Monday, July 10, 2006
THINGS I HAVE DONE AND NOT BLOGGED ABOUTThe longer time I take off, the longer the list gets. Here are some noteworthy things I have done, off the top of my head, but haven't had the time or energy to chronicle at this here weblog. Until now: - For the first time, I visited the pathetic National Aquarium down on the National Mall. It's in the basement of the Commerce Dept., Here are some pictures which will not inspire you in the slightest:
They should really just call it the Commerce Dept. Aquarium.
- The District got hit by record rains, flooding federal buildings, wreaking havoc on the Metrorail system, and with it, my commute. I probably spent twice the time commuting as usual. This gave me plenty of time to take pictures of my environs, few of which came out. This is one of them:
- In twenty-minute bursts of rain and thunder and lightning, the rain continued:
- The skies cleared just in time to watch the fireworks from my apartment balcony for the third year in a row, and this time, the residents of Columbia Heights put on a better show than the feds. This is partly because clouds moved in and obscured the show on the Mall, partly because one rocket hit a nearby tree, and yet another rocket came within 20 feet of a friend's head. Here is a video which fails to capture the chaos:
- I swept my entire apartment for the first time in months, and took Pine Sol to the floors for the first time ever. This is from just a couple months' buildup in my tiny kitchen area, maybe 18 square feet at most:
Yes, you needed to see that.
- It was a long July 4th weekend. Five days, in fact, since I got sick in advance of the scheduled four-day weekend. One of those days, I went grocery shopping, and along the way took pictures of the construction zones up on 14th. Because when that construction is over, all we'll have to remember it by is the condos. Memories:
- I went to the beach with a couple friends, camping for two nights on Assateague Island (yes, Assateague, we've been over this before) in Maryland. I went wave jumping, bonfire on the beach-ing, and then wave jumping again at night, going all the way out again up to my neck. A brilliant move, I assure you, in part because I'm told this is when sharks are out. But our animal troubles were fortunately more limited: robbed by a seagull for one piece of bacon, countless bites by mosquitos (my legs are covered in toothpaste right this minute) and just as I was typing this paragraph, a stowaway junebug flew into me and died on impact. I have no pictures, because I forgot to charge my camera's battery. Sorry.
- At long last, on the third opportunity, I saw international cult pop/cartoon sensation Puffy Ami Yumi perform live. It was easily the strangest crowd I've seen for any rock concert: a few hipsters and stoners, plenty of anime geeks, young teenagers and their supervisory parents, the occasional creepy old dude. In other words, a cross-section Cartoon Network's audience. Here are some blurry pictures I took before a polite Japanese man came up and told me no photos were permitted:
- And just minutes from making my live debut on national radio, I launched this blog.
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