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Thursday, January 25, 2001
"interstate or 82" revisited
If you've been here before, you've no doubt read the great "interstate or 82 debate". If not, read it now! Hurry! Then come back up here.
This bears adding to the debate, because it lends credence to my theory that 82 is, indeed, faster than the all-interstate route. Recently, due to the result of some long-ongoing road construction, the highway was rerouted around Brent and most of Centreville, avoiding all of the red lights and stops contained therein save one. This reduces the time spent in the Brent/Centreville area from 10-15 minutes to somewhere around 5-7. This makes the entire trip on 82 even quicker! MUWAH-HAH-HAH!
Sorry. Must have been something in my throat there...
Friday, January 5, 2001
lose-lose situation
I got a new jacket for Christmas. This does not incense me...I actually asked for one, so I was pretty pleased. What kills me is the way that the people or machines that attach those tags to jackets with some propaganda or something attached to it. When I cut that little plastic tag holder, one of two things must happen. Either:
- The piece that was in the jacket's lining will now be there for all eternity, sometimes irritating my arm by poking my wrist, and especially robbing me of the closure (that I so desperately need) of getting the entire tag holder off. Or:
- Desiring the aforementioned closure, I'll tear a small hole in the seam of the jacket in forcing the piece out that was cut off into the lining. This won't be noticeable to anyone ever, but I'll know it's there. It'll eat away at the back of my mind.
In other words, it took an evil genius to come up with the original idea to attach tags like that.