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Several days without posting, and the main reason being (besides busy at work) that we had to move out of the apartment on Wed so that the contract could refinish the living room, dining room and entry way floors. We slept 2 nights at my other place on 35th street, came back Saturday morning. The floors looks great, shiny and nice, big improvement.

Last night we met a large group from work at Whisky Park, a bar on 2nd ave and 31st, it was James' birthday. Good times, we stayed there for a bit, then got hungry and had dinner at Les Halles.

Yesterday and today it got chilly again, boo. Seemed like the weather was getting better but no luck, still unpleasantly cold on the streets. Annoying, it feels like it's been winter for 6 months now

I spent a good part of the day moving the furniture back into the living room (had to remove everything for the refinishing) and rehooking up the cable boxes, tv, server, wi-fi, received, etc. Then we went to the Apple store in MeatPacking in the evening to buy an iPhone 3G. It was not crowded at all. We went through the process of transferring my account, etc. and before I walked out the iPhone was up and running. It was all good, the only annoying thing is how intrusive the process is (they as you for your email like 4 different times, they force you to have an AppleID, etc.)

After that we headed to Fig and Olive on 13th street where we had some appetizers and a drink, then walked home.

Also, we had somebody come in a clean the windows, they were super dirty because of all the construction work, and they required somebody to get half way on the ledge to clean them. It went fine, took the guy a long time, but he did do all 13 windows in the place. It was kind of pricy, I wasn't expecting it, they charged us $10 per window (!)