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Greetings from Boston!

Mation said:
Oh ok! She didn't have a book, but I emailed her lots of thanks and some suggestions afterwards Told her - *very politely* - that her car may need a magic tree. :o She took it well!
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Oh I'm missing you my lovely :D

Mation said:
You won't be wasting anyone's time or making a fuss, I told her as a police car, one fire engine and two ambulances screamed to a halt in front of us!!
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The fire engine? Why the fire engine? :D :rolleyes:
 
No idea gorgeous! :D

I heard the sirens and thought hmmmm, I wonder if that's all for her, and had to stop myself giggling in bewilderment when literally one policeman, four firemen and two ambulance crews were gathered round her.

<waves to the lovely fizzer>

Glad the Scare got here safely. I think he has my mobile number so if he's nearby and has time to hook up that'd be cool. :)

Meanwhile I'm off down to Hartford in Connecticut this morning to visit another lab. Staying overnight to make pizza with the crew, then back tomorrow.
 
Ah! Now I think about it, I wonder if the person who went off to phone from the gym actually just hit one of the emergency buttons on those posts with the red light on top??
 
LilJen said:
The fire engine? Why the fire engine? :D :rolleyes:
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In lots of places in NA, the fire dept are the first responders to medical emergencies. The firemen are also paramedic trained, and they make the first assessment.

So for eg if you phone in with a heart complaint, it will be firemen who first show up.
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
In lots of places in NA, the fire dept are the first responders to medical emergencies. The firemen are also paramedic trained, and they make the first assessment.

So for eg if you phone in with a heart complaint, it will be firemen who first show up.
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Yes, but whhhhyyyyy? Why aren't the ambulances there first for medical emergencies? Are there fewer of them?

Meanwhile I'm still in Farmington at the U Connecticut medical centre. Have been made a huge fuss of and had a very stimulating row :D

Back to it!
 
Mation said:
Yes, but whhhhyyyyy? Why aren't the ambulances there first for medical emergencies? Are there fewer of them?
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I've never seen a public ambulance proper in the US - and I lived there for 3 years.

There are private ambulances chasing after profitable customers. Which is presumably why two showed up? (My post above seems to have been a bit too brief?)

And then - if you're lucky - there's the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) which is run by the Fire Department. So in NYC ambulances are red and square. Did they send an actual fire engine out in Boston?

If you're unlucky - which means outside a Big Bad City as far as I can tell - you're likely to wake up to find someone rifling through your wallet to find out whether you can afford to be saved.
 
Mation said:
Yes, but whhhhyyyyy? Why aren't the ambulances there first for medical emergencies? Are there fewer of them?
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I don't really know, but I'm guessing that many medical 911 calls don't require an ambulance, so that resource is kept for when it's really necessary.
 
laptop said:
I've never seen a public ambulance proper in the US - and I lived there for 3 years.

There are private ambulances chasing after profitable customers. Which is presumably why two showed up? (My post above seems to have been a bit too brief?)

And then - if you're lucky - there's the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) which is run by the Fire Department. So in NYC ambulances are red and square. Did they send an actual fire engine out in Boston?

If you're unlucky - which means outside a Big Bad City as far as I can tell - you're likely to wake up to find someone rifling through your wallet to find out whether you can afford to be saved.
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How horrid.

Don't know if the ambulances that turned up were private, or whether they were in competition.. They looked the same at a glance, and it didn't occur to me that they might be jostling for business.

It was definitely a proper fire engine though!
 
I just got two postcards from bombscare dated the 29th November.

4 days...thats bloody quick, I'm impressed! :cool:
 
:o Haven't sent any postcards!

Woke up a short while ago to this!



That's the view from my window to the park next door. :)

Uploaded a few more photos, on pages 13 and 14, of Boston College, my trip to Conneticut to stay with the lovely, lovely Tino and Peggy, and the snow just now.

Tino has a photograhic memory and knows every single bloody paper that has ever been written on binaural hearing instantly. He loves a good shouting match, knows everyone in the health centre and stops to hug and say hello to them all, phones up NASA and successfully demands to speak to astronauts just to say hi, taught the chef in the Tower of London to make pizza, made me pizza and subjected me to Sinatra, has a mini Italian restaurant setup in his office and is just generally lovely! :D :cool:
 
Hey up it did that in about half an hour. I went into Logan airport and there wasn't a sniff of snow. Come outside for a smoke half an hour later and it was all white. It was wicked.

Anyway I had a wicked time over there in Boston. Sorry I didn't get to hgook up with you Mation. The Bostonians were sort of trying to kill me with kindness. I have never eaten sooooo much in all my life. We didnt get over to Boston from Westborough until about 6 pm. A tour of Cambridge, Harvard Square, Fanhuil Hall. Then over to the Old Oyster bar, The one thats the oldest restaurant in the US.

Back across Boston tour of the common, Beaconhill and Newbury St and it was off to Legal Seafood for a meal, then off round some pubs.

Then back to the Paramount building and right up to the top to get a wicked view of Boston by night and yep you geussed it MORE FOOD.

2am Im stuffed right up, we finally crawl back to the Hotel, after being detoured round and round circles, as they closed the main bit of the tunnel to the airport bit.

It was Fun But I didnt need to eat for days :D
 
Glad you had a good time :)

You wouldn't believe how much snow there has been today!! I was out and about around lunchtime and it was a complete white-out. Couldn't see more than a few metres in front of me for swirly, pelty snow, and there was thunder too.

And *gulp* I have to fly soon :(

Not enjoying the news of the plane skidding off the runway in Chicago :( or the plane that was struck by lightning at Logan Airport in Boston this afternoon...

Looks as though at least 6 inches fell today and it's all piled up in big heaps. Must take my camera out...
 
Mation said:
And *gulp* I have to fly soon :(
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Where are you flying to?

(Hoping the weather's clearer there... and that Boston is clearer when you get back!)

Taking off in the snow is no problem, so long as the wings are de-iced :D
 
Er, ta laptop :D

I'm flying on Thursday and arrive early on Friday morning. I can't wait to be home! :) :)

I've been having a much better time here of late so I'll be somewhat sorry to go, but that's more about a couple of people I've met than Boston itself.

Any chance you'll be passing through London on your Christmas travels Hammy? It would be wonderful to see you, and in any case I'm looking forward to a long catch-up on the phone. :) xx
 
Mation said:
*waves hullo to all*

<minutiae>

Did some work stuff today (apparently I'm expected to do some :confused: ) and then spent some time wandering around Brookline. very odd that it's a separate city given that it's right in the middle of Boston and starts over the road from from my place, distinguished only by the general swishness. Very affluent, very beautiful houses, huge gardens, and funnily enough, full of people who made eye-contact and smiled at me... I thought Boston is supposed to be cold and unfriendly? Oh... it wasn't Boston. Hmmmm.

I found a pretty good supermarket at Coolidge Corner where the chap on the till asked about my Necker cube tattoo, and then reeled off a whole load of links he thought I should look at from the Society for Neuroscience website :cool: And indeed I should as I'm off to their conference in Washington in November.
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Well, Mation, you were in my 'hood! :eek: :D I'm sorry I wasn't on the boards at that time, I would've met you for a cuppa - coffee, that is, as you must have seen Coolidge Corner is inundated with chain coffee shops! :rolleyes:
 
fat hamster said:
Tee hee - I have now!
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Bugger. :o :D

So home again!

Very, very glad to be back :) No upgrade this time, but the flight was ok. Fell asleep on takeoff :cool:

Will post some pics of Salem when I can find my camera (it's not under a saucepan lid :mad: )

Sorry to have missed you Janine - Coolidge Corner was very nearby!
 
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