Whew. Exhausted. Been out all day with the boy running errands.

Alibelle--insent with gmail invite!

I believe that Macleod in NYC? Wasn't that where the funny came in?

Wasn't it McCloud? Dennis Weaver, right?

Yer both right.

Yay! Thanks, Cashmere!

I just read a report that the SUV was left on the track by a man who intended to commit suicide, changed his mind and got out, leaving his car there.

There has been much talk of it here on campus.

I'm trying to figure out the logic for driving the SUV on the tracks instead of taking the more usual approach of throwing himself. I'm guessing it was either 1) ambivalence--wanting to leave a message, but not sure he wanted to actually die, or 2) it was someone so identified with his car that he wanted to take it with him.

This showed up in my public E-mail account. Not a bad setup for someone who wants a less expensive MP3 player with decent memory capacity.

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He hasn't lost a lick of his Boston accent, and I felt weirdly soothed that he was the boss for this reason alone, which is not based in any rational thought.

It is nice to hear it. When I'm watching something totally unrelated to Boston (sometimes, even when it is related, as so many people are immigrants to this area) and I hear the accent, I feel like I am at home. Which, I mean, I am. But it is nice to hear. Even dear old Mumbles Menino, whose accent does not come from this planet.

To answer Cindy's question, yes I am pretty sure Bratton spent like 8 years in NYC as their head police honcho before moving to LA.

That dude is hella stupid. Of course, I remember in the DC area a woman kneeled on the tracks (no car) outside of Reston and was a suicide by train, and it so messed up train service and so traumatized the train drivers that politicoes went on the news to beg people to kill themselves some other way.

aurelia, does your friend have somewhere else to stay?

She's welcome to stay with me, but I suspect she'll stay with the live-in boyfriend.

I've never written a congressperson before? Any advice?

Don't threaten anyone and include your name and address. And what Maria said about e-mail.

I have to drive today and I'll be getting home late. I'm gonna lose my shoveled out parking space, aren't I?

I've heard of suicide-by-train in many cities. Apparantly New York is the best/fastest at cleaning up the mess and resuming normal subway service - I've heard it takes them about an hour.

As long as we're appealing to the Collective Buffista Brain ("the size of a planet!"), what is the brandname of the ultra-expensive gas stove that basically stays hot all the time? I think it's made in England.

I might as well start my stove-shopping from the top down.

It stays hot the whole time? That's not a fire hazard?