Fresh Foggy Day

Well, it's morning this time. And it's hot again but not as hot. And it's foggy outside, but not as foggy. Things are better than they were. Take the small victories in life, they help with the big events. I think I will keep this rendition shorter than recent fare due both to me having to leave to go to work and the great length of past posts. I have to leave earlier than usual because of some personally inconvenient construction. There are two spots on my usual route to work that are being blocked now. One of them is going to be as such for eight weeks. It always baffled me that they would start so many projects in the fall. The laymen in me would wonder what they've been doing all summer. The practical man would consider that they were likely working on larger projects all summer on higher volume routes and could on work at night in summer but had to get it done first, due to the eventually impending cool nights of fall. But the citizen in me is happy for the advance notice they provided. Remember, the little victories. I have also noticed that when construction companies put a timeline on the signs, they are really shooting themselves in the face. On very rare occasion have I seen them finish on time. Maybe once I saw them finish ahead of schedule. I wonder what it would be like if we all worked ten hour days like I've previous proposed. Or even crazier, if they took their large crew and split off a third of them to do a partial night shift. Maybe they could race? Insert stereotype of one man working, three men leaning on shovels. Or maybe the whole crew worked at night. There would be extra costs no doubt and this would be unattractive to the workers and the company but I wonder if it would make the process faster. I wonder if anyone else ponders about ways to streamline the process without incurring huge costs. Probably. It's probably someone's whole job to do that. So I will quit stepping on their toes and let nature take its course for today. I'll quietly ponder in the future, to appease them. In the meantime I'll take my small victory of a longer, slower path to work.