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Thursday, May 1
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
4:24:00 PM EDT
That made for a different topic
I've often noted that most overheard conversations on the train involve (a) the NFL or (b) cartball. At least that's true when SCA are doing the yakking. But, as always, there are exceptions. Not in the morning, mainly because my iPod prevented me from hearing just about anything. I took the 6:56 Flatbush Avenue train after arriving at Ronkonkoma on the Medford shuttle, and was fortunate enough to get an M-3 single seat. In fact I decided to go into Brooklyn rather than change for Penn, which turned out to be a bit of a mistake. I had a long wait for a 2 express at Atlantic Avenue and then another long wait for a 1 train at Chambers. Each wait was the better part of ten minutes. It ended up taking almost 40 minutes to get to Houston Street, nearly double what it should have taken.
I walked to Penn after work and got the 5:41 to Ronkonkoma. It was an M-7 consist, though a not-too-large man sat next to me and left me with sort of enough room. That was the good news, the bad news was that my iPod charge quickly ran out. What made the bad news not so bad, however, was the fact that the two women sitting in front of me were having a lively conversation about ... knitting. Yes, knitting. From what I gathered they didn't know one another, but both took out some knitting work to pass the time and fell into a conversation about it. One of the women, who was about 35 or 40, appeared to be a novice at the task, and the other woman, who was about 60, was giving her some tips and advice. I didn't at all mind listening to them even though it was a topic that didn't interest me in the least. It's such a relief to hear people talk about something other than the NFL or cartball! We got to Ronkonkoma on time, and the shuttle was on time too.
Gym: A nice varied session. I started out with some work on the speed bag, then four 3-minute rounds on the heavy bag. I finished up with one mile on the treadmill at 6.0 mph, making nine miles for the week. It would've been nice to have done another mile to make ten for the week, but after the bag work I was pretty much finished after just one.
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4:24:00 PM EDT
Thursday, May 1
That made for a different topic
I've often noted that most overheard conversations on the train involve (a) the NFL or (b) cartball. At least that's true when SCA are doing the yakking. But, as always, there are exceptions. Not in the morning, mainly because my iPod prevented me from hearing just about anything. I took the 6:56 Flatbush Avenue train after arriving at Ronkonkoma on the Medford shuttle, and was fortunate enough to get an M-3 single seat. In fact I decided to go into Brooklyn rather than change for Penn, which turned out to be a bit of a mistake. I had a long wait for a 2 express at Atlantic Avenue and then another long wait for a 1 train at Chambers. Each wait was the better part of ten minutes. It ended up taking almost 40 minutes to get to Houston Street, nearly double what it should have taken.
I walked to Penn after work and got the 5:41 to Ronkonkoma. It was an M-7 consist, though a not-too-large man sat next to me and left me with sort of enough room. That was the good news, the bad news was that my iPod charge quickly ran out. What made the bad news not so bad, however, was the fact that the two women sitting in front of me were having a lively conversation about ... knitting. Yes, knitting. From what I gathered they didn't know one another, but both took out some knitting work to pass the time and fell into a conversation about it. One of the women, who was about 35 or 40, appeared to be a novice at the task, and the other woman, who was about 60, was giving her some tips and advice. I didn't at all mind listening to them even though it was a topic that didn't interest me in the least. It's such a relief to hear people talk about something other than the NFL or cartball! We got to Ronkonkoma on time, and the shuttle was on time too.
Gym: A nice varied session. I started out with some work on the speed bag, then four 3-minute rounds on the heavy bag. I finished up with one mile on the treadmill at 6.0 mph, making nine miles for the week. It would've been nice to have done another mile to make ten for the week, but after the bag work I was pretty much finished after just one.
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