Some advice for whoever designed Chicago’s parking meter pay boxes:

I’m already annoyed that I have to park my car, go to the pay box, give it money, print out my ticket and then go back to my car to put it on the windshield. Get something like an I-Pass for parking already.
It’s also nice that you can use a credit/debit card to pay for parking if you don’t have any change. But how about some directions for the card reader? I don’t like shoving my card in the slot beyond my reach and not knowing if it will come back out. I especially don’t like this when I’m running late for a hair appointment (btw, hair is highlighted red and looks awesome). Directions come on screen when your card is all of the way in but by that time it’s too late! The evil parking meter may have swallowed your card.

Things that I kind of like about Chicago transportation:
I went to my alderman/ward’s site and I’m signed up for email reminders when there will be street cleaning. Signs are posted but I always forget if it’s the 3rd or 4th week of the month. No more tickets this summer!

And the bus route by my house just got GPS bus tracking. I can tell that 5 busses are bunched up 20 minutes away! Now they just need to make a text number for the bus tracker for those of us without web enabled phones.

Unrelated, I made an entry filled with old pics I found at my parents’ house on my MySpace page. I figured it’s best to keep personal posts like that off this blog.

More unrelated, a coworker is out injured, not sure when she will return, and I have been stuck doing her job and mine. My boss talked about getting a temp but we are having all sorts of financial problems so that won’t happen. Today my boss sent me an email saying that if she needs to change my duties while the coworker is out, let her know. Nice of her but I don’t want my primary assignments changed, I want someone else to do these secondary, not my job, assignments. I wish I could combine the finances of a for-profit with the awesome of a non-profit.

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