🦋 Vacation report: Day 1
Hm, well no going to the health club in my day today, like I was planning to do every day of my vacation. Did get a little walking in anyway, we went in to the city to see my sister for brunch and walked around a lot on the lower east side and in Greenwich Village. I just want to mention the Polish deli on 1st Ave. and 7th St. where we got some bread and cheese to bring along with us, it is an excellent place. I did some fiddling today, the upshot of which is a few posts down. This was the kind of thing I am looking for in music, where I could hear in my head just how the part should sound and how it should fit in with the vocal line. The translation to actual sound was as usually riddled with errors but it actually came close enough this time for me to feel happy about the whole thing. Before the movie, we ate at a good Chinese restaurant in Montclair, which is a major enough event that I am going to repeat it, with emphasis: A good Chinese restaurant in Montclair. I had been believing for some time that there was no good Chinese restaurant in all of Essex and surrounding counties; so this is a lovely thing to have found out about. It is Sesame, on Bloomfield Ave. not far from the Montclair Book Center and the movie theater. A strange restaurant -- you walk in and get the feeling that it is going to be a lousy, pretentiously high-end fusion restaurant. But once you get over that hunch and look at the actual menu, you see a couple of things that sound good, you get some good smells coming from the kitchen; you realize that it is not really overpriced, just that the first page of the menu is all the highest priced dishes (I still don't quite understand this); and you order. I'm glad I did not let first impressions (and expectations) turn me off to this place.
posted evening of Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
This is great news! BTW I gave Harry Moomin: The Complete Comic
Strip and he loved it. Thanks for the recommendation.
posted evening of December 23rd, 2007 by painterofblue
That's great -- I'll let Sylvia know, the comic strip is one of
her favorite things to read.
posted morning of December 24th, 2007 by Jeremy
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