Life, Kids, Technology & that move to another continent
So no last minute vacation for me. It just didn’t seem in the cards. My traveling companion and I never got to a consensus on where to go or what to do. I think he is going anyway, but it was just too last minute for me to eak out a vacation.
I am now looking to do something short in the middle of September. Hopefully with a week off somewhere in October or November.
More news about that as it develops.
Last night I went out and checked out the NYC bar scene. I met up with Gus & Vjay. We went to several places in SOHO, and the meat packing district. I honestly don’t remember the name of any of the places we went to. I normally don’t do the late night bar scene. It is fun, but I usually can’t stay awake on an 8 hour bar hopping binge. I have a good time, but I hurt the next day. I need my sleep. I normally get afraid that I will get a migraine if I stay up till 4 or 5AM. Today that fear rang true. I had to take 2 butabital’s throughout the day, but at least I was able to function.
The bar’s were cool. We went to a mix of places. From the nice old fashioned pub that was relatively quiet, to the swanky and busy club/bar’s. I am more a pub kind of guy, but I appreciate the fact that there are plenty of beautiful women at the clubs.
I got home at like 3AM, but realized I had voice mail from work regarding a problem. I ended up on the phone till 4AM with remote hands restarting a server. I slept till noon today.
All in all a fun night, but not something I would do every weekend.
Everyone is asking when I am going on vacation? I haven’t gone in a while and it is becoming apparent that I need to chill out for a while. The next question is where to go? I have pondered this in previous blogs. I have several ideas about what to do. I have prepared myself for the simple fact that some of my ideas were never going to happen due to several factors.
Now things may have taken a turn for the better. A friend of mine has an a crazy last minute idea that we are trying to see if it will work out. If so I will have news soon. If not, we will never speak of it again. All I can say is I am excited if it can happen. I can’t sleep. Of course I couldn’t sleep all week because of other reasons, so I don’t know if my current insomnia is due to a potential vacation plan or that I just cannot sleep.
If you got through this post and actually understand some of what I just said, you are as crazy as i. Enough rambling…
I have been having sleep issues. I cannot sleep. Not sure if it is the loud AC in my place (i need to get that looked at), or still settling into the new apartment. It could be just stress. I have no idea, but it is becoming a problem. I go through bouts insomnia, but I still goto bed normal time and try to sleep. it just doesn’t come, or it is very restless.
I had my laundry done today. I am all for having it done, instead of me doing it. It costs allot more, but I don’t wast 2 hours in the hot laundry room. I found that if I let it pile up, it is actually cheaper than doing small amounts of it. You pay a flat rate for the first like 10lbs. The first time I did it, I had 1 week of stuff and it was like $14. this time I had 2 weeks worth of stuff and it was only like $18. like I said pricey but worth it to me. Now I need someone to clean my place. I am good at light dusting, and washing the floor, but that is where my domestic talent ends.
Tonight I went to little italy for dinner with Gretchen, Jayson, Jayson’s cousin and her friend. It was a nice night. We didn’t get to dinner until 10:30PM, I was hungry so that was bad. We hung out at Jay’s place for a while where the women were getting ready.
We had an awesome dinner at one of the 50 italian restaurants on mulberry street. I had veil parm. I don’t eat it that often so and it was really good. Some cheese cake and espresso after dinner and I cannot sleep right now. So I am up writing about the dinner. The ladies had a part tomorrow and it was raining so we ended up going home after dinner.
We ended up waiting for the subway for 30 minutes. After it turns midnight the subway start to suck in NYC. I don’t know how they can have any more “reduced service” they talk about if they have to cut the transit budget.
To make it to dinner I did have to have a butabital. I was getting a migraine head ache in the late afternoon. The one pill made me feel better, and it made me not drink. that saved me some $$$.
Now I need to goto sleep. I am just not tired, and it is almost 2AM. Tomorrow I am going to feel this…
Friday a bunch of us went to this swanky bar down town. Nelson knew people there. It was very cool. I normally don’t goto bars that tell you that they are not letting in more single guys. Miguel and I got that line since we got there later than the rest of the group, but thankfully we knew people who got us in. Plan B, was to use the single girls we were with to use as dates, but it didn’t come to that.
Everyone had too much to drink. It was fun. Saturday, Cari, Gus, and I tried to hit the frog exhibit at the natural history museum. We got there too late (most of us were hung over) and didn’t want to wait for the exhibit times we could get. We ended up going to see the Manchurian candidate. it was good. I never saw the original.
Today I had to goto work (see previous post) then I got together with rich to hang out. he saw my new place and then we went to this irish pub nearby for dinner. We rented the school of rock on DVD. it was funny, but I am glad I didn’t see it in the movies. it wasn’t worth $10 good:)
Not using my laptop on the rail road is really slowing down my blogging. I figured this would happen, but I am still sad that I don’t get to write as much as I used to. Now when I do get time to write I am trying to cram so much stuff into a single post. Allot probably gets lost in the translation. I want to set aside time a few times a week to write. I have been so busy that it is hard.
Sean mentioned to me yesterday when I spoke to him that my website has been down for several weeks. Yes it has been down since I moved. It was up for a day then I took it down again. I don’t want to continue to self host the site. I don’t want the extra computer in my living room. I bought a hosting plan, but they didn’t offer IMAP mail service like they eluded to, so I gave up on that sweat hosting package. My friend Miguel will host my site for me but I haven’t setup the site on his server just yet. Once that is done I will move my site to that box. the only difference is that I have to watch my disk usage since his server is running low on space. For now my blog and photo blog are still up. I expect my site to be back in about a week or so.
So far I am loving living in manhattan. It has been easy to get around, and I am doing allot. The down side to that is easy getting around, and doing stuff costs allot. I need to budget my going out money.
Taking cabs will also be done on a limited basis. they are fast but costly. I am happy with my unlimited ride metro card. That should get me around most places.
Tuesday a bunch of us went to dinner at old town tavern. I cut out after dinner but everyone else went to see Faranhight 9/11. I refuse to see another Mike Moore movie. That doesn’t mean I am a republican though!
Wednsday Jayson and I hit outback. I ate so much I could barely walk to the train.
Saturday Jayson and I went shopping, and hung out at both my place and his. I went to bed bath and beyond and got some bathroom stuff and cleaning supplies. I now can take a normal shower with a new shower head. We also went to the apple store, but see a different post for that information.
Today I hung out and cleaned. Then I meet up with my family for my mom’s birthday dinner.
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in manhattan. What to do? Skate in central park of course. I broke out my Roller Blades and decided to do some exercise. I know, what was I thinking? Actually I used to roller blade several miles a week back in the day (aka college). I figured it was time to do it again.
I didn’t believe anyone when they said the park was great. It is. There is a whole road that is closed off just for jogging, biking and blading. And because it was a nice day, there were nice looking ladies out. Hey I am a single guy, so it is ok to look…
My back started to hurt after like 30 minutes, so I didn’t stay out for long. Now you can say that my back hurt because I was out of shape, but that would be incorrect. I always had issues with that part of my back when I roller bladed. I am not sure if it was how I bladed, or if I just have a bad back. I need to slowly build up to where I was before. It has been like 6 years since I roller bladed regularly. I hope to get 2 sessions in a week during the summer. I am not crazy enough to think I can do it during the week, but on the weekends nothing is stopping me from doing it.
Next time I hope to go further on the path. I always like exploring new areas, and roller blading, so this is a good combination.
I did some exploring today. I scoped out the stores around my new place. I got a decent hair cut. Found a starbucks, a few deli’s, drug stores, and other essential places. I still have to find places to order food from, but so far I like what I see.
I also got my Fresh Direct delivery. I love that place. I will need to make a follow up order in the next two weeks. I forgot some stuff. This order was expensive since I threw out or ate everything before I moved.
The move went surprisingly well. Turns out I was very nervous for nothing. The movers I picked were very fast. They showed up early and we were out of my old apartment by like 10:30Am. The whole thing was done by 1:30PM. They put back together both wall units without major issues. My living room wall unit had some stripped screws so my dad and I will fix that later, but everything else was fine. I was worried about the sharing the elevator to move for nothing. The other people moving at my old place never showed up.
My sisters truck came in handy. We packed it up and my dad and I drove that into the city. Gretchen met us at my new place so she could stay with the movers while my dad sat in the truck and I brought stuff upstairs. My dad was able to take off early and even get some work done. Gretchen and I went to bed bath and beyond to buy crap. I took her to lunch for her help. It was nice to have a move go off without major issues.
Because the movers were fast, the cost was allot less than I thought it would be. That was nice also.