Every once in a while, I’ll find a perfect combination of song and road. Today I had one - Pet Shop Boys “Somewhere” came on just as I was getting onto I-290 as it starts in Hudson and it just seemed right. THe song picked up just as I went under the 495 ramp and… well, it was just right.
For those keeping score, the other spots I’ve had this that I can remember are:
I-84 westbound just before exit 8, Abba’s “Dancing Queen”
I-390 north over a hill just before I-90, Depeche Mode’s “Get Right With Me”
I-87 north through Saratoga Springs, Prodigy’s “Voodoo People”
Anyone else have anything?
I did get a new toy this weekend. For the past two years, I’ve had a Sony Ericsson T637 cell phone. It worked okay but because I keep my phone in my pocket (I walk into too many walls and doors to keep a cell phone on my belt), the control stick in the center got all gummed up with pocket lint. So now I have a Samsung D307 phone. So far, I like it - I like having a keyboard as well as a dial pad, it’s a good size and I don’t feel like I have to try to keep it partway between my ear and my mouth when I use it. I do have a few issues with it - I can’t get files to transfer to it via Bluetooth (although I’ve been working with Samsung on it and if I could stay on the phone with them for long enough, I’m sure we’d reoslve the problem) and I would have liked it to have been able to sync with Outlook out of the box. But overall, I’m happy with it.
But where before I just didn’t bother to update this out of sheer laziness or lack of anything worthwhile to say, now I have a bona-fide excuse. I’m going to be a daddy at the end of July. Needless to say, both Kelly & I are excited - me probably more so, but that has to do with the fact that I’m not the one who has to carry it around for the next 5 months. Still, I have a lot of projects to do around the house - and roadgeeking time is pretty much cut to near nothing (which is where it’s been for the past few years anyways).
Wouldn’t trade it for anything, though.
