August 31, 2008: Southwest of Storm Lake (the lake) near the airport. C65 serves as a cutoff south of the lake to IA 7. IA 110 has been unchanged since whenever it was rerouted to go north from the lake to IA 7 instead of into Storm Lake (the city), which happened at an unknown date.
The westbound lanes new Crosstown Expressway in Oklahoma City opened today. I-40 is on a completely new alignment between I-44 and I-235, which for the sake of road-clinching purposes means that I have never traveled it. Not only do I lose the clinch of I-40 in the state (done in 1997 and 2010), I no longer have all the interstate mileage in the state either.
The road is new west of the point in this picture. The I-235 shield had fallen off.
September 3, 2009: Mileage sign at rest area on I-94 just northwest of the Twin Cities. It’s kind of hard to see, but that’s a generic “County” above the numerals.
The ISU men’s and women’s basketball teams, both playing Oklahoma, each hit a season-record 11 three-pointers Saturday. The four teams combined for 31-of-71 on three-point shots overall in the day at Hilton Coliseum. I wonder if they keep records for something like that.
Official attendance was a combined 26,830, which has to rank up there too, somewhere behind the sold-out WNIT/NIT doubleheader in March 2003.
October 25, 2008: IL 108 goes all of a few hundred yards to the east in Kampsville before coming to a ferry across the Illinois River. IL 100 along the river is pretty scenic.
March 22, 2003: North end of IA 107 at the Clear Lake city limits. This used to be where it intersected IA 106. The number, continuously in use since the second half of 1920, was decommissioned in 2003 — except where it wasn’t.
Since Cerro Gordo County’s 2003 agreement was done separately from the Second Great Decommissioning, the segments inside Meservey and Thornton (above) were still on the state rolls for nearly another decade. The county was in charge of maintenance and presumably plowing, though. The last vestige of IA 107 officially was extinguished June 30, 2011.
(Warning: Rant ahead.)
I have a seven-year-old, perfectly functional TV and VCR. I have been told I need to install an adapter to continue to get cable TV. After its installation, it is no longer possible to record one station with the VCR while watching another. I expressly asked about this three times when I picked the adapter up, and either was assured that wouldn’t be a problem or they didn’t understand the question.
I honestly expected this would be the situation given my experience of the digital television switch with broadcast channels, which is its own ongoing disaster of a story. But I held out hope. I finally got my suspicions confirmed with another phone call. “But you can get a DVR for $22 a month.” Of course I would like to pay more for something I used to be able to do without extra cost or effort, whether that’s recording a TV program without worrying about accidentally changing the channel, or watching a football game at 11 AM on Saturday in September.
Fortunately, Mediacom allows for more than one adapter, and there is at least one guide out there for how to use a two-adapter system. “Sounds like an awful lot of work,” another tech told me when I asked if such a solution was feasible. It wasn’t a lot of work in 1986.
Mediacom has also been intentionally vague about when the analog cable will actually be cut. If you look at the FAQ to find out “when,” the answer is, “Now. The conversion is currently taking place.”
I also am no longer able to eliminate channels I don’t want from the lineup.
I’m not too worry about the situation because I have a device to let me watch TV on my computer, but I won’t know if that will also be rendered inoperative until it happens.
Ironically, the same day this was going on, I missed out on a package delivery because I do not have a landline.
Finally, while I’m going full Andy Rooney: Remember when it didn’t use to cost six bucks to eat a “value meal” at Burger King?
UPDATE FEB. 17: My feelings on age, right here.
May 19, 2004: Old county road sign near Gordonsville, Minnesota. (Same trip as 105.) The road runs one mile from US 65 at the Iowa border north to County Road 1.
Maybe the Cyclones.com writer copied and pasted from a game story about Royce White, since he’s had a lot of double-doubles too.
Chelsea Poppens scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Hallie Christofferson added 14 points as Iowa State pulled away in the second half for a 66-47 Big 12 victory over Kansas Wednesday in Hilton Coliseum. … Poppens’ performance marked his 19th double-double this season.
Emphasis added. I know all too well how easy it is to slip up while writing.
Poppens has more double-doubles than Baylor’s Brittney Griner this season (19 vs 12). However, Griner has much more in her career (33 vs. 20). Both of them are going to be around another year.
None of that should obscure the larger point: The Cyclone women got a much-needed win even if it took a half to wake up.
Assorted thoughts that didn’t fit in the narrative, plus random pictures. (Photo galleries to come later. Much, much later.)
Texas’ attention to US route signage is generally exemplary.
The Alamodome and the Alamo have zero aesthetic similarity. Pity.
Last dances in Aggieland
