Bacon, twix bars and the DMV

Once again my apologies, dear reader, for lack of updates. As I may have said before, days are split into 2 types – the first is that they are so busy that there is no time to update the blog and the other type is so little to do I usually fall asleep and don’t get to update the blog.

Unfortunately (or fortunately I guess) the former outweigh the latter significantly.
I hope everyone had a good Easter, or Passover or whatever you do at this time of year. Personally I eat chocolate eggs, and have not been disappointed.

A few items of interest, we have joined the hordes of people in New York who have a storage unit. We are the proud renters of a 10’x10’x10’ space in another part of Brooklyn where we are gradually moving stuff we don’t plan on using for the foreseeable future. Amazingly the boxes in the apartment remind me of couscous, you can move as many as you like but the same number remain. (You eat couscous not move it but I hope you get the similarity).

Did I tell you all about the Bacon Takedown which almost turned into the Williamsburg Bacon Riot of 2009. The event started at 5:00pm, we arrived at 4:58pm the line was very long, at 5:05 the organizer came out to let everyone know that it was sold out. The line was not happy and we thought there was going to be a rasher of trouble (sorry couldn’t resist) but the crowd was smoking !! Anyway good humor won out and the crowd dispersed peacefully. We went home and while craving bacon had to make do with pork chops.

Another wonderful trip was to the Chip Shop, where else can you buy cod and chips that taste good enough to be English (apart from the fact they have to use Soy Oil to fry – where is the beef dripping that makes it taste sooo much better) with a side order of mushy peas and follow it up with a deep fried Twix Bar. We even picked up a couple of genuine British Easter eggs (Smarties and Milky Way).

We have had a busy Easter/Passover – and by we I mean the neighborhood. On April 8th, our Hasidic neighbors celebrated the Blessing of the Sun , the photo was taken just down the road, and it was on the first day of Passover for only the second time ever. Then on Good Friday I heard a loudspeaker outside the window and I expected it to be something normal , such as an armed standoff (just kidding of course) but it was a fully fledged Passion Procession, complete with large wooden cross, roman soldiers and marching band. It all happens here.

Back to food, and we found ourselves featured in Bon Appétit (the gourmet cooking magazine) . We had not known about the barbeque place (Fette Sau) which is interesting as I can literally see it from my office window.

Other miscellaneous events Peg and Claire visited Macy’s in Harald Square (the biggest store in the world – a full city block) and it apparently has two floors of shoes. Fortunately I was simply the driver and was allowed to drop them off and pick them up a couple of hours later.

We have purchased a few pieces from IKEA and I think the kitchen is pretty close to complete. The men were in today to start work on the punch list, so we have a couple of days of additional people in the apartment.

This Easter weekend we drove to the inlaws which is a journey or 75 miles (and about 1.5 hours) as opposed to 310 miles from Boston, much better.

Today we tried to get a NY state drivers license for Peg, but having stood in line for close to an hour we were told that we needed to have a social security card (we had all of the rest of the stuff including a Social Security statement) and we would have to go to another government office to get that. So we went home to make sure that we had all the stuff necessary , we were looking for birth certificates etc and just to make sure we looked it up on the internet and much to our surprise, all you need to get a replacement card is, wait for it,…… a drivers license. You gotta love it.

More soon !!!