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PLANE CRAZY

Posted on August 30, 2015 by xaviertrevino

I did a bunch of stuff in the past ten days, including getting a learner’s permit to learn to drive, (a skill I must refine) and filing papers to start my own small business, Fix-It-X. Next come the tax and … Continue reading →

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HAVE PUMP, WILL TRAVEL

Posted on August 25, 2015 by xaviertrevino

When we moved here to Harlem last year Danusia bought a bike right away. It was a used ten-speed, probably 40 or so years old that she bought from a bike shop on Amsterdam Avenue up a ways in Washington … Continue reading →

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AIR CONDITIONING

Posted on August 22, 2015 by xaviertrevino

A couple of weeks ago I did a job for a fairly famous young photographer who lives and works in a studio downtown. I knew he was a photographer and had heard he was well known, but to me he … Continue reading →

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HUNTING THE FLEA

Posted on August 15, 2015 by xaviertrevino

Only in New York can you go from hunting the whale to hunting the flea in a week. Actually, the flea hunt started some time ago, if you read this blog you’ll know about it, if you don’t here’s a … Continue reading →

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HUNTING THE WHALE

Posted on August 9, 2015 by xaviertrevino

I spent Monday and Tuesday nights on Nantucket last week. I wouldn’t have been able to do that if it hadn’t been for my lovely wife, Danusia. She’d been asked to perform one of her stories at a MOTH Main … Continue reading →

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ACROSS THE RIVER

Posted on August 2, 2015 by xaviertrevino

Last week we went to a barbecue at the home of a couple we are friends with in Long Island City. The building they live in has a sort of rooftop patio on the 32nd floor. It’s actually not the … Continue reading →

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TO FLEA OR NOT TO FLEA

Posted on July 30, 2015 by xaviertrevino

That is the question. We did some cat sitting in the Rockaways a few weeks ago, and we came back to Harlem with some little unwelcome guests in tow. Fleas. I remember when we were there, at my friend’s cottage … Continue reading →

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WHERE’S THE W.C.?

Posted on July 25, 2015 by xaviertrevino

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know I have BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia. That means that for me, the location of the exits in a theater is not as important as the location of the … Continue reading →

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RESTRICTED AREA

Posted on July 19, 2015 by xaviertrevino

We spent the last week of June and the first 12 days of this month in Rockaway Park. Or the stop that says Playland, I don’t know why it’s called Playland since the only Playland I could find was a … Continue reading →

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JUICERS

Posted on July 14, 2015 by xaviertrevino

We have a new addition to our family of glass-plastic-steel electric kitchen gadgets. The OMEGA: I think I bought a juice once, at Jamba juice years ago because a woman I was dating was having one and I wanted to, … Continue reading →

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