ALEXANDRIA, Va. – I was at the Kenmore Ave. Magruder’s on Saturday morning to get a few items for brunch when I noticed a package of Capitol Half-Smokes Sausages. I mentioned it to the Ombudsman, who was down from greater Boston, and a store employee interjected that they had just been stocked. I was not [...]
New traffic signals make it safer for pedestrians – USA Today
The HAWK (High intensity Activated crossWalK) traffic signal on Van Dorn Street near my condo was featured the story linked above. HAWK signals are getting more common now, but the one near me was the first on the East Coast. HAWK signals originated in Tucson, [...]
EARTHQUAKE! We didn’t feel the earthquake that shook the Washington D.C. area.
Um, yay, Alexandria, where I live in the 47th best place for people who meet Money magazine’s criteria. That is the best ranking in Virginia, but below Columbia/Ellicot City, Md. (#2 — The Maryland Bureau Chief and Brad must be thrilled) Gaithersburg (#25) and Rockville (#31). Given that Arlington isn’t ranked, meaning it is apparently [...]
ON THE POTOMAC RIVER – For a fifth anniversary celebration, my wife and I took the Potomac River Boat Co. water taxi from Old Town Alexandria to National Harbor. Given the beautiful weather we were having, crossing the river via boat seemed like a better idea than driving over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. We left [...]
MLB needs to learn how to schedule, plus notes on Stephen Strasburg, Ryan Zimmerman, Roger Bernadina and a new Nats follower.
Mike O’Meara, off the air since CBS radio canned him last summer, is returning to Washington D.C. airways this Wednesday. He’ll be half of a new 105.9 FM The Edge morning show with Kirk McEwen, currently in afternoon drive, but best known as part of the old Kirk, Mark & Lopez show at Baltimore’s 98 [...]
On Saturday morning I was penning a pretty sizable entry about the Washington Nationals at the halfway point of the 2010 season when my son woke up and I never got back to it. These things happen when you have a two year old around who has moved from the crib to the bed. Anyway, [...]
Woo hoo! Another Penn State game on the I-95 corridor, that’ll be 3 out of 4 seasons to start the decade.
My PC is busted courtesy of a power surge, so I have not been able to blog too much of late. That situation might improve later this week. Some Washington Nationals observations in the meantime:
Ryan Zimmerman misspelled Stephen Strasburg’s first name in his latest Comcast SportsNet blog post:
Hopefully our team can get out of this [...]
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