Daily Archives: October 3, 2003

Ok, so over on the shelf I see a box with this on it:

spp dµ

and I think, “What the heck is that?”

Then I turn the box over and realize that it’s backup tapes…

hp dds

There’s construction going on all over the medical campus. Probably it’s no more than usual, but it feels much worse than ever before. I think it’s just the inconvenience factor. They’ve closed one lane of Medical Center Drive right by the busy turn off of Observatory. Watching cars try to shuffle through the narrow spot is fun. There’s congestion and hesitation instead of the normal smooth flow of traffic through the streets. The pacemaker timing of the traffic light is designed for wider veins of traffic. Clots of cars sit in the middle of the street simply because the traffic isn’t draining away from the intersection fast enough. And every so often a big-assed SUV will clog things up like a stick of butter in an artery.
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