Monday, November 10, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Annee, was thinking about you this afternoon
Annee,
I was thinking about you this afternoon.
Love you.
Miss you.
-M (also known as Bitter)
Friday, November 7, 2008
Love Hurts, i've never laughed so hard in my life
I've never laughed so hard in my life.
-Bitter
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Food Storage, wow, someone in harlem actually turned their basement back into a root cellar
I stumbled across a NY Times article earlier today about root cellars. I was a little surprised, and then a little in awe when I realized that someone in Harlem not only had a basement, but had reverted it back into a root cellar.
How cool is that? Bravo.
The article "Food Storage as Grandma Knew It", by Michael Tortorello, spoke about a trend that happens during difficult economic times, people begin to buy in bulk, grow, and store their own food.
Surprisingly there were a couple hints and tips, for those of us not blessed with the square footage to store root vegetables, for the savvy reader. I just might try a few. But otherwise, I'll just continue to dream of the day when I own a basement, and in the mean time buy "The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses" by Elizabeth Cromley, when it comes out in 2010.
-Bitter
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Cheering, in the streets
It's 11:00 at night and people are out on the streets cheering and chanting "Obama".
I stick my head outside my 4th story apartment and listen to the cheers wondering if people have simply gathered at the park down the street or if they're marching.
I wonder, should I go join them?
My neighbors cheer as well. Some pop their heads outside their windows and chant too. Others just pull the drapes to the side and peer out.
It's too early to call, but Obama's ahead so far.
-Bitter
Update: It's 11:13 and it looks like the BBC had called the election for Obama with at least 297 votes.
Of course after the debacle a few years back, we in the US are a bit more conservative in calling the votes. The NY Times is reporting Obama ahead at 217 votes. Here's hoping the Brits have called it correctly.
Update II: People are setting off fireworks down the street. All of the networks have called the election for Obama.
Voting, it went smoother this time
I'm happy to report that voting went A LOT more smoothly this time. (Click here to read about last time.)
The down side is that the police officers wouldn't let me take pictures, and they threatened to confiscate my camera.
The good thing is that I was greeted immediately when I walked through the door and was directed to a check-in table.
The next volunteers in turn quickly looked up my address and directed me a sign-in table, giving me clear directions on where the table was located.
While standing in line a friendly gentleman went along asking for last names, there were two people signing voters in, one covering the first half of the alphabet and the other the latter.
He quickly moved the line along, moving people ahead in line when the second sign-in book was available.
The volunteer handling my sign-in book had a little difficulty with alphabetization. She kept thinking that BITTER was found somewhere after BRINKERHOFF. I had to help her realize that BI comes before BR, . . . and BO. But it went smoothly and fairly quickly, and posed no problems.
When I finally arrived at the booth (which looked a lot nicer this time), a volunteer stepped into it with me, I was a little unnerved by this, but she calmly and happily described how to cast my vote.
1- Pull the lever over.
2- Turn the knobs.
3- Pull the lever back over.
Voila you're done.
She left me, I snapped a few pictures. Voted. Then stepped back out.
Overall, it was a vast improvement from when I voted in the 2008 Presidential primaries.
Here's the photo I promised from last time. I was too close to get the overall effect, so I just took a photo of the lever. I'm not going to go into details about my photo taking troubles, but let it suffice to say that the cops were NOT happy with me.
Monday, November 3, 2008
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