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Bills @ the Alamodome

Published on October 3, 2005 in travel. 1 Comment

Losman, in the first of his many moments on the ground
Originally uploaded by activitystory.

It started out great, but quickly went nowhere. The SA Saints fans were very very loud, and certainly took their toll on the Bills offense, who didn’t materialize after their opening scoring drive. Each team missed an easy field goal.

I don’t think I’ve ever been to a game like this where I wasn’t rooting for the home team; it’s considerably less fun. Still fun, of course, but very different.

Hightlights of the trip were getting to hang with Mike and Meg on Saturday night and lunch at Oma’s Haus in New Braunfels on the way back.

Strange experience on returning

Published on August 23, 2005 in machines and travel. 1 Comment

I just returned from the post office with the mail that built up (in four days? i know!) while we were gone, and there were 3 netfilx dvds in there… A few seconds after I did the following, I realized how 21st century I have become. So: stack of netflix envelopes right there in front of me, but (in what seemed to be an instinctual move) I accessed information on a server hundreds of miles away to determine their contents rather than opening them myself. Heh.

The aforementioned trip to NYC was supergreat. Pictures @ flickr; executive summary below:

Highlights:

Seeing a huge crew of fools: Dan, Smooth Dan, Chris, Tess, Bartow, Ryan (!), Kevin, Daniel, Carrie, Jon, Tally, Alex, Nora, Hanney.
Rocking the tourist style w/ Ryan on the Empire State Building
Eating at favorite joints: Grimaldi’s, Go, Cucina de Pesce, Chip Shop
Good meals at places new to us: Loreley, Press 195, Gravy, Pink Pony
Inside look at the casket factory near Dan’s place on Union Street
Spending more time in the Lower East Side than ever before
Kevin playing at Tonic w/ a full band
Walking from Dan’s to Tally & Alex’s
The weather
Seeing an apparently-F’d-up Sam Rockwell eating a slice of pizza on Ave A
Late night patties

Lowlights:

Missing all the out of town friends: Rachel, Real Bobby, Jennifer
Missing other folks that were around: Chris, Daniel, Katherine & Erich, Chris infobong
International Bar seems to be closed
Spending more time in the Lower East Side than ever before
Unsuccessfully trying to sleep during Broken Flowers @ BAM
Never finding any cold Manhattan Special for sale
Actually seeing some Real World Austin episodes
ATM fees

Ok, back to work.

End of the Road

Published on June 9, 2005 in photos and travel. 2 Comments

The trip was fun, but I am so glad to be home to get the summer started right. We finally got back last night at 3 am after another half-day delay at O’Hare. We spent the earlier half of the day at Niagara Falls, but I forgot to take my camera. So here’re some pictures from Charlotte and Toronto instead.

We got to spend the day before Greg and Molly’s wedding with The Clawsons for some BBQ and a visit toSciworks.

Mmmm. Biscuitville.

I didn’t try a bowl, but the cross-section looked delicious.

This was our hotel in the T-to. Some girls we were talking to at the Spoon/Clientele show on Sunday night laughed at us for staying there, but it was being renovated, and we got the room for $69. They also made fun of us for drinking Molson Canadian at the show (which was also the cheapest). Apparently, Labatt’s 50 is more of a beer for watching indie rock shows, and MC is just for hockey. Hmm. Good to know.

View from the room (23rd floor!)

More view from the room

City Hall was next door

One-way signs in Canada don’t say one-way, which was a little disorienting.

I spent a lot of time wandering around to record stores and stuff while Kelly was at the conference on Monday, and then on Tuesday we went over together to gather swag at the trade show. We eventually wandered into the CBC Museum (Free!), which had all sorts of crazy broadcast equipment on display.

This was a sound effects machine for CBC radio in the 80s, there were several drawers like this on the unit, and a wordless control panel on it on top

They had several displays where you could just punch a button with a picture of a show or the name of a historical event and excerpts would play on a little TV. They started out all lit up, and then each button would dim as that clip played.

We ate at a great pan-Asian place on Queen St. West called EAST!, which is situated right next to the best piece of graffiti I saw on the entire trip.

More Road Photos

Published on June 4, 2005 in photos and travel. 2 Comments

Haunted Lifeguard Lockerroom, Lake Erie State Park

Stone House, Lake Erie State Park

Rob & Tam’s rehearsal dinner sound system

Some toys

Kelly at the playground

The cabin we rented after the wedding

The other cabins, which we should totally lock down for a week next summer for a friendly reunion

Eli enjoying corn

Mark and Rob heading to the beach for wood

Fredonia pictures

Published on May 27, 2005 in photos and travel. 4 Comments

Soccer Field, SUNY Fredonia

Giant Wet-Newspaper Sculpture, SUNY Fredonia

Close-up of Giant Wet-Newspaper Sculpture, SUNY Fredonia

Reed Library, SUNY Fredonia (where I’m sitting right now)

The dirtiest suction-cup in the land

Parking space on campus

Kelly rolled down a hill

One of the main campus buildings

Kelly’s new shades

Aldrich’s Ice Cream and Meat Parlour

Gina, Meegan, Clara, Eli

Creepy Grave Statue in Jamestown

Vancouver Video Teaser

Published on March 24, 2005 in photos and travel. 5 Comments

I took a video camera to Vancouver and am in the process of editing down a little movie of our trip, but I don’t foresee having much time to finish it in the next week or so, so here’re some tiny stills.

If you want to know about trip, I think Scott covers the two days we spent with them in a much more interesting manner. Be sure you look at his posts about Seattle as well, so you can see how much better that city seemed. More details later with the video.