Irony is the Shackles of Youth

The walk home today was interesting. When one of my old coworkers joked about the "Federal Rain" in Northern Virginia (so named because it always happened around the time the Federal workers were leaving work), I didn't really think it exists. I was wrong. I swear, every day during the summer between 4-6:30, it rains. I was dodging thunderstorms for my entire walk. Not five minutes after I got home, it was pouring buckets. That's cutting it a little closer than I like.

When I got home I pan fried some pork chops we got on sale. I cooked them with fresh dill and thyme from the plants I'm growing on my balcony. OM NOM NOM NOM. I cannot wait until later in the summer when the chard, rosemary, and lavender are ready to be harvested. HEAVEN.

Finally, I am having something I have not had in about six months. A rum and coke. Granted there's about half the amount of rum most people would put into it, but that is exactly how I like it. Just enough rum to give it a little taste. And despite what miome might tell you, it is not so cheap it comes in a plastic bottle. It comes in a glass bottle. So there.

Oh man, miome and I are sunburned. I imagine lighthawk is too. There was lots of good times had and beautiful cherry blossoms were seen. We walked around the tidal basin and went to the Jefferson and FDR Memorials. Never did find the Japanese pagoda. My favorite overheard conversation was a woman asking why it was called a tidal basin and a guy responding with "Because it's a basin. With tides." Very enlightening there buddy!

Special thanks to sasami. He loaned LH his SmartTrip card during the trip, which meant we didn't need to stand in line for 30-45 minutes waiting for LH to get a ticket at the Metro station.

Since miome and I are close anyway, we're thinking of blocking out the weekend of Apr. 4th to go see the cherry blossoms in DC. The weekend of the Apr. 10th we were thinking of seeing the Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival also in DC.

It will be an adventure.

I was scheduled for another site visit tomorrow and Wednesday. However, my flight was canceled because of the snow. I'll reschedule everything when I can.

Also, I am annoyed at a lot of the people in my apartment complex.. Yes, I know that technically spots are not assigned. But the fact of the matter is, you did a shitty job getting your spot clear. You don't then get to take the because you're lazy. I cleared that spot down to the asphalt for a reason: so I wouldn't have problems getting in and out of it. If you didn't want to do the same, deal with it. Don't just take my spot.

Asshat.

Today I managed to show up a whole 24 hours early for meeting rappleart3 because I am awesome like that. -_- At least I found the cupcake place around Dupont Circle and was able to soothe my feeling with a delicious lemon cupcake called "You tart!"

Today miome, Miome's parents, and I all took the Metro into DC proper to go to the Smithsonian (or more accurately, the American History museum). Of course we would pick the one weekend they're doing track maintenance on the blue line. Sigh. But we went, enjoyed ourselves, and got back. So that is a win.

Otherwise, I'm still slowly unpacking things. My cats are thrilled because one of the things I unpacked was the cat bed. Happy kitties are happy. They also think that the boxes are the best cat toys ever, right behind string and paper bags. Kitties.

I'm hoping that once I get into a more stable routine, I'll start really writing again. I know people have been agitating for me to finish the Witch King stories and I'd at least like to get the next part done before seriously writing another set in that universe.

At least I'm beginning to have time to read again. ^^