(e:paul) and I got to go out to see the Excision show at Town Ballroom tonight while (e:terry) hopefully relaxed a little from tax time. Like the Datsik show it was a packed house and out of control.


The opener was kind of boring and lame but Excision had to be the most ridiculous sound I have ever witnessed. It reminds me I need to seriously get some real earplugs. Instead immediately stuffed some napkins in my ear so I wouldn't go deaf. It worked well enough because I don't have tinnitus like I usually do after the Town Ballroom.

The bass vibrated your whole body - skin, eyes, hands, everything was shaking. The pressure of the sound in the opening to his set was almost too much. His projections were pretty amazing too on the big robot speaker set they had set up.


There were also a ton of cute sweaty beardy bros there. Even though they make me feel old already it's fun to dance with them. I'd like to mosh too but I can't promise that I or someone else isn't going to end up really punching somebody.

Lisa was there going crazy per the usual, and invited us to her birthday at Lift this Friday. We haven't gone there but that could be fun. I have to think it's probably the same crowd of that goes to this type of EDM.










The snowbanks have become so high its redonk. Paul and I decided to document them.

We went down to East Aurora and Hunter's creek to snowshoe with Mark, (e:paul)'s uncle and (e:czarkasm)'s dad. All of the little valleys, creeks and cliffs were completely filled with snow, and we would only about a foot in.
I wonder what Little Rock City is like now - i bet you can fall right off some of the rocks without breaking your arm.

It was tons of fun. Despite the fact the snowshoes have spikes climbing the hill was mostly scrambling on hands and knees. Going down hills I had to just sort of run and home I didn't slide down on my ass.

I definitely want to go again - if we ever try again I'd like to try bigger shoes since I was using Erica's mother's old pair.

Afterwards we ate amazing homemade bread, veggie chili, and brownies from Erica's mom. It was the perfect way to fill up after.

(e:paul) and I took an afternoon to go to the botan. It was so nice to bask in the heat like a tortoise. Surprisingly they have a three adult family membership so we renewed and are now all members.


These poor ducks were freezing their little duck butts off. We wondered how pissed they all must be at the duck leader who decided it was time to fly north.


The orchid show was going on but sadly not too many of them smelled.
















How can we grow one of these? The leaves smelled amazing.

So did this curry plant (aka CP). It had a nice spicy smell to it









Cacti are so strange. This one had a little flower crown

Congrats to (e:czarkasm) for winning the second round of the Artvoice Boom competition. It was by something redonk like 70 votes.

I took the NFTA for many years and I don't think I ever had as good of a time as these people are. Especially the guy standing in the front with the girl waist high.