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The work week has ended and tomorrow Riverdale Restaurant Week begins! Robin and I have tentative plans to hit around 4-5 local places over the next week, then maybe we'll be able to taste the difference between different onions:

Via Laughing Squid.

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A very rewarding day, as a lot of my fellow exec assistants and I attended an appreciation lunch and I got to catch up with a whole bunch of folks in this almost-post-pandemic era. The commute home was a bit of a crunch, it always seems to be on a Thursday, or maybe I just need a day off or two. And really, in The Greatest City in the World (TM and C), where you can find easy entertainment like watching a guy in a park eat a jar of cheese balls, there seems to be little excuse other than the usual allergies.

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White Rabbits, and happy Mayday! Lovely day at work, but I didn't go out to lunch as I scored a free one from one of our conference rooms when I was up on my old floor attending an event. Had a nice full plate at the office again, and a decent commute. However, I saw no clever street art so I'll have to get out more.

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And that's a wrap on April, as I finished expense reports and had a farewell "happy retirement" lunch with the woman who initially hired me 16+ years ago at Rothstein Kass, a half dozen years before it was bought up by KPMG. So really, I owe my current career to her. Plus, she gave us Zed, who showed up in my Facebook feed this morning causing a bit of a pang. But the lunch was wonderful, I got two of the folks I support in offices right opposite my workstation so it almost felt like old times, and even the commute home was pleasant (my usual driver was in training mode so I got to schmooze with two bus operators). All ready to leap into May, provided I have my Astepro. I bet they don't have allergies in The Shire...

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Busy day, as we were told to get in month-end timesheets today rather than tomorrow, so it gave me something to do while Robin went into Manhattan for a medical appointment. But he's back now, the laptop is packed up to take to work tomorrow, and I'm relaxing in a nicely air-conditioned apartment. Now that the busy-ness is all over I'm not even bothered by these photos.

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I wanted to keep my wits about me as much as possible today, looking for signs that Robin might need additional seeing to, but all appears okay aside from some puffiness around his right eye, so I'm guessing it's just bruising and we're okay. I can't help flashing back to my knee taking the brunt of that tumble a few years back, but everything heals in time, so I'm hoping Robin's mishap is just a bad memory in no time, unlike the unforgettable seagull screeching contest in Europe after which I'm sure many folks have ongoing nightmares. Neither of us was in shape to go anywhere on this beautiful day, so we stayed inside and enjoyed the mostly-quiet neighborhood, some English football and (for me) American baseball where both NY teams won, and I even got a bit of reading done before jumping into the work week tomorrow.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of... well, starting with the good news, we ventured out to Scarsdale today to lunch at the newest branch of Kura, the revolving sushi franchise. And it was beyond wonderful. The only bad bit was the soy sauce bowls, almost impossible to pour from (we had to basically turn them upside down and keep pressing a little button to make it come out in dribs and drabs). But the food was superb, the conveyor belt mechanism really well thought out, and that they've pretty much figured out how to do this in a post-COVID world amazed me. Great lunch, and we'll be back plenty of times as there's also a Super ShopRite in the same strip mall, so we can get our shopping and repast done at the same time. The more sobering news is that Robin took a bit of a tumble bringing a case of water up the steps. His eyeglasses are miraculously still working despite taking the brunt of it, his forehead and eyebrow region got a bit bloody and bruised, and we're keeping a close eye on things to make sure the damage is only surface. Definitely staying in the rest of the weekend! Wish we'd had more safety warning signs like these displayed on Neil Gaiman's blog.

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Due to it being Administrative Professionals Week, our leadership gave exec assistants two hours off this week, and most of us opted to take them today to end the workday early. I kept my laptop on during that time in case of emergency, as the EA for whom I'm the backup took the time off as well and I knew I wasn't doing more than relaxing in the living room and hoping my neck gets better (taking a day off of exercising after the neck hurt pretty badly in the night and I had to sleep with the neck pillow). One of my partners called to let me know she's thanking me for Admin Pro Day by Venmo'ing me enough money to enjoy a sushi lunch with Robin and, not coincidentally, we plan on visiting a just-opened conveyor belt sushi place in Scarsdale tomorrow. I'm not sure of their tipping procedure yet, but as long as it's not this:

Via Laughing Squid. Please stores, just pay your workers more so this is no longer an issue.

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Crazy commute home, as the President was apparently in Manhattan so midtown east streets were blocked off and I grabbed the first homeward bound bus I could. Fortunately I'd exited the office a few minutes earlier than usual and didn't have long to wait to get out of the morass. Unfortunately the ride, and the preceding two commuting days, was a bit hard on my neck despite the exercises I've been doing. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm going to have one-step-forward, two-steps-back days, and This Too Shall Pass. Speaking of stepping:

Via Laughing Squid.

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Happy Administrative Professionals Day (APD) or, as we used to call it when it started, Secretaries Day. I got a couple hundred in cash and gift cards from two of my partners, another took me out to a lovely sushi lunch, and one of the financial service sectors I've supported for the past half dozen years got me lovely flowers (roses and sunflowers!) and sugar-free chocolates. Plus tons of folks wrote nice things about me, and I was able to help and be helped by fellow admins, so it was a good day all around. Unfortunately my neck has gotten worse, possibly due to tension. Maybe I need a relaxing day-trip vacay to a spa. Or maybe I just need a Mongolian throat-singing heavy metal band.