When faced with your transit line being on fire, proceed directly to your second-best option. Do not think, "oh, I'll try something new this time" or "maybe they'll get the shuttle buses sorted out real soonish-like." You shouldn't, and they won't, and you will be either 2 1/2 hours late getting home or an hour late getting to work, rushing to someplace you don't even want to be anyway.
In other,not unrelated news, our Boston exit strategy is shaping up more quickly, which pleases me.
This summer I am getting back on the blog wagon. I hope it's drawn by a team of clydesdales.
I'm also making stuff around the house. I just topped an old desk with a layer of cork and hung 9 small line drawings of the wildflowers of North America.
My birthday is Saturday and I'm throwing myself a brunch, with pancakes. You only WISH you could be here while I elevate the temperature of my already ass-meltingly hot kitchen with my Big Ugly Cast Iron Two Burner Griddle.
What are your summer plans? Anyone going to camp, or are fuel prices keeping us all home with our video games?




I am going to start riding my bike to work. And sweating. I plan on doing lots of sweating.