"I am at a loss to understand the statutory authority under which the US Air Force can spend my money in propagandizing to me that they are doing a great job of spending my money."
I had a bunch of these folders because the shiny surreal chrome landscapes made me feel awesome. This brings me back to High School. I do not like being back in High School. Let us never speak of this again.
Some video from our stroll through the National Zoo: Alpacas, donkeys, goats, prairie dogs, jellyfish, cuttlefish, lobster, crested partridges, burrowing owl, pygmy falcon, and sloth bears, all taken after our Rock Creek Hike. I'd like to draw attention especially to the jellyfish in the invertebrate house, which I've uploaded by itself to Flickr:
We went hiking around Rock Creek Park on Saturday, walking the Melvin Hazen Trail from Connecticut Ave to Rock Creek itself, down the bike path along Beach Drive to the zoo, and up through the Zoo to look at animals. Some photos from along the way:
While in the zoo, we made the mistake of eating at the "Mane Restaurant," where slow, unfriendly staff served us chicken nuggets, hot dogs, and french fries scattered across a wet, haphazardly cleaned tray, all in a disorganized, noisy environment where a napkin dispenser touched a garbage can and a spray bottle of cleaning fluid rested abandoned on a dining table within easy reach of one of dozens of screaming brats running around the place. Not eating there again.
I'll have a zoo video up later, but I must point out this sign we saw at the aviary, which made me insanely happy to see:
It's my first video Caturday! In this epic, sweeping 30 second drama, our lovely feline heroine Pandora meows twice, does a wide meow-yawn, then returns to luxuriating on her new scratching rug. Playing faintly in the background is "At the Airport" by Scott Andrew.
Woman and suffragist who declared a run for the US presidency in 1872, with black abolitionist Frederick Douglass as her running mate with the Equal Rights Party. Actual candidacy was doubtful.
On the revisionist "Trail of Blood," Baptist landmarkism, and the general denominational anxiety over truth and history in the Christian faith which leads to divisions between sects.
I had intended to get a video clip of the latest Metro tunnel ad, but I put my phone camera in panorama mode rather than video mode, so it started stitching this disjointed panorama as best it could from the walls of the Metro station as the train accelerated. My reflected hands are visible.
Our apartment recently had window upgrades for all units, and the process included removing the old air conditioners and putting in fresh new ones. The old aircons were discarded, stacked in a pile down in the basement; so much cooling potentiality now gathering dust in a forgotten corner.
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