Drove to Ford's place in the Catskills to pick up a log which will be cast for one of my arty chair designs. Didn't get home till 7PM. Driving almost the whole time.
The X-mas shopping traffic in NJ and NYC is horrendous. The driving is vicious, absent-minded, driven. The tempers are short. Lots of 5th Ave. stores have decorative car bomb protectors in front of them — usually disguised as massive potted plants in huge concrete containers. These are plunked on the sidewalks, further narrowing them, in front of Tiffany's, the Trump Tower and an HSBC bank, amongst others. This, according to someone, marks high-end retail stores as among this nation's prime targets — and therefore as national symbols, like the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are symbols known around the world, so are Tiffany's and the Trump Tower — though I wouldn't put it past Trump to have nominated his building himself. He would LIKE his building to be in danger, because it puts him in good company.
