Down on the Corner (172/366)

TIME: 3:11 pm
PLACE: 15th & Raab
SUBJECT: Street signs

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We got new street signs!

They are part of the new street update - Our tax dollars at work.

Market & Tucker (096/365)

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

TIME:  1:24 PM
PLACE:  Market St. and Tucker, St. Louis
SUBJECT:  Looking east down Market

Last week I discovered that my paternal grandfather had been involved in an automobile accident with a buggy and was arrested back in 1922.  I had sent a letter to the St. Louis Police Dept. to see if I could find out any more information and they called me yesterday stating that they had located a 1-page report on the incident.  I went to the Police Station in downtown St. Louis to pick it up after work.  There wasn’t much in the report that wasn’t already in the newspaper, EXCEPT that it named the owner of the car my grandfather was driving.  The owner’s name was Vito Geonollo aka Vito Giannola  - a leader of “The Sicilian Green Ones” gang in St. Louis during Prohibition.  Hmmmm, was Grandpa a gang member?  Maybe this could be the reason there was tension between him and the rest of his family.  Back in the late 1980’s, I was visiting with him on a Sunday afternoon; he was in a talkative mood and casually mentioned that once he had some “trouble with guns” and had to “hide away for a few days”.  He wouldn’t elaborate anymore than that.  Grandpa passed away in 1989 while I was a senior at college.  I wish I could have spoken with him more – I have a feeling that he led a very interesting life as a young man.

Turn Lane (052/365)

“It's better to be last in the traffic lane than first in the funeral procession”

~Author Unknown

TIME:  9:35 AM
PLACE:  Center for Advanced Medicine, St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT:  View of turn lane on Euclid Ave from 10th floor

Today was rainy and much colder than the weather  we had yesterday.  HandsomeHusband had a doctor’s appointment early this morning over in St. Louis and I tagged along.   It went quickly and we were back in town before lunch.  Then MonkeyBoy had an eye doctor appointment at 3pm for some new contact lenses.  Before I knew it, it was time to make dinner..Why do the extra days off (specifically, President’s Day today) go by so quickly while work days creep so slowly?  Obviously there is something wrong with the space/time continuum when it comes to this.

Which Way To Go (277/365)

Willy Wonka: So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, (Gene Wilder-actor, Roald Dahl-screenplay & book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," David Seltzer – screenplay [uncredited], Mel Stuart - director, 1971)

TIME:  11:57 AM
PLACE:  State St Road and Ross Ln
SUBJECT:  Double arrow sign

MonkeyBoy still wasn’t feeling too well today, but did end up playing football.  I’ve got to give him credit – he made some good tackles and played hard.  They lost big time though.  I don’t remember the final score, it was either 28-0 or 34-0.  Not pretty.

This sign was at the “T” intersection on our way home.  It reminds me of how I feel most of the time – being pulled in two different directions with no time to do anything.  Actually, I feel like I’m being pulled in a kabillion different directions, but I don’t think there is a street sign that reflects that!