Thought this was a pretty cool statue at Baltimore Penn Station.
No people though on a Sunday or because of COVID-19.
I imagine this is what a ghost town looks like.
The statues stand tall but the remnants of the people are hiding in shelters.
End of times or a new beginning…we’ll see. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
(Source Photos and Video: Andy Blumenthal)
So when the train is pulling out it’s a loud call by the conductor of:
“All Aboard that’s going abroard.”
With project management, it can be the same too.
Once an organization has decided to move out on a project and make the investment of time, resources, and reputation:
– Either you get on the train and help feed the engine of progress
OR
– You get left behind.
– You get thrown off the train.
– You get run over by the train.
There really are no other alternatives.
My advice is get with the program.
The train is moving out.
The organization is going to deliver on its promise.
Get the h*ll on! 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
These folks make some beautiful music together.
Sit back and enjoy!
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
This couple is arguing loudly in front of everyone on the Metro in Washington, D.C.
She claims the coming baby is his, and that he needs to take a paternity test.
He says it’s impossible that it’s his because she’s 3 months pregnant and they haven’t had sex in 5 months!
This goes on and on in a most hilarious and boisterous way, and they even try and involve some of the innocent bystanders on the train.
Always a show in this crazy town and it’s not just the politics! 😉
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
While Metro has been touting its Get Back to Good (“Back2Good“) plan and campaign, unfortunately, it is still continuing to mess up big and stupid.
Part of Metro’s hailed upgrades is to the new 7000-series trains.
They look better than the old crappy and filthed up train cars from before–including the extremely worn and ripped icky orange seats and carpets.
In that respect, the stainless and more modern-looking replacement trains are most welcome.
However, check out the negligent and hazardous middle doors on many of these train cars.
Do you see the absolutely stupid handle bars that jut out into the oft busy entry-exit passenger doors.
Yesterday, I got caught in a mob racing out of one of the train cars, and my upper thigh got danged and good on these ridiculous and reckless handlebars in the doorway!
Who would put these jutting out into a doorframe???
Anyway, my leg is red, swollen, painful, and I am limping good from this.
Hey, is there a good personal injury lawyer out there on the web that works on commission (lol, I think)?
I am so grateful to G-d if this doesn’t end up messing with my hip replacement.
What is it about Metro that they just seem to act brainless with the basics.
This was supposed to the year of getting back to track safety and train reliability (getting the trains on time), but I guessed they seriously missed the train safety part!
Oh by the way, the reliability isn’t all that “good” either (forget great…they gave up on that a while ago)! 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So this was really funny at the Metro escalator.
There was a huge double line of people coming down the escalator heading to the trains.
Everything is moving swiftly like clockwork.
Decend, decend, decend…step off and move to the right or left track for the next train.
But then…
One person, steps off and instead of moving left or right, they stop to try and figure out which side their train is coming from.
So all the people behind them coming down and off the escalator are blocked by the one “bumbling idiot” and they start stumbling into him with no place to go, and more and more people coming down end up in the human pile.
You could almost hear the people getting to the end of the escalator yelling: “Get out of the way!”
It was crazy and sort of hilarious–as no one was hurt, but the system isn’t built to give a person pause at the bottom.
The people just keep coming and coming–where’s the emergency break? 🙂
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
My beautiful daughter, Michelle, forwarded this wonderful message to me about our journey through life, and I wanted to share it with everyone.
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Life is like a journey on a train…
with its stations…
with changes of routes…
and with accidents !
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We board this train when we are born and our parents are the ones who get our ticket.
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We believe they will always travel on this train with us.
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However, at some station our parents will get off the train, leaving us alone on this journey.
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As time goes by, other passengers will board the train, many of whom will be significant – our siblings, friends, children, and even the love of our life.
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Many will get off during the journey and leave a permanent vacuum in our lives.
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Many will go so unnoticed that we won’t even know when they vacated their seats and got off the train!
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This train ride will be full of joy, sorrow, fantasy, expectations, hellos, good-byes, and farewells.
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A good journey is helping, loving, having a good relationship with all co passengers…and making sure that we give our best to make their journey comfortable.
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The mystery of this fabulous journey is:
We do not know at which station we ourselves are going to get off.
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So, we must live in the best way – adjust, forget, forgive and offer the best of what we have.
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It is important to do this because when the time comes for us to leave our seat… we should leave behind beautiful memories for those who will continue to travel on the train of life.”
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Thank you for being one of the important passengers on my train… don’t know when my station will come… don’t want 2 miss saying: “Thank you.”
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So the latest this week from the crumbling infrastructure of the DC Metro train system, not withstanding the mess of Operation SafeTrack.
While riding this morning, a large panel inside the train abruptly and widely swings open and smashes against the fabricated white and plastic wall adjacent to the seats.
It made a loud bang and initially everyone on the train looked up with the deer in the headlights stare apparently thinking it was a gunshot on the train or something.
Luckily, no one was in the 2 seats where the panel swung open like that, because their would’ve been some physical damage done to somebody there.
The age and decrepitness of the train obvious from the incident and also looking at what’s behind door #1!
What is amazing is that this is the Capital of the United States, one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations on Earth.
We spend lavishly abroad and domestically on wasteful pork barrel politics, broken programs, and even money that goes completely unaccounted for (can anyone say pass a financial audit).
Yet, we cannot provide a modern, clean, safe, and functional metro transportation system servicing the capital of our country or for that matter educate our young people properly or feed the hungry and shelter the homeless within our own borders.
There is a lot broken here and Metro is just the tip of the leadership iceberg unbecoming who we are and what our potential for this world is. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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