Saturday

Thought I would take a few minutes break this afternoon to throw a few paragraphs to the Maddening Crowd.  Its a "work day" at the office for LtPC.  Lots of projects need to get out the door.  Thanks to @srh4 for stepping up and spending time on some of this work today as well.

The fam has a modified fff going on this weekend in Woodbury.  3 and 3.1 are visiting on Harvest Path, and 2 drove up last night to join in on the fun.  I'm guessing that there will be plenty of pics posted to their Facebook pages as well as to their Twitter feeds.

The sidebar to 2's visit, of course, is that I have The Winniferous for the weekend.  Life remains good on Maplecrest.

I'm watching the 1500 hours show on FOX News as I write this entry.  You can tell that 4 is the producer of the show as it it without doubt one of the better cable presentations of the week.  You're a star, Kiddo!!

I buy the DM Register most Saturday's so that I have the current NYT Saturday crossword to test my brain-power over the weekend.  Today's puzzle is now maybe half-way done, and probably won't get fully completed until tomorrow night when I give in and look up the clues that I couldn't solve on my own.  An example of the word-play that is involved with these harder puzzles is:  Clue:  Take in more.  The solution has nine letters.

Some of my initial thoughts for this kind of clue:

1.  Are we talking about eating a lot?
2.  Is this a tailoring question?
3.  Giving shelter to orphans?
4.  Sell more goods, services or tickets?
5.  Do I have a solution ending with "er" or "ier"?
6.  Do I have any noun/verb uncertainty for "take-in"?

Long story short, I was able to solve the clue after getting a couple of the letters toward the end of the solution..."get a raise".  It never looks as difficult after the fact, eh?

Another example of "progress" here in Davenport is a new project on Kimberly Road (which is the road on which our office is located).  Kimberly has always been busy.  Even when they opened 53rd Street a mile to the North a few years back, traffic has remained congested on Kimberly.  We have never had a direct "cut-through" access to our small office park from four-lane Kimberly when coming from the West.  There's a wide grassy medium.  We have had to go to a "cut-though" at Lorton Avenue, a quarter mile to the East, and do a u-ey and come back to the West to the entry to our office park.  Really not that big of a deal.  We've done it for 23 years.

The new project is going to close the Lorton Avenue "cut through", permanently, and create a street-lighted intersection at the next "cut-through" to the East, Forest Road.  During the construction project, even Forest Road will not be open for a "cut-through".  So we either have to go all the way to the very busy Elmore Road intersection to the East and try the u-ey there, or do some kind of a trek through the neighborhood to our North, getting access to Kimberly with a right-hand turn off of Lorton Avenue.

This kind of "progress" is one of those things that is hard to anticipate in your business plan.  The city fathers who have come up with this measure as an improvement of safety in the area, never contacted us for an opinion.  It will definitely be an inconvenience factor going forward.  It may have a small, negative impact on the marketability of this real estate in the future. 

Great shots of Liberty National Golf Course on the tube.  It was built on land that was at one time a landfill!!

I need to get back to the exciting tasks at hand.  I hope to add another entry tomorrow.  Thanks for reading.

BCOT