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The CTA can seriously kiss my ass.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The CTA can give me a Christmas Blumpkin.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

What'd they do now?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it's been slow for me before, but it's never been this bad. What happened today?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I waited 21 minutes for a fucking northbound train this morning. As I waited, 5 southbound trains (I have "Southbound Pachyderm" in my head now) went by, and 1 "express" northbound.

Also, I renewed my ChicagoCard Plus last Thursday and it worked 1 time and then stopped. I re-renewed it on Saturday and see that I was charged $75, but it still was inactive! I called customer service where I held for 10 minutes. The CSR said "You were supposed to wait 3 days after renewing before using your card. Because you didn't, your card deactivated. I'll reactivate it, but don't use it for three days." WHAT???? Has anyone else ever heard of this??????

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Never. Sounds like bullshit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I only have the standard Chicago card. Once the machine ate my $20, though, and I had to spend a long and arduous time on the phone getting it back.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

And WTF, if they're on the stick enough to immediately DEACTIVATE your card, why not immediately ACTIVATE it.

The CTA can give me a Christmas Blumpkin.

It's the least they could do. But you know how that goes. Forty acres and a mule.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

My commute has been totally fine lately. I think I've realized that getting on the train before 9:15 assures speediness -- after that, they assume that people aren't actually going to work anymore and thus won't complain as loudly if there's a delay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the Brown line is eating up Red's efficiency.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, definitely. Which is weird, because the work is actually going on on the brown line. I guess they figure they can disperse the complaining if they make one branch of the line deal with closed stations and construction and the other branch deal with huge fuck-off delays.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Every. Single. Day. My commute gets worse and worse. Most days I wait forever for a train, and every day the train moves slower than molasses from Fullerton to Grand. If I leave for work 1 hour before I have to be there I am still not assured that I won't be late. No amount of bitching is enough to express how frustrating this is.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, see, my delays are always before Belmont. Between Fullerton and Grand? WTF are they doing there? They sure as shit haven't announced anything.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I was on a train that was poking along btw North/Clyborn and Clark/Division and I heard a man scream right outside my window. That was pretty cool

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a bus alternative? You guys have all those fancy Inner Drive and XX Express buses over there, right?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

No bus alternative that would make things better. I wish I could take the 147 Outer Drive Exp. I love that bus. (Except for the day I took it and it was running 25 min. late and was the single most crowded vehicle I had ever been on. To make things worse, another 147 broke down and we had to pick up all of its riders! People were snapping at snarling at each other.)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

You have bad public transit mojo jesse. My commute is great. I leave an hour and 15 minutes before I am supposed to be at work. I walk up to Addison and there is usually a bus coming, which I hop on even though it's only 3 blocks to the red line. On the red line, I stand at the last car and have gotten a seat nearly every single day. If I can't get a seat, I usually see another train rounding the Sheridan corner, so I just wait for that one. All in all, it takes about 30 minutes, door to door. Unless there are problems with the train, but even then, I haven't been more than a couple of minutes late.

I could take the 147 inner drive bus to work, but it is hard to get a seat on it and it takes longer, and is bumpier. Plus there are too many white people.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I meant 146 bus.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus there are too many white people.

Good thing you don't take the Brown Line! It is like White Central in there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to the local Aids Service Org to explore some employment/education/volunteering opportunities today. The guy who I spoke with exacerbated the sour mood that the CTA started. He was completely unconfident and wet-noodly. On the phone I thought he might have been a 15 year old with low self-esteem. When he greeted me in person he said, "Good afternoon--uh--good mor---good morning---uh, Jes--Mr. Kehr--uh, Jesse?" He went on to say such things as, "There are a lot--um.... There are a lot of--um.... We have a lot of--there are lots of opportuni--opportunities...um....here. Um...wow, you write fast."

Later there was a loud noise outside and he yipped and grabbed my arm for safety.

As it turns out he is way experienced in HIV/AIDS and GLBT shit, but he's just kind of a noodle-boy.

Anyway, the upshot of all this for me is that I should be able to make a little career shiftaroo some(hopefully soon)day.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the 147 because it's sometimes only 15 min from Foster and Sheridan to Downtown.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to take the 147 all the time...

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Noodle boys are for stomping on on your way to the top, baby. Greed is good.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan: oh man, we're like sisters
me: you're a fucking dyke

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It's going to be funny when you start ovulating together.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

And smooching each other's hoo hoos.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

He neglected to mention that we were both simultaneously typing "as the Germans say" about the word "drinkenurge" that Jesse had just coined.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, you weren't supposed to tell them I'm a lesbian, Jesse.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Regarding spooning: I can sleep that way all night. Even when I'm alone I have to have a body pillow in front of me most of the time. (and I almost never sleep on my back.)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap, a building blew up in Milwaukee today.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Goddamn!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

the opposite of a christmas miracle.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

really, that's awful. and the story of how the supervisors assure them the gas was off and told them to go back to work is especially messed up.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Just goes to show: You think your boss is an idiot? You're probably right.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Ikea is great because they have cheap energy-saving light bulbs. 3-pack for 3.99. Have I already said this?

I replaced my stairwell bulb with that.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a big fuckign explosion.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(Sorry Jeff)

Nine! Nine degrees! Wow.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I felt like I was wearing ice pants this morning instead of jeans. I should have worn some legwarmers under those. YOWZERS!

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

It's 4 degrees here.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Dudes, I had an intense Thai experience last night. It may have been the spiciest food I had ever eaten, and you know it's not like I ain't eating spicy food. I pounded two beers like they were shot glasses of water and I could only finish just over half a bowl. It was seafood curry. At one point the blood flow to my head was such that I literally, seriously felt high.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan wins. (EEP!)

So, I'm assuming TT is at Old Timers today, huh? Maybe we could find somewhere just a little cozier? If not, that's ok. I mean, Old Timers IS cheap. It would just require being out in the cold a little longer than I'd like. (How far is it from the el?)

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Ice pants! The mind boggles.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm really putting off taking a shower because there are going to be moments of extreme coldness involved, I just know it.

I'll bet Kenan and Jesse's apartments are nice and toasty, though.

xp - Old Timer's is just under two blocks east of the State/Lake brown orange green purple pink line station.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet my apartment is toasty, too, though I wasn't in it this morning. I was going to go buy a wrench this afternoon to turn the heat off in my bedroom, but I think that can wait another day. WOOF it's cold today.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

So, I'm assuming TT is at Old Timers today, huh? Maybe we could find somewhere just a little cozier?

I'm up for going anywhere, I've got a full compliment of Carhartts today and am pretty much impervious to the cold.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

(Though I am going to the new location of Leve| 0ptica| to pick out frames today and that'd be v. convenient to Old Timerz.)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

EZ on WBEZ now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Two quotes about smoking from all-time masters of the aphorism:

1. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? (Oscar Wilde)

2. To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times. (Mark Twain)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Heard it! When he said he couldn't play guitar "like a normal person" I had to larf.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I got in to work literally JUST IN TIME to hear the piece. Whew.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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