Yesterday is probably the first time I ever let this happen. I’m not sure. It’s not something for the record books or historical epochry. But I believe I neglected to rinse the shampoo\/conditioner out of my hair upon showering, leaving my hair standing pretty much straight up and feeling a little gooey. It was a strange feeling. At the end of the day I detected a blob of… something on my forehead. It had to be some residue from the shampoo\/conditioner. I was not among people, or rather I did not interact directly with anyone to speak of. No one I know witnessed this strange cosmetic episode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was enough to make me wish I had actually recorded myself on video, as I usually do. I had taken the camera out because I was not certain it was recording everything. Actually I was thinking it might be overwriting stuff already, including the first time I started recording again after putting it away during the girlfriend episode. I was revelling in the intrigue of creating a Secret Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday I walked with a vengeance. I ended up on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, near McCarren Park. Kind of a nothing stretch of road. 460 I think was the address. From there I walked all the way back to Astoria, considering hopping a B62 bus but blanching at the 20+ minute wait, during which time I could probably get where I was going in almost the same span of time. And the B62 only gets as far as Queens Plaza, where you are left off in a pedestrian-hostile area appeased only by the ability to walk underneath it all through the E\/M subway. My approach to crossing that inhospitable blanket of road is via 21st Street, and even that feels hazardous.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My walk yesterday followed another morning of failure. I slept until 10:30, this after guaranteeing myself this would not happen again. With half the day wasted I guess it’s not too surprising I lacked the presence of mind to rinse my hair of its shampoo goo. Depite the lateness I convinced myself that I would follow through with a journey out to Rosedale, for reasons too vaporous to recount. But my subway jujitsu was way off. Every step of the way would have entailed a 15 minute wait for another train, and when the clock suddenly reached 1:30 and I was only as far as the Port Authority, and the next A train was at least 15 minutes away, I decided to turn back. It would be another hour before I got to Rosedale and that would leave little time to do anything, which was a planned waste of a day anyway. I am determined to waste this life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I rode the 7 train just to be on a train. I do that some days. Just ride a train or bus to create the illusion that I have somewhere to go, someplace where I am needed. In the summer the bus is also prime for its air conditioning. That’s not so true on the subways, where the doors swing open every minute or 2. It’s been summer-time hot this late October. But I rode that 7 train to Woodside, discovering that the fucking escalator is out of service, explaining why the elevator is packed to the gills on virtually every ride up to the LIRR or 7 train platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I took the 7 back to Court Square, where the G got me to Nassau Street, a pseudo-destination I decided upon after randomly remembering that something of potential interest awaited me around that location on Manhattan Avenue. Greenpoint felt different from how I remembered it last time. Much more hipster and moneyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A useless Link5G tower has been erected on Queens Plaza North at 20-something street. 22nd Street, possibly, I did not note the precise location. If it is ever activated it will service a large vacant lot, a storage facility, and a bike path. These are locations starved for 5G. Seriously, any time I see one of those monster towers I grimace. They do not have 5G service and the likelihood that they ever will have 5G service is purely hypothetical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinking about the weird obsession with working at McDonald’s in the 80s. I worked a summer at McDonald’s in 1986. I was the type of kid who would have saved some scrap of paper or a nametag or some piece of memorabilia. But I don’t believe any evidence of my time there exists. I’ve been told that any time you fill out a W2 form you are permanently on record somewhere<\/em>, even if you only worked at a carwash for a couple of days. That’s something to explore if the mystery is worth pursuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday is probably the first time I ever let this happen. I’m not sure. It’s not something for the record books or historical epochry. But I believe I neglected to rinse the shampoo\/conditioner out of my hair upon showering, leaving my hair standing pretty much straight up and feeling a little gooey. It was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-bMB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}