Happy New Year 2006!!!

What a year… I just completed my first year in NY… braved a “mild” winter by NY local standards, landed a job at a huge international electronics corporation, squandered insane amount of cash “living” in my shoe box, feeding on Ethiopian to Danish to Chilean to Korean food and everywhere in between, never drank n drove – but certainly failed to make it home with out a bruise or scratch on the walk home, broke my arm in the Ice “snowboarding”, walked through a transit strike and witnessed our country further depleted its economic, educational, and natural resources…

We picked up a hotel at the Argent near Union Square in SF with a nearly top floor view of the Union Christmas tree display. I gathered with a group of good friends and we hit DNA after some heavy pre-holiday cocktails at the hotel… The count down was botched but the music of Lee Colmes, Dylan Rymes, and Bassbin Twins was insane.

Here’s some pics from the galleria:







Full Gallery of NYE Here

Happy Thanksgiving ~ What I’m thankful for

Enjoy you’re feasting, giving and praising… I’m spending some time with friends of friends this year… Here’s some things I’m thankful for (there’s a little sarcasm in a few of these):

  • My health – even though I now have high cholesterol and have to watch LDL this holiday season (and going forward)
  • All four seasons – except for the 110 heat with 90% humidity and sub zero temps in the winter… but I digress
  • My friends and family
  • New Experiences (especially in travel)
  • NYC delivery of everything
  • The Law
  • My freedoms
  • Quality beer brewers and wine makers
  • Culinary delights and the love of eating well
  • The internet. Thanks Al Gore!
  • And most of all the music of the world that keeps me going when I’m down, shake my ass when I’m bored, reflect on my great memories, bob my head on the commute or just put a smile on my face

“It is therefore recommended … to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor …”
~Samuel Adams, November 1, 1777 (adopted by the 13 states as the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation)

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
~Jon Stewart

Happy Halloween

Its 2005 – the defining year of the decade… go out and do something crazy tonight….

I’m headed out to a NY Art-Rock show from FischerSpooner…. should be some freaks there tonight! My girl and I carved some pumpkins this year… Yes the Raiders are scary… It’s scary that they are only 3 and 4 at this point!

“It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” ~Vincent Price