May retroblogging

Much to my shame, the retroblogging project continues, and includes last month's retroblogging roundup post itself. Whoops. ... and also this post itself. I'm lagging at this already-lagged task. A pattern emerges...

It seems this blog has become not so much a timely and up-to-date record of my musings, but rather a back-dated catalog of things that I remember long enough to get around to posting, eventually.

This month my retroblogs fall in two categories:

2015 end-of-year holiday season and travels:

• Seasonal juxtaposition
• An utterly perfect day
• Yule logs
• Santa's path
• Alien husks

Miscellany (also known as the "else" category):

• April retroblogging
• Paris marathon
• Computer-augmenting stickers
• Science-fictional chase scene setting

This post's theme word is monology, "a long speech by someone, especially when interfering with conversation." My low blog traffic and the structure of single-author blogging means that this is a monology-free zone. Welcome!

Freight train in subway

Exactly that: I saw a freight train, loaded with cars of industrial equipment (?), pass through a subway station.   

 It was not preceded by an announcement, and no notices were posted.

 Completely unexplained. I like it, though.

This post's theme word is pharate (adj.), "(of an adult insect) Waiting to emerge from a cocoon" or "(of an animal, especially an insect) in transition between stages of development." The pharate equipment slithered through the subway tunnels en route to its mysterious final destination.