12/29/13 11:28 - ID#58510

Retina Display Macbook Pro 15 Inch

I got my new work computer on Friday at 4:30. It requires a lot of setup but the hardware is amazing including the screen. I am kind of mad about an ordering snafu where I grabbed the one without the discrete graphics card for the same price as the one with it. If it was my personal laptop and/or the purchase and setup process at work was faster, I would definitely return it. But I don't want to end up waiting another month and it seems so complicated. Maybe I should just write to apple and see what they can do.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

12/28/13 01:41 - ID#58506

Golden King Crab and Artichoke Soup

I took some of the extra scraps from the new years crab bag and made myself some artichoke heart soup.

I started with veggie bullion, and added frozen artichoke hearts, corn and pees along with some scallops, a fee small shrimp and a few slices of squid. I cooked this for a while with some butter and some olive oil. Then I aded some clear mung bean noodles and the crab.

I let it simmer till the crab was completely thawed and then covered and let it sit for about 20 minutes while I lifted weights and the noodles absorbed the juice.

It was probably the best soup I have ever had in my life. The crab was exceptionally sweet and the artichoke hearts balanced it out perfectly.

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Category: exercise

12/28/13 01:35 - ID#58505

Working Out

I have been lifting weights at home. At this rate I should look good by summer, better than the skinny-fat I was before. Not half as hot as (e:joe) though, maybe he will post him flexing if you are lucky.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: holidays

12/26/13 02:59 - ID#58499

Christmas Eve

All out of order but here are some pics from Christmas Eve at my aunt and uncles house. The food was amazing. Christmas Eve and New Years Eve are pretty much my favorite holidays foodwise. Our family celebrates it all seafood style. I barely got any pics of all the delicious food because I was so hungry I couldn't wait to eat. I ate so much fried shrimp I could barely move by the end.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

12/26/13 02:41 - ID#58498

Golden King Crab For New Years

Golden King Crab - Lithodes aequispinus

I would not wanted to have met this king crab when he was creeping across the bottom of the ocean.

Check out the size of these claws... and I don't have small hands.

I get them at Exclusively Alaskan Good in Eden like every year. The store seems to be less stocked than before and its cash only now but the crab still seems pretty amazing compared to anywhere else I have bought it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: holidays

12/25/13 04:55 - ID#58494

Christmas Morning

Had a great Christmas morning, first at home with (e:joe) and (e:terry) and then afterwards at my mom's. I got some great kitchen stuff and serving wear including a whole leg of procuitto from (e:terry) which is like a dream come true. (e:mike) liked his unicorn. We even manages to turn the wrapping into a crown.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: holidays

12/22/13 10:57 - ID#58482

Wrapping Gifts

I went all out with paper cutting and the glue gun this year. This is going to make (e:mike) crazy because:

A. my gifts are wrapped better unless he really steps it up.

B. He isn't going to want to open the gifts because it will destroy the wrapping.

hahaha

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: computers

12/22/13 03:34 - ID#58479

Old Commodore

On the way to shopping at viddlers in East Aurora we past a business that had this computer displayed in the window. I had an original Vic 20 and was obsessed with commodore for a long time after but I don't remember ever seeing this machine. Maybe it was part of some business line.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: haircut

12/21/13 12:24 - ID#58473

I Cut My Own Hair Damn It

Back when I was 16 I had kind of long hair which my Dad was not fond of. At some point I decided to cut my hair shorter but left two longer pieces temporarily. Happend to be the weekend of the boyscout spaghetti dinner. At the dinner I was serving spaghetti when some guy who was a photographer from the Buffalo News asked if he could use my photo for an article he was doing about hair.

Later on it ended up in the paper and my grandma hung it in her fridge. I actually hated the photo. When she died it was the first thing I grabbed so I could destroy it. The other day my cousin Erica was at my great aunt's. Her grandma and found a clipping from the paper. Her grandma told her not to show my because I hated it so much that I even threatend to sue people over it.

And the strange part is thats true but not because I hated the pic but because I went to the galleria and De Bernardenis? hair salon had it blown up like 4ft x2ft and hanging in their store like they had cut my hair. I was so mad. I mean they definately never cut my hair and the pic was definitely the exact pic in the paper.

They ended up taking it down. Now I wish I had gotten the poster.

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Category: orange tongue

12/20/13 12:37 - ID#58471

Normal Tongue - There is Hope

So many people write to me asking if the orange tongue (e:paul,54192) ever resolved itself. I can totally understand their pain and concern as it was making my life a living hell. It did resolve itself. I did nothing extraordinary other than get a root canal on a tooth that was bothering me but it had already subsided before then mostly. After about 2 years it just went away. I still get geographic tongue every once and a while but its usually one nice pink slate and never orange.

I guess I also did start using a water pic ever day to clean my gums thoroughly.

Do you still suffer from orange tongue? Did you ever find out what the issue was?!
I too have been suffering from the same problem. Been to the doctor dozens of times, only to be told my tongue looks "normal' and to use a tongue brush if I am concerned. ...There are some days I wake up with very little orange and some days I look like I sucked on orange popsicle.
This is driving me crazy - it was nice to see someone else with the same issue.

ExBuffalonian writes at 02:32:28 12/23/13 - Comment #71009: I never had an orange tongue, but I did once have a reaction to eating pine nuts. Everything I ate or drank, even water, tasted bitter for about two weeks. Then it just went away. I know it sounds weird, but it's a real thing. You can Google it.

paul writes at 02:18:22 12/21/13 - Comment #70998: I did use a tongue scraper, religiously for years. It did not help. Sometimes I thing maybe I scraped it too much as I dont use one now. I seriously went to so many doctors it was crazy. A research dentist at UB even had a bunch of his students look at it. The geographic tongue is a genetic thing. The combo or geographic tongue and orange tongue made it look really gross.

(E:TinyPliny) and I researched the crap out of it.

It started when a dentist gave me this stuff called called magic mouthwash that was a combo of antifungal, anti bacterial and anti inflammatory steroid after mistaking the geographic tongue for some sort of infection. This was before I knew what it was.

Two days later my tongue turned hot orange and kind of stayed that way for a long time. It did not hurt or itch or anything like you'd expect from an infection and my breath did not smell bad during it. It was not thrush or a fungal infection as antifungals did nothing. Every dentist/doctor would always say, doesn't look like any infection I've ever seen are you sure you aren't eating anything orange. At one point I even stopped eating anything orange color for weeks just to prove them wrong. The thing that made it most ornate was fresh greens like salad or spinich.

Chlorhexidine would work but it would come back as soon as I stopped and everything tasted terrible so I quit.

oda writes at 02:14:07 12/21/13 - Comment #70993: paul, you are so gross. I think there was some health reason that you may have had an orange tongue. I know you've historically been a hypochondriac, but this was probably serious, and I'm glad it's gone away now.
did your breath smell bad? i am very curious to find out about it. did you use a tongue scraper ever?
on a side note, I just posted a few responses to Joe's journal, thinking it was you! I hope to see you really really soon.