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| Panamanians Loose in NYC |
I am incredibly proud of my Favorite
Panamanian today. She escorted her brother and his wife all the way to New York
City and back yesterday by herself. She’s never done anything like that and
always arranged for someone to come along to help. I was decisively engaged
with the planned move of the company in a couple weeks so I was unavailable.
She handled everything, from the drive down to New Haven, the train into the
city, and a tour bus excursion all on her own. I could tell when she returned
home that she was more than a little proud of herself. Life is all about
conquering your fears.
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| New Haven Train Station |
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| The Great Metro North |
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| Central Park Wanderings |
Apparently the day long shopping marathon
on Tuesday did nothing to assuage the Panamanian women’s need to shop. They
jumped off the tour bus at the original Macy’s and inflicted yet more pain on
my long suffering brother in law. They also spent some time roaming Central
Park. When they returned late last night everyone seemed very happy, even my brother
in law, and my wife stood a little taller.
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| Shopping Again |
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| A Great Day |
I spent the day after work back up on
my less than favorite hill where I finished the third terrace! I’d stopped by
Home Depot on my way home and loaded up on garden dirt but I’ll need some more
today to finish it off. My technique of throwing dirt further and further up
the hill from my earliest excavations hadn’t left enough to completely fill the
third garden. Now it will be up to my wife to get some green into the ground before
the first frost descends. The next door neighbor came over to admire the
remodeled hill and tried to coax me into a similar project on their back yard
hill next spring – I’ve got the winter to figure out how to get out of that.
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| Walls Are Done!!! |
Preparations are awash at the house
today in anticipation of today’s arrival of the California contingent. The Panamanians
are taking a break from touring in order to make sure everything is ready to receive
the First Blog Reader and her supporting adults. They’re flying in for the
weekend because my daughter is working out of the home office in New York City
next week. My wife got up with me this morning and started cooking. I’ve been
dispatched to Toys R’ Us to pick up a keyboard, drum, and balls – these are
needed to make sure our granddaughter will have appropriate leisure activities.
That is if her grandparents ever put her down.
Since I was alone last night while the
Panamanians Big Appled I snuck out for a movie. The only thing playing after I finished
my hill ministrations was Masterminds. This should have been a whole lot
funnier than it turned out to be. It boasts a great cast of comedic actors who
have all done better work than here. Galifianakis is back in the “weird zone”
that he thrived in during the Hangover movies and he’s the only one that generates
any actual laughs. The plot is based on a real life armored car company heist that
scored over 17 million dollars. The title comes from the fact all the conspirators
were a little shortchanged in the DNA department, not exactly a deep gene pool.
The movie seemed over long and the supporting characters which should have been
a strength – weren’t.
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