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I haven't been out yet, so I don't know about the picket lines. I remember walking home during the blackout and it took longer than 1 1/2 hours. And I am not young enough to do that indefinitely.
I think "it's so cold in Boston that millions of people can't get to work" would be a better equivalent and probably would hold a lot of peoples' interest, even if they're not in Beantown.
(I mean, hi, I'm reading this here thread and I'm certainly not in New York.)
Mine would suck. Ditmars down to Queensboro, across the 59th street bridge, down to Spring and across town to Hudson. Yeesh, I'm tired just typing that.
To get to swimming today: half a mile to Broadway (in Brooklyn), a mile and a half to the bridge (drops you at Delancey & Clinton), across the island, up to Tenth and Fifty-eighth.
To swimming tomorrow: over the bridge, up to Twenty-fourth and Lexington.
But I'd probably ride. The radio says you have to walk your bike across the bridge because there is shoes to shoe ped-lock.
Overall, the second one is only a little worse than Wino's.
Perhaps, but I'm old and decrepit and my employer has treated me poorly and I'm fried from all the stress this year, so I'll be damned if I'm going through some kind of endurance test for them.
Hell, I walk to work most of the time anyway. (Although not often in 25 degree weather.) I'm mostly disappointed that my boss made it in. Even though I'm just clearing out my desk and finishing up a few projects before my last day tomorrow, I was looking forward to stealing company secrets in private.
Anyways, I'm at home in my sweatpants and fuzzy slippers playing with pictures of cells in photoshop. Happy times.
Way to disappoint me. I had a vision of you carrying a cooler full of tissue samples and a pack of lab rats on the subway so you could "take some work home with you."
I was just watching the news and somebody mentioned something about schools closing early, which means Pips might be home soon. Yay! (any definitive word on that?)
If I posted "Gee, it's cold in Boston this morning" you'd be all "Who fucking cares what happens in Boston" and you know it.
You are in fact, wrong.
See if you said it was cold in Boston today, I would have just said, oh yeah, how cold is it? Did your ass freeze or I would have said nothing, because it didn't affect me. Gimme a break beantown, we get to talk about whatever the fuck we want. I love local stuff, I wish people would talk more about where they are from. I have no NY is the center of the universe problem, but it is the center of MY universe because I live here.
My walk was not bad at all, it was awesome in fact. The view over the bridge was stunning. I made breakfast and everything. Good times. I love adventures and trooping though.
The only problem is the random inconveniences, they are opening the schools two hours late (today the kid went to her uncles house so that's cool, tomorrow I have to take her in late), the bizzare cab fare thing, I heard you have to hop on one foot going east on odd numbered streets and walk backwards swearing in Persian on any street that Ernie Enastos calls out over the air, a la the hokey pokey.
I heard you have to hop on one foot going east on odd numbered streets and walk backwards swearing in Persian on any street that Ernie Enastos calls out over the air, a la the hokey pokey.
On any given day there's ten guys in my neighborhood doing just that. Damn cabbies are gonna make a bundle. Of course most of the aforementioned guys are cabbies, so maybe they're just keeping it in the family.
jonmc: the subway rats would mess up my experiments - they are way too smart ("you call that a maze, bitch?") Lab rats have been so domesticated that they are dumb as fuck. Plus, subway rats would eat me.
The 59th st bridge is always open to foot traffic. Entrance is at 2nd Ave and 59th in Manhattan (NE side of the bridge, look for the bikes) and by the base of the bridge at QB plaza in Queens. It's a great walk... in the summer and spring. I used to walk home from Union Square to Astoria this past May.
Now walking the Triboro bridge, on the other hand, that's a mistake I won't make twice. Hideous, and looooooooong. Took me at least an hour walking on the bridge to just reach Randall's Island.
YIKES. That sucks...I don't know what I'd do if the RTA had a strike. (A CTA-only shutdown I could probably deal with...but if Pace and Metra were also shut down, forget coming in!)
jon and other Astoria people: take the ferry from LIC to 34th st.--NY Waterways.
I walked (i'm not that far--just all the way across town--10th/35th to 42nd/Lex--a little over a mile each way)--it was ok (i sometimes walk home in the winter anyway), and the garment district has fun windows. I went by Bryant Park and the skating rink too--i'm dying to go.
I heard you have to hop on one foot going east on odd numbered streets and walk backwards swearing in Persian on any street that Ernie Enastos calls out over the air, a la the hokey pokey.
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