I Think

It's a commuter train that derailed. It's the train I would take to visit my friend Sheila and the train she took daily to and from work.

Sad to hear that many people were hurt and four are dead.

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The photo shows it could have gone in the water, with just a little more movement on the tracks.

We lived right about there, for a year - if you look at the map, it was at 235th St. and Henry Hudson Parkway. Looks like our old building in the photo on google maps, if you look for 3240 HHPkway. (I thought it was gone, but I guess not.) We got off the subway at 231st, just to the east of Kingsbridge. I haven't looked at a map yet of where the derailment happened.

Back to work today. The last exterior light I installed was working, but now the side of the building it is on has lost all its lighting. The lead maintenance replaced the photocell and made sure the wiring is right on my light. Still no workee. I am thinking to take down the new light to test it on the ground. The circuit is not complete unless all the lights have connectivity.

We put up a tree yesterday. So far that's the extent of our decorations this year.

Amazon claims that within a year or two they will make drone drops to your home, thereby delivering the order just hours after you pay for it. I am envisioning thousands of drones filling the sky, unavoidable that they will have crashes.

China has launched a rover at the moon.

Looked at the derailment pictures, read up, see it was a different train line from the one we used. And wow - I'll be interested to find out why the train was going much faster than usual according to one observer.

I'm not happy about drones in the first place, but can see they could have uses re something like forest fires. But parcel delivery? Is that a joke?

I'm a litte tetchy about stuff littering up the sky, which I like for itself. I've whined in the past about sky-art in New York, and balloon fests (which I know everyone else likes). Leave my sky alone....

Skeet shooters will save a bundle on targets.

We can only hope.

I will never complain about not getting my packages fast enough. Why fix something that isn't broken?

When I was a kid, the Weekly reader told us that people would be flying instead of driving cars in 1970. I knew even then that was a stupid idea that could never happen.

It has happened ed.

The general population doing their daily commute to work or going shopping or off worshiping Mammon, flying in lieu of driving? Please show me when and how it happened.

It never caught on for some reason, it must have been a time-consuming hassle bolting the wings and tail on and off the car all the time.
This is the American Taylor Autocar of the 1950's, only 6 were built-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerocar

You didn't say "general population" ed. You said people. Many people use helicopters these days. I know a guy who has one. Racehorse owners, trainers and jockeys use them routinely.

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains.

Christmas decorations day at work. Every year we are to climb all over the office to string lights, a wreath and an expanding list of novelty items. There are two reindeer and two angels to stand out near the front. These contraptions are old and they get harder to put together each time. I told the boss yesterday it's my least favorite activity on the property. She says, Oh. The last lead we had loved it. I said, But he is young and skinny and can jump around like a mountain goat.

The temperature today will get in the 80s. Thursday will see the 40s and then the 30s. It goes up and down like that until spring. The fat little robins have yet to show themselves. They often arrive in November.

I think, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But then again, who does not?

I think football in snow is a good June sport, but not December.

I think we should not have universal health care, unless it does not work. Make sense?

I think cranberry balls hurt more than popcorn balls.

I think dogs have a dog given right to play squeaky toy 24 hours a day if they wish.

I think kids with sleds are one of life's blessings. Having no snow when we were kids, we did have a sheet of galvanized tin and a grassy hill. We bent the front of the metal piece to curve the way a sled curves and we had every bit as much fun, without frostbite to our toes.