Old man yells at cloud
It’s absolutely insane that a decade of bickering over aesthetics now means that the eastern span of the Bay Bridge will not be completely rebuilt until a quarter of a century after the earthquake that originally damaged it. I’m glad I don’t have to drive across the damned thing anymore.
Notice that I said “insane” rather than “surprising”. There is, alas, nothing at all surprising about it.
Funny, funny op-ed piece from my hometown paper:
he zoning laws are very strict concerning the naming of new residential communities. If you are well-funded and have the right lawyer, you can pretty much drop houses out of the sky wherever you please, but the name must be generated from the grid below by choosing one word from each of the columns, (e.g., “Hootenanny Hills Holler” or “Deer Droppings Down”).
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I live in northwest Greensboro, which is zoned “HT-3,” meaning it is mandatory that a Harris-Teeter be located every three miles or else. Under municipal ordinances, if it is ever found that there is a greater than three mile distance between any two northwest Harris-Teeters, the city is empowered to build a deli and/or bakery in your residence until a new store can be constructed. Until they opened up the new Harris-Teeter on New Garden Road last month, my mom was forced to hang rotisserie chickens from her porch, and it caused a serious animal problem.
While driving around looking at houses with the hubby, I also like to come up with new subdivision and street names. Some of my favorites include numerous variants on “The ___ at ___ ____” and cute, little multi-word street names. Forget “The Shops at Peppercorn Point” or whatever. How about some of these?
And in the vein of street names like “Timid Deer Lane” and “Spotted Oak Trail”, may I suggest the following:
It’s shaping up to be a long and mildly unpleasant week, so I guess I should make the most of the weekend, huh?
So now I’m all excited at the prospect that “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” (the TV series) may be coming to DVD soon. I loved that show; I used to watch it in re-runs every night on channel 18, right before “Nanny and the Professor”. And just like “Bewitched”, it had its own token homo, in the person of Charles Nelson Reilly…
