New York > Orange County

[emo_snal]

Tuesday, July 4th - After spending a pleasant morning in "my new office" my grandfather's enclosed porch, we went to my uncle Kim's place for lunch. He's just "across town" in another suburb of Rochester, similar to Irondequoit, beautiful old houses surrounded by lawns without fences and enough large trees to feel like a forest, with a literal

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[adafrog]

lol the fruit salad

[newwaytowrite]

My maternal grandmother made to three months shy of 100. Still as a sharp as a tack. May you see your grandfather at least one more time.

And dude fruit salad is for breakfast!

[lookfar]

I think a lot of upstate NY towns are run down like that. I went to college in Poughkeepsie, closer to NY, and also economically beat up. Port Jervis, also a devitalized (great word, Kris!) pit, and my husband's trainer is from, in his words, "a really terrible place called Utica, NY." I think they once benefitted by being on the Hudson when goods were most cheaply shipped on the water, but they fell on harder times as trucks took over. Poughkeepsie had the same relationship to IBM that Rochester had to Kodak.

[fauxklore]

The one really cool thing in Rochester is The Strong Museum of Play, which includes a Hall of Fame for toys.

What you saw on the United screen is DirecTV, a legacy of Continental Airlines. But normally they have hundreds of movies you can watch on your own device (phone or tablet) using the United app. Certain types of planes (mostly long haul international) have seat back systems with an incredible selection.

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