A Funny thing Happened on the way...
A few interesting observations from my trek to school. It's a really great sunny day and I stopped briefly to take some pictures of the Autzen stadium construction (they're adding some odd thousand more seats). It's sunny but cold out there and in taking the photos I discovered two things. One, god damn do I have bad circulation in my hands! And, two, Justin's digicam is TOTALLy out of batteries (thank x-p... more expenses), which means that I have to buy more before trying to photograph the Kincaid house today. That, and Rupert has fleas so I need to fork over $30 for some Advantage. Boo.

In any case, what I REALLY wanted to write about was what I noticed as I came upon the bridge. The water level is down at LEAST two feet from last week. All the little rocks, branches and islands that were covered by the torrential rain have again been revealed. More interestingly, however, was the state of the bridge itself. Now, I dunno what I would ever do if it broke (probably stay at home) but it looks like someone came close to trashing at least part of it. The right railing on the west side was smashed in several places, the metal supports wrenched from the bridge itself. Some were gone. It looked like a tree had fallen on the railing but it was too far over the water for anything but the tallest pine to reach it, and there was no evidence of that. It didn't look like damage done by a single person, unless that person had forcibly slammed their bicycle like a sledge hammer into the railing repeatedly. Hm. Maybe motor vehicle damage? Did some service sap drive drunk into the guard rail? Sounds like it could be potentially tragic. ; ) Anyway, it makes one wonder...