I began the week by having a cup of coffee at Small World with Sue Turk.

A few days later, I went to New York for the Sloan meeting and stayed in this room and said good bye to the Today Show people who were live around the corner before heading to the meeting.

After the meeting, We went to dinner at A Voce where this was my appetizer and those of the others before my main course and everyone else's came so that Ed Sarah Suzanne and I could enjoy our dinner and then the coffee that needed this sugar before we dug into dessert and then went out and braved the cold making our way to Reed Elsevier and in past the journals through the corridor to Sarah's cubicle with its decorations and the new calendars and we admired her neighbors before heading out into the streets to enjoy the Xmas windows at Lord and Taylor as we had the year before

with a small break for the Salvation Army man and then back to windows

before we headed to the Algonquin in the correct bar and then were back out to Saks Fifth Avenue to see their windows

with a distant view of THE tree and then the final windows before we made our way tot he tree as Suzanne got ready to admire the skaters.

The next morning, we left our hotel and took the subway south to where we could catch the L train to Bedford Avenue so that we could walk the streets of Williamsburg to the apartment where we were greeted by Sarah before we came in and were greeted by Ed as we admired the map of his travels the surviving rubber tree plant with the nice window dressing and Ed's posters the clock and the kitchen.

Next, we took to the streets and made our way to this diner across from Der Yid but when it was closed, we headed to another closed diner before walking back past these interesting anti-smoking murals

and past the frozen water for pets and PS 84 Magnet School for the Visual Arts (maybe they made the mural?) walking on by another mural to Sparky's before we settled in at Juliette for our brunch of coffee juice and some well presented egg dishes that amused Ed and Sarah as this plate amused Suzanne as I took this self portrait before we ended our meal and made a mad scramble (not eggs) for the train home.

The next day, we went to the concert of Ben's Klezmer band