Sunday was laid back -

Anil and Alaina hosted Superbowl hotdogs and real dogs at their apartment in Chelsea the East Village.

There was pre-game gaming, Mario Kart Double Dash, giving us a chance to get heated over competition before the professional athletes took over the television.

During pre-game poker, Meg looks on as Silvio throws what must be a gang sign for Invasiv.

Then chatting into the night with on-pulse journalist examining art and technology intersections, Xeni and her sister Mar, visiting New York for furniture. Photo by Mar.

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Monday was a dense press - four appointments between breakfast and dinner, travelling around Manhattan catching up with friends and projects.

Started Monday morning at Invasiv Studios, a game development studio in TriBeCa. I saw some of their promising prototype game designs, visited with Silvio and met the team, including Souris, David, old friend Sean.

Trotted over to Kinja nearby in Tribeca, to see Meg, Jim, Gina, and Mark, building next-generation web tools. Meg holds their mascot Rosie the Riveter bobble-head doll.

My brother's old grade school friend Ron Lieber writes for the Personal Journal section of the Wall Street Journal; I stopped by for a soup and sandwich, near the gory postcard hawkers at Ground Zero. Ron worked on Taking Time Off, and he's been a journalist for years now; we compared career notes.

High school friend Nicole has been encouraging me to write a book for years; we had a meeting on the subject in SoHo.

Dinner with NYU professors Cate and Eric, and old friend Danielle. Then I joined Amy and her Italian journalist friend (right) for drinks at an unlabelled bar in the East Village. Shots of Vodka to toast Pete's birthday - whew. I'm getting old.