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Monday Morning Commute: Hark, the Lady Spring Sings

MMC - What Up.

Mother Nature must be feeling guilty for those of us in New England. Friday morning I awoke to an onslaught of the Slushy Shit. It was draped across my car, down my driveway, coating the streets. What had been proposed as four inches of snow had turned into two feet of nightmare whilst I slept. Perhaps feeling a smidgen bit cruel for this deceit, Ole Lady Nature has turned the last two days into full blown Spring. You know you’ve been double-fisted by the Winter when forty-degree days are a salve on your soul. A balm on the chapped balls that weather has wrought. I’ll take it, and mix it together with some Daylight Savings Time. Despite the bullshit that is yanking an hour of weekend slumber out from underneath our feet, the bonus sunlight at the end of the day is bueno. As someone who is known to eat chapped stick in single bites while screaming at passersby when my sadness overwhelms me, any extra rays are salvation. They burn away the delirium that the Darkness brings.

Enough about me. How the fuck are you gals, guys, and every other combination? This is Monday Morning Commute, the column where you and I share the various happy happenings in our lives on a given week. The ointments that help soothe the irritation of the grind.

Let’s do this.

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GOOGLE FIBER ripping it up with speeds of 700 Mbps. G’damn.

I’m stuck with Comcast, staring in utter jealousy at Google Fiber. I have the faint desire to cut the cables behind people’s houses in Kansas City. Only problem? Goddamn Mom took away my bicycle after she caught me smoking rat feces in the alleyway behind the bowling alley. Fucking fascist.

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