The other day it crossed my mind that I should create a new blog concerning my work related to missions and more specifically my work here in Newark, NJ. My thoughts, daily activities or strange occurrences, anything that might strike me as worth sharing, that is the purpose of this blog.
Today is Wednesday, one of my three days off a week, and I desperately need to do laundry. I write that more for comic relief, but one thing I dislike about my situation is the dependence upon laundromats. Though Newark is full of them, and there are several less than a quarter of a mile away, it's been awhile since I have forsaken them for safety reasons.
For example, if you will take a look at this photo I uploaded to Panoramio in November of 2009, you will see that just in front of Bill's Laundromat there was a shooting. I went there once to do laundry I think shortly after coming to Newark in 2002, but it was too uncomfortable for me to ever return. About two or three blocks east there is a laundromat next to family dollar that I liked instead but over the years found it more and more uncomfortable as well (for safety reasons). Thinking about it the word weird seems the most appropriate to describe some of experiences there which ranged from being threatened to being seen and approached as an undercover police officer. Of all the laundromats in the general area that I would still willing go to (though haven't for awhile) is Laundry Depot (at 515 Chancellor Ave Irvington, NJ 07111). I had to laugh looking up that laundromat because it is not even in Newark. That is a shame there are no laundromats in Newark I would prefer going to. In fact I prefer a laundromat in Union, NJ (2630 NJ-82 [aka Morris Ave.]) as my closest favorite. It's a rather old fashion and still takes only quarters.
The last laundromat I'd like to mention is White Tiger Laundromat which is 24-hours in North Plainfield, NJ, off route 22 (993 US-22). It is rather far but because it's safe and 24 hours I have spent more that a few boring hours there. It also has free wifi, so you can't beat that.
So I will leave it at that and hope that this first post which is about laundromats is not as boring as actually being in one.
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