The New York trip was fantastic. A much needed break from work, if only for 28 hours. Seth’s musical (see below) was surprisingly good, even though the plot climaxed at the end of act one. If it gets picked up (knock on wood), he’ll work on act two (I even gave him some ideas). Incredible acting + catchy tunes + political satire = good musical. It’ll win Fringe awards, no doubt.
Besides the Spickner Spin, we visited landmarks such as the Empire State Building, the Cast Iron District, and the Chrysler Building. We stayed the night at Thirty-Thirty for an exceedingly reasonable rate. The most exciting part of the entire trip: we found free street parking right outside the hotel and didn’t have to move the car at all!
Tonight co-worker showed me around Del Rey, a lovely neighborhood in Alexandria. We had dinner/dessert at the Dreamery, which does not sell ice cream–it sells custard. If you’ve never tried custard, beware: you’ll always think ice cream is second rate post custard consumption.
At the Dreamery, we worked on a jigsaw puzzle and watched cute kids enjoy their custard. The experience led me to the thought: Why do I have to find a woman that would want to spend the rest of her life with me just to have a kid? That seems like an exceedingly difficult proposition–though perhaps not a steadfast prerequisite. On the other hand, a friend informed me I wasn’t “balanced” enough to handle (a) kid(s) on my own, so perhaps society has its reasons.
Woah, this is way too much post-11/2 thinking for me…okay back to state targeting.
Bookroll
- Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
- David Rakoff
- 3 wds: Rhythmic Raw Rakoff
- The Signal and the Noise
- Nate Silver
- 3 wds: accessible, insightful, broad
- The Casual Vacancy
- J.K. Rowling
- 3 wds: captivating, political, believable
- The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against al-Qaeda
- Neil Shah
- 3 wds: Captivating, informative, redacted
- The Blank Slate
- Steven Pinker
- 3 wds: Rant, lengthy, correct
- The Trial
- Franz Kafka
- 3 wds: Disheartening, linear, skippable
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people at work keep talking about the dreamery too! i like their online flavor forecast. still haven’t gone though… i suppose i should add that to my list. -j.
The Dreamery: if you go now there will be lots of kids there. Do you like kids? I forget. (I certainly remember that you don’t like _unsupervised_ kids.) If you don’t, go close to closing time (10pm). But, yes, it should be added to your list.
You make me sound so mean! Look, here�s what I meant: It doesn�t take the power of Trelawney to imagine you raising a child alone and, say, feeding it nothing but custard for dinner or reading it a �bedtime story� from “>“>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201175894/qid=1092901153/sr=ka-3/ref=pd_ka_3/002-6415928-4592029″> Object Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer�s Guide to CLOS. I�m just saying that at times like those, it might be nice to have some balance in the form of a person who believes that dinner is not optional and that the humanities are at least as important as the sciences. I mean, somebody’s gotta buy the kid clothes!
So yeah, maybe raising a kid on your own isn�t such a hot idea� but you know what just occurred to me? You�d make an awesome Big Brother! :-)
1) The “power” of Trelawney? Oh yeah, that’s quite the allusion…maybe “foresight of Dumbledore” would have worked better. (Hey, what a coincidence, my tea leaves say Die, Ron, Die as well.)
2) Nice pick on the book; although, I prefer Scheme (a LISP variant).
3) Bedtime reading will be old baseball games that I kept score of, so you know what each and every batter did. Seriously, what’s more exciting than the 1991 seven-game Twins-Braves World Series?