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Pookie SMASH.
Jul. 14th, 2003 07:14 pmI rearranged this week's schedule and left work early (which meant bagging class today) so we could go with the D&D group to see 28 Days Later.
Clearly, NJ Transit was reading my email.
We got on the 5:21, which left on time, got 25' down the track...and stopped. Twenty minutes later, we had advanced halfway down the trainyard towards the Bergen Tunnel. (I called![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tactisle to find out if the NJT web site said anything about delays on the Bergen County Line. It didn't.) Ten minutes after that, we were in the tunnel...and then sat there for another half an hour before the train finally acted like a normal transit mode.
We finally arrived home at 6:40, to catch a 6:30 movie...a half hour's drive from us. To add icing to the cake, the original problem was understandable--a derailment on another line, so they re-routed all the trains on that line to Hoboken, so there was much heavier train traffic, and this when there's construction on the aforementioned tunnel so it's only one track in each direction--but that was not what made the situation unsalvageable. It turns out that the signal at the end of the tunnel was stuck on red when it was our turn to go through.
Well, thought we, let us make some silver lining out of our cloud. Let's go to the game store to pick up the Call of Cthulhu books they were supposed to have on Friday but didn't and swore to have on Monday.
The game store was closed on account of whoever was on duty being sick.
(I will also note that I spent my lunchtime running all over Manhattan, looking for a copy of the 3.5 release core books. The official release date is the 18th, but people in Florida and Georgia (at least) have said on the WotC boards that they were available over the weekend; and bn.com says it's in stock for immediate shipping...in spite of the fact that the 4 count them FOUR stores I visited did not have any copies.)
Doing laundry now, with an exciting prospect of paperwork ahead. This was not how I intended to spend my evening.
I don't know if Mercury is in retrograde or what, but this bullshit must stop or I will start eating souls.
Clearly, NJ Transit was reading my email.
We got on the 5:21, which left on time, got 25' down the track...and stopped. Twenty minutes later, we had advanced halfway down the trainyard towards the Bergen Tunnel. (I called
tactisle to find out if the NJT web site said anything about delays on the Bergen County Line. It didn't.) Ten minutes after that, we were in the tunnel...and then sat there for another half an hour before the train finally acted like a normal transit mode.We finally arrived home at 6:40, to catch a 6:30 movie...a half hour's drive from us. To add icing to the cake, the original problem was understandable--a derailment on another line, so they re-routed all the trains on that line to Hoboken, so there was much heavier train traffic, and this when there's construction on the aforementioned tunnel so it's only one track in each direction--but that was not what made the situation unsalvageable. It turns out that the signal at the end of the tunnel was stuck on red when it was our turn to go through.
Well, thought we, let us make some silver lining out of our cloud. Let's go to the game store to pick up the Call of Cthulhu books they were supposed to have on Friday but didn't and swore to have on Monday.
The game store was closed on account of whoever was on duty being sick.
(I will also note that I spent my lunchtime running all over Manhattan, looking for a copy of the 3.5 release core books. The official release date is the 18th, but people in Florida and Georgia (at least) have said on the WotC boards that they were available over the weekend; and bn.com says it's in stock for immediate shipping...in spite of the fact that the 4 count them FOUR stores I visited did not have any copies.)
Doing laundry now, with an exciting prospect of paperwork ahead. This was not how I intended to spend my evening.
I don't know if Mercury is in retrograde or what, but this bullshit must stop or I will start eating souls.
