Tentative lunch plan so I don't have to fast in a mask for eight hours:
* Buy food from cafe car before train gets to Penn Station (20-minute stop).
* Prepare "seat occupied" note to leave on seat.
* As train arrives at Penn Station, leave note on seat, rush off train onto platform with food, wolf down food and water as fast as possible, return to train.
Ugh.
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Welp, we left Westerly, RI 24 minutes later than we should have so my suspicion is that the hold at Penn Station is going to be much shorter than scheduled so my lunch plan is shot to hell and I may have to go 10 hours without eating or drinking.
Being #CovidCautious is a real pain in the ass sometimes.
But getting #COVID is a lot worse.
OK, backup lunch plan: most of the people on this train will get off at Penn Station. Maybe the ventilation system will be able to keep up better when there are a lot fewer passengers, so air quality will improve and it'll eventually be safe (enough) for me to take my mask off on the train briefly to eat and drink.
We just pulled into New London 34 minutes late. So yeah, it's definitely not going to be safe for me to get off the train and eat on the platform at Penn Station.
Changing the subject entirely, an amusing (well, at least to me) anecdote about my trip to the train station this morning…
The Transit app told me to take the bus to the Green Line and then walk 10+ minutes in 10°F weather from Boylston to South Station.
In the middle of that plan, I said to myself, "Why aren't I just taking the Green Line to the Red Line and taking the Red Line to South Station"?
I think when the Transit app made its plan, the Red Line was delayed, but Google Maps said the delays were clearing up.
So I took the Red Line and made it to South Station earlier than planned with walking in the cold.
Current CO2 status on the train: not great.
