9/22 - 9/24 - Shopping in NJ by Day until the Night Comes...

Friday I got home and watched TV through dinner. Those "To catch a predator" are always interesting but you wonder just how many stupid people there are out there. You would think they wouldn't just look for young looking girls and not go the illegal route and drive for hours to do the wrong thing. But now they have a record and got the punishment they deserved. If they are going to keep being stupid, I guess I will enjoy watching their dumb asses get locked up. I even went to bed by 1am. A nice early Friday with nothing to do but sleep.

Going to bed early on Friday means that I wake up far too early on a Saturday with nothing to do but get the days shopping out of the way nice and early. Delivery breakfast of eggs and bacon and then it was downstairs to the Murano and heading over to NJ for the less hectic and more easily navigated lower priced Target in NJ rather than the raucous and usually packed Target in downtown Brooklyn. The traffic was pretty light through the Battery Tunnel and then up the west side to the Holland Tunnel. Once in NJ we took the long way around but ended up at Target in short order and headed inside to buy soda, paper goods, more greenery for the house and I finally picked up my black Nintendo DS Lite. Once finished there it was over to Boys, Bitches and Beyond to pick up toothbrushes, pillows and random housewares. After the shopping was over it was back to Brooklyn where it was time to chill through the afternoon and play with the DS for a bit before nightfall and it was time to order dinner. Chicken Caesar salad around 8pm and watching "Cops" until 9pm and then it was time to cut the hair and freshen up before 10 and then get dressed and ready to head out. Lights, laser and Vaam, along with Keys, Wallet and Cellphone, and always mints, Purell, lip balm and Visine (Thank goodness for cargo pants). Down to the Murano and on into the city.

Russ and I drove into the city through moderate traffic from Brooklyn to Downtown Manhattan. Up the west side and through the usual parking areas but nothing was available so we parked at the parking lot with the lifts next to 20th Street. We walked down to the club, said hello to Doorman Derek and the security posse and headed inside Roxy. Once inside I said hello to Aisha and then headed over to the bar. It was a busy night but the crowd was slowly coming in to hear DJ Chad Jack. The line outside was pretty long but I expected everyone to make it inside to the party before too much time passed. DJ Chad Jack I expected to do something new and impressive and he was definitely on point staying away from to much Electro-House and killing the party too soon like some DJs have done recently but instead set the tone well with Offer Nissim and "First Time" and later on in the evening more Offer and "Be My Boyfriend". We hung out with Rick and Shawn and later on Rob and Tres who told us they had hung out the night before at Splash so I was very happy they decided to come out once again. My bartender Jose kept us in the drinks even though Russ was having Grey Goose martinis instead of the regular Ketel and cranberry but we were still having a good time far into the night as I was having far too good a time dancing on the dancefloor and various boxes to leave at 4am. We stayed until 4:35 and said goodnight to the party and headed home happy. The party was well handled, upbeat and everyone stayed late and later.

Sunday I awoke far too early for some reason and finished off my trance CD "Descent in 2 Glory" and enjoyed breakfast before football came on and then as the afternoon wore on I had to take a 1 hour nap before I woke up and watched the rest of the games. Football on Fox is a lot better than football on CBS which is kind of dull by comparison but at least they are both broadcast in HD. Finally around the the time that 60 minutes was coming on and the interviews with Condi Rice was going to come on and talk about her childhood and her current views on world affairs. The parts that were interesting were the basis for her belief system and why she is doing her part in the government as is. Anyway I DVRd the rest of the evening programming on Fox (all the cartoons, nothing else) and then we watched "The Wire" and then the comedy half-hour on HBO. Sunday drew to a nice peaceful close and we look forward to the week and next weekend. What's doin?