It’s over. My last full NYC winter. It’s strange how winter ends around here. You get a few days of teasing warm weather in late March, early April, then it plunges back to cold. Finally, one day it gets hot and humid as all hell. Then it starts raining every single afternoon because it’s so [...]
Greetings from Astoria! Here are a couple of winter pics I took the other night.
Despite all the snow, the days are getting longer and actually warmer. I still find it strange that the temperature is often warmer when it’s snowing. Anyway, winter is wrapping up and that’s a good thing for me.
Last year Audrey and I decided we needed to go to a warm place every winter that we’re on the east coast. Last year it was Aruba, this year I didn’t want to miss a ton of work, so we decided to keep it domestic and chose New Orleans. Neither of us had been and [...]
This wasn’t my idea to go to this event, and I went with two women, so don’t judge my appreciation of it
The Brooklyn Bontanic Garden has apparently the largest concentration of cherry blossom trees outside JAPAN. Hence the need for a festival and therefore a large gathering of hippies. Yes, read that right, [...]
A couple of weeks ago Audrey and I went up with this mass group of friends that we’ve sorta latched onto. The group does this snow trip every winter and we were lucky enough to be invited this year.
Basically there were two noteworthy parts to the trip:
1. Snowboarding
Very fun… there was a ton of people [...]
When Jason was out here, we did the usual tourist circuit, which includes Central Park. Much to my amazement, the pond that Audrey and I paddled around during the summer has frozen! It is so frozen right now that people walk out onto the ice to the islands that you could only swim to in [...]
It is so cold today and yesterday, that nearby ski resorts have shut down. I thought that was pretty telling.
I haven’t gone outside yet today, but I guess I’ll be happy as long as my snot doesn’t freeze.
Important to remember as winter comes: Sometimes ice can total your car, but if you put Benny Hill music to it, it can be pretty funny:
Finally, after so many months of anticipation of the snow and it’s associated conveniences, we got (by my estimation) SIX INCHES of the white stuff! This was yesterday (Friday) morning… what better way to start the weekend! Walking to work with no waterproof shoes was almost the highlight of the day, but then [...]
Yesterday something unprecedented in my walking home from work history happened: I found out dress shoes are like tiny sleds in the snow and I fell down. Yes, tragic, I know.
I was just cruising down the sidewalk on 31st ave, wondering what the fuck I’m doing here enjoying the beautiful snow falling from the sky [...]
This is going to be where the search and other helpful things go. Patience baldies!