Home alone

Kelly's got parent-teacher night tonight and she's staying over with her folks, so I'm home alone with the cats. I had a less-than-successful vegetarian cooking experiment for dinner. I was trying to reverse-engineer one of my favorite dishes from a local Chinese restaurant and I didn't get it quite right. I'm starting to get really into this whole just-cooking-for-myself thing.

On my way home from work, I accidentally got off the train a stop early because I couldn't hear the announcer or see the sign. It was only another half-mile or so and the weather was nice, so I figured I'd just walk. I came out of a rotary the wrong way and wound up in Everett instead of near Sullivan Square. That was bad. Fortunately, just as I was thinking I had to walk all the way to Malden to catch the subway again, I noticed buses going by and was able to catch a bus back to Sullivan and walk home from there. Some days, I am not as smart as one might expect.

Where have I lived?

1976-1984: New York City. My parents had an apartment near Lincoln Center with a great view of the Hudson River.
1980-1984: We also had a summer house in Rock Hill, NY. We drove by many years later and discovered that it had been painted electric blue.
1984-1994: Scarsdale, NY. We moved to Scarsdale when my little brother was born. Now he's almost 21.
1994-1998: Amherst, MA with summers mostly in Scarsdale. I haven't been back to Amherst in years, but I really ought to go one of these days.
1997: Summit, NJ for the summer. With no car. Not so good.
1998: Tel Aviv for the summer.
1998-1999: A very rinky-dink apartment in Somerville, MA. It had no redeeming qualities except proximity to the 1369.
1999-2001: A studio apartment in Boston, MA. I had no furniture, so FJ helped me decorate. I really liked living alone.
2001-2004: Medford, MA. Kelly and I moved in together after dating for only 9 months. What were we thinking?
2004-present: Somerville, MA for the forseeable future.