Mr. Squirrel discarded what looks to be a walnut shell next to a tree in my backyard. Where is there a Walnut tree around here? Pecan, sure. But Walnut? Around my neighborhood?!

I got a new bank card in the mail. Before I threw out the old card, I just had to take a picture of my picture for posterity’s sake. Quite obscured and worn out if you ask me…

Someone bringing in their business mailings during lunchtime. Sigh.

2 lanes of northbound traffic on IH-35 were shutdown this morning when someone crashed into a truck painting lane stripes. This caused severe paralysis. The onlookers going southbound brought that direction to a standstill as well.

I thought that I could just take surface streets south to 620 and past the problem. However, that proved problematic. My first mistake was taking Old Settlers road west. The only north/south road before IH-35 is Mays and that is only a couple of hundred feet away. Traffic was already backed up way before I could turn on Mays. Then there was construction on Mays and 79 that took away a couple of lanes. 79 going west was already stopped. And I missed the traffic light because people had blocked the intersection instead of waiting for the next light. Sigh. 620 was not that good either. But I finally made it to the highway and into work. Only 30 minutes late for my department meeting.

There is just no good solution for times like these. A fatal flaw in where I live, apparently.

The entrance to the Domain across the street from IBM finally opened up a couple of months ago. And I just got around to walking over to eat lunch at the Domain. Man, you can hardly tell that this was once an IBM site. As more time progresses, the visual clues will become less and less. There are still some mounds of grass covered dirt around. But I am sure that they will be gone eventually.

One annoying thing is the complete lack of sidewalks around here. Aren’t there building codes that demand that sidewalks be built?!