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Rufus enjoying the snow this morning. :-)

Washington Sq Park today.

Yup. It's rather new in the scheme of things. I was there last summer and I was impressed with how nice their transit system was from the stations to the cars. Huge bonus was being able to get off the plane and right onto a train to get me to my hotel.

NYC's transit system was started in the mid-1800's while DC's opened in 1976. NYC had a century of wear and tear before DC even ran their first train cars.

The wind is what could ruin all the hard work. I used to be one and done but one storm broke me with heavy, wet snow.

Just got in from my first shoveling of the storm. It's beautiful and quiet in NYC tonight.

I just shoveled for an hour. I'd rather do it multiple times in smaller layers than try to shovel the whole thing once it's finished snowing.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Embarrassing effort from KU today. This should have been a cake walk.

The application to adopt a cat is onerous and frustrating as well as rather invasive with the amount of personal info they want like my employer and their phone number as well as three personal references.
Personal references are useless. My sister isn't going to say I'm a monster that eats them.

This happened to me just the other day and freaked me out. I've never had a nose bleed before but woke up, blew my nose and the tissue was all red. I was afraid to blow it the rest of the day.

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If you are a NYC Voter and a Socialist, please register to Vote in the Democratic Primary by Tomorrow, February 14th. Please help us Progressive Democrats choose the Democratic candidate in the June 23rd Primary, to propel them to the General Election.

We did it for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani 🌹

That's right. I forgot about the rampant doping. They should be double banned!

The Olympics in a political move banned Russia for invading Ukraine and today disqualified a Ukrainian athlete for wearing a helmet with pictures of athletes that have died in that war because they don't allow political statements
The IOC made a poor decision that contradicts their own previous move

Valentine's door in the West Village

Rufus and his best friend Wanda playing in the "snow" in Washington Sq Park.

On the snow in Washington Sq Park, a medium sized dog in an orange jacket is jumping to play with a large Bernese mountain dog.

Rufus had a great time playing with this sweet dog this morning.

The Hudson River is nearly frozen over from the city to NJ. I've never seen this much ice in the river.

It's hard to take seriously a sport that uses the word twizzles. But it's sure fun to watch.

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I'm watching the Big Air finals and this is all I can think about the entire time.

If NBC can remove the booing of JD Vance then they can surely remove the annoying buzz of the drones flying over the athletes.
#MakeOlympicCoverageBetter

Yes!! So happy to read this tonight! DIg, baby, dig!

How is the NBC/Peacock coverage of the Olympics worse than it was the last time? I'm watching a replay of curling and they cut away saying the event ended after the first game and then cut to a black screen when they were measuring a close point. And they have the Olympics for another decade? Ugh!!!

Had an absolutely wonderful night watching James Acaster at The Beacon tonight.
He'd want me to say he was clever but I won't give him the satisfaction.

Nice win for the Jayhawks today but I would love to see what this team could do if Peterson was healthy enough to play full games. He's supremely talented and a joy to watch play. I hope he's at full strength for March.
#RockChalkJayhawk

If you live in New York and you see someone in a camp, on a sidewalk, under an underpass, in a subway station: Call 311, and you'll likely be referred to 911 because of the temps outside. Get them help. This weather is dangerous.

By law*, the city will provide them with a bed inside.
*Settlements

IMO, it's too much of everything and you shouldn't need a fork and knife to eat pizza. NY pizza is perfect to me but I love that places like Chicago and Detroit have made their own versions even if it's not to my taste.

That's not pizza, it's a casserole. 😉