237 Lafayette Street - an address that I will never forget. It is the address of the building on Lafayette Street between Spring and Prince streets in what is now the upscale neighborhood of SOHO (bordering on NOHO) in New York City.

Last week at the Gotham Happy Hour there was the usual catching up, general silliness and good conversation. We started talking about jobs we had in the past and some mused about professions other than their own that they might have chosen.    

How do you feel about photos of yourself?  Amongst my friends (shhhhh, don’t tell anyone), I do not enjoy looking at pictures of myself and I never have.  However, that does not extend backwards to childhood photos.  I am actually kind of obsessed with those.  

During the Gotham Long Island Women’s group meeting last week (which was phenomenal as always) Corey mentioned that he had just received a fax. Faxing is a concept that I have given a lot of thought to lately.  

I usually discuss song playlists in blogs contemporaneously to an event the group of tunes relate with -- the holidays, new years, sweethearts days, some political events.  I recently viewed the playlists I posted to my website and YouTube and counted a dozen.  All of mirrored in my Apple Music.

ChatGPT is an advanced language model created by OpenAI. It's a powerful tool that can understand and respond to natural language input. It can be used to generate text, answer questions, and even engage in conversations.  

Last week my Friday With Fred blog was about the Anubis Horribus year of 1968, eg, 2 assassinations and my friend David Berger suggested I lighten it up by blogging about the wonderful subsequent year.   1969 has been called The Year That Shook the World.   Pictured are many of the wonderful highlights of a wonderful bounce-back year! For me, a Sports Fan (Fanatic) 1969 was uniquely wonderful. 

We have shied away from politics in our blogs, but I can’t resist….