Paul's Journal

12/19/2015 14:50 #60370

Glasses No More
Category: body

Good bye glasses.

I can't believe I don't need glasses anymore. I wonder why LASIK doesn't get cheaper. It seems like most anyone who can get it should get it instead of glasses but especially instead of contacts. It's crazy how much contact stuff I had in my life.

metalpeter - 12/27/15 17:21
I have no idea about the price my guess is that maybe they only want people coming in for whom they can help so they keep it costly to deter people who they can't help or maybe it an insurance issue (Some people one of the lasers has factored into causing or making depression worse )

12/19/2015 14:45 #60367

New Hat
Category: clothing

I found a new very warm hat. This one for clearance at $6.99 at JC Penney which was such a great deal.

12/19/2015 14:44 #60366

Matt and Kim
Category: music

We went to go see Matt and Kim as part of the Christmas Kerfuffle concert at the First Niagara Center. There were some other bands including Third Eye Blind.

I love Matt and Kim's live performance. It is one of the most exciting and energetic shows there are. They are seem totally on.

The giant balloon drop was pretty out of control.

The only shitty thing was we didn't get floor tickets. Its not fun being at a dancey energetic event in seats.

I really thought that I had bought floor tickets but when we got there to pick up the will call tickets, it wasn't for the floor section. It's so frustrating because I felt like I had tripple confirmed it, guess not.

12/12/2015 19:39 #60361

Soft Cell Cassette Tape
Category: music

This was one of my favorite tapes from the past. I found it at one of those trade in music stores in high school. Then it sat in hoarder box after hoarder box. Using Google music I found so much more. It's crazy how accessible music is now.

ExBuffalonian - 12/13/15 11:10
Alan Cross, on Toronto's radio station 102.1, said they're still making cassette tapes, because there's still a market for them...the 2.4 million people currently serving time in American prisons! Inmates are reportedly not allowed to have CDs, since they can be made into knives or shanks. So record labels are supposedly producing tapes for prisoners. I haven't checked to see if this is true, but it seems plausible. Soft cell is a great find! I have some Marc Almond in my iTunes library I occasionally listen to. Tears Run Rings still sounds totally awesome!

metalpeter - 12/13/15 01:36
They still make radios with tape decks ... It might not be in good shape to play though ......

11/28/2015 22:17 #60352

Thanksgiving
Category: food

This year I made the usual grapefruit juice and cranberry sauce with ginger but I also added clove and cinnamon. It was a really yummy combo.

Take 2 bags of cranberries, 1 cup of fresh squeezed grapefruit and orange juice, 0.5 cups water. Boil cranberries. Add grated ginger, clove and cinnamon bark roll to taste. Mash with spoon and keep stiring till jelly like. Add turbinado sugar to taste. You could substitute regular sugar or brown sugar.

We went to my parents for dinner. It was delicious. Afterwards (e:mike) and I went to the mall at 1am and got lots of great deals.

I did not get the coffee maker of my dreams.