Tour de Farms was way colder than last year, but still pretty awesome. (e:terry) and I left in the morning, and met up with (e:yesthatcasey) for the urban farm portion. (e:paul) rested up in bed during the morning.


Terry and I had to dress warm and sporty. It got warmer later though.



Ever since I replaced the chasis on my phone, the pictures are so blurry and overexposed. I think the lens plastic isn't as good.

Wilson Street urban farm. They have 25 lots and the one owner has a pretty intense beard.

The MAP chickens. I don't want to eat them but they're cute enough that I want to raise one.

This weird house in Elma had a garden of bald eagle status. 'Merica




You weren't supposed to pick the flowers at Ole's farm this year. Everyone who did got yelled at.

The food was really good this year. We had wraps from Ashker's for lunch, and I got bean salad and corn for dinner. Warning for next year, the potato salad has bacon in it.


Paul woke up at noon to pick up Casey after he got a flat. He raced out to Alden on his bike and we got to drink beer and eat with him.


I got to track Paul's Tour de suburb on the way over with Google+.

On Thursday, I got offered a full time position as a programmer analyst at Roswell. It starts as soon as I'm done with my contract - I'm so pumped that I get to stick around.

The only down side is I won't be in the web development department with (e:Paul) anymore, I'll be on the clinical IT team. But maybe we can get find ways to pull projects together.

This week we also got to soft launch the appointment reminder system. Four patients have already signed up. I can't wait to make it even better.

For my dad's birthday we went to Curly's to celebrate. We had the best waitress I think I've ever had.

We were singing happy birthday in this picture but my dad really wanted to text a picture of the cake to someone.

Last Saturday, the dryer stopped working. The heater still worked, but the drum itself didn't tumble even though you could hear the motor/blower going.

So on Friday I decided I was going to fix it. At first I tried taking off the back, but quickly realized you couldn't access the drum from there. It did give me a chance to clean it out though.

So I looked it up and found a guide for Kenmore 500 series dryers here . To get access to the drum you need to remove the lint trap, the two screws in the trap, and then slide and pop the top off. After that, there are two bolts holding the front panel on.

When I took it off, I found the drive belt on the drum was completely slack. So I took the drum out, and found the belt tensioner was on the ground and the belt was connected to nothing. So I cleaned out the machine, put the drum and tensioner in , and reconnected the belt, making sure it was on the wear line. It took about an hour, but the dryer definitely works.

Here is a diagram from the appliancerepair.net website:


I definitely feel like I could be an appliance repairman if I needed to.

The UB med school construction is in full swing. The foundation they've dug is the second deepest hole I've ever seen. It's going to straight to the Allen Street subway station - I'm guessing that's why.


They may be good at digging but not so much at spelling.