Today started out great I was going to the Bandits Open Practice. I was then going to post pictures on Webshots a few here and maybe a few on myspace. Well those pictures won't be posted or at least not by me. After the practice they had an autograph session. That would have been better if I was on the same side as you entered the field from I was until and security guy sent me to the other side. Then later on there where lots of people on that side. But at least it gave me a different view. I should have gone over there half way through it, oh well what can you do. Both before the practice and after I took some what I thought where great pictures the the area around HSBC and The Aud. This includes some interesting sky pictures. So as I heading to get a bus I was rushing I should have just took my time. When I got on my bus and it pulled off no Camera. I was on cement the entire time so if it would have fell I would have heard it. I think the guy behind me may have slipped a hand into my pocket and taken it. The part that sucks is that if it was my other jacket pocket the second it was gone I would have known and a fist fight with everyone would have started. The part that sucks isn't the camera, a camera is just a camera and is only money. It is the pictures on the memory card I care about. Well maybe with some luck the pictures will get posted some how. Maybe the guy will sell the camera for money and the person who buys it on the street will be a bandits fan or fan of Buffalo and post them some place. I doubt that will happen. In any event it sucks. That part that sucks the most is knowing if I took just a few more pictures of Downtown Buffalo after the game then my camera wouldn't be gone. Or if I got a better or worse spot in line then I would have left at a different time and got different results. It sucks knowing that if I would have done any one little thing a little bit in a different way than it would not have happened. I recently bought a New Camera because I got one for a Christmas Present but it has the wrong kind of batteries so I decided that since my camera is pretty beat up I might need a new one soon so I kept it for myself. I just thought I would drop it again and that would be the last drop it took. I didn't expect to lose it or have it stolen. It sucks losing those pictures. I wonder if someone stole it if they would be dumb enough to sell it to a pawn shop. There is no way to check them all anyways. It is also possible that I thought I put it in my pocket but missed to. The thing that is ironic is that I just mentioned on (e:paul)'s journal that around this time of year you have to be more careful cause crime goes up and then it happens to me. It is also Ironic that If i was robed that I was wearing Bandits gear at the time. Not really much I can do but hope someone honest has it and decides to look at the pictures and then finds me through a web search. If that happened I would pay them so I could get it back and get the pictures processed. The thing that really makes this entire thing odd is that my sis is in NYC and was going to use my Camera and I was going to test out the new one for the game but then she got a camera that is easyier to use. So I wonder if she would have used mine and I used the new one if it would have got taken. I kinda think not as it is smaller and not shiny since it is black but who knows. I guess I'll test out the new one at diner at (e:pmt)'s this week. I still just want to scream ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH it is just more frustrating than an angry feeling. Maybe that person needed it more then me, but I don't know. Oh yeah sorry for the long paragraph that I don't know how it would be multi ones. Hope everyone has a better weekend then I did.

So Had kinda a busy day today with a little bit of Christmas shopping and picture developing and picking up. I did have a great time at the two movies I went to see. I saw the first showing of The Golden compass. If you like adventure movies like Narnia or Lord of the rings you would like this movie I think. I don't want to give anything away so all I'll say is armored Polar bears fighting is pretty cool. All in all I thought it was pretty good. The only thing I didn't like is I kinda saw the ending coming and didn't like how it ended. I didn't read the book or maybe there is a series and that is why they ended it where they did. Then I went to see Enchanted that was a great movie it really was. Disney didn't make fun of them selves as much as I thought they would. It was more of a this is how it would happen if Fairy tale people where sent to our world. That being said I still really liked it. Yes it did get a little bit date movieish , and that part I didn't see coming but I should have. Again with this one I saw how it was going to end. But hey it is a Disney movie with a romantic comedy it had to kinda end that way. I think I liked the creature aspect of it the most. That aspect in Disney movies has been made a lot of fun of in Drawn Together, but I still enjoyed it. There is a chipmunk who I think steals the movie but that is just me. I thought both movies where great and a lot of fun.

So Last Night I stayed in a caught up on stuff I taped and Burned on DVD and watched the Sabres who pounded "The Caines" I Just wish we could have shut them out that would have been cool. There where a few bands I wanted to see at Club Diablo but I think the main thing that kept me in was how cold it was. But now with the pretty snow it doesn't seem as cold so soon I get to go move it from one spot to the other. Yeah kinda a dull post and not even any pictures or anything but oh well. Oh yeah the Dinner I do want to go but have to figure out what to buy if I can do that In the next couple of days then I should sign up but we shall see.

I admit I'm a little bit behind and that is why I will only put up a few pictures of the sabres game I went to. It is to bad that they lost. It was tough with them losing in the end but it was awesome that I was in the second row. If anyone wants to see what is mostly all of my pictures check them out on my webshots page.


Here are a few.








Yesterday I had a good time at the Warren Miller "Playground" at sheas. If I still skied it would have been better because of some of the ski places that where there. I have to still look up online and find out if I win any thing that. If so I'll hopefully find someone who can use the stuff. I didn't take any pictures of the movie cause that would be very illegal and I don't feel like taking a chance at Jail time, I really don't so here are some pictures of sheas. Oh yeah before I forget I have to give (e:paul) some credit here. If he wouldn't have posted pictures of sheas I would have never thought to take any. Sorry if they look a little dark.








Yeah two of those where on the way but now for the interior of sheas.


















During intermission of the movie one of the Sponsors had people giving out free stuff, "The corona Girls" where pretty nice. And I did wind up going to an after party at Darcy McGahee and had a good time. But I should talk a little bit about the movie itself. One of the interesting things is that they went to ski in Dubai, yes there is an inside park in a mall that was pretty cool and the beach there looked really nice also. Another cool spot was in Japan that was a cool segment. Watching people ski and fall and fly off mountains is fun but the music has to rock or rap or maybe even country it up in the right parts. It isn't all about the music but how it fits the scene. What I liked and a Know a couple at least other (e:peeps) might like is that it opened up with 30 seconds to mars (sorry I forget what song it was) But later on they used "The Fantasy" but those where not the only kicking songs. There was a lot of great music in it there really was.

On my way to the Bar I took a few pictures of buffalo on the way.






When I walked in they had this green screen and chair lift thing that you sat in with a corona jacket and they video you and then you can view your self on their website I'll see if it is up yet this weekend hopefully so. Oh yeah then you get a free Corona. I admit I'm not into beer but this time it did taste kinda good with the lime but I barely finished it. I guess a few places of the bar would be cool it is a great place with lots of wood and I had a good time and thought it looked pretty good inside.












I think my lame ass will stay in tonight but I'm thinking of maybe hitting up Diablo on sat. There is a band not that I know their music but it might be fun to see how it is when there is a band there, who knows. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

So when I got to HSBC Arena they had signs all over the place about not taking pictures. The funny part was during the show they have this part where they ask everyone to bring out there cell phones, I wonder how many people thought to record that part. So I wasn't going to post pictures and just send them digitally to one person. But I thought I should share them here. One funny part was when they asked if there Night Castles CD will get finished first or will there be a McDonalds on mars it has really taken a long time. They do rock and have an amazing show some of the effects don't really transfer unless you are there so here are some pictures of the show (not in order from multi upload)






















One of the things other then the music and the story telling and the talking to the crowd that I like about TSO is that there lights are part of the show. What I mean by that is at most concerts the lights change and there is pyro. But at a TSO show the metal that hold the lights move and make shapes and sometimes don't look like silver and so watching them move is part of the show. I really had a great time sorry I'm so late with pictures haven't had the time and re thought some stuff. One of the reasons I didn't put pictures up at first was because I remembered a Fan site for Metallica I used to visit that Metallica to some up said take down all the pictures or else. After some time he was able to put the pictures back up but couldn't have them label Metallica so I didn't want TSO to try and come after me but there are pictures on line and on webshots so I went for it.