Good gods. Driving in Chicago is fun for me. I want to try driving in New York. I'd love to attempt a moped in Paris. I am not yet suicidal enough to think about motoring in Rome, but we may see.

And now? I am flat-out terrified of Boston streets, and I've never even been there. Y'all are nuts.

The free tickets have been delivered and they are for club level seats. So I think this is definitely gonna be fun.

Hey. In my defense, it was dark, and I did not yet live on the north side, so I was sort of a tourist at that time. Now, I would never make that mistake!

I was gonna say, we did pretty well navigating San Francisco.

And now? I am flat-out terrified of Boston streets, and I've never even been there. Y'all are nuts.

And the best part? You never know if the street is still going to be the same the next time you try to take it. Moohahahahaha!! Also, they sometimes change whether they are one-way or not.

It isn't quite so bad these days since the Big Dig is only leaking, not being built.

Yeah, but then there'll be years and years of the Big Re-Dig.

Yeah, but then there'll be years and years of the Big Re-Dig.

Big Dig Redux? Re-do? Doobeedoobeedoo.

This is, I think, the funniest "Point/Counterpoint" ever in The Onion: [link]

Puppies are made by God just for hugging!

Whitefonted spoiler: Don't hug Fuzzy The Duckling! Fuzzy The Duckling has a sharp beak that he uses to poke out the eyes of his enemies. That dumb duck is too small, anyway. You might crush him with your big hands and break his neck! Then you will scream and throw him down onto the grass where he will just sit all day and not move at all.

Note the state with the lowest per-capita fatalities.

I suspect this is because most of the traffic fatalities in Boston are unsuspecting tourists. That, or other MA residents fled the city in terror and bring the average down by not driving anymore.

I've been there enough to have the don't-cross-the-street-until-you-see-the-whites-of-their-eyes thing down, but I would only drive if there were a medical emergency and it was the only way to get a friend or relative to a hospital. Even then, I'd want to steal the biggest, most heavily-armored SUV I could find rather than driving my own car.

As I still am without entire electricity, I have been looking up rental regulations for my area.

Would you guys read this:

Landlords of buildings with three or more apartments must keep the apartments and the buildings' public areas in "good repair" and clean and free of vermin, garbage or other offensive material. Landlords are required to maintain electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating systems and appliances landlords install, such as refrigerators and stoves in good and safe working order.

as saying that Landlords of buildings with TWO apartments DO NOT have to keep the electrical systems in good and safe working order?

Grrr

It isn't quite so bad these days since the Big Dig is only leaking, not being built.

The funny part is, they're still opening new parts right and left. I have no idea what the little connector-roads will look like every time I go driving through the city.

Until about this year, I did not really know what it meant to be a Boston giver-of-directions. I mean, I've gotten Boston directions before -- "take a left where that ice cream place used to be" to a tourist -- but a couple of weeks ago I said I'd meet somebody "by the bear". The FAO Schwartz bear, who is no longer at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley. He is someplace else in the city now, but we met at that corner, at the phantom bear.

History has weight! Or anyway, it throws directions all out of whack.