2751: Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence
Ungh...
I was wondering if I wasn't going a slightly longer way to work than I could be going, particularly with the half-hour of red lights I sit through, taking exit 8 rather than the 370 exit towards Rockville. So, after a stop at Target for some socks [and failing to find these newfangled Neojank things that are supposed to be out immediately if not sooner], I went that way, and at the light on Shady Grove road, there was a homeless vet.
=(
I thought about how his sign requested work, food, and SOCKS. I had food! I had socks! [even if just my one lunch and socks that weren't likely to fit him] I even had a wad of cash I keep in the car in the event of I came across a surprise tollbooth.* I waited just a minute before deciding I should give him something, but by then he was long out of sight, wandered behind some other cars, maybe.
*which has happened on trips in West Tennessee and various parts of Pennsylvania/Northern Maryland
I feel so bad now. I had AN OPPORTUNITY and missed it. It doesn't mean a lot to me, but it would have been a big deal for him. [On top of that, I wasn't even in the correct lane and went the long way to work after all.] *sigh* He's not likely to be there tomorrow, or if he is, he'll still be in the wrong lane, out of reach for the length of time that light's red.
I did check Barnes & Noble's Wi-Fi. It's about as slow as the router, and not free, so that's just going to be the way it is, I guess. At least I know I have options, even if I don't know how expensive those options will be at the moment [was late for work as it was to actually sign up].
I need Nano to be right now. I wrote out a whole bunch of junk while waiting for scans tonight, prolly to work out all that negativity I've been feeling [especially the sad karma I got before work]. Experience shows that I'll get so into whatever project is right at hand that I'll feel kind of let down when it's done, even if it's a project like "finish all of Picross, then sell that shit" =p so, perhaps that's a clue as to why I can't finish things--I kinda don't want them to end...
I was wondering if I wasn't going a slightly longer way to work than I could be going, particularly with the half-hour of red lights I sit through, taking exit 8 rather than the 370 exit towards Rockville. So, after a stop at Target for some socks [and failing to find these newfangled Neojank things that are supposed to be out immediately if not sooner], I went that way, and at the light on Shady Grove road, there was a homeless vet.
=(
I thought about how his sign requested work, food, and SOCKS. I had food! I had socks! [even if just my one lunch and socks that weren't likely to fit him] I even had a wad of cash I keep in the car in the event of I came across a surprise tollbooth.* I waited just a minute before deciding I should give him something, but by then he was long out of sight, wandered behind some other cars, maybe.
*which has happened on trips in West Tennessee and various parts of Pennsylvania/Northern Maryland
I feel so bad now. I had AN OPPORTUNITY and missed it. It doesn't mean a lot to me, but it would have been a big deal for him. [On top of that, I wasn't even in the correct lane and went the long way to work after all.] *sigh* He's not likely to be there tomorrow, or if he is, he'll still be in the wrong lane, out of reach for the length of time that light's red.
I did check Barnes & Noble's Wi-Fi. It's about as slow as the router, and not free, so that's just going to be the way it is, I guess. At least I know I have options, even if I don't know how expensive those options will be at the moment [was late for work as it was to actually sign up].
I need Nano to be right now. I wrote out a whole bunch of junk while waiting for scans tonight, prolly to work out all that negativity I've been feeling [especially the sad karma I got before work]. Experience shows that I'll get so into whatever project is right at hand that I'll feel kind of let down when it's done, even if it's a project like "finish all of Picross, then sell that shit" =p so, perhaps that's a clue as to why I can't finish things--I kinda don't want them to end...