01/7/2010
I’m pretty sure I’m the last one on earth who hasn’t watched a single minute of The Wire, so I finally decided to bite the bullet and add it to my netflix queue. That’s not to say these discs won’t sit on top of my DVD player for 3 months before I actually start watching, but…it’s a start.

01/2/2010
As a single girl living alone, I somehow found it necessary to own three martini shakers.

01/2/2010
taken approximately 5 minutes into 2010.

12/31/2009
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.

12/31/2009
Maybe it’s an inherent part of being a new yorker, but I totally love water towers.

12/30/2009
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.

12/22/2009
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!

12/21/2009
and the sun starts going down at 4:20pm on the shortest day of the year.
