Seriously; we’ll stop talking about this soon.

Nick Dodge (who will be a Jr, and Captain at Clarkson this fall) was picked up #183 in the 6th Round of the NHL draft by Carolina.

As is usual with the draft, one can only hope that Dodge & Cole can play together in the future, and both get to bring home the cup.

Well, we’ve been addicted to OLN & NBC the last few weeks, with the Stanley Cup playoffs. A real big congrats goes out to our fellow Alum, Erik Cole, for being the 1st Stanley Cup winner and Clarkson Alumni. For having a broken neck a few months ago, he did a great job. Made great plays, had good speed, and 9 hits (leading the team). A good enough job for John Davidson to even mention Clarkson with 5:42 left in the 2nd period.

Maybe we’ll see the cup in P’dam. Wouldn’t that just rock?!

Erik Cole suited up today for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup.
That was excellent to see — and glad to see that he could take the physical game that Edmonton brought tonight.

Good luck to him & the ‘Canes.

This past month we’ve been working to install a front walk, and side raised bed planter.

4 pallets, and about 5 full weekends worth of work later, here is the result…

Before & After:

Some photos of work mid-progress:

There’s some new stuff on the site.

First — feel free to look at the new Poll Page.  This will be updated from time to time with different polls, if we think that we have a good question to ask our small audience.

Second — we’ve updated the Photo Gallery.  Please feel free to take a look around the “yang” to my webpage text-based yin.

I have had a request for some of the photos that have been taken from our 2 latest parties:

1) Trece de Mayo party @ our house. Those photos didn’t turn out so well, but a pretty good time was had by all. The fave drink of the night was the layered frozen drinks. And the fried ice cream was good too.

2) Memorial Day not @ our house. (I will not disclose the location due to the CLF potentially wanting to find out who held the party). Visiting the ice cream man, burning tires, and an entire tree. Great times. See…

You can always go to my Photo Gallery, and keep tabs on photos there too.

I like Don Cherry. He’s funny. He knows the game of hockey. He tells you what he thinks, on Coach’s Corner.
However, I don’t always like his clothes…like tonight…(see June 5th’s rebroadcast).
Can you spot the Boutonniere & Kerchief? Here’s a hint — they’re both white.

Essex is the town I drive to every day for work.  Wonderful hamlet.  With some very very very interesting traffic issues.

Granted, Vermont doesn’t have traffic problems. Major metropolitan areas have traffic problems.  Like Rte 80 in NJ at 5pm on a Friday.  A 5-lane parking lot moving, merging, and exiting at 75mph is closer to problem.  Hence the term “issue”.

Back to my story.  I travel through a little intersection known as 5 corners.  Routes 2A, 117, and 15 all merge at this intersection.  Only place I’ve seen with a traffic sign that indicates “Don’t do a 270 degree turn!”.  Traffic gets backed up here.  If you miss the light, you wait 5 minutes for the next one.

Moving on, you then cross some railroad tracks, and about a 1/2 mile straight down 2A, you enter the plant via a left hand turn lane, complete with stop light/signal.  This is where the problem arises.  I have, for the last 6 years, been accustomed to following local tradition:  If you are stopped at the stop light, even if you are not within the “left hand turn yellow hash mark area”, you pull to the left, and drive until you get in the lane.

About a month ago, I was approx 2 car lengths from the beginning of the LHT lane (yellow hash-mark area) when the light turns red.  I signal, pull into the yellow hashed area, and proceed into the LHT lane, and wait at the red light for my turn.  Within about 45 seconds, there’s a city cop cruiser behind me.

He pulls me over after my turn, and explains to me that I violated an ordinance.  Me thinking in italics: OK.  That the intersection is dangerous if you pull out to the left before you’re allowed to.  OK.  I’m with you so far.  I can imagine that, I’ve seen that be dicey, especially in winter.  There were 2 almost-head-on collisions there last week.  Um, OK.  That’s a scare tactic, but sure.  I’ll bite.  I’m giving you a warning.  Merge after the yellow dashed lines indicate you can.  OK.  I don’t want the $275 fine and I don’t especially want the 3 points off my license.  Sure.  “Thank you.  I appreciate it.  Have a good day!”

Which would be fine.  EXCEPT…
EVERYONE ELSE WASN’T STOPPED BY THE COPS.  THEY STILL MERGE EARLY.  Not only do I make people upset behind me when I follow the rules, I can get into an accident if I move into the lane when I’m supposed to (later), and a speed demon veers out early and speeds up to get into lane before the light turns.
If building the Circ highways alleviates this, I’m all for it.  Sign me up to dig a few shovelfuls.