UMTravels

Arrived at 10am for the 11am ferry —barely. Lots of Prioirty Loading trucks and buses. Advantange of being small, the center lane. At least I got off early.

Back in the city with a Woody’s dog on the way. Dinner tonight with Jimmy and Suze — and Chris since he’s in the apartment. Rum tasting — five different rums that I brought back from Puerto Rico. Big Fun.

Move the big TV into the apartment, surprise Chris, get combo VCR/DVD hookied up, go shopping for HDTV antenna, still needs tuning, but a beautiful fall from the apartment — view is looking south and east towards the Amazon headquarters which is the big building on the horizen.

Great dinner — early, 6:30, Jimmy has an early day in the morning, bottling 20 gallons of wine tomorrow.

Dinner is roasted Hubbard Squash, a salad that Jimmy is bringing, and broiled Black Cod that has been marinated in sake lees (the leftovers from the sake making process). A damn fine dinner complimented with a nice bottle of Italian red. It all sits nicely on all the rum we had before dinner.

Five different rums, three from Barcardi: the eight year old, the reserva, and the reserva limited ($70 a bottle). The other two are a Reserva Aneja and a Ron del Barrilito. These are all rums I picked up on the trip to Puerto Rico a couple of weeks ago.

Early night for me, too, but ended up watching South Park on the only Hi-Definition signal we get so far (need to noodle with the antenna)