What you are looking at over on the right is a map of a portion of New Castle County. It lists my 4 primary locations for the next 6 weeks: My Office, The Data Center, My Criznib (that’s my house, for the un-Snoop-initiated), and Aldersgate United Methodist Church (where we have Brigadoon rehearsals (get your tickets now! 478 3355!)).
You may notice that some of the roads have been over-colored with pink or red. This is to show you where construction is happening near me.
That’s right, every single major road I use to get to any destination! WOOHOO!
I’m pretty sure that DelDOT found out I was moving to New Castle and they had a big board meeting about it. Apparently everybody that I ever pissed off in my life (all four of them, including my wife) is on the board, and figured the best way to get vengeance was to make sure I could never drive anywhere again.
Here’s a little more detail (speaking of which, you can click the picture to look at the large version if it’s hard to read): the red sections are parts that are currently under full construction, including road closures, sign holders, the works. The roads with pink on them are roads that are either under periodic construction (every few days, they inexplicably close a lane of 95 all the way through Wilmington and do some kind of jackhammering at the bridges. I have no idea why.), or are scheduled to be worked on later this year (like when they basically shut down Route 1 south of 273. I almost cried when I heard that).
The real fun is when things happen like what went down Tuesday night. Bill had let us out of rehearsal early, around 9:50, so I got in the truck and headed south, down 95, to my usual exit at Route 1, which was closed. Dammit. So I get off at 273 East, which was open, but a little slow. Then slower. Then stopped.
Up at the front of the line, just at the top of the hill, was a massive dump truck that had inexplicably halted, with no way for anyone to get around. It had broken down.
It was at this point that I realized how badly I had to pee.
Eventually, some good Samaritans walked down to the exit and started routing traffic away from 273 East so we could slowly back our way down and take 273W and make a U-turn. I consider these people to be the coolest people of all times, even eclipsing me and Dustin Diamond.
Okay, sorry for the extended (and highly stupid) rant. I just had to let it out. So that I can stop crying, and stuff.
Tomorrow: day off to clean out the garage! I do have some pretty artsy-fartsy pictures to upload, and hopefully tomorrow I’ll have a sizeable collection of Brigadoon shots from tonight’s rehearsal. If I find time I’ll get them uploaded.
