Handbill Handout

Mid 70's, cloudy, rainy and humid. One of the tough choices I have to make when I travel nowadays is do I experience a place more at night in the form of observing folks in local watering holes or do I do it by visiting more places and spending more time out in the daylight?  At my age I can't do both anymore.  Time was I could stay out until the early hours past midnight and bounce back the next morning in time for multiple daytime activities.  Not so much anymore.  So now a decision must be made, do I check out more museums and attractions or do I stay with the people of the night? On recent trips I've done a bit of both, but I suspect eventually it's going to be an either-or situation. What to do?

Mid 70s and partly sunny. My coffee cart guy is on vacation and it's weird. My work mornings have a certain pattern. Get up, feed the cats, shower, dress, get on the bus, hopefully get a nap in after checking work e-mail, get off the bus, go to the corner, try to initiate the small talk so it's about the weather and not about coffee cart guy's money problems because business is slow/his van broke down again/his wife or kids hit him up for something or other so then I feel like I have to give a 66% tip on a $3 order that I know he's already gouged me 50 cents a day for for the last five years because the guy a block away charges $2.50 for the same thing, take my coffee and bagel, go upstairs and start the work day. Disrupt that pattern and things are already on an unstable footing.  I live for routines in my work mornings so I don't have to think one minute earlier than I have to. On the other hand I only paid $2.50 for a coffee and bagel this morning so ther...

Mid 60s and rainy. A big piece of my childhood is gone.  The acto r who portrayed Godzilla in the first dozen movies has passed on.  They don't make 'em like this anymore.

High 70s, partly cloudy and the humidity is building again. They say that "sitting is the new smoking", whoever they are (medical people I think) so I've been trying to be good about getting up and walking around several times during the office day including taking a couple of trips downstairs to walk around the building or if I have the time, the block.  In general I try to remember my mobile device but sometimes I don't and it when I'm downstairs and realize I don't have it I get a pang of anxiety.  I have a recurring vision of a bomb going off in the area or a plane flying into the building where I work and being completely cut off from being able to communicate with anyone.  It's not entirely an unfounded fear given that I work in a highly trafficked and touristy area of New York City but it also occurs to me that it's a fear I never would have had 20 years ago or even ten since I was a late adapter to the smartphone world.  Heck, I only got a ce...

High 70's and cloudy The things you learn via the World Wide Web (accept no substitutes!)  When I was a younger person Dr. Who was the twelfth-rate cheesy science fiction series on PBS that you watched when there were no alternatives.  My house didn't get cable until the late 1980s so essentially the occasional Dr. Who viewing that I engaged in was on a day where there were no chores to do, the weather was lousy and the few friends that I had were absent.  I always referred to the guy as "creepy curly haired dude with a scarf" if I referred to him at all and any memory of the show was "it was that crappy British show with the phone booths". How little I knew! Here in the 21st century people actually watch a revival of the show!  I was completely unaware of this until the WWW manufactured some outrage at some folks who were allegedly outraged that the newest actor to play the title role in the series was a woman.  Now, I don't actually know anyone w...

Low 90s and sunny.   Another picture. 8pm ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki.  July 12, 2017.