A Small Anti-Corrosive

While most things continue to corrode, it’s worth posting an update about the corrosion which prompted that post late last month: in early April, Amtrak began restoring Cascades service by bringing in cars from elsewhere around the country. As of a week ago, all service is restored even if most lines are running at half-capacity.

According to the service on Bluesky, they will not be overbooking and since I booked my mid-June trip to Seattle to see the Red Sox play weeks and weeks ago, barring any further problems that trip is back on.

As I noted last month, the trip literally is the only “thing” I have to look forward to all year, especially since I can’t even seem to make monthly trips to Oregon Zoo let alone the weekly ones I used to make before my baseline capacity shifted again.

It doesn’t fix everything, or, really, anything in terms of the large expanse of the fascist corrosion of the American state and the constitutional order, but at least it means that come the midpoint of that wider corrosion I’ll be able to take a real and actual break from it all—autism and fatigue willing.