I think about this every morning on my way to work with the fabulous women I work with.  I go through this cycle, where I look down at the ground or focus my eyes to the distance as I walk past all sorts of folks on my way to the subway.  It's a four block walk, involving the crossing of only one avenue and a couple smaller streets.  But there are  ( Read more... )

ok, it's a been awhile since I bitched about my commute, but today requires it ( Read more... )

So the addendum to my story on the damn imaging drum for the printer is that after I put in the new drum from Staples (giddy with excitement, almost kissing the delivery guy), I found that the printer drum was not causing the current problem with the printing.  After another 40 minutes on the phone with the HP guy (who was much more thorough than ( Read more... )

So, I've got a moment.... yes... to myself!  It's been many weeks cine my last confession.  Since then, I got a job (have I written since then?), and my trials and tribulations have evolved -- from simply surviving the boredom, chaos, suffocation and despair that is often known as a COMMUTE, to the matter of "The Elusive Printer Drum", general ( Read more... )

I was so tired and out of it last night that I screwed up my commute home multiple times ( Read more... )

Just a quick entry here... but I have to mention that I subsribed to NYTimes Weekender (Sat/Sun) a couple of weeks ago, and I got my first paper this Sunday!  Of course, you know it's SO HUGE that I'll have stuff to read for my commute through the whole week!  Very interesting... I love the "Week in Review" section ( Read more... )

Today I took the train further uptown than usual in order to drop off something for my boss.  Heading back, I decided to take a bus because it was a short distance, and it's always nice not to go underground!  The NYC buses are so nice I am always amazed... The BART in SF is to the NYC subway system what the NYC bus system is to SF buses... They ( Read more... )

so, today I left the house later (at the office until 9:30 last night, so I knew it was cool)... Even though I wasn't on a time schedule and didn't really care, it's still annoying to get to the station early and wait ten minutes for a train.  I mean, REALLY...in rush hour!  Why/how does that happen ( Read more... )

So, I just had to run something uptown for my boss.... and two common issues forcefully impose themselves on my mind now ( Read more... )

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."  The collection of Thoreau's writings has revitalized my commute.  Oddly enough, reading about how worthless "merely" making a living is, brightens up my mood on my way into work.  Could also be that I owe taxes this year too.... I'm in a Hate$$ kinda mood:)  It is so inspiring to read lines of ( Read more... )