Day 203 - 2010

GAMEDAY

Max’s second day of skateboarding lessons. Tuesday they learned how to stand on in correctly and push off to move forward, walk with it, and some more gizmo things.

The girls seem to get a better feel for the game as a team. They lost the first game (???) by one run due to several errors in the last inning. However, they won the second game and showed pretty good team work. It figures, one more doubleheader and a tournament to go in the season.

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BTW

traffic Lights Alright, I wrote about it earlier this week, here it is again: TRAFFIC LIGHTS! First, too many of them in the other direction as well. No wonder that there is a huge backup in the morning trying to get out of the suburbs. I’m not sure what the computations are for the timing of the lights, but they are not working in rush hour in the morning as well as in the evening. It is ridiculous that you get the green light and, after waiting forever for the first car to go, you drive less than a mile and the light is red, unless there is an opening and you ramp up to 63 miles per hour to catch the next green light. Repeat that five times before you get out of Ashburn. If it is designed to slow traffic down – wonderful job.  Gas efficiency – zero. Everybody knows that starting a car and getting it to move takes the most fuel, by the time you drive the five miles you wasted gas and polluted a lot, do this ten times a week times who knows how many cars daily.