"No more quarter hunts!"

This was my daughter Molly's response when I told her about our apartment building's gleaming new laundry room, that unlike the old one that had coin-operated machines, takes a re-fillable cash card and means we will no longer need to procure one-million-trillion quarters every time we want to do the laundry. For us, finding the requisite quantity of quarters required for even the most humble amount of laundry meant hunting around the apartment for hours in the vain hope that a stray quarter might be stowed here or there, in a random drawer, an overfilled dish or forgotten corner of the floor. This was inevitably followed by raiding the piggy bank, the tzedakah box, and on one particularly bad day, even the state quarter map.

Farewell, quarter hunts. I will miss you.

And just like that, another relic of childhood... gone forever.

Taking a Good Idea too Far

Is it just me, or is there something just not right about this:
http://www.personalizedcause.com/index.html

Lower East Side: First stop, not quite a total success.

So, we went to visit my brother, Ethan - also known as l.e.s.ter on the Lower East Side. However, it was at best a partial success because:

1. I forgot the camera to commemorate the event, and
2. I forgot we needed to have Molly and Kelly, and Kelly didn't even come on the trip.

Still, it was a good trial run for our first "real" trip we'll take one day soon.

Lower East Side - Our First Stop from "Up & Down New York"

So, it's decided. This Saturday we will be going to the Lower East Side in our first stop from "Up & Down New York." More details to follow.

Creepy or Cool?

I can't decide.

To see more:

http://www.kentrogowski.com/

Our first NY journey on short-term hold

Wow, I could not have predicted the three-way tie that resulted from the poll about where the girls and I should go first in our recreation of Up & Down New York. Nor could I have foreseen that Molly would receive an invitation to a friend's birthday for this Sunday, the planned day for our first outing.

So, the location and the date of our first outing is TBD for now, stay tuned!

Who Knew So Many New Yorkers had Blogs?

I found this site today. It has blogs organized by which subway stop they were closest to. I of course immediately signed-up to have my blog added.

For all you New York City bloggers, this is a great place to add your blog or find other Big City bloggers.

Check it out here: NYC Bloggers.