Upstate New York
I went Upstate with my friends last weekend. Matt picked me up at midnight Friday and we then went to pick up Alex and his million bags. The guy packs like we were going for two weeks. I must admit though, the air mattresses and the tent Alex brought were a lifesaver. We made it up to Sullivan County in about an hour and 20 mins. We made a pit stop at Wal-Mart before we got to the house to pick up some food and, more importantly, beer. Upon arriving at Wal-Mart we were greeted by a guy who was a spitting image of Hillbilly Jim. For those of you who don't know, Hillbilly Jim was a wrestler in the WWF in the 80's with the whole legendary WWF crew...Hulk Hogan, the Iron Shiek, Nikolai Volkov, Roddy Rowdy Piper, etc.. So "Hillbilly Jim" comes walking towards us as we're getting out of the car and he says "Hey, what's goin on guys?". Matt looks at me and says "Holy shit! That guy looked like Hillbilly Jim!". He totally did too, he was tall, around 6'6" with long black curly hair, full beard and mustache, wearing overalls. Unfuckingcanny.
We spend about an hour there getting the food and the beer and Alex and Matt were looking at fishing gear and getting batteries for the lanterns. Our other friends, Chris and Phil, meet up w/ us at the store and they start picking up stuff for the weekend as well. We get ready to leave the store and the Wal-Mart greeter stops us to check our receipts. Now, we paid for a few items seperately so we had multiple receipts. This greeter took her job seriously 'cause she looked over every receipt and after she finished inspecting each receipt, along w/ the items in the cart, she said "Thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart, have a goodnight!". She did this 6 times as we had 6 seperate receipts.
We get to the house at around 3am and immediately start hittin' the beers and throwin' burgers and dogs on the grill. We bullshit until around 5am and go to sleep. Wake up around 9am by which time Alex and Matt are already out on the lake fishing. Phil and I go out on the deck and start shooting his paintball gun at the surrounding trees. We decide that we need a morning beer to go along w/ the morning shooting. So I go inside and grab a couple of molsons to make the experience authentic. Guns and beer, mmmm. The shooting and drinking session was followed by more beer drinking, eating and replacing a screen door, which Billy did with the help of Sal and Phil. Incidentally, the replacing of the screen door took about 6 hours. Alex and Matt came back from fishing at around 4pm during which time Phil and I were in town buying a bottle of Jack Daniels, Vodka and cranberry juice. The JD was for Eric and the Vodka and cranberry was for Matt so he could make his concoctions in an Iv bag. Yes, we were doing shots out of an Iv bag, out of two Iv bags.
While Phil and I were getting the liquor, Matt was busying himself getting the pit ready for the fire. When we got back to the house we saw that Matt built up the wood in the shape of a teepee that was about 6 ft. tall. Then we started to get that night's dinner ready to go which consisted of burgers, dogs, steaks and pasta. We then lit the fire or rather, attempted to light the fire. Our efforts were unsuccsessful after poring gasoline on the wood several times. Then we lit the fire from the inside of the "teepee" and worked the fire. We were fanning it, throwing citronella candles in it, doing everything to get it going. Finally the fire grew to be around 10 ft. tall. We all gathered around the fire and proceeded to get smashed. It's probably not a good idea to not be in possession of logic when you're around a 10 foot bonfire.
I went to sleep in the tent that night and I fought hard not to throw up. I was going through convulsions just not to vomit outside the tent. I wound up winning that battle and had a good night's sleep. I slept until around 12pm. When I got up everyone else was up already. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. At around 2:30pm Alex, Matt and I went down to the lake to fish off of the dock. Around 10-15 minutes into our session I saw that I had a bite on my line. As I was reeling it in I saw that I had a nice sized bass on the hook. The bass was at least a foot long and as I got him closer to the dock I was telling Matt to get the net ready but it was too late, the bass jumped right off of the hook. That was the closest anyone got to catching anything out of the lake that weekend.
After the fishing session we packed up and got ready to go home. Chris, Alex's cousin, came along for the ride back home with Alex, Matt and I. On the way back Matt wanted to stop at Wal-Mart to pick up a pair of gloves that Alex bought when we first got up there. We exit the highway and get onto the main road to get to Wal-Mart. Matt ends up puling into the far left lane and going back on the highway instead of in the Wal-Mart parking lot. We all start laughing and giving him shit. I tell him to get off at the next exit and we wind up going a little further than we wanted to go. We finally get off at the first exit we see and we're driving and completely lost at which point Chris starts to give directions back to the Wal-Mart. Did Chris actually know how to get back? No, but he assured us that he had "natural" GPS. So we're driving, as per Chris' directions, "Turn here! Now turn here! Make a left! I'm tellin' you this is the way bro, my GPS is workin'". Sure enough we end up driving on the other end of the Wal-Mart. Needless to say, we won't be questioning Chris' "natural" GPS again.
I originally wasn't gonna go up that weekend 'cause I had some work to do at home. But after a week from hell I decided that I needed to get away from my surroundings for a little while and let loose. I wound up having a really great time and I hope we can get together and do this again soon.
0 comments | 11:24:00 AM
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 @ 11:24:00 AM
I went Upstate with my friends last weekend. Matt picked me up at midnight Friday and we then went to pick up Alex and his million bags. The guy packs like we were going for two weeks. I must admit though, the air mattresses and the tent Alex brought were a lifesaver. We made it up to Sullivan County in about an hour and 20 mins. We made a pit stop at Wal-Mart before we got to the house to pick up some food and, more importantly, beer. Upon arriving at Wal-Mart we were greeted by a guy who was a spitting image of Hillbilly Jim. For those of you who don't know, Hillbilly Jim was a wrestler in the WWF in the 80's with the whole legendary WWF crew...Hulk Hogan, the Iron Shiek, Nikolai Volkov, Roddy Rowdy Piper, etc.. So "Hillbilly Jim" comes walking towards us as we're getting out of the car and he says "Hey, what's goin on guys?". Matt looks at me and says "Holy shit! That guy looked like Hillbilly Jim!". He totally did too, he was tall, around 6'6" with long black curly hair, full beard and mustache, wearing overalls. Unfuckingcanny.
We spend about an hour there getting the food and the beer and Alex and Matt were looking at fishing gear and getting batteries for the lanterns. Our other friends, Chris and Phil, meet up w/ us at the store and they start picking up stuff for the weekend as well. We get ready to leave the store and the Wal-Mart greeter stops us to check our receipts. Now, we paid for a few items seperately so we had multiple receipts. This greeter took her job seriously 'cause she looked over every receipt and after she finished inspecting each receipt, along w/ the items in the cart, she said "Thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart, have a goodnight!". She did this 6 times as we had 6 seperate receipts.
We get to the house at around 3am and immediately start hittin' the beers and throwin' burgers and dogs on the grill. We bullshit until around 5am and go to sleep. Wake up around 9am by which time Alex and Matt are already out on the lake fishing. Phil and I go out on the deck and start shooting his paintball gun at the surrounding trees. We decide that we need a morning beer to go along w/ the morning shooting. So I go inside and grab a couple of molsons to make the experience authentic. Guns and beer, mmmm. The shooting and drinking session was followed by more beer drinking, eating and replacing a screen door, which Billy did with the help of Sal and Phil. Incidentally, the replacing of the screen door took about 6 hours. Alex and Matt came back from fishing at around 4pm during which time Phil and I were in town buying a bottle of Jack Daniels, Vodka and cranberry juice. The JD was for Eric and the Vodka and cranberry was for Matt so he could make his concoctions in an Iv bag. Yes, we were doing shots out of an Iv bag, out of two Iv bags.
While Phil and I were getting the liquor, Matt was busying himself getting the pit ready for the fire. When we got back to the house we saw that Matt built up the wood in the shape of a teepee that was about 6 ft. tall. Then we started to get that night's dinner ready to go which consisted of burgers, dogs, steaks and pasta. We then lit the fire or rather, attempted to light the fire. Our efforts were unsuccsessful after poring gasoline on the wood several times. Then we lit the fire from the inside of the "teepee" and worked the fire. We were fanning it, throwing citronella candles in it, doing everything to get it going. Finally the fire grew to be around 10 ft. tall. We all gathered around the fire and proceeded to get smashed. It's probably not a good idea to not be in possession of logic when you're around a 10 foot bonfire.
I went to sleep in the tent that night and I fought hard not to throw up. I was going through convulsions just not to vomit outside the tent. I wound up winning that battle and had a good night's sleep. I slept until around 12pm. When I got up everyone else was up already. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. At around 2:30pm Alex, Matt and I went down to the lake to fish off of the dock. Around 10-15 minutes into our session I saw that I had a bite on my line. As I was reeling it in I saw that I had a nice sized bass on the hook. The bass was at least a foot long and as I got him closer to the dock I was telling Matt to get the net ready but it was too late, the bass jumped right off of the hook. That was the closest anyone got to catching anything out of the lake that weekend.
After the fishing session we packed up and got ready to go home. Chris, Alex's cousin, came along for the ride back home with Alex, Matt and I. On the way back Matt wanted to stop at Wal-Mart to pick up a pair of gloves that Alex bought when we first got up there. We exit the highway and get onto the main road to get to Wal-Mart. Matt ends up puling into the far left lane and going back on the highway instead of in the Wal-Mart parking lot. We all start laughing and giving him shit. I tell him to get off at the next exit and we wind up going a little further than we wanted to go. We finally get off at the first exit we see and we're driving and completely lost at which point Chris starts to give directions back to the Wal-Mart. Did Chris actually know how to get back? No, but he assured us that he had "natural" GPS. So we're driving, as per Chris' directions, "Turn here! Now turn here! Make a left! I'm tellin' you this is the way bro, my GPS is workin'". Sure enough we end up driving on the other end of the Wal-Mart. Needless to say, we won't be questioning Chris' "natural" GPS again.
I originally wasn't gonna go up that weekend 'cause I had some work to do at home. But after a week from hell I decided that I needed to get away from my surroundings for a little while and let loose. I wound up having a really great time and I hope we can get together and do this again soon.
0 comments | 11:24:00 AM
Fffffuuuuuuuuck
I was just stuck in the most hellish traffic imaginable. I left my job, in Woodbury, Long Island, at 5pm and just got home, in Sheepsheadbay, Brooklyn, now...it's 10:13pm. It usually takes me between 45 minutes to an hour and fifteen minutes to get home. Not tonight though. No, there were other plans for me tonight.
My usual route is to take 135 North to the Southern State to the Belt Parkway which takes me home. Route 135 was no problem. It had the same volume of traffic it usually does for the 5pm rush. The Southern State, on the other hand, was a different story. I get on the Southern State at around exit 28, traffic didn't get better until exit 15. Three lanes were merging into one lane at two points on the Southern State.
After about 2 hours crawling on the Southern State, traffic started to move going into the Belt so I thought, "Excellent! I'm moving now baby!". Well, that enthusiasm was short lived once I saw the sea of red lights in front of me at around Francis Lewis Blvd. I spent another two and half hours on the Belt Parkway moving at white knuckle speeds of over 5 MPH. See, when I was on the Southern State I wanted to go on a shooting spree but when I got on the Belt, well, I just needed my Mommmy at that point.
I'm home now and dead tired. If tomorrow was Tuesday I'd have to check into a mental hospital 'cause I'd be wagging my finger up and down my lips.
1 comments | 10:12:00 PM
Thursday, October 11, 2007 @ 10:12:00 PM
I was just stuck in the most hellish traffic imaginable. I left my job, in Woodbury, Long Island, at 5pm and just got home, in Sheepsheadbay, Brooklyn, now...it's 10:13pm. It usually takes me between 45 minutes to an hour and fifteen minutes to get home. Not tonight though. No, there were other plans for me tonight.
My usual route is to take 135 North to the Southern State to the Belt Parkway which takes me home. Route 135 was no problem. It had the same volume of traffic it usually does for the 5pm rush. The Southern State, on the other hand, was a different story. I get on the Southern State at around exit 28, traffic didn't get better until exit 15. Three lanes were merging into one lane at two points on the Southern State.
After about 2 hours crawling on the Southern State, traffic started to move going into the Belt so I thought, "Excellent! I'm moving now baby!". Well, that enthusiasm was short lived once I saw the sea of red lights in front of me at around Francis Lewis Blvd. I spent another two and half hours on the Belt Parkway moving at white knuckle speeds of over 5 MPH. See, when I was on the Southern State I wanted to go on a shooting spree but when I got on the Belt, well, I just needed my Mommmy at that point.
I'm home now and dead tired. If tomorrow was Tuesday I'd have to check into a mental hospital 'cause I'd be wagging my finger up and down my lips.
1 comments | 10:12:00 PM
The Recording Rig and The new Radiohead Album
My good friend Jesse recently gave me his Mac G4 which had Pro Tools on it. For those of you who don't know, Pro Tools is recording software. When combined with an interface box you can plug a guitar directly into that box and record directly to Pro Tools on the computer.
I've been waiting to get proper recording equipment for awhile but was never able to come up with the money. Lucky for me I have a generous friend. Anyway, I've been recording a few guitar tracks everyday and it's extremely inspiring.
I started a Pro Tools session that's nothing but guitar riff ideas. I have about 11 guitar tracks that I could go back and grab should I start fleshing out an actual song. It's amazing how listening to playback of your own stuff feeds your creativity. I played this one riff, kind of sounds like a Slayer riff, for about 10 seconds. I then doubled that part by playing the same line only I played it an octave lower. When I listened to the tracks combined the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I had a smile on my face that went from ear to ear.
Recording has become an addiction. Having a means to record my guitar playing is making my creativity flow and I'm really excited about what I'm going to be coming up with as a result.
In Rainbows
I bought the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows" for one British pound. Get this, I went to their site and clicked on a button to download the album and it took me to a shopping cart. When I got to the shopping cart page there was no price, just two empty fields with the British pound mark in front of them. So I then clicked on a button that read "Advice". That brought me to a page that said something to the effect of "Pay what you want". I was thinking "Wait a minute...", on that page there was yet another "Advice" button so I clicked on it and that brought me to a page that said "No, really". So I ended up paying one pound or 2 USD for the new Radiohead album.
Radiohead is going it alone without a record company. Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails have recently been released from their Interscope contract and Oasis and Jamiroquai are looking into releasing their music on their own.
I hope more bands will follow Radiohead and NIN's lead. Hopefully this will lead to better music and weed out artists who shouldn't even be in the game in the first place.
At the same time though I'm somewhat torn about it because I have many friends who still work in the industry. Where're they gonna go should the industry collapse? It sucks that the RIAA and the record companies as a whole are so clueless about emerging technologies. They're trying to hold on to the old model and it's not working.
As of late, record companies have been beefing up their New Media departments but it may be too little too late. The floodgates are wide open and the industry hurts itself by marketing to people they're activley trying to prosecute.
Who knows what'll happen? I know that this move by Radiohead is a step in the right direction for artists. I expect this move to spark unprecedented creativity and bring real music back to the forefront.
0 comments | 11:02:00 PM
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ 11:02:00 PM
My good friend Jesse recently gave me his Mac G4 which had Pro Tools on it. For those of you who don't know, Pro Tools is recording software. When combined with an interface box you can plug a guitar directly into that box and record directly to Pro Tools on the computer.
I've been waiting to get proper recording equipment for awhile but was never able to come up with the money. Lucky for me I have a generous friend. Anyway, I've been recording a few guitar tracks everyday and it's extremely inspiring.
I started a Pro Tools session that's nothing but guitar riff ideas. I have about 11 guitar tracks that I could go back and grab should I start fleshing out an actual song. It's amazing how listening to playback of your own stuff feeds your creativity. I played this one riff, kind of sounds like a Slayer riff, for about 10 seconds. I then doubled that part by playing the same line only I played it an octave lower. When I listened to the tracks combined the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I had a smile on my face that went from ear to ear.
Recording has become an addiction. Having a means to record my guitar playing is making my creativity flow and I'm really excited about what I'm going to be coming up with as a result.
In Rainbows
I bought the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows" for one British pound. Get this, I went to their site and clicked on a button to download the album and it took me to a shopping cart. When I got to the shopping cart page there was no price, just two empty fields with the British pound mark in front of them. So I then clicked on a button that read "Advice". That brought me to a page that said something to the effect of "Pay what you want". I was thinking "Wait a minute...", on that page there was yet another "Advice" button so I clicked on it and that brought me to a page that said "No, really". So I ended up paying one pound or 2 USD for the new Radiohead album.
Radiohead is going it alone without a record company. Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails have recently been released from their Interscope contract and Oasis and Jamiroquai are looking into releasing their music on their own.
I hope more bands will follow Radiohead and NIN's lead. Hopefully this will lead to better music and weed out artists who shouldn't even be in the game in the first place.
At the same time though I'm somewhat torn about it because I have many friends who still work in the industry. Where're they gonna go should the industry collapse? It sucks that the RIAA and the record companies as a whole are so clueless about emerging technologies. They're trying to hold on to the old model and it's not working.
As of late, record companies have been beefing up their New Media departments but it may be too little too late. The floodgates are wide open and the industry hurts itself by marketing to people they're activley trying to prosecute.
Who knows what'll happen? I know that this move by Radiohead is a step in the right direction for artists. I expect this move to spark unprecedented creativity and bring real music back to the forefront.
0 comments | 11:02:00 PM
Pin Head
I went bowling yesterday at Woodhaven Lanes in Queens. I love bowling. Before last night I hadn't bowled in about a year. I bowled 2 games and finished off w/ a 184 and a 179. Not bad for not bowling for a year.
0 comments | 1:28:00 PM
Sunday, October 07, 2007 @ 1:28:00 PM
I went bowling yesterday at Woodhaven Lanes in Queens. I love bowling. Before last night I hadn't bowled in about a year. I bowled 2 games and finished off w/ a 184 and a 179. Not bad for not bowling for a year.
0 comments | 1:28:00 PM
Back in the saddle
Well, it's been a year since I last posted and a lot has happened in that year. Let's see...I got a new couch, I was given a mac w/ Pro Tools software loaded on it by my good friend Jesse, I became single again and I turned 30. That's only four things. I guess that doesn't qualify as a lot.
I've been doing some sidework and have designed a couple of sites. I'm trying to get some other jobs under my belt so that I could pay this damn mac off. I think by the time I'm done paying for it I'll have paid double for this thing. Eh, whaddya gonna do?
I've also been writing more. I had this idea for a scifi story that I started on last week. I only have two paragraphs so far but that's because I keep editing shit as I type which will take forever if I continue to write that way.
Soooo, yeah. That's about it for now. Kind of a "blah" post. Let's see what Saturday has in store for me.
0 comments | 2:03:00 AM
Friday, October 05, 2007 @ 2:03:00 AM
Well, it's been a year since I last posted and a lot has happened in that year. Let's see...I got a new couch, I was given a mac w/ Pro Tools software loaded on it by my good friend Jesse, I became single again and I turned 30. That's only four things. I guess that doesn't qualify as a lot.
I've been doing some sidework and have designed a couple of sites. I'm trying to get some other jobs under my belt so that I could pay this damn mac off. I think by the time I'm done paying for it I'll have paid double for this thing. Eh, whaddya gonna do?
I've also been writing more. I had this idea for a scifi story that I started on last week. I only have two paragraphs so far but that's because I keep editing shit as I type which will take forever if I continue to write that way.
Soooo, yeah. That's about it for now. Kind of a "blah" post. Let's see what Saturday has in store for me.
0 comments | 2:03:00 AM
Mexico
So I said I would post everyday while I was here and I didn't. I had no connection during my 2 days in Mexico and my cell phone didn't work so I had to buy a phone card and make my phone calls from pay phones on the street. Way it goes. Other than that Mexico was great. It was beautiful over there. We stayed at Rocky Point a.k.a. Puerto Peñasco. (You'll see new photos from Mexico in the Flickr gallery to the right). First of all, we drove from Phoenix to Mexico and the scenery was beautiful. Nothing but wiiiide open spaces and mountains in the distance w/ cactus scattered all around. The road looked like it had no end and the sky looked enormous. You don't get big sky in New York, too many buildings in the way.
Getting through was no problem. Puerto Peñasco is considered a "Free Zone" so they're pretty lax about checking ID's and birth certificates when going through the border at Lukeville, Arizona. When going through the border you immediately notice the "tropical homes". They're pretty similar to the homes found in Puerto Rico. Then you see all the stray dogs and people selling their wares. So you get through the town of Sonoyta and hop on Mexico route 8 for about and hour or so which too is lined w/ cactus and mountains and has road signs littered w/ bullet holes. And it's just vast empty spaces w/ a few ranches and I also noticed many large billboards as we got closer to Rocky Point. They were billboards for developments that were yet to come. I have a feeling there're big plans for Rock Point.
We get to Rocky Point and to the house we rented for the couple of days and it's right on the beach. You walk to the back of the house and open the sliding door and step out on the tiles patio and then right onto the sand of the beach. You really didn't have to leave the house for anything 'cause there were people walking around selling stuff on the beach from hats to tamales.
We left the house and decided to check out the town of Puerto Peñasco. There were a bunch of little shops and again, people all over the place walking around selling their wares. We then went to the area where it's not so touristy and sat down at this taco stand where the tacos were a buck each. The tacos were friggin amazing. I think I ate about 6 of 'em in one sitting.
Overall, Mexico was a great experience and I'd definitely like to go back there. Next time I'd want to explore more of the country.
4 comments | 12:07:00 PM
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 @ 12:07:00 PM
So I said I would post everyday while I was here and I didn't. I had no connection during my 2 days in Mexico and my cell phone didn't work so I had to buy a phone card and make my phone calls from pay phones on the street. Way it goes. Other than that Mexico was great. It was beautiful over there. We stayed at Rocky Point a.k.a. Puerto Peñasco. (You'll see new photos from Mexico in the Flickr gallery to the right). First of all, we drove from Phoenix to Mexico and the scenery was beautiful. Nothing but wiiiide open spaces and mountains in the distance w/ cactus scattered all around. The road looked like it had no end and the sky looked enormous. You don't get big sky in New York, too many buildings in the way.
Getting through was no problem. Puerto Peñasco is considered a "Free Zone" so they're pretty lax about checking ID's and birth certificates when going through the border at Lukeville, Arizona. When going through the border you immediately notice the "tropical homes". They're pretty similar to the homes found in Puerto Rico. Then you see all the stray dogs and people selling their wares. So you get through the town of Sonoyta and hop on Mexico route 8 for about and hour or so which too is lined w/ cactus and mountains and has road signs littered w/ bullet holes. And it's just vast empty spaces w/ a few ranches and I also noticed many large billboards as we got closer to Rocky Point. They were billboards for developments that were yet to come. I have a feeling there're big plans for Rock Point.
We get to Rocky Point and to the house we rented for the couple of days and it's right on the beach. You walk to the back of the house and open the sliding door and step out on the tiles patio and then right onto the sand of the beach. You really didn't have to leave the house for anything 'cause there were people walking around selling stuff on the beach from hats to tamales.
We left the house and decided to check out the town of Puerto Peñasco. There were a bunch of little shops and again, people all over the place walking around selling their wares. We then went to the area where it's not so touristy and sat down at this taco stand where the tacos were a buck each. The tacos were friggin amazing. I think I ate about 6 of 'em in one sitting.
Overall, Mexico was a great experience and I'd definitely like to go back there. Next time I'd want to explore more of the country.
4 comments | 12:07:00 PM
AZ
Well, I'm here in Arizona and today it's a bone chilling 101 degrees. Before I get into that though let me talk about the flight. I took JetBlue to get here. I hope they add every city to their list of destinations 'cause all of my future flights will be made w/ them. This was my first time on a plane in several years and I have to say I've never experienced better service. I figured I'd be messing around w/ the laptop during the flight, reading, listening to my iPod, no. I was watching ESPN the whole flight to Arizona. Yay for me!
I'd forgotten how awesome air travel was. My flight left at night so that allowed me to see NYC in all its beauty. The city looked like a liteBrite set from all the way up there. It felt like I could touch the moon from where we were. At one point we ran into some some rain and lightning and during those bursts of light all you saw was a foggy floor under the plane. It was awesome.
Phoenix is a nice looking city, palm trees all over. I'm a sucker for palm trees. I'll give a better report when I actually get out of bed and out of the house today and I'll take some pictures of the place I'm staying. I'm staying w/ my Godsister while I'm here. Alright, I'll check in later w/ and entry and some photos. Now where'd I put that damn sweater?
5 comments | 10:41:00 AM
Thursday, September 28, 2006 @ 10:41:00 AM
Well, I'm here in Arizona and today it's a bone chilling 101 degrees. Before I get into that though let me talk about the flight. I took JetBlue to get here. I hope they add every city to their list of destinations 'cause all of my future flights will be made w/ them. This was my first time on a plane in several years and I have to say I've never experienced better service. I figured I'd be messing around w/ the laptop during the flight, reading, listening to my iPod, no. I was watching ESPN the whole flight to Arizona. Yay for me!
I'd forgotten how awesome air travel was. My flight left at night so that allowed me to see NYC in all its beauty. The city looked like a liteBrite set from all the way up there. It felt like I could touch the moon from where we were. At one point we ran into some some rain and lightning and during those bursts of light all you saw was a foggy floor under the plane. It was awesome.
Phoenix is a nice looking city, palm trees all over. I'm a sucker for palm trees. I'll give a better report when I actually get out of bed and out of the house today and I'll take some pictures of the place I'm staying. I'm staying w/ my Godsister while I'm here. Alright, I'll check in later w/ and entry and some photos. Now where'd I put that damn sweater?
5 comments | 10:41:00 AM
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