Is this thing on?
Just got back from a lightning-quick trip to NYC, where I got to hang (all too briefly) with my lovely Chessica. I was fed incredible calamari and porcini risotto which made me swoon, and we tromped all around in the unrelenting rain.
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And the next day was art galleries in Chelsea, and a long, long truck ride back through the rolling green of Pennsylvania, the flat blue sky of Illinois, and then the familiar landscape of Nebraska.
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