Back from New York

Posted September 15th, 2008 by Jeff J. Snider

Well, the New York trip was a success, both in that it was amazingly fun and wonderful, and in that I didn’t do anything stupid food-wise. Our biggest problem was that we never had time to eat until late at night, and we all know that eating late at night is the worst thing you can do (especially when the only thing available is Papa John’s pizza). I also only had half a hot dog at the game Friday night, but then the game got rained out so we went back to the stadium on Saturday, and we each had a whole hot dog. But still, one-and-a-half hot dogs and a few late-night slices of pizza aren’t bad over the course of a three-day vacation, especially when you consider the 8,000 miles we walked. So while I haven’t weighed myself yet, I expect that I came home roughly the same weight as when I left, which is good enough for me.

By the way, I could totally see myself living in New York. Not forever, and probably not if I had a stupid job I had to go to, but when I am wealthily retired, I would LOVE to live for a year or two in Manhattan, and just spend my time going to Broadway shows, using my season tickets to the New Yankee Stadium, and learning how to spit. It is a wonderful city where no one obeys traffic signals, random black dudes shove their hardcore rap CDs into your hands and then ask for donations (all the while flirting with your wife and signing her CD “To Babycakes”) even though they totally KNOW you’re a white dude from Utah, and crazy cowboys run around playing guitar in nothing but briefs and a cowboy hat. I will be posting more on our family blog about our experience (and there’s already some there about “Wicked” and the Yankee game), probably later tonight.

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