tunnels and parking lots

This makes me completely happy. I'm all for tunneling underneath! I love that the Chinese are offering to help. That rules. The Gambia has always intrigued me as a State. It's so...long. And, um, thin.

Unrelated news - so not much happens around here worth blogging about. I must say I miss my McStories. Life was a bit livlier back then.

I made it back to the 'ville this past weekend for a friend's birthday. Wolfe was right. Either I'm really unobservant, or the city's going nuts about tearing stuff down. It took me quite a while to notice that the section of the building between HyVee and Dollar G had been ripped out. I also completely missed the whole repaving of Walmart. I know that was during the summer, but I drove by and bam, new parking lot. I did get to go back to Walmart which I LOVE compared to the one where I live now. I love my old Walmart except for the parking lot cleaning man. He'll get you! RUN when you see him! You think he's slow, but no, you turn around and he's right behind you, gunning for you. Freaks me out.

Home...

Yesterday, some of the guys here had a big meeting, and they had 12 guests come in for a presentation. Afterwards, we served them lunch, and I got to pour everyone’s drink. I felt TOTALLY at home. They would walk up and I would smile behind my cart o’ drinks and happily ask, “Hi! What can I get for you?” All I needed was my McHeadset and my McVisor…

Something about this picture makes me happy

American Graffiti

Since I’ve moved back to the city, I’ve noticed a steady decline in the quality of graffiti. My view is, if you can’t do it right, don’t do it at all. Growing up, I saw some very high-quality works of art spray-painted on various buildings and under/over passes. But now? I’m disappointed. We are allowing sub-par tagging to go on and no one is saying anything about it. I had a flicker of hope when I saw some new tagging on a bridge. It wasn’t up to typical graffiti standards, but it was good. It even incorporated color. But a couple weeks later, they were painting over it. Why? Why did they choose to paint over that particular graffiti, yet leave others that were no where near as good? It’s a dying art I suppose, one that I would like to see rejuvenated.