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From One Extreme to the Other…in One Evening

I met my high school friend, Candy, after work on Friday night. She had driven to Boston from Cape Cod to drop her sister off at Boston College for the fall semester. We met in Chinatown since she was there getting a haircut. She and I walked to a nearby Vietnamese restaurant where I had a yummy pork/vegetable meal and […]

What Will They Think of Next?

I’m amazed at the lengths advertisers will go to sell their product or image. It was bad enough that we had to see billboards for decades. Then in the 90’s adverstisers began covering entire city buses with advertsements (versus just having a small ad on a side panel of the bus). Also in the 90’s, […]

I’m Registered.

No, not to vote (though I am registered to vote and will be there bright and early in November). I’m registered for classes at Harvard in the fall. It’s such a great benefit of working here. I mean, I’m paying $40.00 per class. If I was regular student, the total cost for this semester alone would […]

I’m a Bitter Old Man

I did the strangest thing last night. Normally, I’m a behind-the-scenes pisser and moaner. I save up my energy and vent via this blog. But yesterday, I snapped at somebody – and for a silly reason (she was even friendly to me before I snapped). Here’s what I happened: I was leaving North Station/Fleet Center […]