It took a while, involving extended water work, big piles of dirt, and a years and years of scattered public “I HATE Roundabouts…argh!!!!1!!!!,” but the roadwork at 12th and Menaul is finally looking like a roundabout: The cynical (i.e., me) might point out that from a roadway safety perspective the current half-finished roundabout is the… Read More It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like a Roundabout
New Mexico Department of Transportation held a virtual public meeting earlier this week to kick off the eventual scheduled 2023 replacement of the current Rio Bravo (NM-500) bridge across the Rio Grande. So this seems as good a time as any to tell you how I, a frequent cyclist who lives west of the River… Read More Your Input Can Help Make Rio Bravo at the River Safer
I’m not the most patient person, as pretty much everyone who knows me will attest. I can be short tempered and irritable when, for example, I can’t get a jar open or my dog repeatedly pokes my butt with his pointy nose. I’m easily frustrated with instructions (see previous blog post on cookbook errors), and… Read More Breadder Burque Ch. XXIII: Trust the Process
It’s pretty difficult to write a post after a significant absence without writing primarily about why one has not been writing posts. Unfortunately, doing this tends to not be very interesting for the reader, because such a meta review of causality is, uh, boring. I certainly can’t claim this post after a significant absence will… Read More Scot’s List of Excuses, Pandemic Edition
For a while, I was baking an obscene amount of bread as collected anxiety of these times—the newspaper headlines, the disappearing clients (and income), the grief, the uncertainty—overwhelmed me. The price of such baking anxiety was the inevitable Covid-19 five pounds (approximately), and in retrospect it’s kind of amazing I didn’t gain more (thank you,… Read More Breadder Burque Ch. XXII: Breaking the Frenzy
Right at one year ago, we stopped during one of our weekly bike rides down Central Ave. and through the road/parking lot strangely connecting New York Ave. at the El Vado hotel/etc. redevelopment to take this photo: The “eyes” and “nose” you see above were placed there, by somebody and/or some entity, to stop drivers… Read More El Vado’s Mysteriously Moving Planters
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