Empire State Plaza

The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is a unique architectural masterpiece which houses 11,000 New York employees in a complex of ten buildings. The Plaza offers a world-class modern art collection, New York State’s Museum, Library and Archives, a distinctive performing arts center, convention center and more. It serves as a monument to the diversity and significance of New York, and also as a testament to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, whose determination and vision brought about its creation.

http://www.ogs.ny.gov/esp/

Partisan Politics, 1800 edition

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“Can serious and reflecting men look about them and doubt that, if (Thomas) Jefferson is elected and the Jacobins get into authority, those morals which protect our lives from the knife of the assassin, which guard the chastity of our wives and daughters from seduction and violence, defend our property from plunder and devastation and shield our religion from contempt and profanation, will not be trampled upon?” ~ Timothy Dwight, president of Yale University, 1800.

Aren’t you glad that nasty partisan politics is a new thing in America?

Weekend slides downhill, and that bicycle they’re supposed to be assembling for me 🙁

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I hadn’t heard back from the bike shop, so I called this afternoon and they said they had a lower-spec model (Marlin 5) in my size XXL that I could test ride. Maybe I should have asked more questions, like whether or not they are also building the Marlin 6 in that size for my testing as promised, but I could test ride that Marlin 5 as it’s basically the same bike and either they can build the Marlin 6 or I can pick up somewhere else like their Hudson location. I think I’ll try to leave work at 4 PM tomorrow to give it a ride, and then go shopping thereafter. Plus then I can ask my question about the bike carrying rack to see if it fits the XXL bicycle.

I am having second thoughts about the upcoming weekend. The forecast was warm but decent, now it sucks with clouds on Saturday and Sunday and increasing chance of rain. Staying home saves money, and maybe I just need to go to more places to test ride bicycles, as I thought this had been closed down, but apparently like so many things in this world, what is closed down isn’t set a deal until you take delivery. At least I think I know what I want now, and after the test ride of Marlin 5 in XXL, if I have to order the Marlin 6 and have a local shop build it, even if I have to pay first, as long as I take delivery, I’ll be good.

The long range for the following weekend looks better, so maybe that will be my best chance to get out of town.