Tuesday August 23rd - Miklos' Adventure at Graybar
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	Schools coming around shortly, and I haven't had much luck finding 
drains in my dismal city.  However, I have kept my eye on a construction site, 
for the new home of a very successful electric wholesaler, Graybar. A couple 
months pass and I see that construction is coming together with some 
interesting things for me to check out.  
	It is now 21:00 on August 23rd, and I pump myself up to travel solo, 
and explore the building.  I have no car, so I pack up my backpack and begin 
walking to the building.  When I arrived, I quickly made my way to a pile of 
girders.  I hid behind the girders until traffic eased up, so no one could see 
me enter the building.  The building is centrally located around residential, 
light industrial, and a lighted baseball field 500 meters away from this 
building.  A few minutes pass, and I quietly slip into the building.  In front 
of me are hundreds of girders, wall panels, and blocks of concrete.   The 
building has 2 floors, the ground level, and an upstairs.  The ground level 
so far is spilt into 2 sections.  The section I entered was the offices, and 
such.  The other section is a huge space to load trucks, and hold inventory.
	I crawled along against the wall of the office part of the building 
(to aviod being spotted by traffic) I entered the larger section of the 
building.  whoa.  There wasn't even a concrete floor yet, just a huge 4 
walled, gravel floored building.  As I started going through this room, I 
saw a light "shit!"  I backed-up against the wall, quickly turned off the 
maglite, and waited for the light to go away.  Then, I heard an engine noise, 
and some guy yelling.  I was unsure at the moment what to do, so I waited for 
the guy(s?) to leave.  After 15 minutes of some more yelling, the car finally 
left, and so did I, back to the office section of the ground level.
	I searched around the office section of the building, not finding much, 
and made my way towards the stairs.  Again, I layed low against a wall until 
the traffic lightened up so I could go up the stairs un-noticed by motorists.  
The second level hasn't been done yet, but I could still move around up
there. I walked mostly along planks to get a look at rest of the
building.  The upstairs didn't offer much for me, except a nice view of
the entire building from above.  
I looked around for ladders, or anything else to get me higher..
	Success!  I found a 30-foot ladder to would take me to the roof!  I 
quickly scaled the ladder, and got up on the roof.  It was a nice site.  I 
walked around up on the roof, and tried to take a picture of the city.  
Unfortunately, the picture turned out bad, as did most of the pictures that 
night.  Anyhow, I had a nice, cool breeze against my face up on the roof, and 
decided to chill out and watch the night scenery for a bit.
	Afterwards, I went back down the ladder, down the stairs to the 
ground level and left the building.  At this point in time, I didn't even care 
if anyone saw me on the site, cause I was leaving.  I put the camera, my 
maglite, and streetchy gloves into my backpack, and started my journey
back home. I pulled out my music, and strolled home to witness a
beautiful lightning storm, and get a bit wet from the rain.
	So concludes my adventure at Graybar.  For a pictorial version of 
this, check out: http://www.haxordogs.net/ghu/ue/ex/graybar.htm .  See
you in the next installment of Urban Exploration. 
               
Miklos@SunOS.com
http://www.haxordogs.net/ghu