A difficult day today...

for city boy. Possibly. Not a lot of energy as I sit at the computer around lunch time.
  Yesterday: city boy took a long walk after a (fulfilling) slice of pizza at 80th street and Amsterdam Avenue. By the time the walk was over, he was standing on 116 street and Broadway, feeling somewhat tired. A bus came, and cityboy thought it was a 104, so he climbed on. About 8 people were on the bus, which these days, is a lot. Imagine his surprise when, at 110th street, the bus took a left. Uh-oh, thought cityboy, this must be a 4, and if I don't get off it on one or two blocks, I shall be riding south on 5th Avenue. Actually, that was not such a bad idea, but cityboy thought better of it, and got off the bus at110th street and Columbus. And then he decided not to wait for the two buses that go south there, but to walk the rest of the way,  back to 76 street. And so he did, stopping only for a chocolate chip cookie around 90th street.  A great walk---back and forth, yes..? Yes, this has left him very tired for today. That and of course, the usual up and down sleep that he experiences every night.
    Was it the walk that is making his body feel so energy-less at this given moment? Can't say, but probably it contributed to it. So today, I sit at my screen---for the past 20 minutes of so, I have been looking at real estate sites in the Bronx and Brooklyn Ah, the Bronx---as I try to make sense of the changes in each neighborhood that I look at on the maps. And Brooklyn, where even in Flatbush, the apartments seem incredibly expensive. But I look, and look and then go to the map and try to see the whole street that the apartment for sale is on. I want to really take it easy today.
    Last night, I did not leave the apartment, once I returned from the walk, but I did watch two shows that until now, I have not been able to see. First was part 1 of The Night Of, which I had heard a lot about. A muslim college student who picks up a spacey white girl is arrested for her murder. I stopped after about 40 minutes--even before the young man had been accused. Before that he seemed to be taunted by everyone---the cops were brutal on him even before they accused him of the crime. Had to stop---I just could not take it. Then the pilot episode of The Wire, the much praised show about cops and pushers in Baltimore. I watched the whole thing, it is effective, but I was turned off by the incredible amount of cursing, and also the complete macho vision of the piece. Dramatically it was effective---the two worlds that will interact through the rest of the series---the cops and the drug dealers who dominate the poor sections of Baltimore---sections that are truly cut off from the rest of the city---are set up well, as it the nature of the conflict: can the police break through the strength of the drug dealers, who frighten everyone else in the black community into silence, and bring the leaders of the drug gang to justice?  I would like to see how it turns out, but don't know if I really have a desire to see another episode. Will have to wait and see.
  This is a whole new world of choices that are opening up to me, because I now have the computer; how much of a good thing that is will have to be determined. I miss reading---there is nothing in
the apartment that I feel motivated to read at length--but I want to limit my computer time, at least
for today.
  Still a lot of the day to live through, today, huh cityboy?  How will it turn out?