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12/28/2011 20:25 #55809

Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2011
Category: photos
So I missed these guys last Year.... If you like Classical Music played with Rock Guitars....Yes it is a bit over the top but fun..... Oh and a nice Christmas Story with Christmas music then you would like this.... Nice write up in today's Buffalo News.... So there was stuff that was new to me.... One thing that I like about how they do a show is that the lighting is also part of the show.... meaning the stuff it is rigged up on has screens and things like that.......
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Thought I would Pause here for a second and say that I sometimes think of this as a light show.... In person you can see the people but I think often times the Camera picks up more of the light... For example what looked purple to me looked blue on the camera screen... Also it is tough to follow everything ... They had this cat walk that lowered and people played on it.... At the end of the show some kid came up on stage.... They had a stage with some pyro .... My point is it is a lot of fun but you can't see it all and the Camera sure can't get it all.... Thurs. Of this week is WWE... Granted it is a house Show and means I'll miss TNA on TV but it will be fun..... Ok back to Pictures from the show......

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Now that being said I wonder does anyone agree with me on a couple things about First Niagara Center that Bother me..... From the outside it says First Niagara Center but the center is like an after thought and is smaller and less bright...Looks trashy to me.... Now maybe at a hockey game I wouldn't think this but Beer Ads hanging from the Rafters..NO! NO! NO! I don't care that Labatt is now in Buffalo! That is for Banners of Players and Championships not an Ad! There is plenty of room for Ad space keep it out of There! Maybe I'll see how it looks During wrestling and still not like it..... Ok few more pix...

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metalpeter - 12/30/11 17:37
It is a lot of fun......
paul - 12/28/11 22:58
Those pics are awesome. I have always wanted to go. Maybe next year.

12/28/2011 17:47 #55808

Downtown and Christmas Windows
Category: photos
I admit I had no idea about these windows... Cousins where coming in to see them... They do look pretty nice... I don't have the skills to get the close ups through the glass though... See you get reflection of what is around off the glass.... Now though with a flash assuming it doesn't bounce of the glass and make a bright spot shockingly looked like it killed most of the reflection?

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12/26/2011 20:49 #55802

Christmas B-day
Category: holiday
So Far Christmas and My Birthday where ok.... Yes there was some Drama a bit... But Mission Impossible was pretty good... Got to see the Christmas Windows Tonight Downtown and see some more Family..... Then Christmas Finishes up with TSO on Tuesday.... And then Thursday is a WWE House show... Not sure about Cameras and TSO so taking the little one... Wish I could take the Zoom but then gotta take it to work and that is a pain and then find out if I can take it in and ARGh..... So hoping to post those and the Christmas Windows and DT on Wends but we shall see... Hope Everyone had a great Holiday and has a great New Year.....

12/20/2011 20:41 #55778

Christmas 4
Category: holiday
So thought I should write something positive and some people might think I am nuts but that is ok.... I know for a fact (now this doesn't prove that there is a god or even if it did that it is the one that you prey to.... )... But I do know for a fact that there is something... Don't know if you would call it a spirit and angel cause I don't know what it was but one night I was touched (not that way) by something..... Now maybe one could say I just enjoy American Horror story to much. But seriously though one night I woke up cause I felt a hand press down on my shoulder.... Yeah it freaked me out a bit... Thinking one hears a voice in an apartment doesn't mean much....

So thought I would list some things that I do like about the holiday....
  1. Christmas Lights what isn't to like about Christmas lights or other holiday lights and huge things on lawns....
  2. Christmas movies: Ok granted when Culkin Had a beard and they had to use his brother it got silly but there are a lot of great movies ok and some bad ones I have never seen all of like A Wonderful life.....
  3. The Fact that people who never give will at this time of year
  4. The Fact that this is (unless you do the out door adventure sports thing) the only time the snow looks nice.....HA
  5. unexpected gifts (this doesn't happen very often)
  6. Did I say the Christmas lights
  7. Oh yeah a Burlesque Performance of A Nightmare Before Christmas
  8. Christmas Specials
  9. Christmas Cookies

Ok not going to push this.......
metalpeter - 12/22/11 17:59
I thank you a head of time.... Hoping they surprise as well.... I've had some cookies at work that where pretty good..... This working 5 days a week thing one would think I would be use to it by now but these last few years Christmas comes out of like nowhere.... Maybe (HA) it has something with the fact that Myspace had a Christmas count down clock and Facebook doesn't..... Thanksgiving hits and then it feels like Christmas is a week away all most... ARGh.... Or maybe I'm losing my mind a bit? It could also be that the week after Christmas are two events at the Arena TSO and WWE that might effect my perspective? I wish I was better at taking pictures of Christmas Lights that would have been fun to do.....
ladycroft - 12/22/11 06:19
Well I think some of this is doable so I hope your family can surprise you with something that makes you happy :) I'd make you cookies if I was home! Like I said before, your gift is going to be late because we missed the shipping deadline for USA....but it will come by the new year, so yay!
metalpeter - 12/21/11 16:39
I forgot to that there is Christmas Candy..... The Simple way to explain Nightmare.... Is there is this land where it is all ways Halloween and I forget how but someone someone finds these doors or pathways to other Holidays so they go to what is our world and do Christmas the Halloween way it is pretty crazy.... But what is nice about it is it is also a Halloween Movie......
tinypliny - 12/20/11 21:12
I like christmas lights, christmas songs, unexpected gifts (my advisor gave a tea mug out of the blue today). I was completely taken aback but it was such a beautiful little moment to realize that she cares about me! I love christmas movies. They are so happy!

I don't like snow. It makes things yuck. Not a fan of christmas cookies - they are too sweet for me. Never saw "a nightmare before christmas", so I have no idea what it is about.

And oooh, I have those kind of nightmares all the time! I feel someone pushing me down and since I sleep on the floor, when I wake up it feels very real. But its not really scary. I just feel frustrated that I was not able to push them back.

12/19/2011 17:24 #55774

Christmas 3 2011 What I need for Christmas....
Category: holiday
I still can't really believe how close Christmas is.... I still think there needs to be more time between it and Thanksgiving.... Or maybe Time just goes by really quickly..... I think waking up early going to work coming in going on line for a couple hours then watching some shows then repeat all week makes the time fly buy.... Not to mention then on Saturday catching the stuff on DVR... Then all day Sunday is football and a bit of online and my Sunday night line up..... Then the next week starts..... So I all ways think I have all this time and next thing I know oops didn't get that person a present and oops there are all these nice Charities I never gave a dime to.... Ooops and I think that is part of what weighed on me the other day Some.... So I thought I would just put down some things I need .... For Christmas.....

By the way I'm not asking anyone for anything this is just Kinda a list for me: I'm sure what ever I really get will be good ?
  1. A freezer that keeps things frozen and just runs ... Not this crap that most of them do where the stuff warms up then gets colder so that ice crystals form or the ice cream is rock hard or way to soft ARGH!
  1. 400 or 500 photo Photos albums for some reason recently they have become hard to find about 20-25 of them... Now I don't need that many now But if I had them then I could just keep getting pictures developed kinda mega behind on that
  1. A computer with printer and a slew of memory: Of course still not sure if a PC or Laptop would be better.... This way I could do things like when I go to a show and come home start the download and some up loads then.... And things like that uploading pictures as I watch a show or something....
  1. A women with a big mouth and tight tiny lips....HA had to toss that one in there (A booty call girl?)
  1. Storage for all my fucking clothes
  1. A washer and Dryer... Of course one would need the hookups in their place so........
  1. The Time for some great Blu-Ray movies.......
  1. Another TV so that I It would be easy to Watch The Sabres or some other sport with no sound and see what is going on as I watch a show with a story....
  1. A gangster style Suit and a fun Suit I admit would be nice to have or just some fun clothes .......

Well guess that is it really the Time one implies Movies as well like Star Wars and clone wars and fun stuff like that.....
metalpeter - 12/21/11 16:43
Well that is a good point on the photos but digital storage isn't the same as opening up a album. We get wiped out bye the aliens using and EMP ! Or we turn into zombies we would be able to at least open some pages and see some pictures.... The point is Digital isn't real when power goes away so does it.... Now that being said it would be cool to have a machine set up with all my photos on disc and one could have slide shows...... Yes Albums do take up a lot of space but looking at a picture on a screen isn't the same....
tinypliny - 12/20/11 21:14
I would say that a computer with duplicate harddrives might be a good way to go instead of printing out photos or having physical photo albums. if you have a backup you will never lose anything.
tinypliny - 12/20/11 21:00
you could edit this post if you want. just remove the empty lines between hashed lines.
metalpeter - 12/20/11 20:21
Ok it worked.....
metalpeter - 12/20/11 18:48
Yeah I hit enter and put space so I will try again might let it be public for about the time it takes to read then make it private an up coming post? Unless I can think of something else where a numbered list would be good...Oh thanks by the way...
tinypliny - 12/19/11 20:02
I think you typed enter twice. Which broke the lists. Just eliminate the line after each item in your post and it will render the list correctly.
tinypliny - 12/19/11 19:58
oops. so the lists work in comments
{I wish

worked

worked in comments
What about [code]{let's see if it does} [/code]

So (e:metalpeter), just ignore the backslashes below. The comment below this is what you will get if you type without the backslashes:

Yes, if you keep on typing
\# something with no break ENTER
\# something else with no break ENTER
\# 3rd thing ENTER
\# it should put all the above and this sentence as a numbered list

On the other hand if you typed
\* 0something with no break ENTER
\* something else with no break ENTER
\* 3rd thing ENTER
\* it should put all the above and this sentence as a un-numbered list

If you break the items
\# Like this ENTER
something else
\# it will break this list

like so:

1. Like this ENTER
something else
1. it will break this list
tinypliny - 12/19/11 19:56
Yes, if you keep on typing
  1. something with no break ENTER
  2. something else with no break ENTER
  3. 3rd thing ENTER
  4. it should put all the above and this sentence as a numbered list

On the other hand if you typed
  • 0something with no break ENTER
  • something else with no break ENTER
  • 3rd thing ENTER
  • it should put all the above and this sentence as a un-numbered list

If you break the items
  1. Like this ENTER
something else
  1. it will break this list

like so:

1. Like this ENTER
something else
1. it will break this list
metalpeter - 12/19/11 17:26
So Question to those that know? I didn't type 1. I used the # sign was there a way (think so that I don't remember) where it would have gone to 2. and 3. ?