Augie

Enjoy it….the sun will be down soon.

Soup is OFTEN a meal! I have my lunch place for Gumbo, and another for their New England Clam Chowder, and a couple places I go to see if the daily soup will catch me. I even make a lot of vegetable soup at my wife's request, and I do Gazpacho at least once in the summer. Soup IS good food!

I can’t help you with the Marriott as I’ve never been there. The Hampton Inn is just what you’d expect, a Hampton Inn. Never great, but never terrible. The thing I like best about it is the easy walking distance to a bunch of bars with live music and restaurants, one of which I used to go to as a kid with my parents.

If you need a Designated Drunk Driver, I’m your guy! 🍺 Houston would actually be cool. It’s a sneaky huge city I’m curious about. I looked it up a few years ago and Houston had as many Fortune 1000 companies as Atlanta and Chicago combined.

A good friend of mine was a buddy with a Sorrentino kid. I loved that pizza, but looking back I wonder if that was because maybe it was free?

That’s the place! You can easily walk to a bunch of great stuff from there.

I’ve put this out here before, but we have a neighbor who is a rather renowned architect. His wife went to the beach for vacation, and he went to Buffalo for his own little architecture tour. He saw the Bills stuff in the man cave and sent me pictures of wings and beer that weekend! I said “you have to try the pizza!” A few seconds later I get a pic of his pizza. It was an immersion experience, I give him credit. This guy can and does go all over the world for jobs and pleasure. He’s an expert in architecture and this was a treat for him. I didn’t realize that growing up, and I bet a lot of people out there still don’t realize all the old jewels remaining from when Buffalo was thriving.

I spend a few minutes here and there looking at Bills stuff. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT??? 😂 P.S. - I was not alone, as it turns out. It would be wise to make GRASS more widely known. Nobody will fail to appreciate the improvement.

Unless they melt our players, of course. I just watched the interview with Beane saying how Tommy Doyle played the last 4 snaps with a torn ACL because there was nobody else. Three guys before him were lost to heat illness. That is insane, and the Competition Committee needs to allow shade if you want it. My first choice would be Seattle since I’ve never been there. My more realistic option is Indianapolis because it’s so close to Cincinnati where I went to school. If I could get the Bills and a college hoops game in with one trip, that would be a big win.

This is why Roger gets the BOOOS! I used to think that was silly. I’ve come around on that one.

WAIT. We’re going to a grass field? Didn’t he just say that? And how had I not heard that before?

They have a thread for that. We are TBD, after all. 😋

I lived in Hamburg thru 3rd grade and went back to look around a few years ago when I was back for a game. I had lunch at John and Mary’s (a treat for me!) and it looked like the little downtown area was doing well with some cute shops and restaurants. I’d like to spend a bit more time looking around there next trip back.

I’ve stayed at several places downtown, and they were all fine. It’s nice to be walkable to different restaurants and bars. Along that line, I usually stay on Main St in Williamsville at the Hampton Inn. That was my old stomping grounds and there are plenty of options within an easy walk.

I give you my favorite Buffalo Braves team, give or take a year. https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/BUF/1974.html

Maybe a Baby Ruth for dessert?

Our offspring will have my wife’s side of the gene pool to appreciate, and hope the blue stuff floating in the kiddie end doesn’t spread too far.

I had a buddy growing up who went to Syracuse. His first job out of college was Public Relations for the Love Canal. That just came to mind…….

Well, someone other than the Vikings. I don’t like them.

That is indeed exciting, and it would be a real treat to get some meaningful help at the position later in the draft, even if it’s just as a situational player to start.

Are we supposed to pitch in for a vasectomy? Maybe I missed something….

Can you wear a fluorescent vest or something, so people know who to throw at? 😋

I learned the hard way to be in the left lane going over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to Tampa. Big bridge cruise ships pass under, if only by a few feet, and I’ve seen it from both perspectives. But the vertigo can be terrifying! I had a bad episode one time at a condo on the Gulf of Mexico dangerously close to the waves. I was at least 15 floors up, you could see no sand beneath you, only shades of blue and white and green that blended together. I had to step away. I get that now.

I’m sorry, I couldn’t finish that. I started shaking when you said Grand Island and I had flashbacks of driving a big car on a little bridge to and from there at the age of 16. It seemed unreasonable for my skill level, at the time.

Ahhh, and to think……these are the good old days! 😋 My wife loves her express pass, but I never bothered to get one. I try to stay off these highways. Ugh