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I am such a big fan of XKCD that I had to post this– the comics there are just my style (and in this case, taste!) Highly recommend checking out the rest of their site…

It’s Yonkers Business Week this upcoming week, and I’m hoping to attend a few of the FREE seminars this week. The most interesting to me is the FREE ride on the Ferry on Friday, which I missed the last time they were giving them out. Their schedule was not online, so I put it up…

I’ve been wondering what’s been going on with the ball-park project– This is supposed to happen about 7 blocks from our house! This from the Westchester Business Journal The $1.4 billion redevelopment project in downtown Yonkers proposed by Struever Fidelco Cappelli (SFC) L.L.C. will be the focus of a Yonkers City Council public hearing at…

And the simchas abound! My brother’s wife Andrea had her baby about 3 weeks earlyy, Baby is doing fine and so is the mother– we’re going off to see her tonight. Hana Maria Gertsacov (which anagrams out to Manages Caviar Torahs– what do you think, an upscale religious restauranteur?) 5lbs, 9oz, 19 inches Pictures coming…

Well, the wedding was fantastic, surprisingly a lot of fun, and as everybody predicted (but I didn’t believe) it was over WAY too fast. Still, even though I had a lot of fun, I don’t think I’ll be doing it again. Once is enough for me! :o) Amazingly, the NYT came and covered the wedding,…

We’ve got a large-scale painting of a clown bee– When I say large scale, I mean it’s the size of a large door (80″ tall x 32″ wide) — in fact, it was painted on a hollow door. In the interest of full disclosure, let me say that it is a painting of ME as…

This was the beginning of the wedding celebrations. Friday night was the aufraf– a Jewish celebration of our marriage before the marriage– kind of a dry run, if you will– it was at our synagogue– there was much eating and drinking and singing and even a little dancing (which S did not prepare me for,…

I spent some time today waiting for the couch to arrive from Crate and Barrel. It arrived 15 minutes before the window of time they gave me, they put it in fast and efficiently, and amazingly enough it fit PERFECTLY in the spot associated for it– even better than we had expected. I’ve attached some…

So… with our impending nuptials a mere 19 days away (yikes, oh my god, time to panic!) we are working like mad to get the house ready. Ready for what you might ask? We’ve been living here 2 years, we’ve had guests over multiple times, we’ve had parties here, etc. We live here. It’s a…

We spent much of the day cleaning up the house. We got a lot of work done, but have much yet to do. It was hard, un-thanking work, yet we did it. Stephanie was very much a trooper– I like to complain about everything, but she put in quite a bit of work and didn’t…

Apparently we are officially known as urban pioneers (although we bought a house on the outskirts of the area talked about– we’re probably less than a quarter mile from the apartments they are talking about, and the view in this picture) NY TIMES ARTICLE: Living In | The Yonkers Waterfront District:It Had the Setting; Now…

We’ve been waiting for our new shower door for a long time. First we had to figure out if we wanted the frameless glass doors (well, we knew we wanted them, but could we afford it?) We had talked about glass block, about all other kinds of stuff. We finally decided that we did want…

Some friends of ours invited us to Sunday Brunch at a place called Lejends, which was supposed to have a fabulous brunch in a Caribbean/Southern style. We’d been meaning to go, so we agree. We show up, and it turns out that we probably should have checked their website: Lejends has closed It’s a bummer,…

We bought our house two years ago today. It’s kind of astonishing when you think about it. Time is flying by. Just 5 more years before our adjustable mortgage kicks in! Our oil guy came to do the tune up of the boiler, and was amazed at the progress (he wasn’t here last year, and…

Okay, so I don’t know if he’s going to come to OUR house. After all, I just directed a kind of anti-pope play written by his arch-nemesis (Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo) (Well, it’s not anti-pope exactly. It just doesn’t treat the pope very nicely, and makes several jokes at his expense. It’s nothing like…