I Heart the Nice Woman at City Hall

I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while, wondering if I'd keep it up, or if I'd grow weary of a blog's navel-gazing implications. But then, there are some things that happen to you that should simply be shared. For example, today I went for a jaunt down to the much-dreaded traffic office of City Hall to pay for a couple parking tickets (one from last year--$85--and one from two weeks ago when I was double-parked outside my bank--$90) . . . and they reduced both of my tickets to 50 bucks a piece. This act of benevolence makes me very happy. And so begins my blog.