One under-sung benefit of the smoking ban is that you can now shoot pool (ehem, "billiards" for the sticklers) at many of the city's fine establishments without contracting black lung.
I'll be trying out Slate on Friday night with some of my buddies. It's a step up from the "dive" parlors many of us frequented in high school (LeQ anyone?) and college.
Hopefully, my Amtrak train from Boston will arrive on time, or at least within an hour of when it's supposed to. I'm not betting on it though; I've watched them try to get things right on the Acela Northeast line for years, yet they've still only reduced the travel time from four hours to three-and-a-half hours, and if anything goes wrong, you're going to be late arriving. (Caveat: I did arrive 10 minutes early today. A minor miracle.)
don't knock LeQ- we had some good times there- except for all the shootings.