Showing posts with label Metro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metro. Show all posts
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Goodbye Mr. Van Houter
I was reading The Express this morning... and I was wondering...how many people looked at this dude and probably thought he was asleep. I see this all the time, but I never tap the person...I guess I'm afraid of either their reaction or discovering something along the lines of Mr. Van Houter's case...I can't say I'd take that well, especially if I were sitting next to whoever it was...As many times as I've had brushes with death, I'm still very fearful of it...I don't want to believe what my dad does, that it's the end...but at the same time...I don't know...It just disturbs me that no one paid this person any mind. Are we all that locked inside ourselves? I think that's sad, scary and depressing at the same time. My heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to Mr. Van Houter's family.
Friday, April 2, 2010
What a week I'm having!
The pollen is totally kicking my can this morning. I didn't even have to leave the apartment before my eyes started itching.
Metro was a mess yesterday evening. I love tourists. What would DC do without them? At times, I've been a tourist myself...(I've hit NYC, Chicago, Anaheim, CA, Toronto, and Daytona Beach), so I try to put myself in their shoes. Yesterday's evening train was packed with people who came I guess to enjoy the cherry blossoms. This happens every year (It's just depending on where I live and what line I use, how it affects my personal commute varies.). So my question to Metro is this: If it is a given that tourists are going to crowd the system for certain events, why don' t they add more cars to the trains they've already got running? Yesterday, people (tourists and locals) were packing themselves onto already crowded trains. I'm guessing because some of them probably, like me had a bus connection they didn't want to miss, but still, that doesn't make it right. At what point does common sense kick in?
I have a bill collection agency that won't leave me alone, because someone stole my soc. number and paid their utility bill with it. How I don't know. The utility company wants money. I'm not paying anybody, because I didn't run the bill up. I was tempted to pay the collection agency just to get them to stop harrassing me, but when they said they wouldn't give me a refund once I proved to them what I said was true, I lost that temptation really quickly. The police taking forever to send my case report hasn't helped matters either. My guess is my request is one in a pile of many sitting on someone's desk. I'll try and light a fire under somebody's can next week.
Was messing around on facebook and stumbled across Noel Cruz. I didn't make the connection that he was the same artist I'd read about in one of my doll mags a while back (Doll collecting mags are kind of expensive, so I only buy them when I can afford to splurge. I'm also bad with names and faces unless it's one I see quite a bit.). Both his artwork and his dolls blow me away.
Take a peek: http://www.ncruz.com/
Metro was a mess yesterday evening. I love tourists. What would DC do without them? At times, I've been a tourist myself...(I've hit NYC, Chicago, Anaheim, CA, Toronto, and Daytona Beach), so I try to put myself in their shoes. Yesterday's evening train was packed with people who came I guess to enjoy the cherry blossoms. This happens every year (It's just depending on where I live and what line I use, how it affects my personal commute varies.). So my question to Metro is this: If it is a given that tourists are going to crowd the system for certain events, why don' t they add more cars to the trains they've already got running? Yesterday, people (tourists and locals) were packing themselves onto already crowded trains. I'm guessing because some of them probably, like me had a bus connection they didn't want to miss, but still, that doesn't make it right. At what point does common sense kick in?
I have a bill collection agency that won't leave me alone, because someone stole my soc. number and paid their utility bill with it. How I don't know. The utility company wants money. I'm not paying anybody, because I didn't run the bill up. I was tempted to pay the collection agency just to get them to stop harrassing me, but when they said they wouldn't give me a refund once I proved to them what I said was true, I lost that temptation really quickly. The police taking forever to send my case report hasn't helped matters either. My guess is my request is one in a pile of many sitting on someone's desk. I'll try and light a fire under somebody's can next week.
Was messing around on facebook and stumbled across Noel Cruz. I didn't make the connection that he was the same artist I'd read about in one of my doll mags a while back (Doll collecting mags are kind of expensive, so I only buy them when I can afford to splurge. I'm also bad with names and faces unless it's one I see quite a bit.). Both his artwork and his dolls blow me away.
Take a peek: http://www.ncruz.com/
Friday, March 19, 2010
5...4...3...2...1...Rant!
I have 3 different things I want to rant about. Rather than do three different posts, I'm just going to combine them and get them all out of my system at once.
Yesterday, I got off at 4:30 to find the Orange trains weren't running because of a broken train I believe...I'm signed up for an alert...did we get one...Nope. Not on the loud speakers, not on the e-mail alerts. The only way you could tell was by looking at those electronic monitors and noticing the lack of anything orange. Guess they said, "Well they can figure it out." I've never wanted wings so badly in my life...
Found out they extended some hours on the dates for the Terra Cotta Warriors at the National Geographic Museum. I give it one more shot...Guess what the message I got was after I ordered one ticket for 9:30AM on 3/28/2010. Please order less tickets than the number you requested...WTF???!!!How do you order less than one ticket. If the time is sold out, just say it! And I'm not even going to get started on the ridiculous virtual waiting room travesty.
Texas...I read an article in the express...and I forgot whether this is just one county or across the state...They want to exclude teaching that Hip Hop is part of American culture...I wonder what else they'll see fit to exclude. Jazz maybe?
Yesterday, I got off at 4:30 to find the Orange trains weren't running because of a broken train I believe...I'm signed up for an alert...did we get one...Nope. Not on the loud speakers, not on the e-mail alerts. The only way you could tell was by looking at those electronic monitors and noticing the lack of anything orange. Guess they said, "Well they can figure it out." I've never wanted wings so badly in my life...
Found out they extended some hours on the dates for the Terra Cotta Warriors at the National Geographic Museum. I give it one more shot...Guess what the message I got was after I ordered one ticket for 9:30AM on 3/28/2010. Please order less tickets than the number you requested...WTF???!!!How do you order less than one ticket. If the time is sold out, just say it! And I'm not even going to get started on the ridiculous virtual waiting room travesty.
Texas...I read an article in the express...and I forgot whether this is just one county or across the state...They want to exclude teaching that Hip Hop is part of American culture...I wonder what else they'll see fit to exclude. Jazz maybe?
Thursday, August 6, 2009
What's happening to Metro?
Didn't Metro stations used to be air conditioned? I was at McPherson Square Metro station yesterday and it felt like I was inside a sauna, and then to have to deal with a packed train? WTF!
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