This week is passover. Joined my parents for a seder. On the way down to philly a series of missed trains because they don't sync the trenton trains anymore since the pandemic began. we arrived 3 minutes after the train and so had a 55 minute wait or so. we walked out the door, past the nearby cemetery and since it was 4/20 came across a festival outside weedman john's. was fun to hear/see live jersey club in the streets though the security detail in bulletproof vests at each corner of the small stage was an eye-opener. but we hung around a bit, then walked back to trenton and caught our train down. that night we met up with my parents and had pretty sub-par pho (broth had no flavor! how do you mess that up? you had one job!). i went for a morning mountain bike ride on the craigslist bike i had bought this winter and fixed up. came home and we made matzah ball soup and then later that night the first matzah pizza of the season, a fave of mine. since one of my parents and i disagree pretty strongly on the current war and disproportionate attack on civilians in gaza right now, the seder felt a little hollow to me. how can we talk about slavery, oppression in the abstract when we have so much at stake right now? i attempted to talk about it but have made little headway with that parent. on the way back to nyc we hit every train connection. basically, we'd pull in at the station and had 2 minutes to get on the next train. that was not planned by septa and nj transit. it was an anomaly and i'm knowledgeable of the trains and platforms and lucky i'm so able bodied to be able to literally run and catch the train before they pulled out. instead of the 6 hour trip from nyc to parents house outside of philly now it took us about 2 1/2 hours total to go the reverse because of how everything synced up. that was a first. we got in so early that rather than go home we stopped in koreatown and ate at some fun foodcourt that A found. A got a chicken curry with soba noodles. i got a bbq chicken bibimbop. it was delicious.