This is a photo of my wife, Jen. She’s a hero. She’s amazing.
She went grocery shopping this morning, with a blizzard in the forecast for tonight.
She said it was a madhouse. A madhouse. A madhouse.
She deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor for her Market Basket Bravery this morning.
I love her like crazy!
Check out the Middle School Dance traffic. It’s not even over yet and I’m so far away I can’t see the building.
I know I say this all the time, but I could really handle spending some time in San Diego right now.
Is everyone ready for a rash of bad luck caused by an arbitrary numbering system that resulted in the 13th day of the month falling on a Friday?
I suppose it would feel more real if we got hit with a snow storm today instead of tomorrow, as is forecast.
All I know is that in less than nine hours I will be on my weekend. There is nothing unlucky about that!
The Bruins are in Edmonton tonight. I’m home and can listen to the game on the radio (via the NHL app on my iPad). Unfortunately it’s just starting now and it’s 9:30. Urgh.
Question: the Bruins are in Edmonton and the temperature in Boston dropped into the low 20’s…
Coincidence?
What was the first audio player you ever used on a computer?
For me, it was Winamp. That was my go-to software for ages, and only meeting iTunes on the Mac I used in school could knock it off of the mountain.
I recently read that Winamp is shutting it’s doors and closing up shop as of 12/20/13. I also learned that, despite the “win” in the product’s name, there is a Mac version that you can download for free. Well, far be it from me to say no to media player nostalgia, I installed it on my desktop. It works, but it crashed a number of times when trying to import my library. Once it finished there were many, many duplicate files for some reason. I’ll use it for a day or two and then go back to iTunes.
But wait, there’s more! It has been reported that Microsoft is in talks with AOL to buy what ever is left of Winamp. Isn’t that cute? Maybe it will live to see 2014 after all. I hope so, if for nothing more than media player nostalgia.
Here is the final NaSoAlMo post. I had to convert the full 34+ minute uncompressed .aiff file to a .flac file in order to put it up on bandcamp. It worked.
The first time my wife and I went to New York was in September of 2007. As soon as we parked the car we found a tiny little Italian Restaurant that was out of this world. Last weekend we were trying to remember where it was and what it was called.
It was Ralph’s Ristorante Italiano and it was near 9th and 56th.
My obsession with vacation photography pays off at last!
Get ready. Here comes a bonanza of New York pics. Basically, everything that doesn’t involve Ground Zero.
We stayed at the Omni on 5th Avenue. We started our Saturday with a nice walk down 5th.
We came across St Patrick’s Cathedral. It is entirely under renovations. Inside and out.
We did not go to Radio City this time, but I always feel the need to acknowledge it.
I’m sure there is a logical reason for big tanks of Nitrogen to be out on the street. I’m sure of it.
A bunch of the stores on 5th had Christmas window displays. I want to say that this is Sacks, but I’m not sure. I’m not even sure I spelled Sacks correctly.
We visited the Rockefeller Center tree on Sunday, but not on Saturday. This was taken as we passed by, from across the street.
Down the street from the Empire State Building. We didn’t go there either. It’s not the tallest building in the city anymore.
5th Ave, babie.
Modern Art, or geometry homework? You be the judge.
The obligatory subway adventure. Get ready for blurry train pics.
Told you.
My love. My wife. She who had the ridiculously irresponsible idea to visit the city. Good thinking, love!
We happened upon a movie shoot. Or at least some trucks and a caterer.
I took many, many pictures of random buildings.
I love finding the normal looking buildings hidden behind the gigantic sky scrapers. Look at this little two story runt.
A razor, a shaving brush, and a stand to hang them off of… $300. I love New York. (no, we didn’t buy it. My beard (or the ugly crap that passes for it) ain’t worth that much)
On this corner is located a place that needs to be saved for future reference. Last time we were in New York we stayed across the street from a restaurant that had a Sunday brunch. On Sunday we went there without realizing that their Sunday brunch was $100 a plate. Oh my stars it was worth it though. The bacon… oh the bacon.
The Christmas lights looked more impressive at night, but what are you going to do, right?
Concrete next to glass and steel. Old next to new.
After lunch we went back to the hotel for a while. When we went out again it was dark out.
That cop came up on us while we were crossing the street. We were in the way so a bus couldn’t pull through the red light to let the cop by. Sorry about that, officer.
This is on Park Avenue. Jen thought it was the Helmsley Building.
The Christmas lights really are much better at night.
Because we booked the hotel at the absolute last second, we were able to snag a massive discount on a fantastic room on the top floor of the Omni hotel. Granted, it wasn’t the suite on the top floor of the Omni hotel. This plaque is on the wall outside of said suite.
On Sunday morning we went for another walk. This time we wanted to go to the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
There were three Christmas light cats. At least we only saw three. The third one is coming later on.
Back at the tree.
This trip was our Christmas present to each other. Merry Christmas, Jen. I love you so much!
We didn’t go up to The Rock’s observation floor. It was freezing out on the ground. It would have been much worse a billion feet in the air.
And we finish with the third Christmas light cat. I hope you enjoyed my pointless pics from our Christmasy weekend get away to New York.
Inside the Red Head's Head 