The Zereps

Well, Friday was a commuting disaster in the city here. There was rain and flooding and mysterious subway ‘incidents’ that caused all queens-bound (read: homeward-bound for me) trains to be halted and thousands (who knows, maybe millions!) of people to be stranded and traffic to grind to a halt in mid-town because of all the people taking taxis and busses and anything they could find to get back into Queens. Normally, it takes me 1 hour door-to-door to get to and from work. On Friday, I spent 2 hours on a bus and I barely made it 40 blocks. At that point I decided to get some dinner and saw on a TV that the train I needed was finally running, so I headed to the station. Some unlucky people had their trains not start running again until the next day–I guess that either means stay with a friend in Manhattan, get a hotel, or walk the couple miles across the bridge (or something!) I finally got home around 9:45 at night (after leaving work at 6.)

Today, I did do something fun though–I went and visited the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum, conveniently located on the deck of the retired USS Intrepid, aptly enough. She was commissioned in 1943 and was destined for the scrapyard before somebody rallied to turn her into a museum. The ship itself is a massive aircraft carrier; she fought in World War II and all the way through the Vietnam war before she was decommissioned in 1974. She now resides at 12th ave and 46th st at Pier 86 (Google Satellite Map.) I spent a couple hours there when Candice was at work this afternoon (she didn’t want to go anyway. 😉 ) Unfortunately, I was not well-prepared as I forgot my camera and sunglasses, so no pictures (and lots of squinting for me.) It was a pretty fun museum to visit–the first museum on the sea that I’ve ever been too. Also at the museum was a Concord airliner that you could walk through and a submarine tour (USS Growler,) which I didn’t have time to see.

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