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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Friday, February 22, 2002

Brigadoon: The Final Chapter
Looks as though my predictions of a quick repair to the damaged I-65 bridge will come true, but even Miss Cleo could have guessed why:

With a $25,000-per-day bonus for finishing ahead of schedule, contractors are expected to reap a $1.3 million bonus for finishing the bridge 52 days early, if it opens Tuesday.

No gripes on this one, even from a typically gripey taxpayer. Just another example of "you get what you pay for." We couldn't afford to do all of our roadwork like this, but it's good for once to feel like we got our money's worth and that we're not funding Jimmy Joe's condo down in Orange Beach. Maybe if all funding requests were emergencies like this, there would be fewer ways for politicians to build in graft.

A boy can dream, can't he?

posted by Terry at 11:24:00 AM

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