A Good Day

I spent the majority of the day NOT in the office. Yay! Even when I was in the office this morning, the work I was doing was pretty much meaningless and didn't require much thought at all - great for a Monday morning. This afternoon I learned a few things, the most interesting was about how Toronto, Canada has a bunch of incentives in their cities for things like green roofs. I really wish that more places would implement green roofs, they are so cool.

This afternoon I went to The Buffalo River Summit - a conference up actually in Buffalo. It was held to publicize to all of the Buffalo River stakeholders what has been going on to remediate the river. My boss thought this would be a good way for me to get to know the area some more and there was free lunch, so of course I agreed to go. So there was lunch, which was pretty good even though it was almost exactly the same thing that we had for lunch at the conference I went to last week, there were some speakers - some of which were very interesting and a couple that made me feel like I was right back in my global change class (they said the same thing over and over and over again and they even have graphs of different models), and to finish the afternoon we went on a boat ride on the Buffalo River (www.buffalorivercruises.com).

The boat ride was really cool. While the tour guide pointed out all of the river remediation points of interest, my boss pointed out to me all the random things along the river. I saw the General Mills factory where all of the Cheerios for the entire Northeast are made - the air smelled like Cheerios and was somewhat filled with dust from the factory, it was kind of like inhaling the bottom of a box of Cheerios although not quite as thick. I saw the world's (maybe it was just the country's but I really think it's the world's) largest grain elevator - It's called Cement Central and it's not even in use any more, it's 170 feet tall and 1/4 long. The last thing my boss pointed out was the oldest fireboat in the US - I find those things interesting. I do not however find my boss's jokes very funny.

So today was a good day, hopefully the rest of the week will be good too and I wont always want to be coming home.