March 24, 2004

Who had difficulty getting home tonight on the 7? There was an express sitting in Queensborough Plaza and a local waiting just behind it by a few yards. The announcements indicated a train had stalled just beyond the station. Well, a stalled train was only partly true. As the W train veered north, I got a look at said train. There was no power; the windows were dark. I don't think it was the train's fault.

This is the second time in two weeks I am going home by way of the Astoria Line and the Q66 on Northern Boulevard. It's such a crapshoot which way I go home since I'll usually take whatever enters 57th Street. I mean, I could have been on the retard's R train.

DD 6:23pm EST on Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004

Thursday was hazardous in Manhattan.

On the way to the office, people all around were dodging falling hunks of ice and packed snow. It was downright treacherous. Then at lunchtime, despite the fact that it was sunny, it was dripping off all the skyscrapers. What a mess!

The thing about this is that I've lived all these years in New York and I've never experienced this before. Why now? Given the logic of it, it's a wonder why this doesn't occur all the time...

DD 6:22pm EST on Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004

So was it just me who left the house to the overwhelming smell of sulfur this morning? It smelled like some giant bear took a dump on the neigborhood. At least it cleared up about two blocks past.

I suppose since I haven't been blogging in awhile there's some catching up. For example that free morning paper...

AM-NY is handed out to us at the busiest entrance of my home stop. It's a capsulated version of My Yahoo put out by Newsday. Many of us greet the people handing them out each morning like family. Hope it doesn't go pay - it could get mighty awkward.

A technosnert is on our train home. Wait - did I board an R train? Aw man it's gonna suck with this oaf playing his handheld game with the volume cranked up.

Jeez I really wanted the N or W...

Heh. The other day on the 7, some guy sitting next to me also had a pocket PC, only he was taking forever with the soft keys (that's the onscreen keyboard) and his stylus: peck, peck, hunt, peck... Then I sit down, open up this thing resembling a 24th century PADD, and just start writing away. I noticed outside my peripheral vision that he stopped and started to watch.

MWAAHAHAHAAA!!! The window of opportunity afforded itself and I installed all my needed personal programs. I even snuck on Paintshop Pro 4 so I can do some rudimentary graphics. But oh, to be able to have Blaxxun Contact - it's almost too good to be true. I mean I really thought I'd have to wait for such a window months away.

I spent my last ten minutes at work, sitting in my jello pool, the window minimized. Just the thought of some aspect of myself in a state of bliss - it must be the kind of perverse pleasure some men get from wearing women's clothing: you feel alive and the greater populace remains oblivious.

DD 6:20pm EST on Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004

Thursday back at the acupuncturist. Couldn't happen soon enough. Although taking this route of treatment has been successful in bringing down the herniation, there are still lingering problems which won't go away until things such as obesity are overcome.

It doesn't help that trains were noticeably less frequent and I was compelled to stand four mornings in a row. The phantom ache at the bottom of my foot has been notceable with the forced two week hiatus from treatments. Once a week appears to be my limit for now.

Today also marks two years working at my current employer, and I bought a box of Italian cookies for the department to scarf down as a gesture of my gratitude. I did it last year as well. Five people began on the same day back in 2002, and now there are three of us left, two still in the department.

DD 6:18pm EST on Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004