Open Thread for Subscribers, Rites of Passage Edition 7/11

Where I look forward to the final bill

This week, I wrote my first post from New York on the joys of trying to get internet service working. Infrastructure is, of course, interesting in and of itself but it also felt like a rite of passage. Hidden charges! Flooding subways! 

But I digress, because I had a for real rite of passage in a new city yesterday! The trip to the emergency room!

Let me …