Friday, May 25, 2012

New Pavement





Did you know that lane markers now come as stickers?  While driving to work the other day I noticed that lane markers had been added to a newly paved portion of the road.  Expecting them to have been painted in the wee hours of the night, I was very surprised to notice that several had started to peel up!  Now I know about TOMs (temporary overlay markers - fun trivia), but this was my first experience with lane marker stickers.  Of course I immediately wanted to pull over to the side of the road and start pulling them up....

Thursday, May 24, 2012

If Found, Please Return To...


At work the parking lot is either infested with giant moles that tunnel up through the earth at night and pull down the trees into their underground burrows or else there is a tree burglar on the loose carting off trees in his rusty old pick up truck (isn't it always rusty and old?) in the middle of the night.  Of course, this could also be a sign of the parking lot improvement project... but I tend to like the image of giant moles with little blinky eyes, proper waistcoats complete with pocket watches, and tiny little spectacles pulling trees underground Bugs Bunny-style.