After my first two days commuting to work in Parsippany, I stayed at home this day so that I could go to the Brooklyn Social Security office, in order to apply for a SSN. The company needs me to get one, using my work visa and passport, in order for them to put me properly into the US pay and benefits system.
It only took about two hours, subway rides included, to go to the office, wait in line, and put the application through. Sadly, they apparently need to confirm my work visa (not sure why the card border security attached to my passport isn't proof enough, but whatever) so I didn't get a receipt with a new SSN right away. I'll have to wait for my info to show up in the mail at some point.
Anyhow, once my work day was over, Suzy and I headed to Borough Hall, the major subway hub near our place, and to wait for the Ikea bus. Yes, the Ikea bus. The new Ikea that recently opened in Brooklyn has a couple of buses that run constantly between Borough Hall and the store in Red Hook. Every 15 minutes, a bus arrives to whisk people away to an oasis of assemble-yourself furniture and storage gadgets.
We ended up just getting a few kitchen solutions to help us out with our lack of kitchen storage space: Some hanging wine glass racks, a magnetic knife rack, and some little metal buckets to hang on the wall that we ended up putting utensils in (yeah, our kitchen has no drawers -- weird).
Once we got back to Borough Hall, we wlaked over to Montague Street and stopped in at Lichee Nut, the Chinese retaurant we ordered from on the first night in town. We got take-out, and once again everthing was fantastic. Some of the best Chinese food I've had. That place is a keeper.
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