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11/28/2007 19:00 #42322

Catching Up
Category: life
I am going to write a journal about my experience with Chiropractic but I am waiting until after my second appointment on Friday because the Chiropracter is hyperlocal and does not have a web presence so whatever I say is going to kind of define that for him.

So far it is going good but I don't want to speak too soon. I can at least turn my head without wanting to throw up. Really that is so much better.

Here are some pics with me and my new phone.

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Last night I watched Star Trek on it in bed. The episode was a voyager episode but it had Diana Troy in it. When (e:matthew) caught me watching it he was so mad that I had cheated on him with Diana by watching her without him. I thought it was funny - I hope he wasn't really mad, he loves her.

It is the eve of surebert 4.0 I think depending on how I feel in the morning. I am on this new kick where I am refusing to program outside of work until I can not be sick but I find life really boring otherwise - at least in the winter.

Okay, I am off to see Mist. I am sure I will have something to say about it.
james - 11/28/07 20:40
beware Stephen King books made into movies.
tinypliny - 11/28/07 20:05
Oooh, so that's where all of you were headed to. But why go and see the mist. It conveniently enshrouds you nowadays, anyway.

11/26/2007 17:33 #42289

writing from my new phone
Category: mobile
The keyboard on this phone is much better than my old one but still not as awesome as the sidekick2. Maybe I just need to get used to it thlught because I can already type really fast on it.

The GPS is nice but like 3 said I don't go anywhere. Okay next step is to watch startrek on it.
james - 11/26/07 20:37
If only people were as enthusiastic about one thing in their lives as you are with phones.
paul - 11/26/07 18:20
Okay, the cell phone is nice, but it really didn't help my stomach feel any better ;(

11/26/2007 10:09 #42282

My Stomach
Category: health
Like right under my stomach has been hurting for about a week now. No matter what I eat, no matter what time of day - it just kind of hurts - sometimes it feels a little better but mostly hurts, especially after I eat. I suppose maybe I should see a doctor, but I keep telling myself that it will go away - hoping it is a flu like symptom because (e:matthew) just had a flu.

Please don't let it be an ulcer ;)
jim - 11/27/07 23:20
Let me know how it went with the chiropractor, I might go too having some trouble this week myself.
jenks - 11/26/07 19:15
try pepcid or prilosec or something like that and see if it helps. If it does, it could be a refluxy kind of thing.
tinypliny - 11/26/07 19:04
:(

\m/ Get well soon!! Massive dose of good wishes coming your way!! \m/
james - 11/26/07 14:27
Paul, as a feel-rite alumni you know that you can cure every ailment known to mankind with flax seed oil and colonic irrigation. Preferably simultaneously. ick.

Hope you feel better.
museumchick - 11/26/07 13:30
I think maybe it would be good to go to a doctor. They might be able to give you some meds. to alleviate the pain.

11/25/2007 22:05 #42277

Resolution and relationships
Category: life
The way the garden looks, is how I feel right now.

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I guess at least the new phone is coming tomorrow, although at this point nothing can really make me happy. I think it is time to join the gym again. This time I am going to try Allentown Athletix, which is just around the corner form us.

I got into a huge fight with (e:matthew) yesterday about a random chimney shaft in our bedroom wall that connects to no mantel. Based on previous pictures I had taken with a web cam on a 6 ft USB chord, I thought that the tunnel went down and to the left but what I thought was a "floor" and a tunnel to the left turned out the be an odd brick of the side of the shaft wall.

I thought that brick or whatever it is was the bottom in the usb webcam view and that the hole on the end was a turn to the left.

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When I switched to the 7MP camera with flash I got a much better view.

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I wish I didn't get so angry about it at 2am last night. Sometimes, I can be a jerk. I am embarrassed for the way I acted but I was so sure I was right.

Anyways, the good news I think we can switch the Den and our bedroom and get a wood or gas burning insert similar to the one that (e:enknot) has at his house and have it be direct vent. This is a much better alternative to the next vented ones that make me ill.

You can see the chimney straight up and it looks easy enough to line it ourselves considering it is just a straight trip up.
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I thought someone might find this amusing

Look at the clipart they used in this professional article about the iphone in Europe. It is a freakin' old white ipod on a slide phone, running windows mobile. Seems like no one fact checked that one.
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I am switching from qmail to postfix and got my book in the mail today. I am not sure why. I just wanted to try something new and got sick of setting up qmail on the new server although I did it before on the old one.
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There has been lots of progress on the new site, don't think I forgot! I just hurt my neck and it is slowing me down, argh.
tinypliny - 11/28/07 20:12
I read this journal and I have the same burning question as Carolinian! Why was the direction of the shaft tunnel important? Is it some Vaastu/Feng Shui thing?
carolinian - 11/26/07 13:02
Why were you fighting over where the shaft lead? Was there a practical reason, or was it just for the sake of the argument?
fellyconnelly - 11/26/07 08:18
yeah the new phone will totally make youf eel better
jenks - 11/26/07 05:18
Sorry you had a crappy day. I bet new electronics *will* help you feel better, though. (always works for me!)

11/24/2007 19:33 #42273

Bored to death, christmas market
Category: buffalo

paul 18:51 I am so bored
imk2 18:52 i never hear you say that youre bored
paul 18:52 haha, i have never been bored unitl tonight i think
paul 18:53 I couldn't describe
paul 18:52 because there was some new feeling
paul 18:52 i thought I wanted to kill myself
paul 18:53 and then it hit me that I was bored



We went to the broadway market this afternoon. It was lame. Maybe we went at the wrong time but I will surely never go back to find out.

The way there was so pretty. I love traveling down sycamore. It is by far the most scenic view of Buffalo.

(e:terry) says they are developing som enew village here that he read baout on Buffalo rising.
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No seriously, it makes me want to do a documentary about the history of advertising signs that rusted out.
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While this pretty church is dead, every single other non-burned down, non-boarded up warehouse and crappy house is some other sect of freaky Christianity with blacked out windows.
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This is what I expect in a Christmas Market.
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Then we got there...
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and this is what it was.
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Back over to elmwood

We got new glasses today at Elmwood Specs. I had the same prescription. My only problem with the place was that the doctor brought her dog with her. I was very allergic to that kind of poodley dog so it wasn't so horrible but if it had been a cat, I think I might have died.
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Why did stache or whoever owns this building paint the half timbering over? It seems really trashy.
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I hope elmwood doesn't become sycamore ever.
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tinypliny - 11/28/07 20:19
Now we know where that orange door on Stache's came from. The residents of the "monastery" were so impoverished that they had to sell their door.
tinypliny - 11/28/07 20:17
You know, that orange building looks like it could have been a glorious Thai Monastery in its hey days.
imk2 - 11/24/07 20:59
i used to work every chirstmas and easter at those two stands you have pictured. god, they worked us to death. 4:30-5:00am until 8pm with not one break in between, not even lunch. they would let us scarf down some bread while standing up and shoo us back to work. i guess 12 year olds are easy to manipulate like that.