Morning all, 60 to 84 and cloudy, rain possible later.
Did get some mowing in knowing that rain was on the way.
Have to be careful I don't shoot black walnuts and Hickory nuts at anything, they get in the grass and some are hard to see.
I worked downtown at almost the tip of Manhattan when I got my first job on wall street at Salomon Brothers. We overlooked the Heliport and I remember Clinton coming in one day. All the boats were out, snipers on buildings on both the NYC and Brooklyn side of the river.
That firehouse you see in Drews photo used to be really cool as it was from the 1800's , unfortunately it got impossible to repair and they replaced it with that grey building that looks like a block. It was fun working downtown, the Staten Island Ferry was right there and lots of history like Fraunces tavern and the old church sitting in between two high rise office buildings (Our Lady of the Rosary).
One time they were filming a movie near our building and built out a whole park with lights, benches etc.. After the movie was done we used to eat lunch there. One day we walked over, and it was back to being an empty lot, everything was removed overnight and I guess put back in Props.
I got to take my father up to the balcony over the old trading floor one day (I did a lot of work for the CFO so he got us up there). This was a massive 2 floor high trading floor with hundreds of traders.
When I got there most of the people in the book "Liars Poker"
Liar's Poker - Wikipedia
were on their way out and Buffet had placed his puppet Deryck Maughan as CEO. Since I worked with the CFO, I got to talk to Deryck a lot, he looked and acted like a CEO, but was more like a news reader and dumb as a rock.
We always joked he needed someone to tie his shoes for him.
He made $20 million for the few years he was there to liquidate the firm and sell it to Smith Barney, which when got absorbed by Travelers, which then got absorbed by Citigroup. Which then collapsed.
I was well out of there before all the consolidation and collapse happened.
Too bad I was in IT, because these guys made out big time $.