2015 August
1. (AM) Doc Watson’s with Gotham Atheists participants. Day one of Híbridos Collective’s Unlocked and Reimagined event at the Leverich Family Burial Ground.
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2. Jackson Heights Beautification Group’s Summer Sundays in the Park concert on 78th Street. Jackson Heights photos.
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4. Photos of 37th Avenue repaving etc.
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6. {A fairly large group of South Asian men standing outside on 72nd Street playing backgammon (or some game) on a raised board at this hour.} Woodside photos.
7. Probably the day I woke with hip and thigh pain that would later be diagnosed as lumbar radiculopathy. Gotham Atheists’ Drinking with Atheists event at Madison Square Park. Live Bait thereafter with Gotham Atheists participants.
8. Photos at 72nd Street and 35th Avenue. Day two of Híbridos Collective’s Unlocked and Reimagined event at the Leverich Family Burial Ground. Queens World Film Festival’s Flic-nic on 78th Street.
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9. New York Bear Den. Pageant.
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11. 37th Avenue photos.
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13. East Elmhurst/Jackson Heights photos and subway photos. Center for Inquiry’s Skeptics on the Mic at 2A.
14. (AM) Skeptics at Double Down Saloon. (PM) Photos of Global Supermarket renovation.
15. Photos at 72nd Street and 35th Avenue. Day three of Híbridos Collective’s Unlocked and Reimagined event at the Leverich Family Burial Ground.
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16. Shopping in significant pain at Global Supermarket.
17. {I hope to learn what has been giving me such hip and leg pain for the past week.} Diagnosed with sciatica. Walked to find better physical therapist than the one assigned to me. Lunch at Indian Taj. {Treating myself to a nice lunch after being diagnosed with another ailment.}
18. Fasting lab tests. Lunch at Delhi Heights. {I particularly like the methi (fenugreek) chicken and the “chicken 65.” (Chicken turns me on.) 🐓🐓 Oh, and one of the “waiters” is adorable (although not as hot as yesterday’s). 😉} Jackson Heights photos.
19. Photos at 72nd Street and 35th Avenue. LS spine x-ray. Received wrong film afterward. Limped to subway from my building, but everything seemed to be fine once I got into the swing of things. Saw Shmuel and others at Taam Tov. We walked to Rockefeller Center to give the finger to the Spanish flag. We walked to Penn Station. Subway photos both thither and back. Photos on 37th Avenue.
20. Various Jackson Heights photos.
21. Subway photos. Gotham Atheists’ Drinking with Atheists at Hi-Life Restaurant with Faisal and others.
22. (AM) Green Kitchen with Gotham Atheists participants. Photo on 37th Avenue. Day four of the Híbridos Collective’s Unlocked and Reimagined event at the Leverich Family Burial Ground. I was of very little help and slipped out early, before the meeting in Spanish. (PM) Encountered Rodrigo on 72nd Street returning to the burial ground and we briefly walked together to 35th Avenue. Photo on 34th Avenue? A bit of a Jackson Heights Food Group reunion at Chhaya’s Chatpati Mela (—) on 78th Street with Jeff O., Sara M. and James B. Rich W. came over and hugged me.
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23. Photos on 37th Avenue.
24. Returned to taking a constitutional after many months, despite my new sciatica. The walk was achy but acceptable. Photos on 72nd Street.
25. Told at data recovery company that recovering data from my memory card would cost between two hundred and seven hundred dollars. Walked from 38th Street to 14th Street, constituting a constitutional, to deposit jury service check at Amalgamated Bank. Chicken marsala at Good Stuff Diner. Knee started to ache at diner and on train home.
26. Went to doctor’s office to make an appointment but was told to have a seat. Then I was called and told to fill out a visit slip so I thought they’d actually see me that day. Then I was called again and told I didn’t have an appointment that day (as if I didn’t know) and so was given a Saturday appointment.
27. I was lumbering around the apartment thinking about my sciatica pain but, as usual, became ninety percent fine once I got out walking. Returned to doctor’s office to change the appointment I’d made the day before. Got toyuq şiş from the cart on 37th Avenue and 74th Street and saw a woman with an SLR taking pictures. (I doubt I’ll see them or recognize them as hers should I see them, but she stood in front of Toronto-Dominion Bank and pointed her camera eastward along 37th Avenue toward 74th Street, possibly photographing the back of a South Asian woman.) Photo on 37th Avenue.
28. Photos on the 6. Wore my “beryl green” jeans with a light blue t-shirt and bright blue socks to Gotham Atheists’ Drinking with Atheists at R’el’s apartment.
29. (AM) Walked to Hi-Life Restaurant with Andrew, Beth, Tsee and Veena to join Michael J., Michael D., Lee, Omesh and Salah there. Day five of Híbridos Collective’s Unlocked and Reimagined event at the Leverich Family Burial Ground. (PM) Photos of Global Supermarket renovation.
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30. Took photos on 37th Avenue.
31. Took photos on 72nd Street and at Due Fratelli.