Second Monday of the Week

[lagilman]

So yeah, there were fireworks last night.



There was also heat. And humidity. And a pitcher of Dark 'n Stormy, and fish tacos, and visiting friends, so it was all good in the end.

I am very fond of Independence Day.

(afterward, I turned to Younger Visitor, who had been attempting teenager-jaded, and said "so, can we throw fireworks?" She agreed that we can, indeed, throw fireworks).

Today, thinking that it would be a settle down and work day, I instead I woke to discover that the laptop's power cord was borked, and said laptop had 0 power. So I threw self and laptop and various other things into the rental car and headed into Manhattan for an appointment with the Genius Bar.

The good folk at the Bar now think that I can break anything. They may not be wrong.

Then - having already written the day off - I ran a bunch of other car-requiring errands, including buying a new A/C unit to replace the one that gave up the ghost. This means, of course, that we will have a nicely cool rest of the summer.

Or not. If not, at least I'll be better prepared.

As an aside: summers in NYC, and especially summer holiday weeks in NYC, are amazingly traffic-light. This is the time to come in and, well, do everything. Even the best, usually overbooked restaurants have reservations available (for lunch, if not dinner)

And now, speaking of which, I am off to the wilds of Brooklyn for a friend's 51st birthday dinner at Peter Luger. Happy Carnivore coma to follow...

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

now think that I can break anything

its a gift aint it?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Have a good evening.
Those are some very pretty fireworks. (Over here, throwing them is severely frowned on and can get you prosecuted, alas.)

[lagilman]

It is illegal to have "personal use" fireworks in New York State (other states differ).

These fireworks are carried out by NYC, via Trained Professionals who work all year to plan the 25 minutes of BOOM.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's pretty much what happens here these days. Which, I have to say, I prefer for all sorts of reasons. (I think you can do small displays in your back garden, but with tough restrictions on what you can buy.)

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Mac power cords are notoriously shitty, and have been for years. It's not probably you.

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

This time of year, Metro-North trains are filled with n00bs who collectively Do It All Wrong. But they all head to Times Square and leave the rest of the city alone, so at least there's that. (Today we managed to get a table at the 2nd Ave Deli at 1pm with zero wait. Try *that* in December.)

[lagilman]

Yeah, Times Square was, as usual, Filled with Tourists. But even that wasn't too overwhelmingly WTF (and my guests got to see the Naked Cowboy, so that's off their bingo card...)