Category: adventure
04/10/14 04:50 - ID#58887
Last Night In Raleigh
Afterwards, I went home and took a nap. I had pretty much decided to not go out but I was so hungry, so I decided to go look by the mall for food. I found everything was closing but saw a bus. The bus was on break so it had no sign on it but I figured what the heck, anything has to be better than where I am and I could always taxi back. I get on and I'm literally the only white person on a totally full bus. I do t think that has ever happend before.
Eventually, the bus driver shows up and the sign changes to downtown. I get excited to finally see it and the trip only cost $2.
When we finally get downtown I am little sketched out by where I got out. However, using my phone I found an Asian place called Five Star open till midnight. Walking there seemed even more sketchy but a lot of it was just caused by the he construction for the new citrix headquarters.
Inside the restaurant was great and so was the service. They even had gluten free options. I got shrimp in lobster sauce with veggies and drank some wine. I chatted with (e:joe) and (e:robert) a bit and noticed my battery was dying. Because I was starving and the wine came first I got a but tipsy. Then came glass two. By the time I left I was pretty drunk and found out the buses stopped running and the phone was just about dead so I took some Screenshots of some maps and put it in airplane mode.
Then I hit up the gay bars, well one gay bar called flex. The people were super nice and the bar tender, who was an mma fighter was real cute. Had a few more drinks talking with him and then came their drag show. It was almost sad. It's a pretty big club and their couldn't have been more than 10 people inside. Instead of performing on stage and people bringing money to them, they pretty much went around and begged for dollars. The one also just dressed like a fancy dressed guy. It was time for me to go, so I decided to stumble run home.
Looking at the map, the train tracks seemed like a shortcut. I didn't consider the trains would be all on then or that the sides were mostly lined in barb wire fences where they abutted businesses.
I stumble on for miles, pretty much in the wrong direction, no phone. Eventually I decided to cross the the trains or face like a 3 hour detour walk around the tracks. Some of the trains were moving but slowly. As I hopped between the one, it started to go while I was between the cars on the train like a freaking hobo. Luckily it stopped before I ended up real far away and I jumped off into some bushes and thicket where I scratched my arm but successfully got across.
As if that wasn't enough I could see on the map that the hotel which was like a 2 hr walk away (this is at 2am) was closer if I just went down the highway. Obviously, pedestrians aren't supposed to do that but otherwise it was a much greater distance and I figured I just hopped a moving train so how much worse could it be.
Partway in I saw a taxi and started waving like a mad man. He drove away. Eventually there was not even shoulder space so I decided I needed to get off at an exit. Believe it or not, there was the taxi guy who had been looking for me.
I got a ride back to the hotel but instead of getting dropped off there I asked to go to the gas station so I could buy a bottle of water. I pay him, he leaves, I go in. There is nobody inside. No worker, nobody.
I wait 10 minutes. Still no one I wanted to just put down a few bucks and go but I only had $20s.
Other customers come in and ask what is going on. I explained the guy disappeared and I had been waiting around. I think they think I killed him or that they are on a prank video show.
One woman started searching the coolers, another the bathroom, then the employees only area. Still no one.
I eventually decide I am just going to steal the water. I am pretty sure other people were stealing at this point too. So I just walk out with it and as I get up the street a taxi pulls up with the gas station employee in it asking if I stole the water. I was like where the fuck were you for which he had no answer. I ended up paying him for the $2 water and leaving. I kind of want to call the store and report the situation because it's so weird but at the same time, I did just steal the water so I let it go.
Then I went finally went to bed.
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Category: hiking
04/10/14 04:28 - ID#58886
Last Day In North Carolina
For $40 I rented a car today because the taxi was like $30 and I didn't want to carry my suitcase and computers around all day.
After the obligatory drive to wholefoods for a trough I went hiking at Carl Alwin Schenck Memorial Forest which kind of sucked but at least it was warm out.
It's basically a big project for training forresty skills.
After I headed out to Chapel Hill which reminds me of a bigger, nicer Ithaca Still way too many people. It was made Ning to try and find parking. I could never live there. Even back in raleigh I had to wait for someone to leave in order to get a spot at wholefoods.
The Chapel Hill coop is exactly what I would like to see our coop become.
I then handled some emergency work calls and headed closer to the airport where I found Crabtree Country Park. It's much nicer and more relaxing that the other one.
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Category: food
04/07/14 11:50 - ID#58876
Medici House in East Aurora
I got the seafood spaghetti with corn pasta. It was so good and a ton of food. I wish I could have taken some home but I was leaving on the plane in the morning.
I'm ready to move to east aurora now.
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Last Modified: 04/07/14 11:51
Category: hiking
04/07/14 11:45 - ID#58875
Letchworth Trip
Sunday we tuned out of the Internet and headed over to Letchworth in order to catch some much needed sun. It was amazing. There were rainbows everywhere. Too bad (e:Mike) couldn't make it.
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04/07/14 11:42 - ID#58874
Bro at the funky monkey
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food
04/07/14 11:32 - ID#58873
Laguardia Food Choices
Everything is done ordering on ipads. The table doubles as charging stations and you can surf the Internet on the Ipad while you wait. It's pretty futuristic.
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Category: poetry
04/06/14 11:54 - ID#58866
Terry In Poetry
taxes, taxes, taxes
beer, beer
anime, game
beyonce
beandip
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Words: 9
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: work
04/04/14 06:44 - ID#58862
Raleigh For Work
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/04/14 06:44
Category: machines
04/04/14 06:36 - ID#58861
Washer Drain Trap Needed Cleaning
I can't believe I never cleaned the drain since 2006. It was so gross and smelled so bad.
We found a bunch of the keys that went missing over the years.
Without Patrick's story about his own drain and (e:Joe)'s help it would have never happend.
I wonder how much energy was wasted on this. It also got me thinking about how shitty it would be to not only have to compile your programs but wait an hour for the washer to finish to know if your program successfully cleaned the dirty wash or not.
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Category: health
04/04/14 06:29 - ID#58860
Pop Goes My Heart
While I was there my heart fluttered while she was listening with a stethoscope. It's been fluttering a bunch this week like the rhythm gets messed up.
Anyways, she immediately got me hooked up to ekg and then a 24 ekg to go. They had to shave my chest hair a bit with a dry straight razor. That was the worst part.
I hope it's nothing. If it's something, I blame the root canal infection or the copious ibuprofen for the tooth. They confirmed with a rapid test that it was not strep throat.
I had to keep a journal while it happend:
332 flutter driving
345 flutter sitting
359 flutter drive
403 flutter drive
404 flutter drive
420 flight walk
445 flutter eating
520 is flutter talking
538 flutter programming
543 flutter programming
556 flutter talking
606 flutter talking
608 flutter talking
654 bunch of flutters programming
753/4 flutter programming
843 heart flutter lying down coughing
903 heart flutter sitting by fireplace
Didn't really do it the next day weird. I get answers next Friday.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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I love the randomness of this story ad what happens when you are without your phone. Glad ur safe boo.
Too bad they didn't put better candy in the urinal. I think the old people hard candy is grosser than the fact that it is in a urinal.
Luckily, there were no bad guys because seriously no one else goes there besides idiots.