May
6
Capitol quake
Filed under Washington D.C., work, weather at 9:54 pm | 4 Comments
For the second time in four months, I have survived another earthquake. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to respond to all of your concerned phone calls and email, but let me once again assure you we’re fine.
Unlike the first one in CA, I was at work in Northern VA for this one, a location where earthquakes don’t exactly happen every day. And even though it registered a whopping 1.8 on the Richter scale (Rachel wasn’t impressed), I definitely heard this one and felt a little something. I’m assuming that’s mostly due to the fact I was only 10 miles or so from the epicenter. It was loud enough that most people at work stood up, looked over the cube walls, and decided to keep doing email.
Aug
8
heat advisory for dodgeball
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Only well-trained athletes should attempt any type of physical competition in weather like this …
Even so, Easy Targets will be playing a couple dodgeball games tonight.
It’s comforting that the locals think this is hot weather, too, in spite of their insistence that it’s been a mild summer.
Mar
14
the sounds of summer
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It felt like summer today, probably due to the sunny 85 degree weather. With it being such a beautiful evening, we have our house windows open allowing us to hear the sweet sounds of summer: kids outside playing, birds chirping (though they seem to do that year round here), dogs communicating with one another … and the unmistakable sound effects of TiVo wafting from the open windows of neighboring houses. Bloop, bloop, bloop-bloop. Heh.