Author Archives: Nik Bronder

Moving Party at the Galway Hooker

Tanya Harding Card from Amy.Nik and Julie.

Last night Julie and I had our ‘Going Away Party’ at Galway Hooker with several friends. There was a good turnout and we had most of the upstairs bar to ourselves. There were a couple shots, a lot of talk about football, and a lot of strategizing about how to pack a large truck (the only common thread is to fill the truck up to the top).

Thanks to everyone for coming out. I’m sure we will see many of you soon enough, be it here or in Chicago. Thanks for the good times.

BTSH Fresh Kills members: Julie, Alicia, Brice, and Jeff.Lauren, Julie, Cassie and Trevor

Julie and Nick Barbone plotting.Julie and Cassie thinking about Mets away games.Nik Bronder being the creepy guy in the room.Julie and Jeff from Fresh Kills.Julie and Marcia from NBCSports.comNick Barbone experiencing the Jet Engine Technology that Galway Hooker deploys in the Mens Room.Shots from Lauren.Karen and Alicia.Alicia and BR (Alicia was clearly working the room).BR, Bob, Lauren and Julie.Alicia was again working her charm.Jim Wallis calling Patrick Swayze.Nick Barbone saluting the career of Patrick Swayze.Jim Wallis looking into the vast abyss that life has become.A couple beers and our tab.Empire State Building on the way to find some pizza.Nick Barbone trying to get this stupid droid to display a hologram of a princess.Pizza Found.So in this photograph I’m blowing on my flaming hot slice of pizza, go to next image.And in this photograh I have foolishly taken a bite of the before mentioned blazing hot slice of pizza.On the way home Nick insisted on riding Shotgun.

*Side Note:

Our Move will be thoroughly documented in the coming days, as I write this I’m completely surrounded by cardboard boxes stacked 4 feet tall. Wish us luck.

Nick Barbone pointing out the flaws in my packing method.

The rest of the photograhps are on Flickr.

Previous Going Away Parties: Number 1, Number 2.

Mets – Diamondbacks

Jose Reyes tripled to deep left.Ruben Gotay’s 3 run homer raises the apple.

Julie and I went with a couple of her former coworkers to the Mets game on Saturday. No sooner did we begin talking about the giant apple in the top hat in the outfield and its purpose than the Met’s started hitting home runs. This was our last Mets game until we see them in Chicago against the Cubs at Wrigleyfield in August.

Jose Reyes tripled to deep left.Julie and her friends.The crowd after Ruben Gotay’s three-run homer.

More Photographs on Flickr.

Xes Lounge with everyone from work.

Terri, Nancy, Nik & Douglas at Xes.

Last night I met up with several co-workers former co-workers at Xes Lounge. With Wednesday being my last day this is probably the last time I will see everyone so I figured I’d post the a list of what I’ll miss most about working at Macy’s:

Top Three Things I Will Miss

  1. Thursday afternoons when Tony returns from lunch and tells me with no reservations that “The System is fucking shit”.
  2. The absolute unwarranted amount of time, energy and talent that goes into creating the ‘Floor Map’.
  3. Everyone having mirrors on their desk just in case.

On a complete side note: If you ever find yourself in a Karaoke Deathmatch, make sure Dave Conklin is on your team.

Jemo, Josh, Adam and Nik at Xes Lounge.

Terri, Megan & Nicole: Terri seemed to always find a way into the picture.Glenda, Megan, Nicole and Terri.Jemo, Nancy and Adam.Terri, Nancy and Nik.Terri, Tony and Nancy.Glenda, Jemo and Tim.

More photographs on Flickr.