Sepember 23, 2011
1. Newblog2011: 09/23/11 Unnecessary construction and other unnecessary things
--As I was walking to where I am now, I saw a restaurant that had an empty bucket in the corner of its outdoor patio that said “Cream Cheese” on it.
--A few yards after that, another place that serves food, more like a convenience store, had a sign out front that said “Fish Sandwich Special.”
--Construction sites appear along routes that I’ve traveled if I’ve traveled the routes more than a few times. I couldn’t even describe how many of them there are. Many of them have not only “Caution cones” around them and up the street in front of them, Caution tape, and so on, they also have at least one police officer each. Today, when I was in Cambridge and walking toward my present destination, a route I’ve walked several times in the past few weeks, a police officer at a construction site that appeared after I’d been walking this route saw me about to walk past the site on my way to where I was going and rubbed his nose several times.
Before I got to Mass. Ave. to walk over into Cambridge, I saw a construction site being run by a company that had a sign saying its name was “Sea-.” It was “Sea-something;” I’ve stopped trying to write notes about everything I notice. Not much farther along that street, a man in a lift was cutting branches off some trees in front of an apartment building. The lift said, on the side, in large letters with a picture of the animal whose name was being punned “The Beever.” I turned the corner and was about to walk under the scaffolding for another construction site when, from the other side of the busy street, I heard a man’s voice laughing and then yelling “Bush League! Bush League!” I looked across the street and saw 2 “Mirra” construction vehicles in traffic, with another commercial vehicle behind them that said “Fenway” on it. It seemed to me that the yelling was from the 2nd of the two Mirra vehicles.
I walked under the scaffolding and looked to my left, where, on the other side of the street, there was another construction site.
There have been construction vehicles and masses of "Caution" cones along the street behind the Boston Public Library the past few times that I've walked by there.
It seems to me that the consructions sites are very often made-up sites that are there in order to be harassing.
I've been getting a ton of messages on my screen from Weebly; as soon as I first published this page, I started getting interrupting messages from Weebly on the screen that say "Oops! Weebly encountered an error! Please try your last request again." (I'm going to put "no code" here, because I don't need the hassle of not doing that.) I've seen things that look as if a section of pavement or sidewalk that didn't have anything wrong with it was ripped up and replaced with tar or more concrete, and then a bunch of "Caution" cones get placed on and around it.
When is this going to be over? What more has to happen for the people who are promoting that kind of behavior to stop promoting it?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, September 23, 2011 @ 3:29 p.m./addition @ 3:31 p.m.