This morning I went in for a post-op visit for my new eyes, and everything seems fine. They're still a bit blurry, but basically OK, and I have high hopes this time around that they're going to function really nicely after a few days of settling in and letting the swelling go down.
The lens replacement was done at a small outpatient surgery center in Lakewood. To get there from the freeway, you go north on Lakewood Blvd. and then turn west on East South street.
This entire post was just an excuse to get that sentence in.
That's pretty good.
Around here, Google Maps sometimes tells me to make an interesting turn south on South Candler street, aka Georgia highway 155 going south. So I hear the following:
"Turn left on Georgia 155 south south South Candler street."
Your play.
Now you have me wondering how many variants of Peachtree you can get in a row in Atlanta.
I don't know. I do know that there are two streets called Boulevard, one north/south and the other east/west, and they come within a couple of blocks of intersecting.
That is such a missed opportunity.
Many years ago, outside of Wilkes-Barre, PA there was a short section of road with routes 315, 115, 309 and I could have sworn there was another. Each was going in a different direction. They redid the roads, so only two routes are on that same section of road. Not nearly as much fun.
In St. Louis, you can be on I-44, I-55, and I-64 simultaneously.
as long as you can be going east on I44 and west on I64 at the same time 😉
From Johnny Carson:
You drive to the Slauson Cutoff, get out of your car, cut off your Slauson, get back in your car, then you drive six miles till you see the Giant Neon Vice-Squad Cop.
I went to a wedding in Corvallis, Oregon. All of the streets there have directional designators at the front - like NW 23rd St. and SE Smith Lane.
The GPS was just ridiculous to listen to. "Continue South West on North West 15th", constantly.
In Edmond OK, there is a street whose name is Boulevard, so you're on either South Boulevard or North Boulevard. People often abbreviate it as Blvd, but the normalized USPS address spells it out.
Wow, Edmonds is totally screwed up. Most places -- well, nearly EVERY place except Edmonds -- has a consistent naming convention for east-west streets and another for north-south. One is "Street" and the other is "Avenue" normally.
But in Edmonds the Avenues AND the Streets go both north-south and east-west.
No wonder they have a nameless "Boulevard".
Is it the "Boulevard of Dreams"?
The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of South Boston is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End.
xhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston#Geography
Having no contributions to the amusing street-name stories, I just hope that the new lenses prove to be fine in the long run & wish I dared have a 5th eye operation.
Done it a botique surgery you say? I'm looking forward to John Varley's Nine Worlds setting where radical body mods are routinely done at the local mall. That or Delaney's Triton where a complete male/female/other makeover (to the point where it's as if you'd been born female/male) takes five hours. An additional fifteen minutes for neuronal restruction if you opt for the 'female' outlook rather than being a man in a woman's body.
Not far from here is a sign with one arrow:
16W - 3S - 2E
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