Another day

With jodi!!!

A sad update....

It's not AS bad as the title sounds...

not only did my 1 terabyte external hard-drive bite the proverbial dust (which basically housed all of my pictures and videos for the last, uh I dunno, 11 years) but my trusty Dell laptop's (cracked case and all) hard-drive tanked out too (which btw, housed the pictures that I couldn't put on my terabyte drive after it died...so there goes all my most recent pictures and videos UHG!!!!!!!)

So what do I learn from this? Go back to using FILM cameras? Let me tell you I totally considered it. This is ridiculous. The only redeeming factor - is that with my awesome phoney (HTC EVO) I took more pictures with that than my regular awesome camera.

Now, if I had been uploading and updating this blog regularly, I wouldn't have had such a melt-down but alas, time and unforeseen occurrences befall me all the time (is that the way it goes?? if not, it should.)

So super-hubbie got me a lenovo laptop- mostly because in a home with a computer geek, there is not ONE computer working after my laptop died. It is not as if we don't have computers, oh we do, in fact if you were here right now, you could find 7 hidden in my little living room. But they are all in stages of "not working" ....not broken, just not working. Is there a difference? To me, no. To hot computer geek hubbie - why, yes of course. (Thank goodness he's hot...because those lame explanations are softened by the twinkle in those gorgeous blue eyes of his)

SIGH

So yea, my new computer, it's um, nice. the screen is freakily wide, which I personally haven't gotten used to and am not exactly sure if I like it. But, it does work, and it is fast, and I can play Sims3 on it (which I have been) and, for once, I am backing up the information onto another external hard-drive that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Oh the joy of the unknown.

So regarding the "Sad Update" - it's the fact that I didn't backup anything and didn't pursue it, so now the sad thing is that DATA RECOVERY - dear lord..how much is that going to cost us?

HTC update

What does he think about?  The world may never know.

New York City - 2010

New York City will always be my home period. There is no other place like it and Boston pales significantly when compared to it.

Where in the world can you get almost any kind of food at midnight? Maybe Las Vegas but come on, who needs the neon'ness of that place, not to mention the heat.

You definitely cannot hop on a train or a bus on the MBTA around the Boston area at 1am and get to your destination - the beauty of NYC is that it is a totally functioning town all the time. Love it.

Our short weekend in NYC was fun-filled and fast-paced, and I'm not just talking about the driving part.

Here are a few highlights:

- The MET

- The Tour

- The Trains

- The Stadium

- The Park

- The Assembly

- The Ferry

- The Dress

All or part will be posted via pictures here. To those who visit, enjoy.

Coming home....

What a great time we had in our whirlwind weekend in the Big Apple. (I haven't found out why it's exactly called the Big Apple (time for Wikipedia!)) The drive wasn't too awful bad, except for an ugly accident in CT (seems that happens a lot) - pretty weather coming back and I took most of the pictures with my HTC, so I'll have to upload from there in this post, later tho.

At a truck stop for a fountain drink and a stretch

Caught in the action of walking...clearly I was bored...

The cutest guy in the parking lot that day!

Our Free Ferry Ride to Staten Island and then back to the City

So after the convention in Brooklyn, me, Atom, Mom and Shauna took the train from Shauna's house to the city to take the ferry to Staten Island. Before we did that, we took mom to One Whitehall Street, where she worked when we lived in NYC, and took her final picture in front of her buildings.

One Whitehall Street, Farrell Lines, Inc.
One New York Plaza, old home of Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Company, Inc. - my first real job in the city when I was a Junior at Curtis High School's Coop Program on Staten Island

The SI Ferry has totally changed. The Neon lights are super cheesy but I think they did it for all those dagnabit tourist that are EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. Hate it. I guess old for me was nicer than all this gleaming white and silver. Sadly, 9/11 had a lot to do with it too.
The escalators are new and there are more of them than they used to be.
The paparazzi (me) took the pictures of the these great looking people getting off the escalators

Look no quarters needed!!!
Everything is glass and chrome and that annoying neon keeps popping up everywhere!

They have new "marble" seats but there isn't a lot of them - so you best hurry on up. I liked the wooden ones better
Leaving the Manhattan side
Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge

Empire State Building

some kind of scenic tourist boat ride, I'm sure.
The Staten Island Zoo has an Fishtank they maintain on Island side terminal
A docked Ferry

Brooklyn Assembly; Sunday's Convention Program with the Flatlands Congregation

So Sunday was the second highlight of our trip; the Sunday Session of the District Convention at the Brooklyn Assembly Hall on Flatbush Avenue. We were able to connect with the friends from the Flatlands congregation and see the drama again. And the Public Talk was amazing.

The brother explaining how you can draw close to GOD
The ceiling of this most amazing renovated theatre
Just like at home!

The stage
The drama


That's Brother Stratford in the yellow!
That's Jennifer in the cream!!

The brother that released the DVD to the convention hall

Atom paying attention

Me not so much ;)
DAISY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love her!
Tasha, Daisy and Me
Mom, Shauna, Me and Atom

Atom, Tasha, Mom and Me