Am I missing something?
Crossing St. Claude Ave. on my bike the other day I noticed something new and shinny. A brand-spankin’ new School Zone sign complete with flashing light and solar panel. ‘Hail Progress! Some recovery work has arrived on St. Claude’, I thought.
Well, sort of.
See, while the school zone sign is in fact brand new and is in many ways impressive, if I’m not mistaken the school that it marks is no longer a school. The school zone sign sure seems to be marking the approach to what used to be Colton School but which has become the Studio At Colton. And it doesn’t appear slated to revert to being a school any time soon.
From what I can tell, Colton is slated to return to use as a school in Phase 2 of the Recovery School District Master Plan. And since Phase 1 of the Recovery School District Master Plan appears to be continuing until 2014, I don’t see Colton being a school again before 2015 at the earliest.
So by the time Colton is a school again, I suspect it will be about time for another city contractor to get another deal to install some new school zone signs.
And what exactly would be the deal with getting ticketed for speeding through a school zone with the flashing lights if their is no school there? Good thing I ride a bike.
A great weekend, even if the temperature dropped 30 degrees. K and I managed to get a lot accomplished and still have time to watch Young Frankenstein.
On the large project front, we are taking the next big stab at the back yard which involves busting up the concrete slab where a lean-to shed used to sit. Been a while since we had a reason to pull the sledge hammer out of the attic so we made the most of it.
And for a project of a much smaller scale, I took some time on Saturday to work on a guitar pick. Talking with John Rankin the other night about my tendency to drop my pick during complex rhythm playing, he suggesting several modifications to my right hand technique as well as some mods I could try on my picks themselves. These included gluing sandpaper to the pick, getting some grip tape for the picks (taking me back to my skateboarding days), and drilling holes in the pick to increase its friction.
I opted to try drilling holes in the pick as well as easing the upper and lower edges of the pick just a bit with some sandpaper to assist the pick in crossing the strings. Results so far are promising.
