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yfghr.

Yesterday the temperature hit 95 degrees before noon, and was still pretty high and pretty gross by the time bedtime rolled around. I opted to try sleeping on the living room couch in order to be within range of the air conditioning and the ceiling fan both. Couch is all right but I don't think I'll be doing that again unless the temperature gets rally, really gross.

At least it's predicted to be around 80 today. I can live with that. That's not a temperature that leaves you with weird optical phenomena after bicycling home from Starbucks. (Yesterday I had some unpleasant patches. It's all good now, though.)

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Dear Boston:

I'm not going to bitch at you today about your little habit of 'forgetting' to put up street signs. I know you think that's cute and you have some kind of excuse about confusing the British if they ever come back. You know what I think of that; it involves some complicated Italian gestures and both hands. That's not what I'm gonna complain about today.

No, today I wanna know why the hell you have two of the same street, and not only two of the same street but two of the same street with the same range of addresses, within the limits of 'Boston'. In New York, if they have two of a street- say, Forty-Eighth Street- they distinguish them. Addresses on one of them are addresses in 'Astoria, NY' or 'Long Island City, NY'; addresses on another are addresses in 'Manhattan, NY' or 'New York, NY'. This is because Manhattan is New York County and Queens is Queens County and they had enough sense not to name them both the same freakin' thing. Please, explain to me why there is a 99 High Street, Boston and another 99 High Street, Boston, and the only effort you people made to distinguish them in the slightest was to say 'this one is zip code 02110 and this one is 02116'?

If I wanted this kind of 'I hate the people who laid out this city and I hope they get rashes every time they sit down for the rest of their lives' I would get a job delivering mail in Tokyo.

That's all. Than you for your time.