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A meal at a Dongbei-style restaurant, drinks at an Irish Pub and a Chinatown shuttle ride back from Flushing: I was an expat for four hours.

I’m at Kelly’s Pub (136-11 41st Ave, Main St, Flushing). http://4sq.com/930iNe

A dating site message asked of “Scrabble war stories”, to which I responded with the story of a racial epithet BINGO I played. No reply yet.

It may be the giggly water speaking, but after seeing acrobatic cabaret, I am inspired to install a pull-up bar in my apartment. Baby steps.

Confession: I was very tempted to add live lobsters to my FreshDirect delivery. Felt very dot-com era circa 2000-ish [http://bit.ly/bpsgti].