Hot and aggrivating two days

That's what I was on Monday and Tuesday as I went to work. I was aggrivated because I had a 12:30-9 shift and because there is a lot of contruction going on in and around my city square. There putting up a hotel or should I say they are putting up another hotel because where I live is only 5 miles from Boston and the main highway runs through my city. I know it makes sense because business people and tourist can stay here and be in Boston in about 10 minutes. That, of course depends on the time of day. Well if it's not construction it's road work. If it's not roadwork it's the gas company. I live very close to the square (meaning the center of town). I have to go through two traffic lights to get through it and normally this takes 5 minutes. Monday it took 25. I Iive 5 miles from where I work in Cambridge Ma. I give myself an hour to get there when I start work anytime after 7 a.m. My next snag was going by Tufts University which is in the city that I live in. It's approaching fall and all the students are descending into the area. I knew I was in trouble when I hit Cambridge. There are cars and vans double parked all over the place because students are moving in. There are 30 colleges and universities in the Boston are alone. This translates into 250,000 students cramming into an already densely populated area. The next city after mine is Somervile. It normally has a population of 90,000. Students are moving in there as well. My route next takes me into Cambridge. Another city of 90,000. Even more students moving in there with the two heavy hitters Harvard and M.I.T. I go through Harvard Square on my way to work. It is normally congested with cars and people.

This is Harvard Square. This is the very road I travel on. Harvard Yard is on the left. You can see one of the entrances on the brick wall on the left. The reason it doesn't look crowded with cars and people is because this was taken at 6:48 on a Sunday Morning.

 Tuesday was even more aggravating than  Monday. We were unusually busy and of course we were understaffed to handle it. As the afternoon wore on I couldn't get off the counter and time was running short. I had things to do. Orders to place on the computer that had a time limit. I admit at getting stressed and not being all that pleasant and friendly to customers. I wondered could the hurricane coming up the east coast and possibly hitting us in some form on Friday be the cause for all this extra business? On top of that we are in the middle of another heatwave. Today it's 91 not quite as bad as the previous days but it's getting more humid. Tomorrow (Thursday) promises to be at least just as hot and more humid. At least I'll be in an air conditioned store for 9 hours.

This summer has been a hot one at least for the Boston area. Around 30 days have bee 90 degrees plus but we have not had very much rain except for last week. Consequently I have seen a few trees already beginning to turn color. Photographically it could be a very good fall. 

OK. several months ago back on spaces I made a little photo album of photo's I had taken up until that point. Now I have not taken nearly as many photo's as I took in the last two years but be that as it may here is a little photo album of some pictures I have taken since the last photo album. Set to music. It's blues music which I happen to love. I wish I could play the blues as well as whoever is playing them on this track. So here they are Photo's 2010 part 2.

So here I sit in air conditioned comfort waiting for my final load of laundry to dry. They are talking the hurricane up. At this point it looks like the Boston area will get 30 to 40 mile an hour winds on Friday evening. Cape Cod and the islands, Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket are under a hurricane watch. Further down the east coast they are definitley going to get hit at least as of now. Speaking of Marthas Vineyard I am chomping at the bit to go there but I will have to wait until Serptember 27. I hope the weather cooperates and please no hurricanes!

Time to get and sort some 2000 socks. OK I exaggerated a wee bit.

I'm outta here.