My father's baffled by the gas shortage in NYC, so I cobbled together my best explanation of why, revised below.

1. Right after the storm, early last week: NY Harbor closed to tankers. Some gas stations had no power so there was less gas to go around. There's a gasoline pipeline into NYC, which may have been barely enough to meet the demand at ( Read more... )

Are there any busses from Queens to Boston, like say, Flushing?

In cleaning out a box of old crap, I discovered a few college essays I wrote. It would have been 1995-1996, and I 17 or 18 years old. I think they were for the college I did attend, as I recall culling more of them once before (though I specifically recall my Honors essay was about the lights of Shea Stadium, and is not in this batch). I wrote ( Read more... )

Women's experience of the world is fundamentally different from men's. A story about a woman living in Brooklyn.

Here's a mirror image of the chop, so it should be "readable" this way.


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1. Organize photos. No progress.


2. Record singing - Recorded a a couple.


3. Road trip to Philly - Thinking about around 4 days taking place sometime in the range of July 24 - August 10 (Note to ayashi/kelsin: When's your wedding, again? Thanks!)


4. Visit the crater photography exhibit - FAIL, it closed June 6, not July 6


5. Learn programming - in progress, working on "The ( Read more... )

Among various other achievements, Elsie B. Washington (1942-2009) is credited with being the first African American to write a romance novel with African American characters. She was also a friend of my mother's from childhood through college. They had grown apart in more recent years not through any dislike, but these things sometimes just ( Read more... )

If you live in NYC, a friend of mine named Steven Zelin, The Singing CPA is holding a "tax party" outside the main branch of the post office (8th Ave and W 33rd St) tomorrow, Tax Day, 10 pm - 12 midnight. He will be performing live folksy guitar and vocals, all songs about tax! This is Steven's fifth annual Happy Tax Day Show, and he gets permits ( Read more... )

Well, off to NYC for a few days for rosefox's birthday fun this evening (my Mom says one of her coworkers says the spa place is great!) and to see my parents and Nga Boo the rest of the weekend. I probably won't be reading much LJ, but then again I'm so addicted I might ( Read more... )