Tim — a friend of mine from the newspaper — was on vacation this past week. He’d rented a beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and he invited me to visit. The weather was perfect, and work not pressing, so I took him up on the offer. For the second time this summer, I went […]
Guess what just opened a few blocks from work? That’s right! Sure, it’s a chain — just one of many in Europe, though the first in the U.S. — but it’s French. Which means that my diet during the workday now consists primarily of pains au chocolat. Pain au chocolat Of course, man cannot live […]
One of the fun things about being the out-of-town bachelor friend of an unmarried high school teacher (i.e., Amanda) is that I am the object of intense interest among her students. My “celebrity” amongst the high school drama crowd has been amusing Amanda and me for years now, and this morning Amanda posted another funny post. I’ve reproduced it here […]
Speaking of light, I don’t have enough of it in this corner of my living room (the corner with the yellow chair in it): Thing is, I haven’t figured out how to solve this problem. Nothing I think of seems right. So I’ve decided to open this up to my readers in the hopes that […]
I hate the environment. I’ve been living in an apartment fitted out exclusively with super eco-friendly, energy saver CFL light bulbs for barely three months and already I’ve had enough! If there were a baby seal here right now, I would hold it hostage and threaten violence until someone brought me a 100 watt light bulb. […]
Irene is gone and the weather is back to normal. In fact, today was gorgeous, with lots of sun and temperatures in the mid-80s. With the humidity only around 45%, it was one of the best days that we’ve had in a long time! I was about to say that everything else is back to […]
The bulk of the storm passed me in the night (I’m the pink dot to the lower left). The eye is now is now sitting on top of New York (the pink dot to the upper right). Right now in DC we’re only getting a light rain. It feels very calm and ordinary after yesterday’s stormy energy. The […]
The storm is still going strong. As you can see from the map below, we’re back in the yellow/orange zone. Torrential rain and strong wind. I’m getting really sleepy, and I need to go to bed. But how can I go to bed when there’s a hurricane? It’s like going to bed in the middle […]
What does 12-16 inches of rain look like? It’s been raining hard for the past 10 hours where I live, and according to the weather guys we’ve only gotten somewhere between 2-4 inches. So if southern Virginia has gotten 12-16 inches, then I’m impressed and, frankly, have a hard time imagining what that must have […]
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?
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 