{"id":409,"date":"2002-06-14T22:40:04","date_gmt":"2002-06-15T02:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-07-17T03:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T07:05:50","slug":"checking-in-from-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Checking In From Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I&#8217;d take a quick mintute to check in and say hi. I&#8217;m at a Kinko&#8217;s on Market Street in Center City, and since I&#8217;m paying by the minute on this computer, I&#8217;ll make this quick:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My car made the trip without any trouble, and actually used less gas than I thought it would. Hopefully it will have a repeat performance on the way back.<\/li>\n<li>In northern Indiana, I saw two CTA 2600-series cars on flatbed trucks being shipped back to Chicago from their rebuilding in Hornell, NY. Cool!<\/li>\n<li>I took the PA Turnpike, and except for the construction, foul weather, narrow lanes, tight curves, and poor visibility, it was a great drive.<\/li>\n<li>The parts of New Jersey I&#8217;ve seen so far are like a highway engineer&#8217;s wet dream&#8230; Apparently every highway in the state is designed to prevent left-hand turns.<\/li>\n<li>My interview was re-scheduled for Friday morning, so I spent most of Thursday riding the rails. I took: PATCO from Haddonfield to Center City, Broad Street Subway express to Fern Rock and back (what a kick-ass express run!!), R3 to Media, 101 trolley to 69th, MFL back to Center City, and PATCO back to Jersey. More in-depth report to follow.<\/li>\n<li>Late last night I re-aquainted myself with Jim&#8217;s Steaks on South Street&#8230; *drool* I think I like this town.<\/li>\n<li>I did some driving around and stumbled upon the Girard Avenue trolley tracks. Cool!<\/li>\n<li>My interview this morning went very well. I think the firm was interested in me, and I&#8217;d be very interested in working for them. They&#8217;re located way down at the Philadelphia Naval Business Center, former site of the Philly Naval Shipyards where my father was stationed during Vietnam. The firm said they&#8217;d call me back next week.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been spending most of today driving around the city and exploring various neighborhoods, trying to find a suitable place to call home. South Jersey is a bit too suburban for my tastes, Media is probably a little too distant, but I love Germantown, Mt. Airy, and Manyunk.<\/li>\n<li>Fairmount Park is incredible&#8230; I could spend days just exploring it.<\/li>\n<li>My side trip to NYC tomorrow is still on. Whether I drive or take NJT will probably depend on the weather and my mood tomorrow morning, but either way, the meeting is still on for 2:00 PM on the shuttle platform at Times Square.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now&#8230; Watch this space for more details of my trip when I&#8217;m able to sit down at a computer without having to watch a clock.<\/p>\n<p><em>(originally posted on the SubTalk forum at nycsubway.org)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I&#8217;d take a quick mintute to check in and say hi. I&#8217;m at a Kinko&#8217;s on Market Street in Center City, and since I&#8217;m paying by the minute on this computer, I&#8217;ll make this quick: My car made the trip without any trouble, and actually used less gas than I thought it would. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,23],"tags":[60,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingingin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}