Matt Hobbs

Pain. Nausea. Bad hair. Vodka, you are not my friend. Oh, how can I stay mad at you – come here you cute little clear fluid… A good night was head by all in honor of my new chum Tim, another Brit who I met at the Williamsburg party a few weeks ago. Tim didn’t quite make it to the final destination of Max Fish but was well placed to cause havoc and mayhem to all who crossed his path. Bless.

More worrying is the fact that my roof is now dripping water due to the first serious deluge in New York for a while. Come back snow! It’s been sunny all week and I’ve been stuck in an office (aside from some enjoyable midtown romps to sit by the Javitz Center) and now the weekend is here and it rains. Oy vey. Luckily my roof is not leaking onto anything useful and perishable.

Yey – fitted in another day of snowboarding before the end of the east coast season. Hunter mountain was the venue courtesy of Blades on the upper west. Snow was kinda slushy which made it fun but managed to pick up some good turning practice in my lesson and even went down the slope faster than my usual crawl. Next stop, 360 jumps, etc…

Note to self for next time though – don’t go out partying until 4.30am the night before you get up at 5.45am to catch a 6.30am coach… Apologies to Tully for waking him up when I staggered in to Stevie’s! The party fun was provided by the ever hospitable Alan in sunny Cobble Hill. Alan’s an illustrator for Penguin who has some superb paintings around his house – don’t know any links though… Which raises the question of when I should be planning my house warming party for. I keep thinking of this weekend before I get any proper furniture in to trash. More as it happens.

Riight.. two weeks in Williamsburg and my first major commute meltdown. Today the Union Square Station L line was closed due to a broken water main. This meant having to go on the L to Lorimar, get the G to 23rd and the F into town. Potentially exactly the same time to do this as the normal L to Union, N/R to 33rd.. apart from the fact that 20 gaz-illion other B&T-ers were trying to use the same route. One and a half hours later I arrived – not too fried – at ClubMom where I’m currently working.

Can’t wait until I get used to the commute properly – I’m constantly whacked at the moment since I still adhere to my ‘stay up till 1am watching crap on TV then get up at 9 to walk 3 blocks to office’ mentality. Looking forward to my first bike ride across Williamsburg bridge (which would have been good today) now that Carter’s told me the way…

Now blogger seems to be working – there are a few formatting thangs to iron out and I was hoping to do a cool date thing but I’ll check into that. It’s so easy to post that the benefits are definately outweighing the downs at the moment.

So anyhoo – the main thing that has happened recently is my transition from Manhatten to Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Yep, Elvis has left the island. Now I live life on the L line – Metropolitan station to be exact. The views back over the island are amazing, especially when the cloud comes down. More importantly though – I have space – the dream of all urban dwellers with limited budgets. Now I’m just adjusting my life patterns to fit in with an extended commute – the best thing about this is that I’m now reading so much more – flip side is that I haven’t been to yoga for 4 weeks now due to apartment hunting…

…ps, just remembered – today is my 27 and a half birthday – scary sox…

I’m moving the diary functionality on this page over to blogger. This is a v-cool site that was set up to allow people to log their travels around the web with the minimum of hassles. Got the link from barbelith as usual, my fave venue for all things webbie.

So hopefully this means that things will be kept more up to date on the site – or maybe it will just mean I’ve got one more thing to play around and distract myself with. Aye carumba! Back in the old days when my Atari 529ST was the height of technology things seemed bad enough…