15 June 2017, Thursday

74th St. Breakfast alone at IT because Jeff delayed our luncheon date. The worker there I’ve thought so gorgeous in the past didn’t seem quite so attractive, especially not his posterior. Double‐parked car blocking traffic (0591).

37th Ave. Two bars of dark chocolate from DR. Attractive man sitting in front of שלם (‎0592–93).

Façade work on 72nd St. (0594–96).

37th Ave. (0597–99).

82nd St. Workers tossing things etc. (0600). Did not see Jeff upstairs at MNC as I’d expected, and it turns out he’d accidentally gone to KLD where he ordered a sandwich and French fries but left to join me. (See text messages.) We attributed the confusion to so many consecutive letters: K, L, M and N. I had some of food from the buffet just as an excuse to spend time with J. Man sitting behind him resembled reporter on television.

Work on Roosevelt Ave. (0601–06).

37th Ave. Encountered a smiling Alan S. sitting quite happily in front of the post office while wearing a rainbow‐flag t‐shirt, and we stopped and chatted with him. (I should have photographed him and J.) Hugged J. goodbye who said we should get together more often. Strawberries, mango slices and sour cream from FD. It was late Thurs. night, so S’eed was at the front window preparing to put up the sale flyers.

Commentary

– Leave Gene alone! 😧 (00:13)

– Aardvark means ‘earth pig’, and the ‐vark portion is a cognate of the word pork. (08:37)

– A big מזל טוב to him. Better late than never, but it is a shame he and his wife had to live under such circumstances as long as they did. (09:03)

– That slice of cracker looks like it’s staring at me. (09:05)

– At first, I thought it was some frozen dessert with a spoon (or maybe an electric mixer wand) in it, but that’s how my mind works. (09:20)

– Getting out of bed is the second hardest thing in the morning. (09:38)

– Yes, but what model car was it? (11:08)

– Where did I leave my keys? (12:43)

– “This is so hard, oh my g‐d.” “That’s what he said.” (16:26)