The Gates (first draft)

So, I headed down to NYC and saw "the gates". The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude built these big rectangle gates to fit over the walkways of Central Park and hung from each one a sheet of special cloth that hangs about halfway down the gate. To give an idea of the height: I can reach the bottom inch-and-a-half of the cloths, if I stretch. They are not huge, but they aren't quite human-scale. The gates are just big enough that they give me the impression of theater set-pieces.

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So, the Gates weren't Saffron, and I wasn't in the mood for Modern Art. But was it cool? Yeah, it was pretty cool. =)

Not quite cool enough that I'd travel from out of town just to see it, but pretty cool. Let's set aside the fact that I in fact just did travel in from out of town to go see it, OK? It was a very good excuse for a nice walk in the Park, and that was, I would say, its best feature.

nearly birthday

It's almost my birthday again.
Yay. I like birthdays.

I'm going to spend the actual day flying back from Florida, after a friends' wedding. So, with that day out of consideration, I'm not sure what, if anything, I will do for formal celebrations.

Other observances for my birthday: I have set 25 as the age by which I must have begun retirement investing. Also, I'd like to have my "important shit" enough in order that I can function without having to call up my parents and ask *them* to tell me the things I should know. I have made significant progress on that front by tackling my "box o' 'important' shit" -- ie Bank & Credit Card Statements, Insurance Policies, Notorized Name Change Documents, Car Titles, etc -- and sorting it into those above-mentioned categories :-). At this rate I can have a [hopefully]-sustainable organization system in place before before the last-year-to-be-on-time countdown begins! (That means I am turning 24... not 25 yet, in case this was confusing.)

The other observance for a birthday is to pull together a list of things that would be happy gifts, for the edification of those inclined to give me things. I'm behind on that one. (Super-short version: "Socks.") But i feel great about the Box.

When I was going thru the Box, I found a expired check for $600 and was able to get it re-issued -- YAY!
Also, I heard back from potential new employer that I should recieve a formal offer from them by Wednesday.