OK, so I've gone on about the jury duty and the voir dire and what a pain it was to find lunch in Kew Gardens, but I couldn't talk about the trial until it was over. Well - it's over, as of Tuesday. Here's a good summary of the crime. Parolee allegedly guns down mother's …
Freezing, Thawing
The freezing part is of course that we're stuck in the worst cold snap that NYC has seen I think since I moved here 30 years ago. I don't remember it ever going down to single digits pretty much every day. The mildly amusing part is that, since I live in a radiator building, the …
Soup Factory
Mostly enjoying the 'hunkering down' part of winter/the snowstorm, especially since work events and the jury trial mean I'm out of the house more than I normally am. At work, we had one of our regular town halls, and those of us with anniversaries got recognized. I've been there for five years, so was one …
Monster! Monster! Dread our fury!
So, sometime in the midst of holiday hustle and bustle, I got a notice for jury duty. *sigh* OK. I've been called several times over the years, and usually let go, although at some point in the late '90's I ended up as an alternate on a robbery case. We got all the way to …
Random Things for a Monday
Let's see. It was my parents' anniversary on Friday (it would have been 66 years) and my great-niece's birthday on Saturday (she's 12). I have a whole list of movies to watch that I've never seen, but I've also been building a library of classics on Blu-Ray and decided to watch "Wall Street" last night. …
Into the New Year
My delight in being free from all the obligations of Hosting Christmas has been tempered by being somewhat cooped up. First of all, it's frickin' cold out there, and second, it's been obvious that going out and doing things, surrounded by people, is a bad idea right now with flu everywhere. (my brother is recovering …
Christmas 2025, part 2
So, now it's Christmas Eve (Wednesday). I was hosting dinner. One of our guests had bowed out, so it was just the basic 4 of us - Dad, Susan, Tessa and me. Who'd lived through that dreaded Christmas of 2022 where I was hosting for the first time and was a jittery mess, and still …
Christmas 2025, part 1
First of all, Happy New Year! 2026 is a year of possibilities, and I don't have a Major Project hanging over my head this year, so that's cool. More on that later, there will be a 2025 wrapup and perhaps a Vision Statement for the new year. The Christmas season really went very nicely. I …
2025 Wrapup
(this is the first writing project of a mid-January 3-day weekend where I'm carving out serious writing time) Let's just take it as given that 2025 in general was not good for our country. We voted in (again!) possibly the worst person in the world as our new president, and he and his gang of …
I never thought it was such a bad little tree…
Especially since I didn't get Christmas last year (Dad and I were traveling), I started prepping for Xmas as soon as I got back from Thanksgiving. Last weekend, I brought the Xmas boxes up and have spent the week assembling the big tree, while playing movies I don't have to see to watch - Scrooge, …
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