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Catholic School Traffic
April 08, 2005

I may have complained about this before, but I have graphs this time.

Shanahan Student TrafficThere is a Catholic high school near our house, Bishop Shanahan. Every morning around 8am, bazillions of teenage drivers mount their parents’ (or at least one that their parents bought for them) cars and traverse the roads through my neighborhood to get to school. Nevermind that school starts at 8am, and they’re all still on the road at that time. The real issue I have with these kids in my neighborhood is that they’re always nearly running me down while I’m trying to get to work in the morning.

How is my near-death accomplished each morning? I’ll explain.

GameFly Flew
April 08, 2005

GameFlyI subscribed to GameFly a few months ago as a cheap way to avoid the Blockbuster anti-XBox phenomenon. My first two games arrived and I played them. When I was done, I packed them back into their sleeves to be returned in the mail. Unfortunately after I did that, I couldn’t find them again. Uh-oh, I’m going to have to tell GameFly that I lost them…

Lookout! Flood!
April 07, 2005

In spite of the brilliantly sunny weather outdoors currently, we’re in a “Flood Watch” until 9pm. Apparently, there’s some huge storm headed our way that’s going to dump flood waters on us.

I’m amused by this whole “Flood Watch” thing. I suppose I shouldn’t make light, considering that warning people about potential floods could save lives, but I’ve got to ask for some common sense here. Some of our signs and signals just don’t make immediate sense.

For instance, if you’re busy looking at the “Children At Play” sign, how will you see the children playing?

One of the more ridiculous and hard to explain signs on the road these days is