Category Archives: Personal

things i hate about summer
1. heat
2. sun
3. humidity
4. too large of people wearing too small clothes

things i am not looking forward to this summer
1. queuing in spiral lines in 90 degree hot sun
2. fishnet tan lines (tho that may actually be cool)
3. all my summer clothes that suck, i think i grew since last summer if that is at all possible, everything is too short now

things i miss about the old townhouse
1. air conditioning
2. dishwasher
3. air conditioning
4. no upstairs neighbors

but i like my new place – even if i still haven’t unpacked the office or hung any of my posters up. i think my 70s wallpaper adds to the kitchyness of most of my decorations hahaha.

and speaking of kitch… more exploring today. went out with joe, chris, trevor and missy to hens and kellys in hamburg. they are demolishing it to build a walmart. it’s been closed for ages. the most interesting thing about it, when we walked in there was fog inside. everything is soaking wet, very humid, and it was hot outside so. fog. you just don’t see department stores like that anymore, with a section for “bras and girdles” and “mens furnishings”….it kept making me think of the britcom “are you being served?” (which i still love and is better than any crap sitcom on tv now). there were 2 chandeliers still inside, one fallen from the ceiling, which made for interesting pics in the fog. but being a department store, very few windows, and none upstairs, which meant using evil flash. so i’ve only got a few “artistic” pictures, the rest simply document it, for it’ll soon be gone.

on the way home stopped by the Ho-oats demolition by my wonderful employers. this isn’t something i was crying about along with the rest of the buffalo preservationists, because really, we can sacrifice a grain silo or 2 (i’d pick and choose my battles if decisions of this kind were up to me, and this just wouldn’t be one of them)….but seeing the demo in progress was a bit sad. interesting how it was being done though. took some pics and video, probably crap video but whatever. also went by meyer malting to see the demo progress there…the front building is half gone. no one was around, being a holiday today and all, but i was by myself at this point, and i couldn’t remember the layout inside enough to remember if i could still get other places inside with half of the front gone. oh well. i’ll have to be satisfied with the few pics i got the only time i was there. (not necessarily a building i’d normally cry about being demo-ed either, but i was only in once, and not for very long…and now that i have active exploring friends again, i had been waiting to go back.)

i’d chain myself to cargill though if there was a demo ordered for that silo.

the clintons are going to be in buffalo on wednesday. i don’t know anything about the state’s democratic convention, but i think it would be interesting to go. and i’d love to meet bill. or hillary. and plead my cause 🙂 i just want to go, gotta try to find out information about it, and postpone my possible trip up to toronto wednesday.

somewhat interestingly…maybe just to me…the man who played the principal in The Breakfast Club died…and what is interesting about it, is that he died from mesothelioma….ha. that’s what i’m going to die from. i wonder how he got exposed to asbestos. i still plan on suing SUNY geneseo when the time comes 🙂

i’ve been identity thefted. someone is using my bank account to buy gasoline in west palm beach florida. spent 275$ so far. and i wondered why my account was so low. gah. stressful. i don’t know how they got my account number, as none of my cards have been stolen, and i don’t use that account number to buy things on the internet, i only use my credit card. so if they were to steal my info from internet purchases they’d be charging them, not using debit…i guess i gotta watch it now, see if anything else weird gets billed to me.

spur of the moment urbex today. chris IMed that he would be checking out the dunlop office building with his friend alex. so i went out with them around 4. cased the place a few times, not knowing where to park. once that was settled we found no way in, except this one window we kept going back to. but there was no way i’d be able to get up to it, i couldn’t even reach the ledge. we convinced chris to drop the 10 feet into the building and find something for alex and i to use to get up. and voila he produces a ladder LOL. so that was helpful. the building is rather unremarkable, but it was a nice change of pace. 3 floors of empty and retarded graffiti, most all dealing with smoking weed. it would have been a fine office building had it been kept up. now it would need alot of work and cleaning, and windows. the ladder was helpful in getting out of the building as well, since again, couldn’t reach the ledge. stopped at wendy’s for a quick snack, and home again. i was gonna clean today. maybe i should do that haha.

thursday brought exploring with ian. started early and headed to spaulding fibre. spaulding is a HUGE complex that made…fibre? tennis balls? i dunno really. haha. they made paper for sure, but there was alot of stuff there that didn’t seem needed for making paper. including an acid room, and tons and tons of wooden vats of whatever. lots of machinery. the boiler room was most impressive, much like the flintkote machine room. veerrry pretty. saw the biggest bird ever in one of the buildings, huuuge wing span. and a squirrel. and a groundhog. and a mummified cat. we spent about 4 hours there before getting lunch at royal and heading down to the terminal for the board meeting. drove by transfig to see the status, and ian wandered in the terminal during the meeting. after, went to REA real quick, then cased the psych center. i didn’t get followed by security this time haha. back to my house we hung out and i showed him the horror that was the discovery channel urban exploration show on buffalo. hung out some more, crashed, and he left not too long ago. i took a total of 1 film picture LOL, but pretty much filled my 512 card.