I don’t know anymore. SOmething to say, no reason to say it. I went up to the GW Bridge yesterday. I used to live in one of the buidings right next to the bridge. Noise to last a lifetime. It appears one of the roomates I knew there still lives at the location. Good for him, I guess. It’s reant-stabilized and he probably pays less than $1 a month. No desire to reconnect with that dude but my random bit of research indicates that he never moved. The Bridge has removed the netting it installed a few years ago. netting intended to prevent suicides. I don’t know if it just didn’t work but now the walkway is completely closed while they install a more permanent solution. I could have done more homework but I appear to have fallen for some AI slop that indicated that walkway would be open during this work. No big deal, I only wanted to see for myself that the netting is in fact gone. It was a directionaless amble, like so many of my strides. No focus, little coherent thought and never really much of a plan. I found the A train, with its newer design, to be uncomfortable. Fewer seats and what seats are in use just don’t feel right to me. I took and A up and another A down, from 181st Street no less. Glad to never have to make that commute again. In years past I’d walk from 5057 Broadway to 207th Street A train and commute down to midtown. I guess those were my Avon days. I returned to midtown after the GWB miscue, checking on whether LinkNYC devices are still the same as far as inability to complete calls. I found that several attempts to reach my Payphone Radio failed, while a few calls connected. Nothing about this has changed since day 1 of the program. THey’ve always been unstable. Payphones were not much better but given their abundance and frequent proximity to other phones it was far likelier that one would find a working device if one was our of service. Link machines can be few and far between, or conspicuously abundant, but in many areas if the device does not work you have no real access to a public communications network. Huge swats of the City had their payphones removed with no viable replacement. There already has been a small-scale incident that illustrated how useless those kiosks will be in a wide-spread power outage. The Upper West Side blackout saw the Links drop out of service after a couple of hours without power. It never made headlines because it was isolated and not really that big a deal, but it was portentious of what will happen when a major blackout strikes. I wandered midtown through Times Square then down to Penn Station. It was a nothing day, a day of zero meaningful accomplishment. Now I am back at work for a 4 day week. Next week is a 3-day week followed by 5 days off and another 3-day week. I set up a random link widget on Cyclomedia and Streetview.They are not as sophisticated as other such widgets but it’s fun for me to land on a random spot in NYC and try to guess where it is. Sometimes it’s so obvious it’s scary. This random link landed directly in from of this office building. Honestly I do not feel normal today. Don’t know what is afoot but I feel a trembling mixed with serenity induced by anxiety meds.