town has meeting; I have schedule

I have a final exam schedule, finally; Japanese on Tuesday morning, Bio on Wednesday morning, Chem on Friday morning. @whee. Time to get off my ass and back to work at chem!

Monday's miles: 2.0
Tuesday's miles: 4.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1434.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 976.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 522.3
Miles past Rauros Falls: 104.4
Miles to Isengard: 357.3

Went to a town meeting about the downtown Kenmore plan. They've made a couple of changes that don't thrill me, tho' on the grand scheme of things they are tiny. Mostly I have issues with the placement of the commons and intensely dislike a little parking brick they stuck in the southwest corner. I asked wtf was up with that; they said that it's because said supermarket is pretty far back from the street, and if they have a building - or anything else tall - there, they won't be able to lease the space. There are other changes, too, but they're things I don't mind. They're trying to model it after Westlake Plaza, and the plan is to have the entire area - commons + parking brick - available as a single unit for particularly large events, which is okay, but I really dislike the parking brick.

And I really wish that this one guy on the team wasn't from California. I have a feeling a lot of that parking-brick more-car-space business is coming from him, and he didn't seem to think 68th was that hostile a road. He's wrong about that, of course. So I still rather wish the other group had one the bid.

Oh, and I asked about the potential impact of a 2007 recession - their economics guy says this project is sound, and that they don't see it being a problem at all. It'd take a retail collapse on the scale of 1973 or greater (which I have heard about in my readings) to give them problems. Hopefully we won't get one of those.

Anyway. Here, have another view of the same set of flowers as last time:


Into Darkness

Weird light, huh?

( Santa meme )