Bonds (see my previous post) has decided I am not to see his nome runs. A few hours after my post he hit 755, and on Tuesday, also a few hours before I landed in the US, number 756. And on Wednesday, while I was sleeping all jet lagged, number 757. Looks like a Boeing plane.
Yet again, I wouldn't have been able to see them because I still don't have a TV. I want to get one today, I am planning to get a TV tuner for my computer. My triangular apartment has cable TV, with my favorite channel (ESPN). Let's see how it works. Can't wait to see SportsCenter, [ta-da-da ta-da-da].
Friday, August 10, 2007
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Time zones
Just a little post about the time zone. The blog will post a time on a particular time zone, so I decided to leave the blog time in Spanish time. However, when I mention the time in the blog, it will be always my time, and I want to avoid at all cost that stupid "it's 8:00 New York time, which is 14:00 in Spain".
So you'll see that in this post, which I write about 7:45 am New York time [about 8:00am for the English version], the blog will show 13:45 [14:00 here]. It will be always like this, blog time is Spanish time, and the one I mention is New York time.
[Also, I have decided to put inside brackets and in smaller font all the text that is exclusive of the English version, so as to distinguish it from the rest.]
So you'll see that in this post, which I write about 7:45 am New York time [about 8:00am for the English version], the blog will show 13:45 [14:00 here]. It will be always like this, blog time is Spanish time, and the one I mention is New York time.
[Also, I have decided to put inside brackets and in smaller font all the text that is exclusive of the English version, so as to distinguish it from the rest.]
Sunrise
It had been a long time since I saw the sun rise. And my window has eastern exposure, so I could see the sun rise directly from my desk. As expected, I woke up at 5, when it was still dark but barely, and light soon started to show up in my window.
My window overlooks a park (St. Nicholas Park) so I have a green view, except for a building at the other side of the park and which eats half of the view, a building not too tall for New York, it only has 20 stories :). I will post a picture when I can, but right now it's very sunny and we wouldn't see anything with a picture against the sun. Let's see if I remember to take it in the evening.
My apartment is small and so far not too cozy, because furniture is not great, and besides the furniture, there's nothing else. Nothing, no lamps, no pictures in the walls, not even plates in the kitchen. So my first task today is going shopping to Target, one of my favorite stores, and buy some basic things. Besides all that, the apartment has a feature that makes it curious but strange. It is triangular. It has two perpendicular walls and a third one diagonally, which limits a lot the distribution possibilities, for instance, the only possibility for the bed is the perpendicular corner. But it will do, it's got charisma, and when it's a little set up it will look good. I will post pictures when it looks a little better than now.
Yesterday, as I was telling you, I went to get something to eat, and I stopped at the corner of the 125th and the Frederick Douglass Blvd. (8th Ave). So to give you an idea, from here to there (just three blocks) I saw three hairdressing stores advertising African braiding. At 6pm there was a lot of people in the street, just hanging out, having take-out dinner, or drinking beer. I love that the neighborhood has street life.
My window overlooks a park (St. Nicholas Park) so I have a green view, except for a building at the other side of the park and which eats half of the view, a building not too tall for New York, it only has 20 stories :). I will post a picture when I can, but right now it's very sunny and we wouldn't see anything with a picture against the sun. Let's see if I remember to take it in the evening.
My apartment is small and so far not too cozy, because furniture is not great, and besides the furniture, there's nothing else. Nothing, no lamps, no pictures in the walls, not even plates in the kitchen. So my first task today is going shopping to Target, one of my favorite stores, and buy some basic things. Besides all that, the apartment has a feature that makes it curious but strange. It is triangular. It has two perpendicular walls and a third one diagonally, which limits a lot the distribution possibilities, for instance, the only possibility for the bed is the perpendicular corner. But it will do, it's got charisma, and when it's a little set up it will look good. I will post pictures when it looks a little better than now.
Yesterday, as I was telling you, I went to get something to eat, and I stopped at the corner of the 125th and the Frederick Douglass Blvd. (8th Ave). So to give you an idea, from here to there (just three blocks) I saw three hairdressing stores advertising African braiding. At 6pm there was a lot of people in the street, just hanging out, having take-out dinner, or drinking beer. I love that the neighborhood has street life.
Harlem!
I'm in Harlem! Plane arrived with no problems, the line at Immigration was incredibly long, but after that everything went smoothly, and at 4:30 I was already in my new apartment. I went emergency grocery shopping and I could start catching the neighborhood atmosphere. It's unbelievable. I'll tell you later, 'cause now it's 8pm, I'm totally beat, and I'm gonna go to bed pretty soon. I imagine, as it happens every time I arrive in America, that I will be getting up around 5am for a few days, so I will start blogging seriously tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Ready to go
There you go. Tomorrow morning, early, if all goes well, I leave. My plane to Geneva is at 9am, and the arrival to New York is scheduled for 2:30pm NY time, that is 8:30pm Barcelona time. Today was the day of the last preparations, finishing the bags (none of them over 40 pounds, good), and straighten up the house, cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom, emptying the fridge, and so on. Well! After the long wait, the big moment arrives. If all goes well, the next post will be from Harlem!
The heading picture
The picture in the heading of the blog, just under the name "noches de Harlem" [in the Spanish version] is part of a picture I took the first time I visited New York, in February 1992. It's taken from South to North, from one of the vanished World Trade Center Towers, where you can see the other tower and the Manhattan skyline. Harlem is farther North. I love this picture, especially with the grey sky. Right in the middle you can see the Empire State Building, and right next to it you see Fifth Avenue. Tomorrow I will be able to take a walk on it...
It's a scan of a paper picture (yes, that old fashioned thing we used to do). I don't have the paper original, it probably got thrown away in one of my monster cleanings, probably during a move.
It's a scan of a paper picture (yes, that old fashioned thing we used to do). I don't have the paper original, it probably got thrown away in one of my monster cleanings, probably during a move.
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