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Nov. 4th, 2012 09:52 pmInteresting, continued from yesterday:
I've discovered that I have another completely useless superpower. If I'm driving somewhere and there's a wrong lane to be in, I'll be in it. Boston wasn't designed for being forgiving of being in the wrong lane, so in the process of driving from Brighton to East Cambridge (six miles, according to Google), I went to Harvard, Watertown, Fenway, the Boston Common and Charles Circle, among other places. (Going to Harvard wasn't really a wrong-lane problem as much as it was a turned-the-wrong-way-onto-Memorial-Drive problem. But then I couldn't turn around until Watertown, and then I couldn't get back to Memorial Drive going the right way, and then when I finally did get back to it, I was in the wrong lane and ended up going downtown instead of to East Cambridge, and when I got back to Storrow Drive I was in the wrong lane and ended up going to Fenway, and...)
So anyway, it took me about an hour to get from point A to point B. But I did get there eventually, and the end result (two hours later) was that I've got a new-to-me GIGANTIC flat screen television and a new-to-me HDMI-capable DVD player (which I don't really need, but which was thrown in with the TV), and I think I know how to get them all to do the appropriate things.
Also good: in my wanderings about East Cambridge when I finally got there, I found the rug store I hadn't found yesterday. Now that I know where it is, I can go there next weekend (on the T, thank you very much) to look at rugs in person. I've decided that looking at them online isn't working. I can't tell if a teeny little picture on a screen would still be something I liked as an 8' x 11' rug. Besides, I'm not sure exactly what I want; I just know I haven't seen it yet.
How is tomorrow allowed to be Monday already?
I've discovered that I have another completely useless superpower. If I'm driving somewhere and there's a wrong lane to be in, I'll be in it. Boston wasn't designed for being forgiving of being in the wrong lane, so in the process of driving from Brighton to East Cambridge (six miles, according to Google), I went to Harvard, Watertown, Fenway, the Boston Common and Charles Circle, among other places. (Going to Harvard wasn't really a wrong-lane problem as much as it was a turned-the-wrong-way-onto-Memorial-Drive problem. But then I couldn't turn around until Watertown, and then I couldn't get back to Memorial Drive going the right way, and then when I finally did get back to it, I was in the wrong lane and ended up going downtown instead of to East Cambridge, and when I got back to Storrow Drive I was in the wrong lane and ended up going to Fenway, and...)
So anyway, it took me about an hour to get from point A to point B. But I did get there eventually, and the end result (two hours later) was that I've got a new-to-me GIGANTIC flat screen television and a new-to-me HDMI-capable DVD player (which I don't really need, but which was thrown in with the TV), and I think I know how to get them all to do the appropriate things.
Also good: in my wanderings about East Cambridge when I finally got there, I found the rug store I hadn't found yesterday. Now that I know where it is, I can go there next weekend (on the T, thank you very much) to look at rugs in person. I've decided that looking at them online isn't working. I can't tell if a teeny little picture on a screen would still be something I liked as an 8' x 11' rug. Besides, I'm not sure exactly what I want; I just know I haven't seen it yet.
How is tomorrow allowed to be Monday already?
