I don't know how else to say it. I really don't. The city is just so great. I love the buidlings, and the people and the energy and the musuems and the subway. There's so much to do. There's so much to see. It's so easy to get around. There's so many good restaurants. The bagels are awesome. Central Park is amazing. I honestly cannot get enough of the place.

So I spent two days there for work, meeting the PR firm that works with my new company. We were sorting out some branding issues and planning our Internet strategy. The guy who was running the show? His title was something like Senior Vice President, Corporate Reputation. Corporate Reputation? Every heard of that before? The really eye-opening thing about this trip was to find out jus thow much this New York PR firm does for my Swiss-based company. I'd love to know how the relationship evolved, but for now, I'm just happy to watch it from afar.

On the weekend my brother took the bus up from DC. We stayed at the W in midtown. We had a great time. Despite Brian's torn ACL (a story that I neglected to write about), we walked all over the place, from midtown across the Park to the Upper West Side. All through Central Park. Across the Brooklyn Bridge. We went to the Yankees/A's game on Saturday, saw Jeter and A-Rod hit home runs as the Yanks beat the A's in a squeaker, 4-3. We went to the Met, saw priceless works of art. We even saw some famous people. We saw Kelsey Grammar and his wife in a carriage along Central Park South. We saw Barbara Walters, Charlie Rose and Karl Bernstein coming out of the A.M. Rosenthal funeral at a massive synagogue on Lexington. We even sat in front of some loud mouth right-wing documentarian at the Yankee game who wouldn't shut up. (my brother recognized his voice).

We lucked out with the weather. It was supposed to rain all 4 days, but we only had a slightest hint. We had a gloriously sunny day on Saturday and more than tolerable variable cloudiness on the others. It was just great all around just far, far too short.

Pics from the trip are here.