Today is Monday, the day after New Years. I want to wish everyone a wonderful 2006. May all your favorite wishes come true.
I noticed that the trend this year for bloggers is to post your New Year’s resolutions in your blog and announce them to the world. I have never, ever, ever made New Year’s resolutions and I am not about to start now. Maybe I will make a resolution to make a resolution next year, but that is as far as I am going to go.
I am very tired today ‘cuz I didn’t get much sleep last night. My girlfriend’s son wanted to come home early from his visit with his father in New Jersey, butwas unable to get a seat on the Acelera train from New York. So he did the next best thing and booked a seat on the New York to Boston Greyhound bus. He was expected to arrive at 10pm ensuring us an early visit by the sandman. Unfortunately, the night didn’t work out that way. His bus broke down two hours outside of New York and he sat by the side of the road for 3 hours while Greyhound tried to figure out how they were going to get everyone home. I know that bus travel isn’t rocket science, but it does take time to find another bus and then move it to the right roadside stop. Eventually he arrived in Boston at 1:00am and after a short wait and Taxi ride he made it home at 1:26am.
Now I realize that I may sound a little snobby, but outside of a junior high school trip to Washington DC, summer camp, and weekly school ski trips from Pittsburgh to Somerset PA, I have never taken a intercity bus. I have taken trains and plane and experienced my share of travel delays due to faulty equipment. Once I was even on an aircraft that suffered a malfunction in the air and almost made an rough emergency landing. However, the one constant aboutall my plane and train travel is that I have never been stuck outside on the side of the road waiting for my next ride. I am pretty positive I am not going to give anyone a chance to make that nightmare a reality. As great as the $30 roundtrip bus fare to New York sounds, I’ll stick to the Delta shuttle or Amtrak Acelera train. If the Acelera breaks down, at least I’ll have power for my laptop, a bar car, and the Internet. Think of the postings I could make drunk from the train. Kinda like drunk dialing, only bigger.
I think when someone accidentally hits the flag instead of next blog they can get someone blacklisted. It happened to my writing links blog I have. It took about a week to fix. No big deal, just time.