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03/16/2014 23:53 #58798

St. Patrick's day
Category: holiday
I'll have to post captions later, I have a headacheee
Update: We started somewhat early around 12 after getting decked out in green. I wore (e:paul)'s green zunfthosen .
We got to the parade but weren't actually there too long. Everyone brought St. Patrick's day to the roof for a bit where it got a little cray. Then we came home and stuffed our faces with La Nova. (e:paul) and I took a 5 hour nap before I got back up with a second wind. (e:terry) on the otherhand powered through the whole day. All in all an amazing St. Patrick's day.

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Breakfast of champions.

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Halloween costume for next year?

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Mike advertising estrip with what he's got

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Heidi after she unzipped the zunfthosen at the parade... I forgot how I was wearing them.
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Union floats - a good fuck you to the people that were booing them. You just wish you had a union, I know I do.

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Terry safely repeating his stunt

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(e:dianne) finishing her day like a champ

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The spoon came out for Mike of course
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joe - 03/24/14 12:59
(e:heidi), no hate, out of love! A good summary of the day I think.

(e:tinypliny) as long as the air outlasts the effects of the beer he should be okay, right?
tinypliny - 03/21/14 15:11
I don't know. (e:Paul)'s goldfish bowl headgear makes me anxious about suffocation. Did you make sure to drill holes in it?
heidi - 03/21/14 13:02
You need the vest advertised on the page with the pants.
metalpeter - 03/20/14 19:29
Wow looks like a crazy and good time .... That roof is huge ..... The Parade all ways gets crazy some how ......
paul - 03/20/14 16:59
Nice pics. At first I was like ETF happens to our chiminey, it got so bad this winter but they I realized it was actually the one at (e:Terry)'s work
heidi - 03/20/14 13:05
You seriously posted a pic of butt crack and puking? <smh> I didn't realize that you hated us. :-(

03/16/2014 23:45 #58796

ELAB Circus at Dnipro
Category: going out
(e:terry), (e:paul) and I went with (e:Keith) to the ELAB circus fundraiser at Dnipro. It was pretty good. The Ukranian beers were humongous. (e:paul) decided to speed his tooth healing with cotton candy. Dancing to Soma was pretty good but there weren't many in such a huge space. The coolest part was the full moon projection camera which took your shadows and put them on projecters inside and out of the building.

Then we came back and played street fighter. I beat Terry once with Chun Li, what what.

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tinypliny - 03/21/14 15:12
Hey! is (e:Paul) supposed to have cotton candy when he is having crazy teeth issues??
tsk tsk!
metalpeter - 03/20/14 19:24
looks like it was a lot of fun ....

03/13/2014 23:55 #58783

Throwback Thursday
Category: estrip
Yesterday I was listening to Blümchen (die beste Künstler) with (e:paul) and was reading this post that (e:terry,35355) wrote about loving her back in 2003.

(just listen to her sing about verrückte jungs - crazy boys. she's amazing, 90's, and she'll earworm you forever)

I read a couple of his other posts and they were redonk. And the other day when (e:Mike) was over we were reading some of (e:paul)'s posts from a less bougie time (e:paul,32125).

It made me think it's pretty awesome that a journal like estrip lets you go back and see what you or someone else was like at different points in their life. Even boring shiz about food or being bored at some bar somehow ends up being fun to read. It's like a record of Buffalo - I know I always came across estrip posts on google before I even knew anyone on it. Emily's brother would see what Paul said about a restaurant before he went there. There's so much written on estrip about Buffalo that otherwise would fall to the wayside.

Seems like there are less people that post now than before. I'm interested in knowing what makes people post/not post and what would change that. Maybe we could chalk advertise again like we tried (e:joe,58289) when it doesn't rain the same afternoon. I should try to get my friends to sign up now that facebook is over.


metalpeter - 03/20/14 18:42
I think the Chalk thing is a great idea..... I don't run the site and don't know what Paul's goals are for the site but I wonder if people would notice if it was written on the Road and or side walks where Elmwood Festival of the Arts is ??

I don't post as much cause I get behind and also some things I would post about aren't really an entire blog and some of that I blame on how much fun posting about sports and shows it quick little tweets is .....
tinypliny - 03/17/14 20:07
I stopped posting because I moved. I bet that is the primary reason for a substantial number of non-current posters. I still keep in touch once in a while but it is increasingly becoming less frequent as life becomes busier and more chaotic.

What do you mean by facebook is over?

03/13/2014 00:23 #58781

Car share
Category: cars
I fucking hate having a car. I know that sounds like a garbage first world problem, but I do.

I just worked it out today that if I didn't have this lease and was able to be in the car share, I would have only spent $200 (counting the days I actually needed to drive for work) this year instead of $600, even more with the other months I took over the lease. And this is in the winter with the few times I actually had to drive. I could have probably taken transit on almost every day I drove anyway.

I barely ever drive it and still pay for it on the off chance I need it. When I get rid of this car I am going to take the money I save and do something fun with it, besides paying the Sallie Mae the bloodsucker (what could be better?).

Too bad I can't car share yet, I've had a license for less than the two years you need. Has anyone had experience with Buffalo Car Share?
tinypliny - 03/17/14 20:10
I knew how to drive very well. But then I drove on the opposite side and I learned I couldn't undo all the years of experience. So I just gave up driving and haven't had a car since forever. Can't say I miss it. I pick work and commutes that are intentionally car free. I engineered my lifestyle so I wouldn't ever need a car.
paul - 03/14/14 13:50
You need more practice too. Maybe you should practice while you still have a car before you become another (e:hodown) who doesn't know how to drive.
ExBuffalonian - 03/14/14 12:34
No experience with Buffalo care share, but I have experience with Zipcar in Baltimore. It's freaking awesome, and I would recommend it to anyone. Baltimore suffers from a car culture mentality very much like Buffalo does, and I will never understand that. It is totally possible for most (OK, maybe not all people) to commute to work on public transportation and use a car share program on those occasions when you go shopping at IKEA or need to pick someone up at the airport. At least that has been my experience.

03/12/2014 12:21 #58780

Snow Day again
Category: winter
I can't believe I have another snow day. It wasn't that bad when I left this morning, but by the time I rode down to Delaware and Tupper, I got a call from work saying not to bother coming in since the office was closing at 12. So I went back home to sleep in. On the way home a truck driver started honking at me asking "What the fuck are you doing?" referring to my bike.

Now it's time for working from home (or programming and Deutsch). I'd still much rather have it be spring and be stuck at work than have another freaking foot and a half of snow.

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tinypliny - 03/21/14 15:13
You got 120+ inches this year and we got ~40 inches and are miserable. Hah
North and South.