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I have put date labels on more of my old journals, again rereading only when necessary to identify the year. This batch was easier than the previous because I was had consistent about putting the full date on the first entry in most of them (not all). I stopped after half a dozen because I was making scribal errors (1 for 9, - for / in this case), paced a little, and then realized "I'm waiting for something with an unknown time, about which I can do nothing*. Of course I'm antsy." I'm not good at waiting in general, and not knowing how long makes it worse.

I'd been thinking that I was putting a lot less in the paper journals because much of it is going here, but now I'm wondering if I was recording more detail. A piece of that may be more travel, or rather more varied/new-to-me travel. (I used a separate notebook for my first trip to England, for my mother's wedding, and one for the 1995 Scottish Worldcon, but I think part of the motivation there was worry about losing a half-filled journal.)

I didn't do a gym post Thursday, but I did go to the gym. I did a few minutes of cardio, and then a bunch of stuff with Emilie. Apparently chatting about how people deal with earthquakes stopped the muscles at the back of my head and neck from tensing up during ab work. I also did well on the balance things, and my knees felt better after the workout than they had on the way from work to the N train, despite four flights of stairs, squats, and calf raises.

*Or, rather, anything I need to do before the storm, anything useful I can sensibly do connected to it, I have already done.

I suspect I'll be staying home Monday

According to NY1 news,

MTA officials say there won't be service for Monday morning, and that it's unlikely it will be back for the evening rush.

They say inspectors will have to check all tracks in the daylight to make sure everything is safe.

From context, this probably means subways, commuter rail, and the Staten Island Railroad; I'm guessing that at least some bus service will be running Monday morning.

There's nothing on the MTA website about this, but the newspaper websites were a couple of hours ahead of them on the announcement that they were planning to shut the system down.

I don't have anything urgent that requires me to get downtown (the desire to get to the gym twice next week doesn't qualify), and I expect the buses will be crowded. I don't much fancy standing on two buses for a total of an hour and a half. Hmmm. Maybe the express bus?