Apple's Town

Well, that will be my hometown soon (if you know the state in the Union that I live, you can find it on a map pretty easily if you learn how to spell it correctly :) ).

I was there today looking over the 9.2 miles of the major highway that goes around it today. Those 9.2 miles will be patched in a period of about 6 weeks starting with the last two weeks in August. If you live around there and know alternate routes, use them.

If you don't live around there, pray/cross your fingers/meditate, whatever is your thing that everyone on the construction crews and all of the people who pass through there stay safe and sound. It is going to be dangerous I think, but not at the times a lot of people are thinking it will be dangerous.

A lot of people think it will be dangerous at 6 pm when we shut down 2 out of 3 lanes in one direction. They think it will be dangerous because there will still be a lot of cars out there. Actually, because there will be a lot of cars out there, it will be much less dangerous. Because they'll all be about stopped...because you can't fit 3 full lanes of high speed traffic into 1 lane of high speed traffic, everyone will be slowed down tremendously.

This is the time of day that I learn new ways to insult people and find out new ways to combine nasty names to make up a new name - motherfucker, asshole and cocksucker are so, well, passe. Said more quickly, they combine to mothercockassholesuckerfucker and it just makes you smile when you learn a new word. Next time you go by a construction site and feel like swearing at the men and women out there, try to do something new. We all appreciate new vocabulary. Thanks! :)

No, I'm worried about 2 am to 3 am. Bar time is 2 am in most of this state. There won't be anyone on the roads except for us, the drunks and a few cops. The drunks won't slow down for the construction site. Honestly, yes, I am quite nervous about it...we'll be working from 6 pm to around 4 am.