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04/07/2011 18:43 #53995

For Leetee
Category: clothes
I saw this girl wearing chuck Taylor hightop stockings. I thought you would like them.

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tinypliny - 04/08/11 17:43
I wouldn't have even known those were special - so those football socks like things are actually part of the shoe? How inconvenient?
leetee - 04/07/11 23:11
Thanks Paul! :o)

At the DSW @ The Mall Of America in Bloomington, MN, we aw converse high top shoes with a big sock attached....

04/06/2011 23:20 #53994

New server room
Category: estrip
The only problem might be temperature in that small space. I might need to move it to the attic.

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tinypliny - 04/08/11 17:44
The phoenix rising from the ashes?
paul - 04/07/11 17:23
Yup. Time warner finally came out with a 5mbps up plan.
enknot - 04/07/11 13:34
did you move it to your house?!
KeithT - 04/07/11 12:23
Hahahaha an hour? o.0 Did you use your feet?
paul - 04/07/11 12:00
Ya it took me like an hour to clean all the ashes.
KeithT - 04/07/11 11:34
Wtf Paul?! You stole the ash-tray-table lmao :P

04/06/2011 20:54 #53991

The server in transit
Category: estrip
Here is the server making the nerve wracking trip down main St. I realized once there that I could have set it up on the ups and cell phone tether and had it online the whole time. next time.

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tinypliny - 04/08/11 17:42
I don't think terrorists have such cool hats.
libertad - 04/06/11 21:56
This looks so suspicious, like you are a terrorist bringing in explosives.

04/04/2011 22:31 #53982

Reliving my parents drama
Category: family
Today was such a crazy day. I had Time Warner come to set up my new home business line so that I could run the server from here and save about $60/month.

Trying to make a little server room out of a bedroom closet made me confront all of the stuff inside there. That plus having to rewire a bunch of stuff and get the internet back up and running kind of sent me over the edge.

It so funny how much I am like my dad. I recognize that I get so crazy about stuff but sometimes I just can't stop. I hear myself saying the same jerky things he said that make my mother so nuts but at the same time as I get older I am starting to understand him perspective more. Either that or I am just beginning to be a grumpy old man.

It basically comes down to a difference in people who want to keep stuff and people who want to throw stuff out. My mother, my brother (horder king) and (e:matthew) are more of the mindset that you should always hold onto everything in case it has a value or purpose someday. If it can fit somewhere then it should. My borther has the quirk that he takes on other people's sentimental objects too while (e:matthew) likes to keep broken things just in case. I on the other hand like to hold onto some sentimental things like letters or pictures, possessions that remind me of someone, etc but draw the line at fabric scraps, broken things, books I will never read (in fact I have a couple that need to go), etc.

Its probably wasteful of me to be this way but I think it has to do with always feeling like I am wadding through garbage whenever I am looking for a specific item.

I think there is some relationship to hating to lose placement of where stuff is. Having more stuff means things get misplaced and are harder to find. Also, for some reason having a lot of stuff just gives me anxiety. I never want to have to go through removing tons of garbade from this place again liek we had to when we moved in. I think (e:matthew) and my bro/mom are the opposite when not having lots of stuff gives them anxiety.

The best for me was going away to school where I had to fit the few things I had in a few boxes. One thing I was really excited about in having a giant house was to have some giant open space. At one point I didn't even like furniture. Now I feel that slowly but surely everything is crowding in closer.
heidi - 04/06/11 11:15
How are you doing, Jason? You continue to be in my thoughts.
jason - 04/05/11 09:15
Lately I've been cleaning house. Cleaning out Josh's room. It is unbelievable how much shit people accumulate, myself included. Definitely feeling the "I have too much stuff" anxiety at my Elmwood perch. Why do I have 4 phone books? I am going to try to clean it all up this month, and I can almost taste the relief of having thrown away or given away almost everything.
tinypliny - 04/04/11 23:30
hahaha... I love space to the point of being completely and obsessively avoiding any more furniture at all costs. I have very very little furniture (that I am constantly trying to eliminate and give away, if possible) even though people have tried to give me dining tables, couches, beds, mattresses, dressing tables, kitchen appliances, more lamps, hangars, side tables, closet of drawers, vase holders, mini-kitchen gardens for free at various points of time. But I admit, it's the most tempting thing in the world to receive offers of free stuff. I come close to dragging something home every month. But everytime I think of my parent's home and it scares the hell out of me and I walk away. When I was younger, my favourite story used to be Leo Tolstoy's :::link::: I was so much affected by the whole concept that I drew and sketched every single scene (yes, I trashed those sketches when my parents weren't looking).
tinypliny - 04/04/11 23:19
My parents are such major hoarders. There was seriously no place to move at home because they have so much furniture, duplicates.. no make that triplicates of everything. They have the exact same policy as you describe: "If it is broken, it can be fixed someday." And sometimes this policy does work back home. I don't know if I am even their kid because I don't even keep photographs. People I really want to remember live in my head always... unchanging, happy, growing, beautiful (freaky as it might sound). Over years, my perceptions of them evolves and takes on hues but I feel that it's a healthy way to grow and gain perspectives on the people I came into contact with. If my flat were to burn down tonight and if I had my passport with me, I guess that's all that would really matter (because losing my passport would put me into bureaucratic/immigration/official mess that would suck the life out of me).

I guess that is why "settling down" sounds really scary to me. I guess I am like some of the blokes that most normal women seem to hate - in the sense of inanimate things at least... (and maybe towards people as well). Commitment and attachment-phobe to just about everything.

04/03/2011 23:45 #53976

A trip to South Buffalo
Category: buffalo
At Tiffy I saw some charred reeds. I hope people are not trying to start fires there.

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I swear I spend more time in former waste dumps and industrial sites than out in the country but its kind of cool to have so much outside stuff so close to the city. Its nice that they are really redoing the waterfront and even parts of the Buffalo River. Its the first time I can actually imagine it changing. There is so much space cleared and so many new parks.

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We found lots of parts of the what I had been told was the old "New St Joseph's Cathedral" that was at Utica and Delaware

The only thing is I can't see how these parts match up with the pics, unless they are the internal pillars. I also heard these are the pillar parts that make up the pillar statue on North Campus.

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Here is (e:terry) being strongman in the lot where they store the ice boom in the summer.
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We also headed over to woodlawn.
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At the end of it all we got a car wash at the deltasonic.
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metalpeter - 04/04/11 16:59
seems odd that they would leave the pieces just laying around outside like that......