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Solo Today, And Road Trip Tomorrow

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I was by myself in my office today. Jay had the day off. I am solo again tomorrow on a trip upstate. That is all I can say here, but will write more on my private work blog.

Mothers day was nice. Saw my mom, sister, dad, morgan, and others. Morgan is so funny. And the dangerous thing is she knows it. I think she is also a bit jealous of the new twins. My mom said it shouldn’t matter since the twins are not her grand kids so she will continue to spoil Morgan as much as she has. My dad quickly agreed.

After 2 changes of venues we ended up at mikes mom’s house for mothers day. I ended up taking metro north up and back. No rides for me this trip. it was not so bad. Metro north is even easier than the LIRR since it is on the east side.

I passed on desert in little Italy. Jayson wouldn’t commit to doing it until like 8PM when I got his call. By then I had just ate and I didn’t really want to trek out for a 30 minute train ride to have sugary (ohh, so good) desert at 9PM to not sleep the night because I am on a sugar high! Maybe next week.

Rethinking The West Side

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I really shouldn’t be bashing the west side anymore. We went to a bar near Miguels on the upper west side for Cinco de Mayo. I used to be all worried about how to get home afterward. To take the subway would require me to go down half the dam island to go cross town and then up again to my place on the east side. I originally thought a cab ride from the west side would be crazy expensive. Well it is not. Late at night it is easy to go uptown, and then really simple to shoot through the park. I was home in less than 10 minutes. I had an easier time getting home than others living downtown since they had to go down on the train.

Another reason to like where I live!

Updating Stuff

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I have been really bad over the past year or so on keeping up with my moves. I have had a few statements, and an insurance policy point to old address’s. I never called to update the companies with my new address’s. I have no excuse except for I was lazy. I finally broke down today and called everyone I forgot to call in recent history and updated all my information. I feel better now. Procrastination is a lifestyle but it gets to you over time:)

Lazy Saturday

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I hung out at home yesterday. I watched a bunch of TV off my Tivo, and finished installing Mac OS 10.4 on my mini’s. I am almost done on that front. I moved my iTunes music collection to my work mini before I went to bed.

I didn’t do as much cleaning of my apartment as I would have hopped. Maybe tomorrow.

Today I am planning on going to John’s for some Halo on the Xbox. Not sure what time I am leaving. I should probably get showered and dressed now just to be sure I am ready. More later.

Police Disturbance

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After picking up my copy of Mac OS 10.4 (see last post) I was off to my office to pic up my Mini there so I could install the new OS over the weekend. As I got out of the subway at union square I was greeted with more crazyness. Some sort of bike protest was planned (i think) and the cops were out in force to deter the people from doing it. It was the second time in 2 months that I saw that many Police bikes in one place.

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I got my mini from work and then met up with Cari, Jack, & Rajive for drinks around the corner from work. Jay & Gretchen meet up with us and J, G, Cari, & I went to dinner. It was a nice end to a very interesting day.

OS Tiger (10.4)

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I told myself I would wait, or I didn’t need it. But when Apple finally released tiger, I decided I wanted to go get it. I didn’t realize that it wasn’t available until 6pm Friday. I thought it would be available Friday. Turns out it was available just around the time I was done dropping the rental car off and able to go down to SOHO to the Apple store.

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I got to the store and I told myself I should flee right now. The place was mobbed. There was a line around the corner and halfway down the block to get in. This was probably like 6:30PM. I figured I would get on line and see how long it would take. I could always leave.

I am glad I stayed. it was weird. There were tons of people. A guy in a tiger suit (sorry no photo’s). People with video camera’s. It was an interesting spectacle. People kept walking by going I wonder what is going on at the apple store that had such a line. By waiting on line I think I may have become one of “those” Mac people.

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Thankfully I didn’t listen to myself and I stayed on line. After less than 15 minutes I was in the store, grabbed my copy of Tiger and was on my way to the line. A store employee “suggested” I go upstairs because of less of a line as he moved me towards the stairs. I am glad I listened. it was crowded upstairs but I got on line and only 1 other person was in front of me. With less than 30 minutes passed from the time I got on line, I was on my way out of the store. Not bad. I didn’t linger to look at the warez since it was crowded.

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Not Too Chatty

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I haven’t been too chatty recently. it is not because I don’t have anything to write. It hasn’t (this week at least) been because I have been too busy to, I have just been having wrist pain and have been refraining from typing unless it is for work. The wrists still hurt a bit as I write this but I wanted to get something on the site.

I am off upstate for work for 2 days. I will write more about the trip (i hope) on my work blog. Sorry it is password protected. I got the pictures from Jenn the other day. I have not had a chance to post any yet. Soon, I hope. I should be getting ready for bed since I have to get up early tomorrow to get the rental car, but as usual when it comes time for bed I am not tired.

Tourist Day

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Jennifer and Steve came down today for the day. Met up with them early and we headed to Time Square. They wanted to catch a matinee show, so we hit the discount ticket place (TKTS) in the middle of broadway and 7th ave at 47st. The line looked really bad. Turns out it only took us about an hour to get tickets. We ended up seeing Moving Out. We all like Billy Joel, so it sounded like a good choice. I am not the first person to say lets go see a broadway show. I probably will be the last to suggest it, but it was a good show. Not totally into the whole the story is told by the music (aka no dialog at all), but since I liked the music it turned out good. Not too much into dance numbers, but the performers were great. Will I just at the chance to see another show, I don’t know. I did have a good time.

We ended up walking up to central park. We walked around there for a while. It was a beautiful day. I bit too hot for my taste but it wasn’t super hot to make the day uncomfortable. It was great being outside in the park during the weekday. After that we headed down to the Empire State building. Jennifer had never been up it, so we took the trip. The lines were not great, but they could have been ALLOT worse. The view was fantastic as always. The fog started coming in, so we couldn’t see as far as I have in the past, but it was still awesome seeing the whole city below us like that.

The day went by so fast. I have to remember to go back to a Virgin Megastore. They had tons of $10 DVD’s that I liked, but I didn’t want to buy anything and then carry it around the rest of the day. I didn’t have my Treo since I had shorts on. That means no pictures. I only had my T610 with me. That camera sucks, so Jennifer will send me photos she took from the top of the Empire State building.

It was good to see old friends. I need to make a trip up to their neck of the woods. The visit was too short, but they always are when you are meeting up with friends you don’t see that often. Now back to work for me tomorrow.

Tuesday

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Difficult day at work today. I am just wiped out. I thought I was going to play softball but the team thought I only wanted to play if they were short. John invited me to play, but since they weren’t relying on me (and truthfully the game was way uptown in the 130’s on the west side) I decided to just not go. I did hear from Jenn & Steve. They will be visiting tomorrow. Not 100% sure what we are going to do, but they want to see if they can get tickets for a show or something.

I took the whole day off tomorrow. I hope to meet up with Jenn & Steve in the mid morning. Hopefully it is not too hot out, but I hear it is going to be in the 80’s!

Vader Mask

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Not sure if I should admit this, but I have had this since December. Got it as a joke since Kai and I always through back and forth stupid movie sayings. I leave the mast on my windowsill or desk at work. Important to note that I never wore it. At least 2 others at work have (that I know about), but I won’t put it on. I do use it to play nonsensical Vader sounds when people piss me off though!