Tuesday, April 29, 2014 – Inbound – trainspottingChicago

Good morning.

On the 8:17AM into the City. I slept through my alarm and stayed in my warm bed this morning. Call it dispensation. Or, at least I will.

I got a lot of work done at the office yesterday, in the hopes of trying to get out early. Instead of getting out early, I got caught up in the details and realized I wasn’t going to be able to bask.

Bask, you ask? Why, yes. You see, yesterday I and the alumni of Knox College in Galesburg, IL engaged in a collective, long-distance groupthink event called “Flunk Day”. The intent of Flunk Day is a day off during the aggressive Spring Trimester, as intrepid students are memorizing facts, practicing their craft, finishing their research, etc. The day off is a school sponsored carnival event.

Alumni have experienced three, if not four actual flunk days in our time at the College and, with the advent of social media, we can engage in a collective celebration along with the current students. Though I was thoroughly engaged in the groupthink, I would have rather been so at a outdoor restaurant or bar and NOT finishing off small tasks at my office.

In my desire to flunk out, I got an “A” for achievement. Two invoices, three submittals, five new contacts and got checks cut for vendors. Today is my Flunk Day, I guess!

Well, enough about me. A blonde Janeane Garofalo is here. The  comedian, actress and activist doppelganger is busy eating a granola bar and  checking through her emails on her iCrackerBot. She just switched to a large document – an actual stack of paper – in which she is reading figures or editing text. It could be a financial statement or a culmination of data of some kind. Her glasses are rectangular with a plastic rim and a dark brown, spotted lynx pattern.

The Captain from Law and Order SVU is here. The bald wiry fellow looks uncomfortable in the upper deck bucket seat. Perhaps he is taller than the average commuter, but that’s not it. He is pensive for some reason. Jumpy. Hmph.

Also here are Carl Sagan’s sister, Selena Gomez, a Latino John Cusack, and General Stonewall Jackson. All are armed.

Happy Tuesday. Safe travels.

Wednesday, October 09, 2013 – Homeward Bound – #trainspotting Chicago

Good afternoon. On the, strangely familiar, 3:55PM out of the City. End of Day Nine of the US Shutdown and one side is sounding sillier than the other.

You have a guy named Burr saying that not raising the Debt Ceiling isn’t a big deal. Don’t worry about it. You have Boehner and the House Republicans state that it’s POTUS’ Shutdown, when they instigated it, but instigated it after an agreement was already in place, negotiated by Harry Reid (D-Nv) and Boehner (R-OH) in June. House got a 30% Cut in Spending. Clean CR. Smooth sailing. The House Republicans changed their mind. Obamacare poisoned their thoughts, like pre-teens looking a video porn. How could Obama be so thoughtless as to run a perfectly good agreement from July 2013 with a law, that was passed in 2008, and upheld by SCOTUS? Damn you, POTUS, for poisoning a perfectly negotiated Budget Resolution with your five-year-old, pre-approved, bipartisan,  Socialist Policies! This is your fault!

Well, I digress. Two large troll looking men are sitting and chatting across the aisle and three seats back. One looks like a lawyer, the other a trader or fund manager. Fund manager is decidedly Sontaran or VladamPutin-esque. Big shouldered, bald head. They look like former high school football opponents.

There is an attractive young lady, she looks like a Selena Gomez type girl, who is on her cellular phone, chatting with her beau. Her heavily mascara-coated eyelashes are beating at various intervals that, in Morse Code, spell “Do Me Now, Big Boy”, except that its a voice conversation and not a video chat. It is likely that the beau on the other end is not conversant in Morse, or any other subtle form of communication, as Selena has stopped being coy and is explaining the concept of making reservations at the restaurant before picking her up. The fellow must have outstanding genes, and be highly pleasurable in bed, for her to be this patient with his obvious stupidity.

OK. Also here are Porkins from Red Squadron, Harvey Keitel, Clive Owen, Benched War Correspondent, and Dr. Oliver Sachs. All are armed.

Don’t let the repeated nonsense in the media distract you from the fact that there are coalitions who hate organized Government that have been voted into this Congress and they are revelling in the chaos as reasonable representatives and then vast majority look and wonder what the SOTHOROTUS is thinking.  It’ll get worse before it gets better.

In any case, Happy Wednesday. Stay Safe.

Monday, September 16, 2013 – Inbound – #trainspotting#Chicago

Good morning. On the, hectic, 7:55AM into the City. Late for me. I was planning on the 7:20AM. Such are the plans of mice and men, I suppose.

Off the cuff observation – evidently, commuting men believe it is appropriate, and even polite, to pick-clean one’s nose in public. I never knew! Going fishing soon.

I used to speak of a woman who reminded me of Kate Winslet. Well, she’s here and she’s very pregnant. Congrats! Her elegant face has some flattering curves around the jawline, a natural consequence of gestation, I’ve been told. I’m guessing she’s a good 25 weeks into the process. She’s all a glow!

Kathy Bates is here. She’s been working out over the summer and has lost a good ten pounds (I found them). She is sitting along the window. Next to her is a Selena Gomez-Mila Kunis mash up that is positively pixie-ish compared to the star power and gravitational pull of the Academy Award winning analog.

Teri Polo is here. The small woman has her sunglasses on and has already fallen asleep from the soothing rhythm of the train car. Not that I care, but I am guessing our Teri Polo is a happily married lesbian. Perhaps I am feeling decidedly sensitive to such matters today. Tapping into my bi-curious side perhaps? Need to plan a Key West vacation soon…..

Right. Also here are vacationing Fukashima-Daichi cleanup crew members, Carol Burnett, Fiona Apple, Daniel Day Lewis and a delegation of Bollywood extras. All are heavily armed, but concealing them nicely.

Happy Monday. Safe travels.