We cleaned the hosue up so much for the party. It actually looked liek people lived in it for once. (e:southernyankee) surprised us by flying up from DC for the birthday party with her friend lisa.



Throughout the evening so many people showed up. It definately got craziest after midnight and ended around 6am. I didn't take any pictures besides the one above. I cannot wait to see your pics (e:metalpeter)

(e:carolinian), I hope you made it home okay.

There were ~35 people at our house: me, matt, terry, carey, tk, metalpeter, lee, walt, oda(the friend formelly known as emily), carolinian, mike, mrmike, lisa, southernyankee, enknot, chirs scuito , andy, josh, matthew, neil, blond guy, willy, carrie chillberg, tina, her bf, chris, chris, their new sidekick, lilho, nick, tina wang, bf, kookcity

(e:kookcity), I am totally gonna hit you up on that offer to help paint.

(e:imk2)'s ex tried to convince me to built a sex dungeon in the attack. Now I have to say, when we did our house purchasing facilitation with a creative professional last year (e:paul,3559) , one of our prerequisities that got listed during the free association, no feedback component was a the requirement of a sex dungeon in the basement, lol. Here is the post it
on my face after the facilitiation. However, he meant to open a sex club in the attic - not my thing. Basement and attic are so different.

I guess we had really too short of notice and didn't do a good job contacting some people as we just got back from vacation and were moving and I had to deal with my thesis all of last week. Most notably absent was (e:ladycroft) , (e:jenks) , (e:imk2) , (e:vincent) , (e:zobar) , (e:dragonlady) , (e:jason) , (e:joshua) , (e:springfaire) , (e:e):trisha and (e:dimartiste). Their was a definate lack of friends from school too. Everyone is either moved away now ((e:shawnr) and (e:robin)), or I am out of communication with them ((e:liz) , (e:churchofjulie) , (e:soyeon) , etc). I tried to email them but it was a very last minute effort. Maybe, in a way it was reflective of my graduation from UB. (e:holly) was at another party and all of (e:mike)'s friends didn't make it because they were at (e:jill)'s sister's wedding before and (e:libertad) had some previous engagement.

I am writing this recipe for pear ja here because we have about 500 full size pears in our backyard and I know I need to do something with them. I wonder if it will work. You can see them in this old entry (e:paul,4611)



The pears are of the Bartlett Variety

This recipe is quoted from

Pear Jelly

8 cups peeled, cored, chopped pears
1 cup water
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 package (1.75 oz) powdered fruit pectin
6 cups white sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp almond extract
1/2 cup brown sugar

Sterilize jars and lids. Simmer covered pears, water and lemon juice for 20 minutes. Stir in pectin and bring to a rolling boil. Slowly stir in the white sugar, a little at a time, and keep boiling for 1 minute until sugar dissolves, stirring constantly. Add brown sugar, cinnamon and amond extract, stirring until dissolved. With slotted spoon, remove pieces of pears and set aside for another use (I suggest pie filling). Pour rest of jelly into clean jars leaving 1/2 inch of space at the top. Wipe the rims and top with lids. Screw the lids on as tightly as you can. Process jars in boiling water for 10 minutes. Let cool overnight. If the lids pop when you press the middle down, boil the jelly for a few minutes and try again. Once the lid no longer pops when you press it, your jelly is set and is good for at least a year, perhaps more.

Note about boiling water processing: I use a large stew pot and let the water heat to boiling while making the jelly. Make sure the water covers the tops of your jars and they should be fine.

It is amazing what you can see with a web cam. I wish we only had a magnet now.

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I had a busy day of configuring someone elses server. At least it will help pay for my new fancy ass front loading washing machine. Too bad when they delivered it today, it was broken so they had to take it back. Then I go online to the sears store to get a picture of it for my journal and see it is a full $100 cheaper than when I bought it at the store and everyone gave it bad reviews. I hate appliances now already. I think I am going to just get some sort of wash service and screw the stupid laundry machine. Does anyone else get their laundry done at a place?

There were so many geese at the CFA yesterday.

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The started to get angry with me by the end

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