The updated State Employees Health Plan has been announced, and as is a surprise to no one, everything is more expensive for the next fiscal year—higher premiums, higher co-pays, and less coverage. With that said, there was one announcement that I’m quite ambivalent about: “Starting in 2011, you will be penalized for being the fat … Read more
A rush of buscapades this morning: This is the first time, since I’ve been riding the bus for seven months, that another person at my stop in the morning was smoking a cigarette while waiting for the bus. I stood about 20 feet from him. Just as the bus pulled away from my stop, two … Read more
I forget to capture this yesterday: As I got off the bus coming home, the bus driver asked me, “Are you a teacher?” For some silly reason, that delighted me. Last week I described a “buscapade” about a (presumably) homeless man who, at a bus stop, told the bus driver that he “needed to get … Read more
I caught the 7:55 bus today instead of the 8:25. I was surprised to find my office door locked, as Rhonda is always in before me. Turned out she was on vacation today. I spent some time this morning preparing for a 1:00 meeting with Dana from the Operations team. I took the city bus … Read more
I was up and at ’em early this morning as I needed to get into work early enough to write-up my status report to give at my 10:00 meeting. There wasn’t a morning buscapade, but there was one on the way home. Read on. We had our monthly staff meeting at my second-level manager’s level … Read more
This was new news when I first saw it, but now it’s all over the Internet. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth the 7-minute investment. 47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britain’s Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables. Dream the dream. … Read more
I was going to work from home all morning, since my exterminator was expected some time between 8:00 and 11:00. However, he arrived at just after 9:00, so I jumped in the shower in an effort to make the 9:50 bus. With just a couple of minutes left, I was unable to find my badge—I … Read more
I was up and at ’em early this morning, as I had to make a grocery store run before catching the bus. Normally, I would have parked at the Food Lion and caught the Wolfline bus in from there, but the university buses were not running today, due to the Easter break. I committed to … Read more
Today’s buscapades are about emptiness, opaqueness, decisiveness, and succinctness. Emptiness: The bus was completely empty when I got on this morning. That’s so highly unusual that I checked my watch to make sure my power hadn’t gone out or something making it much later in the day than it actually was. “8:25,” it said. Thanks … Read more
This morning’s buscapade is about time—doing it, that is. Two seats up and to my right sat a rider I’ve seen before. She’s a little unkempt usually—not drastically so, but a little bit. And she’s loud. And she likes to talk. Not a good combination in my book, especially not being a morning person. She … Read more