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06/17/2007 12:56 #39704

rooaaaddd trip.
Category: randomo
buffalo HERE I COME!

i think we are leaving around 5 am. lauren hates me for that. but i'm driving, right?

we have to get up to wilson and drop off a bunch of my stuff at my brothers house, visit, and make it over to my other brothers house in ransomville before heading back into buffalo for a 2 oclock double appointment at sheldon apartments and elmwood village apartments.

then i have to run around putting in applications all over b-lo

tuesday morning at 9 we are to call and confirm a noon showing of another apartment.

we also have to call about a 2 bedroom on ashland.

and do some more job hunting

and lauren has to go visit the college at some point.

BUSY BUSY BUSY

and I still do not know where i'm going to end up staying. the problem is now that my family is guilting me into staying with them. oh sweet jesus if they were to find out that i came to western ny and did not stay with them then they would be convinced that the world is ending... so lauren and i are just going and saying the hell with it - we will get to where we are getting and do what we have to do....

okay i need to get some food and look for more apartments online
mk - 06/18/07 12:24
Good luck with everything!!!!
james - 06/17/07 19:07
That throughway stretch from Syracuse to Buffalo is brutal during sunset.

oh wait... 5AM? never mind.

06/16/2007 22:27 #39696

pop goes the brain cells
Category: randomo
so i'm recounting the deposits for the last week so that i can make a bank deposit....

and as i'm counting i'm noticing something strange...

i keep losing count between 14 and 15.

i say 14 in my head and then 15 and then i'm like... wait... was that right?

i did this about ten times just now and it makes me wonder if there is some reason i have forgotten that after 13 comes 14 then 15 and so on... perhaps its true...

this job has eaten my brain.

or maybe its just the zombies...

okay at any rate its time to go home, thank god.
fellyconnelly - 06/17/07 11:33
ACK! i do beleive you are right! that must have been why that guy was all waving his pocketwatch at me and telling me i was tired...
ladycroft - 06/16/07 22:40
i bet you were hypnotized to forget 14 follows 13. yah, it happens! look out for those random street hypnotizers!
mrmike - 06/16/07 22:29
I feel like that with increasing regularity at my job

06/14/2007 22:44 #39664

360 days in a year
Category: archaic
There is something about ancient knowledge that fascinates the crap out of me. The kind of ancient evidence that goes against what we know. We have an established history and millions of books that say 'this is the way it is'. And what interests me is the stuff that gets the panties of scientists and historians in a major knot. There are so many phenomena that are simply ignored because to actually look at it realistically would cause such an enormous shift in our paradigm of the world that nobody wants to even bother.
Anyway, I would go on forever about it, but instead I'll present you with my most recent findings.

This is from a book I'm presently reading.

The Aryabhatiya, an ancient Indian mathematical/astronomical work states:'A year consists of 12 months. A month consists of 30 days'

The ancient Babylonian year consisted of a 12 months and 30 days in a month.

The old Egyptian year consisted of 12 months of 30 days.

Plutarch wrote that ancient Rome (during the time of Romulus) the year was made of twelve 30 day months.

The Mayan year consisted of 360 days.

The Incan year was divided into 12 quilla of 30 days.

The Ancient Chinese Calendar consisted of 12 months each of 30 days.

In all the previous cultures, the addition of 5 extra days to the yearly calendar (and in some cases even the addition of a day every fourth) is indicated to have occurred around the same time.

This is the basis of the theory that at some point in the archaic past the earths orbital position underwent a change. Which leads to many other theories that I won't even get into. Because they involve everything from pole shifting, the changing height of human beings, floods, Atlantis, dual moons and the like.

Okay I've bored you all enough.
jenks - 06/16/07 21:47
hehe ridonkulous. I love that word.
fellyconnelly - 06/16/07 20:29
  • sigh* those evil clones and their silly games...

and yes mr stick in the mudpants, height and nutrition go hand and hand, but i think this theory was moreso suggesting that

a) long long long long long ago humans were much taller (in the 7 foot range)
b) at some point the gravitational pull of the earth increased and people started getting shorter..

theeeennnn all of us slowly started getting taller due to the sudden desire to eat our leafy greens...

but again, this is all a fun little theory, and even the notion that at one point we were 7 foot tall is viewed as highly ridonkulous by most...
james - 06/15/07 23:18
Oh no, that was a most foul typo put in by my evil clone/copy editor who was banished to an digital prison replete with horrid special effects like Superman II.

Not to be a stick in the mud, but the change in human height is most often explained by nutrition.

We gargantuan whities of the west are a head taller than we were a century ago because more people have access to better nutrition (agrarian France was covered with fast food chains until the 30 years war 1784-1787),

During the US occupation of Japan and the following economic boom the height of the average Japanese person has grown like it did in europe over a few hundred years.

I have records in my villa in Hyperboria Thule
fellyconnelly - 06/15/07 17:31
holy crap i love you people!

the whole idea of height being related to gravity is a new one to me and only briefly touched upon in the book. It seems as though the idea is that the less the pull of gravity downward, the less resistance there is for humans to grow taller. There is speculation that there was some type of celestial happening that involved the moon, gravity and resulting in a pole reversal, axis tilt and a sling shot action of the earth moving further away from the sun in its orbit.

Anyway, the book that I'm reading is actually about Atlantis, but once you skip through the 'channelling of the ancient high priests of atlantis' parts then you get to the good info about ancient myths, stories and some scientific stuff that is all quite fascinating.

And James - i'll keep an eye out for those authors. And I don't know if you MEANT to say that we are NOT history buddies, but if you did i'm crying on the inside right now. It is a flood of tears enough to sink atlantis. And Mu.
james - 06/15/07 10:06
Since we are not history buddies allow me to make a few recommendations.

Danial Borstein doesn't write hard academic history, which is good as that allows him to write fascinating stuff. You might enjoy The Discoverers. It deals with ancient knowledge, how we have come to know what we know, and the people who made those changes.

Loren Eisely. Anything by Loren Eisely. He was a paleontologist who would write about the human condition in the context of his field. Knowledge of the world is a central issue. You can get his work, which is some of my favorite writing, for pennies on Amazon. Phelestines.

These various civilizations each based their models on the universe on ones they imported from other places. Indian astronomers knowledge of the solar system spread into China, Babylon, to Egypt and finally into Europe.

By the Mayan's and Incans? They didn't even have metal tools and they built pyramids larger than in Egypt? But they totally received knowledge from aliens or astral beings or something. That is like having the combustion engine before fire.
theecarey - 06/15/07 00:25
bored? hardly! ooh, I am all about paradigm shifts. I often say- "learn and unlearn"-- think outside the box!

and yeh, i am always fascinated by streams of information that were left out along the way. Like, if history as we know it is a mathematical formula, and all of the variables of the formula are things that we know and accept (ie, textbooks, controlled lab experiments, and anything else generally accepted as truth), which add up and form a tidy equation.
Then explorers, seekers of information, "unlearners" and others, bring forth new/forgotten/hidden information, this blows the former equation to bits (ah, paradigm shift)!!

Those new variables change everything- excites some people, scares the hell out of other people.

ie; what do you mean the earth isnt flat?!

panty bunching doozies off the top of my head--creation of antibiotics and hygiene standards, Dead Sea Scrolls, Mayan mysticism, cave drawings, unearthed vessels, The Arybhatiya, quantum physics, Barney, space exploration, stem cell research, --etc etc etc-- variables that keep having to be added to this giant "life formula".

and yeh, like you said, new info gets a whole bunch of "this is the way it is" peoples panties in a major knot. And thats ok!

The book you are reading sounds cool. As a science nut (while believing that everything is related on some level), its neat to read about different theories. Would llike to hear more about your take on the changing height of human beings.

museumchick - 06/14/07 23:14
I think its fascinating, actually. I never knew that theory about the earth's orbital position. I could see how that could cause floods. How would it affect people's heights, though?

06/14/2007 10:07 #39655

job/apartment anger
just spoke to a woman about seeing an apartment. even though i told her i'm presently making 40 grand a year and i manage two sprint stores that if i don't have a job before i move to buffalo then she won't show me anything.

'why don't you get yourself settled in buffalo first and then give me a call?'

explain to me why i would get 'settled' in buffalo in some apartment or another, and then prospect your shitty ass four hundred and fifty dollar a month apartment?

i stoutly informed her that

that whole conversation made me extremely pissed and dissapointed and nervous that i would not, in fact, find a job.
fellyconnelly - 06/14/07 15:00
jim: that is absolutely wonderful of you. i'll try not to have wild crazy parties and trash the apartment every other weekend so your name won't be tarnished. (and if i do, i'll be sure to invite you!)

Tiny: i have tried BMG. it is one of the 9 gazillion search engines i have used!

Ladycroft: July 1 is our move date, and hey, it can't hurt, right? oh and i digs the new avatar!

James: this is exactly the reason that i wasn't worried until this snatchy bitch had to rain on my high hopes parade... i dunno about buffalo suburbs, but i would love to see money crawling... i imagine it would look like caterpillars, yes?
james - 06/14/07 14:16
The job situation is a little odd in this town. But if you made 40k a year at your last job you only need to make 27k a year to live the same lifestyle you did in New Paltz.

But if you are looking for a job like the one you have now it shouldn't be a big problem. The suburbs are crawling with money and thus plenty of high end cell phone users.

It might be difficult if you are a steel or auto worker as their employed number have gone from thousands to 6.
ladycroft - 06/14/07 14:15
i don't know what you're moving or when this place will be finished, but the guy next door is remodeling the upper. the girl downstairs might move up there, but either way one of those will be open. we have a nice little community within the houses my landlord owns and the new guys. i can ask if you're interested.
tinypliny - 06/14/07 13:31
Have you tried the BMG group apartments? (http://www.bmgapt.com/controller.jsp) Most of their places seem to include all utilities and somewhat cheaper rates than the ones you are mentioned...
jim - 06/14/07 12:30
If you decide to move in to one of the ESC places, talk to the manager Tracy and tell her that we told you about the place, and use us as references. You can give her my name (Jim Lindley / 604.6696) or just say Jim and James from #4 sent you. She really liked us, and it might help you to know someone she knows were good tenants. Can't hurt at least.
fellyconnelly - 06/14/07 11:19
nah, this was rienes realty or something. An ad in the paper that i called about. esc didn't ask about buffalo employment - but it seriously makes me wonder about whether that is going to hurt my chances.

i'm starting to get really nervous about this whole job thing.
jim - 06/14/07 10:30
Was this ESC?

06/13/2007 16:08 #39643

times a drawin closer...
Category: moving
i'm excited as pie. blueberry pie maybe. or cherry. i love cherry pie. ala mode. or maybe half a slice of blueberry and half a slice of cherry with a big fat scoop of vanilla perched melty like all on top and in between the two.
okay yeah.. my point was....
oh yeah

i just made a double appointment to go check out a couple of apartments on monday.

first thing first we have 367 elmwood - elmwood village.

Then we have 950 Delaware (sheldon apartments) on the corner of hodge.

they are both run by esquare capital - which i hear is supposed to be a good/gay friendly company, yes? no?

anyway - so they are both about $665 a month.... which rather frightens the hell out of me - but they include heat... so what... would that be equivilant to a $600 a month apartment?
dragonlady7 - 06/14/07 23:18
(And, er, by "real good" in my previous comment, I just want to clarify that I meant like, real fancy, like super-specialized and high-falutin kinda crap, like, you're the only person in the world who can do the kind of advanced-degree-type-forty-years-experience stock trading MBA whatever that you do. Those jobs? Not so much around here.
Also jobs here tend to pay less but it's totally way cheap to live here. By "buy your friends a round" standards we're about a quarter the cost of living of NYC, and probably half the cost of Chicago, so...)

I live in a tiny house. The square footage that I heat is probably... oh... under a thousand, that's my uninformed guess. (The house is thirty feet long by thirty feet wide, and it's one storey that's heated.) It's reasonably well-insulated. In February my gas bill was $180. This year was atypical in that it was very, very cold from January thru March, but barely dipped below freezing until January-- we had a green Christmas, I swear some of my flowers were still blooming. But it was extra-horrible from mid-January onward. You just can't predict the heat bills. But they'd probably average out around $75 if I did the math. Really depends on your square footage and insulation, though.
dragonlady7 - 06/14/07 23:13
Yeah... (e:Zobar) and I have a totally sweet deal on our house and I love the yard and wouldn't move for the world, but... if we did... it'd be probably to either Elmwood near Bryant and Summer... or to perhaps a nice little ghetto on the West Side. (The West Side is a crapshoot. Approximately every three houses are totally awesome and gorgeous; the one next door will be so-so but nice, and then every fourth one or so will be an actual working crackhouse. You really can't tell from the address, you have to go there.)

In re: your next post, jobs can be hardish to find if you want something real good, but I think managing a Sprint store is totally the kind of job that's all over in Buffalo. I mean, if you're really qualified? Hells yeah.
Buffalo has this reputation for being a place in which it is difficult to find work that is not McDonald's or equivalent, and I think the reputation is stronger than the actual fact. I do not presently know anyone who is unemployed who does not wish to be. I know a few underemployed persons who would like to trade up, but mostly they're either not looking super hard or aren't very good at looking.

So I'm sure you'll find something, but landlords are not exactly laid-back people, on the whole.
fellyconnelly - 06/14/07 11:21
lauren is the sapho lover of the relationship.
i just love vagina.
james - 06/14/07 09:36
That is a mighty fine location on elmwood. It is a short walk to Allentown, a short walk to the elmwood shops, bars, restaurants, etc. esquare is down with all your pets, heat including, sapho loving company. So you should be set with them.

Congrats
fellyconnelly - 06/13/07 18:06
oh and elmwood village apartments are between bryant and summer... is that good as well?
fellyconnelly - 06/13/07 18:04
they are both 1 bedrooms. and yeah - we kinda fell in love with the elmwood ave apartments from the moment we saw them.. so many great reviews too.

(and i would officially be an estripper!)
jim - 06/13/07 17:45
(e:james) and I just moved out of 950 delaware. The rental company is really nice, they allow pets, pretty good experience. But our 1 bedroom apartment there had a very small kitchen, and because our unit had a balcony they were going to jack up our rent so we decided to move.

You can't go wrong renting from them, but it is probably possible to get something cheaper elsewhere.
jenks - 06/13/07 17:24
hodge is a nice area. What's the cross street for 367 elmwood?

And 665 including heat?! That sounds pretty good to me. How many BR?

Good luck! have fun! And honestly, i found a lot more just driving around looking for signs, and looking in artvoice, than going through real estate companies.
imk2 - 06/13/07 16:48
um....heat here in the winter runs about 200 or more a month. i cant even imagine what (e:pmt) pay in their mansion.