yeah! summer arrived in the city (24C/75F) and I could finally use my inline-skates in the central park!
did a grand tour around the park (full cycle, approximately 10km with MANY hills, seems like Taekwondo trains similar muscles … ;)) and recorded some videos. unfortunately I enabled shake protection which makes the video worse for this kind of movement.
Afterwards a short visit at forbidden planet, finding some decent new comics, having some street food and then getting home and playing a couple of games of poker with a nice late night walk through the east village at 2 in the morning. incredible how many people were on the road. loved it! followed by a nice game of pool with Stephane (and ohhhh my good, this guy destroyed me ;).
oh, and btw, on Thursday there was the big farewell party of Daniela in a small bar next to Union Square. and guess who is sitting there on the side of the crowd, having a drink with a friend? Jeremy Piven. love it.
on Sunday I finally had time to browse SOHO and discovered the first
shop of my life (”LOUNGE“) where I would wear very proudly almost every piece, REAL fashion for guys, superior stuff, not that H&M kind of crap (I almost cried when I browsed the shop). unfortunately the price tags were out of this world, too. I am not quite ready to spend $900 for a sweater or $300 for a shirt. but if I would, ohhhhhh my god would I be a happy boy 
(and if anyone of you is into jewelry/accessories, they have quite a range, starting at $8000 for a small diamond ring …. ) and don’t even try to take a picture in there. immediately after I have turned on my camera a shop assistant approached me, forcing me to show him my taken pictures (I couldn’t even take any) to make sure there were none taken. stupid. stupid. stupid policy.
had to do some alternate shopping and got me some nice speakers from the apple store and watched the following little performance in one of the many streets of SOHO ….