I'm back....and riding the rails daily

Hello….anyone remember me? Yes it has been WAY to long since I posted, but I’m back, and I’m commuting again by train…daily! So I should have plenty to blog about.

To catch up on things – the fast version, after 7 wonderful months of being off of work, I’m on my third job since the very end of December. I worked for 2 weeks for a company in Concord, CA. It was a case management company. Really fascinating what they do, but a position working for a software company in Jack London Square came up, and that job was far more of what I had in mind. I drove to work each day and worked with some really great people who I miss a lot. I would have stayed there, except for that my old boss at Aon in Los Angeles called and offered me a position working with her again. I couldn’t turn it down! I’ve been here since the end of February and I love it!

I’m taking BART everyday to work…so hello blog! With the price of gas out of control taking BART is great. Plus I work at City Center in Oakland, right a BART station. As you can imagine, after riding almost a month now, I have plenty to write about.

Today’s blog comes from something I saw when I logged onto the Los Angeles NBC website. After 3 years they are finally picking a jury for the idiot that parked his car on the MetroLink tracks in Southern California in January 0f 2005, killing 11 and injuring over 180 others while he survived. This wasn’t the train that I rode to work each day, but I had a co-worker that was on that train. While she suffered minor injuries, it wasn’t just about the physical injuries she suffered; it’s about the emotional and mental injuries that were inflicted upon all of us. Broken bones, bruises and concussions heal in a matter of weeks and months, but those emotional injuries will take far longer to heal. Prior to that day I never thought about which train car I got on. But after that “accident”, I never want to board the first or last car of a train and I’ll go out of my way to avoid those cars. I’m sure that BART has an excellent safety record, and I feel very safe about the system, but still, the memories of that morning will be with me every time I board a train, any train.

On my commute, BART doesn’t cross any city streets where some selfish jerk can put his car on the tracks for the first commute train of the day to hit, but deep in my brain and in my heart when I get on a train I can’t help but to think of those who were killed or hurt on that fateful day just because of where they happen to sit.
So this blog goes out all that were on that train back in January 2005.