The train pulls into my station and 15 minutes later I walk into my house.
One frosty morning I arrived at my local station to find that the ticket machine was broken.
What is this madness when my local gas station is more tech savvy than my tech consulting firm?
On my high-power charging station in my garage, I can get 100 miles of charge in about an hour.
My local gas station hosts their website with Web.com and my friend there told me that they were able to mobilize their site for an extra few bucks a month as part of their hosting services.
But the biggest benefit is that I no longer have to hang my head in shame because the guy at my local gas station is more tech savvy than me.
When my local radio station is reporting everyday on how the mayor is re-negotiating or canceling municipal or county collective bargaining agreements due to financial crisis, will this somehow hit home better when the broadcaster relays the results of the stress test, maybe even telling me some grade from A-F has been assigned to my home town by the government?
So, I yanked my IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) Thinkpad out of its docking station in my office, stuffed it into my old leather briefcase, gathered up my family (actually my wife did that part) and raced for the airport.
The closest gas station to my exit was full-service only so I unwillingly pulled in and handed over my debit card.
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The good people there tell me the formal payment for my ticket from my credit card company arrived four minutes after my train left the station.
The pop music station in my new home, a small Ohio town, couldn't match the "talents" of John, Dave, Bubba and Shelly (although it was not like I was awake at 7 a.m. to listen).
While I was slinking into my late teens, the playlist of that low-budget station felt like it was stuck in my middle-school years.
Within a few weeks I had left the television station to start my own company.
My grade-school principal, George Schumacher, and I "stole" my dad's Ford station wagon from our house in St.
"If I cannot sell them, it will hurt not just my business but the whole station, " Ms. Shelina said.
This time it included me and three weeks later I found myself on Liverpool Street station, clutching my gas mask and case and sporting a large tag tied to my buttonhole.
Despite the convenient Hotel de Ville metro station just near my flat, I have become one of the growing number of militant Paris cyclists, cycling to work and back every day up the Rue de Rivoli and then back home on the Rue de Faubourg-St Honore.
Even my own very small local radio station got rid of what had been, for decades, the weather forecast.
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It is all about playing the hits so I can get that man or woman in the car driving to work to listen to my ad and not switch the station.
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Smart Station is located in the My Favorites section of the app.
But a few days later, I whizzed through the pollution check for my ancient car at the Seattle testing station in just 13 minutes.
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This was usually my only opportunity to change the radio channel from my father's preferred easy listening station to WOKY, a popular Milwaukee rock-n-roll station.
The implicit refrain: How dare you give away my donations to some graphic designer or TV station?
My dad ran the two miles from Southgate station where he was on duty, having been told 'Hood Avenue's copped it'.
My mobile sent us to a sleepy border station that seemed to have been built where there was once a stop sign on a two lane country road.
As local became hot - and before 24 hour cable news had arrived on the scene, my local TV experiment mushroomed into a 13 station Broadcast network - and a new company Broadcast News Networks.
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