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wrote in message ... wrote in message ... snip (Hey, how 'bout them Hokies? I see they are still able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... g; just kidding--I spent about five years in Blacksburg after leaving active duty back in the late eighties) Fortunately for me I have almost zero interest in football, or spectator sports in general, so they can win a championship or crash and burn and it's all the same to me. Well, except that the stadium is between my office and my house, so every time they decide to expand it I have to dodge construction equipment every day for months. They're adding to it again now. Sigh. LOL! I spent five years there and never went to the first game--actually, I used to wait around my place until after kickoff time during home games and *then* go out and run my errands, thus avoiding the crowds and traffic. If you really want to avoid the traffic, you ought to try using that bikeway we built around the athletic complex and through campus--our "construction survey" for it consisted of myself with my old Army rucksack filled with stakes, hammer, and marking tape, a 100' tape measure with which to lay in curves, and two folks from the planning department accompanying me and blathering about "scenic impact" and similar inconsequential items ( IIRC, within one year of constructing that trail the university came in and tore a chunk of it out over by the golf course due to another construction project and had to relocate it--and it was not as if they had not approved the initial construction themselves the previous year) . Thanks for bringing back the memories! Brooks Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va. |
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