The SEPTA strike is over as of yesterday. Governor Ed Rendell sat down with union and management at 8 PM Sunday night and didn’t emerge until 5:30 AM the next morning. My dog was at the kennel so I took it slow that morning. Upon realizing that my ass was going to be late, I called a taxi to get me to the station. I arrived exactly when my train is supposed to leave assuming that it’s always late and that I’d make it. That didn’t happen. I called my generous co-worker Praveen to let him kniw I’d be on a later train. On the way to the station in the cab, I noticed a SEPTA bus idling on the corner of 5th and Arch but figured it was a fluke. I tried to get the cabbie to tell me if he knew anything by saying, ”How about that strike, huh?” He gave me a disclaimer about how he wasn’t benefitting from the situation since everyone had switched to taking cars instead of cabs. When I got into the office, I received an email from Heather indicating the strike was over and wondering if I would accompany her for the procurement of groceries. Not having a car has been a mixed bag. On one hand you can go shop with your friends for whatever, but on the other hand you are always bumming rides. I equal things out by hiding money in the coin tray.
Upon returning home I made an unsuccessful attempt at retrieving my dog from the kennel. Dang! They closed at 6 PM and I was S.O.L. Since I was driving the PhillyCarShare hybrid and had already paid for an hour of car time, I beelined straight from the vet to the IKEA on Colombus Ave. Mmmmm. IKEA. I needed a mattress for my newly acquired sofa bed. I got the KLASSIC model for a mere $250. Ouch. I stuffed it into the back of the car where I was already storing my (empty) dog carrier. I got home and figured the mattress was slightly longer than the sofabed. I parked the car at its pod and walkked back home to see if I could massage the mattress into fitting. It worked. It’s a bit of a tight fit, but I figure it will mostly be in sofa mode versus bed mode. I worked out for an hour with Justin (chest, back, and some biceps and triceps), did some laundry (blues and whites), and learned me more computer skillz (UNIX bash and MovableType tags) before heading off to sleepyland (Zzzzz).
Click here to check out the mini-site I created detailing my LASIK experience. I reversed the order of blog entries to make it more readable. You can thank me later. Or not.
The only highlight this morning came while I was waiting for my train. A girl sitting next to me at the station had carelessly tossed the wrapper from a stick of gum on the chair. She was facing with her back to me, so she probably didn’t notice when I crumpled up the wrapper and tossed it into the hood of her jacket. I loves the clean train stations, mmmkay?
