Joe's Journal

11/13/2014 00:18 #59576

Doubletree Cafe
Category: food

(e:paul) and I met up with (e:terry) for lunch at the cafe inside the Doubletree hotel. It's right next door to the building we work in.

The waitress was super nice. I got a hummus wrap, and lentil soup. The wrap was good, the soup was alright. Paul and I split an order of mozzarella sticks that were terribly amazing.

Strange wallpaper - it was covered in letters and just said "words" and"letters".

tinypliny - 11/19/14 00:27
Wow - our paths must have crossed then and we never knew! :)

Robert - 11/18/14 23:12
(e:tinypliny) I was there from 2009 to 2011. I typically worked nights but i also worked lunch sometimes. they were very different so i may not have been pleasant during the lunch shift.

tinypliny - 11/18/14 00:37
Really, were you there from 2007-2011?

Robert - 11/18/14 00:19
I used to work there!

tinypliny - 11/13/14 23:09
I used to like that cafe A LOT. Compared with the RPCI cafe its waaaay better. But it blew a hole into my budget so I didn't go there too often. The BGH cafe is also better than the RPCI cafe. Hell, all cafes are better than the RPCI cafe.

11/12/2014 01:14 #59568

Trinity Tower lights
Category: linwood

Trinity Towers installed new lights on their buildings when they were doing work last month. They're so bright, even without the porch light its almost day outside. I wonder if this is against code. I want to contact them about it, and if they don't respond I'll ask the city.

tinypliny - 11/13/14 23:13
Maybe the seniors feel safer with bright lights. Personally, being a small person, lights always made a difference in walking at night. There was a section on Summer which was always dark and that was where I was nearly mugged once.

libertad - 11/12/14 12:56
That is so obnoxious. I would think that there would be restrictions on that, especially on your street.

11/11/2014 22:52 #59564

Another graveyard ride
Category: bikes

(e:yesthatcasey), (e:paul), (e:steve) and I took advantage of the warm day to ride around the cemetery. There was a lot of picture taking and meta-picture taken of that picture taking.

Afterwards we rode up through the park, through North Buffalo to walk Midnight. I don't think he expected to see four people there for him.

11/11/2014 22:48 #59563

Allen Street Consulting, part II
Category: allenst

Today (e:paul) and I went with (e:terry) to move the new server, and check out (e:allenstreet)'s new digs. The space is freaking awesome if you ask me.

The server is all set up now in it's new case. Super fast and in a much cleaner environment than the basement. It might even cannibalize some of its other server brothers and virtualize them.

Terry's new office

Corner office panorama

From the back hall, Paul and I noticed a tiny house (or connecting building?) between the two houses across from Founding Fathers. Never noticed from the ground.

Roof shot from the bathroom's tiny escape hatch.

(e:czarkasm) in her new office

11/11/2014 02:14 #59561

French Onion soup and internet grilled cheeses
Category: food

I made a vegetarian French onion soup tonight with purple onions. It was real good - I didn't realize how long you had to carmelize the onions (in olive oil and thyme) until I asked my mom, but I left mine on the stove for nearly two hours. I used a mushroom and faux-chicken broth with some red wine, boiled it down even further, and then broiled cups with a baguette slice and provolone.

Soup and melty cheese makes me think of grilled cheese. Somehow I ended up on this reddit dedicated to every type of grilled cheese - the internet has everything.