My soundtrack blew a raspberry

Monday has rolled around once again, and once again the drive in was dark and barely wet.  A 70% chance of the wet stuff is forecast, though the rest of this week is forecast to be mostly sunny.  Also, mild (low 50's all week).

Driving in I saw a lad, probably late teens, walking along in brightly colored harlequin pattern pants.  Or something very similar, anyway.  At least he was wearing something with a little color and white to it, so he was visible in the dark.  Most of the others I saw walking this morning were wearing black or other very dark shades, rendering them almost invisible unless they were directly under a street light.  Even as careful and attentive as I am I have frequently been startled to suddenly come up on a pedestrian walking in the lane of traffic (many streets I drive on my route have no sidewalks and little shoulder), in the dark, wearing dark clothes, with their backs facing oncoming traffic.  

Speaking of street lights, here's a related question for anyone who knows the answer: why is it that in Lynnwood, Bothell, and parts of Snohomish County mid-block crosswalks don't line up with street lights? Most of the crosswalks I drive through on my morning commute sit dead center between two street lights, which has the effect of making the crosswalk space even darker than it would be without the two end-capping bands of relative brightness.  From a planning standpoint, I would think this would be a basic starting point, no?

Today's soundtrack was all over the place.  From blues to requiem-paced near-classical to flatulence (yes, really) to 80's-style rock  The flatulence came from the Broadway soundtrack for Spamalot, and more specifically, from a French salute to British knights.  Spamalot is, of course, the musical based on the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so this kind of thing is to be expected.  Still, it is a good demonstration that shuffled tracks don't always flow with grace.  That bouncy silly tune was followed by the dead-slow melancholy of D.Sharp by Bill Frisell, which was then followed by the a very electric guitar driven 80's-feeling Bon Jovi tune (which was really written/recorded only a couple years back).  Not a mix I would construct intentionally.

The full playlist:

 - Peter Doherty: 1939 Returning

 - Van Morrison: Once in a blue moon

 - Spamalot:  Run away!

 - Bill Frisell: D.Sharpe

 - Bon Jovi: Summertime

 - Supertramp: If Everyone Was Listening

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