It's begining to look a lot like winter.

TIL: People will think you're a surveyor if you dress in work boots, Carhartt, and a high-vis vest, then walk around a parking lot measuring things.

Today's bucket list: - Buy stuff from sign of the dove - Measure drive isles in the Porter Square parking lot - Check out an industrial property where someone wants to add warehouse space.

Weekly thread of #ArlingtonMA home sales. It was an active week with 16 properties changing hands. 6 were in the sub-million dollar range. Yes, "homeowner" and "millionaire" are generally synonymous terms in Arlington.

I went to an americana show tonight, and got to play a cowbell solo in front of a real live audience. This was so incredibly fun!

Home is where the couch is.

Redneck by birth. Masshole by choice.

That is one crazy daredevil squirrel.

Someone gave me an earworm earlier today. Now you all have to listen to it. 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm4...

Today's weather: winter with a bowl vibe.

Serious question: did Rush ever write any songs about hockey?

Morning ride to the office. It's a brisk and sunny -13C.

Weekly 🧵about #ArlingtonMA home sales. Seven properties changed hands, two of which were under a million bucks.

The fight over home costs in MA is going to get real. bankerandtradesman.com/industrys-30...

Deskwork, shopping, cooking, laundry, banking, and random to-dos around the house. Yes, that is my weekend.

Will be interesting to see how this case plays out. bankerandtradesman.com/landlord-sue...

May you laugh as hard as I did.

Heard something on the radio about folks to like to get together, hang out, have a few drinks, and do ... paperwork. These may be my people.

This week's Arlington Redevelopment board meeting. We had multi-family housing on Robbins Road, and discussions about citizen proposals for zoning changes. www.srevilak.net/wiki/Arlingt...

Kudos to @cityofsomerville.bsky.social for going with bus islands and cycle tracks.

Lol.

Back in my graveyard shift days, (4am) lunch was two potatoes in a brown paper bag, cooked in a microwave. I'm going all nostalgic for dinner tonight.

Our local news outlet interviewed me for a story about the ballot petition for rent control. I tried to inject a little bit of class analysis. yourarlington.com/2025/12/rent...

As a treat-to-self, that subscription to @theonion.com was totally worth it.

It's 2025 and boston traffic is still bad. “Without meaningful investment in real alternatives like transit, bike lanes, and walkable neighborhoods, these burdens will only cost us more time and pollution,” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/04/m...

I've never seen a DPW use excavators to clear leaves, but it seems to be working for them.

Clearing the way for a new apartment building. (East Lexington)

Fine early winter morning.

This is Spring Street: an overcrowded turn box, and a line of traffic as far as the eye can see. When the light changes, I'm gonna zip right by all that nonsense.

I've started getting "your order is confirmed" spam in the form of Google calendar notifications. People are so clever 🙃

Grifty grifters gonna grift, sigh.

major rototill: it will be at least two days before this code compiles again

Living life in the weather-free band, just northwest of Boston. Light rain and temps above freezing, but we might get a wintery mix later.

Greenhouse gas emissions. What goes around comes around. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/s...

Ah - the blue stuff is now on the map.

2026 could be a turning point for housing in Massachusetts. This would be a good thing. bankerandtradesman.com/why-2026-cou...

Joint meeting of folks from Precincts 1, 3, and 7. I'd call it a general airing of concerns, with some information about the upcoming override. www.srevilak.net/wiki/Precinc...

Round numbers: 600 sets of public meeting notes www.srevilak.net/wiki/Categor...

Presentation about the effort to update Arlington's 2021 Net Zero Action Plan: www.srevilak.net/wiki/Net_Zer...

The T isn't perfect, but it's still pretty freaking good at getting people where they need to go.

Tuesday's forecast: a wintery mix with less than an inch accumulation or 7-8 inches, depending on who you ask. I guess it's still up for grabs.

New @mbta.com red line trains beep rapidly when the doors are about to close. Call me a traitor, but I would rather hear "Stand clear of the closing doors!" instead.

Everyday bicycle stuff: picking up kitty litter, cat food, weather stripping, and air filters for the heat pump.

Weekly thread about #ArlingtonMA home sales. For properties changed hands this week, but only one was in the sub-megabuck range.

New snow tires. They are spiky and buzzy.

Feed kids, fix roads, fund hospitals. The campaign slogans are getting better and better.

How it started, and how it's going. Someone purchased this apartment building for $3.5M about two months ago. They're giving it a rehab.

Adding this to my resume: - was never friends with Jeffery Epstein.

TIL that there is a Canadian Thanksgiving, and it's celebrated on the second Monday in October.

Alternatively, build enough homes to get the vacancy rate up to around 6-7%. Take away the scarcity premium.