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In comparison to how it was in the past it was actually easier to get in there this year. The bag check used to slow down entry to a crawl, but they changed it and not every bag gets checked now. It cut line time for me at least in half.

I will not stand idly by and endure this phone tyranny. This is a big problemo in East Harlemo!

My only two memories this year were taking my mom to see her Yankees twice. They beat Baltimore and Texas. She’s 1-1 now with Baltimore and 2-0 with Texas since the Yankees beat them on her 70th birthday a few years back. Not much else this year went right for them. Boone probably returns. Cashman should probably just retire to his home in Connecticut, but he won’t leave until Hal tells him to. It’s time for a major overhaul of the front office, how the training staff deals with injuries and what team in Japan they can trade Stanton to. He is a chiseled Chris Davis and that’s about it. Either he hits a laser out of the park or nothing. I think the next 2-3 years will be some rough sledding. Too much money allocated to guys who aren’t producing and not near enough punch in the lineup. It’s a wonder this team did not have an under .500 season with the way they hit most of the year.

Shame on me too. I need to attend one of these ceremonies ASAP. Several months back a man came in with his family to eat lunch. I did not immediately make the connection of why he had an American flag pin on his jacket. I asked him what the occasion was that he and his family were celebrating and he said he had just been sworn in as a US citizen! So this is pretty awesome I think to be able to serve this man and his family on this day. I ask him why this restaurant for his celebration. His first job was in this place and he started as a dishwasher 20 years ago. (A manager that hired him was not there that day, but he vividly remembered him when I said he came in and why.) I asked him what was the hardest part of his journey and his answer made me laugh a good bit. He says “Working at this place!” What a wonderful moment he and his family had being able to bring his wife and children to the job where his American dream started two decades ago. Moments like that stick with me and it makes what President Carter does all the more remarkable in his service to people just like this man.

This man and the example he put forth with his life should never, ever be forgotten. This is how you live well. What a tremendous example he has set. His actions backed up his words. How many of us can really say that we have truly lived our life in the service of others instead of ourselves? I am just continually amazed at how he has never stopped trying to bring at least a small measure of joy into someone else’s life. Also I met be petty for this, but whomever decided to have people representing 45 countries at the swearing in ceremony deserves a round of applause. First time in a good long while that that number represented something wonderful and important instead of what it has been attached to.

We like to keep our sharks in the friendly confines of the subway tunnels.

The person that programmed your pro sports guarantees.

I went to see it last night. The story seemed to be well thought out. There were parts that needed to be developed more, but I have no real gripes with this movie. It was entertaining and I know it was because the theatre I was in didn’t have anyone talking unless we were laughing at something which happened a few times. I would say go watch it and draw your own conclusions about what you think because I can see that there will be varied reactions to this one.

Fatty I kinda think it might be in your best interests to log out of this website for awhile and reassess your life. All that hate is not only going to burn you up mentally, it will also lead to a whole bunch of unwanted stress and misplaced anger. Go find some fun activities to do that don’t involve this place.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38520462/former-spurs-guard-joshua-primo-suspended-4-games-conduct I always know that no matter how laughable things have been for the Purple and Gold over most of the last decade that I can still count on the JV team to go and do something like this. He has zero business playing basketball.

This is what we should all aspire to get from the person representing us in Congress. She is actually there to help the citizens who voted for her as well as those that did not. She’s not up there looking for a viral moment to own the GQP. She’s there to work and make the lives of the citizens of this country better, but instead she’s given this waste of valuable time. The day she replaces Chuck Schumer in the senate cannot come soon enough.

I am going to say that if this storm today in NYC caused the city to grind to a standstill then, well, God help it when some real climate change driven storms come calling. The time to have started trying to build a sea wall around this place was 20 years ago.

I talked to my mother earlier today. She is 74 and while she said she liked the Senator when she was younger she felt that 80 should have been enough. Her reasoning was that she wants to see far younger people in government because the world is so vastly different now and someone Feinstein’s age cannot relate to the issues they are facing.

Better than that. He fought at the Siege of Jerusalem.

I worked for someone like this last year. He’s wealthy beyond his wildest dreams and yet still at 93 or so he comes into the office to pretty much just complain. If he stops working I would estimate he’d be dead within 6 months because he would have nothing left to live for. Mandatory retirement age should be a law for our politicians though. What age we can agree upon I don’t know, but this is a clear example of what happens when you overstay your welcome.

Well yes they’ll get bullied by bigger teams. Jokic will abuse them, but he does that to everyone. Phoenix has to stay healthy and have Durant lead them. As much as I do not enjoy watching Chris Paul play, he was the leader they needed because no one else on that roster was capable of doing it. I am not entirely certain Durant wants that responsibility. Booker absolutely wants no part of leading.

Something not in Manhattan that is pretty cool might be the model train show at The Botanical Gardens. I determined to go see it this year. I’ve seen video clips and pictures and it just seems like a really impressive setup.

This is my favorite place to sit at in the city. It’s in the northeast corner of Central Park and it’s called The Conservatory. They are doing a lot of renovations here, but the garden portion was finished in the spring and my gosh did they get it right. If you are visiting next spring or early fall you should circle this place and spend a few hours of your afternoon here. You kinda forget you’re in the city.

Fake news! Marines don’t take batteries underwater. They tell me all the time how they are trained to swim for days at a time without even so much as a life jacket. What would they do underwater with a battery?

Saw Bottoms last night. Funny, but serious at the same time. Cindy Crawford’s daughter plays a big role in the movie which was really nice to see. Knowing why Marshawn Lynch took a role in this movie made it even cooler to watch his character. I believe his sister has to be pretty proud of him.

He’s great. Keep making fun of the clowns in their Senator Fetterman. Amazing how they can get a resolution put through so fast on a dress code, but can’t get anything of importance done.

Looks like it is on Britbox and possibly Prime as well.

I would assume that he finds his way to a contender by the trade deadline. He is not going to stay to be a mentor for guys who won’t have any real chance of winning for at least 4 years or so.

I think Milwaukee, like many teams that have been to the mountaintop, decided to shake things up to try to get back there. I personally would not be enamored to get a guy on the downslope of his career that is being paid as much as he is, but perhaps it will convince Giannis to stay. Lillard can score, but to this point in his career it has mostly been in meaningless games. Milwaukee had to try something. If it doesn’t work out they just go back to being the Milwaukee that Richard Jefferson was once pissed to be traded to because it was considered a backwater destination to have to live in.

When I see the WNBA what I see is a much, much higher level of skill and talent than what I would’ve seen just 10 years ago. A’ja Wilson is a player that probably would’ve put up 30 a game with her skill level had she played in the WNBA when it first started. They push tempo better, shoot from deep better and are more athletic across the board. That’s a fun product to me that is growing. I think it’s cool seeing women have this opportunity and I hope the money catches up. I think the cap for a player is 235k. That’s a great living by most standards. The salary floor is 62k though. I assume that as revenue continues to grow that the floor will probably be around 100k within the next 5 years. To get the best of the best to not play in Europe in the off-season is going to need to see the league double their revenue again within the next four years. These women realize they have a limited window to make this money and Europe provides them the opportunity to double their salary. I know the WNBA discourages playing over there, but how do you tell someone not take a few hundred thousand playing basketball while traveling through Europe? The only feasible way seems continued growth domestically. I am pulling for them to keep doing better.