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My original entry here got wiped out in a browser crash, but the outline of what was my week included: 100 miles of driving (ZipCar to the rescue): 2 round trips to Starrett City, 2 round trips to Richmond Hill, 2 round trips to my Mom’s house. Amazingly I got a car on Christmas Day, [...]

Looking forward to FC’s year-end entry! Bizarre Reuters article on Yahoo, with a curious first line: “Would you pay $175 for a pound of coffee beans which had passed through the backside of a furry mammal in Indonesia?” Apparently, the civet’s digestive system does something to the coffee beans: “People like coffee. And when they [...]

The passing of Michael Vale, the actor who was Dunkin’ Donuts’ “Fred the Baker” – the man who made the line “Time to make the donuts” to remind us that Dunkin’ Donuts toiled long and hard for us. Goodbye to Monday Night Football, at least in its broadcast network format, as we have known it. [...]

B- and I went to visit the hot springs around Taipei. Wulai (烏來) is one of the more famous places to visit (the other is BeiTou (北投)) for hot spring rest and relaxation. B- found some places online and ended up settling for Full Moon Spa, a Japanese style place. We had dinner and breakfast [...]

Did a lot of driving today (more accurately P did a lot of driving, I just tagged along) — picked up P’s mom at Starrett City, went to the Ave. U chinatown to buy hotpot supplies. Lunch at Pho Hoai Restaurant, 1906 Avenue U (recommended!); back to Starrett; back to Brooklyn Heights to pick up [...]

One year after the tsunami. Various ceremonies. But, what is in the aftermath? Johnny Damon, shaved and not stirred (there’s a picture of him shaved somewhere in that link). “Doonesbury” of late has been interesting – B.D. is slowly making his way to the V.A. hospital for counseling. Mike’s daughter Alex has spent this week [...]

Wishing you all a warm, happy Christmas and Holiday Season. A time I think to count our blessings, give thanks, be generous and act in the best of human spirit. A lot to appreciate, be thankful for blessings received as well as to to give this year. Hope you all are going to have an [...]

Well, at this hour, the state mediators apparently got the union and MTA management together, and NY Times’ Sewell Chan and Steven Greenhouse’s article was a good read – plus, I came out feeling a lot more impressed with the power of mediation as a form of alternative dispute resolution: Jerome Lefkowitz, a labor lawyer [...]

Today, I went back to work after having a mini-vacation on Monday and Tuesday (requested and approved long before I thought the MTA strike was going to happen). So, I got dropped off at the Brooklyn Bridge and walked this morning, making the classic NYC MTA strike trek. The walk wasn’t so bad (the uphill [...]

Day 2 of the strike. P is riding into the city now with a coworker who is driving in at 3:30 am to avoid the HOV-4 rule. It took her 3.5 hours to get home yesterday: upper East Side to Penn Station, LIRR to Jamaica, then Flatbush, then a walk downtown. P’s brother-in-law is a [...]