On Thursday we headed out on the Black Rock Roller's infringement parade. It started off at the Birchfield Penny, stopped at the coop house where a marching band led us down to Days Park.

Much frisbee and fire dancing happened before the ride kept on going down to Hop Inn in South Buffalo. It was full of ridiculously cute bro boys and the drinks were cheap. I think you'd love it (e:mike)









The weird part about this bar was all the publicly advertised bachelor parties. They have raffles, prizes, tickets and everything. Is this a South Buffalo thing?

Last night we rode around the city, mostly in South Buffalo. It's really it's own separate city. I've only been on Abbott near Caz Park once before but it's pretty nice.

On the way home we hit up Seneca, and passed this weird parking lot Mary shrine in Larkinville. You can see the location better at 849 Seneca on Google Maps " >(MAP TO: ).

(e:paul) said she looks like some Judy Garland version of Mary. The shrine also has a million different little postcards and old photos of people.

While (e:terry) went to go watch UFC, (e:paul) and I went for a bike ride around Buffalo. We ended up circling around the park and Parkside before ending up at the Italian Festival.


The park is way nicer now with the new 30mph speedlimit on the Scajaquada. It's quieter, less distracting and looks safer too (who ever thought the 90 degree turn stop sign ramp at Delaware was ever good at 55mph+?) Most of the drivers are still speeding but it's a step to getting rid of it altogether.

(e:paul) had never seen the south east corner of the park, near Parkside and Agassiz Circle. A little outside the ring road, you can see two stone paths. They used to cross the now filled in stone quarry in the park. The fill from the 198 is what buried it. I know you also can see remnants of bridges over the Scajaquada creek on Main Street.



The Italian festival was pretty crowded - despite police shutting it down early last night due to fights and the local news blowing it up like it was some big deal.

I don't know why they shut it down because people fight outside the festival every year. Fried ravioli really gets people riled up.

I wonder if that's why cops were literally at every corner, and a bunch of people had these yellow "peacekeeper" shirts on.




(e:paul) and I celebrated his Italian heritage with some cannoli. One from Romano's Bakery, at Starin and Kenmore, and another from Gino's at Kenmore and Colvin. Note to self, the Romano's one was the best cannoli I've ever had, full stop.



I saw a new Middle Eastern restaurant near Commonwealth and Hertel. I want to try their falafel!

This year was much better than the last. We only were down for Saturday but the weather was perfect. (e:uchina) came and we all had a happy fun time frolicking in the fields next to a fire spewing Tonawanda Coke levels of emissions.

Sadly I don't have any pictures because my naked self doesn't have storage space for a Note 3. But I know (e:uchina) managed some (she had a backpack).

(e:paul) and I went on a crazy rampage on the kitchen sink. What started out as replacing what we thought were leaky drain baskets and poorly set up drain pipe, turned into a 10 hour endeavor where we ended up
[*] discovering that the drains weren't leaking, but the faucet was
[*] replacing the leaky faucet,
[*] ripping out moldy cabinet floor from the faucet leak (who know how long that was going on)
[*] replacing the drain pipes entirely with a very nice and level set up,
[*] saws-alling the dishwasher drain pipe, and having to replace it. but not before we spent an hour trying to move the dishwasher before we realized we needed to unhook it.
[*]cleaning and replacing the drain baskets.

We went to bed at 4am. On the plus side we have a new spray faucet, no leaks, changed RO filters, and a functional, non-smelly sink.