I am inspired to do more blogging.  It's not that I don't have anything to do... I am busier than when I had a full time job.
    It has been an interesting spring.  Lousy weather, baseball beginning, hockey playoffs, Neil's wedding, NBA excitement (yawn!), and work, work, work.  Oh, let's not fogey that the fucking road construction season is upon us.  Isn't that nice.  I will use the old Red Skeleton line about Edmonton: "It's a nice city... if they ever finish it!"
    Leading pet peeves about road construction: 1) sign-age - is it possible to put a sign further than fifty feet from the beginning of the worksite.   You're driving and boom, you're in the wrong fucking lane, going over the speed limit with the threat of double payment fines.  Nice. 2) When they decide to put up a sign that there is a lane closure ahead, is it too much to ask for some indication of which lane is closed?  You're driving along and the sign says lane closed ahead and suddenly you are in Vegas betting on which lane is the correct one.  Of course I am a gigantic loser and always pick the wrong lane and end up angry, frustrated and swearing.  Just fucking tell me which lane is closed; I can read, I will move over.  Fuck!
    Isn't is great that Edmonton is pretending to be 'environmentally' aware by designating lanes in the city with bike paths and the lovely sign to 'share the road'.  Fuck you!  There is not enough space on most city roads to have two cars drive safely and now they want the bikes to have a lane.  What a great way to move traffic through the city... lessen the number of lanes available.  Ridiculous! I understand that bike riding is a good way to cut down the traffic, but Edmonton is not designed to have bikers on the same driving areas as vehicles.  Maybe the brilliant minds that designed the city and its streets should have been a little more forward thinking to foresee the problems that are occurring now.  I do not know the answer but I will complain anyways.
    Last thing: has anyone been through the intersection on Baseline at the Sobey's?  They are ripping the whole fucking thing up and reorganizing the intersection.  It has not been around for that long and they are completely redoing it?  WTF?  Who was the brilliant mind that planned that intersection in the first place?  It's not like it has been there fifty years and just needs upgrading.  It can't be more than twenty years old and it needs redoing?
I havegot to get out of Sherwood Park....