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Company holiday party on Saturday night. I... overindulged. I didn't do much yesterday except cook this week's beans & rice and fetch the Wendling's new shoes.
But on the way home from shoe fetching I got to do something I'm not sure I've done before: break in a brand new bus stop shelter. For you folks outside Seattle, almost a year ago the Washington State Dept. of Transportation (acronym: WaSDoT, pronounced "was dot") at long last opened the spiffy new tunnel that replaced an earthquake-damaged viaduct and the short cut-and-cover tunnel that led to it. My daily commute took me past the north entrance to that tunnel, which had to be filled in.
All this construction means that the bus stops along the way have been closed or moved several times. That new shelter means they've finally stopped moving one of the bus stops and have given it a permanent home. They're oh-so-close to opening all lanes of the street, and since they filled in the tunnel entrance, the street is a lot wider than it was. You guessed it: I'm salivating at the prospect of a significant commute improvement.
Living in a big city means you get excited about things that are hard to explain to everyone else, things like new bus shelters.
But on the way home from shoe fetching I got to do something I'm not sure I've done before: break in a brand new bus stop shelter. For you folks outside Seattle, almost a year ago the Washington State Dept. of Transportation (acronym: WaSDoT, pronounced "was dot") at long last opened the spiffy new tunnel that replaced an earthquake-damaged viaduct and the short cut-and-cover tunnel that led to it. My daily commute took me past the north entrance to that tunnel, which had to be filled in.
All this construction means that the bus stops along the way have been closed or moved several times. That new shelter means they've finally stopped moving one of the bus stops and have given it a permanent home. They're oh-so-close to opening all lanes of the street, and since they filled in the tunnel entrance, the street is a lot wider than it was. You guessed it: I'm salivating at the prospect of a significant commute improvement.
Living in a big city means you get excited about things that are hard to explain to everyone else, things like new bus shelters.
