and another one

meme gacked from bikergeek; the results will surprise no one at all, given that I did, in fact, grow up on LI near the city (most of the time) and in Queens (some of the time) and worked in the city for a while, commuting on the the Long Island SnailRoad.

You Are 64% NYC

You are probably a real New Yorker, though there's a good chance you really live on Long Island.

How NYC Are You?

If I made 6 figures a year, I truly would think seriously about living in the city. And for those of us who grew up near NYC, there is only one "the city." (I imagine people who grew up right near or in London have the same attitude toward their city.)

quotidian stuff

Let's see, magazines: the usual 6 weekly suspects, plus monthlies Harpers, In These Times and Washington Monthly, plus somewhere-between-a-newsletter-and-a-magazine Freethought Bulletin, plus just-a-small-newsletter local Mensa chapter newsletter. Catalogs: not many at all, just a couple different Herrschner's needlework thingies.

The snow has melted almost completely.

My brother G has some sort of share or something like that in a resort house down in Chincoteague, on the Delmarva peninsula, so tomorrow we're gonna drive down there and visit with them for a day and a half or so. Can't stay through to Sunday, because (a) there are hungry bunnies who will go on a rampage if we don't feed them, not to mention their shedding fur will grow to block the doorway, and (b) we have tickets to the Chieftains for Sunday! Yay!

ha-ha, gotta share this my fellow musicians:

Rachmaninoff's Big Hands