Saw the movie Serendipity tonight with my sweetie. Besides making me want to eat MORE ice cream than I already do, there was a scene where they push elevator buttons and trust fate that they'll find each other. I picked one and asked Max what floor she'd choose and we both picked 17. Not a cool as a dozen double-yolk eggs, but pretty cool.

Oh, and to copy a comedian:


1975.
six-four.
married.
newburgh, walden, troy and clifton park (all NY).
cooper union, chemical engineering.
ice hockey.
med student.
soft serve vanilla.
brooklyn.
hong kong.
us, uk, cambodia, taiwan.
lonely planet.

Well, I'm back from the road trip a week now and haven't posted, so here's the highlights:
NY Mets game on Thursday night got rained out, but not before they played a couple of innings and we got rained on for about 2 hours. As luck would have it we were seated in rows M and N in the upper deck...the last two rows that are sheltered under the overhang for the lights. So we stayed dry and enjoyed out umbrellas (an appropriate giveaway for the night).
Thursday night was in Hoboken at Greg's place and then Friday morning we were off to Cleveland. We got lost right away leaving Slowboken and went about 20 miles out of our way, but now worries, we were back on the road in no time and off and running. Needless to say about 80% of the drive from NYC to Cleveland is through Pennsylvania. Nothing more to say there.
We rolled into Cleveland a little late, at around 4PM and shecked into our hotel...a Mariott "business suite" style place. Then we headed into Cleveland to meet up with Chris Seper but we missed him at work (turned out that he and his soon to be father in law were sitting about 75 feet behind us at the game. Anyway, the game was cool. The Indians beat the defending champ Diamondbacks on a seven run inning featuring a Thome home run, and another that landed about 10 feet from us. We had seats right by the right field foul pole. Jacobs field is a pretty nice park, and Cleveland is a nice, walkable city. Oh, and it was also the day Cleveland traded Bartolo COlon (who was supposed to start) to Montreal.
Saturday morning we met Chris at The Place to Be Diner in Lakewood, OH and delivered some books. Karen and Max had their REAL corned beef hash, and we got underway for Detroit. We got to Birmingham, MI to Cie and Dave's place around one and had a BBQ in the afternoon with Cie, Marcus, Elaina, me, Max, Karen, Luca, Austin, Michael, and Evada. Fun stuff. Then it was off to the ball game. Jeff Weaver pitched his last game in Detroit before becoming a Yankee and the Tigers won a real pitcher's duel. We had GREAT seats by home plate, thanks to Luca and Cie and then his the Town Pump for beers as well as Hockey town USA for chicken fingers after the game.
Sunday was Cedar Point. We got up a bit late and met Austin and Michael there (Cie and the kids were late getting on the road and didn't make it). Anyway...awesome! Rode all of the fun coasters, skipped Mantis, but got to Millenium Force twice...definately the best one. And than God it was Sunday...everyone was in church and the lines were short! Hopefully I can get the photos up.

Anyway, if you missed it...you missed it. Better be there next year.