The Coming Week

Tuesday December 5th Brian Murphy was back in Chicago to ply Allstate Arena. Then Thursday December 7th it was Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. That was for his A Very Brian Christmas.
Now Barry was in rehearsals for his Because It's Christmas VII Benefit at the Barclay Center on Sunday December 10th. This was the seventh year for this benefit. The charities that would benefit this year would be Charlie's Rescue, Manilow Music Project and The One Voice Foundation. Barry loved the fall and winter months. That's why he was glad he came back to the east coast where they had all four seasons spring, summer, autumn and winter. Barry had relearned how to ice skate so he could skate at the Rockefeller Center and Central Park skating rinks. He also missed a good cup of hot cocoa with marshmallows on top. This would be his sixth Christmas with Carly. Now earlier this autumn Barry their roof checked to see if it would make though the winter. The contractor told him that there were a few place where their roof might leak. So he had the contractor put a new roof on. This was the guy who had done all of the remodeling work to the house. Kitchen, master bathroom, kitchen downstairs and the bathroom downstairs. Barry chose a slate grey metal roof that definitely  would go with their red brick town house. Every year Barry had the furnace and air conditioning checked to make sure they ran properly. Before he moved into the house in  October two thousand two the former owner had the house rewired. That was to get rid of any wiring that was not up to code. The house on Hicks street was a house that Barry was never going to leave. Barry was three blocks from the subway stop. Close to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade which went along side the New York harbor. Barry loved to go running around the Promenade in the warmer months. Close enough he could walk to the Barclay Center. Close to his favorite bagel/coffee shop and pizza parlor. Lots of other great shops and restaurants he could walk to. He did have to use his SUV when he went to certain places. Or if he wanted to outside the city for a drive or a road trip by car. This was way better than Palm Springs. Every time he wanted to go somewhere. He had to go into his garage get into his SUV and drive to where he wanted to go. Nothing was within walking distance not even a dog park. Here in Brooklyn Heights a lot of stuff was within walking distance for him. Barry had even bicycled from his house in Brooklyn Heights to Bruce and Rob's condominium in Tribeca. Barry go a call from Bruce before he went on his four city Hurricane Nate benefit concerts. Bruce called Barry to let him know what happened to his iMac desktop computer. That it exploded in their condominium and they had to have new wiring put in. The electrician that Bruce got told him iMac's were just worthless pieces of junk. Bruce said the electrician told him to get a HJP Omen 800-035VX computer. Said his son swore by them. They were mainly used by gaming developers and people who liked to play games on their computers. But that their were musicians in the music business who had discovered them too. Bruce told Barry  that his iMac just literally explode. Bruce's tech guy also told him iMac's were basically a piece of junk.Then the same thing that happened to Bruce also happened to Barry after he got home. His iMac exploded and part of the  house had to have new wiring put in. Barry had just about had it with Apple products. Five years ago Barry's iPhone 5 died after just one month. Barry took it back to where he bought it. He was told by the phone guy at Verizon that he had a lemon. The Verizon phone guy told Barry to go with a Samsung brand instead. Barry got himself a Samsung Galaxy S3 in November of 2012. He traded that in for a Galaxy Note 5 in August 2015. So Garry's friend Dean had gone to South Korea on a vacation. While he was there he bought himself a Samsung 2017 Veyron flip phone. Samsung had brought back the flip phones from the nineties with their Veyron flip phone. Barry got to see Garry's Samsung Veyron flip phone. Garry explained it had all the features of the other types of Samsung phones. The only difference was it was a flip phone. He told Barry Dean had to go back to South Korea and he would get Barry one. Barry had finally given up on Apple products. Barry knew Carly never had any Apple products. Apple computers were very different than a typical PC like Dell and HP. Carly had always used HP products. That was the brand the Bronx Zoo exclusively used. Last year her old HP Pavilion computer died. So she chose to get an
HP ENVY 750-V9B24 desktop computer. Then just this past October her laptop died. She replaced it with a HP Spectre X360 laptop.  Barry went to a message board where this fan Shelly told everyone he used iMac's and iPhone's only. Barry replied and said I don't use iMac's or iPhone's anymore. I switched to HP computers and Samsung cell phones. I have a HP Omen 870-255xt desktop and an HP Omen 17 inch Laptop. I just got a new 2017 Samsung Veyron flip phone. This Samsung phone
is not available here in the US. Garry Kief's friend Dean Henry is a pilot for Delta. While he was on layover in South Korea last month he bought a Samsung Veyron for himself and Garry. Dean told Garry the next time he went to South Korea he'd buy me one. So by the end of this week I should have my Samsung Veyron flip phone. I can't wait to get it.