The Zereps

Well, it’s Friday once again. The weeks go by and I find myself thinking that I didn’t do much besides work this entire week, and thus I have nothing much of interest to write about, so I’ll put in a link to something that’s kind of interesting–a Photo Blog of a commuter’s view of the New York Subways.

Things are coming together more at our new place. We took yet another trip to IKEA when my dad was here… Candice built the shelf that we bought for the office to hold all my crap. I also got a computer chair from Target for $50. Since it’s nearly impossible to get to Target without a car, we stocked up as much as we could while we were there. Anyway, I’m looking forward to being able to sleep in tomorrow. Happy Sabbath all.

i am so sick of summer movies! i’ve only seen one *really* good movie (comedies don’t count) and it was ‘the constant gardner’. which i recommend highly, by the way. very good movie.

there’s only two movies, so far, that i’m just dying to see. ‘brokeback mountain’ looks absolutely fantastic. i’m very excited to see it ever since i saw the trailer. and, of course, ‘harry potter and the goblet of fire’. that goes without saying. 🙂 also, i’ve just seen the trailer for ‘the chronicles of narnia’ and it looks pretty interesting, too.

well, since i’m technically hired by the temp agency i can’t call myself unemployed anymore. i’ll still be on the look out for a real job, though. the interview i had today was for some position that i didn’t really have an interest in, but she passed some stuff along for me for another position that’s better. that one is for somebody more experienced than me, though. it’s the admin support for 4 main people. i think i’d be lucky to even get an admin assistant position. -shrug- i wish i could collect unemployment…
tomorrow is going to be filled with work around the house and constructing furniture. jabba will be glad for the company, i’m sure. we’re thinking about getting a brother or sister for jabba sometime in the future, so he won’t be lonely. so he has somebody to play with and prowl around with. two little pug buddies..how cute!

well, i finally got on at a temp agency yesterday. however, i’m not sure how much work i’ll get out of them. i have another interview today so we’ll see how things go.

here are some pics from coney island. it was alot of fun 🙂

i saw this place on the Food channel and knew i had to go there. i guess they are *the* hot dogs.

this is my food. i had never had a real hot dog before so i decided to try it. it had sourkraut, grilled onions, and mustard on it (that’s how you’re supposed to eat them in ny). the toppings were surprisingly good, but the hot dog was gross. it was juicy inside. i think i’ll stick to veggie hot dogs, at least now i know!

here is the 85 year-old wheel. it has never had any accidents in its history, which is nice. what’s really neat is that the white cars are stationary and the colored cars swing out and in. pretty scary at first, but lost of fun. 🙂

candice and eric in a cage!

this is coney island from the peir. it is actually bigger than the picture portrays.

We need more people to come and visit us here–whenever people visit, the weather turns really nice! Then it turns miserable again. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen now that my dad has flown back to California.

Just more work, work, work today. Nothing much new and exciting. Candice had an interview with a temp agency today and has another interview for a position somewhere tomorrow. I have more work, work, work tomorrow. Yipee.

On Monday night, Candice, my dad, and I took a trip to Staten Island. I thought it would be a smooth trip, but boy was I wrong. First of all, the stupid trains skipped about 5 stops through Manhatten and Brooklyn. After we got off that train to go back to downtown Manhatten, that train also skipped the stop we wanted to go to, Whitehall St–where the free Staten Island ferry leaves from. We then waited and took the same train going back the other direction, and that time it didn’t skip our Stop. So we finally made it there. The ferry is supposed to leave on an hourly schedule on the half hour starting at 9pm. We had originally tried to catch the 9:30pm ferry but by the time we tracked and back-tracked to our stop it was closer to 10:00pm. So, we waited for the 10:30pm ferry in the terminal.. Waited and waited. Then, to our surprise we hear an announcement over the intercom telling us that the 10:30pm ferry will be 10 minutes late–OK, fine 10 more minutes…that’s not too bad right? But we did need to catch a ferry back to Manhatten, so we wondered if this would make us miss our connection back, so we asked one of the security personnel and he said it was the same ferry, so there were no problems–right. We took the 25 minute ferry to Staten Island at 10:40pm. We arrived a little bit after 11:05pm. The ferry itself was enjoyable–we got a nice view of the city skyline and the Statue of Liberty at night. So we arrive in the island and expect to be able to leave right away–uh huh. We then hear another announcement disclaiming that the next ferry off the island wouldn’t be until 12:00 midnight–great. So we waited and waited until midnight, sitting in the terminal waiting for our ride back, eating snacks from the snack bar, and reading, talking, whatever to pass the time. OK. So, 12 midnight rolls around, we get on a smaller ferry with more people on it than the first–lots of noisy, noisy people. It’s midnight, and it’s louder that it is in the daytime. The ride back was nice, but loud, but we make it back to Manhatten–excellent. We then make our way back to the subway station we came from only to find out that that there are no uptown trains operating from there (which incidently is what we need to get back home.) So we go to another station, wait, and wait, and wait, and then take a different train back to Times Square, where the transfer to the train we needed originally is. So, we get to Times Square and by this time its around 1:30am or so. The noisy, annoying teenagers and 20-somethings are getting back from their night of holiday weekend partying. Then we wait, and wait, and wait, and wait for the uptown train that we should have gotten where we first started coming back at Stanwell st. Finally, around 2am our passage back to Astoria arrives in all it’s silver splendor and takes us back to the place we call home. Luckily, since my dad is here, we had a car waiting for us to save us from the additional 1-mile treck from the subway stop to our house. Finally, we got to our abode around 2:30am and promply crashed. Today, it’s Coney Island…. and we’re taking the car.

Here are some pics from our trip to Central Park–unmodified. These are the actual quality and sizes of the pictures this little camera takes (it kind of gives them a water-color look.) Enjoy!

Trump Tower:

John Lennon’s Abode in NYC:

Castles across the lake:

Skyline from the park:

We left Jabba at home today to go visit Central Park this afternoon. We stopped by this cafe called ‘SoHo’ for lunch and then went on to the train headed for the park. We stopped by Strawberry Fields, walked to the lake, and had a nice little tour of the surrounding areas. Meanwhilst, Jabba turning to his mischivous side, snuck into the bedroom, opened my zippered shoulder bag, took out my cookies, and gobbled them up! When we got home there were cookie crumbs all over the floor next to the bed and my bag was half-way under the bed with the zipper open. After we got home, he proceeded to throw up the cookies in the kitchen…. I guess indulgance does have its price! 😉