If you have been reading my blog regularly (hi Mom!) then you may know that my laptop died a horrible death just before I came to New York.  It was very bad timing, and I was kind of freaking out about it.  This blog entry is a tribute to my wonderful friends, who are the […]

The first beer I ever had was at a frat party in college. It came out of a cheap keg, and it tasted the way I imagined pig urine would taste. I had two sips and quickly put my red plastic cup down on a bookshelf and went looking for something else to cleanse my […]

So last night I went out for a few beers with some folks from the opera. Except there was one problem: I don’t drink. The first question I got was “oh, are you a Mormon?” When I told them that I was not, they struggled to understand why I don’t drink. And my answer (I […]

So google has this new thing out called Google Scribe. It takes auto-complete to a whole new level. Scribe purports to know what you are thinking and will fill in whole words and phrases based on what you have previously typed. You can play with it yourself here: http://scribe.googlelabs.com/ Now personally, I often find auto-complete […]

Things I have seen this week: 1) A man sitting on the street with a sign that said “Hungry Jew,” yelling “Shalom!  Hey, how bout some food!?  Shalom!” 2) A woman going down on a guy in a car parked outside the apartment I am staying in.  The car was pulled about half over, and half […]

I got paid today! Well, I got a per diem check anyway. This is good, as I only had $7 left, and I’m hungry. I went straight to my trusty Suntrust ATM that I had used last year, so I could deposit my check. But it wasn’t there. I tried to locate an ATM online, […]

So I have now had two days of rehearsals here in New York City.  I’m a cover, which, for those of you not in the know, is basically an understudy.  What it means for rehearsals is that I sit behind the people who are singing, and listen.  I follow along in my score to make […]

I don’t think he made his connecting flight. But who knows? Maybe they held the plane for him. At any rate, I had finally made it to New York. Now I just had to figure out how to get from LaGuardia to my wife’s uncle’s apartment in Manhattan. I looked up the bus and subway […]

I’m on a plane. A very small plane. The kind you have to walk across the runway to. The kind that holds fewer passengers than the city bus. The kind that could be mistaken for a mosquito or other small bug. They just told us that we’re going to be held on the runway for […]