1. I made a wrong turn on a through street in the city and couldn’t turn for blocks.
2. Not being able turn didn’t really matter since traffic was barely moving on the through street anyway . . . .
3. The rear window of an SUV had a dirty Rangers logo sticker on it, along with a New York Yankees logo in the colors of the Italian flag.  Okay, really!?  First of all, the idiot probably was born in Franklin Square anyway (Franklin Square, my hometown, as well as to many Guidos, is where I spotted this SUV, and it’s also “J-Woww’s” hometown from MTV’s “Jersey Shore” . . . oh I’m sooooo proud!), so stop with the damn colors on a NY sports team representing the country your grandparents came from . . . I don’t have a New York Islanders logo in Greek colors!  That would be ridiculous!
4. I’ve already heard more car horns in one day than I have heard in nearly 2 years in Kansas City.
5. Forgedduboudit . . . .
6. I had a slice of pizza for lunch.  Yum!
7. Nearly everyone on the streets during lunch hour had either a box of pizza, or just a small bag of pizza . . . yum!
8. I couldn’t turn right on red, but I was oh so tempted to . . . .
9. It took me 50 minutes t0 complete a 20 minute drive . . . awesome.
10. On the other hand, I got to use the diamond/HOV lane today and was waving traffic goodbye as I turned a 40 minute drive into an 18 minute one!  Wooo!
11. Every radio station finds a way to bring up the New York Yankees.  Ugh.
12. Dirty Rangers.

John Tavares: "Where's the offensive zone? Mmm, I'll just look at this big frozen map!"

Maps of all sizes.  Big and small.  I love maps of the world.  I love maps of Long Island.  I love that really cartoonish exaggerated map of Franklin Square, my home town, that I got mad at when I was a kid because I knew, even at the uninformed age of 6, that the scale was totally off  (there’s no way Tulip Caterers is THAT close to Roy Rogers).  I love maps.  If I could be a cartographer I totally would.  I mean, that profession must be obsolete by now, right?  Stupid satellites and your magic.

I love maps of the pagan state of California.  I love maps of the Mormon state of Utah.  I love maps of the Great Lakes.  I love maps of Nassau County.  I love telling people from around the country that I live 7 minutes north of Amityville, known nationally for it’s role as the setting/title to the horror movie franchise, “The Amityville Horror” – and when they ask me, “where is that!?” – I whip out a MAP!  . . . and I show ‘em!

I love that my favorite hockey team, the New York Islanders, has a MAP in its logo.  I love that maps help me get from point A to point B, because if I ever ended up at point D by accident, I’d be very unhappy.

I love framed maps.  I love unframed maps.  I simply, and wholeheartedly, love maps.

Bottom Line: I could spend HOURS on Google Earth lol.