Of interest to my Kirkland, WA friends

Hi, Wynne,

Thanks for writing to us. The closure of 116th Avenue NE is not permanent. We are raising the elevation of the roadway to meet the height of the new bridge we built over I-405 at NE 128th Street. The blocks you see are geofoam fill. This is a lightweight but strong material that allows us to raise the elevation of the roadway without adding more weight than the previous roadway, preventing additional settlement of the soil.

The contractor’s work to rebuild 116th Ave. NE from NE 128th Street south to McDonald's has been delayed by weather and wetlands-related issues. The contractor is making progress but the work is labor intensive and very slow going. We now expect to complete reconstruction of this roadway in the first quarter of 2008. We may be able to open the street in a limited configuration sooner, but this is very weather dependent.

We realize that this has been a major inconvenience for many people, and we thank you for your continued patience. Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

Laura Johnson
WSDOT Communications

well this is just great

I can't post to LJ with my mobile phone. I tried for a few hours on Halloween to post a picture of Grady in his pirate costume, and then the next day I tried to post using TxtLJ and got a reply instead -- but no post appeared.

When I took my SD card out and tried to access it with my PC I did okay until I opened the "my pix" folder. Then my computer rebooted. Running a virus scan on it prompted a reboot, too.

The big event that may have triggered this bullshit was a picture sent to me by my cousin's girlfriend. I had never received a phone picture from her before. I think her phone was virused. Now I'll have to go through all the pictures on my phone that I haven't posted here or sent to my Inbox and delete them, then delete the folder. I'll probably have to reformat the SD card, too. Shit.

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Maybe I just sent the wrong message in my last txtlj post. Reply to this if you see it. I couldn't find the last one even though LJ said it was successful!

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at work, testing a camera phone theory.

Last post for the day

Why am I not getting email notifications anymore? I would rather only logon when I have to, and getting email notifications in my inbox has mysteriously gone away. It's been replaced by a notification service I only get when I've logged in -- I do NOT like that one bit. Send it to my hotmail address, dammit!

I guarantee I'm worse.

Ethan sucks at this.

Izzy claimed car trouble. We'll probably never see her again. Oh well.