Well, we’ll see how well this works out; this is an email post sent from my cell phone. Maybe, if I’m lucky, the new LJ plugin will let this post without my having to edit it later on. Of course, I won’t know until I get home.
On the not so bright side, I was able to arrange it where I can get my passport on Friday. Now I can on the Mexico trip Monday without any real problem. Of course, I’d just as soon not go, but that’s not really a choice.
Ah,well. At least my work here is done; I can go home now, with a stop at Hunam Garden to pick up some Chinese. Fun fun…

All right, so, I left the house at around 6 AM in order to get to the office early. An hour later, I FINALLY got past this major accident at Richey Road (two or three miles south of Louetta on I-45, which is where I had entered the freeway) where some guy had run into the wall in his SUV and gotten killed. If I had known it would take THAT long to get around the wreck, I would have exited at FM 1960.

Unfortunately, the Transtar electronic sign between Cypresswood and FM 1960 was not operating, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Has anyone else noticed this? It seems to me that the only time the Transtar signs show accident information, it’s for a location far enough away where it won’t directly affect you. Either that, or it gives travel time information only when traffic is good. When there’s a major accident up ahead that directly affects you or traffic is really backed up, it always looks like the signs are either offline or show a useless message like “Drink, drive, go to jail”. *sigh*

I dunno… I realize I’m still a tad frustrated from having to sit in traffic for so long, but really, if you’re going to have those signs, keep them updated! That’s what they’re there for, after all…