traffic

Today I learned while fishing for traffic cameras to watch for entertainment since I've been stuck in the house that the reason we have frontage roads along the freeway here is so that we have someplace to drive while they widen the freeway for the next 3 1/2 years. I thought it was just some western freeway feature, since Albuquerque and Dallas have the same thing, but maybe they had to widen their freeways, too.

In related news, the high pressure ridge hanging over Arizona is supposed to move on around Sunday, which is also when the gem show ends, so Monday I expect to be free to move about the city and maybe even drive on the freeway, which is less entertaining than watching other people drive on the freeway. What I really wanted to find this morning was a traffic camera pointed at a poorly-designed fast food restaurant parking lot complete with a drive-thru off a busy intersection. If you've ever seen one of those, that's entertainment.

In other news, as you've likely heard by now, Anna Nicole Smith died today, and the multitude of articles about her made the points that

1. She was battling her stepson's estate for her second husband's zillion dollars;
2. Her son from her first marriage died five months ago;
3. Now she's dead.

Either life is imitating Shakespeare, in which case we're due another couple of bodies at least, or life is imitating a pirate movie and the money's cursed.