Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

Wow, its now been like two weeks since I moved my base of operations back to the Empire State. I have not really had much chance to truly enjoy it as I have been neck deep in work and other then walking around the East Village looking to refill my Starbucks container for Free , 4 walls is all that I have really seen. 4 Walls look the same whether you are in Northern Virginia , New York or just about anywhere.

On the other hand, besides the Starbucks refills there is always dinner and there is much to choose from around the “Village”. Lunch unfortunately has to be 2 slices of pizza in 5 minutes time during the few minutes that I can be “fashionably” late between meetings.

I have not noticed much different yet from the fallout of the stock market and financial collapse of the past few weeks. Almost as if people are in denial of sorts. That is often the case in Manhattan but I believe things will change quickly if the economy doesn’t right itself soon. Those restaurants need patrons after all and all the storefronts have businesses with the odd one or two closed for renovations or for a new business opening soon.

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Late Wednesday October 1st, 2008 ,after a long day of packing and working, working and packing and turning over the Reston condo , I pointed the car north and headed back to the Big Apple. Of course, owing to tradition, I first had to pick up a Grande Starbucks, listen to the idle chatter of the barrister one last time about the weather or something inane, have my Starbucks card swiped and take the walk back out to the car.

An experiment of 4 and a half years living and working in Northern Virginia was closing. The experiment was a success as I survived to make it back home to New York City. Actually Northern Virginia is quite a civilized place and I had the privilege of working at one of the top internet companies on the globe and now will do the same but out of the newly situated headquarters in Gotham.
The trip down to Northern Virginia way back in 2004 during a 4th of July holiday was done during the wee hours of the morning but with the holiday hordes creating traffic jams at midnight on the New Jersey turnpike. The return was similarly during the wee hours but during a recession, $4 gas and mostly trucks and myself with a few deer sprinkled in the Catskills area.

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