Back-To-Work Monday

Monday==>Well, it is a beautiful early Fall morning on this Back-To-Work Monday here in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World ... azure blue skies with a temperature of 60º at 11:00am.

Yes, your favorite blogger understands that for all of his Worker Bee friends today is the beginning of yet another week of drudgery, boredom and angst ... but ... remember ... Worker Bees are Worker Bees and this is your fate. It has been so for the past and will be so for the future, into eternity ... so ... just live with it ... you ain’t got no choice ... jus sayin.

Now, on a more pleasant note ...

Yesterday, I had a nice early dinner with my theater-buddies Dian Crystal aka My Lady and Marty Kosarik aka Whatever at our favorite Ethiopian restaurant, Meske, on West 47th Street in my Hell’s Kitchen ‘hood.

I hadn’t been with them since our surprise birthday party for Marty back on September 10th, so we had a lot of catching up to do.

We had our usual fare, the vegetarian platter. It was awesome, as usual

My Lady and Whatever had just seen the matinee performance of the Off Broadway show LADY DAY - “Dee Dee Bridgewater brings the essence and spirit of the late, great Billie Holiday to the stage” - the show I had scheduled for the evening. They had been less than impressed.

Well, my loyal and faithful readers and followers ... Billi Pod’s report card is==>C+. 

The show needs some serious trimming of its 2:00, with intermission, running time. While the songs, as performed by Bridgewater, are good, the recurring theme of ... please feel sorry for me even though I am a thief, a drunk and a drug-addict ... gets old after awhile.

Act II, which is basically Billie, drunk, on stage at a London concert, is much better than Act I, which is Billie in rehearsal and in denial.

So ... Billi Pod says==>you are sorta warned.

Moving on ...

Tonight’s entertainment event is a staged reading ...

7:00==>THE DIAMOND DIARIES - “A comedy starring Joyce Van Patten about a diamond the size of a chicken egg that was smuggled from Africa. It has gone missing and no one knows who has it or where it is hidden.” (reading - complimentary ticket)

This is being performed at the Theater Row Complex on my block.

Now, on to some sports ...

Yesterday afternoon, out at Yankee Stadium, The House That Greed And Ego Built, there was a very emotional and dramatic pre-game Farewell Ceremony honoring the retiring Mariano Rivera.

Present, among others, were former teammates, Jackie Robinson’s family (Mo wears #42) and the rock band Metallica, who played “Enter Sandman” as Mo left the bullpen area and walked to the ceremony.

Mo, the son of a Panamanian fisherman, made his big league debut in 1995. He spoke for more than six minutes on a beautiful autumn afternoon. He finished his speech apparently eager to shift the spotlight off himself and back to his team by saying==>"Let's play ball."

And the game began ... 

Andy Pettitte, who is also retiring at the end of the season, pitched an excellent game, giving up only 2 runs on 2 hits in 7 innings. Unfortunately for Andy, once again The Wankie bats were not to be found and The Giants won 2-1.

With this loss The Wankies are virtually out of the wild-card race. Yes ... technically they still have a chance but it would take a set of circumstances almost apocalyptic in nature for it to come about. Jus sayin ...

The Wankies have the day off and then will have 3 home games against Tampa Bay and 3 away games @ Houston.

Oh well ... on this happy note it is time to post this and then begin work on my weekly errands and chores list.

Dammit ... last week was the worst walking week since I began recording on my WeightWatchers Pedometer back on July 1, 2012. My bad ...

Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>1.61 miles (or, 3,526 steps)

Total mileage for the week==>14.58 miles (average 2.08 miles per day)

Total mileage since 7/1/13==>298.73 miles (average 3.56 miles per day)

GO YANKEES!! GO GATORS!!   

Billi Pod

“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”