It was going to be a great morning. For once, I was on schedule: a full cup of coffee down the hatch, three plastic bags in my jacket (just in case), kennel preloaded with toys and out the door in time to get around the block with the hound and still catch the 8:15...
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My apologies for leaving you all for so long without content. Melissa’s T.V.-free week is almost up, so we can get back to our regular programming soon–everything back to normal. (Abnormal: I actually read a book in the meantime.) Meanwhile, recent events: Visits from the de Castriques, the Thomsons, and Scott and Mark. AND:...
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Though even I thought I was technically guilty of being in the wrong place in the wrong truck, I was exonerated by my Budget receipt. Short term lease? Not guilty. That makes sense: It was personal use, not commercial. But, in my (uneducated) reading of the code, it seemed that trucks of that size...
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The New York traffic “court” (the DMV’s Traffic Violations Bureau) is more akin to the system featured in North Carolina: a special “administrative law judge” (who is not technically a judge in the formal sense, but more an empowered attorney) hears cases, decides on guilt and sentences guilty parties. The real court system, meanwhile,...
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During my lunch break I tried out a new barbershop. I don’t ask much of barbers. In fact, under the tutelage and encouragement of my friend Mark, I cut my own hair for a few years with a pair of Wahl clippers affectionately known as the Silver Bullet. The cutting of my own hair...
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(You can pick up to three choices.)
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It’s done! After a full night’s sleep, guest contributor Mark will fill in some of the details of the two-day moving process. Two days to move 300 square feet of stuff into a 400-ish square foot apartment less than a half-mile away? Yep, if you include the time spent running up and down six...
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This photo was taken moments before we set out in the direction of Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge. And moments before the downpour began. UPDATE: Here’s a gallery from their visit.
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There aren’t many pictures of local sidewalk decoration I’m willing to publish.
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