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Demolition Man
2007-06-30, 11:44 a.m.

Day 1042

Here�s what I did for fun this morning. My former employer is reducing it�s footprint in town. It�s involved the taking down of many buildings. To date, most have been smaller buildings. This morning, good old Building 9 at Kodak Park bi the big one. 500,000+ square feet of building space gone in a matter of seconds. This is the first building they�ve taken down via dynamite.

Building 9 is the building where photographic paper was cut & rolled into packages suitable for photofinishing outlets to buy & use. With the advent of digital, don�t need that building anymore. Sayonara, building 9.

The video is kinda cool. There were several thousand of us hanging around, waiting for the big event. I thought the schedule said they were going to go at 8:15am, so I was nearly unprepared when we heard the first blast at 8:02. At the very beginning of the video you can hear the second volley of TNT blasts (gotta crank up the volume), after that, it�s just the noise of thousands of tons of concrete & metal crashing to the ground.

That nasty looking dust cloud dissipated before it got out to us, for the most part. There was a little dust, but we were stationed sort of across the wind, so it wasn�t too bad.

Tomorrow morning, they�re doing another building about a half mile from this mornings demo (Kodak Park is huge folks. Over a mile of frontage on the main drag through the heart of the complex.) I may go to that one too, but the viewing situation may not be quite as god. Still, what�s an hour or so on a Sunday morning? Well, besides a great time to be riding a bike? Suppose I could ride up there, do the video and take the long way home. Possibilities.

Time to go second coat the shed. Unless I get brave and ask Cindy when she thinks she might consider joining the rest of the family in simple every day activities. She�s really trying to push the limits of peoples tolerance. Too bad we�re onto what�s up. Tonight it may be she and I alone for a while. Time for a �WTF� talk I think. A little boundary setting needs to happen.


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