What I've Done in the Past 21 Days
posted on september 13, 2004, tag: me
In no particular order:
- Went hiking at Fahnestock State Park in NY state. This included eating sandwiches while sitting on a man-made dam, avoiding poison ivy and trying to find frogs, watching an old man swim in Canopus lake while standing on a fake beach and tons of pictures that didn't turn out.
- Swam in the Atlantic Ocean via the beach at Spring Lake in New Jersey. It was the first time I had swam in the Atlantic, having spent the first 17 years of my life living on and swimming in the Pacific and avoiding the Jersey shore at all costs for the the last six. The waves were big due to Frances, and Katia lost her sunglasses to a large one. I also managed to get a wicked sunburn only on my right side. Luckily, it's gone now.
- Visited our friend Shannon in Massachusetts for the first time since last February.
- Had a bomb threat cause a full-building evacuation at work. An hour and a half later, we all had to go back in and work the rest of the day. Apparently we all trust the NYPD's ability to check a 16-storey building thoroughly for bombs in less than two hours.
- Shot, edited and released "then, suddenly...", our third short film, and began to work on a new film idea.
- Read Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and have nearly finished The Thin Man.
- Got a nice big bookshelf and bureau from a friend of ours who is going to France and Vietnam for six months and so got rid of all of his stuff. Then we went to a nice brunch at his parents' great apartment in Tribeca to see him off.
- Found Lactaid milk in our neighborhood. It tastes almost exactly like milk but it doesn't make me want to die! Yay!
- "Surprised" Ellie two days before her birthday, with Shawn, by going to Jersey and being at a restaurant when she and Steve came in. Hours of reminiscing, watching and talking about our movies and college movies, eating Chinese food, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and watching some Ali G.
What've you been up to?
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David on 09/13/2004:
Let's see. On the last 21 days I have been through 2 hurricanes, my kid was 12 days sick with gastroenteritis, my work UPS failed (due to the storms) and several other network devices and servers hard drives. I have not moved more than 10 miles from home, mainly to go to work, to the doctor or to buy supplies.
It hasn't been fun...
Tim Uruski on 09/13/2004:
Lessee.... pining over a new iMac, working like crazy, waiting eagerly for xPad update, learning cocoa, writing pretentious poetry, looking for condos. Not too bad. Oh, and getting sick and losing plenty of sleep.
Mathew Hoy on 09/13/2004:
me: buying a new couch, working on our house, dev-ing my new web site, playing with my ipod, more.
nothing exciting like you, but fun nonetheless. hehe.
Jesper on 09/14/2004:
Finally realized "Maniacal" is spelled with a third 'a'.
Jonathan on 09/14/2004:
Went to Philly to visit (now ex)girlfriend with my daughter, then off to Island Beach State Park in Jersey for the day. Paid off my car - now I have $300 extra bucks a month! Dealing with bi-polar/depression issues with girlfriend (now EX). WAY too much drama for any man to bare. Now it's time to get back to being ME and enjoying my life with friends and family and not the emotional abuse of someone who is very mentally unstable.
Frank on 09/14/2004:
Hmm.... Here we go:
Went to San Francisco (awesome, btw!), landed new freelance job (Moy, remind me to talk to you! ;), signed up for TO Evolt, played with my iPod mini, re-deving my website, biked on Toronto island, made tomato sauce with family/neighbors (haha), partied hard on Labor Day weekend, planning a trip to NYC, and looking to buy a Condo (Loft).
Not bad... :)
Andre Torrez on 10/02/2004:
i haven't read Dashiell Hammett in a while. Check out the Glass Key, too.