Week in photos

[fbhjr]

I have accepted the new job, but won’t start for another week. So, I’ve got some free time.
I’ve tried to use it walking around more. I’m sad the supermarket near me closed as the others are either much farther away or in places it is not good to walk.

But, I can walk up to the center of town for the library. It’s a nice walk. Round trip is about 5km.











It’s nice they have something like a park around the place. Seemed to be a lot of families making us of that.


Pollen has been quite bad. This is very evident when I do drive some place.


Tuesday I had the idea to go visit my mother at the place the hospital sent her to heal up from her hip. I had thought to bring my bother with me, but he didn’t want to go. So, I went there on my own. It was in an area I used to work back in the summer of 1982, but haven’t been there since.



It’s a nice place. The German Center. ( https://www.germancentre.org/ )
Not sure why there as my mother is English and Irish, not very German except a few millennia ago. But, that’s where she is…


She’s 94 and does look it.

She didn’t seem to know who I was, despite bringing photos from 1980 which might be the last time all 5 of us where together. (Father, mother, sister, brother and me.)

Yeah, all them were at our wedding in 93, but not in one place.

I didn’t stay long. On the way home I passed the VA hospital near there where my mother and I used to volunteer back about the time that family photo was taken.


I’ve spent a lot of time pondering this new job and how to get to it. The green star is the new place, and the other is my home. (Only visible on the zoomed out ones.)





In addition to bad pollen, smoke from fires in Canada has been coming down the coast at us. So, breathing outside has been more difficult than usual.



Friday was game night, and even with impending storms we cooked out. The rabbit was very impressed. Godzilla borrowed my reading glasses.


















Today we went off to the Worcester Art Museum to see their special tapestry and Japanese art exhibits.
https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/from-the-vault-collecting-tapestries-at-the-worcester-art-museum/
https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/reflections-of-a-changing-japan-the-evolution-of-shin-hanga/













I discussed the one that could not be held vertically with the young woman assigned to that room.




I particularly liked their use of magnets to keep it in place on the tiled platform.


I’m not sure about the depiction of the battle of Troy in them. This is not how I envisioned the fashion of Greece and Troy 3200 years go.








My wife thinks we’ve seen this one before, but can’t remember where.




They had a fair number of them about.












This fall the new arms and armor will open. It’s been a dozen years since the old museum closed. It will be nice to see that stuff again.




We decided to put off lunch until after the museum and went to the Japanese exhibit. And, the benches…



























When we got home it seemed like some of the trees had come down. I’m not sure when or how, but I think we’d have heard it if it happened when we were home.


We went to lunch. We normally go to the Tavern In The Square when they first open, so it was surprisingly crowded to us at 1PM…

Comments

[palusbuteo]

Dammit I missed another game night.

I was under the impression this month was too busy so it was being postponed to next month.

ugh.

[ravena_kade]

Congrats. on the job.

I wish The Tavern In The Square close to me wasn't across from North Station.

[taz_39]

Gradients and reflections seem to be, like, a Japanese staple. Not complaining.

Busy week, huh. Not sure how you're gonna do that commute but if it's any consolation, loads of people manage it somehow. I'm from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area and people intentionally live there to commute to New York, because housing is so much cheaper that it makes up for the time of the commute (I guess.) I think the most reliable option is buses, and something everyone calls "Jose Express" (I think it's a van service.)

Anyway, Reddit has a lot of tips on this subject. The most reasonable ones I've seen so far (and not sure if this helps you) are taking a train to Grafton and then an Uber, or taking the Worcester Line to Westborough Station and then a van service or Uber from there.

[fbhjr]

Scranton to NYC! Wow! That's a long way to go every day!

If I take the train it would probably be from Westborough. That's easier to get to than Grafton and about the same distance. It is closer than the supermarket we usually go to.
My worry is on the other end where I'd have to get across all of downtown Boston one way or another and still have a 10 to 20 minute walk at the end.
Any way I add it up it is 2 hours each way if everything goes well. And, those train and subway lines are notorious for delays.

It's only 38 miles. So, if I can beat the traffic, it is less than an hour. I'm a morning person, so I'm pretty sure I can beat it in the morning.
Not as sure about the drive home.

I guess I'll find out starting next week...

[brickhousewench]

My wife thinks we’ve seen this one before, but can’t remember where.

It kinda has the vibe of this one, on display at The Cloisters.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467650