Bright sun during commutes can cause people to miss lights, because they've got the sun visors down, blocking the view of the lights, and because of glare.

It's the time of year when that happens particularly in evening commutes.

You could stay in Providence, Rhode Island, and take the commuter rail up to Boston for the day.

Or some of the historic towns around Boston that are on the commuter rail might be affordable. But probably not Salem in October, unless it's early October.

There are also campgrounds within range of the T and commuter rail, including Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor. But October is risky for cold weather - it's not unusual to get snow just before Halloween.

The other trick with flex passes is that if your schedule is a little flexible, you can get three one-way commutes on one 24 hour pass, three times in a week, and top up with a single on Friday afternoon.

It's kind of a continuum from one to the other category there...

The smell of commuter rail brakes.

That expense will depend on the ambient temperature. The efficiency of heat pumps is a lot better at 50F ambient than 35F - like double or more.

My home's crossover on a third party supplier electric tariff is currently around 40F.

Google Maps and the Ace Hardware site both say that Pill Hardware is open.

https://www.acehardware.com/store-details/12010

Also the Ace Hardware's in Central and Inman are worth trying. Don't know if they carry plant stuff though.

Pemberton Farms a bit north of Porter on Mass Ave.

Tag's at Porter (next to Star Market).

My wife was a contractor to an IT company. As a contractor, they couldn't require she go into the office, and she worked from home 3 days a week, even though it was a ten minute commute.

She's now got a salaried IT job, based in Cambridge, but the team is remote 4/5 days even though they are all local.

Generally ok at the visitor centers in the historic locations during opening hours. Parks and conservation land further out of the city are a gamble.

As a tourist, I think the places you are likely to go will be ok.

For access to public observing nights on professional telescopes:

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge has had public viewing evenings in the past, but it's still a virtual event at the moment.

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/public-events

BU has public observatory nights most Wednesdays.

https://www.bu.edu/astronomy/community/open-night-observatory/

Wellesley College has public observing events

https://www.wellesley.edu/astronomy/events

Ah, so it's von Linné St.

[fɔn lɪˈneː]

Linnaeus is the Latin form of his Swedish surname, used because he wrote his scientific work in Latin. He was born Carl Linné, and later ennobled to add the von.

When assessing residency for state income tax purposes, the rule is 183 days in a year, or 1 day with intent to establish residency in Massachusetts.

It's the latter one that requires tax officials to interpret intent, and the tax version of this RMV official could try the same thing. But tax doesn't have the canceling a driver license enforcement stick, and is all done after the fact.

A change to the car registration rules would likely follow something like the tax system rules, to cover requiring people who move to MA over half way through a year.

Shouty ones in particular.

Although those in academia will claim that "homeless" is a pretty good description of junior faculty moving around all the time to try and get tenure...

That's what the line on the London tube map between Bank and Monument stations actually is.

Well, that escalated slowly.

We should build a phylogenetic tree of all the different pronunciations.

That is normal if you have not signed up for one of the much cheaper supply options.

There's a state supplier switching site that helps find the cheapest option for you.

If this is for passport/ID photos, CVS stores with photo printing will take ID photos and print them for you.

Depends if the parking expires at 1:40:00.000 or 1:40:59.999.

Extreme prejudice...

From that, if you are not exchanging a vehicle for another of the same type:

"There is no grace period if you do not currently have a registered vehicle or trailer. The RMV does not issue temporary registration plates."

Summer of '22.

This keeps happening ever since Dunkin' introduced the raw fish breakfast sandwich.