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10/07/2007 23:43 #41546

Lake Temperatures
The lake is at a record high temperature today. It is 67 degrees today with an average of 62 for 10/07.

My rabbit is shedding non-stop. This is very unusual at this time of the year. It is driving me crazy. I can't keep this tiny apt clean even though I clean it every week. His hair and hay eventually cover the entire square footage of the house by the end of the week. Maybe I'll hire someone to clean it.

I really like this weather, but at the same time I know it has very real consequences. Less than a week away and we had the October storm. I can't deal with that again. Anyways, it isn't just one particular day that has me worried, it is the consistency of the heat.

The storm last night is more typical of August weather. It was nice, but it lasted forever. I really couldn't sleep. My bed is right under a window and with the heat I couldn't bear to close it. That is one of my fears, getting struck down by lightning that comes through a window.

The air was not very breathable today. It was actually kind of gross and I had another hard day breathing. It wasn't ozone according to airnow.gov. It was particle matter. This was their warning for today that continues into tomorrow.


Unusually sensitive people should consider reducing prolonged or heavy exertion.




I suppose I am one of those unusually sensitive people that can smell toxins and pollutants in the air when a lot of other people don't notice. Personally I think the air is worse than their testing shows. I think their is something in the air here that isn't measured in in their tests, but nonetheless is pretty stank. I don't think that their is one particular source but really just a mixture of toxins from different factories that mingle with each other and create a nauseating cloud.


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libertad - 10/08/07 21:07
I just gotta say that I totally agree with paul about living on elmwood, but that my journal is not referring to the traffic. When I worked at coffee& on elmwood they had these glass tables outside that I cleaned with a white rag every morning. Every morning the white rag would turn black with suit after washing the glass tables.

What I refer to is when these weird chemically smelling gasses seem to get stuck in the atmosphere. I notice it more when we have thick cloud coverage or on days where the ozone might be high like intense heat days or days that are hazy. The chemical smell I am certain isn't produced by traffic but rather like jenks said something awful burning. I notice it much more when I am over at Target. The smell besides bothering my breathing (I don't have asthma) makes me feel ill and I get kinda pasty looking.

When I lived in Rochester, I never smelled these smells. Rochester by the way is one of the number one producers of dioxin in NYS because of Kodak. When I used to visit my sister who lived by Kodak park her area smelled kind of like bleach. To be honest it wasn't quite as bad as the smells I smell here during those off days.

If I had to guess, the smells are coming from factories in the area. Mostly from along the niagara especially towards Tonawanda. I think the GM Powertrain plant is probably one of the bigger polluters in the area but I'm no expert.

If I had the energy, I would record wind direction, environmental conditions and monitor factory activity to fully understand where the hell this crap was coming from.
joshua - 10/08/07 11:38
(e:paul) you should see the dirt I clean off of my windows every spring.

I think the temperature for that water is officially nipply with a 80% chance of shrivelly later in the afternoon.
jenks - 10/08/07 09:23
some mornings I walk out to my car to go to work- it's like 5:30 am and really calm and quiet out- and it just STINKS. Like some weird gross burning smell. I have no idea what it is, and no one else seems to notice it. And then the next day it will just be gone. No idea...
Sorry about poor Wab. Maybe he's too hot?
paul - 10/08/07 08:38
I really think it is where you live. Honestly, when we lived on the corner of lafayette and elmwood I had pretty bad asthma and used my inhaler. Now over on linwood I really never need it unless there are cats involved. At lafayette, there was a stop light. Truck, especially in the morning would idle and their puff of black smoke at about our bedroom window level. Living there, the air was freakin disgusting. I am very sensitive to that.

Think about how much pollution the cars on elmwood put out. I mean it is one massively busy street with tons of stops for people to idle at.

Various parts of a city have vastly different air, my suggestion is not to live next to live on our urban highway. Even a couple blocks away makes a huge difference when you think about exhaust and how it travels around.

09/26/2007 18:47 #41346

Fallsview
Our view wasn't quite what I had expected or what I think I exactly paid for, but Niagara Falls with (e:mike) was great. We so deserved to do something like this together.

This is the actual view.

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The room was advertised with this picture

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The casino and it's parking garage would be a more appropriate picture for the room.

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The bed didn't stay made for too long. Sorry I didn't catch it before.

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Perspective from bed.

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Mike using his new camera.

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Watching TV for a quick minute.

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I loved this view from bed at night. It is such a classic hotel view for hookers and addicts.

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When I got home to Buffalo the sky looked like this. When the sky is super cloudy like this; it seals in all of the factory pollutants and It smells really bad. Does anyone else notice the same thing? I think that I'm supersensitive to it because nobody else knows what I'm talking about. As I write this it is raining, but it doesn't smell bad, it smells fresh. Yet, when it a day like this in the picture, I start to feel a little sick.

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My friend Julie following me in the car. We went to Ruby Tuesdays which I think is my new favorite chain restaurant. They have the best salad bar and I also guiltily enjoy their mini hamburgers. The Mojitos are actually better than they are in Cuba.

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Really the trip was for me, because I wanted so much to be alone with Mikey. We really had a good time.




libertad - 09/27/07 07:01
Febreeze Felly. You should only be so lucky. LOL

James, I'm sure it isn't ozone. Check out the airquality report for yourself for that day Sep 15th.

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james - 09/26/07 22:33
Are you sure it just isn't ozone you are smelling?
fellyconnelly - 09/26/07 21:56
that is completly false advertising. from the advertised photo you should be clinging to the walls for fear that the whole hotel will be sliding over the falls!

also - last night right as it started rainging i smelled something outside that reminded me of febreeze. i dunno where it was coming from, but it lasted a good five minutes.
lilho - 09/26/07 21:29
people in love make me sick, and jealous. so stop. before i go buy more dresses to compensate...
mike - 09/26/07 20:14
It was an amazing time! thanks again! you didn't even mention the exotic horses and people who did crazy acrobatics (and that was just at the hotel) haha. Just kidding but Cirque Avaia was so amazingly cool and I recommend it to everyone. it is so cool all the stuff they do and you are real close, like right there

09/25/2007 23:05 #41329

Record Breaking Day
Today we broke a high temperature record. The last highest temperature happened in 1902 or 1907 I think and that was only 82. Today it was 87.

I love storms.



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drew - 09/26/07 15:34
Global warming can only be good news for Western New York, unless of course we find ourselves knee-deep in lake erie.

That is, until the rest of the world gets really screwed up and all humanity dies.

But there might be a really good window of a couple decades where we become a prime place to live.
james - 09/26/07 13:51
We should go back in time to 1903 to ask how they handled global warming.
jenks - 09/26/07 06:06
Yay for global warming!! ;)
tinypliny - 09/26/07 00:07
I was so drunkenly happy with all that heat today afternoon. Hope winter never turns up at Buffalo's doorstep!

09/24/2007 10:43 #41285

Blog This! Peaches
Central Terminal isn't as fun when it's legal. We made lots of friends at the Blogtoberfest as you can see here.

I spent $19 at the terminal for like an hour long of pure fun and good times.

$10 entrance fee-includes 1 beer
$6 for 3 Pierogies
$3 Central Terminal drinking glass for (e:mike)

Seeing other bloggers...priceless.

With all my money they should have it restored in no time.


Thanks for the party (e:theecarey). The fire was beautiful. It was nice to be able to see the stars.


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james - 09/24/07 14:11
fliers should have all the information listed on it. This one didn't. So, I can't be bothered to research if it is a blogging event which may or may not happen just at a larger Octoberfest because the flier may or may not have all pertinent information. So. Boo to making excuses.

But a lovely time was had in general. Though next September's Octoberfest should just be an 'everyone brings a six pack' get together by the train yards.
ladycroft - 09/24/07 11:13
hey lib, can you e-mail me this pic on a larger scale? I want to make a giant poster out of it at the print shop and make myself a fake fireplace!

09/21/2007 11:43 #41229

Precioso conejito
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tinypliny - 09/26/07 00:11
Whoa, he must be good at guilt-tripping people - look at photo #2!!
james - 09/21/07 14:32
I love how the top of the box looks like a rampart. The bunny knight must defend it against the barbarous hoard!
mrmike - 09/21/07 11:55
Silly wabbit!