Still working on the move. I've worked about 14 days straight at this point. Since I paid off some of my credit cards I'm going to purchase some stock with Besim and have him pay me back within 30 days so we don't get charged interest. It's only a few thousand dollars, but it'll be easy to recoup with the season coming on now. Hopefully if we do that once or twice we can get stock up to a good enough level that he'll be selling enough to raise his purchasing power. The better the store does the better it is for me, because I'll get more hours and I might one day actually get a raise. The more stock he has going into next winter the better off he'll be as well. That's usually the time of year when it's hardest to get things on the shelf.

The new location is amazing. It's got great energy, and the way we arranged things looks really good. People are going to really enjoy coming here, and that'll mean more business. All in all things are looking up. Between my two jobs I'm going to have more work than I can handle this summer. We've been working so late here that I haven't had a chance to do much drawing, just a couple of hours here and there. The moving part is basically done, now it's just unpacking and rearranging things. Once that's more or less done and we get back to normal hours I'll have more time to do artwork.

I'm really enjoying myself. Lots of people I haven't seen in awhile are coming in and chatting. It's been a lot of hard work, but I take pleasure in seeing things come together and knowing I had a huge part in making it happen.

I've been helping Besim move into his new space this past week, working 9AM to midnight all weekend, and we're still not finished. There's a lot to do, but this space is so much nicer than the last one that I'm really excited about it. Maybe I'll get some pictures and document the process of becoming so that I have a record of it.

I just bought a few pieces from Gilt Groupe and ordered a custom made shirt and a new tie from Indochino. I haven't gotten around to doing the suit yet. I want to get a tailor to measure me and compare my own measurements with those so that I have less chance of having to do a bunch of alterations.

I haven't started the dating site thing yet. I just don't really feel like dealing with all of that right now. Unless I could find someone where it was actually equal give and take I just don't have the patience to deal with someone who's going to expect me to wait on them hand and foot and be at their beck and call 24/7. I'm enjoying having my own life and not having to cater to anyone else. I'm frankly sick and tired of people my age, and I don't regret leaving most of the people that are out of my life now behind. I can't say that I miss anyone who could, with a straight face, tell me to grow up while they have no job and have leeched off of their parents ever since leaving college. I needed to mature a bit, sure. But I don't need people in my life who are so obsessed by their own petty narcissistic delusions of grandeur that they throw away years of friendship.

Question your assumptions.

As of 4/12/11 my Chase credit card will be at $83.00. By the end of next week, it will be zero. Anyone who's known me for any length of time will realize how huge an accomplishment that is for me. I still have two cards to take care of, but this is a gigantic step in the right direction. I probably won't be completely out of debt until the end of the summer. It depends on when I get my own place. If I can't sign a lease until Sept. then it should all be gone sometime in July. I should be down to one card and starting on that balance by the end of May. It's going to be weird not to have debt. The next goal will be to actually SAVE money. A piece of completely alien terminology, thus far appearing nowhere in the Eric Lexicon.

The more I see from an objective standpoint the more I wonder why I wasted my time for so long.

Rangers are still alive! Should be a sick game tomorrow night.

Hitting the treadmill after work, then some drawing. I'll put up progress pics tonight. I can almost see my abs, now I have to start working on them to get some definition so there's something to see. I must be getting down around 7 or 8 percent body fat. I think under 7 you can see your abs, but I forget what the exact percentage is.

I've been getting back into No Reservations lately. It's such an amazing show, I could go on and on about what a genius Bourdain is. It's probably my favorite television show of all time. An Idiot Abroad is a close second.

Jim is almost done with the outside work he was having done on his house this past month. Once that's done I'll start the new project there. In addition to the painting I'll be doing outside as extra work, he's going to start transferring his personal finances from the city to out here. Right now his CFO handles all of them, but he said there's enough that it'll create a lot of work for me. I'll basically be like his personal finance manager, and start to learn a lot more about the business and his personal stuff. We're going to be doing a lot more work out at the house, setting up an office and doing a lot of filing. We may not go into the city as often, but he's offered to let me stay at his house whenever I want if we're working late or something and I don't want to drive back. He just finished his basement and he's putting in another spare bedroom next to the apartment he made for his caretaker.

The weather has been getting nicer, except for Friday. Today is beautiful, and I can feel spring in the air. It should be a very good summer for me.

I'll do some more pics of my drawing tomorrow. I'm taking it easy tonight after a pretty long week. I have my first and only game of the Rangers regular season on Monday night, which I'm obviously very excited about. I have to go into Brooklyn early Tuesday and stay over into Wednesday, so that's less exciting, but as long as I don't get back too late Monday it shouldn't be that bad. In about the next two to three weeks I'll have my Chase credit card paid off, and I'm getting my tax refund direct deposited. I'll probably have to wait for the state refund, but I've been able to do a lot in a short amount of time. The refund is helping things go faster, but I've been pretty diligent as well. I'll start saving in May for a security deposit on a place, and start tentatively looking to get an idea of what I'll have to pony up. I'm looking to move somewhere around Sag Harbor, maybe in North Sea or somewhere around there. I want to get out of Hampton Bays, and Sag Harbor is a beautiful area. They are supposed to have great night life there, and the town is much busier even than Southampton, so it should be a fun place to live.

I just don't have a lot of time on my hands right now, so there isn't much going on aside from my drawing. I'm keeping a close eye on the playoff push and catching as many Rangers games as I can. We play the Flyers tomorrow, which should be a slug fest, and then the Bruins on Monday. We only have two games left after that, so the next two games will be a big indicator of whether or not we're going to make it in. We were muscling our way in for a couple of weeks, but we've dropped the last couple of games, and our position is a little precarious right now. If we don't win tomorrow I think we'll have to win the last three games in order to make it in. I'm really nervous, but I think if we do get in that we have a good chance of making it to the second round. Beyond that I'm not so sure. It all depends on how well the team buys into Torts' system and gives their all every night. We can be a little streaky at times and that doesn't bode well for us in the playoffs. If Lundqvist is strong, though, we always have a chance to win.