July 23, 2007
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Closing Time
Just got back from the bank and cut two of the biggest checks I have ever held in my grubby little mitts.. me and the wife are due at the seller’s attorney’s office in 90 minutes to give away all of our money and slave for the rest of our days to pay off the mortgage.. fitting that it is gray and pouring outside… the only good part of all of this is that we get to stroll into work late with a good excuse….
weekend started with dinner after work Fri night with Altera’s high school friend and his new fiance that we have never met… the wife was running late so I met up with them first.. a few drinks and even I am more socialble…but it did get really chilly by the river after the sun went down and the fiance actually was shivering… but the burgers were pretty good and a few drinks will always warm anyone up…Saturday was the first time we took the neice to Yankee Stadium… she was a little bashful at first and prob a little intimidated by the 50,000 plus crowd, and the noise.. she had her hands up over her ears for the first hour… then we figured out what was holding her back… hot dogs… first she took a bite of mine.. and then proceeded to commandeer her Dad’s… twenty minutes later… “more hot dog”… so my uber cool 2.5 year old niece.. scarfed down two stadium dogs.. and needless to say was in a more boisterous mood afterwards… but it was too hot in our seats and we called it an early day… missing the offensive onslaught… and seeing rookie slugger Shelley do his thing…instead we hit the Father in Law’s joint and picked up two bubble teas and walked up to the apt… met up with another of the wife’s childhood buddies and her new BF.. then made our way up to 131st St.. to Dinosaur BBQ… we pass by this place all the time on the way to the GWB… and have heard really good things… tried to make reservations.. only a week in advance to weekend… and it is first come first serve for the few tables outside.. so we set up a perimeter and swooped on the first table that opened up… really good BBQ… service is a little on the slow side… but the meat is right up there… just about the time we were finishing up our meal outside.. we heard our party being called… 2 hours after we got there… so be prepared to wait in weekends or be prepared to hover over diners outside.. after dinner we all walked off the meal back to our apt and had a night of Wii tennis and Mario Party… yours truly passed out at midnight… yesterday was brunch with the in laws… baseball on TV.. the wife plowing thru Harry Potter and an afternoon with the babies… time to get dressed and trade all of our money for a key and a few pieces of paper
