I was watching Jaws last night on my new tv.

Yup, I got a new tv.

I had to, my previous one died! I was watching Big Brother on Wednesday night and all of a sudden, the tv turned black. But it did a fading type thing. It started getting dark around the edges and then slowly faded into the center and then the whole screen went dark.

I thought it was fading to commercial. But then when I tried other channels, I saw it all was black. And dead.

When the cable guy was here in May, he did use the phrase “fried” to describe the tv. So I guess it was time. It had a good life.

I have another tv in the living room and one in my office, so I wasn’t without, but I usually watch the one in the bedroom, which has Roku on it and I like that. So I ordered a new tv online and it arrived the next day. This time I ordered a Roku so it would be easy to set up and it was.

It was very easy – the Roku set-up was fast. I signed in with my old account and it all just came on. Literally in minutes. I had planned to spend half the day getting it all up and running, but I didn’t have to.

I did spend about an hour trying to use the old brackets from the previous tv, to hang it on the wall. It was a bunch of maneuvering and taping and trying to get it just right. Trying different screws to fit the tv and things like that. I even got the wire inside the wall like the previous tv’s had.

But as you can see here, the bracket did not hold. Luckily one part of it did, so the tv did not collapse and fall onto the floor. It hung there and I was able to save it.

Yeah, those books, I have to bring them to the charity shop one of these days.

Anyway, for the time being, I decided to put the tv on stands on that little table and get a new bracket for the wall.

But you know what? I like it on the stand. It’s lower and actually at my eye level when I’m sitting or lying in bed. In the past, the tv’s were always higher up on the wall, but on the stand it is so much nicer. It seems larger than it is and being eye level it sort of pulls me into the scene. I’m not looking up at it as if it was a picture on the wall. It’s so much better.

The picture is bright and while I usually get Sony or Samsung tv’s this one with the Roku built in works for me and I like the picture. And of course I loved the fast and simple set up.

I recently got a new printer and that was a very fast, simple set-up, too. I guess technology is catching up to those of us who are not very technology capable.

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Last week, a few of us went to the Museum of Broadway. I’ve been to so many museums in NYC, but this was new for me. The museum is fairly new, opening in November 2022, but the enjoyable thing is all the old things and history inside!

If you’re looking for something new and unique in New York City, the Museum of Broadway is the place.

The museum, of course, consists of everything Broadway – play related and musical related. I didn’t know what to expect, but in the end, it was so great.

There are props from so many shows, there are actual sets from the actual shows and there are props, scripts, costumes, scripts, and so much more. There are quite a few levels, where you go up and down steps to different eras.

I sat at the desk in the set from The Producers, where Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom sat (Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick) and we stood in the cornfield from the original “Oklahoma” production. We also sat at the diner, part of that whole set from “West Side Story.”

I saw the red dress that Bernadette Peters wore in Hello Dolly, which I saw just a few years ago with Bernadette in the leading part.

Many original production posters fill one room.

Over 300 years of Broadway history is presented, and I didn’t realize, but over 500 productions have a presence in the museum of some sort.

More than the props and settings, I enjoyed the history of it all. To see items that were 100 years old or more that are part of the history of New York and Broadway theater was amazing.

I loved seeing things like the original Ziegfeld Follies costumes that are over 100 years old – I’m used to seeing them old black and white movies and there they were, life size in bright colors.

The Museum of Broadway, is at 145 West 45th Street in Times Square.

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I was looking for new sneakers the other day. I don’t know why, but out of force of habit, when I’m in NYC I go to the DSW store at Union Square and often I buy a new pair of sneakers.

My older pair isn’t really bad, so I leave them in the park somewhere where a homeless person may find them and hopefully get some good use out of them. But I notice that as you leave the store, they have a bin where people put their used shoes and sneakers, so that’s a great idea.

Anyway this article isn’t about that. It’s about the fact that I was trying to find comfortable walking or running shoes, so I googled “What are the best men’s walking sneakers.” And a list of 10 brands came up.

The top ones on the list were Brooks walking shoes, which to me is not a common brand name. But maybe it is.

I was sitting down on one of the little stool type things where you try shoes on and I thought to myself, “Where am I going to find Brooks sneakers around here?” Not thinking that DSW would have them. I figured I would have to go to a high-end shoe store or maybe a Brooks shoe store.

As I got up to leave, I noticed the whole time I was sitting in the aisle filled with brooks sneakers! The whole row. That image above is the actual row of Brooks sneakers.

I love when things like that happens.

I ended up getting a great new pair and I left my almost new pair at the front of the store in the donated sneakers box.

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I noticed something about the New York museums. I seem to go often due to the weather!

It’s either very hot, very cold or raining in NYC and to get out of the weather, I hit the museums.

This past week, into the weekend was brutal. The temps were up to 101 degrees, and that was not the “feels like” number, the “feels like” was up to 115 degrees!

Now as I write this, it’s 69 degrees, raining and the tv news keeps talking about flash floods.

The last time I was here was December, and the weather was brutally cold. So you can’t win.

I don’t want to sound like an old man, but when I was a kid, NYC weather was nice. I do remember some heat waves – but I don’t think they went up into the hundreds.

I remember so many years ago, there was a heat wave and I started drinking coffee and tea without sugar due to it.

My aunt would make iced tea and not put sugar in it. She said that people could flavor it to taste. I was so lazy and so hot, that I would just drink it as-is, without adding a teaspoon or two of sugar. And to this day, I don’t put sugar in my drinks.

A wondeful result of that period – a healthy way to drink tea and coffee. Bland – the way I like it.

A side note about the photo above. I wrote about this a few years ago.

The large image is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, a Pablo Picasso painting, which he created in 1907. It’s always striking to me because I created a duplicate in college. The original is 8 feet by about 7.5 feet and my recreation was about 3 inches by about three inches.

In class, we had to recreate a famous piece of art by cutting out the colors from magazine images.

I haven’t seen the one I created in years, but it has always stuck in my head. and the first time I came upon the original in MoMA some years back, I was really taken aback by the size, since in my head I’ve always seen it as a 3″ x 3″ image.

I had a reverse reaction when I saw Starry Night for the first time. I was surprised at how small it was – I always pictured it being very large.

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Spent 4th of July in The Hamptons with my cousins. Beautiful day, except for the brutal temperatures, which have been the norm in New York this past week. Temps up to 101! And that’s not the heat index.

But it was nice, fun. Some family members are no longer with us, so that felt a bit odd, but things go on.

There was so much happening in New York this weekend, but I missed a lot of is since I was out east.

There was a Parade of Tall Ships on the rivers where dozens of tall ships sailed around the bay.

Taylor Swift had her wedding, which I was not invited to, so it didn’t affect me.

There was the FIFA games and the Nathans Hot Dog eating contest, which I have attended in the past.

And of course, fireworks – a huge 250 anniversary spectacular.

I missed it all! But but I saw it on tv, while luxuriating in Southampton.

But I preferred being out east.

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So Saturday was rainy in NYC, not much, a bit drizzly, but still wet.

Sunday was fantastic. Sunny and about 82 degrees. I’m enjoying that because upcoming this week, it will be 100 degrees! And that is not the “feels like” temperature, that is the actual temperature, so who knows what the feels like temp will be.

Each summer in New York, state and city, seems to get hotter. I think it is cooler in Miami to tell you the truth.

Sunday was mobbed, it was the Pride Parade, where millions of people show up. Over the years, I’ve seen the current mayor, the governor, and so many state and local politicians. Even Letitia James is there every year.

This year, the new mayor Zohran Mamdani was there – and look – he blew me a kiss, or at least blew a kiss to the girls standing next to me!

At Starbucks, I was treated like a mooching homeless man again – and I say again, because it wasn’t the first time.

The management at the Starbucks at Union Square East have chased me out, when I have been alone or with someone. It seems that they don’t like people hanging in the entry way – the vestibule.

But as you enter, there is a little bench-like area, where I sit to order on the app. It takes seconds but they always come over and chase us out, which could be quite embarrassing. Then they wonder why their sales are down at Starbucks.

I spend so much money there, especially in the summer, drinking cold brew coffees, but I may not go back to any Starbucks. Including my favorite one at home. That’s no way to treat regular customers.

We’ve even been told to move or leave in freezing winter, when we would just get in out of the cold. I’m not sure why. I could understand not wanting people to hand out there, but the whole place has many moochers sitting at tables inside the store. Most of them don’t buy anything and they just take up space playing on their laptops.

I guess I’ll boycott Starbucks for awhile. There are plenty of other places in NYC to get coffee. Plenty.

The rest of the trip, so far, has been lovely. I’m looking forward to 4th of July.

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European travel – is it better weatherwise?

Flight status – is my flight delayed? Probably, yes.

New contact lenses – can you see the damn things?

The Q queue – the bus schedule.

The Europeans are taking all of our ranch dressing home!

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