Check

Folks in Finland: ask your granma about these, if you can. This is how I get payed for my work and this is how I pay my bills. Or more exactly: this is how my wife pays our bills - I haven't quite yet mastered the art of checkery.

breakfast New York style

This breakfast place had the most extensive selection of bagels I've ever seen. I presume some of them are a little bit unorthodox.

Sharpener

I don't think I had ever used one of these electric pencil sharpeners before coming to the US. This model is my favorite one at the office. It looks like it could eat fifty pencils a minute; without breaking a sweat. (Yes, it works extremely well and yes I sharpened my pencil a couple of times while making this drawing.)

real life escher

me-turn

breakfasst outside

This year's "breakfast at the terrace" season has been officially opened! A full hour of newspaper reading was pushing it a bit, I left the spot shivering (the umbrellas were rather unnecessary, it was overcast) but I'll try to take the best out of these moderately warm days - before it actually gets hot.

A day at the Racetrack

Today I bring you special coverage from the Belmont horse racing track, NY city, where my father-in-law (everybody calls him Sunny because his always on such a good mood) kindly took me.

The day started with a hearty breakfast and some research on the racing paper.



The parking lot at the track is so big that you take a bus from your car to the entrance.


Sunny's whole posse was already waiting at the table. Although we were at the track we were in fact following "simulcasting" from other tracks on a little screen.


I got lucky right on the second race of the day - very lucky.


The food was plentiful.




Sunny kept his cool the whole day. Winning or loosing - you couldn't tell the difference on his face. Some people at the other tables were quite a bit rowdier.


Needless to say: betting on horses didn't turn out to be an ingenious way for making money.