On Blackberry and Boxes

My last few days have been consumed by packing and playing with my new Blackberry Pearl phone. The picture below is me and my friend Danie comparing our new toys at work.. hers is pink, mine is silver, otherwise they are the same, and equally addicting. We are working out the kinks, but are both pretty pleased with them. It's like a phone, but with a lot of other stuff too. By the way, we were actually talking to each other, not texting. Also, this picture is a fair representation of what I have been doing at work during my last week. You might call it hardly working. I am training my replacement, but it just ain't that taxing. I am pretty much just waiting around for the end of the week when my boss will probably give me a pie party, where people at work can say goodbye. Mmmm, pie. Hard to believe it's been almost four years.

The rest of my days have been spent packing.. I have boxes everywhere. Yet, somehow it seems I haven't made much progress. I do not like packing. That's all I have to say about that.

Last Two Weeks in Vegas

This is the Westward Ho, home of 5 cent coffee, 50 cent donuts, and $1 foot long hot dogs. It was one of my favorite spots on the Vegas strip until it got the wrecking ball treatment a couple years ago. We called it the "Ho".

I once bet my best friend Mitch $10 that he couldn't eat the hot dog (which was not only foot long, but an inch round and likely made of at least 85% rat by-product) and not throw up. He won the $10, but I think I got the best of it.. I really just wanted to make him eat the thing for my own amusement.

It has been almost exactly four years since I moved to Las Vegas. I have a had a lot of good times here with a lot of good friends, but in two weeks I am moving to New York City.. Eastward Ho!

I don't have a job in New York, but that didn't stop me when I moved to Vegas. I do have a cheap place to stay for two months.. Thanks to my cousin Ellie! And my cousin Sara also lives in the city.. that's two out of three first cousins.. not too shabby. And I do have at least two of my best friends already in the tri-state area, too.. Margaret and her daughter, Mia. I think it will be fun.

This blog will be a space for me to share my thoughts and experiences along the way. If you are reading it, you care about me at least a little.. Thank you. I'll try not to bore you.

This is the bagel shop nearest my future home...about two minutes walk. But the real question is, how far is Atlantic City from Queens? I'm still gonna have to get my poker fix now and then.