Monthly Archives: October 2004

Lunches everywhere….beware!

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There is a lunch thief on the loose and roaming Cambridge Street in Boston. I kid you not, people!

Today at work my, much anticipated (mexican leftovers) lunch was boldly stolen from my museum desk! Granted, it wasn’t hidden or in a locker or anything, but it was tucked underneath the admin desk, out of plain sight. ARG. I think it was a kid from the school group that was there today, but it may have been accidental. I hope it was accidental.

I was really distraught. Perhaps overly distraught. I couldn’t believe that someone would actually take my lunch…and the green cloth bag it lives in…and the ice pack that kept it cool. WHY, WHY, WHY? What kind of person would do such a thing? My knickers are all in a twist just thinking about it again!

And I liked the lunch bag. It was my brother’s in middle school and I kind of inhereted it somehow. It was just the right size, with a velcro closure and the name LOWE written on it in permanent marker. Thief, unless your name is Lowe you have a huge problem!

So, I’m sad. I had to have a crummy Dunkin Donuts bagel lunch and it put me in a bad mood. I may be over it now, but maybe not.

WHAT KIND OF A PERSON STEALS ANOTHER’S LUNCH?!?

I only hope that that person was truely in need of a lunch. If they were more hungry than me and couldn’t afford to get their own lunch then I guess it’s better that they have mine.

Area man turns 26

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Beverly, Ma Local resident, Peter Wood, awoke today to a beautiful sunny sky and crisp fall weather. Like any other day he got up, checked his email and jumped in the shower. After a breakfast of bran flakes and bananas, he was ready for the day. And what a day it would be, for today is his 26th birthday!

Sources reveal that although he dealt with the reality of having to work on his birthday, he longed for the days of childhood, when birthdays heralded cupcakes and baloons and ‘king for a day’ treatment.

The birthday boy was gifted with an orange, bug shaped shower radio and will most likely be celebrating at ***Acapulco’s|http://www.acapulcos.net*** later this evening.

She can be taught!

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Among other domestic things I did today (making dinner, cleaning up, dishes, laundry, errands to the bank and post office) I taught myself to knit cables. WooHoo! This is something that I’ve wanted to to for a while, but have never taken the time to figure it out. Today was the day.

For those of you who don’t know the ins and outs of knitting… cables are those rope like ‘stripes’ or ‘ridges’ that you find in sweaters, especially those white, Irish sweaters. The technique was not very hard to figure out, but my fingers needed a bit of practice to get the ‘feel’ of doing it. I’m almost an expert now!

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So that I could practice my technique I decided to knit up a little baby hat. Baby things are fun to knit and make good practice for larger items. And when I finish there is some precious kiddo who gets a nice present!

Dueling Dunkin Donuts

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A while back I had mentioned the case of Dunkin Domination here in Beverly – eight dunkin donuts within 2.5 square miles of land.

This weekend, Becky and I had the occasion to drive around the Route 60 rotary in Revere for the first time in a while. We discovered that there were now two Dunkin Donuts on the rotary, immediately across the street from each other, as shown by “DD1″ and DD2” in this diagram:

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So, whether you’re entering the rotary or leaving the rotary, there’s a DD to satisfy your cravings. And there’s probably another one down the road if you missed one of those. And another one in case you get lost. And another one in case you take the wrong exit. And another… and another…

College-Driven Photography

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I had another exhausting but fun day today as I trekked around Boston. Becky was once again working, so I drove her in and parked for free! Whee!

My picture-taking today was driven by colleges. I’ve spent plenty of time taking pics in the center of Boston, but haven’t branched out as much to the outlying areas. So today I made the rounds to Boston University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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I took some photos of the schools, as well as some of the surrounding areas. The day was exceedingly clear, which made it very nice to walk around and take in the sights. Unfortunately, the lack of any kind of light diffusion due to clouds made for not the greatest photography conditions. So I’ve got the best of the bunch online, though I would have liked to take more.

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The excited grocery shopper approaches the store with some fear and trepidation. While the bright lights draw her in, she can not help but notice the buzz of excitment that surrounds her fellow shoppers. Slowly pushing her cart she heads to the right in her familliar route towards the Dairy section. Amid the throng of Friday night shoppers she quickly notices that the ‘egg and cheese’ section is twice the size as she remembers it. The dairy case is to be a harbinger of things to come. The shopper continues on and finds the aisles comfortably wider and the floors noticibly cleaner.

What had started as a cautious visit to a brand new store was becoming quite enjoyable. For once our shopper was not run down by elderly fellow shoppers and their wayward carts. She could turn around in the produce department without knocking over the green pepper display. In addition to the surprise of extra checkout lanes with cute, polite bagger boys she was glad to see an aquaintence. Her college roomate, Kendra Nicholas, shopping for sushi.

Leaving the shop with a couple weeks worth of groceries she vows to return in the future. Next time she will study her new map of the aisles and will have a perfectly ordered list, corresponding with those aisles. Though she will miss the cozy, cluttered, chaos of the original Danvers Market Basket, the shopper decides that change is good and she just may take advantage of the wide variety of Asian and South American goodies.