Adventure Time
Sep. 26th, 2011 06:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillSo, this weekend, as I do most weekends, I went home. This time, for the first time, I am doing this without a car. This requires an ability to navigate the Public Transportation [DUN DUN DUNNNNN!]
Actually, the outbound trip went pretty well. The train line, called the Pacific Surfliner, runs parallel to the 101, and also to the course until about Ventura. So that was a pleasant ride.
Today was the return trip, and it was a Great Big FAIL. For starts, this train shows up twenty minutes late; then when I get on, it stalls maybe fifty meters out of the station. So they return to station, and eventually the engineer gets on the PA to announce that the engine if fine but the cooling system is very, very dead, and we will have to take the next train.
Thing is? I chose my train based on which one gets me back in time to use Public Transportation Buses to get back to campus. The next train arrives minutes after the last bus leaves the local train stop, so that is a fail. Panda suggested that I take a cab, which is hat I eventually did. I was surprised that it cost only six dollars, but with four of us (all random strangers going to roughly the same place) I suppose the trip needn't be taxing on our wallets.
So here I am, back safe and sound in my apartment. Unfortunately, my bread turned green over the weekend, so I need some new bread. But I needed a shopping anyway, since I have no fruit, no hard cheese, and I'm almost out of food-in-a-can.
And that was my Adventure. As they go, it was less disabling and more irritating, but there you are.
More cone snail venom tomorrow :D
Actually, the outbound trip went pretty well. The train line, called the Pacific Surfliner, runs parallel to the 101, and also to the course until about Ventura. So that was a pleasant ride.
Today was the return trip, and it was a Great Big FAIL. For starts, this train shows up twenty minutes late; then when I get on, it stalls maybe fifty meters out of the station. So they return to station, and eventually the engineer gets on the PA to announce that the engine if fine but the cooling system is very, very dead, and we will have to take the next train.
Thing is? I chose my train based on which one gets me back in time to use Public Transportation Buses to get back to campus. The next train arrives minutes after the last bus leaves the local train stop, so that is a fail. Panda suggested that I take a cab, which is hat I eventually did. I was surprised that it cost only six dollars, but with four of us (all random strangers going to roughly the same place) I suppose the trip needn't be taxing on our wallets.
So here I am, back safe and sound in my apartment. Unfortunately, my bread turned green over the weekend, so I need some new bread. But I needed a shopping anyway, since I have no fruit, no hard cheese, and I'm almost out of food-in-a-can.
And that was my Adventure. As they go, it was less disabling and more irritating, but there you are.
More cone snail venom tomorrow :D
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Date: 2011-09-26 04:00 am (UTC)I'm going to agree that you lucked out on the cab. Sorry about the return trip, but I'm looking forward to Cone Snail Venom 050.
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Date: 2011-09-27 11:26 pm (UTC)So, to me, this tale does indeed count as an Adventure!
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Date: 2011-09-29 05:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 03:16 am (UTC)Is this dependence part of Google's evil plan to take over the world? (Y/Y)