Not close to Newton at all, but Skip Barber Racing School offers advanced ‘normal’ driving courses along with other skills. They have many schools at racetracks around the country.

Skip Barber

Dave Epstein is great — his forecasts are always realistic, on the the conservative side. He’s not one of those overly dramatic “WOW SNOW IN NEW ENGLAND” types.

I have had good experiences at the Phylis Jen Center for Primary Care at the Brigham. It’s a group practice and many of the PCPs there are accepting new patients according to their website. Then if you end up w someone you like you have access to the whole MGH/BWH system

Hey! In this area it’s entirely possible that good PCPs are booking new patients visits 6+ months out, because new patient appointments are usually a much longer time slot than established patients or symptom visits.

I’d just suck it up and make an appointment for much further down the line. Or you could book new patient visits with more than one doctor and cancel the one you don’t need. In general it’s much harder to find a good PCP because they are not compensated as well as specialists and have to do much much more paperwork.

Good luck!

But is he wearing flip flops

Did you try the MassSave.com website? They might have more info

Gritting my teeth the whole drive will not add to the thanksgiving vibes which are to be assumed to be gothic/emotionally fraught

Right and not to jinx myself here but isn’t the speed limit on rt 2 lower than the pike?

ETA to fix sloppy punctuation

thanks dude I’m gonna try for it and also try to expect traffic so my road rage can take the day off. me? well-balanced? not usually but this i may be able to do

I wish that was true

Yeah not route 9 — I may be a poor planner but I’m not that dumb

ETA I do want to try to get on the pike by 8:00am but am I deluding myself here

I was sort of thinking this myself