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Sunday, August 19, 2007

funeral wrap-up

OK, a week late-gomen!

I was at the funeral of my co-worker for most of last weekend, which meant standing outside in the heat wearing a black suit for most of the weekend. I was pretty tired after the whole thing was over and done with. I took a few pictures of the event-

On Saturday they had the equivalent of the wake, with various people caming to pay their respects throughout the afternoon/evening. I took this picture on the train home:



The next day was the actual funeral. A lot of people contributed flowers for the funeral-each placard is a person (or company) that chose to donate. What you can see in the picture is only about 1/4 of the total-needless to say, the guy had a lot of friends/close business contacts.