no pics for awhile

i loving living near the northeast, if for no other reason, the public transportation. last friday, we headed up to philly to see mpg and ms. mpg. made the train by two minutes, literally, as our cab never showed up to take us to the train station. fifteen minutes past the pick up time, i call the cab company. i'm put on hold forever, so i hang up and try again. now they tell me that the cab will be there in a few minutes. ten more minutes go by. no cab. i call the cab company. this time, the cab is stuck in traffic. i am freaking pissed at this point. i ask the agent, "when were you planning on telling me that my cab was going to be 30 minutes late?" she says that she is telling me right now. the fact is, i never would have known what was happening if i had not been so persistent in calling them.

so we ditch the cab and drive to the metro station. we can't find any non-metered parking the deck. thankfully, it turns out that the meters don't need to be fed during the weekend. however, dr. wintermute doesn't get back until monday afternoon. shitballz. at this point, if we don't leave the car, we don't make the train, and there's a domino effect to our weekend. the risk turns out to be a smart gamble, as the car is still there when dr. comes back monday morning.

mad dash to the metro. it is now 5:50. our train for philly leaves at 6:10. fourteen minutes from silver spring to union station. sprint into the amtrack platform.

we're on the train at 6:08. whew.

hang out in philly, which is a lot of fun. watch the sox blow a six run lead to yanks. uggh. it's always great to hang out with mpg and his lady. they're my closest cousins (and i have a lot of close cousins on my dad's sides). dr. w and i spent a lot of time with them during the boston years, and have taken a bunch of trips (including key west and arizona). now it's great to be a two hour train ride away.

spend the weekend in ny, hanging with fam, catch a good slice of roma pizza at my old stomping grounds on the upper east. we also stop by my old place and then head to alphabet city. great meal, thanks to my cousin's recommendation. by the way, what is up with nyc restaurants demanding cash only? i ran into several places with that policy. also hit moma. i've never been a big art museum person, but this one was a lot of fun. they had some very iconic works, including 'starry night' and warhol's soup cans.

sunday was the wedding in tribeca. trevesie, one of my closest friends from the big h and all around drinking buddy (i like to think of him as lando to my luke skywalker) was getting married. it was a big h fest--probably 20 or so folks from my class. best of all, nobf and dr. nobf were there. they just had a munchkin, who was staying with dr. nobf's parents in nj. some pretty good toasts, though i think citations of las vegas strippers and how trevesie lost his virginity at boarding school made him sweat a bit. dr. w whispered that she was glad that my brother's toast did not include any of those things. i replied that since i was saving myself for marriage, she would have had nothing to worry about. anyway, the wedding itself was on the rooftop with some amazing scenery.

i don't have any pics to share, though, because i left my camera in the cab. ugghh.

anyway, flew to atlanta on monday; dr. w heads back on the train to dc. moe and i hit metalsome monday. highlights includes war pigs, sex type thing, and pantera's walk.

a few days in atlanta with the six sigma enigma and his family (who are nice enough to let me board with them whenever i'm in atlanta). now back in dc.

tonight, heading out in cleveland park with the chief and chief chick.