Had a dream where a union member had been on strike for the previous two Christmases and found out her two least talented sisters had replaced her as Mary in a production about the Christmas story, where we then got a song… “Scab Mary”

Today left a foul taste in my mouth. Manifesting a little of the joy of the previous few days before I sleep

Love to have trucks who were going too fast for icy conditions blow past you on the shoulder on both sides of the freeway at the same time. (No one got hit; one truck is now off the road but did not roll over)

I still remember the hullabaloo 20 years ago about how the Short North arches were a fiasco cuz the lighting didn’t work. Sometimes issues get straightened out. Sometimes you can have cool things.

Happy anniversary to Marie and I. We finished the @senatormeow.bsky.social Christmas Challenge with Rex: A Dinosaur Story (1993), which was an incredibly cute story.

You can pick on transit tokens all you want, but Jack could never have married Lucy at the end of While You Were Sleeping if he hadn’t had one!

Happy anniversary to @marie.tech, who foolishly agreed to my proposal 5 and a half years ago. Our 2020 holiday bubble contained a minister (Marie’s sister Amy) and two witnesses (her parents) and so it worked out perfectly.

Sunday zen: watching the Olentangy River ramble on past from Highbanks Metro Park in Orange Township, Delaware County Ohio.

I love how Christopher Walken has one character he plays no matter what role he’s cast in.

I get dressed and put on my coat. “Where is my blazer???” Wander around, can’t find it. Get where we’re going, take off my coat, blazer on over my dress. Mind like a steel trap.

Our tree stayed up past the end of 2020 and well into 2021 because I only wanted one thing for Christmas and somehow it turned into another case of this.

Seen earlier today (2 states ago): an Ioniq 5 with Pennsylvania plate “SUX 0GAS”

Ah yes, the “high stress streets for cycling” map of Columbus. I should compare it to my Strava heat map 😓

The ones from walk away from Omelas and into Mordor

It’s wild being in your childhood bathroom looking in the mirror and thinking of that scared little girl nearly 50 years ago and what she saw, and didn’t see, in the mirror as you look in it. (Not the same physical mirror, it was replaced once in that time)

My mother, while grousing about my father, mentioned his very specific memory of what items are in what locations and anyway I guess I get my issues honestly

I stopped to take this picture while biking yesterday (it’s the church used in the movie Dogma) and today one of the friends we’re visiting said she drove past me on this street and was surprised when she realized the cyclist was me and thus I was in town 🤣

Movie that’s supposed to be set near Philadelphia where the license plates on the cars are literally printouts, which you can tell by the fact that they’re *wrinkled* in one of the shots.

When I was in high school, my bus used this street. I looked at the excessive width and pushed, to no one who mattered, for bike lanes. Only took another 30 years and for me to move away 😔 (The bridge that collapsed is a very short way behind me)

Company that specializes in hosting Christian websites called Heavenly Hosts

Yeah, sure, Transit.app, it was definitely this and not spending lots of time testifying in transit board meetings, haranguing my representation and doing other advocacy. Sure.

WEQX only really played Christmas music for the last two days of the season, and they managed to make any listener lose #LDB and #Whamageddon in the last 5 minutes.

One copy on order and that’s it in the state… maybe I should donate one (in addition to the copy I have myself)

Got to catch up with @zacktanner.com tonight for the first time in so long that the News Guild 38061 strike against the Post-Gazette that was just finally settled hadn’t even started yet last we chatted 🙃

Recognizing someone is local just by seeing the pic they used for the article (It’s the I-195 Iway bridge, just outside the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier in Providence)

See a cat post a cat.

Overhearing bits and pieces of an interview with someone who helped organize and participate in a rent strike

On the topic of “empty homes” but also on how we let the mortgage crisis chase people out of what could still be affordable housing, all for nothing.

Staring directly at New England on this one. Cc @faineg.bsky.social

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Tonight’s fun thing, Wilbury Thteatre’ss production of Octet by Dave Malloy, directed by Josh Short!

Finally got to see one of those giant stuffies Rhode Island had places in airports as a tourism pitch and it looked *nothing* like I expected

While there’s a monument to the Great Swamp Fight of 350 years ago, modern research suggests it may be misplaced and that the actual battle took place in what’s now Great Swamp management area. Well, 350 years and 2 days later, we’re here at Great Swamp management area.

Going through old stuff and finding things like the ticket stub from seeing Coraline, checking out “The Making of Brownstone Brooklyn” and an incomplete Sheetz MTO punchcard.

Remember when AI was cool?

The recipe called for ketchup, what did you expect me to do…

When your psychiatry bills are up from last year, is that shrinkflation?

“If nothing else, 1587 seems to be succeeding as a jobs program for the local service industry and fire-enjoyers.” Woof.

How about some Friday zen: the falls in downtown Pawtucket, beside the cradle of industrialization of America, swollen by heavy rains.

Trying to make some space on my phone and found this screenshot of a Twitter poll about green energy. That Twitter is long since dead alas

Whammed! At the Coffeeshop!

The author of this piece perfectly describes my liberal use of photos here: “It’s because I like my photos and text exchanges where I like my martinis: in my hand.” If you look at my posts here, you’ll probably notice I’m very visual.

When today’s RIPTA board meeting ended, Director @patcrowley401.bsky.social offered a dedication to the memory of Patricia Raub, who was before her passing codirector of RI Transit Riders in addition to all her work in the creation of the Community Libraries of Providence. Here’s a recording.

Marie queued up Stalag 17 and my question was, am I gonna be okay if I haven’t seen Stalag 1 through 16 yet.

Did I meet a trans woman in the neighborhood who’s still living her life with her ex-wife the same day I finished Emily St James’ _Woodworking_? It’s just coincidence but it’s still wild.

“the lowest ‘feels like’ temp will be at 1pm” no, sorry, you don’t understand, that’s actually the part of the day when it’s meant to be warmest. 1pm is when it gets hot. entire cultures are built around this.

There’s a paving contractor parking outside my house. Whatever, I don’t own the curb. But the lifter noise from their engine tells me the truck is suffering from either not enough oil or a dying oil pump, and it’s driving me nuts.

I mean, I can guess. Bad time of year for solar, Maine hates looking at wires more than they hate greenhouse gases, and we still disproportionately use natural gas to burn for our power in addition to for heat.

I’m just a cranky middle aged woman who thinks we deserve better, for multiple scopes of “we” and multiple sets of “better”, so the fact that I’m not making video is probably fine. But. Sigh.

The instant I opened this app and saw @notalegalrecord.net share the discomfort of his cold bike ride this morning I knew I’d regret not having some sort of face covering to bike with. Anyway I haven’t left yet. Stay tuned.