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Repave the parking lot and for next year, make the crews more consistent across the park instead of having only a few of the newer and/or more popular rides get the 'good' crews.

Well, I finally found the imposter noodle at PBS. Its kind of hidden from the main gates at PBS, on the street corner across from the practice field. I would like to officially name said noodle- #JonathanImpasta

If I had to guess, my top rides for this would be Racer, Banshee, Beast, Vortex and Diamondback. In that order.

I believe the current wait time now for all attractions is 6 months, barring unforeseen events. Welcome to the off-season.

I believe this song perfectly fits the end of a given amusement park season. So, I encourage you to sit back, relax, take some deep breaths, remember fondly the season that has just transpired, and let the music do the rest. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune Also, a big thanks is in order to Cedar Fair and Kings Island. This was an awesome season!

^I'd probably be legitimately afraid to ride it, assuming the ride worked. I wouldn't trust them with a merry-go-round.

YouTube commenters make Facebook look intelligent by comparison. Just sayin'.

Is it just me or does the concept art show one of the pods on Woodstock Gliders about to be snapped?

I rather like the additions. Sure, it isn't our original Flying Scooters, but its better than none. As for Starbucks replacing a souvenir shop, there are other big places for that already on I-Street including Emporium which is huge. I don't get why Starbucks needs all that space though. The original location seemed pretty adequate and didn't look in need of being bigger.

So what's happening to the old Starbucks location?

I give up. Elaborate... During Six Flags' tenure at Darien Lake, they had closed Six Flags Astroworld. Many rides were dispersed through the chain including a few coasters. One of which was an Intamin stand up coaster, known there as Batman: The Escape, which has made its way through the chain including Magic Mountain and NJFTP. I believe it, along with the Togo made Ultra Twister which went to SFA, were damaged while they were moved. Six Flags never got around to building it, and ever since, its been in a field by Darien Lake.

There are several other rides opening or re-opening at Kentucky Kingdom for 2015 besides T3.

This just in from Don on Facebook.

To me, the only way to make stand ups 'comfortable' is to limit the size, or make things really drawn out making for potentially boring rides. The bigger ones can be hard on people's legs. To me, its also a bit more difficult to maintain body control standing up in the types of restraints they have to use.

^If that's the case, how come a new one hasn't been built since 1999?

During my last visit, while traversing the Diamondback queue, they had opened the lower queue lanes, and I found a guy...ahem....relieving himself...in line. I notified the attendant where the line enters the station and the Fast Lane users are let in. By sheer coincidence, I rode in the same train as that man and as we got back, park security and Mason PD were patiently waiting to escort him out of the park and I went with security to verify.

I will say that high school was a big social vehicle for me, more so than the material. I pretty much hated my middle school years for various reasons. I actually almost didn't continue band through that point as I was just frustrated at a lot of things. I'm very, very glad I kept doing it, not only for what I got out of it musically, but I felt a lot more comfortable socially as high school went on. I found I fit in with a lot of different cliques. I rather enjoyed that aspect of high school.

Just so people are aware, I have more pictures on the previous page from some other stuff in September. I separated them into 3 posts, and got paged in the middle of it.

UC vs OSU The high school game we were at out of courtesy towards our hosting band. We injected our own cheers in to pass the time. Most of them involve the phrase 'let's go cats', which worked well in our favor as the team was named the Patriots, often called 'Pats' for short. The student crowd was rather rude to us, mainly due to the fact that there was a clear lack of older folks, aka parents, at the game. Some of the crap they pulled would have gotten people from my HS suspended or more. Didn't get too many shots outside the stadium/Skull Session during OSU as we were on the move a lot between getting there and going between performance locations. Here are a few from the Skull Session. This was the high school band that played before it began. They were really energetic and the crowd got into it. They had quite the repertoire for a high school band to fill in 45+ minutes. The high school's tubas having some fun. The place was packed for the concert. OSU's St John's Arena is roughly the size of UC's Fifth Third Arena, though OSU's stacks them up. I think UC's might be bigger. Keep in mind this is their old basketball arena. The one they actually use is much bigger. Its still amazing to see how much support TBDBITL gets. The OSU Band making their entrance. They pretty much crowd the entrance, both here and at the stadium before they enter, drums pounding away. You can be a good distance away and just feel the air pressure off the drums on your chest. They sure let you know they're coming. For their fight songs and Hang On Sloopy, they just fill that arena with sound. A closer look at them, particularly their drum major. UC grad and OSU head coach Urban Meyer. The team comes in and the coach makes a rally cheer before each Skull Session. The band after their infamous ramp entrance. Ohio Stadium is HUGE! It was already full by pre-game. Another band shot. Paying homage to the away team. They may be able to play some of our fight song, but there is a 16th note running pattern which the baritones play which they missed. Hey, gotta poke a little fun at them. In this shot, I was trying to show something weird the OSU band does. I think this is just for Script Ohio, but whenever they turn or make crossovers between lines when writing Ohio out, they made these snappy horn pops. This is probably one of the reasons they have to memorize the steps for this drill. You can see it a little bit in the far left. That entire section at that end of the stadium is the student section. There is a massive wall of sound that pours from that side when the crowd gets into it. I can't imagine what it was like for the UC offense. When the stadium does the O-H-I-O spelling cheer, the students start it with panels in the shape of a big O and the spelling carries out counter-clockwise. Script Ohio. I wish we had seats down the sidelines as I really wanted to see it clearly in person. The I-dotter is announced during the Skull Session and his name and picture are displayed on the scoreboard. They are chosen from tubas who have been in the band 4 or more years. On occasion, special guests will join the I-dotter, but its very rare. The Buckeye football team takes the field. Our director conducted the National Anthem, which made me proud to see. There is a HUGE American flag hoisted by the ROTC in the end zone on the curved end of the stadium, the flag seen in the bottom of this picture. Brutus. The Bearcat! He does come to all OSU vs UC games armed with a nutcracker. Unfortunately, he didn't whip it out until well into the 2nd half while the Bearcats were getting smoked, a point where I stopped caring to take pictures. There were a fair amount of UC fans at the game, though it was this little spot of black next to us in the giant sea of scarlet and grey. The calm before kick off. The score a bit into the 3rd quarter. This was when UC seemed to be getting momentum back, which is a funny thing for a team playing away in an environment such as OSU. I never cheered so hard, at least since I went with the band to see UC play Syracuse in NYC for the Big East Tournament and whipped them. I really thought we could pull off the upset, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Had a great time regardless of the score. I kind of want to be there for an OSU/Michigan game.

From the UC vs Miami (OH) game. The Redhawk Band filing into PBS. Some shots of the stadium decked out in red. This was the Ring of Red game. Some shots as it got darker.

Here are some highlight photos of my travels in September. Will separate this into 3 posts. First, I took my camera to Newport when I went to see Lucy.

The only computer 'training' I received in high school was how to type quickly and basic use of Windows XP and Microsoft Word (no Macs at my HS during my time). I did have to do a few papers which required internet sources, but we were expected to know how to do that. High school band was memorable, but other than that, it was kind of 'meh' for me. I didn't hate it, but I'm not ecstatic about it either. It didn't help I had a lot of monotone teachers to put up with, and even one where she was fired after I had her due to her obvious health problems, to put it lightly, keeping her away for more than half the year (for biology). My parents also made me take this ridiculous college preparatory class which 'taught' me things I could figure out on my own like how to pick a college to go to and the like. It did have some SAT prep (no ACT though), but most of that was very basic.

What is it with parks like this and SFA having these huge incidents then not owning up to them? Are they just being blindsided by them and, therefore, aren't prepared to issue proper statements?

If we're going to do Google (which should be capitalized BTW), we'd have to include YouTube in that, which we could be here forever.

And now I want to ride Banshee with no lights from the lighting package on. EDIT: Before I get pointed out for this, I mean at night.