I AM NOT REALLY HAPPY with my rental car this week. It is a Mercury Grand Marquis. Yeah, a luxury car. A big ass mobile that for some reason has no cup holders and no line in for the stereo system. It floats on the road like the proverbial boat and revs up like a […]
COMPARED TO BOSTON and the on going, or at least on going before I left on Sunday, heat wave that has been melting the metro area. It even rained, more like drizzled this morning. It’s grey and overcast. I kind of liked the change of scenario for a moment. And very different from the heat […]
TODAY’S COMMUTE kicked off with a rousing MP3 performance of “5:15″ by the Who. Sometimes the random play on the Zune just stumbles upon a song that just fits into the time, the place and the day.
I NOTICED MY FIRST sleeper today. A man had a pillow punched up between him and the window and was happily sleeping when I got on the train. I have seen people dozing off, sometimes sprawled across a several seats in abandon, but never an pillow.
I can’t help thinking of these people […]
I AM IN THE PROCESS of moving from the urban confines of Somerville, MA to the agrarian, small town style of Ayer, MA. This means I will be trading my 2 mile walk to work for a commuter rail and subway commute of twice the time or more. Yeah, I’m crazy, but that’s […]
