Even though I probably created the impression with my last post that I wouldn't be back this weekend, I am. Because of a bunch of things. Like this ( Read more... )

How the STM can offer only regular Sunday metro service on New Year's Eve is beyond me. I know of other cities that at least acknowledge that tonight is not a regular Sunday, and that lots of people are going to be out drinking tonight. And that every cab in the city is going to have fares from midnight until dawn ( Read more... )

Dear public transit users ( Read more... )

I went to the movies tonight. There were probably about three or four years there, where I didn't go to the movies once. But now, I've been twice in the past few weeks, because rottenfruit has regularly put my ass out on the street so that she might have the apartment free to give a lesson in ( Read more... )

Today, as I was entering the metro, a young, healthy-looking man cut in front of me to cross the street, and then didn't hold the door to the station for an old man who was not two seconds behind him. Inside the station, the first man was too wrapped up in his little head to notice that the one escalator that was functioning, was going up. He ( Read more... )

I'm coming back around to thinking that I'm really a winter person. It contradicts almost everyone I know, but I have more energy in the winter. In the summer, it's just all hot and hazy and everyone's on vacation and it just feels like lazytime ( Read more... )

The friggin' metro shut down just as I was leaving work today. I walked down to the SAQ in the Forum to kill time. I bought some wine, and walked into Atwater metro, but it was still down ( Read more... )

Friggin' Braves. They weren't supposed to sweep us. That wasn't part of the deal.

Today at Atwater Metro, I saw this cute old woman staring at a Nike ad, with a picture of a sexy male athlete taking off his shirt. It was very cute, and I wish I'd had a camera. I should start carrying the digicam with me to more places ( Read more... )