Category: travel

Don’t Tell Me I Never Gave You Anything

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Here are my pictures from New York. (Click for big honking images)

Most notable was a Broadway disaster so bad that Dick Cheney should be the producer:

And here are the offices of the Gray Lady:

I remember Times Square before it became a Disneyfied version of Blade Runner:

Maybe it’s the Eastern European Jewish heritage, Cossacks and all, but I really hate mounted police:

I’m Heading for New York City

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And then onto Monsey, NY.

My mother-in-law is moving to Baltimore, but spending the next month or so in Memphis while her apartment comes open, so I am ferrying her car down.

Against my wife’s better advice, I will be using the “avoid tolls” option on the route on Google Maps, which avoids most but all, of the tolls, and doesn’t have me doing it all on interstates

Interstate highways are boring.


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I’m taking Bolt Bus, which has WiFi and power outlets.  Kewl.

Deep Thought

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Yesterday, we were driving to a distant SCA (medieval recreation group) event, about 200 km (120 miles), and my almost-14 year old and my 11 year old were being annoying, both to each other as well as to Sharon* and me.

I finally told them that they were acting like the 3 Stooges, without the Stooges level of maturity.

The scary thing is that it’s true.

*Love of my life, light of the cosmos, she who must be obeyed, my wife.

Your Moment of Schadenfreude

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One of the conditions of James O’Keefe’s probation for attempting to but Senator Mary Landrieu’s office is that he needs permission to leave the state of New Jersey.

His latest request was denied:

A federal judge has denied a request by James O’Keefe, the conservative auteur-provocateur, to make a series of trips outside New Jersey.

Since O’Keefe is on probation for his conviction last year for his role in a harebrained undercover operation inside Senator Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans district office, he has to get judicial approval to travel outside New Jersey, where he resides with his family. As part of the scheme targeting the Louisiana Democrat, two O’Keefe cronies dressed up as telephone repairmen and sought access to the politician’s telephone system (O’Keefe–himself a noted master of disguise–was secretly recording the goings-on with his cell phone).

Knowles’s order does not detail his reasons for vetoing the 26-year-old O’Keefe’s motion. The judge has routinely approved prior O’Keefe travel requests.

My guess here is that the judge realized that O’Keefe’s travel was an attempt by him to get paid for his admitted (he pled guilty) wrongdoing, and decided that this was an inappropriate way for him to spend his probation.

Maybe he can get a job washing dishes, or counseling poor people.

Heh.

Stuckpocalypse

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That, apparently is what the news bots are calling our Nor’easter, because I was not alone in spending 7 hours on the road to go just a few miles.

There were people who could not get moving until 4 or 5 in the morning.

There were lots of wiped out tractor-trailors blocking multiple lanes of traffic.