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Early Summer
May. 22nd, 2022 09:27 pmTemps in the 80s yesterday and in the 90s today, before descending to something more normal in the coming week. It's not even June yet.
Yesterday, Julie was able to arrange for a vaccine booster for kid, and we dealt with various errands in the morning. In the afternoon, we regrouped in Arlington for an Ingress Anomaly, the latest in their series of in-game events. Wasn't much of a game, since our blue-team opponents didn't show! Which is odd, it's not like Boston Resistance has been dormant lately, they've shown up for smaller events and for the previous round of this series. Was still fun to wander around Arlington Center with our teammates. I went to Abbot's Frozen Custard, which was great. On the way home, we stopped in Davis Square for dinner. Patios were packed, but we found a spot at Out of the Blue, which I've been meaning to try for ages. Had a fantastic time.
Today, there was one of the Fancy Dress Teas in the Park organized by my friend Sarah, this time in a park near the Mystic River in Everett, and I took Eris to that. Was great to meet Sarah's baby, a fellow Sam (named, it turns out, at least in part after Diskworld's Vimes). Was great to see people in general, well worth braving the heat.
Julie made a great dinner, a root vegetable larb with some of the selections from this week's vegetable box.
One of the big bits of local news for this week was the MBTA's announcement of their bus network redesign plan. It reminds me rather a lot of a similar recent redesign in Cleveland, improving frequency of service and overall network connectivity in exchange for a bit more space between routes. For my neighborhood in Union Square (always a transit hub, now more so with the new green line connection), the redesign seems like it will improve connectivity to almost everywhere I go. The exceptions are that the connection out to Arlington is a little less direct, and direct options for my commute to Kendall are pruned (but those were already less frequent and weekday-only, and the indirect options are improved enough that overall convenience might be about the same).
Yesterday, Julie was able to arrange for a vaccine booster for kid, and we dealt with various errands in the morning. In the afternoon, we regrouped in Arlington for an Ingress Anomaly, the latest in their series of in-game events. Wasn't much of a game, since our blue-team opponents didn't show! Which is odd, it's not like Boston Resistance has been dormant lately, they've shown up for smaller events and for the previous round of this series. Was still fun to wander around Arlington Center with our teammates. I went to Abbot's Frozen Custard, which was great. On the way home, we stopped in Davis Square for dinner. Patios were packed, but we found a spot at Out of the Blue, which I've been meaning to try for ages. Had a fantastic time.
Today, there was one of the Fancy Dress Teas in the Park organized by my friend Sarah, this time in a park near the Mystic River in Everett, and I took Eris to that. Was great to meet Sarah's baby, a fellow Sam (named, it turns out, at least in part after Diskworld's Vimes). Was great to see people in general, well worth braving the heat.
Julie made a great dinner, a root vegetable larb with some of the selections from this week's vegetable box.
One of the big bits of local news for this week was the MBTA's announcement of their bus network redesign plan. It reminds me rather a lot of a similar recent redesign in Cleveland, improving frequency of service and overall network connectivity in exchange for a bit more space between routes. For my neighborhood in Union Square (always a transit hub, now more so with the new green line connection), the redesign seems like it will improve connectivity to almost everywhere I go. The exceptions are that the connection out to Arlington is a little less direct, and direct options for my commute to Kendall are pruned (but those were already less frequent and weekday-only, and the indirect options are improved enough that overall convenience might be about the same).
