Monday, July 14: Bastille day and Elephants 🐘

Good morning everyone. Do you hear that sound neither do I I just made that up. Anyhow I got up this morning in old Millbourne. I was kind of jumpy during

 my sleep so I didn’t sleep that great even though it was pretty comfortable. I decided that I go straight to Mike’s. I took the EL and the Broad Street subway got

 the Mike’s around 8:45 AM. Kennedy then visited from Medicaid. She talked to Mike and her husband and her are going to Seattle. 

Anyhow, Mike’s gonna try to get an extension on his law license renewal. I’m gonna meet Mary at the café and bring back something from CVS for Mike. Isn’t that adorable, 

Trump’s going to send a D Ukraine through NATO who he loves now because they kissed his ass, because he’s mad at Putin. Well, all I can say is that’s a positive

 thing because Russia really sucks.Trump to send Ukraine weapons through NATO, threatens secondary tariffs on Russia. Anyhow, I went to Mary’s and hung out at the café and went back

 to her place and hung out and she told me our flight is a week from tomorrow. I was completely surprised by that. I got back to Mike’s and realized I left my charger at my house. I know exactly where it is but that’s not gonna help me much so I’m eating lunch and I’m gonna have to go back and get some more things

Sunday, July 13: Cleaning and Visiting Mom

Well, this morning I got up around 8:30 AM. I needed to be up and Adam and get back to Melbourne by 9:30 AM because the lady cleans my place is coming. Last week I believe

 got you showing up and I had to make sure I got there pronto! So I went to the Td bank got the cash and fortunate 21 bus just happened to be coming by so I got very lucky 

right there. Once I got to 21 that went pretty smoothly and I ended up coming 

home and the woman move a little bit late but she showed up and did 

a decent job on my place.After that, I immediately left the house and went 

to 69th St. to catch the 11 AM at 1:11 Bus towards Riddle Village. I 

got the real religion. Got there before mom’s lunch, which is around noon. I took mom to the nice little sunroom that they 
have on the fifth floor and hung out and took a picture. I showed her pictures

 of Mike, Pat, and a few other people. It was then time to go to lunch for her to go 

to lunch so I left and got the 110 back to Upper Darby. Once I got 

back to Upper Darby, I just mellowed out talked to Pat for a little while after he 

left. I got some pasta and cooked that up. Found out that the little

 dollar store right near the gas station near my house is shattered and did some laundry and carry it on. I did



 my first 12 step phone call in many many years while I was sitting on 



the bus on the way back home. I felt good about being your help to this guy.

Saturday, July 12: Mark and Mary in Manhattan

Hi. Mary & I set the alarm for 4 AM and kept the shoes button but we did get ready have coffee that you brought yesterday and get ourselves ready to take our day trip to New York City. We took the Uber down to 30th St. and man was at line long for the New York City train. We decided to go to Dunkin’ Donuts because it was 

the only thing open to get a sandwich. Mary waited in line and I got the sandwich. I was lucky to get the sandwich because it was a weird set up some people waiting in line

 some people use the kiosk. Once I got in line hurt some young people talk about a podcastand I said to myself  that’s a acute word. they named it after the iPod, so 

I looked it up as usual and we got on the train and we’re headed to New York. It’s now 6:49 AM. Well, we arrived at Manhattan’s very smoothly on the train. The train was 

crowded, but we were easily able to find our own seats. We decided to go to the 911 museum in lower Manhattan and took the 1️⃣ train 


down to lower Manhattan and took a lot of pictures. It was overcast so it really added some drama to the pictures of the 911 memorial. 


We decided to skip the museum since it was $35 each and we want to spend that money at MOMA. We then 
went through

 Greenwich Village in the West Village Chelsea and now as of 1135 were in the high line. I 

was really lucky. I found an outlet in the public bathroom here and it 

works too. I was down to nothing so I’m just getting up to 20%. We ended up 

walking the entire length of the highline. That was pretty long. We 

then ran as a 34th St. and walked all the way up 34th St. to seventh Street. My 

phone then died again and we walked all the way up to 34th St. from 

like 12th or 13th And at that point we were right here the train station. We then decided we were just call an Uber because we had walked a lot and we needed 

a ride to Uber guy came pretty quickly and we saved 12 to 15 bucks by walking straight up 34th St. By the time we did get the seventh Avenue the sun was 

out and it was blazing hot. We went to the MOMA we paid our fair and then we decided we would go to the café and get something to drink. I’m really in the

 mood for coffee or an iced coffee at this point.It’s now 1:55 PM and I found I found a charger on the second floor near the café. I managed to get it up to about 11 or 12% here here 

in the corner. We’re just hanging out. We decided that we wouldn’t go to broad channel because it takes about an hour and 15 minutes each way 

and we’re gonna be in this museum for at least an hour and it’s just not going to work so we will try that Broad Channel place on our next trip to New York. Which maybe will

 happen in the fall Who knows. As you all know New York is a very large place. I’m so glad I got to show Mary the 911 memorial that was pretty cool and as I said 


before, it was very cloudy so it gave a very somber effect on the photographs that we took.I know tomorrow what I’m going to do is get back home for the cleaning lady go to 

my mom’s and then crash for the rest of the day cause I know I’m going to be completely Wiped out. It’s fun, but we did a lot of walking around in the sun for hours on end and we 

got up at 4:30 in the morning. A few things I wanna add. First of all while we were walking down the highline we saw it had to be the ugliest building that I’ve seen in New York. It looks like something built in 

1963 that hasn’t been renovated. I asked about the building and I was told it was a hotel that

 was built in 2009. I have a picture of it in this blog And it is got to be the ugliest
motherfucking building I’ve ever seen I wouldn’t pay more than $100 a night to stay at this trashy place but they probably charge at 
least $450 for this. Also, the MOMA was great. That place is so large you can easily spend five hours in there. We spend about an hour
and a half, 

and we basically did Only two floors. There’s at least 6️⃣ floors in the building and they’re very deep floors. Lots of artists I recognize from the Barnes 

foundation like Cezone  and Renoir, etc. also they had a film called a trip to the 

moon. That was really trippy. It was made in 1907 I believe. It is 

really bizarre yet. Funny film about these guys launching in a rocket ship and going

 straight to the moon. With some fantastical vision whatever

 you like to land on the moon. The most funky part is when they had the rocket ship 

hit the moon in the face and back in the 
day people would say that the moon was made out of cheese. Mary and I definitely wanna go back to Manhattan. I think we’re gonna try to hit Broad channel and/or Harlem. Broad channels are really far away place. But we saw it on Law and order and
 we really wanna check it out. It’s like a little middle of nowhere part of New York City it’s hard to believe it exist in New York City. So both of us are really intrigued by that so we’ll have to do another trip. Maybe we should stay overnight. I’m not sure cause we’re planning a trip to Cozumel Mexico with Hot Yoga , Philadelphia and that’s gonna cost a nice pretty penny so I think the money should go there perhaps instead. Anyhow, we got a break with the weather going to New York. It was warm, but it is July so you would expect it to be warm outside. 🫕