5/7/04 Erin and I shoot a play with new cart; Rich cooks pan seared Salmon:

I had to bring my full videography equipment package to Circle Line in the morning, leave it in the tour guide room all day, and have Erin meet me at Circle Line, so that we could go straight to the videography gig up at Riverdale in the evening. Doing Circle Line AND a school play in one day is like working two days in one. It's very hard on the body, but it makes the money, so I do it when I have to. My cart broke on my way from Times Square to Circle Line this morning. The wheels broke, and the plastic, which I continued to drag along the sidewalks of New York anyway, ground down to the metal frame by the time I walked the 4 avenues to Circle Line's pier and was making a very unacceptable screech along the way. I called Erin and asked her to buy a new cart that afternoon at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, where she happened to be headed that afternoon anyway, so it worked out smashingly well. Here's the old card and the new one. Erin saved the day!

Erin looks at the old photos of many tour guides and crew on the walls of the tour guide "lounge."

After the shoot, Erin came over for a little, and Richard cooked dinner. Erin didn't have any because Richard happened to be making Salmon, and Erin doesn't like Salmon.

So she watched and chatted.

And we ate.

Sautéed fennel and anchovies. It was allright, but Rich had some ideas after tasting it on how to improve it. (See "Fennel Three Ways" in the near future.)

The main course was a pan seared Salmon over cucumber salad with a citrus vinaigrette.

Tada!