making a short list, shortening the long list

I’ve said before that I miss the windy hilly roads of New England. I can now make a short list a New England driving quirks that I miss: the need for high beam headlights on those windy hilly roads which lack streetlights, knowing when your crossing a town line by the quality of the plow work on the road, actual rotaries (roundabouts), the sense of urgency drivers feel when a red light turns green that causes them to immediately start rolling forward.

The visit home is going well. I probably won’t make it to the teen center this time around, I’m not going to take a ton of pictures of all my old haunts (which was on my mental list of things to do and not well defined, I think it was a flickr-groups-inspired idea and I can’t think of which groups/themes I had in mind) and I don’t think I’ll be able to fit in hanging out with everyone who wants to, since today is pretty much the only day I have and only Erika has come up with a time and place that works for her… and I pretty much slept the whole morning away. I suppose I could fit some time in with someone around our visit to Karen and the kids in Stoughton, tomorrow… or before dinner time on Monday. Heading out to Worcester this afternoon, most likely, with Mom and her good friend Joyce. I’ll probably take my own car so that I can break off and meet with someone, if they get in touch with me before it runs into my other plans. I guess I should go shower.