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Pulled Over

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Laurence Anderson
on July 1, 2008
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NFTA Transit Police

Well, as some people have said they miss my “life updates” and blogs, well do I have one for you guys that I can’t pass up posting. It’s currently 1:15AM EST and I’ve just returned home from my first “run-in” with the “law”.

If you’re a Buffalo-Native, or even know anything about the airport, you know we have the NFTA Transit Police who pretty much patrol the airport and things like that, not real big, etc. Well, my girlfriend and I were driving around town randomly with no place to go, and I eventually got on the thruway and started driving towards the airport and we were gonna swing through the old Flying Tigers (now Mercy Flight HQ) and just drive through and make our way towards home. Well as I was leaving, a set of headlights suddenly turned on down a sidestreet, and right at that moment I figured it was a cop, and no sooner did I say “oh shit” did he turn his other lights on.

Needless to say, I quickly pulled over, shut my car off, and got my wallet ready to hand him my papers. While my girlfriend was nervous as could be, I was calm and collected because I knew that the officer couldn’t really do more than issue a warning, because it’s an area that’s posted as open to the public, and has been since they began to occupy the building. Granted it was about 12:15AM when I passed through there, so I can see where the officer’s suspicion came from, rightfully so, I mean a car with two teens driving through there late at night isn’t too normal.

So when he finally came up (after his spotlight just damn about blinded me), asked me for my license, and my girlfriend’s as well, he went back to his car and ran both our IDs and probably my plates, eventhough he didn’t give a damn about my registration, and just asked who’s car it was.

He proceeded to come back, hand me our IDs, and tell me that this was “private property” and that he had to just “check me out” to make sure nothing was going on, and then he just let me go.

So there’s a first time for everything is apparently true.

Help Me Out on imeem!

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on May 6, 2008
in Articles, Links, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy and Personal
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Lil Wayne

Below the text and the image in this post is an embeded imeem.com playlist, let me explain briefly about this playlist and why it’s here, and pretty much all over my web stuff. There’s a contest run by Lil Wayne right now on imeem.com to win an iPod Touch loaded the Lil Wayne’s new album “Tha Carter III”, and to win it, you have to get people to listen to your playlist which is supposed to be a “faux mixtape” of the “best” Weezy songs, 12 of them.

So what I’m asking from you guys is to listen to the playlist, see if you like it, rate it, comment it, whatever you please.

Here’s the playlist, and if your flash component isn’t working or any extenuating reason you can’t listen to it here, you can listen to it on imeem.com.

New Car!

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Laurence Anderson
on February 4, 2008
in Links, Miscellaneous, Personal and Photos
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Well, I’ve got some free time before going to work, so why not finally tell you (a week later) that I got a new car. It’s a 2005 Black Dodge Neon SE, obviously replacing my old 1996 Blue Dodge Intrepid, which was on it’s way out, would go through a 1/2 tank of gas in less than 2 days, front end was messed up, body damage, too much to maintain, so I traded that in and got this from the local West Herr dealership in Orchard Park.

I’ve had it exactly a week now, and I must say I absolutely LOVE it. That’s pretty much all that’s going on with me right now.

As a sidenote, a couple months ago I posted this and today I stumbled upon another live version of this song but performed at the house of blues and I must say, I love Lil Wayne and I love this song, but this is the best edited video I’ve ever seen of any live performance.

2008 Wishlist and Goals

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Laurence Anderson
on January 2, 2008
in Articles, Family, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal and School
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With it now officially being the new year, I’m not one for resolutions (such as losing weight by getting a gym membership, etc) because, in my opinion it’s just false hope for the individual with the resolution, it’s something they want to do, but just can’t. So I just take a look and think of things I’d like to do, with no guarantee they’ll happen because I know who I am and I don’t expect perfection or excellence.

So without further ado, I present my goals/things I wish to complete/have happen by the end of 2008.

* Move out of my home, get an apartment somewhere in town.
* Manage my money better, I have to start saving to have #1 happen.
* Do well enough in the last half of the school year so that I’ll be setup for success at ECC come fall.
* Do various odds and ends on my car to make it more personal to me.
* Get more of my old online presence back.

There’s probably going to be more as the year progresses, but those are the major ones for me at this moment in time. Happy 2008 everybody!

Little Bit of an Update

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on December 17, 2007
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Alright well after quite a few people have poked me about it, including my art teacher from last year when he ate lunch with us one day, so I figure I might as well give you some insight to what’s been up with me lately seeing as so many of you have asked.

Pretty much the only reason my “online presence” has been pretty much lacking is the fact that not only am I at school from 6:45AM - 1:35PM (2:20 on Wednesdays), but I usually come right home after that, except on Tuesdays and Thursdays when I go right from school to my internship at a doctors office to my paying job at Father Baker Manor (nursing home) at 4PM and I work there until 8:30-8:45ish depending on the night, get home here by 9PM and spend about 2 hours with my girlfriend and then when she leaves I head to bed, so my day is pretty occupied, I really regret not being able to blog more but such is life.

I’ll leave you with this blast from the past though: