I was talking with some friends out on the street. Suddenly leighjen started pulling away; she was balanced on the rear bumper of an MBTA bus which had been idling near us. And she kept talking, and it became clear that she wasn't talking to us but actually just loudspeakering (sans actual loudspeaker) into the air to promote some production that she was ( Read more... )

I just ordered a Charlie Card from mbta.com. (Yes, you can get them by asking divers friendly T employees for one in person, but I ride the thing infrequently enough nowadays that mail-order is most convenient for me.)

If it ever gets cold enough for gloves again, I look forward to doing this.

The drive back from Maine on Monday was uneventful, but for a nice discovery. I listened via iPod to the entirety of Hard 'N Phirm's Horses and Grasses, which I bought last year after falling in love with the video for their "Pi" song, but didn't really give a full listen to. I mean, it's a novelty album, and I haven't been in the mood to sit and ( Read more... )

I found a blog about the T: http://www.badtransit.com/ I have been learning a lot about the whole Charlie business through it. The RFID-bearing Charlie Cards sound cool and I look forward to seeing how they work, but... everything so far as been handled so short-sightedly that I kind of ( Read more... )

I finally used cash to buy a Charlie Card last night, since they're finally converting Porter Square. (In the past, I've just traded tokens for single-use tickets ( Read more... )

Just learned that the Red Line prolly won't get started until after my bus to Waterville leaves. I didn't know it slept in an extra hour on the Sunday/Holiday schedule. Crap. Guess it's better to find this out now (via mbta.com) than early tomorrow morning, though. So, will not be in Waterville until late afternoon at the soonest, and may end up ( Read more... )

Went to meerkitty's house this evening for an antisocial. She worked on her strange Cisco moon-voodoo while I talked business with daerr and read Rules of Play (which I'm enjoying more and more). Met her very friendly cat. I think traveling all the way from Porter to Riverside (D line) is the longest I've ever ridden the T. It takes more than an hour, even when ( Read more... )

Entering: Harvard Square.

No smoking, please.

Next stop: Central Square.

Priority Override.

Must break target down to component materials.

My parents finally picked up a Globe to check real estate prices 'round here. They didn't believe the numbers I have recited to them, until now. But then this led into another long lecture (in the academic sense) about home-buying strategies, so I know it didn't really discourage them from their dream of seeing their youngest become a homeowner; ( Read more... )

Day got off on the wrong foot, but became fun anyway. Discovered that I seem to have lost my bank card, so instead of going to the ATM machine on my way to the T, I lugged my box of coins to the CoinStar machine in the Porter Square Shaw's. (I can't just sidle into my bank for a withdrawal because my bank is NetBank, and does not have any of your ( Read more... )