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Two Days, Well Spent
Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:41Some people would complain about spending two days running around getting vehicles fixed, but I am always relieved/grateful when such tasks can be done with a minimum of interference with the "important" stuff, like teaching my Physics classes.
( Boring details to write while waiting... )
Never Seen Them Act So Fast
After a couple of horrendous fatal crashes about three miles from us at 68th Avenue and Warner, I saw a notice in the paper saying a traffic light would be put up there. Last Thursday I saw some cable trucks at the intersection and thought nothing of it. By Friday, the lights were installed and running in their blinking mode.
Now it used to be there was some sort of rule that they had to leave the lights blinking for a couple of weeks while people got used to seeing the new traffic lights. But this afternoon, just one week later, they had those suckers doing the whole green-yellow-red schtick.
Guess the highway people really wanted to get that intersection under some protection.
Huh?
So I'm on vacation for a couple of weeks and now that I have to get gas and start The Long Commute again tomorrow, gasoline jumps 20ยข a gallon in one day? What's up with this? Half the time I cannot even fathom why the price jumps up. I mean what gets blamed this time -- coal mining companies?
Dr. Phil
( Boring details to write while waiting... )
Never Seen Them Act So Fast
After a couple of horrendous fatal crashes about three miles from us at 68th Avenue and Warner, I saw a notice in the paper saying a traffic light would be put up there. Last Thursday I saw some cable trucks at the intersection and thought nothing of it. By Friday, the lights were installed and running in their blinking mode.
Now it used to be there was some sort of rule that they had to leave the lights blinking for a couple of weeks while people got used to seeing the new traffic lights. But this afternoon, just one week later, they had those suckers doing the whole green-yellow-red schtick.
Guess the highway people really wanted to get that intersection under some protection.
Huh?
So I'm on vacation for a couple of weeks and now that I have to get gas and start The Long Commute again tomorrow, gasoline jumps 20ยข a gallon in one day? What's up with this? Half the time I cannot even fathom why the price jumps up. I mean what gets blamed this time -- coal mining companies?
Dr. Phil
