Maria and I went to the Round House and had a wonderful omelette – salmon cheese this morning and I saw trouble behind the counter – my friend Scott Carrino and his sidekick Dominick. These two have been working together for some years and Dom is a cook in the cafe kitchen.

I asked him how he got the cut under his eye and he explained he got it when he miscalculated and went flying in a mishap at a Trampoline Park in Albany. Both of these men live on the edge sometimes, work all the time, and stretch themselves beyond reason.

These two are trouble.

But it is always sweet to see the two of them together. Dom has trouble getting up in the morning sometimes, but he is a mainstay at the Round House now. It was months before I saw him smile, and he is quick to smile now all the time.