Matt and I had the great pleasure last night of meeting up with David, who was visiting from Missouri. We hadn’t seen him since his last visit a year ago. Matt, David, Jere and I had dinner at the Heartland Brewery in Union Square (incidentally, Heartland Brewery is owned by my third cousin or something), where I had a buffalo burger. It wasn’t much different from a hamburger, really. Afterwards, we walked through the cold night all the way to Marie’s Crisis, which is one of David’s favorite haunts (in fact, the last time I was there was when he last visited), and eventually, Mike joined us.

By 10:30 Matt and I were ready to go home. Well, I was ready to go home; I was tired and didn’t want to push things too much — I’m still getting over being sick last week. And Matt’s still recovering, too. So we played the “old Jewish couple” trump card and made our goodbyes. We went back to Matt’s place, I had some ice cream, we watched “The Daily Show” (Howard Zinn seemed pretty nutty), and we went to bed. The end.