I understand boredom. I understand wasting time on the Internet. I even understand YouTube, to a point.

But could someone really be so bored as to spend time tracking the progress of a piece of a bridge as it travels — very, very slowly — from Texas to Washington state? According to the Seattle Times, lots of someones are that bored. In fact, the Times reports, there has been huge public interest in the progress of a large expansion joint for the new Tacoma Narrows bridge; the joint was stranded near Spokane for a while because of a weight problem, but is now on the road again. Interest was so great, the Washington State Department of Transportation put a GPS unit in the truck hauling the joint and created an online tracking map, so the bridge-joint-obsessed demographic can know exactly where the truck hauling the bridge part is, day or night.

I’d just as soon watch Bob the Builder, but if you must, here’s the way to the silly map.