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My very poorly calibrated internal compass goes super wonky once I hit about Western.

Speaking of the west side, fucking Orange Line derailed today: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/19/national/main2281320.shtml

I think we should start a serious letter writing campaign to all our elected officials. There has been a major CTA delay every goddamn day for the last couple weeks.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Pulaski and Jackson... is that North Lawndale?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

And of course it happened on the west side where there are no cabs!

See? It's not just about yuppified convenience. It's about life or death!

roffles

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i guess that would be lawndale. it goes from kedzie to cicero, and 22nd st to the ike i think?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

re: cta, kreusi has to go. between the brown line station closings fiasco, the (literal) DAILY MAJOR DELAYS, and the fact that more than 30% of the tracks in use are in designated "slow zones" because they are in such a state of disrepair that they're unsafe at normal speeds someone needs to be held responsible for this.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Hasn't the state underfunded maintainence projects? I'm woefully uninformed about the specifics of their budget woes. Seems like both sides probably share the blame.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

underfunded based on kruesi's expectations. the state says cta lacks fiscal responsibility. truth is probably somewhere in the middle. but all the same, the brown line and blue line projects are funded with federal money so there's no way the brown line stations should have been shuttered. ESPECIALLY after saying for two years leading up to the project that they wouldn't be closing stations. you think that would have been an influence in your decision to say, open a business or move into a new residence if you knew that the el station closest to you was going to be closed? dude has to go.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr went to Beans and Bagels (next to the Montrose stop) yesterday to get her usual bagel with roasted-red-pepper hummus, and they said that they're no longer offering the hummus: apparently their business has plummeted since the station closed and they've had to cut back on some of their offerings. I just hope they keep the fresh-squeezed orange juice. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

See? CTA mismanagement has a devastating impact on people's lives!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to start a letter-writing campaign to get the operator of the ~8:40 Blue Line run to shut his yap for a change. Dude just talks and talks and talks. Isn't that what all the robot announcements are for, and do we really need to be scolded into "using all available doors" at every stop?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i had to wait almost a half hour for an outbound blue line yesterday. i was on the western/congress platform at 7:21 and the next one came at 7:48. since the advent of the "service improvement to the west side" morning rush trains are supposed to run every 6-8 minutes. obviously that's not happening. the most frustrating aspect is that there is no communication with the riders about the reason for the delay either. i've heard more announcements about delays to the redline while waiting on the platform than for the blue line. the last time i heard an announcement regarding the blue line was about 2 or 3 months ago when a car jumped the jersey barrier on the ike and wound up on the tracks.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

CTA mismanagement has a devastating impact on people's lives!

Certainly.

However, it must be said that I have been getting to work on time and even early for several days. The train has been moving for the entire route, sometimes even relatively quickly. I am convinced it's all a coincidence, and I will be an hour late any day now.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

this morning when we pulled up to forest park we sat for 4 minutes with the first SIX CARS at the platform and the last two still not there. we were waiting for "signals ahead". it was great to watch my bus pull away even though i was at the station.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait... you know what? I am totally misremembering. I got to work early Monday because I took a cab. I got to the platform, it was so crowded you could barely stand, and there wasn't a train in sight in any direction. So I said fuck it and hailed a cab on Broadway.

So basically forget everything I said in the previous post. The CTA is a constant nightmare.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Not for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

the most frustrating aspect is that there is no communication with the riders about the reason for the delay either.

THIS is what the operators should be talking about, not "this is Damen coming in to Damen bound for Downtown and Forest Park PLEASE use all available doors coming in coming in" etc.

xpost: Yeah, I really have to say I have few complaints as of late, but I realize it's probably luck.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just innocently looking at pix on flickr when I tried "Winter Cats" and ended up not being able to turn away from a monitor full of destroyed feet - blood, toes, inside of feet...ARGHGHGHH!H!!!! YUCKYPANTS!!!!!

AURGUTHGLAJSKLDJFKSLA

Anyway, I'm in a great mood today, aside from knowing the kinds of images that will show up in my nightmares tonight.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

what do winter cats have to do with mutilated feet?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

My co-worker Laura just told me that the guy in the cubicle next to her, an old curmudgeonly dude in his 60s, has been surreptitiously looking at hentai all day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no clue, Kenan. It's someone's emergency room pix. THANKS FOR SHARING, DUDE!

Great. Now I have to go google hentai.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG that might not be a good idea. At least GIS-wise...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, hentai = anime p0rn

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

That would have been classic if she had, though. Maybe next time she could look up bukkake.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

and what's that?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I need a vacation.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I looked it up, but just read about it on wiki.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Where would you go, Jordan?

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not jordan but i would go to an island somewhere, preferably in the south pacific, and disappear.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

America del Sur!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay. But I want to clean my apartment too.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I would go hiking in Yosemite.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have sex with all this white girls.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I just walked around the office with two pieces of pointy foamcore in my hands saying, "I... am... a... stabbing... robot..."

I think I may have had too much chocolate.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

You don't have to wait for vacation, you know.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been blowing my nose so much the past week that it hurts to touch my nose.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Ughhhhh I hate that

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

'Cause it's not like you get to stop blowing it at that point.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Puffs Plus!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

'Cause it's not like you get to stop blowing it at that point.

OTM.

xpost- i know, they stopped carrying puffs at the store here and have instead switched to something akin to .25 grit sandpaper.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

~~let's line up by kleenex brand and softness~~

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

so long chicago, don't take any wooden nickels.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Bbbbut all the wooden nickels I've ever been offered were redeemable for free drinks at the bar where they were offered to me.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Grrrr.

There's nothing like having a REAL, IMPORTANT GOAL or TASK to get you to do things like mop the floor, organize your closet, spackle and sand nail holes and re-hang the toilet paper holder, all of which I just did.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

And put up lights in 2 closets and changed the light bulb in my stairwell.

(BTW, Courtney is a lurker on this ILX.)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ADVICE PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

I am just trying to move around some files on my computer, from my desktop to a new folder or from one folder to another, etc. The computer will not let me drag between locations and when I try to cut and paste is says, "Cannot move [filename]: Source and destination file names are the same," which is not at all fucking true. Help!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Went away, ate a sandwich, read, and came back and the files moved around just fine. During this episode I also could not move any items around on the desktop, and I made sure it that the setting was not "align to grid" or anything like that.

You know what else?? At 6 this morning I was startled out of my sleep by the sound of my dustbuster running in the bathroom (where it hangs on the wall, unused since the week I returned from NO). It was hanging there, running, but with the switch set to "OFF." I left it on the base but flicked the switch to the "ON" position, and back to "OFF" and I haven't heard from it since. Kind of weird, huh?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.solocine.com/images/poltergeist.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Windows does that shit from time to time. I'm using a beta of Vista right now, and it gets REAL squirrelly about once every two weeks. And then it stops whatever shenanigans suddenly and runs like a dream. No explaining it. I bet the people who wrote the damn thing couldn't explain it without a week of debugging time. At least with Vista, it sends automatic updates to Microsoft whenever it crashes, so I like to imagine that someone somewhere IS spending a week finding a solution to my problem. Leave me with my illusions, ok?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

My good good good good friend 3rica is back in town this week only! (And one day next week when I bring her back from the U.P.) We just had drinks, hence my enthusiasm in posting. We decided about the only good thing about this Xmas is the reunions with friends from far away.

Also: Kenan, I don't know if you remember me talking about this (we were both pretty drunk) but we now have a file server running Ubuntu in our living room, and it's had its fair share of shenanigans too. Computers are stoopid.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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