Waiting out the sweeper

[prog]

Dragged myself outta bed, like I do more or less once a week outside of the winter, on five hours of sleep to drive my car down to the square and have a coffee while I wait for enough people in my neighborhood to go to work so's that I can drive back and park my car in a non-tickety spot. It's a Sweepy Day! And, once again, I had to use my car on the evening before a Sweepy Day (more like: I felt like using it, forgetting the Sweepiness of the following Day), and by the time I was ready to park it again all the non-sweepy spots by my house had been taken.

Another facet of car ownership I won't miss. Taking 'er in for repairs for sure next Monday (I talked to the ABJ Auto guy yesterday), immediately after which she's getting a one-way trip to Bangor. (And I'll be taking a one-way Concord Trailways back to South Station.)

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Also I finally paid for my account just now, so have won back access to my icons besides Jenna and the South Park underpants gnome. (However, I just deleted the gnome, intended for posts about my entrepreneur ideas, in favor of an even more appropriate cartoon character. I'll bust him out later.)

Comments

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yep... how I miss those days. I'm pretty sure we don't get the loudspeaker-reminders, either.

(And yet, I managed to get ticketed & towed more in the six months I lived in Cambridge than in any subsequent year I lived in Somerville! Probably because I was new to the whole on-street parking thing.)

[prog.livejournal.com]

Though it may be more accurate to say "biweekly"... any given street gets swept every week, but the sides alternate.