Has everyone forgotten about Death of a President? Nobody threatened to blow up a theater when a British director made a movie about killing a sitting American President. We didn’t hack Great Britain – well, apparently the NSA is hacking everybody – but not over this movie! Also – didn’t North Korea put out some […]
Last day in NYC, too many people, too much rain
On Saturday we tried to use the remaining attractions in our NYC CityPass booklets, but both MoMa and the Natural History Museum had coat check lines stretching for miles. The Natural History Museum had an entry line stretching all the way back to the subway platform. So, after giving up on both of those we […]
When the Rain Comes
On Friday we tried to visit the Met, but only had about an hour as we had a reservation for the Landmark Cruise from Pier 83 at 5pm. We ended up accidentally eating lunch at the Met employee cafeteria, which was surprisingly delicious. On our way to Pier 83 we walked through Central Park and […]
Observing New York
Unlike our other vacations, we hadn’t really planned what we’d do in New York other than seeing some friends and a few shows that Sam had on her bucket list. Thursday was wide open until 5pm so we decided to go to the Empire State Building Observation Deck. I’d been up there way back in […]
Another conference and no Christmas Tree
On Wednesday I had another conference to attend, this time at the IBM building. The event started off okay, with a presentation on content marketing – but quickly devolved from there with panel after panel of uninteresting marketing discussion. The irony is that a week before the event they’d asked me to be on one […]
Hell’s Kitchen
By the end of November my insomnia had returned and only allowed 3-5 hours of sleep per night. It got so bad that around Thanksgiving I went back to my doctor and she prescribed Ambien. Desperate for something, anything, to let me get at least seven hours of sleep for the first time in weeks […]
damages
This week I decided I’d reorganize my overly crowded closet. I made the decision to throw out all the wood panels I’d made for painting a few years ago. Since I made them myself they were poor quality and at this rate I was never really going to finish another painting. They were just taking […]
Last day in DC: The Big House
On Saturday morning we got up early and headed to the red line subway station, with plenty of time to spare for the estimated 20-minute transport to the white house (we’d timed it the day before). The train was leaving as we walked up the steps, but we weren’t worried as there would be another […]
Friday in DC: White Stone of varying height
On Friday morning we made sure to get down to the Washington Monument booth even earlier (not long after they opened) and we were able to pick up some of the last tickets available. Our tickets were for the 3:30 tour, so we visited the department of agriculture farmer’s market and then walked through the […]
Thursday in DC
On Thursday morning we went down to the Washington Monument to see if we could pick up any of the will call tickets that are distributed on a first-come-first-served basis every morning. We got there just a few minutes too late and they were all gone. We walked over to the Air and Space Museum […]