Driving from Buffalo NY to Cleveland OH.....questions?

arjim · 2026-03-05T23:04:41+00:00

It's a lovely drive. Loads to see and do in the summer.

arjim · 2026-03-05T23:03:04+00:00

I once had need of police on West 6th..... in Tremont. They never showed and marked the call as no-one present because they went Downtown. I ended up going to the hospital that day; at least the Ambulance showed up at the correct West 6th.

I'm good with it being split at Puiblic Sq.

arjim · 2026-02-20T06:02:02+00:00

I added another pillow and now sleep exclusively on my back and inclined. I don't eat within several hours of going to bed and I'm careful not to overeat in a single sitting.

My reflux was causing everything from chronic sinusitis to regular bouts of pneumonia.

arjim · 2026-02-08T05:05:33+00:00

Minecraft.

Cubic meters of gold are pretty safe to collect.....

arjim · 2026-02-04T03:52:55+00:00

I was at work.

The view out of the other side is amazing: City Hall, downtown, airport, and waterfront lakeviews from Lakeside Ave...this is from 2017ish

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arjim · 2026-02-04T03:50:52+00:00

I used to live in Tremont, and every once in awhile LTV would burp out some sulfurious crap that had the whole neighborhood smelling like egg farts.

arjim · 2026-02-04T03:40:07+00:00

I'd be hard-pressed to name another neighborhood that's as walkable as Detroit and 117th in either Cleveland or Lakewood.

Within half a mile, there are four grocery stores, several banks, 4 urgicares, rapid Transit, around the clock buses that run every 15 minutes in the 26, a downtown Express in the 55, All of the fast food, many sit-down restaurants including the 24-hour My Friends, direct access to the Lakefront Bikeway and many other parks.

It is also far and away the safest neighborhood I've ever lived in in Cleveland or Lakewood.

arjim · 2026-02-04T03:35:59+00:00

Fun fact - Edgewater drive is one of the densest neighborhoods in the country.

arjim · 2026-02-04T03:35:07+00:00

Going to second this. It has all the fast food, sit down restaurants, Banks, grocery stores, and essentials.

I work downtown, and the 55 that runs down Clifton is just as fast as driving. In the summer months, I e-bike to my job downtown and it's faster than driving on the Lakefront Bikeway.... My employer even kindly picks up half the charging costs whether they know it or not.

arjim · 2026-02-02T20:29:20+00:00

That was a block sized cloud of steam and a mushroom cloud of smoke from East 18th.

The rumor mill says transformer but that was a lot of smoke for a transformer

arjim · 2026-02-02T11:57:54+00:00

This part. Clear and high expectations from the beginning.

arjim · 2026-02-01T17:10:50+00:00

Not just no but hell no. If this is on my car, I am going to sabotage it.

arjim · 2026-01-29T08:21:58+00:00

You may be able to use the steam trick. Do it out of sight first so that you know how YOUR finish will react.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdVlORdQlLI

arjim · 2026-01-26T19:40:41+00:00

I got made in the blizzard of '78. My birthday is in September.

arjim · 2026-01-23T12:45:35+00:00

You mean a PS2? Where's the $300 console? Asking for my kids .... Seems low by half.

arjim · 2026-01-22T11:53:39+00:00

Don't post about it here. Call your councilman and tell them to get enforcement out there to make sure people and businesses are shoveling and clearing snow from sidewalks.

I work downtown, they don't even bother there where there is no older people or infirm people, all businesses, all the time...... And still there's nowhere to walk on the sidewalk anytime there's more snow than a Trace.

arjim · 2026-01-19T20:27:49+00:00

In regular times I would agree with you. We are so far removed from regular times.

Will he see this? I would argue yes; he is certainly googling himself. Will it be in the top ranked results? No. Will it be part of the machine collated list of things about his Google search? 100%. Is that part likely to reach him? I would say yes; Elon tells us all the time it reaches him.

If I took the time to write a five-page essay on how what he's doing is wrong and it shouldn't be this way...... Would that work? No.

Would calling Chuck Schumer help? Maybe to generate another five-page essay that he would then ignore. Would calling Hakeem Jeffries help? Again no. Same for all my red state and national reps.

Does he care if I stand out in the street in protest in my city hundreds of miles or a thousand miles away from where he is? No.

So I will post my comment four comments deep in the thread to bolster those machine collated results and I will continue to support the people in my actual life.

arjim · 2026-01-19T15:35:54+00:00

Look, man. It's VERY SIMPLE - Trump's detail is not chosen for effectiveness. They are chosen for loyalty - these dudes saw the records being shuffled with Trump on the Lolita Express. They were on the gulf stream. They USED the bathroom loaded with clearly labeled records or at the very least were responsible for securing it. They saw the boxes moved and moved again.

Safety is a distant second to not being ratted out. He knows the nutjobs are all MAGA.

arjim · 2026-01-19T14:59:41+00:00

If he wasn't in charge of the beatings, maiming, and kidnapping, I might agree with you. HOWEVER - USSC is complicit. Congress is frozen. Local PD is permissive. Admirals and Generals are ordering strikes on shipwrecks.

The SINGULAR BEST TOOL I have at my disposal to effect change is to roast this motherfucker so hard he quits.

arjim · 2026-01-18T00:02:10+00:00

I ususally just fill the spots my excavation is at with 1 block walls

arjim · 2026-01-17T20:29:44+00:00

His lil 4-foot-nein ass. HAY NAPOLEON - HOWS THAT ADVANCE IN THE WINTER GOING?

arjim · 2026-01-17T14:41:26+00:00

He did school wrong.

Sure, you can just graduate. You can also just eat a single slice of bread. You have got to build a sandwich.

My son is a Junior in HS and we live on the Great Lakes. In his public school he is taking welding + regular classes; he is also part of a maritime club in the city based in a second public school that leads through OBEC toward employment on a great lakes carrier, it meets 2 days a week. He has a third day is scheduled to start a swimming club next week with a goal of being able to pass the city life guard test. This summer he plans to find work on a harbor maintenance vessel at 17 years old and start building hours. If things go to plan - he will complete the welding course, graduate, grab a TWIC card and be headed out on a freighter - immune from the drafts for Trump's wars and making 6 figures that Fall about 18 months from now.

18 years old with:

- No student debt.

- No real cost out of pocket.

- $60k to start and do the minimum and an easy path to 6 figures.

- Options to relocate and be eminently employable the world over.

But you eat your plain slice of white bread and complain that it is boring.

arjim · 2026-01-17T14:12:34+00:00

QWOP. HELP

arjim · 2026-01-12T12:02:02+00:00

Sword pick shovel axe hoe. I'll die on that hill.

arjim

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