Ok here’s a meme – things I love.

1. Of course the love of my life gets top spot in this list. Were it not for the love of him I don’t know if I’d be as ambitious a motherfucker as I am.
2. Getting feedback from a friend that you had a huge impact on their life. That ranks way up there too. But it’s what I do – I like developing talents in others.
3. Seeing the sunrise every morning while I’m on the commuter train.
4. Reading a good book. It can vary – I’m reading a lot more political stuff lately.
5. Good music as I’m near always found with a set of these on my head. The flyover provides a nice sort of halo for me. And those tigerwood cans – the resonance off them makes everything sound fantastic.

   

6. Good food. This one is a broad category. Actually toyed with buying some squid to make calamari today. And bacon wrapped scallops are delicious, so too Hosomaki which is interesting. As a kid I pretty much abhorred fish. Now I’ll eat almost any of it. Just haven’t had cod in a long time.
7. Nice leather furniture. My ass is parked on a leather recliner as I type this.
8. Animals. We have one resident feline by the name of Angie. But I also love seeing the wild rabbits feeding on the lawn that surrounds the path I take the train station every morning.
9. A good waterproof backpack. Each day I pack off to work with my lunch, laptop, Fire HD6, cables, tools, etc. in my backpack. So it’s a good one. The inner surfaces are vinyl lined so no moisture can penetrate the backpack.
10. Timberland Hikers – they’re awesome during the winter and even spring when things get a little bit mucky out there.
11. My hoodies – I’ve got three currently that I rotate through. One  is in all black and has a Big Daddy and Little Sister on the back. Another is dark navy blue and has an atom on the front and the saying “A Day without Fusion is like a day without Sunshine.”. And finally there’s the light blue that says “We are all connected – to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically, and the Universe Atomically.”
12. The fact that there’s almost nothing I can’t find online related to video and music.
13. The technology around me at this very moment. I’ve now lost count of the number of Central Processing Units there are around me at any given time. They’re that ubiquitous.
14. Spring and Summer – spring is nature getting dressed up and to quote the song, July is dressed up and playing a tune. Really.

So I was up in our Manchester, NH office today. Hooking up computers, testing wifi etc. only to find they’d left one character off the password. Ooops.

Anyhow I figured leave at 3PM – it only took 1 hour and 18 minutes going up to Manchester from Quincy, MA. Getting back though took two hours of crawling along that blasted lower deck of I-93 just outside Boston – and then into the tunnel where it’s stop and go.

There has to be a solution for all the traffic. I’m thinking flying cars but no the kind with wings but levitating cars. It’s got to be possible.

But back to I-93 – I did note one other thing on the drive up to Manchester. I-93 in Massachusetts is a rutted out piece of shit. But you cross over into New Hampshire and it’s smooth sailing.

But if you want ot get there in a reasonable amount of time – never leave north of Boston later than 2PM. You’ll pay.

So this week – I’ll have spent time in the following places in New England:

1. Quincy, MA – Where I normally work.
2. Cambridge, MA to visit a company that the company I work for just acquired.
3. Boston, MA – Every Wednesday and it’s not the north end and not Prince Spaghetti day.
4. Manchester, NH – Where we’re opening a new office.
5. Providence, RI – where I live.

It’s a busy company I work for and it’s definitely on the move. It was good to see Cambridge again today. Had I the money it’s a city I’d love to live in.

So it’s 8.5 miles between Quincy, MA and Cambridge, MA.

Then 6.4 miles between Quincy, MA and Boston, MA

And then 60.4 miles between Quincy, MA and Manchester, NH.

And finally 44.7 miles between Providence, RI and Quincy, MA.

So in just under an hour the clocks all spring ahead by an hour. I do so wish we’d stop with the foolishness of swapping the time around twice a year. Just stay on daylight time. Or embrace UTC with a vigor.

But Spring is finally coming – can’t say we had a horrendous winter though. Only failed aka fell on my ass a couple times. One of which I should have had the sense to say ’tis not fit for man or beast out there, I’m working from home.

But even with the time change – the actual start of Spring comes on the 20th of March. It’s a solstice again.

But Spring is when everything looks really pretty – the green on the trees is a special one.