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02 Mar 21

07:30 hrs

     Good Morning Dear Readers!

     And what lovely morning it is. Mid level overcast and 1°C. We could get some precip here in the Valley as well but the winds have dropped to next to nothing. I hope your day is shaping up well. Anyways, let's get right to it shall we?

     Foibles! Call it what you will but everyone knows of someone who has a quirk, a foible or some idiosyncrasy that makes that person interesting, or unique, or odd, or a pain in the ass. Many times these acts are simply a display of the person's (un)diagnosed mental condition  - Knock Knock Knock Penny. I'm not going to point out out any specific individual's foibles I just wanted to highlight the fact that I think all of us have something that makes us human.

03 Mar 21

06:30 hrs

     The sun is starting to come up and I can see we have some high overcast clouds. Yesterday my Sr. Couch Monkey picked up the sheath for the filet knife I gave him for Christmas. He had contacted a local leather worker and had commissioned the work. It's pretty nice and moreover I'm proud that he sourced out a local artist to have the work done. 

     The massive destruction/reconstruction project at CFB Lompoc continues. I think the work is still on schedule. It's hard to tell with all the road being torn up. I've talked to the head contractor a couple of times and he has assured me that there is a method to the madness. The issue is that despite the roads being torn up they still have to be passable so people can get to work.

     Here's another question - When will the local transportation engineers pull their heads out of their ass? As seen in the local cage liner some moron in the anni g department has decided to put a pedestrian crosswalk across a three lane road. Normally, this isn't a bad thing as it would allow pedestrians to cross a road more directly than walking a half mile in one direction before crossing the road at a controlled intersection before returning a half mile on the opposite side of the road. The problem is that the selected crosdi g point is at the top of a very long hill where all drivers, myself included, tend to increase their speed when going uphill until they may be doing 20km or more over the posted speed limit. And now some bookworm engineer will expect all that traffic to come to a screaming halt when someone pushes the crosswalk button. Mark my words somebody is going to get killed! Do they need a safe way to cross the road at the point? Sure, but what they should be building is a ramped overhead walkway. I heard the idea was investigated but the cost would be close to $10 million. Well, I would rather see the money spent on an overhead walkway than some stupid bridge across the river for cyclists and our Residentially Challenged persons when one already exists one block over.

20:15 hrs

     I just finished a podcast with Sheldon. I think it went pretty good. Look for Nicola Valley Bigfoot on your favourite podcast site. He's had his own interactions when Out in the Weeds and I mentioned to him that maybe we could arrange something on the Rock or if I came through on my way to the Sages I might stay over a couple of days and check out his research area.