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Chrysler Building At Sunset Originally uploaded by cmcnulty2000 . Devin, Nate and I were in NYC as part of vacation week. Earileir in the day, we'd been to the Visionaire gallery in Soho to see an exhibit on flavor and art. I'm used to hearing about art from my wife, but my 11 year old daughter? (Well, it was the always au courant Weekly Reader.) Anyway, this was taken right at susnet, 23 February 2006, just as the city lights were coming on...

Northern State Originally uploaded by cmcnulty2000 . I miss these old streetlights. I found this photo somewhere on the web (I don't remember exactly where.) When I was a kid growing up on Long Island, the Expressway didn' have lights east of the Nassau-Queens line, but the Northern State Parkway was lit up all the way home. Anyway, although its a high speed limited access freeway, it had these quaint lamp poles. (Probably not so quaint if you hit one!) Today, the Northern State still has landscaping and stone-faced overpasses, but these lights are almost all gone...

For a Patriots fan, I guess its time to rest up. Seriously, I'm not accustomed to this much calm and quiet for the first weekend in February. By the way, Commissioner Taglibue, can we do something about the timing of the season? The Super Bowl used to be just after the holidays, but it keeps slipping later each year to line up better with cold weather Sundays, for maximum indoor TV viewership. Is it going to start running into baseball spring training? Other than user Madden 2006 to simulate a Pats-Seahaks Super Bowl, not much doing this weekend. Pittsburgh-New England is supposed to be one of the NFL's new hot rivalries, and I have a hard time warming up to the Seahawks, although I love the city. Well, its in Detroit, so let's stay with another Rust Belt city -- Steelers 17, Seahawks 13.