Category: Austerity

Breakage

Flat on the pavement, its silver raised numbers glistening in the sunlight, I found a TD Bank gift card in the middle of a quiet Astoria side street. Intending to make some effort to identify the person who lost it and return it...

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Waking Up and Remembering the Quarters.

It’s fun waking up to website postings of which I have no memory. Some day I’ll post something regrettable, if I haven’t done so already. Gotta stop with those 7am gimlets, though I do remember feeling very happy in The Chair, as I used to call it. That’s the mission recliner I bought at Macy’s […]

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Day of Freeloading

My experience at casinos is pretty uniform: It’s fun for a little while until it becomes monotonous , and from there it quickly becomes depressing. This emotional arc typically takes about an hour to form, and did so pretty much on cue when I visited Resorts World Casino in Jamaica, Queens, yesterday.

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Cleaning Out the Galaxy Note

Galaxy Note II, to be exact. Here are some forgotten attempts at eloquence, attempted by myself using the pen to write onto the Galaxy Note II screen. Thinking of getting a newer phone after this one spontaneously restarted several times yesterday, though I do not feel like spending the money. Clearing the device of gigabytes […]

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Austerity Is Fun: A Subway/Bus Hack

My favorite MTA subway/bus hack is getting a round trip for a single fare. It’s not always possible but when it works it works. I take a bus from Long Island City to midtown and, if I take care of whatever I have to do there within 2 hours, go to a subway and get […]

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