good grief! i can't believe you've been staring at your screen since january for this missive!

yep.

it's true.

the more things change, the more they stay the same.

only thing is, the more things stay the same, the more a man must affect change within himself!

in my case, every always changes....

hair: blond(ish).

body: fat(ter)

life: dull(and listless)

income: huh?

location: HELLS KITCHEN....after a period of hiding, then seeking and finally finding....

before that: the private library, now studio apartment (2000 square feet of studio) at the east side beaux art mansion

and before that: el barrio....

oddly, i lived in chelsea for years...the hotspot of hotspots...that is until the wives and kids started buying it up and taking all the renovated and fabulous spaces for their own expansion....that the exact opposite corner of manhattan from the east harlem apartment i vacated chelsea for over 2 years ago....now i know that's a diagnal of approximately 9 miles, but you have to figure straightlines to cross NYC and get to/from the area...it's far and long in the tooth....

now i've done it again...i'm on exactly the same block in Hells Kitchen as I was in Chelsea, just 24 blocks north of that locale....so now i'm about 7 miles back on the opposite side of the city.

I LOVE IT HERE!

that brings me to change: pocket (lint) and piggy bank(full), followed by life(finally).....

i'm starting a business.

check out and follow along on my website: Rub-a-dub-dub.com

that was: Rub-a-dub-dub.com

oh yeah....it's gourmet for the tub.....you'll see....

stay tuned....and don't forget to write!

xoxo
wadeo

happy New Year to all of you....

As I sit here visiting Mom & Jim, it is snowing outside like crazy, the entire hustle and rush of the life in the city is almost forgotten as we are enjoying the peaceful quiet that only a blanketing of fresh white snow can offer the world....

This is when I realize I have not been on here for months, and then I realized I didn't send out my holiday cards to anyone since I had great cards printed up from a photo I took in Greece last September, unfortunately, the printers mis-printed my card, and when I was done addressing all the envelopes and went to write, sign and mail the cards, I noticed that the personally written and professionally printed interiors were 1/2 my sentiment and 1/2 the sentiment of another family, a family not my own of course, which left me a few days before Christmas with a passel of envelopes addressed and ready to mail, and a card that wished that we would all awaken to a world at peace at the dawning of a New Year, magically signed by the Postner family (whoever and wherever they may be.....)

All that said, I wish you belated holiday greetings and all the best for 2009....even the Postner family, even though they did wreck my intended holiday mailing....

I'm sure that I'll take some pictures and have something to write sometime soon. I applied for and made the interview process for a low-income, federally subsidized, new apartment building constructed in the best part of NYC. I completed the application process right before Thanksgiving, as well as had my in person interview and am still waiting for the final result -- I should know any day if I'll be able to move into the gorgeous new building for a fixed income rent versus the market rate that 80% of the tenants are paying...if that doesn't work out, I should be fully moved into a new place by March 1st, most likely somewhere in Harlem again. In the interim, I'll keep floating and pissing money away to have a roof over my head.

Check back soon......

xo
w-o