Although I did manage to relapse once, it was a great week in NYC and CT away from the computer and the internet. But I have to say…where the hell is a good coffee house in Manhattan? (More on that later and yes, Garret, you are correct , the “New Space Challenge and Reason we live here #8″ is Blue Bottle Coffee. True to form, the owner has found a “lovely, luminous, 800 square foot box at the back of the Provident loan building on Mission St. Yes: another pee-smelling alley”, that I’m sure they’ll transform as they did Linden Alley.)

So…with that, let the posting begin…