Coping mechanisms and well a Subway Explosion..

Auntie N told me via mother, to write down the things that I felt anxious about and then rip them up. Or write down negative things and positive things, and rip up the negative ones. It's apparently how she's been coping with all her health issues and anxieties of late. (Auntie N has breast cancer, and cyrossis of the liver, which had to be fixed.)

Mother: So write it down.
Me: Kind of already doing that...and making fun of it.
Mother: that works too, but it's better to tear it up afterwards...

I'd been stressing over whether or not I'm moving my office from Queens to Manhattan.
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Also been stressing over receiving Xmas gifts being delivered by Amazon to an Amazon Locker in my building. These are gifts sent to me by my family members. I have a small immediate family of four people that I'm close to - but who live a long ways from me. One lives in Montana. Two in Upstate New York near the Massachustus border, and one in South Carolina on an island.
We're not very good at living close to each other - very nomadic and free-spirited, my family.

Amazon has installed "lockers" in my apartment building. They are allegedly safe, secure, and reliable. But also a royal pain. ( Read more... )

I miss the days in which all I had to worry about were package thieves. Or wrapping presents and figuring out how to cart them back to my apartment via plane.

My mother's is allegedly arriving on Friday - so we shall see what happens. My brother's is allegedly arriving by Sunday.

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I really wish I owned a crystal ball sometimes. I want spoilers. But they aren't forthcoming. On the other hand, maybe I'm better off without the spoilers?

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Update on the power outage that took out several train lines last night, resulting in Wales being stranded for hours and having to hail a cab home.

Explosion at electrical substation caused subway meltdown for thousands, MTA says.

["An explosion that blew a door off its hinges in an electric room that powers several New York City subway lines caused Wednesday night’s service meltdown for thousands of riders, highlighting the transit system’s aging infrastructure and modernization needs, according to MTA officials.

Riders were still experiencing a variety of lengthy delays across the subway during rush hour on Thursday morning, after a hellish commute during the Wednesday evening rush due to the power loss. That disruption left some 3,500 riders stuck in tunnels for hours, officials said.

“We had a 90-year-old electrical substation that had a fire and an explosion of some kind because the door was off the hinges,” MTA Chair Janno Lieber said at a news conference on Thursday morning. “That speaks to the urgency of making the investments to the very old pieces of our system.”

Lieber said the transit agency had already put the substation on a shortlist for necessary upgrades."]

According to another report..
People were peeing in between the cars. People were passing out cookies. It became a little community thing." [They were also sharing water.]

And this link.. Power Outage Leaves 3500 NYC Subway Riders Stranded

"The trapped riders were eventually led off the stalled trains by firefighters into dark subway tunnels and up service stairways that led to trap doors in the middle of Brooklyn sidewalks, according to photos of the debacle shared on social media.

“Trapped in an unpowered rush hour F train with no a/c for the last 70 minutes til FDNY got us out through a damn maintenance tunnel at Smith and Atlantic,” one of the evacuated riders tweeted alongside a photo of people walking up a steep, graffiti-covered stairway.

[So, needless to say, Transit was not having a good day. At all.]

Governor Kathy Hocheul is asking for a full review from both the MTA and Con Edison to ensure it never happens again