davidfcooper

We met my BIL and niece at the Bronx Zoo yesterday. By the time we got there the parking lots were full, so we had to park on the street. The car kept clonking out when idling, which our garage guy has since explained was due to Shoshana killing the battery a week ago (she left the parking lights on--something I've done before too) which wiped out the car's computer's memory. The remedy, according to garage guy, is to let it idle in Drive for 15 minutes, turn it off for 5 minutes, and then start it up again. Anyway, the zoo was very crowded, but the animals were fun. Our 11 year old niece Naomi said the tiger was her favorite. There was practically no traffic on the way home, and we had dinner at Veggie Castle where the food was delicious. They played Sirius radio's reggae channel really LOUD, which was OK for the short time it took to order on the cafeteria style line and eat. Today Shoshana is hanging out with her brother and niece in Manhattan and will attend a NY Liberty game at MSG. I have the place to myself until late evening.

Yesterday I slept late & stayed home in the morning/early afternoon while Shoshana went to shul and then to Artez'n where she had an appointment with the gallery owner & brought several small works of which five were aceepted and will be exhibited there. When she got home we walked about a mile to Veggie Castle in Flatbush:
http://www.notfoolinganybody.com/28veggiecastle/
http://community.iexplore.com/planning/journalEntryDining.asp?JournalID=50449&EntryID=29518&n=Veggie+Castle
http://www.happycow.net/reviews.php?id=2322
http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net/usa/Brooklyn-Vegetarian-Restaurants.htm
(third restaurant from bottom)
where the food was delicious (it always is). We had veggie pepper steak and veggie bar-b-q chunks with broccoli, carrots, lo mein noodles (Sh) and mashed potatoes (me) with casava cake for dessert. The servings were ample and it was good to walk it off.

Today Shoshana is in Washington, D.C. for the Darfur rally. Our shul has two buses going there, but to her dismay what Shosh didn't realized is that the organizers plan to sing and daven on the way down. Why do they have to turn everything into a religious summer camp activity? Shosh is thinking that by the time she gets there she'll be so fed up that she'll make a token appearance at the rally & then ditch the group & do the museums. If I get my act together there's a classical concert I could attend (also at our shul where I have a zero gravity recliner--I have to keep my feet higher than my heart when in a stationary position to facilitate my impaired lymph drainage in the lower extremities).