Happy Belated Sarah Vaughan's Birthday
Lots of catching up to do now that The Dark Time is over. For starters, while it's a little late, I want everyone to know that I had a perfect Sarah Vaughan's birthday:
• Started with a swim in the morning and a cup of the very best coffee that I'm aware of in all of New York (made by the cutest barista that I'm aware of in all of New York, which doesn't hurt.)
• Spent the day at work enjoyably fine-tuning the configuration on my new, lightning-fast Mac Pro w/gigantic monitor, hereafter know as “Teh Sex Machine” (get on up!).
• Had a dee-licious pimento cheese sandwich, my first since last summer, for lunch
• Ditched work early for a happy hour downtown that features bluepoint oysters for $1 each, a phenomenal price in NYC, only to be surprised that my co-happyhourists had rallied a whole crowd of birthday well-wishers to join us. Had a vat-sized Hendrick's martini to go with my oysters.
• Went from there to see one of my very favorite movies (Contempt), in a new restored print & on the big screen for the first time since it first came out in the 60's. After the movie, I found I had a string of voicemail well-wishes from my sweet little mama, other assorted friends and family types, and the guy who asked me out the week before (don't even know how he knew it was my birthday).
• Finished the evening gabbing until the wee hours about two of my favorite subjects: the movie we'd just seen, and beer nerdery, the latter having been prompted by a book on the subject written by Brooklyn Brewery's brewmaster, (BB is 2 blocks from my house) that was a Sarah Vaughan's birthday gift.
• And, capping off the birthday-weekend, and celebrating the nice spring weather which is part of my annual Sarah Vaughan's birthday present from god, on Saturday I had the first pink wine of the season.
And of course, the best Sarah Vaughan's birthday present was yet to come (see previous post).
• Started with a swim in the morning and a cup of the very best coffee that I'm aware of in all of New York (made by the cutest barista that I'm aware of in all of New York, which doesn't hurt.)
• Spent the day at work enjoyably fine-tuning the configuration on my new, lightning-fast Mac Pro w/gigantic monitor, hereafter know as “Teh Sex Machine” (get on up!).
• Had a dee-licious pimento cheese sandwich, my first since last summer, for lunch
• Ditched work early for a happy hour downtown that features bluepoint oysters for $1 each, a phenomenal price in NYC, only to be surprised that my co-happyhourists had rallied a whole crowd of birthday well-wishers to join us. Had a vat-sized Hendrick's martini to go with my oysters.
• Went from there to see one of my very favorite movies (Contempt), in a new restored print & on the big screen for the first time since it first came out in the 60's. After the movie, I found I had a string of voicemail well-wishes from my sweet little mama, other assorted friends and family types, and the guy who asked me out the week before (don't even know how he knew it was my birthday).
• Finished the evening gabbing until the wee hours about two of my favorite subjects: the movie we'd just seen, and beer nerdery, the latter having been prompted by a book on the subject written by Brooklyn Brewery's brewmaster, (BB is 2 blocks from my house) that was a Sarah Vaughan's birthday gift.
• And, capping off the birthday-weekend, and celebrating the nice spring weather which is part of my annual Sarah Vaughan's birthday present from god, on Saturday I had the first pink wine of the season.
And of course, the best Sarah Vaughan's birthday present was yet to come (see previous post).
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