In the region of America south of the 45th Parallel, in general, you get a long handled teaspoon with you iced tea. North of there you only get a straw. If you go farther east you could get sweetened iced tea or even raspberry flavored without asking for it. These are generalities but they seem to be fairly consistent. I don’t know why it always surprises me when I travel around and find the teaspoon rule adhered to so reverently. Probably means nothing.
Some other miscellaneous musings:
The Lake Boren Transit Center, to be completed within the next half century, has received a prototype vehicle. It’s a demonstration model successfully introduced in other venues and there’s a good chance it will be adopted. We certainly hope so. The current transit vehicles in other cities can’t come close to this prototype. I bet once they have a whole fleet of these babies ridership will go up dramatically.
DB Cooper has been found yet again. His parachute has been recovered. The FBI will analyze it and in about six months they’ll announce that there is no conclusive proof that it was the actual parachute used by DB Cooper. Taxpayers will once again pay for exhaustive analysis on stuff found in the woods that has no bearing on anything.
The Seattle Sonics may not move after all. Basketball Commissioner, Howard Stern or somebody, announced that the Key Arena is not a proper place to play professional basketball. No wonder the Sonics are in the cellar. The world will hold its breath awaiting the next chapter in this never ending saga. The real point is which group of taxpayers will be tricked into supporting these “over paid prima donnas.” No offense to actual persons named “Donna” but this is pretty lame. Now Oklahoma City has announced the commercial naming right for their arena will cost $4.5 million. Any suggestions? I might have one but it’ll cost you $4.5 million to hear it.
The Alankan Way Viaduct is still sinking. It’s down another 3/8 inch. That makes a total sinkage of 5 and a half inches. At 6 we sell. No kidding. Somehow they looked into the magic reflecting bird bath of the future and saw a message in macaroni saying that if the viaduct sinks 6 inches we have to close it for major repairs. Since Christine is going to demolish it in a couple years we might as well fire up the bull dozer and start today.
The state asked for bids to build the first of five proposed new ferry boats. We really need ten but Tim Eynman has squashed any hope of that. Anyway, the only bid is $9 million above the estimate. So instead of only half as many ferries as we absolutely need we’ll only get a quarter. I just hope the paint can hold the hulls together for another 50 years until we all have flying cars and don’t need ferries any more.
And last; I was reviewing my TODO list after breakfast this morning. Then I looked out the window and saw snow. Wow! That cut my list way down. So I went to Bellevue Square to visit the Rolexes. They said, “Hi.”
But there are places where it’s 77 degrees with a light breeze. Sheesh.
Al
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