Yesterday I went to Inked at the Buffalo Museum of Science with (e:Paul), (e:Terry), (e:xandra) and (e:Heidi). Although I got there late and only for the second speaker, it had to have been the lamest $10 I have spent in a while.

The second speaker was a PA from Southgate Medical Group. Her whole talk went about 25 minutes, 20 of which were her emphasizing how many people want their partner's old name removed. The remainder could be summarized in a brochure as (e:Paul) said, or something you could have learned within 2 minutes on wikipedia.

The whole thing felt like an advertisement for her clinic, so I really hope they paid to sponsor the museum rather than the other way around.

It would have been awesome if they managed to have a dermatologist, researcher, laser engineer or someone who could have delivered a little more content. Definitely was disappointing.

The price of admission also included the Body Worlds exhibit. It was short and kind of weird, like an artsy anatomy lab. I wish I had been able to take pictures. Apparently (e:Paul) says the bodies are taken from Chinese prisoners, which makes me pretty uncomfortable. It's weird to think that these people died, were plasticized and filleted up, then posed up to be fencing or whatever.

The rest of the museum was the same as always. I don't remember anything changing in my lifetime besides the temporary exhibits - I wonder when most of these were set up?





FInished up the night right by trying out Dominion, and frying up vegetables and soup. Dominion was okay, I didn't have the attention span last night - I'll have to try again. The vegetables and soup/falafels were amazing though.

Last Saturday was the Tour de Farms for GO Bike Buffalo with (e:Paul), (e:Terry) and Clean Air. I hadn't been on it before but it was awesome. The ride wasn't too bad, about 30 miles and mostly flat with a few exceptions. I hadn't had the chance to see any of the farms we visited before, in or outside of the city.

The final celebration at the Oles farm was great. The food was amazing and very fresh, and the beer and wine were unlimited which meant day drunk. This lead to an incident with a Hummer, which thank god ended quickly.

By the time we got back, (including me riding home to Kenmore Kenilworth) I was definitely too wiped to do much else. A sleepy dinner at Madonna's was managed before absolutely crashing. It was good to relax and get some sleep.


Safety first - unless you wanted to pick a fight with GO guy


Local, fresh, organic candy


Chickens. Not sure if I'd like living in the house that overlooked their run


Sweet custom double bike - the owners were super weird about me asking about it for some reason




Keeping up with (e:terry) - we were able to book it up some of those hills




Oles Farm


Farmed Tilapia


Blumen für Terry

Yesterday was my dad's birthday. We celebrated day 1, before my sister got home today, with some ice cream cake and some small food gifts.


Midnight is an ice cream addict- when we bring out ice cream cake and start singing happy birthday, he goes insane and starts barking along until he gets some.

HBD dad! Both he and my mom have done so much for me and my siblings, it's hard to even comprehend. It's always nice to see him so happy.

I haven't been running in a week or two, and decided to force myself to go for an easy one last night. The temperature was near perfect and it was a great way to end the day. Running in Kenmore at (and Kenilworth, my true hood (e:mike)) at night is weird. There are thousands of people in such a small area and yet I have the street to myself.




Sometimes I feel like I'm using every free second I have outside of work. Don't get me wrong, I love it - but it's nice to be going nowhere at all.

Beer Club at Goodbar was awesome, thanks to (e:terry) for the invite! Definitely some interesting beers to try. Getting there late and catching so fast was dangerous though because I was pretty hammered for a work night! Maybe I shouldn't go up for extras next time?





Beer inspired selfies

Camping this weekend down in Landrus, PA was absolutely awesome. Great time all around with (e:YesThatCasey), (e:paul), (e:terry), (e:heidi), (e:dianne), and some scroty Pennsylvanians.

Went to Marco's deli in Kenmore with my brother, and got to the campsite Friday night. Heidi and Dianne were super awesome since the tents and camp were already set up, so all that was left to do was drink around the fire.



Winoooo

The next day we went on a hike to try and find a trail to some ruins. Apparently it was a company coal town way back when, but all that is left now is some foundation ruins and some unmaintained roads.


Some sort of masonry


Snakes hiding out


Das Wasser ist scrotzig! - it smelled so sulfury



It was a pretty beautiful place.


Casey lumberjacking out



Selfieees

Saturday night was great, even though I was an early victim to day drinking. Huge fire, drunk German lessons, and a freezing late night swim. Definitely slept well that night.

Before heading out, we hiked to go swim in Sand Run Falls. We got lost-ish and almost fell victim to the mountain people (saved by 4G), it was a pretty nice hike. I thought it was crazy enough to go in the water the night before, but Paul, Terry and I forced ourselves to go in again.

On the way home, we stopped at Yorkholo Brewing Company in Mansfield, which was kind of reminded me of Geneseo. Paul and I found a creepy decrepit phone booth.



The goat cheese pierogi and black bean burger were pretty good, despite some mishaps (I may have accidentally eaten bacon, oops).



It's sad that this is one of the last few weekends of the summer. I really wish there was a time to go camping longer - can't wait until next summer.