Fortunately my StL Cardinals got out of LA with only 3 losses and not 4. Cruising against SD so far. I'm glad baseball season is back up and running.
MdW, how's the subway system doing in DC? It's been a long time since I rode on that system.Good morning D-League. Cruising into DC on a subway train, our normal allotment if two drugged or drunk bums on board. Rainy night has driven them indoors, and the trains are a good place to crash.
Busy day ahead. But not much to report yet.
I hope the rain passes for all of us and it is a nice warm April day ahead.
Fortunately my StL Cardinals got out of LA with only 3 losses and not 4. Cruising against SD so far. I'm glad baseball season is back up and running.
Hey CatinIl,MdW, how's the subway system doing in DC? It's been a long time since I rode on that system.
MdW, good deal.It sounds to me to be about the same as it did when we lived there. We lived in Frederick, MD area so it was always the Red Line to downtown when visitors came in. It's a great way for tourist to get around to a lot of the sites.Hey CatinIl,
That's not a simple question, but I'll try for a succinct answer. For the most part, it is an efficient and safe way to get all over the Metro area -- it recently expanded way out to Dulles airport and more stations have opened in recent years. While I complain about it a lot, life for someone like me living 30 miles out in the Maryland suburb from my job near Pennsylvania Avenue downtown would not work without it. And on the weekends it's a great way to visit friends in many different sections of the Metro area - from Virginia to Capitol Hill in DC and so on.
It still breaks down more often than it should. There are occasional crimes in teh stations, though honestly I never feel unsafe.
On balance, it makes it far easier to raise a family around the decent schools of Montgomery COunty or Fairfax County and work a job downtown. My lifestyle - I can walk to a station and be downtown at rush hour in 35 minutes -- would not have been possible when my kids were in school without it.
I have friends in Frederick and get up there fairly often. I love to start there and drive west out 340 to the South Mountain Civil War battlefields, then on out to Antietam. I like that eccentric old War Correspondents Monument at Gathland Park, having held that job for 15 years or so in my younger days. (There is a plaque there with the names of four journalists killed in Iraq and Afghanistan - Daniel Pearl, David Bloom, Michael Kelly and Elizabeth Neuffer. I worked with all of them at one time or another.)MdW, good deal.It sounds to me to be about the same as it did when we lived there. We lived in Frederick, MD area so it was always the Red Line to downtown when visitors came in. It's a great way for tourist to get around to a lot of the sites.
I always enjoyed taking a Tuesday or Wednesday off and doing a bike ride at Antietam. Especially in the fall.I have friends in Frederick and get up there fairly often. I love to start there and drive west out 340 to the South Mountain Civil War battlefields, then on out to Antietam. I like that eccentric old War Correspondents Monument at Gathland Park, having held that job for 15 years or so in my younger days. (There is a plaque there with the names of four journalists likked in Iraq and Afghanistan - Daniel Pearl, David Bloom, Michael Kelly and Elizabeth Neuffer. I worked with all of them at one time or another.)
And I like a couple of the restaurants up there - the Irish pub Bushwaller's and the sprawling old-style banquet hall Duchess' Daughter. They stayed open all through COVID when the nannies in my county shut everything down, so for a while we were driving up there as the closest place to get a steak and a beer.
I have bad sinus problems....I started using a over the counter product from Whole Foods called Quercetin W/Bromelain. I take two in the morning when I am having and attack.......it works for both myself and the Director.A long time ago, I was prescribed a lot of sinus meds. They all said take with a full glass of water. Eventually I figured out the water by itself worked without the meds and wasn't bad for the prostate. Wish I had figured that out sooner.
Best wishes for the young lady.I have a baseball story....kind of........I have a grandson who is getting married on May 18th. His fiance was just diagnosed with Thyroid cancer which had spread to her lymph nodes.........she had surgery and seems to be recovering........I had told my grandson that just because I was old didn't mean I couldn't attend a bachelor's party..........so we was sitting at the hospital when she had surgery and he invited me to his bachelor doins.......since his girl was such a big Reds fan his party would be everyone getting together and getting a suite for a Reds game.......it is going to cost the Director and myself $400 to cover our part. I haven't payed any attention to baseball since the Louisville Redbirds was trying to break some kind of attendance record.........The Director's interest in sports is -0............ya just got to be careful for what you ask for.........
Cannot lie...As a 12-13 year old adolescent boy during Laugh-Ins early run I had a real thing for skinny Goldie Hawn. Really wanted to "Sock-it-to-her" though I wasn't totally sure what that meant.
Fishing report is similar to my last one:
Two strikes with no hooks so, no landings. Water was clear at my second site, and I could see bass swimming around, but they just ignored my offer.
Go to secretlures.comFishing report is similar to my last one:
Two strikes with no hooks so, no landings. Water was clear at my second site, and I could see bass swimming around, but they just ignored my offer.
Sounds like a Biden flotation device.Go to secretlures.com
Then purchase the stupid tube kit.
You will thank me later.
Have caught some monsters with that.
TNT will work even if they are not interested!Fishing report is similar to my last one:
Two strikes with no hooks so, no landings. Water was clear at my second site, and I could see bass swimming around, but they just ignored my offer.
TNT will work even if they are not interested!
Turner News Network will bite my worm? Who knew? I knew they sucked but... Sorry folks.TNT will work even if they are not interested!
One of my co-workers retired to Harper's Ferry. Good section of the country.Good morning folks. Checking in before heading out for a long walk.
Been a busy week and a busy Friday ahead. Glad to be on the edge of the weekend.
If the weather is nice I’m going to try my first Appalachian Trail hike of this year tomorrow up around the place where Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia come together near The town of Harper’s Ferry.
I hope today goes well for all of you.
Harper's Ferry is a beautiful old village with lots of history. Thomas Jefferson once called the view from the cliff there overlooking the Shenandoah River where it merges with the Potomac River "one of the most stupendous scenes in nature" and said of it, "This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic." It is at least worth a 45 minute drive for me tomorrow, if the weather holds.One of my co-workers retired to Harper's Ferry. Good section of the country.
I've had colleagues who worked out in rural Virginia or even out where Bert mentioned around Harper's Ferry WVA and commuted to DC.I live in a rural area and the new place I bought is even more rural. My nearest neighbours are Amish and usually the loudest sounds are the creek running through a woods on my property. An HOA wouldn't like me and I wouldn't like them.
There is both good and bad to living in very rural areas. For me ( at least for now) the good far outweighs the bad. As circumstances change, who knows?I've had colleagues who worked out in rural Virginia or even out where Bert mentioned around Harper's Ferry WVA and commuted to DC.
There's actually a morning train -- a real train, not the subway -- that comes in from that area to Washington's Union Station, which is a ten minute walk from where I work. My wife and I toyed with the idea, but didn't want to uproot the kids. Now I figure I'll just wait until i retire and revisit the whole question.
My wife day dreams of living like her aunt who lives on the upper east side of Manhattan. I’ve threatened to take her to Bracken County where I have family. We’ll probably split the difference and stay in the DC suburbs.There is both good and bad to living in very rural areas. For me ( at least for now) the good far outweighs the bad. As circumstances change, who knows?