Paul's Journal

12/06/2008 12:15 #46984

NFTA schedule made easy - Paul Visco
Category: nfta

I noticed this morning that my NFTA schedules made easy

was broken and fixed it. I hope it wasn't down very long. I don't think it was as I used it one day last week.

While I was in there I fixed a bug that caused route 20 jpg based schedule to show up with route 20 and route 200 schedule data. I think people find it useful because they keep visiting. It is always up to date because it is reading the data directly from the nfta site.

Oops, I accidentally deleted my visitor log, but it get like 200 uses a day.

paul - 12/06/08 13:29
Glad you find it useful. Mostly, it is useful for mobile phone that do do not have the ability to read PDFs or ones that have a hard time navigating the NFTA site.

tinypliny - 12/06/08 13:11
Thanks Paul, I used this a lot in my first 6 months here. Lately, I have just been downloading PDFs off the NFTA's site. Glad to have another (far easier) alternative. :)

12/05/2008 20:02 #46979

Frozen Street Crazies
Category: buffalo

I feel bad admitting it but one of my favorite parts of winter is that the street crazies go away. I am not sure where they go but wherever it is, it makes walking around Allentown a lot more pleasant.

I was walking home from the gym the other night and I didn't have to cross the street to avoid people begging for (insert wish here) even once. I think it might be the first time ever.

jacob - 12/07/08 20:30
They fly south for the winter. Our downtown areas and exit ramps are becoming inundated with the detritus of the fairer cities.

james - 12/06/08 15:37
There is one panhandler that makes me angry. He is a very tall guy. He likes to block the path of women and say "give me money". I have never seen him harm anyone, but that sort of intimidation makes him a dick head.

Hope he has a chilly winter.

tinypliny - 12/06/08 13:19
More than the homeless, I worry about people ambushing me and assaulting me. So I know how you feel because I can identify with this feeling.

When panhandling comes dangerously close to feeling like being stalked, sometimes I catch myself liking the snow and awful weather outside for walking. :/

I also hate it when random people come up and say I look "pretty" because admit it, pretty and me are triple poles apart. They obviously have other intentions. Ugh.

12/04/2008 23:57 #46964

The turkey is cooked

I think the processing part will be much harder.

janelle - 12/05/08 20:29
Make sandwiches from the breast meat. And use the dark meat to make turkey egg noodle soup.

paul - 12/05/08 01:19
Oh I managed to do it. Like 15 pounds of meat. A huge thing of breat meat, teh legs and wings in another container, all the dark meat in another container and then a big pot full of bones and crap for making soup stock tommorrow. I even ate the neck. The question is what do I do with it all now. I am going to try and figure out how to freeze some of it I think.

12/04/2008 19:28 #46959

Cooking the turkey
Category: food

I am trying to cook a turkey right now. Wish me luck. I am following the instructions found at

I still can't believe what a deal it was so such a quality bird.

The separate the skin from the breast slide butter in stage was such a weird thing to do, but I suppose it will probably taste that much better. Turkey skin is so stretch I am surprised there are not turkey skin condoms.

james - 12/05/08 09:53
wow. If the second piece of advice is "push your way deeper" I wouldn't be taking advice from that Lesbian fister.

Though I am amazed you had a video so appropriate to this photo.

theli - 12/05/08 09:35
:::link:::

Lalala...

zobar - 12/05/08 00:52
Oh man don't even tell me you went to Elroy's Discount Prosthetics. That place is bad news, man.

- Z

jacob - 12/05/08 00:06
That looks so wrong. It should be a Tool song.

tinypliny - 12/04/08 19:39
Good luck! Hope it turns out super-tasty and you don't have to eat out. ;-)

12/04/2008 02:17 #46947

Being Broke Sucks
Category: housing

Its not often that i am totally broke but right now I am mega super broke. One of our rental appartments bathroom and kitchen cost like $3000 unexpected dollars to fix. Hopefully, now after working on it a bunch this weekend, we can actually rent it out again. Having two apartments rented will be a big help to the brokeness. I feel like that place sucks the life out of me.

I wish we just had our house to deal with. Even after all the problems were fixed at the rental prop I found an attic window that was rotting out. Should be a fun weekend of painting, fixing and cleaning. It should be great as I am still sick.

It really sucks to be broke. Luckily, I bought a turkey on super clearance at the lexington-coop

so even though we have no more grocery money, we will have 20 pounds of turkey once I get a chance to cook it. It was like $16 instead of $70, the original price but it was frozen and I had to defrost it for 3 days now. The turkey comes from Stonewood Farms In Vermont

On the work front
I worked way late into the evening twice and still have two hours of personal leave I have to use right now before it expires so I figure that tomorrow, I am leaving early in order to cook the Turkey, ya right. We will see how that goes.

I have been programming like mad but its never enough to keep up with the crazy number of requests we have now. I am supposed to be working on one new project but everyday its something else. I hope we et new people before there is a hiring freeze.

libertad - 11/15/09 09:58
i'm going to be looking for these turkeys this year after thanksgiving to go on sale again.

tinypliny - 12/04/08 09:28
:( yeah, I was broke my entire first 1.5 years here till I became ultra frugal about everything and got rid of my landline, all expensive grocery, scouted for the cheapest produce, didn't eat out for at least a year and generally whipped my budget into shape. I think I came out more healthy and fell in love with cooking all over again so this is a turn for the positive! :) I want to come home early and cook as well - all the days!

paul - 12/04/08 09:12
It's just that more and more stuff is becoming web based. Not a budget issue, at least not yet.

james - 12/04/08 09:09
Since you are poor you can pretend to be your favorite Jack London story! You can get in the attic with the turkey and pretend to be real cold. Then pull a lighter out of the turkey's stuffing orifice to start a fire and cook him! yum, yum. And an adventure to boot.

carolinian - 12/04/08 09:07
Has the economy's impact on state-funding and personal donations affected Roswells IT dept, and they're trying to do more with the same amount of people, or is what you're facing a buffer overrun of people who said "wouldn't it be neat if..."?