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On Friday we went to the Jasper Johns exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. I have no particular love for Johns -- though I enjoyed looking at his paintings when I was studying contemporary art in college -- but... (continued)

Last night I attended a happy hour with some former coworkers in Bethesda. I worked with them before I worked at the Library of Congress. I worked with them for 4 1/2 years, the longest I've ever been at a... (continued)

From this week's New Yorker: Behind [the lifeguard coordinator] on a chalkboard in the pool area, some training instructions were visible: Amputation Treat victim Find part(s) Part -> bag... (continued)

10:00 p.m.: Using diapers one size larger really does seem to stop the nighttime leakage, and keep the baby from waking all wet and unhappy! 3:00 a.m.: If you fasten them tightly enough. 4:30 a.m.: But not too tightly.... (continued)

Dear scowling lady in CVS, Please don't hold it against me that I am checking out before you. After all, I got to the cashier first, so I am ahead of you in line. That is how things work here!... (continued)

I didn't realize until a couple days later. Friday the 13th brought us super good luck: the baby slept 10 hours in a row! He went down at 7:00 pm and woke up at 5:00 am. Even better, he went... (continued)

I hate looking for hair salons/stylists and I stick with the same person forever if I like him (or her). When I first moved back to DC in 1996 I started seeing a guy named Billy at a place called... (continued)

If you live in DC you surely know that Congress is trying to create a statute allowing the District a real vote in the House of Representatives. (Our current "Delegate" may feel free to vote on issues, but his vote... (continued)

Every now and then I discover some little bit of goodness on the web and get completely absorbed in it for a while. My latest preoccupation is geotagging my photos in Flickr -- that is, adding geographical data to each... (continued)