Category Work
Hurricane Report: 20h40
I found a way to plot my position in the map. I’m the pink dot. It makes me sad to see that all the best stuff is passing by to the east! Anyone want to go to Baltimore with me?
Hurricane Report: 17h00
We’re in the middle of our hurricane weekend. Irene has been working her way up the coast all morning. The rain started here a little before noon; the wind didn’t really start until the early afternoon. When I went running at 1:30pm, it was through a medium downpour with gusting winds. Things have gradually gotten worse […]
I love you, Irene!
I love, love, love the natural disasters we get in Washington, DC. They don’t wreak anywhere near the havoc and devastation that their more ferocious cousins do in places like Haiti and Japan — but they provide endless entertainment for me, and they get me out of stuff I don’t want to do. For example: A couple […]
It doesn’t take long
The longer I work, and the more vacations I take as a working person (as opposed to a student), the more I realize that the true value of a vacation lies, first, in its anticipation (because a lot of misery can be survived when there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, and for […]
Weekend
Those of you who watched the Masterpiece Classic “Downton Abbey” that aired in January will recall a scene in which the young lawyer (newly heir to the estate and title) discusses his plans for the weekend with the dowager countess (played by Maggie Smith). The countess responds condescendingly sneers “Week end? What is a week end?” Her point, […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 