March + April 2020

Back from Boise and things . . . start to change. Suddenly.

MARCH 5: Get “burgers'“ with Patricia at Lekka, a new vegan fast food place in Tribeca. It’s good, it is not Superiority Burger. I guess they had no option but to not be Superiority Burger. (Interestingly, Lekka’s owners ran their first restaurant in the space that’s now Superiority Burger).

MARCH 6: Little trip into Jersey to eat at the famous pizza bakery and a famous, strangely silent and empty yet busy burger diner.

MARCH 7: I’m in the East Village for some reason. I get two slices at Sauce. It’s a great pizzeria.

MARCH 11: Aaaaand . . . I don’t go into work any more! The plan at first is to split the whole office into two teams and take turns not going into work, but by the end of the week it’s: Nope! No one come back! This is the second (and last) set of lilies I buy myself that month. I find myself very into having flowers making the house smell nice. Would like to get back to doing that.

MARCH 14: Not sure what I’m doing yet, but knowing I’m not taking the subway anymore, I take a walk up to Van Cortland park in the Bronx. Great park! I should go back sometime.

MARCH 15: Still unsure what exactly the way to do things is, I meet Ellen, Alexis, Ned and Dallin for a socially-distanced walk through Inwood Hill Park.

MARCH 17: In the middle of my WFM workday, I take a quick rainy St Patrick’s Day trip to C Town (that’s a grocery store). No need to worry about supply chain yet, there was plenty of beef heart.

MARCH 21: Having watched the news and feeling I better make sure I’ve got plenty of toilet paper, I take a walk to the Target near my house and run into Garrett while I’m there. What a world!

MARCH 22: Take an afternoon walk in Inwood Hill Park. Although you don’t see many of them in the photos, I decide there’s too many people out. There’s too many people everywhere! I decide: I will not go outside anymore. Except to get groceries every week or two.

MARCH 28: My new chair arrives.

APRIL 1: Grandma’s new iPad has arrived.

APRIL 8: I go outside to . . . mail my rent! And while I’m out I take a mask delivery from a secret supplier and grab some Taco Bell.

APRIL 10: My new bike arrives.

and Elder Muñoz has arrived, too, if only for a few weeks

APRIL 15: For some reason I go out during the day again, get Taco Bell again . . . it might have been to get veggies from the vegetable stand? But they didn’t have what I was looking for.

APRIL 30: You know I really did have a very nice at-home birthday and birthday party. AND a real nice surprise sope delivery from an unidentified masked friend. It’s so hard to tell who people are these days! (ok, ok, it was Ana).

And if you follow my Instagram you know I’ve been cooking a lot but I’ve decided to mostly spare you the food pics . . . for now.

Boise Brother's Baby's Blessing Blog

FEBRUARY 28: In order to get out to Boise for the blessing of my new nephew by his father, my brother Owen, I first fly from Newark to San Francisco. In the time I pass between arriving and the departure of my flight to Boise I chuckle at the sight of a decent handful of people wearing medical masks. “Oh so we’re worried about coronavirus, are we?” Innocent times!

I get into Boise pretty late and on the way to the Air BnB I get Del Taco. What a wonderful start to the weekend!

FEBRUARY 29: In the morning we pick up cinnamon rolls.

We take them to Owen’s house and I meet my nephew.

Grandma meets her biography (good job, Emily). I had a sit by my dad in the massage chair.

On a neighborhood walkaround Mom sees something she wants to do.

These Meridian houses, they have a lot of garage.

After a very brief discussion, we head to lunch at Fiesta Chicken.

Then we visit the World Center for Birds of Prey and really do see some birds of prey!

Back at Owen’s, Rob stops by to tell the family some of my favorite stories.

Than night we go downtown for Greek food.

MARCH 1: Owen blessed the baby and did a fine job. Back at his house we had Italian beef sandwiches (no pictures, it seems). Then I flew back to New York via Seattle. A very efficient coast to coast trip I took

Oh, one last thing…to you, what does it look like this sign says?

February 2020

February. Still a good way out from worrying about the coronavirus.

FEBRUARY 1: Started the day with a walk through Fort Tryon Park, a visit to the Cloisters, and a walk through Inwood Hill Park with Jesse. It’s nice living close to the Cloisters, get to really get to know that medieval art they’ve got.

That night I met up with Becky to go up the Vessel, that got cancelled because of some rather unforeseen circumstances, we killed a bit of time in the mall and then met up with Trevor and Angelique for a super top notch dinner at this fancy Korean place called Kawi. No pictures! Because it’s 2020 and sometimes I’ll just enjoy dinner with friends.

FEBRUARY 8: Grabbed a few slices from LES pizza hotspot Scarr’s and brought them over to Andy’s for a good Andy time. We watched the Peanut Butter Falcon. It was actually a great Andy time. After that I went out to Carroll Gardens to try F&F Pizza, the new slice shop run by the Franks. Excellent pizza, extremely annoying clientele.

FEBRUARY 10: Had one of my little Come Follow Me gatherings. This one actually had a world-record turn out, these aren’t even all the people that came.

FEBRUARY 12: Had a bit of a brother’s Bushwick taco meetup. LOVED Taqueria al Pastor, it’s like Tacos No. 1 but BETTER. LIKED Tortilleria Los Hermanos, where you have to avoid forklifts as you eat.

FEBRUARY 15: Spent a nice bit of time walking around the Chelsea Galleries after cleaning the chapel. Really am coming to appreciate a good Chelsea Gallery walk-around.

FEBRUARY 17: Big wait for a spot at Nami Nori but liked it in there. Needed a slice of pizza from Two Boots to top myself off after.

FEBRUARY 22: Caught a matinee of Little Women with Heather in the auditorium named after my favorite theater at my most visited theater and now I ask myself: Why did I only go and see Little Women twice when it was in theaters?