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07/28/2004 18:25 #31102

Office Visit
Imade it back to my office today to deal with some paperwork and got a chance to test the site on a macintosh. Seeing as I haven't looked at the site on a macintosh since May, I am amazed that it all seemed to work out. I even tested the radio, the a/vprofiler and the video chat with success.
If anyone notices mac porblems ever, feel free to sendme an email.
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07/28/2004 14:36 #31101

Theives in e-ville
Theives beware, I can't guarantee I wont kill you by throwing a 40 bottle at your head from upstairs if I catch you.

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It started when someone stole our trash can a couple weeks ago. I just let it go. I called the city who assurred me they would send a new one. A month or so later, I still have no trash can and it's getting really annoying.

Then last night, just after everyone left I heard someone by the outside door. I told (e:terry) who did nothing (good job being the strong one), and (e:matthew) and I (not the strong ones) decided to check it out. The door was locked so we gave up.

Then this morning, when Terry left for work, we discovered that some fuckhead had robbed a bunch the stuff from our car. All the stuff from the glove compartment was on the floor and seats.

This is only a week after some dude showed up in our kitchen asking for bottles. Whenever I see him now, I have to say I wonder if he really just wanted bottles.

The irony of this is that yesterday we were filming people at Bidwell park and one woman specifically said that she liked it here in e-ville because it was safe and you don't have to worry about your car, like you do in Philadelphia, where she was from.

I suppose the thieves probably feel the same way about us, as we feel about the rich people on the other side of the fence. But we are not rich, we just rent an apartment in big house.

By the way, when I was searching for a 40oz bottle to throw at the thieves head, I found this Black Bull beer found only in Canada. It is 10% alcohol by volume.

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07/27/2004 23:39 #31100

Elmwood at Night
Many of the epeeps are down at the 567, thats where the big elmwoodstrip.com sign is on elmwood. There are about 10 of us. I took some pics of the street on slow shutter speed for your viewing enjoyment. Come on down if you read this. We'll be here for a while. You can always IM me. The link under my serPic.

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07/27/2004 22:48 #31099

Bidwell Concert Series
Today, a bunch of the epeepers attended the Outer Circle Orhcestra concert at Bidwell park. (e:mike), (e:lilho), and I did some more video interviews. We had new questions.

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1. What's your favorite place to hang out on elmwood?

2. What's your favorite elmwood memory?

3. What would you change about elmwood?

The park was packed despite the crappy but rain free september weather. We haven't found sqb yet, but we don't really know what he looks like!

07/27/2004 13:56 #31098

Impromptu Dinner Party
(e:southernyankee) and I hit the Tops stores yesterday for our impromptu seafood party. It was the first time I got to go to the tops on Niagara St. since they redesigned it. It has really come a long way, there are even rainforest noises in the vegetable department. Unfortunately, they did not have enough clams to satisfy our craving so we had to go on to the next tops but managed to buy 3 lbs of catfish nuggets while there and found pappy's sassafrass, see below.

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The Grant St. Tops is as crappy as ever. I hate that one, if you have a choice go to the Niagara St one. Everytime I am there I am so amazed at what a different world and quality level it is from Wegmans which is only a block away.

Maybe it's a local business thing. Wegman's, although they practice many unfavorable business tactics such as strawberry picker union busting, they are local, while Tops is mega-super-ultra-trans-national. Let's at least pretned that Wegman's cares more about the community and it's image even if it's just pretending.

For me, tops is just too sterile. It looks like a hospital. (e:southernyankee) says bright white sells stuff, but I like the homey Wegmans orange - wood - brown scheme.

We also stopped at the coop and bought the necessary organics. My coop milk, eggs, 1 lb cherries and bacon cost as much as all of my other tops groceries combined(2.5 doz clams, 3 lbs of catfish, 2 sodas, collard greens, 1 block of dill havarti, .25 lb cured black olives, .25 lb greek olives, and baby portabellas.)

As for mega-store shopping what do you guys think, Tops or Wegman's?

(e:flacidness) and (e:lilho) stopped by for Dinner. Actually, (e:lilho) did much of the cooking along with (e:terry) who was master chef [inlink]terry,269[/inlink]. I steamed the clams and acted as a team supervisor, hahaha.

This is (e:flacidness) 's cousin frita. She was playing with the sidekick and I found this picture of her on it.

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