Prepping For Asphalt
Posted on | October 4, 2008 at 12:13 pm | Comments Off
It’s Saturday! The day no one reads blogs! So I’m not going to talk about anything substantial. Please refrain from the obvious jokes. Actually, I have a longer, more interesting entry already composed that I could post, but why waste it on a Saturday? That will probably show up Monday morning.
I took my camera along with me on my jog this morning, since I actually jogged when it was light out. This past week, they’ve had a road closed off on my route, and I could tell in the early morning darkness that there was construction a-goin’ on, but I didn’t know the extent of it. Way back in April, I blogged about how they appeared to be extending a road to go to the new nearby upscale housing development. However, since then they have not really made much progress on that front. Now they are at least putting in the sidewalks, as you can see from this picture (click to go to the Flickr page and view larger versions). And since the sidewalks and roads leading up to it are actually closed off and detoured, I assume they are going to really finish the road and put in the asphalt and everything within the next few days/weeks. There’s only a few workmen out there today, which you can barely see in the picture, but I think they’re just working on a median in the proto-road.
I don’t think this will hurt my jogging much, since there aren’t a lot of cars on the road anywhere at the time I usually jog on weekday mornings. I’ll have to be a little bit more careful crossing streets and such, but not much. I’m also not sure how much the new road will increase the neighborhood traffic in general, since there are easier (more main street) ways of getting to and from the new development than taking this extended street. But I will be very interested to see how all that develops.
I’ll try to take and post some new photos when the intersection is done. Isn’t this exciting?
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 55°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “Walking To Do” (Ted Leo)
- “Astronaut” (Luna)
- “Sensations” (Alphaville)
- “52 Pickup” (Brown Eyed Susans)
- “Everywhere With Helicopter” (Guided By Voices)
- “Pool Song” (Longwave)
- “White Cocoon” (The Point)
- “Asleep and Awake on the Man’s Freeway (live)” (Loud Family)
Pet Peeve of the Day: Calls from charitable organizations trying to get you to donate, who actually put you on hold: “Please hold for an important message from the American Athletes Foot Society. We’ll take your money, but it may take us a minute to find an actual person to pry it out of you”.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “got sick of cornflakes”.
Videogame(s) Played Yesterday: None, but I did download Wipeout HD and the Bioshock demo from the PlayStation Network, as well as some Little Big Planet videos. Haven’t played them yet though.