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.
There’s internal stuff going on too. They’ve finished installing emergency shut-off valves for the gasses in the clinic areas, and they’ve trained us on them too. Now we all know what valves to flip if we see someone running down the hallway with their coat on fire shouting “Turn it off! Turn it off!”
If only we could get one of the maintenance folks back to clear the drain in the men’s room sink. It drains, but it’s incredibly slow. I’ve had some recent experience with slow drains, both in my kitchen and in the condo… I’ve tried various chemical de-cloggers and they don’t seem to do much. A few years ago I got one of those wire spring snakes with a big corkscrew-like twist on the end, and that does the trick. There’s just something viscerally satisfying about gouging the gunk out of a drainpipe. The only down side is when the clog is gone and you retrieve the corkscrew. There’s always something semi-identifiable embedded in the end which lets you know just what goes on in the pipes…
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