I just returned from the post office with the mail that built up (in four days? i know!) while we were gone, and there were 3 netfilx dvds in there… A few seconds after I did the following, I realized how 21st century I have become. So: stack of netflix envelopes right there in front of me, but (in what seemed to be an instinctual move) I accessed information on a server hundreds of miles away to determine their contents rather than opening them myself.  Heh.

The aforementioned trip to NYC was supergreat. Pictures @ flickr; executive summary below:

Highlights:

• Seeing a huge crew of fools: Dan, Smooth Dan, Chris, Tess, Bartow, Ryan (!), Kevin, Daniel, Carrie, Jon, Tally, Alex, Nora, Hanney.
• Rocking the tourist style w/ Ryan on the Empire State Building
• Eating at favorite joints: Grimaldi’s, Go, Cucina de Pesce, Chip Shop
• Good meals at places new to us: Loreley, Press 195, Gravy, Pink Pony
• Inside look at the casket factory near Dan’s place on Union Street
• Spending more time in the Lower East Side than ever before
• Kevin playing at Tonic w/ a full band
• Walking from Dan’s to Tally & Alex’s
• The weather
• Seeing an apparently-F’d-up Sam Rockwell eating a slice of pizza on Ave A
• Late night patties

Lowlights:

• Missing all the out of town friends: Rachel, Real Bobby, Jennifer
• Missing other folks that were around: Chris, Daniel, Katherine & Erich, Chris infobong
• International Bar seems to be closed
• Spending more time in the Lower East Side than ever before
• Unsuccessfully trying to sleep during Broken Flowers @ BAM
• Never finding any cold Manhattan Special for sale
• Actually seeing some Real World Austin episodes
• ATM fees

Ok, back to work.