5.9.07

Came home, after a long, long day, to find the usual crew hanging out while motorcylces rev and rev (cycles, by the way, which are never ticketed on alt-side parking days) gawking at what was going on across the street: a van double-parked and two humongous undercover cops, looking straight out of "The Shield," bullet-proof flack jackets and everything, going in and out of a building across the street. When they come out, the usual crew kind of walk away and pretend they're talking on their cell phones and whatnot, then when the Shield cops go back in they're right back at it, gawking and dealing.