Yesterday I got all upset about the fact that Long Island shut down in the rain. I greatly underestimated the amount of rain. It was serious. It was a damn flood.
(These are not my pics)
This is 10 mins from our house and we were at the “Sheds and Gazebos” shop last Saturday:
This is on the line I ride:
Not my pics, not sure who’s they are, but thanks.
Today was one of the worst commuting experiences of my life, and that includes riding next to precarious cliff faces in rusting flatbeds driven by drunk maniacs in rural Mexico. There was some rain this morning (was it even that excessive?) and Long Island (actually most of NY by the sounds of things) decided to throw in the towel (pun intended) and have stuff wash away, or alternatively pool the water up and start to make stuff float. Read on for more about the girls in bikinis swimming on the Long Island Expressway…
Three sub-annoyances:
Item a) You are sitting mere inches from your fellow pompous Ivy League student. There is no reason to yell. I don’t want to participate in your conversation about your pal Harry (who, it turns out, unfortunately has an apparent “social disorder” holding him back from really “shining” in his “fraternity activities”, poor guy) *
Item b) Cellphones are designed to carry your voice very long distances for you, there is no reason to bellow to increase the likelihood of your ramblings making it all the way to Aunt Sally in Louisiana.
Item c) Next time I will ask both Loud Talking entities to please respect the public setting they are in. I know this will shift the “resident dickhead” tag to me for the rest of the ride, but damn, it’s an hour and 20 minutes with this constant yelling. Weighing up the two options, I will have to select a quiet train full of people thinking I am a chop, to the clanging bell of other people’s yammering sneaking past my earbuds into my brain.
#2: Silly UI Prompts
There is no way to comply with Thunderbird’s instruction below.
#3: My increasingly (pending) inability to avoid buying a 1st gen iPhone
I just know gen2 will come out sporting twin turbo prop engines, useful load of 2240lbs and a service ceiling of 25,000 feet.
Notes:
* - But then we might not have data for fun things like this
So today I joined the not so elite group of “NYC Commuters”. I took the 8:22am from Huntington on the busiest railroad in North America to Penn Station. Not a bad ride on the LIRR actually. Got a seat, nice aircon, no problems. Then I headed over 2 blocks to the Metro and headed downtown for 10 mins on the N Train. It was incredibly damn friggin hot. And I am told the worst summer has to offer is ahead of us still. Joy! But I am happy to be here, this city just pulsates energy and it’s exciting.
