First of all, Happy Canada to all of the Canadian subscribers.
Since the Bees’ routing of the Pirates there was some excitement around Islip and New York. Over the weekend the Yankees and the Mets played out the Subway Series. There were the three regularly scheduled games for the weekend, as well as a game from May that was rained out. The end result was the Mets and Yankees splitting the 4 games at 2 each. However, the Mets were 2-0 in May against the Yankees so for 2008 it’s Mets 4, Yankees 2.
Over the weekend the Islip Fire Department had several ambulance calls, including an overdose in the apartments across Union Boulevard from the high school, and the ill father of a deceased department member.
On Sunday afternoon Ellen, Eileen and I went to a graduation of one of Eileen’s former schoolmates. It was held in Port Jefferson at Lombardi’s, overlooking Long Island. The view was impressive, and the food was quite good too. While waiting for the valets to retrieve our car, I met a man form the Islip LIRR station who was a guest at a wedding held on another floor. He mentioned to me that the reason that the inbound train was late on Friday morning (June 27) was that the police had to meet the train at Jamaica to arrest a groper who got on at Babylon. So who said that nothing exciting ever happens on Long Island!!!!
This afternoon I got some more exercise by walking from my office on Park avenue to Fordham University’s Manhattan campus at 60th Street and Columbus Avenue to have lunch with a friend of mine who is a visiting professor this week. He is the same man that I meet at John’s Pizzeria on Bleecker Street (which we will be doing on Thursday).
