ROAD WORK CITED AS CAUSE FOR LAKE ROAD ACCIDENT!

Recent shoulder work on Lake Road has left loose gravel in the road causing a dangerous situation. Following is an email I received at 3:40 PM

"Well lake road had a nasty accident on the curve just before the Tully town park. Seems like a small car slid across the road on loose dirt and stones and nailed a van head on. Looked pretty serious to my wife who happened along just after the first car stopped and called 911. No windshield left in the small car and nasty injuries to some. She didn't stay around so we don't know who was involved but it was about the time everyone was assembling for graduation. The guys on the motor cycles had better beware as they really push it on Lake Rd."

THE TOWN BOARD'S DILEMMA!

Adding a simple Blog to an existing web page is simple. Having it in place makes it very easy to update current event information. It would be a perfect addition to the towns web site. Once added it would save the taxpayers hundreds each year and be very useful for posting meeting times and other events. It would not require paying the web expert every-time something was posted. The Dilemma is now that "I" have suggested it, the town board will never do it just as they will not use the APD because "I" did it. I know that sounds childish because, well, it is. Now, to make it even harder for them. I will offer to add a blog to the towns web site for FREE! Once added they will have complete control and I will not be able to access it. I only need the FTP password to do the initial installation and once that is done they can easily change the password to something I don't know. They don't even have to give me any credit for the work and I won't say anything about it here either. The blog will not cost anything and it will enhance the towns web site, save taxpayer money etc. Too bad they won't do it.

They did do one thing because of me. Know what that is?

Answer: The town's web site was done to counter this web site.

Why is the time something is posted a link and what does it link too?

Each individual post is a separate record that is combined with other posts and the other elements to make up the page you are looking at. The time link is a permanent link to the actual record of that post in the archives. If you click on the time link you will get a page with that post at the top. This would be great if that post were the only thing on the page. It would make it easy to print out just that post without all the other ones. I'm looking into making that happen but until I understand more than I do now I can't say when or if it will happen. It is somewhat useful because it shows the month of archives that post is in which is smaller than the main page and would waste less paper if you printed it out. However there is one useful thing the link can be used for now. You can right click on it and choose copy URL and then email that to someone you want to see that particular post.

Not to bore you but...

The two second post. When I post something to the site it takes less than two seconds to show up and be available for you to read. I can also post from any location that has internet access. This is a big plus when it comes time to getting information to you in a hurry. What happens in that two seconds is interesting. Using a browser I log on to my account at Blogger. I type in or paste my post and click on the 'Post and Publish' button. Blogger takes the new post and combines it with all the other posts and using my template builds the web page. Blogger also creates an archive page with the new post added. These are sent to my web site via FTP and replaces the current web pages with the new ones. All this happens in that two seconds. Actually it's probably less than that but two seconds is fast enough. Blogger is also in the process of upgrading their system software and I think that was part on my problem getting the archive function working. I'm going to wait until they finish their transition before I make any other changes.

ARE YOU THINKING OF RUNNING?

In a few days I will have a detailed post about what you need to know to run for office in Preble. While you're waiting I suggest you look at the history of Preble's caucus's at this link.

WARNING! LAKE ROAD USERS!

Lake Road from Long Road to Frenchs Bay has highway workers cleaning up the sides of the road. They have NO flagmen, NO warnings except at the very ends of the road. Therefore if you enter Lake Road from one of them many side roads you will NOT know there is road work going on! Due to the many blind curves this is a very dangerous situation! I called and left messages to all the parties I could find and I talked to the State Police who said they would send someone to check it out. I don't know if this is the state or Tully who is doing this work but their lack of concern for the safety of the public AND their own workers is something to be considered.

BE CAREFUL and DRIVE SLOW if you must use Lake Road. I'll post anything else I find out.

UPDATE: The yellow highway trucks are Onondaga County trucks out of Jamesville garage.
I talked to Scott Sergeant at 4:30 and he said that the work on the shoulders was complete. He also said they would be paving one mile of the road from Rt 80 south. This brings it to the French's Bay area. There is a paint mark on the road indicating where they will stop for this year. It will take about one week and begin the first or second week of July. The paving will widen the road making it better for pedestrians and bicyclists and provide more targets for the cars that will be going faster on the new smooth road. During the work you can bypass it all by using Gatehouse and Long roads off of Rt 80.

Archives now working?

In an odd sort of way, yes. Try it out and note there are some oddities that I am trying to figure out. In the process of working on this I am learning a whole lot more about the inner workings of Blogger, CSS and JavaScript that I ever actually wanted to know. Knowledge is a good thing I guess but this all seemed so simple when I started. Oh well, I guess I'm enjoying myself... I guess.

I use a Mac and I've tested this on three browsers. IE 5.2.3, and Mozilla work fine. Safari, Apple's new browser does not work well. There is 'supposed' to be a drop down menu underneath the search box on the left. If there is nothing there you either have an old browser or one that is not compatible with whatever I'm doing. I may well be doing something wrong, likely so, but until I figure it out, you'll just have to hang in there. If this doesn't work on your computer I would appreciate knowing what OS version and what browser version you are using. In general IE and Netscape 4 and older should be discarded. It's time to upgrade, they are free after all. For Windows users I am told Mozilla is best. Get it at mozilla.org. It's built in popup window blocking is well worth it.

Instructions for Life

Leave a quarter where a child can find it.

Quaking Aspens

Quaking Aspens, I am told, are the trees around the lake that produce those fluffy white cotton like balls that float all around, get into your nose, plug up your screens, interfere with fishing etc. I've renamed them the 'Quaking pain in the Aspens". Just thought you'd like to hear that.