September : All At Once

Okay, December, let’s talk about September!

September 2: A rainy Labor Day, I dashed between breakfasts and lunches with friends and shopped frantically for a short-term suit to use the next day. Saw this bear I hadn’t seen before on the Upper West Side.

September 7: This was big, Morrissey in Forest Hills with Interpol as an opening act. Hadn’t seen Steven Patrick in 12 years. He’s doing well! 15 minutes after his set ended and a crowd was still fighting for shreds of the shirt he had tossed into the audience. Oh I went there with Chaunte! But we saw lots of other people we knew, too.

September 8 - 11: Walking around pics plus a little bit of my neighborhood’s 9/11 memorial gathering.

September 12: Another big one! Laura was in town with Naomi and after dinner with Patricia we went to a wild exhibit at the New Museum. Adam was there, too!

September 16 - 22: Chick-Fi-A with Garrett and more walking around, this time with stops at the Whitney Museum and some Chelsea Galleries.

The Rest: Man, I’m just losing the spirit of the blog. Here’s the rest of the pictures! We’ve got stake conference, a great ma po tofu I made, more walking around, the 5th Avenue Apple Store remodel, uhh, oh yeah! A little bit of the Fort Tryon Medieval Festival. All right. Time to picture out October pictures for another well thought-out post.

Some August, 3

One more important thing about August: the Beans came!

August 29: Their visit, for me, began with meeting them and Jeff and Lisa and my dog friend at Citi Field for a Mets Game.

August 31: Tom and Cindy came over the night before and we decided to go down to Hudson Yards for some fun and had the single worst train delay I’d ever experienced in my whole New York life trying to get down there. Tom sprung for a cab. What a guy!

Ran into Tara and her mom outside by the Vessel! Then we went inside to Molton Brown, Muji, and Uniqlo, among other places. And I got a potato sandwich at Fuku because the curiosity got to me.

Then we finished up with a little High Line Walk

September 1: Well a day of September snuck into my August roundup, what can you do! After church Sunday we went and met up with Chris and Dave at the Usual because honestly what kind of host would I be if I didn’t bring my guests to the Usual to try that crispy cheese cheeseburger? Hadn’t seen Chris or Dave for a little bit and basically it seems like no one has changed. In the good way, of course.

Some August, 2

A big thing that happened in August was I flew out to LA to drive up to Utah for Andrew’s wedding and then drove back to LA. This is going to be an extremely cursory overview of that trip that, even in its brevity, contains about 100 pictures.

August 19: I fly out to LA with a layover in Denver.

August 20: San Marino stuff during the day, including a walk to see the turtles at Cal Tech, and went to Disneyland to check out Galaxy’s Edge with Collin that night. (That was it’s whole own post though, remember?)

August 21: Today was the big drive up to Utah. It was an all-day activity. I ate with my buddy Brandon in Vegas and, well, didn’t take a lot of pictures of the drive or anything.

August 22: Utah! They’ve got a new dog at Kristen’s house. In the afternoon I had Prettybird with Natalie and Jake…they just can’t make it hot enough for me there, though…and I spent the night at Andrew’s getting ready for the wedding.

August 23: Woke up in Midway and Andrew was buying everyone donuts…and also very protective of his rice vinegar bottle.

Ok, insert here me going back down to Highland for a bit, then fast forward to that evening. It’s the wedding! And things were a little too busy for picture taking. But here’s some I snapped after the ceremony when Andrew, a married man for mere minutes, began making everyone pizzas.

August 24: Sunday in Utah! What more can I say?

August 25: Back on the road! This time I took pictures. The “big” thing about my drive back was I stopped to check out those rocks everyone was Instagramming last year. And stopped into a desolate casino to find a bathroom.

August 26: Lunch with Collin at Disney, tacos downtown with Cher.

August 27: Had a little time to go to the LA Arboretum with Grandma before my flight. I had not been there for a VERY long time and it was a LOT bigger than I remembered. Still has peacocks, though.