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Fall in NY
By Jay | November 17, 2007
It’s a beautiful Fall day here in Brooklyn; I’m looking out at my back yard and the trees & bushes are at the peak of their color. It always surprises me how much later Fall arrives in NYC than it does just 30 miles inland; we don’t usually get our first frost until Thanksgiving.
I can’t believe another one of my blogging buddies has bit the dust; one of my favorite blogs, mylifestartsat42.com has vaporized into thin air. Poof! They’re dropping like the Fall leaves outside my window.
Ah well, I understand. Blogging can seem like just one more obligation or burden if you’re not careful. I think of my blog as an online diary of sorts, a place where I can work out thoughts, or post resolutions that I feel I need to keep. I don’t know that reading this is of any use to anyone, but I find that I learn something when I read other peoples’ online musings and meanderings. In the end though I try not to take it too seriously. I have enough drama in my real daily life.
I haven’t bee very good with money lately. I’ve been on an “eating out” binge for the past couple weeks. I have had some wonderful meals, but have spent far too much money. For some reason November/December always ends up this way for me, every year. Must be that Christmas thing in New York City — a mass hysteria of money-spending fills the air and everyone spends their days shopping and evenings in restaurants.
I even broke down and had some wine last Tuesday night, my first in 6 months. A friend of mine who runs a medical business and has a lot of money bought several cases of Chateauneuf du Pap, which is a delicious wine from southern France, to give to his clients. Each bottle was about $200. I picked up some smoked salmon and dark bread, stopped by his apartment, and we proceeded to down a bottle each. It was good! But I felt like crap the next day.
I didn’t drink for the rest of the week, but last night we went to an opening for some Brazilian artists over in Chelsea, and the Capirinhas were flowing. A distributor of Cachaca from Sao Paolo had set up a station with about 8 people mixing Capirinhas and giving them out for free, and I have to admit I downed a couple.
My Summer discipline has faded and I’m slipping into my old habits. I hope I don’t slip too far.
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