Odd...

I had to search to find this article, which downplays whatever happened in the Boston T yesterday. If you look at the comment from "DMMJTJ" at the bottom of the article it seems to have affected a LOT of people rather badly. Eor found out about it only because one of his coworkers was on the other side of the river waiting for the Red Line and eventually took a bus. (DMMJTJ is apparently a nurse working at Mass General Hospital - the station he/she was leaving from was the Charles MGH, on the city side of the Charles river.)

Boston.com has a tiny article. Let's see if more comes out during the day. Sounds as if they want to downplay this. I can't imagine a little debris on the tracks causing that much difficulty - people must throw stuff on the tracks all the time, people being what they are (mischievous pigs). The old wiring, though, I'm not at all surprised at - nobody wants to pay for maintenance these days.

Meanwhile, the sun is coming up, I have to go for a walk and then clean off my desk. (I have this hope, not founded in any previous experience of my character, that if I tell everyone what I should be doing I might actually do it.)

Oh, I just found out beowabbit was also affected.

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I cleaned up my granmother's old mantle clock and it's working! We'll see if it's still keeping acurate time when I get home, but still... working! :) I set the nails on the bottom and back which were coming out, and put cork feet on the bottom so it won't be gouging anything it sits on (was having to set it on a peice of brass). Also I kind of ruined the finish by cleaning it with alcohol - duh - but I intended to refinish it anyway so this will give me some incentive.

Really all it needed was for the exploded old battery to be dug out, all the gunk cleaned out, and a new battery. I removed all the spider skeletons inside it while I was at it.