Happy Valentine’s Day

By rickColosimo / February 14, 2012 / Comments Off on Happy Valentine’s Day

Thinking about my day today…. Felt zero feelings for someone — where do those things go? I guess there’s no conservation of emotion (it hasn’t even all turned to hate, disgust, or sadness); Valentine’s Corollary to Newton’s 2nd Law: love fades? But enough of that. I’m not a fraidy-cat jackass, afraid to buy a car…

Baggage

By rickColosimo / October 17, 2011 / Comments Off on Baggage

What is the weight of all the stuff you’re carrying around?

The past is a foreign country

By rickColosimo / August 25, 2011 /

It’s like I had an imaginary friend for the last 16 years and just found out she wasn’t real. All my memories are tainted, suspect. Who knows what was real and what wasn’t? And I could drive myself nuts trying to figure it out, unearthing bits of evidence — photographs, tickets stubs, and snippets of…

Credit card purchases of tickets on LIRR trains

By rickColosimo / August 16, 2011 / Comments Off on Credit card purchases of tickets on LIRR trains

Radio this morning said that some LIRR passengers will get a chance to buy a ticket on the train with a credit card rather than cash as is currently the option. Two interesting tidbits: first, the “penalty” fare still applies, which is some bump to the price of a ticket at the machine if you…