Ventured downtown today - doubly masked, of course! The object was picking up a new laptop (hurrah!), but the occasion allowed me to pop into a lot of old haunts. Muji, Banana Republic (I've forgotten how to buy clothes, but I had a birthday coupon to use up), the Union Square Green Market, New York's sole Peet's (another birthday freebie, my second large cappuccino in, perhaps, a year!), a favorite Japanese grocer. And the subway...