Category: pets

05/23/14 06:30 - ID#59010

Basra The Tortoise Is Gross

And this is why you have to keep tarps under your tortoise rug.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/23/14 06:30

Category: wine

05/23/14 03:13 - ID#59009

Chateau Dufort-Vivens Margaux

On my birthday in January, back at Rue Franklin we got this amazing French wine. I wanted to get more so I got in touch with Jennifer Turner at City Wine Merchant

located on the 700 block of main street across from the Buffalo Police station. They were able to special order two bottles. The look of the labels is not identical to the one from my birthday but everything written on the bottle is the same. She said the seller was down to their last few cases making this delicious wine a rare commodity.

I also had a new retina ipad mini I picked up right before in my brief case but was biking. I had to choose which item rode protected in the leather briefcase and which I carried in my hand. The $800 ipad or the $80 worth of wine. I chose the wine and hand carried the iPad because it was lighter and still boxed in original packaging so that if it fell, the iPad was actually more protected and replaceable than the possible last bottles of this delicious 2008 wine. At least what I told myself, to make me feel better about it. If the wine had destroyed the fossil bag it would have been extra ridiculous. Luckily, it is all home safe.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/23/14 03:13

Category: garden

05/22/14 01:08 - ID#59008

Planted The Garden

Basra has slugs all over him. Its like he is an ecosystem now. Maybe they will clean him.

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Words: 42
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/22/14 01:08

Category: food

05/22/14 11:07 - ID#59007

Le Poutine Taco From Llyods

I get Lloyd's every Tuesday at work. This week the special was a poutine taco with beef, gravy, cheese and fries. It was pretty tasty.

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Words: 28
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/22/14 11:07

Category: garage

05/22/14 11:06 - ID#59006

Garage Roof

The flat roof is dying and is molded to death. The options are new flat rood, new A frame room or green roof. I want the A frame because it would give us a place to store things and because the chances of it leaking are so low. (e:terry) wants a green roof. For the life of me I cannot believe it won't mold, collapse, or leak. I am still waiting for the quote and details on that one.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/22/14 11:06

Category: environment

05/22/14 11:03 - ID#59005

Clean Air Coalition Dinner

We went to the Clean Air Coalition

dinner last night at Hotel Lafayette. They were the people that helped bring down Tonawanda Coke. It was a fun time. We ate good food and I won a massage gift certificate in the raffle.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/22/14 11:03

Category: hiking

05/18/14 07:31 - ID#58992

Letchworth Trip

On the way home from Jones Pond we hiked the big bend trail at Letchworth on the more primitive side of park, then headed over to the touristy side for some sight seeing. I fell asleep on the grass laying in the sun. It actually felt like summer for a moment.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/18/14 07:56

Category: food

05/18/14 07:26 - ID#58991

Ashker's On Elmwood

The wraps are so freakin good. Not sure why I don't make it down there for lunch more often.

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Words: 28
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/18/14 07:56

Category: camping

05/18/14 07:25 - ID#58990

Jone's Pond

(E:flacidness), (e:Joe), (e:terry) and I all went camping at Jones Pond for the weekend. We met a lot of people and had fun, I just wish the weather had been warmer or that the pool was open.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 05/18/14 07:25

Category: amish

05/16/14 04:17 - ID#58987

Amish Men On The Brain

I've been learning Amish German

because I am into Amish guys and want to be able to speak to one someday in his native language so that I can use it to my advantage.

One thing that was interesting is they don't use umlauts so twelve, which is zwölf in German, is zwelf in Amish German. Zwelf makes so much more sense than zwölf because eleven is elf in both languages and twelve is the zwei/zwee (2) version of elf. How did it become zwölf in hochdeutsch. Was elf formerly ölf. Who invented umlauts. Clearly the world is easier without them so why would anyone add them.

Then I started to think why does the 10-19 series even exist as discreet numbers in those language or english. Should they be onety, onety-one, onety-two, etc in English. Einzig, win and einzig in German etc.

In German and Amish you say the numbers after 20 with the second number first. The equivalent of nine and twenty for 29. It seems weird but then we do the same thing for the ontey range. Like nine teen. Shouldn't it at least be teenty nine.

English: Amish: german
Good Morning: Guder Mariye : Guten Morgen
Good Day : Guder Daag : Guten Tag
Good Afternoon : Guder Nummidaag : Guten Nachmittag
Good Evening : Guder Owen : Guten Abend
Good Night : Gudi Nacht : Gute Nacht
See You Later : sehn dich schpeeder : sehe dich später

I'm fascinated with German language dialects. Like in Texas the Germans that settled there have their own German that's also distinct from hochdeutsch

As a side note I am in love with Doug. Here you can see him teaching how to say that someone is buying an iPad in Amish. How on earth did he come up with that that example?