Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

If memory serves me, I generally make a habit of posting something either Christmas Day or Christmas Eve. This year will be no different , once again if my memory is correct.
Trip up north from New York City to Hartford Connecticut was a horror on Christmas Eve. News Radio 88 was saying all highways were clear in Westchester and Connecticut except they were patently wrong. I-95 North was clogged a good portion of the ride from the CT border through to New Haven.
I was so peeved I was searching for their “report a tie-up” phone number to give them a “piece of my mind” for getting it so wrong. Made me realize the point of the regular traffic reports from the likes of News Radio 88 or WINS in New York City is going the route of many other services. While I was stuck in traffic eating my heart out, I reverted to checking google maps on my iPhone to see if there was an alternative to the snail’s pace of my current route.
Though I did not find an alternative worth the detour , it was startling to see the normal route which I was on indicated as heavy in traffic. If I had bothered to check google maps earlier in my travels instead of depending on the dated , advertising laden NewsRadio 88 traffic news reports, I would have had the opportunity to take the Merritt Parkway north to just Southeast of Hartford probably bypassing the clogged I-95 horror. From now on , I will do what I should have done a while ago. I will depend on google Maps and NewsRadio 88 like many of the big media outlets will lose another part of their demographic for advertising purposes.

[tags]Julio Hernandez-Miyares, Christmas, News Radio 88[/tags]

Been spending a good chunk of time in warehouses these past few days. Booming business and it will only get better with time well into the years 2030 through 2050. Beyond that hard to predict. Nevertheless, in these economic times, good to see a business that has little chance of cratering. As in most warehouses, the need to store inventory for some eventual disposal is what drives the innate value in the actual warehouse. The inventory in the fastest growing segment is quite old , usually around 70 years old and above. The disposal is certain but opposed to some raw material going to some eventual consumer product, the point of this inventory is to allow the wasting away of the original value, allowing entropy to perform its magic.

[tags]Julio Hernandez-Miyares[/tags]