O.K., about to finish packing up and check out of the Stony Brook Holiday Inn, Long Island, New York.
Been a busy time. The christening yesterday was chaos, but the bash afterwards was nice, just friends and familly in a reserved room – nice end to the day.
Griffin is a large baby, but healthy and it’s not fat, so hopefully he’ll slow down growth wise. Neither Tracy nor Chris are large, however Tracy’s brothers are and it might be a case that Griffin has inherrited the same growth genes as them.

The hotel I’ve been staying in has been o.k.,nothing special, though the bed was damn comfy. The lack of a bar annoyed Chris’s brother-in-law, but there was a food joint neaqr by the 4 of us (Pauline and John, his middle sister and husband, and Katie, his niece – daughter of his eldesty sister) could go to.

Now to head back to JFK to drop off the car then get the Air Train and Long Island Express in to NYC. The car is a 2004 model Buick Century, and boy is it rubbish. The central locking does not work by the key, but all doors lock when you go in to drive and unlock when you park, so you either have to manually lock each door each time, else with the drivers door closed, press a button to lock all doors, then unlock the driver’s one to get out. More later possibly on it.

On my 4th trip to the US I’ve finally sat in a bar watching the Sunday night American football game.

Down side was the Redskins (the team I used to support when I watched the sport in the UK) lost.

Been watching the news. The US is nervous about the Iranian nuclear program. The solution been touted by various ‘experts’ …

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Invade Syria. I kid you not. The theory is that the missing Iraqi WMDs were burried in Syria, where they could be uncovered and show links back to Iran (despite them being enemies of the Iraqis).

Still the so called experts probably think Iran is some where near Iceland.

Well it looks like my wireless network card is failing. Having been strugglinh to pick up the network in the hotel, I borrowed one of their cards which worked fine. Just got a new D-Link 11G Extreme PCMCIA card (will do 108 Mbps with the right switch), and lo, it worked straight off.

Only cost me $49, with a $10 rebate (coming back to me via Chris).

Not sure what was more sureal. The Holiday Inn I’m staying in has a TV at the far end of the breakfast room, plus a x-mas tree with a music box type of noise coming out of it.

Sureal item #1.
The ALF talk show. Yup I kid you not, that alien character from a late 70s, early 80s comedy show now has a full blown talk show. Only in America comes to mind.

Sureal item #2
With the christmas jingle going on in the background, after being filtered out by the TV set, all I can hear is the music box music from For a Few Dollars More, the Clint Eastwood movie. This nusic never stopped though so no shooting ^^

Good job I brough my laptop with me – the hotel I’m in has a free wireless network. Only catch is that I don’t seem to be able to get a signal in my room – might just be my card so they’re going to let me borrow one of their spares.