I've escaped to the Hamptons for a week of solitude away from the various distractions in the city. Those of you who know me know I have the attention span of a gn...ooh, look, a shiny object.

ahem, anyway, I brought a box of books of which I expect to read two, and a bunch of notes I've been scribbling about yet another social bookmarking tool which, if I'm lucky, only infringes about ten thousand patents and has been invented and reinvented ten or twenty times.

The drive out was mostly uneventful, if not excruciatingly long (I left Brooklyn at 2:00, had made it to the Southern State by 3:00. 27 and the LIE were both apparently closed for portions of the afternoon. After a quick rest stop at the Buzz Chew Carvel, I took the Head Pond Road / Scuttle Hole Road bypass to East Hampton, arriving in Amagansett just before 6:00 for an average speed of 29 mph.

Usually we drive out Thursday night or early Friday but for reasons I can't post just yet, we were out having an absolutely delicious dinner at Public in NoHo. Food was delicious, service was great. The wine list seemed good, though we didn't actually try any, as we were drinking a fine bottle of Veuve Clicquot instead. We plan to make it a regular monthly venue for food consumption.