Most Washingtonians think WTOP has the best traffic reports in the afternoon, but I disagree. Why? DC101 has the CHiPs theme playing while they tell me about backups, so they win.
Blogger has been acting up over the lunch hour, making it difficult to post. Also, when are they going to get around to making Blogger Beta available to people who aren’t on Blogspot? I want categories!
Speaking of Blogger, isn’t it odd that it still does not have blog in its dictionary?
Have you ever gotten a HEREHEIS or HERESHEIS candy bar? They are customized Hershey bars in either baby blue or pink that parents of newborns send out. I was given one, but I have not eaten it. It would seem weird to eat a customized candy bar with my nephew-cousin’s name on it.
It looks like today and tomorrow will be the last days that I can go biking for the season. Daylight Savings Time is ending soon, so I won’t be able to get home in time and ride. It’ll be getting cold too.
I am getting to the point where I know enough about photography to be very frustrated with my current digital camera.
A friend asked me when I was going to get a MySpace account and I reminded him that I have had a domain for 8 years.
After a trip down Skyline Drive on Sunday, we drove home through Charlottesville. It had been a while since we had been at the home of UVa. It is a beautiful town, but the “college town” part of it is only a handful of blocks long. It does have a separate downtown though which includes a pedestrian mall. I also like that the football helmet logo and V’s are painted onto some of the streets. State College ought to steal that idea.
While in Charlottesville we stopped at littlejohns for lunch. That deli smells better than it tastes, but I still enjoyed my sammich.
Driving back from Charlottesville, we took VA 28 through Manassas instead of going all the way to I-66 on US 29. It was a good idea until we got to the city; next time I’ll take VA 234 from VA 28. By the way, the interchange between those two roads is a HUGE stack interchange reminiscent of LA freeways. That just might be a bit much for that neck of the woods.
Sunday’s ride marked the second consecutive weekend I had traveled through the commonwealth. I was in Virginia Beach for nephew-cousin Jacob’s Christening last weekend.
One of my Metroblogging DC colleagues has suggested that Northern Virginia join with D.C. to become the 51st state. That won’t happen for lots of obvious reasons, but I, too, am frustrated that the do-nothing legislature takes our tax money, only spends half of it on us, then badmouths us. It sure would be interesting if a few respectable politicians ran on a separation platform though, it might scare people enough to get us more of our fair share of taxes spent where we live. By the way, Maryland’s D.C. suburbs (Raw Fisher) are also in a similar situation.
Speaking of politicians, the two major-party Senate candidates are awful, I don’t think either is worthy of a vote.
I think I’m going to dress up and go out for Halloween this year. It’s been years since I have done that; I think I was “invisible pedestrian” last time. Any suggestions?
