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| The New Bus Hub - Photo From Same Spot as Last Year's Groundbreaking Ceremony |
I made my obligatory way
down there and proceeded to do absolutely nothing for the next two hours. It did not put me in a great frame of mind
for the ceremony because there was a lot of work back at the office, if they want
actual buses to show up as scheduled, that wasn’t getting done because I was
needlessly down there proverbially holding a nervous Nelly’s hand.
I had a great seat picked
out in the back where I could sneak out and get back work once the ceremony
started. As the politicians were massing
for their assault on our consciousness level one of the protocol ladies came up
to me and said there was a reserved seat for me right in the middle of the
front row – trapped!
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| View From My Seat - No Escape Everyone of These Guys Made a Speech |
The dignitaries were seated
in front of us and barely fit in the width of the platform. I was thinking there as no way that all of
them were gong to give speeches until I looked at the program when the true
horror was revealed. All were being
allowed to speak in a program emceed by the big boss. He started out with a fifteen minute speech
heaping praise on himself and the assembled politicos. He then gave a three-four minute introduction
to each of the succeeding speakers – I’m talking pain here – extreme, unmitigated
pain.
I amused myself by watching
the antics of a large young lady who had mistakenly pulled into the site and
then had her car die on her directly next to the speaker’s platform. Every five minutes or so she would crank her
engine trying to get it started and failing each time. Eventually someone showed up to give her a
jump start and I was robbed of even that entertainment as they drove off.
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| Ribbon Cutting |
Eventually the speeches wore
down and the politicos moved to cut the ceremonial ribbon. My mind had been ground down in the barrage
of self-congratulatory prose inflicted over the one hour and forty five minutes
I sat there. My boss was less sanguine
and very upset that the big boss never mentioned him or me in his speech as he
thanked seemingly everybody (as well as their second and third cousins). I took the position that adding our names
would have made the speech even longer and that would have been a bad thing –
he was still very pissed. I
offered one of my favorite mantras – “Non Corribundum illigitimae!” (Don’t let
the bastards get you down).
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| F&F6 - See What I Mean? |
Last night, being date
night, offered a movie instead of watching the Sox get dominated by a very good
pitcher (unfortunately for the birthday boy in attendance). We went to see Fast & Furious 6 because
there were so many unanswered questions from the first five. I really liked the 5th installment
but this one definitely “jumped the shark” in terms of ridiculousness. There was the usual banter between the entertaining
characters but there were at least five or six times where the audience just
groaned at the sheer impossibility of what they were seeing.(see above photo) One of the appeals of this series has been incredibly
dangerous but believable stunts. That
all went out the window in this one as the director apparently fell in love
with what the CGI world would let him do.
A clear miss.
I forgot to mention a couple
days ago that I did the first of my weekly weigh-ins since I started the keto
diet. I wasn’t expecting too much but I
lost nine pounds in the first week. I was
a little stunned because this doesn’t feel like a diet at all – color me
psyched. I even had to pull the belt a
notch tighter to hold my pants up this morning, progress.
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