Today I signed the online petition against the peace bridge plaza expansion . Before you go ahead and scream at me for blocking progress I want to go over why I signed it.

1. I would like to stand in solidarity with other owners of historical homes hoping that if it was ever reversed they would stand by me. I can't imagine if the government came to me and said, hey we are going to give you less than you house is worth and you have to move because we are expanding main street and building a giant truck parking lot - sorry eminent domain. Just think about that for a minute. what if you had planned on living there the rest of your life and had invested a lot of money into your house. I would just leave Buffalo forever at that point.

2. I think that a giant truck plaza is going to create so much more pollution in an area that is just starting to recover from the pollution of its industrial past.

3. Why build all the extra stuff around it. Can't the visitor center and duty free shop be located elsewhere, say more downtownish?

...includes a visitor center, duty free shop and a 477 space parking garage. It is these attributes of the alternative that would result in the highest impacts to the low income residential neighborhood. To minimize these effects, the document should assess alternatives that locate the visitor center elsewhere in the city (e.g., downtown).

Also, we could find no information in the document that supports the need for such a large parking structure at this port of entry...

I didn't realize just how much land was going to be taken.


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The Episcopal Church of the Ascension next door to us on Linwood and North has way too much trash each week. It ends up all over our property and our neighbors property as soon is there is any wind. Why on earth can they not get another trash bin or only throw out enough trash to fill their bins each week.

It is really that full every single freakin' week. Here are the last three weeks as examples. I am going to keep taking the pics. Now I am date stamping them.



remember these are three separate weeks


and another


It just so looks so trashy I am really starting to hate living next door to them. The people we meet from the church are nice and they pretend to care about the neighborhood but it is really them that is mostly making it trashy - in the literal sense - filled with trash. Between all the loud annoying people that meet for their AA meetings and throw trash and cigarette butts around to the rude parents that throw trash in our driveway and park us in for the dance camp. None of those people would be in our neighborhood without them. They are the same people that make the trash cans overflow.

I really wish they would just move all their entrance space for their extra curricular activates to the other side of the church on the non-residential side. Lets not pretend for a second that any of these people are their for church services. The church just rents out space to make money. So basically, they are kind of slum lordish about it at our expense. If any commercial entity did this the neighborhood associate/city would freak out.

I know, I know - I should just take it up with them instad of writing this, but seriously - should I even have to point this trash heap situation out. You think they could self police it a bit.

Worse yet they take their trash to the curb, it gets left out for days at a time. Sometimes almost till the next week. If any private residence did this they would get a ticket. I really don't think they should be immune. We aren't evens supposed to have our trash bins showing until they come out for garbage day. Maybe tickets would make them think twice.

The new incarnation of the federal building is on its way. I wonder what it will look like. Whatever it looks like, it will look nicer. That building was perhaps the ugliest I ever saw.


We went to the century grill and (e:matthew) had a fish fry.


One of our tenants pays in cash. Even though the money goes to things like mortgage, it is nice to actually see cash for once. I get my paychecks direct deposited as does (e:terry) and (e:matthew) gets checks, so it is rare to see cash around.


Here is (e:matthew) playing with one of his doll action figure collections. He really loves them.


And totally, totally unrelated - I was walking to work the other day and found these tightly whities on Elm street near the corner of high street. Pretty much across the street from the back entrance of the Allen st subway stop. I walk this route multlple times everyday and they were never there before. How do you lose you underwear on the sidewalk. At least the mud blends in with the shit stains, lol.

My parents computer started smelling liek burning plastic. Well they said it did. When (e:mike) and i took it to Best Buy, it didn't - at least not the first time. Then they brought it home, the smell got worse. So we brought it back in and my mother had them turn it on for a half hour while we sat there and smelled it till the burnign plastic smell started. Luckily that time it smelled like burning plastic. They said it was the power supply. Buying things form them is relaly expensive. I was able to order one from a reseller online, from my phone, while in line. Plus One for constant internet connection!

So the part arrived the other day and my brother (e:mike) brought the computer over.



It was one of those HP mini compact computers so all the parts are very tiny and proprietary - besides the CD drive which looked so mammoth and out of place inside it.



In order to get to the power supply we had to take everything apart and remember when it went, Seriously, every other part had to come out to get to it.

Here was the bad power supply.


Then we put it all back together and srewed everything back in to find out it didn't work. So I had to take it all back apart again. At first I thought the new power supply was bunk but then I realized there was a switch to convert it from 250 to 120. It worked after that and I had to put it all back together again. i also learned my lesson about testing stuff before screwing it all back together.

So (e:terry) wants a wii. I wanted one so bad two christmases ago when they first came out. Back then I would check the store all the time looking for one and everyone was always out.

My mother tried to buy me one for christmas but they didn't have any so i got a gift card for one. Months and months of no wiis later I bought something else with the money. Then I stopped looking and decided I did not care until (e:terry) want to play the new super smash brothers the other day when it came out. So we sold our xbox 360 (which we never used) - thanks (e:mrmike) - in order to get a Wii. On friday night we went to Best Buy that way I could buy a UPS backup power supply for the server ;)

They were out of wiis. I figured it was a freak thing, I mean come one, its been two years that they have been out. So we went to EB games but they were out of them too! According to the guy you have to be their when the UPS truck arrives in the morning and they usually go within 10 minutes.

What the fuck is happening to America? I had the money, I want the product, and obviously so do many other people, if they are willing to get in line - yet the wiis are nowhere to be found.

How in two years has Nintendo not managed to ramp up production? Once again the money is going to end up getting shuffled into some other expense and Nintendo is probably going to lose our business. You can't even buy them online accept at the high premium on ebay.

What is next, lines for bread?

We went to Montana Steak House for Dinner.


The ubergay waiter really liked us and/or Nameless Bitch. We got a free dessert that was enough for 6 people.



He brought us a whole rainbow of suckers at the end. Purple tasted really good.