Odd Signs & Symbols

I couldn't focus on signs and symbols without looking up at weird lights in the sky.  Here is a shot from just after sunset on Sep 14, 2023.  Escondido, CA.  Whenever one of these appear, people walk around all riled up, or talking in hushed voices like the aliens are going to leap out of the bushes and get them. This is what a rocket launch from Vandenburg AFB looks like from here.  You should know what a rocket launch looks like in this day and age.  Glowing noodles in the sky ... it's a launch.  There are a lot of missions every year, most of them launching more annoying communication satellites to give you a clear cell phone signal at the cost of wrecking the ability to photograph faint galaxies. Anyway, right after sunset, the vapor trail hits unstable air at high altitude, high enough to still catch the last of the sunlight.  The reality is so much more interesting than all the made up fictions and bad guesses and conspiracy talk.  There are many websites where enthusiast

Of all the wacky, fussy, finicky types of parking rules we've seen painted on the pavement, here is a cute one for a change: Sure, a woman about to give birth definitely earns the most convenient space available, and whatever TLC is needed, even a cute stork logo.  But leave it to management to make everything a little more complex and annoying.  Next to that space we get to further divide into these spaces: So, if a lady shows up in labor, she gets the first space.  If she's expecting, she gets the second space?  If she wasn't expecting, why did she come here in the first place?  And after she gives birth, she has to rush back out here to move her car to space number three?  And the next morning she's not a new mother anymore, so they can tow her car? So .... many ... rules. Ohhh.  Anne just pointed out that there's one strip of letters across these two spaces that says "Expectant Mothers Only".  Still, someone has to move the damn car.