07/03/11 07:14 - ID#54634

Windmill Point Park Rock Quarry Rocks

I had the best swimming experience I have ever had in the area at Windmill Point Park Rock Quarry in Fort Erie

The downside is it's in Canada across the bridge and the border drama is annoying.

Other than that it is the first time I have been swimming in clean water in so long. It was crystal clear, so much that I felt comfortable opening my eyes under water.

We swam across and back. Its nice because although they have a supervised lifeguard area you can swim wherever the frick you want at your own risk.

The water is cool but refreshing rather than freezing. It gets about 40ft deep and the lifeguard said its fed by 17 springs.

I dove off the rocks after (e:libertad) jumped in. They also had this giant blow up rock wall slide.

It cost $8.50 Canadian to get in but its worth every penny. The lifeguard said they have a season pass too.

They also have camping for $27.

omfg I am getting fat

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Category: food

07/03/11 11:44 - ID#54632

summer breakfast

Barbara's shreaded spoonfulls, grated chocolate and fresh raspberries from the farmers market.

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Category: beach

07/02/11 06:51 - ID#54631

Woodlawn Beach is awesome

It kicks bennette's butt.

It has a full bar where I got a vodka tonic for $3.50 and the cashier checked us out on an ipad. The bar seems like a scene from there.com
They serve octopus and shrimp, both of which I am going to eat.
they have a campfire, cabana chairs and a board walk through the forest.
The bathrooms ate huge like at a real beach, clean and include showers and a changing room vs the nasty shed bathroom at bennette.
Its so close to the city that we rode our bikes.
If you have kids, they have a giant playground castle.

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Category: bikes

07/02/11 04:45 - ID#54628

We tried to ride to the beach

We made it as far as Bethlehem Steel and (e:terry) stopped to get beer. I don't think I am capable of going all the way to benette yet. Well going there and getting back.

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Category: property

07/02/11 12:36 - ID#54626

Delaware townhouses sold for $860,000

It seems unbelievable but the Buffalo News is reporting the 4 historic townhouses including former Stillwater/Lord Chumleys sold for $860,000! That includes many luxury apartments, a 20 car parking lot, a massive restaurant with patio. How is that possible? It is so close to the ever expanding medical campus and in such a great part of town.

The turn-of-the-century buildings at 481-489 Delaware Ave. in Buffalo, between Allen and Virginia streets, were acquired this week by Chumley Holdings LLC from the bankrupt Stillwater Holdings LLC and other entities and individuals.

I would have killed to have owned that, if only I was rich and a real estate developer instead of a computer programmer. Its amazing when you compare that to the one house down the street that was for sale for $800,000+.

vincent writes at 12:38:21 07/03/11 - Comment #63372: That's why I'm laying the ground work this summer to move to Canada. They don't even need to win the White House to destroy things. Just wait in a year or two with a couple of their budgets that will start showing effects.

paul writes at 12:26:03 07/03/11 - Comment #63371: You really think they will win? I was under the impression they were way to fragmented.

vincent writes at 12:06:35 07/03/11 - Comment #63370: The bar in there never made anyone happy if I remember.

Right now anything dependent on Government Funding is toast, America will soon be the next Greece. I wouldn't invest in anything anywhere that is contingent on Government Funding. The Republicans are going to cut TRILLIONS and they don't care if it's for public transportation or curing cancer. Whey they take the White House next year it will all be over and they will pass a balanced budget amendment and we will only spend what we take in at reduced tax rates.

Welcome to Dystopia...

metalpeter writes at 04:47:14 07/02/11 - Comment #63353: Here is my take why they went for so little... It sounds like 4 of the buildings where bought by the company that owns one of them.... If that building was not an end building then that drops the value a lot.... Lets say I want to do something with them that is like a different use that or second last or something like that puts a monkey wrench into it.... But what I'm guessing is it was more like we have no money lets sell it on the cheap and oh bye the way we know you so lets make a deal...... Of course you read the entire story as I didn't so you may have more details on it then I.... Also that entire UB thing and Medical campus thing may have been still up in the air when a deal was made.... When you need money sometimes you don't have the time to get what you could value wise ..... My other thing I suspect is that this isn't much more than a name change type of deal where one group buys out another group and yet the some of the same people run it or own it.....

tinypliny writes at 01:03:40 07/02/11 - Comment #63346: I just emailed this to my brother. I am sure he will have his standard reply.

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Category: transportation

07/01/11 05:39 - ID#54616

I have a bicycle at last

Now that the summer is mostly over, I have a bicycle. I went to the store determined to buy it today. No drawn out 15 days of research to save $50 bullshit. I used to be one of those people that would obsess for weeks on decisions which was such a time waste. Along the same line, I was not going to buy one online, wait forever and then have a box till August when I decided to put it together. Or worse yet put it together and hate it.

I got the bike at Ricks on Allen because I also didn't want to drive to the suburbs on such a nice day. I l know the price is prob a bit hifher but it seemed antithetical to acquiring a bike and honestly they weren't that much above anywhere else when I checked from my phone at the store.

The first one I thought I wanted was a Raleigh route 4.0 19" gold colored bike. It was freakin gold colored and so cute but it was like twice as long as the Raleigh venture 4. The route 4 seemed easier to joy ride for long distance but the venture 4 seemed way better for bumps and stop/start and this is buffalo. Full of stop and go driving and pot holes.

Testing a bike is way worse than test driving a car. With a car terrain is all kinds of similar with a bike it really matters.

In the end I picked the venture 4.0 because you can just run over a curb like nothing and I wanted a bike that will just run over anything and had beefy tires. It also has one of those comfortable prostate sparing, fat seats with the dimple.

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Category: food

07/01/11 01:07 - ID#54615

Nocciolata at Globe Market

I think this is like the pure nutella that (e:tinypliny) was looking for. The jar is $6.97.

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Category: food

07/01/11 09:53 - ID#54614

Code Blu Juice Bar on Allen

Finally, something is opening up on the desolate corner of Allen across from Cathode. Its a juice bar called Code Blu. While I am excited about tge potential for something new and tasty, I think that might have been an unfortunate choice in names - considering they are a block away from a massive medical campus whose workers could potentially be a large percentage of customers.

As per Wikipedia:

Code Blue - Generally is used to indicate a patient requiring immediate resuscitation, most often as the result of a cardiac arrest.

I realize they dropped off the "e" but that doesn't come across verbally.

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Category: peeps

07/01/11 09:43 - ID#54613

Lovebirds

They looked ready to ride off on a motorcycle.

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Category: games

07/01/11 09:41 - ID#54612

For amusement only

This video game machine at New York Pizza on Allen is so old fashioned. The graphics are about the quality of an intellivision game from the same era but it has a nostalgic feel.