Author Archives: Elegant

arg. my next electronics purchase, after the camera is paid for, and after europe, is going to be a GPS. because i apparently am completely incapable of following directions correctly and getting to where i need to go in a simple manner. i left my house an hour early to get to the meeting with russell and a developer, and i end up in lafayette square, and not ellicott square. and drive around downtown in what can barely be called rush hour, but was trafficy enough, trying to find the right building. i called mike and he wasn’t home, and i called adr2 and she didn’t answer. while on the phone with my parents trying to look it up on the internet i accidentally found it. just in time. arg. no more of this!

these “truth” commercials about cigarettes are usually pretty good, and this new one i just saw is the best. 2 guys singing a song about tobacco and the singer has a stoma and uses an electronic voice machine thing.

anyway. ellicott square building is beautiful. i’ve never been inside. really stunning. meeting went well.

so busy weekend. where did we leave off? i dunno. friday was work. that’s all i remember about that.

saturday david came into town from visiting pittsburg for the duran duran show at the casino and some exploring. i had told people i’d take them to bct, so we went there and froze our asses off. had a long chat with ed…strange things are a foot at the…bct. anyway. after freezing there, i took him to sattler and froze there. retook, for the 3rd time, my audience self portraits. hopefully this time, they’re bright enough, and i didn’t sit in the same seat twice. back home to watch some of the sabres game, he went to the show, i didn’t start til 10. so work. there was a strange mix of people who went to the duran2 show, and a bunch of people in flannel who came in after alice in chains at dome theatre hahaha. managed to get out early and sleep a bit.

today brought trying to go to spaulding. sad to say, it’s half demolished. the front admin building, and the long brick building closest to the street that housed the reznor heater are now gone. so dan is the last out of towner to see the place. just as we were moving the fence to go on site a truck pulled up with a big piece of bulldozer, and another truck entered the site. booooo on them. made a half hearted attempt to find this other place i heard about recently, and i know i’ve driven past it before, but i couldn’t find it. so back to the falls to take a look at the place dan and i stopped at in the dark last month. nice little place. i still have no clue what they made there, but they left lots of machinery behind. back home to watch some more hockey, david left, and i went off to work.

my knee is killing me cuz i wacked it with a table lid at work yesterday. didn’t start hurting today til back at work taking the stairs every hour. blah. and also my stomach. i’m nervous because after i eat i’m getting faint pains that used to be the sign that i was getting a gall bladder attack. and this worries me because after surgery, the doctor said my common bile duct was larger than it should be – which meant it was possible that there were still some stones stuck in it, that could give me problems later on. he said it was something that the stomach specialist would be able to take care of, not surgery again. but i still cant imagine how they’d get them out without shoving something down my throat or other nastiness. yuck. i’m hoping it’s just my imagination or something.

and i have a myspace stalker.

and i’m trying to read clockwork orange, but i didn’t get the version that comes complete with a glossary to tell you what the hell all these words are. i’ve given up trying to figure out what they mean, and just keep reading. i’ve seen the movie so know the basic plot, i can get the gist. i got all these books from bookmooch.com and now i don’t want to read any of them. blah.

tuesday is election day and i really can’t wait to go vote. only so i can NOT vote for tom reynolds. i had 2 tom reynolds propaganda mails yesterday (and one pro-walmart propaganda piece). all of them target his opponent, and none of them say what reynolds plans to do about these things he mentions. not that this really matters, because there’s no way i’d vote for a republican, but who is running against Elliot Spitzer for governor?? and who is running against Hillary Clinton? ah well i’ll find out on tuesday when i go vote haha

had to work a 6th day this week to deal in the black jack tournament. they’re pretty boring, and i only ended up dealing in the first round. got to be a spectator the rest of the time, and get updates on the sabres game – which seemed doomed, down 4-1 in the 3rd, only to come back and tie, and win in a shootout. they just don’t quit!

which reminds me – dream – i finally went to a game with my season tickets and i was sitting near some guy who we apparently knew from games last year. and the game we were watching was actually a re-run of the “no goal” finals game from 99. then for some reason after the game, to get out of the arena, we had to walk across the ice. which wasn’t slippery at all. so we’re walking to the exit which is near the players benches and there were some sabres sitting there crying. and we were like, it’ll be ok next year when we win the cup. haha

also took adr2 and bliss to sattler in the afternoon. it was snowing. damn buffalo haha. went for drinks after the tournament which was alright. there was a fight at the bar and keith is all, wtf we come to this bar because there aren’t fights here!! haha

dear god my house is so cold. the heat just turned off, and i’m freezing. it’s gonna be a long, cold winter. and an expensive one.

commercial: just in time for the holidays (some jewelry item)….JUST IN TIME?!?!? ITS NOVEMBER 1ST!!!!!!!!!!!

and haha, my dad’s so funny “Nice, but I thought you were going to dress differently for Halloween.” hahah

epic quote after the game by lindy ruff:
“Sabertooth went down hard, we hope he’s ok”

researching things to see in berlin, and it looks like i should stay an extra day haha. i want to go to the hansa studios, where u2 began recording achtung baby, and where bowie created his “berlin trilogy” (and is not far from the Golden Goddess of Victory statue where u2’s “stay” video was filmed). i want to see the nazi subterranean bunkers that the Berlin Underground Association offers tours of if possible (their site isn’t working atm), there are the ruins of a cathetral to check out. and i’m just beginning my research. i really wish i could get over my fear of hostels because by god, staying at this one berlin hostel in a 7 bed room is 18euro/night!

well i deleted my icenine inbox again…great. fucking webmail you suck. anyway. hope there was nothing important in there that i was saving, cuz gone. nothing in my trash folder either. fantastic.

so no one really knew what i was, again…i didn’t think it was that hard…at least the nurse part..dead…zombie. any of those. i got a few beetlejuices, and the main question was if it really was my hair. i did get one who said i looked like the bassist of marilyn manson hahahahahahahahahhahahahah

and omg. in germany, i totally have to dress like dieter. i don’t care if no one else gets it, i will, and it’ll be fabulous.