Funk Babblings

They say that orange barrels are the state flower of Ohio, but this is ridiculous....

A large quadrant of our area is under construction, complete with a FOUR-MONTH closing of some streets. (Among other things, they're building the freeway bridge that my company designed.) Other than increased traffic along the surrounding detour routes, this doesn't affect me too much; I only pass the area on the way to work, while poor nontacitare has to find her way directly across it.

However, one of my favorite lunchtime restaurants (a southwestern-style place with the BEST tortilla chips in town and the only vegetarian tamales I've ever encountered) is right in the middle of this mess, and the detour to get there goes through an industrial area on the opposite side from where I work. A couple weeks ago I saw an article about this and decided I'd make the extra effort to go there during the road closings.

So I headed over there today. Navigated the even-more-horrible-than-usual lunchtime traffic around the region, finally made it to the restaurant.... and discovered that during the construction the place is closed for lunch, only opening at 5pm for dinner.

So I went to the Taco Bell drive-through instead.

Oh well, I tried.