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So while I was riding over the Park Street Bridge on my way to Coffee Cultures (FOR AFFOGATO (not enough people out here understand the power of ice cream in your coffee before about 1 pm, let alone the power of ice cream when it's about 40F out) and an excellent salmon toast) this morning, apparently, there was an earthquake in New Jersey. Predictably, my heavily Northeastern-occupied friends feeds are exploding with talk about it.

(The more things change, the more they stay the same: I wrote this poem about a New York earthquake in 2002, and aside from 2024's commentary being mostly on Facebook and 2002's commentary being mostly via IM and LiveJournal? Yep :) )

Gonna be a busy weekend, so happy birthdays in advance, andrewshead and jaina!

Oh, Boston, you don't know how to cope with earthquakes, do you.

Last night: Torrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrri. Yay. :) Hey Jupiter and Crucify and Precious Things and Concertina and Take to the Sky and Hotel and Etienne and Cruel. Very weirdly hard rock and kinda '80s throughout; I was happiest when it was just her and her piano. Except when I had to turn around and tell the guy behind me to get off his goddamn cell phone, this was a *quiet* song, and I didn't need to hear him dissecting the Sox game during it.

Before that, no melissaagray's, and I saw some guy knocking on his door, so I sped up a bit to catch up. As I got closer, I saw the body shape wasn't right to be any of the usual guys ... and then I realized it was Max! Yay for surprise midweek special guests :)

Today: it is 72F and rainy outside. I am confused. It is supposed to be 66 and rainy tomorrow. I also have my first winter cold. No, I don't get it either. To smack down this cold: matzoh ball soup, tom kha gai, and kimchi rice.

Tomorrow: holy shit, little nolrak is getting married. WTF, dude, I've known you since you were *14*.

Oh gawd, Head of the Charles is tomorrow? Which means the best way to get onto the Pike is probably going to be either 93S or 2W-128S, rather than the usual JFK Bridge-Soldiers Field Road-Exit 17 ...