New Moon on Monday

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Oink, Oink, I'm not Laughing Anymore.

Today we received the honor of becoming the first Washington D.C. school to close due to a very unlucky staff member contracting the much talked about "swine flu". Aside from the fact that cabin fever is currently posing more of the threat than the virus, we are symptom free but remain on lock down until further notice. All this despite the face mask, hazmat suit and gallons of bleach. Oh well.

Mount (kinda) Pleasant

I spend so much time moaning and groaning about the drawbacks of living in our neighborhood (robbery, murder, car break-in's, rats, lack of parking etc.) that I often forget some of the positives.

Spiderman Rises from the Ashes

This recently resurfaced after twenty some odd years of storage. My parents made the incredibly poor decision to sell our beloved two hundred year old New York farm house and put all of my tender childhood memories in boxes on the floor of an evil storage facility. Did I mention that I was still a little bitter about this? I opened it up to find that it still has the 45 record intact. More importantly, at what point did the monster and superhero worlds cross allowing the wolfman to appear in this?

Air and Space

We just wrapped up a whirlwind three day visit with Grandpa. The kids love it when he comes to town and we try to enjoy some of Washington D.C.'s tourist attractions that we never take advantage of normally. Let me first tell you how grateful I am that nearly every place we went was free. In this crap economy it's a welcome relief to not have to shell out endless dollars to visit someplace amazing. We chose the Air and Space Museum, since our last visit took place five years ago (I know, pitiful). A great day was had by all.

See What I Mean?

These two particular clouds have blown away, but you get the basic idea.