Been pretty busy...
It's been a few days since I posted anything meaningful, but that's okay I suppose because things have been pretty busy around the house. It's not that anything is going on, it's more of just that Laura and I have been keeping busy and going out and such.
This past weekend we went out to dinner with Ryan and Fran and went to Sweetwater over on North 6th and Bedford. While the food was quite good, I had a rather negative experience there. Anyone that knows me fairly well, knows that I have a very bad alergy to rats, and when I walk into a room that has a rodent infestation or even just has a rodent around (for example, I couldn't stay at my parents house because they used to have a Ginue Pig, and his dander was enough to throw me into a fit), I end up hacking and wheezing and breaking out in hives. Well, upon sitting in Sweetwater for 15 minutes, I began to weeze and started to get very flushed. I got up and went outside to get some fresh air.
After coughing up a few lovely balls of mucus, and blowing my nose in perhaps the harshest napkin I could have found...I made my way back inside. Now, being totally congested, and feeling the hives starting to build on my neck, I decided that it would be best to quickly eat my meal and get the hell out of there, and that's what we did. After we left, I was feeling better in around 15 minutes. So a word to the wise, if you even half way trust my rat detecting abilities, shy away from Sweetwater, because I would be a significantly large portion of money that they are a fairly bad rodent problem.
After Sweetwater, we made our way up the street to the Brooklyn Brewery. You really can't beat the Brooklyn Brewery as a place to go before you make your way out for an evening. For $3 a beer, you get brews fresh from the factory. It's great, and not to mention that you get to sample some stuff that's not available in retail sales. Laura and I threw down $20 for 7 beer tokens and started to down the Brooklyn Blast, which happens to be a Double IPA which comes in at a whopping 8% abv, so it's not your father's Schlitz. Needless to say, after downing 3 1/2 of those in an hour period, Laura and I were feeling pretty good.
After the brewery, Laura and I ended up going to the loft on Kent street where a few people that we hang out with live. Ryan and Fran came with us, and we spent a little bit of time there. Upon leaving and going to another bar, Laura realized that her Treo (smartphone) was no longer in her bag, after around 8-9 beers, she flipped out, I in turn flipped out on her and craziness ensued.
Eventually, after calling the police and filing a report, the night was over and we all moved on. It ceftainly made for a crazy night.
Since then, things have been pretty quiet and I figure they will continue to be quiet for the next week or so. Today, about an hour ago, Laura took off for a trip to Mississippi. She's going to be there for the rest of the week and over the weekend she's going to hit up Houston instead of coming back to NYC. I'm taking advantage of her being away and heading up to see my brother outside of Boston. It'll be nice to see him as I haven't been up to the Boston area in quite some time.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw out a quick update. Also, I have set up a daily Photoblog on my other domain name. If you are interested in finding this site, just ask me, as I don't want to mix my two domains as I still enjoy the freedom from people at work exploring my blog. I still plan on posting some of my photos here, but I figure that if I have a whole blog dedicated to photography, I'll be much betting off in terms of having the motivation to actually go out and get some new shots and to go through the archive of photos that I currently have.