We're better

Well, Emily's better.

Although, I have the sniffles, I don't feel sick.

Gardening.

There is going to be a frost tonight. We'll see which of my plants survive. I piled up straw around my grapes, but they will still be at risk.

Guess that I am glad that I didn't get around to transplanting my zucchini.

High-speed trains on the stimulus plan

Finally. The thought of high-speed trains between here and New York or here and Boston is great.

But, when you look into the details, we have "high-speed" trains for that route. Since "high-speed" is defined as 90 mph, the Acela counts. It averages 80 mph, and shaves a whole 20 minutes off the travel time (vs. the regular train) to New York.

New York is the ideal destination because the subway system is so good.