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I usually plan on writing the spring recap during the Memorial Day weekend but sometimes life gets in the way so you gotta adjust. These recaps may seem easy but my memory gets worse with time so I have to consult the calendar to see what the heck I actually did the last few months.

Spring 2008 can definitely go into the plus-plus column. Lots of time spent with friends and lots of time spent seeing baseball games with friends. Add in a few trips outside of New York City and you’ve got a winner of a season.

The remainder of March was spent waiting for spring to actually begin. It never really made an appearance.

• Justin came down and we hit up the 1st Manhattan Cask Ale Festival. Nice idea but the execution was flawed, thanks in part to the British casks that didn’t make it across the pond.
• Aaron and I made a trip down to Washington, DC to catch the first ever game at Nationals Park.

April was a pretty insane month as I crammed a lot of stuff into my calendar and it was all around a trip out to San Francisco.

• Susan and I went to the Gothamist-Slice Pizza Party in Williamsburg. My stomach hated me hours later that night.
• On a whim, I called up the Mets ticket number and got a single, scattered seat for the home opener. That brought my Mets home opener streak to six seasons in a row. Hopefully, I’ll be able to extend that streak into Citi Field next season. [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
• While out in San Francisco, Justin and I checked off Toronado and Russian River Brewing Company from the bar crawl list.
• No trip to San Francisco would be complete without going to a game at AT&T Park and, to a much lesser extent, at McAfee Coliseum.
• Jess turned 26 this year and we had a couple of beers at Drop Off Service to celebrate.
• While at Jess’ birthday party, Lucy and I found out that The Verve MSG show had its ticket prices reduced to 50%. Hell yeah we went!
• Total number of baseball games in April: 6 (4 Mets, 1 Giants, 1 Athletics).

May was a quiet month where, with the exception of baseball games and the weekends, I didn’t really go out much. Some of it was about saving money but, really, I was just feeling like a homebody. Gotta conserve energy (and money) for the summer, ya know.

• Aaron had a barbecue to celebrate turning 28. It’ll be a funeral pyre when he turns 30.
• I went up to Pleasantville to check out Captain Lawrence’s 2nd Anniversary Party with Aaron and Jeremy.
• Masaru quit his job and we had to celebrate the end of a long era at 1020.
• Total number of baseball games in May (up to Memorial Day weekend): 3 (all Mets).

Oh, and the title of this post has nothing to do with the calendar length of spring. We went from temperatures in the 50s one week and straight to the upper 70s without much of a stop in the mid 60s. Spring in New York City really never lasts more than a few weeks.