I had today [Thursday] off just before a 4-day working weekend. I’ll be in “zombie mode” so someone, please let me know when when it’s next week Tuesday

I saw the commercial for Super Paper Mario & remembered my son telling me how much he wants a system. I still think N64 is good enough. He’s a teenager so I told him to start saving his money now.

I have another son who can detect an H3 a mile away. Red is his fave color. My reply? Start saving your money.

I didn’t know the Goo-Goo Dolls made a Sabres video until I saw it on In Da Buff. Click below:

I thought this might be a good time to bring back Yoshi on the Kazoo. Click below:

Let’s cheer our Buffalo Sabres any way we can

Today I had the chance to meet someone whom I have only read his words for a few years now. The man behind his blog is funny & smart, personable beyond words. Like most blogs, I view everyone’s everyday. His blog? Several times a day because there is always fresh material to read. I don’t always comment but when he writes I listen [even before I came to being a blogger on WNYmedia].

Buffalo Pundit, it was a great pleasure finally meeting you.

Yikes! I was so nervous.

From the Buffalo News:

More changes in store for ever-busier Transit Road
Three-year project to tackle two-mile stretch of clogged thoroughfare in growing suburbs

After five years or so of relative peace, the tearing-up and subsequent rebuilding of Transit Road — one of Erie County’s most congested and detested commuter corridors — resumed last week.

You practically could feel the shudder.

“It’s coming,” said Clarence Supervisor Kathleen Hallock, a veteran of the nearly two decades already devoted to rebuilding Transit Road.

“It’s a huge project, and there will be major impacts,” added Hallock, who calls herself a “survivor” of the innumerable traffic jams caused by lane closures while the work was done.

This time around, the reconstruction will involve the two miles from Aero Drive, south of the Thruway, to Main Street, a stretch jammed with 44,100 vehicles a day, or 20 percent over capacity.

No major lane closures are anticipated this season, said Susan Surdej, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation, because construction will focus on such tasks as improving drainage, work off to the side of the road. The department also is reconfiguring some side streets to steer traffic away from the intersection of Transit and Wehrle Drive.

Call it the calm before the storm, however.

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My Wife made it through surgery and things look good. She’s in a bit of pain, but that’s to be expected. Hopefully she will be out Saturday.

But I have to tell you about Hospital food.

When I was in 20 years ago, they brought you a little sheet in the morning, you circled what you wanted for the day, and hopefully they didn’t screw it up. Now, it’s like room service. You call in your order from the menu, and they deliver. The lady next to my wife called in an order of Beef Burgundy. Half hour later this woman in a white shirt, black slack, like a server in a nice restaraunt brings the food. And this was not in a fancy hospital mind you. It’s nice to see that they have upgraded the most important part of the hospital.

The food

Ask anyone about their stay in the hospital. They won’t complain about the surgeries, the tests, the pain. Just the food.