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The post-work early evening hours brought dinner and drinks at Bonefish with Page and birthday girl Laura Dec, who is now 24 and entering her 25th year, as I so tactfully confirmed during the toast.

Last night I was cordially invited by the amazing Ms. Carrie to be a volunteer photographer at JDRF’s “Palm Night” a fund raiser for juvenile diabetes… hosted by FCC Chairman Michael Powell and his wife and emcee’d by Sam Donaldson — one would think Sam Donaldson is a stuffy curmudgeon but he was definitely the [...]

I spent 5 hours last night cleaning and packing up last night — I ended the evening being a big stinky sweatball. On my curb sits boxes and boxes of crap. If you’re in the area, feel free to take some of my crap home if the trash guys don’t get it first. Among the [...]

From the “I’m Too F’ing Busy Today To Think Of Something Clever” File:
On this day in 1901: The Mercedes was introduced by Gottlieb Daimler at the five-day “Week of Nice”
in Nice, France. The car, driven by Willhelm Werner, dominated the events at the
competition. Mercedes cars were conceived at the same venue in Nice two years
earlier. [...]

Haiku:
Whiskey hurts my brain.As do most hard liquor drinks.I have a headache.
I spent the evening at a steakhouse for a client’s dinner. I really should’ve been moving and doing work work, but you can’t really beat free steak & whiskey.
That big vein in my forehead is throbbing from thinking too much — I have 2,742 [...]

So the guy that invented the PowerBar died of a heart attack. Meanwhile Ben & Jerry are living very comfortable lives.

You’d think it’d be kinda warm in NYC in late March. Nuh-uh. It’s a bit blustery — and by a bit, I mean a lot. After returning for coats to venture for our last day in NYC, Carrie & I picked up some lunch and had a lil’ picnic in Central Park. Then meandered throughout [...]

Friday morning, went off to the Barking Dog, a dog-themed foodery with a very yum and decently priced breakfast. Then off to the Met, Central Park, window shopping, shivering in the brisk NYC wind and warming up in a theatre to see “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” — 9.7 out of 10 Zaps … [...]

Arrived safely in NYC.. about 30 mins later than we wanted, but whatev. A very comfortable ride on Amtrak. I fell asleep during ‘Less Than Zero’ and Carrie told me Robert Downey, Jr. died at the end. Huh.
It’s way too late, we left DC about 5 hrs ago.. s’almost 2 now. Going to bed [...]

You’ll notice there was no entry for March 17. That’s because mz.com was having a day of silence for St. Patrick and the uh, shamrock– uhm.. Actually, I was just busy as a mofo. Sorry. But I’m going to NYC tonight with Carrie and will be having special weekend updates of mz.com so stay tuned.
There’s [...]