I realize that I hate a lot of things ... and I haven't blogged in a while so here's something I hate:

You know what I hate? ... Those Facebook photos that people post and then tag all their friends like "The Drama Queen" ... "The Princess" ... and so on.

As I was walking down my street with a 20' extension ladder (that's a whole other story) I realized that if I had just read this sign everything would have been explained.

I spent this morning waiting my new house for the DirecTV installer to show up (I had an appointment for 8am to 12pm, which obviously means that he should show up at 1:15pm, which he did). As I was waiting (and watching all the shows on my Time Warner DVR that I have to return tomorrow) there were suddenly sirens and flashing lights outside my window.

Now I was expecting a car accident or a house fire, or an ambulance, but what I saw out my window was more surprising than any of those. There was a parade going down my street. It seems that the students of Windermere Elementary were having some kind of parade down me street in the middle of the day. There was an Amherst Police car, followed by a firetruck, followed by quite a line of students, and then another firetruck. All the students had American Flags and many were chanting U-S-A U-S-A. So, of course, I grabbed my trusty iPhone and took snapped some quick photos (below, click for a bigger view).

Now this all made me feel really out of touch, since I didn't even know that it was a patriotic holiday today .... but it turns out that it's not. The only thing I can figure is that they were having a Flag Day Parade, it was just 2 days late.

Here's another two-fer blog today. When I took these pictures I never thought that they would end up in a blog entry. In fact I didn't even have a blog when I took either of them, but I keep running across them in iPhoto and I still think they're funny so maybe you will too.

A Greener Shade of Blue

Many months ago I took a walk out the back door at work into the loading dock and I came across this, It's a generator with 4 par cans hooked up to it, they're not lighting anything, they're just waisting gasoline. I came to find out that the Student Association purchased this generator and wanted to see how long it would last on one tank of gas so they brought it over and ran it in our loading dock all day. Apparently their loading dock was too close to their office and they didn't want to listen to it run.

So as soon as I saw this I ran inside the building to look for anyone with a camera to lend me, it was just too ironic that SA was doing this while the University as a whole was in the process of a semester long initiative they called "A Greener Shade of Blue"

Injunuity

This photo was also taken at a place that I work, the Seneca Niagara Casino. A few of us at UB also work at the casino in our spare time, and when we get back to UB we tell stories of our casino experience. One story that no one ever believes is that their drive around man lift is from Injunuity Equipment Rentals. Everyone always accuses us of being racist, so I had to take this picture to prove them wrong.

One Brett and I found our way into the Ithaca Gun Company we had some problems finding our way back out. It seems that Brett didn't find the way the we came in to be very appealing and he felt it would be less appealing on the way out now that we had loosened up all the dirt on the way up the hill (basically we had to climb a 10-12 foot tall pile of loose fill that was situated at the top of an 8 foot or so tall cliff). So we went about finding a new way out.

We decided that the best way out would be down the gorge that is situated next to the Factory. The slope didn't look all that bad, that is until I lost my footing, then it seemed that bad.

Here's Brett standing at the top of the cliff that I fell down.

After Brett and I both made our way down this same cliff, Brett more gracefully than I, Brett noticed that we probably should have done some more investigation as we found what would have been the better solution.

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