very simple

As a single girl living alone, I somehow found it necessary to own three martini shakers.

taken approximately 5 minutes into 2010.

I certainly hope this dog’s owner enjoyed the Magnolia cupcakes that were so important that he had to leave this poor fella sitting outside in the rain.

Maybe it’s an inherent part of being a new yorker, but I totally love water towers.

I’m catching up with uploading 365 project pictures for the last couple of days. They were all taken on the correct day, I just got distracted and a bit lazy about uploading them to the website.

365:115 (rockefeller center)

wandered down to rockefeller center on christmas eve day

365:116 (west side restaurant)

one of the few non-chinese restaurants open christmas day

365:117 (essentials)

365:118 (central park/columbus circle)

part of the massive fountain/sculpture at the entrance to central park

365:119 (lollapalooza 92)

I’ve been to a gazillion concerts in the last however many years, but for some reason, this is the only ticket stub that has survived.

365:120 (nameplate)

Don’t tell anyone, but I stole this nameplate off the door of my office on my last day of work. Of course, what anyone else would do with a nameplate engraved with my full name is anyone’s guess.

from italy.

Finally got my nook today, and it was very exciting. until, of course, the latest software patch got uploaded automatically, and apparently killed my ability to access one of the features called “the Daily”. Luckily, this is the least essential feature because it only relates to B&N updates and magazine subscriptions, and since they haven’t actually offered most of the newspapers and magazines that I’d even want, it’s, at least right now, not very important to me. Doesn’t mean that I don’t want it to work forever though! Which is why I spent 2 hours this evening on hold to get through to a digital support person who, after listening to my issue and talking to his colleagues, informed me that I had stumped them (go me!). They’re going to try to replicate the problem, and if I haven’t heard back from them in 2 days, I need to call back and they’ll either have a solution or they’ll have to send me a new one.

But in the meantime, I can read books, and since I’m using calibre to side-load all the newspapers and magazines that I wouldn’t have access to because B&N isn’t actually offering them yet anyway, I’m not losing (much) functionality in the interim.

Product launches are fun!

and the sun starts going down at 4:20pm on the shortest day of the year.

While not the first official snow of the season, this was the first significant one, leaving me to trudge through a foot of the stuff before people cleaned their sidewalks in order to go see the morning showing of Avatar.

I (or really my dad) preordered a nook for me with an expected ship date of December 11. Latest update is that they “hope” to get it to me by the 24th. In the meantime, I got my cover last week and it’s making a nice display case for the nook-sized piece of styrofoam that fits inside.

I think my favorite part, of course, is the fact that they’re obsessively insisting that they’ll get it to us by “christmas”. That’s cold comfort for those of us who, um, celebrate other holidays. other holidays that ended at sundown tonight.