyanke)e, (e:mike) and I went to Pure to go see Junkie XL

The place is set up pretty nice with a large main dance floor bar, a catwalk on a second level overlooking that. There were also some side room VIP style bars.

I don't go out much downtown so maybe its normal but to me it was the most ethnically mixed buffalo moment I ever had. On the dance floor there was seriously every kind of person and they all appeared to be getting along. Arabs, indians (lots of them) asians, white, blacks. The even had a dance off competition that I thought was going to be a fight but ended up being them each taking turns and cheering each other on.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

05/25/09 11:35 - ID#48746

The love boat

(E:mike) and I went out to dinner at wasabi the other night. I thought it was exceptionally yummy but I think (e:mike) was overwhelmed by a boat full of sashami as it was his first japanese cuisine experience. We ordered the love boat which I know seems funny but it was a good selection of fish for two and the price was reasonable. Because (e:mike) didn't eat so much I ended up eating the equivalent of several small fishes worth of sashimi. I think it might have been the first time I was totally full on sashimi.

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Words: 112
Location: Buffalo, NY

05/23/09 01:07 - ID#48728

Theatre goers do it in the alleyway

My mom gave me this pin the other day that I had gotten during my
childhood acting stint at the alleyway theater in downtown buffalo.
Does anyone else find it a little creepsterish.

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Words: 39
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: housing

05/22/09 02:10 - 72ºF - ID#48723

The Psycho Floor Scraper

I went out and bought a $20 floor scraping chisel. That plus my new mask makes me a lethal combo for the vinyl tiles.

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Words: 25
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: linwood

05/21/09 08:43 - 67ºF - ID#48718

The floor Saga

I am helpig (e:matthew) fullfill his dream of slowly restoring everything to its original state. I draw the line at the kitchen. Luckily, our house was pretty modern for its time. For example, it had bathrooms.

It all started with this small hint that it was really tile underneith. I started to excavate a bit and then thought I should look online to see if it is asbestos, considering how much vinyl tile is. Then I discovered it was asbestos. I clearly found the exact print in the 1965 Armstrong Excelon vinyl asbestos floor tile catalog

Here it is

First we had to get the toilet up.

I shaved so my mask would fit snugly. Here I am half done.

Then I dressed up in my space suit and covered everything in myspace format.

Then I taped myself in the room so no air could get out.

I learned everything I could about asbestos tile removal and decided to try it myself. It is not that dangerous as it is not very dusty at all. THe vinyl holds the asbestos in and it comes up in chunks. The secret was to use a waster mister and lots of wet newspaper on top while prying it up.

Turned out it made no dust as everything was soaking wet. The problem was the tar under the tiles was so sticky that it made the tiles so hard to remove.

Here I am after I got only a couple tiles up.

I think it is going to take a few weeks to finish. I am going to try tomorrow with dry ice. I here it makes the glue freeze up and let go of the tile.

To make life more fun, there is a drip in the basement going to one of the water spouts outside and it has no shutoff so we before the drip. So basically we have to turn off all the water to fix it, argh.