Day 89: Tuesday

Working backward, I am eating a cookie and writing the blog at about 8 p.m. I spent the early evening scanning photos of Susie. I did a few more kiddie photos I missed yesterday and then scanned in some wedding photographs. Fewer tears and the wedding brings back smiles and good memories. I will be traveling tomorrow and pick this up next week.

Susie dancing with her dad at her wedding in 1990.

I talked to the church folks, and the preparations for Susie’s Concert are moving well. Food plans seems to be settling.

I came home early and rested and slept. The coughing wouldn’t stop and got terrible in the afternoon. I took a cough suppressant and took a nap, which helped. I woke in time for the 5:45 p.m. PDT stand-up meeting, which was done on Zoom and overlapped India’s morning (6:15 IST).

I looked up the JFK Airport to Roosevelt Island transit, and it is more than an hour’s trip on the subway and requires a shuttle to connect to the train to the island. I will have two pieces of luggage and a bag. This is another adventure, and I always wanted to take the subway from JFK to avoid the crazy NJ traffic and $200 travel costs. My AMEX is set up in my Apple Wallet to pay for the subway. Exciting. I love NYC.

I made a roast beef sandwich with two slices of cheddar cheese for dinner. I painted the bread with Thousand Island salad dressing and spooned coleslaw over the dressing. It was so good! I bought the $15-a-pound thin-sliced beef for this. I must get some corned beef from Elephant’s next week. I love a good sandwich, and it does not blow my calories like pasta.

I did a few more meetings, going further back, and before that, I had lunch alone at the Nike cafe. I again selected the pop-up, which was a rice and chicken item—not a curry this time. It was still good, and I ate all of it. As I watch my calories, I am pretty hungry when lunch comes at 11:30, but I need to eat slowly; otherwise, I will still be hungry when I finish these rice bowl items. I read NY Times items on my phone while eating.

I canceled my Sunday NY Times print subscription. They were mailing it to me, and I would get it on Monday. I then opted for an all-digital subscription. I did this during a break between meetings.

Before this, we had the introductions for the new boss, Erika. I work for Rajani now. We had an excellent meeting, and Rajani introduced everyone. Erika has known me for years but has heard what I am about nowadays. It was the first pleasant re-org meeting as we started to find the flying formation, what we call it.

The day started with me rising at 6:30 with my alarm still waking me. I am still not ready for the time change. It is hard to get started, but I get to the office and read emails and Slack updates. I later make coffee and retrieve a banana. I run out of time before I run out of coffee. I need to make the liberal coffee first in my French Press. I ended up putting most of the coffee in an insulated cup. I pour the remaining hot water into the insulated cup and put the cover on it when I make the coffee. I then dump out the still-hot water and fill the still-hot cup with the remaining coffee. The coffee is scalding when you do that and I drink it on the way and at work.

The crows covered Air Volvo again with art, but it was misting, so it just wiped off. I drove slow but light traffic to Nike’s Swift building on WHQ.

I looked at electric cars to replace Air Volvo. Car and Driver says that the Korean-made ones are the best. I did look at a BMW for $111,000, but no, I could buy two Korean ones for that. I want something self-driving that I can travel in. Nothing has gotten my attention enough to do more than look at build-yours websites.

Thanks for reading. I am packing and just checked in to my flight. I am going cheap this time to see if I can do it. I also noticed that First Class on a red-eye flight had few services on my last trip. It seems like a terrible waste, so I will try cheap and spend the money on more interesting things in NYC. I will be staying at The Graduate Hotel on Roosevelt Island.