He told me once that the secret to crossing the streets in Hong Kong was to not make eye contact with the drivers. The theory goes is, if you do then they know you know they're coming at you and you better get out of their way. However, if you just keep eyes front and balls it across the street then they have to get out of your way.

I was told the same thing by my tour guide in Italy.

When I went to Italy, by the end of the trip we were only crossing streets in the middle, never at intersections. In the middle of the street, cars mostly only came from two directions.

He told me once that the secret to crossing the streets in Hong Kong was to not make eye contact with the drivers. The theory goes is, if you do then they know you know they're coming at you and you better get out of their way. However, if you just keep eyes front and balls it across the street then they have to get out of your way.

In Cairo I was told the opposite. The traffic is utter chaos, and has ridiculously high mortality rates; but it's not particularly malicious or selfish. If they know you're there, they'll stop for you. But you'd better make sure they're paying attention before you step off the curb.

The PTB have decided that they will close both North Station *and* I-93 for the duration of the Democratic convention this summer. It's gonna be ugly.

It looks like they'll be closing Penn Station now for the Republican convention (per the latest demands of the secret service), so it looks both parties are going to be very unpopular with the locals for their conventions.

So NOT looking forward to that. That's around the time our offices are moving (to about two blocks away from North Station).

It looks like they'll be closing Penn Station now for the Republican convention

Good to know. I guess I'll be fleeing the city via Metro North instead.

I had a dream last night about the F2F. It involved all of us watching a new episode of Angel in which billytea and Raquel had played a monster (sort of like the front and back of a horse costume) and they were very excited to see what the monster looked like in the finished episode.

So will anyone be driving down from Boston on Friday? I could even volunteer myself as long as two or three other people came with me to defray costs. I don't know how this fits in with people's plans--just a thought.

Katie, I was going to drive down from RI (near enough to not make a difference) on Thursday, but I haven't gotten any interest from others on a carpool, so I might be game for Friday.

Debet, I'm going down on Thursday, so carpooling would work.

Cool, DX (Sorry, Katie). I saw that, but I wasn't sure what transit method you were planning on.

Kate, Nora's planning on going down Friday, I think, and Jon expressed interest in carpooling.

Debet, we can coordinate as we get nearer the date.