Working on a Saturday?

Yeah, it's true, I'm going to work tomorrow. I've worked for my agency for 21 years and I've only worked on Saturday once before. If you multiply that out, I've worked 43,680 hours at my job (well, okay, not all of those hours were spent working). So, out of those hours I will have worked about 10 on a Saturday after tomorrow. Let's see that makes the percentage 0.00022.

Gotham City: Part VII


Friday I wanted to go back to Central Park to see more of the fall foliage. And we did, but it was pretty cold out with the wind so we didn't spend a lot of time there. We did walk around the Upper West Side and found it to be true to its reputation.

Afterwards, we took the train back to Union Square to get "a bargain" at Filene's on a woman's coat. But the Goddess couldn't find anything with a bargain price, so she didn't get anything.

We went back to Times Square to meet Kirsten for her birthday dinner. She wanted to go to the Franklin Station Cafe which is near the Franklin Station subway stop. The Cafe is a Malaysian-French place that serves huge bowls of udon noodles. I thought that udon noodles were Japanese, but what do I know?

Later we went back to the hotel and spent the rest of the night packing. And I still got stopped at the airport metal detector because I packed my Swiss Army knife in my carry-on bag.

Gotham City: Part VI


Thursday we went to Central Park to see the leaves that had changed color. And it was beautiful. We rode in one of the horse-drawn carriages thru a part of the park near the south-east corner. Later we went to The Pond to take several photos.

We walked to Rockefeller Center and shopped a little in the NBC store. They're still living off of Seinfeld and Friends. Hardly any of their other programs have any merchandise on display.

While at Rockefeller Center we decided to take the 1 train down to the Staten Island Ferry and go over to Staten Island to see what's there. The ferry trip takes about 45 minutes which is longer than I expected. We went past the Statue of Liberty both at dusk and then at night. What a sight.

We got to Staten Island, but there's not a whole lot near the ferry port. Eventually we found a diner where we ate dinner. We walked back to the ferry and timed how long it would take to go from Staten Island to our hotel in Queens. It takes one and a half hours. Hell, that's about how long it takes to drive from Austin to Waco!

Impeachment

No, that doesn't mean turning someone into a peach. It means indicting that person for a later trial to be removed from office. I have written to Nancy Pelosi urging her to rethink her step of taking impeachment "off the table" for George W before she even has taken office as the Speaker of the House. Anyway, if you'd like to send a message to your Congress Member go to the Center for Constitutional Rights.

The Center is also pursuing the prosecution of Donald Rumsfeld for torture. Let's keep the pressure on!