A friend of mine took me to see Neil Diamond. A wonderful surprise. I don’t pass up the legends. He put on a great show. I’m so glad I got to go.
Last night’s weather here in NYC was outstanding. There was a nice
breeze and the temperature was in the high 60s. I noticed since I was
a teenager that the weather is like that here in the first 2 weeks of
August. I love it!
After I took this photo with my iphone, I jumped on the R train and headed to the Apple store in Soho. One of the memory chips was not registering and causing some problems. Much to my surprise and delight, Apple is going to replace the main logic board free of charge, even though its long out of warranty. Apple is great! So far I’ve gotten 5 years out of that laptop. It’s time for a new one which I plan to get when the new models comes out in August/September. From what I’ve been reading on the internet, the new ones will be a big upgrade. I don’t want to buy a new machine now and regret not waiting for something better right around the corner.
Afterwards. I spent some time with a policeman friend of mine, then walked around the Village for about an hour, enjoying the weather and the sights. It was busy with restaurant goers and clubbers. Live music was emanating from quite a places that I walked past on Bleecker Street. I like it down there.
General28 Jul 2008 05:58 pm
One of the best Felafel sandwiches money can buy and it’s not much money at all. A hardy meal in itself. Together with a can of soda it comes to $5.75, which is a real bargain.
Family and Movies and Music and New York City and Personal and Technology and Television21 Jul 2008 07:56 am
My sister and her husband managed to get free tickets to see Billy Joel from a placating banker that my brother in law deals with. I didn’t know they were going until my mother told me on Friday night where they were. When I woke up Saturday morning, I noticed I had a missed call from my brother in law, Steve, at 11:55PM. He never calls me that late. At first, I wondered what might be wrong. I wondered if my mother was ok. All kinds of things were running through my head and then it dawned on me; he was calling me to let me know that they got a treat at the concert. I had heard on the radio that Paul McCartney came out to do a couple of numbers. When I spoke to my brother in law later that day, he confirmed that he called me to not only tell me that he saw McCartney but to let me hear it from his cell phone. They’d never seen him before so they were pretty excited.
I’ve seen Paul a couple of times in concert and I also met him twice in 2001. I am the proud owner of his autograph, twice. He signed his poetry book that I own at a book signing and then he signed a pamphlet that I had with me when I ran into him walking down the street where I worked a few months later. I don’t have to tell anyone what a LEGEND he is.
Saturday night I went to see “The Dark Knight”. It was a very good movie. Personally, I don’t like when Hollywood hypes an actor’s performance posthumously because I feel it’s more out of sympathy than anything else but I must say, Heath Ledger was really excellent as The Joker. I won’t be surprised if he does take an acting award at Oscars in 2009 for his role in the Dark Knight.
Yesterday, it was so hot. I watched the season premier of “Monk” and wanted to watch at least one movie of two that I have from Netflix, but I never got around to it. I went to Best Buy and bought one of those Digital TV converter boxes that will be necessary for analog televisions after Feb. 2009. I had a $40.00 coupon from the government so I only had to pay $20.00 plus tax out of my own pocket for it. I’ll hook it up this week, sometime.
Yesterday morning I woke up and my watch indicated that it was 6:05, so I went back to sleep. Some time later, I woke up again and my watch still said 6:05. I thought I was dreaming and went back to sleep. When I finally woke up for good, my watch still said, 6:05. It was really about 9:15am. I realized that it wasn’t working and figured it to be a dead battery. I took it to the mall where there is a watch repair shop and left it with them. It turned out to be the battery. They replaced it for $14.95. All the unexpected little things just eat your money away. Well, the battery situation should be good for a couple more years. Yes, I do sleep with my watch on. The only time I take my watch off is when I jump in the shower or go swimming. I’m lost without it much the same as I’d be lost without my glasses.
Sometimes the worst part of the weekend for me is when I travel on the subway system. This weekend the “track work” meant bypassed stops and backtracking to get to the station you needed. Half hour trips turn out to be one and a half hour trips. Pure torture. Track work will never end, it seems.
Potential Apple iPhone buyers on line were given umbrellas for protection from the sun and cold water to drink. A friend of mine was on this line from 1PM and was still on it when I saw him around 4:30, with at least an hour or so to go.
This is Pei and her friend Damien. Pei and I have been LJ and Flickr friends for quite a while. She was in town from California, so we arranged to meet in lower Manhattan to take some shots of the Brooklyn Bridge. The three of us walked across the bridge almost to the end. We then turned around and walked a few miles through the financial district, Chinatown, SOHO, NOHO and Greenwich Village where we got something to eat at Quantum Leap. Afterwards we walked to Union Square Park and sat there for a little while to talk, and took a few pictures. This is one of them. We parted company about 11PM, then I went back to work to get my stuff and went home. It was a fun night.
Pei is an excellent photographer. You can check out her photos at her flickr account. Just click here.
As I started to sit down on the subway this morning, I felt some resistance. I tried to sit down once again and felt the same resistance. I turned around and a woman sitting to my right was pushing my bag which was resting partially on my back, partially on my side, preventing me from sitting in a puddle of water. That would have been a cold shocker on my rear end. I thanked her for saving me from the mishap and went to another empty seat which was directly across from the one I almost sat in. That one was also had a nice puddle in it. A nice man pulled out some tissues from his bag and I used that to wipe the seat dry, then proceeded to sit down. I thanked both the man and the woman for saving me the embarrassment of a wet behind. I appreciated that. I must learn to always look where I’m about to sit.
A little while ago, a cute French girl came into the lobby with a piece of paper that had a bad address on it. It wasn’t even close. She spoke virtually no English at all. She had no phone number and an incorrect address for the place that she needed to go. She had half of a person’s name written down. She asked me how she could get information on the phone. It took me a while to figure out what she meant but when I did, I told her #411. She dialed it and had me talk to the operator. Since I didn’t have a full name and only that the name I had could be a record label by the name of Eddie O, the operator gave me a number to call. No one answered. I did a reverse look up only to find out she gave me a number for an Eddie Ojeda which was wrong.
Finally with the help of pencil and paper I got the girl to give me the correct name of the person she wanted to get in contact with. Turns out the name was Elodie, not Eddie; Elodie Ozanne. I looked it up on the internet and found it, complete with phone number and correct address. Now I had to try to explain how she could get there. The destination was about 2.5 miles away from here. I googled a map with directions but she didn’t understand and I think she surely would have gotten lost so I wrote the address down on a piece of paper with the phone number and told her to take a yellow cab and show this to the driver. She asked “how much you think it will cost?” I told her probably about 10 dollars or so.
“Thank you so much.” Have a good afternoon”, she said. I hope she found a taxi driver who could read English and found the place.
General12 Jun 2008 09:17 pm
My New Tom Bihn Laptop Messenger Bag
Easily the best bag made, period. Delivered today from Seattle, Washington. I needed something that wouldn’t allow water to leak into the bag which means it has to have water reistant zippers, as well. It’s an awesome product.
I got the black/steel/wasabi colors, which means it has a black body, steel flap and wasabi interior. The strip down the middle of the flap on mine is the same as the first picture, sapphire blue. I also got a brain cell (laptop sleeve) in steel. I gave it the first test on an 8.5 mile ride home from work. Couldn’t be happier.
Details here:
http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/PROD/200/TB0825
