i guess it's been a couple months, end of Jan. for the worst reasons, family emergency.

but i did get to see everything again. - a little unsettling, down by ground zero the biggest, dumbest looking of the six cops just standing around holding his M16.
i hadn't realized my dad had worked about one block from ground zero, ill have to post the pic from the window there, got a few ok shots for the gallery of the city, mostly for the purpose of showing some friends here what the rows of skyskrapers look like.

mainly- HOLY COLD- i dont know how i used to live through that every winter. i'm from LI, so staying in the suburbs, completely dead at night,
and really since it was during that super cold before the snow they had, it was pretty bleak all over.

EGG ROLLS !! oh so many good egg rolls, and of course slice after slice. BUT - a couple pizza places kinda switched to a new way of doing things, more like sbarro type restaurant. thumbs down.
at least my favorite spot was the same. sooo good

EASY PASS- ok that thing is not half as good as fastrak. they still have stupid gates at every booth, they dont have cameras, and the pass doesnt always work. when it doesnt work, you have to hold everyone up and wait for an attendant to run you thru.
if you leave your pass at home by accident or something, you have to pay. if something doenst work right, the gate keeps you blocked.
with Fastrak, they have the license plate camera so even if you dont have your pass, it still works, and you never have to block traffic

overall, things seemed about the same. too many more houses and highways in LI, but the city was still awesome (as if it could be anything else)