What are the Powers That Be trying to say here?

[mizarchivist]

4:00 I notice my cell is dead, so start charging it, leaving it at work overnight

4:10 The heavens open

4:29* The heavens chill and I decide I can venture out and towards home

4:33 I catch that train!! Wow! I might make it!

4:55 We sit in the tunnel

5:01 We arrive Alewife and of course the bus is gone.

5:25 The less optimal 5:15 shows up. Hm. I make a tactical error and decide to wait the 5 minutes for the 5:30

5:37 The 5:30 bus leaves

6:10 Arrive Lexington, go to CVS (who fuck up my perscrip... they don't have it, but it's on the books. ??? Then finally hit some luck when video store has a title I want

6:30 Arrive home. Only a full hour late.

*I have come up with a formula. If I leave work at exactly 4:30, I will be too late to catch the 5:00 bus home. If I am even a few minutes before that critical moment, I can be up to 10 minutes early. I love the T. Not.

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[ceo]

Oh yes, I remember that dance from when I was still living at my folks' house and working in Somerville. If the Lotus shuttle bus got me to Kendall before 4:45, I could generally get to Alewife in time for the 5:00 76 bus, which was significantly more direct than the 62 I'd be stuck on if I missed it.

Got a lot of exercise that year sprinting up the escalators, through the turnstiles and up the steps to the busway.