Art?

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Yes.

This Sunday, we visited one of our favorite galleries—the streets of Manhattan.

Keith Hernandez Mocks Me

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This is Keith Hernandez. It’s a poster of him I found in Manhattan this weekend. He’s an old school, legendary Met. And in 1986 he won a World Series ring when the Mets beat the Boston Redsox. His poster is also a brutal reminder of what happened to me last week.

Here it is. I’ll make it short and sweet. Last week the Mets played the Cardinals for the right to go to the World Series. On Thursday starting at 8pm, they played the final and deciding game in NY. It was a great game and I watched it at home, in HDTV, on my couch. Here-in lies the issue, and what makes this a story. A brutal story. At around 7pm Thursday night my phone rang…and I didn’t pick it up. The next day, Friday, an office mate walks up to me, asked why I didn’t answer my phone, and then tells me he called to give me a free ticket to the game. Let me repeat. A free ticket to the 7th game of the National League Championship Series. That’s it. The end. This story is now over.

Keith Hernandez you and your Sunday afternoon poster suck.

A Weekend Ride

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Blah, blah, blah. I know, I keep blogging about our bike rides. But I've got pictures. And they're good pictures. And we're having a great time. So if you care to check out the ride we did this weekend, click on the clicky title or picture and enjoy. We were in the Catskills somewhere between New Paltz and Woodstock (yeah, that woodstock).

View on October 20, 2006

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This morning we woke up to a nice, Oregon-like rain. Over night, the tree outside our window slipped into fall. DJ Scratch loves our big window and appreciates the tree for all of the birds it serves as a rest stop. Today I think she just wanted to be in the picture.

After snapping this pic, Cas and I went for a run around the park. This weekend we hope to visit friends in DC and ride our bikes around that part of the country. We're just waiting to hear back from them!

Enjoy fall!

A Meeting

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When I got to the client and present work, this is the view from the conference room.

Fall Starts

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For those of you who haven't been lucky enough to visit upstate NY in the fall, here's a tempting few pictures to show you what you've been missing. Enjoy. Michelle and I did.

Let Me Up There

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Michelle does yoga and sometimes does it on our roof. On one of those special days I snuck up the ladder with my camera and started snapping away. Scratch saw me on the ladder and wished that, she too, could do some yoga (or napping) on the roof. Click the picture to see more photos.

Give Me Pint and a Song

We live next to a cool bar and know it. We know it. It is damn cool. We talk about. We agree that it’s a great place. Friends agree. And we never go to it. What’s up with that? I don’t know, but I do know we visited last night. There’s always live music there and in Brooklyn, that normally means good music. Every single person with a guitar and a dream goes to L.A., Nashville or Brooklyn.

Last night the bar, Bar 4, had open mike night. One person, one mike and two songs. At one point I counted 14 guitars in the room… and I missed quite a few guitars. As night went on guitars kept showing up with would be rock/folk/rock-rap-folk stars. Each one let it all out in song. It was cool. It’s a cool bar. We should go to it more.

Ummm... it's a grocery store

What if you walked into a grocery store that had been in a horrible, mangle inducing crash with the animatronics from the Tiki Room in Disneyland? You might think you’ve gone mental. You might want to jump on the singing cow on top of the dairy case. Or maybe you’d just brake out in some “It’s a Small World of Soy Beverages” type song. What Michelle and I did when we visited the Stew Leonard's in Yonkers NY was stare. It’s not often you walk into a place to pick up some cheese and you leave feeling like you should have spent more time looking for the Abe Lincoln robot that talks about salsa. It was a weird experience. Not bad, just weird. I didn’t bring the camera because I had no idea that the Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh store was Fred Meyers and Walt Disney’s love child. But I did find this short clip on YouTube.com (see below). Just check out the first 15 seconds and you’ll get a small idea of what it was like. Or you could visit Chuck E. Cheeses and ask an employee where to find the cat litter.