One of the Capitol Hill Blog contributors has been having run-ins with Broadway's new Brix condo construction crews. Or with people who hang around that area looking like construction workers. All sweaty and tan and muscled. Lifting things. They've managed to piss off Hillku too.

As counterpoint, we offer this: we were walking into the Broadway Market behind two workers today when one of them jumped and said, "Oh shit." A bumblebee had hitched a ride on the back of his neck, and he'd absentmindedly brushed it off, then noticed it was a bee. "A bee!" he exclaimed. It was sprawled on its six legs, dazed, on the concrete floor. We hurried past so as not to glimpse the certain squishing, but then we looked back--and he was trying to coax it into his hard hat to release it outside. Our heart just melted.

Now that we think about it, construction is going on across the street from Brix, too. So maybe there's a good construction worker/bad construction worker divide down the center of Broadway.