LIRR - Rescind This Rule

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One of the unpopular rules regarding putting bikes on Long Island Rail Road trains is that they can't be on trains during peak hours.  Or on holidays. It's bad enough that a permit is needed to bring a bike on a train.  It's worse that there can't be more than four bikes total on any weekday train.  This is pathetic.

If and when gas prices break $4, you're going to see a lot of commuters riding to the station.  You're also going to see people wanting to ride from Penn Station to their job.  Better get working on a way to roll back some of these annoying bicycle rules so that people don't have to leave bikes at the station (to be stolen).

It's Just Not Under My Control Anymore

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Things that were on the agenda for this weekend:

  1. Go to Home Depot and get peat moss, garden soil
  2. Plant three trees
  3. Plant tomato plants
  4. Get summer squash seeds germinating

Things that actually got done this weekend:

  1. Go to P.C. Richard's and get a new TV
  2. Install it
  3. Sit around and wait for the exterminator, electrician and tree guy
  4. Fix my chainsaw
  5. Cut up four trees and stack the logs
  6. Get rid of the brush and mulch left behind by the tree guy

I need another weekend.

That Was Easy

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I have a lot of great photos from my vacation in Disney World.  One funny one, though, is this shot of the soundboard guy from the Finding Nemo-The Musical show in Epcot.  As I was leaving the show, I poked my head over to take a look at the sound gear.  I happened to catch something weird in the upper left hand corner of the mixing board.  Yeah, that's a Staples Easy Button glued there (circled in red).  I thought that was cute.