Friday, August 18, 2006

Unexpected

I got up early and got on the road by 6:30. I am so proud of myself!

I thought there would be nothing to see, but I saw a lot of unexpected stuff.

  • A car stalled in the middle of Fletcher Parkway (3 lanes).
  • A car/truck accident at Mollison and Broadway (motorcycle cop talking to drivers).
  • A Fox TV interview with a police office on Mollison, a few hundred feet down the road.
CORRECTION: I noticed today that there is a dirt path next to the trolley tracks, so the guy on a bicycle I lambasted the other day was surely on that path. So he is upgraded from "idiot" to "silly bugger". The other guy on a bicycle mentioned is still an idiot.

When I got to Santee I took a couple of pictures of The Project.

It's coming along, you can see some banks are painted green.

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A crane was lifting parts for the bridge.

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I did a video of the crane. It's hardly worth the trouble of looking at, though. LATER: Looks like I uploaded video w/o titles to Youtube! Fixed it!

I saw the couple with the puppy again today. Actually, they have two dogs. But the puppy is cuter!

The bike lane up Jackson Drive hill was blocked by ten cars this morning! What's up with that?

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But before I took that picture I took an accidental video. Oddly enough, nothing happens. LATER: Looks like I uploaded video w/o titles to Youtube! Fixed it!

When I was done I saw 15-20 people crossing Mission Gorge Road heading towards the cars, possibly, so maybe it was overflow from some function at Mission Trails Park. Well!

I rode up to the lake and took another picture there, so you can see the controversial Yellow Jacket.

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You can get wallet size prints from flickr.com, I'm told...

I left the bike-o-meter in the garage, so I'm guessing I rode 25 miles today, at a not too great speed. LATER: 26.44 miles in 2 hours, 2 minutes, 0 seconds. That would be 13.2 mph, correct?

Remember, you can usually click on the photos to see larger versions. Which are sometimes better.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now, what is so controversial about the yellow jacket? Because of the Tour? Brudda. Jacob has the Red Power Ranger on his helmet! Oops. Forgot to look at the video.

D.

Anonymous said...

Read "Roadkill on Two Wheels" last entry. Was pretty funny. Wonder why they haven't written anything since July 1st.

D.

The Squeaky Cyclist said...

The jacket thing is mostly because of this post: My Bicycle Musings. And someone suggested that I do a poll on the color.

steve said...

You didn't annotate the green blobby thing in the background - what is it, a decorated tree stump? Excessive manhole cover? Now I'm curious!

The Squeaky Cyclist said...

Done! Consider the green blobby thing annotated. Wait, that wasn't a shot at me in the jacket, was it?

steve said...

No, you were the blobby green thing in the foreground!

(Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

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