Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

boo!

Exurbanites Occupy an Unsettled Place in Va. Politics

Jamie and Stephan Lechner liked their house in Germantown well enough, but in recent years, they said, the neighborhood began to change in ways that made them feel less comfortable. There were some discipline problems in the school where Jamie taught. There was a shooting in a low-income area not too far from where they lived and other, smaller signs that made them think things were headed downward.

And so, with their twin boys near school age, the Lechners did what they figured anyone of means would: They packed up and moved to a place billed as a retreat from all that: Dominion Valley, a new, gated, golf course community of $700,000 homes on the rural edges of Northern Virginia, a place where the singular issue of traffic dominates and where the last memorable conflict was whether jeans would be allowed in the country club.

"We had conflict," said Jamie Lechner, referring to her old Germantown neighborhood. "And we wanted to move away from that. . . . That's why we're here -- to be sheltered."

May they keep moving.

Anyhow, forget what I said about not making it to FAP; if ya'll plan to park at Pharmacy then I can meet up with you after the lecture, duh--probably nine, nine-thirty-ish. I will do my best not to totally dork out on you all.

i thought totally dorking out was implicit in fapping. have i been doing it wrong?

SCENE: A GOVT WORKPLACE FULL OF DUAL-SCREEN WORKSTATIONS WHERE EACH SCREEN IS A 24" WIDE FLATPANEL AND ALL WORKERS HAVE TWO KEYBOARDS AND TWO MICE. TOMBOT IS SEATED AT THE CENTRAL WORKSTATION. ANDYBOT IS SEATED DIRECTLY TO HIS LEFT. STEVEBOT IS STANDING OVER TOM.

TOMBOT: Classified, Expletives, Classified Classified

STEVEBOT: Classified HEY IS THAT THE WORLD MAP FROM SUPER METROID ON YOUR DESKTOP WALLPAPER

TOMBOT: YEAH DUDE

STEVEBOT: I KNEW THAT WAS ONE OF THE METROID MAPS

ANDYBOT: MY COUSIN DOWNLOADED THE SPEED RUN OF THAT WHERE SOME DUDE PLAYED THROUGH THE WHOLE GAME IN AN HOUR AND A HALF

The End.

Why do you have to be at work at 8:57pm?

QUINCIE (to similarly screwed coworker): I've finished balancing my checkbook and preparing my grocery list. Now what? Oh, I think I will compile a helpful PIFIT glossary.

"Asset"=some sort of document
"Artifact"=some other sort of document
"Configuration Items"=what the fuck, I don't even know
"Incident Investigation"=someone fucked up! Lets pick the most despised person on the project and blame HIM.
"Supplier Agreement Management"=send us our shit, assholes!

(collective sigh of relief from the DC group)

tombot, that was my impression of me dorking out at the fap, at 8:57. i did in fact do this at work the other morning at 8:57, which led to a flood of vague memories about relative primes and congruences.

I'm hoping there will be ink-stained pressmen named Irv, and scruffy newsies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/entertainmentguide/togo/

PM

I'll be at the FAP, but don't let that stop you.

Wait, what's that in military time plz?

Mary I'm not sure what the cross streets are but it's smack in the middle of the 18th St drag in dreaded Adam's Morgan (that's like what Columbia & 18th?). On the same side of the street as Heaven & Hell, a few doors down from it IIRC. You will recognize me as Girl #3 from The Magician.

In military time, that is 1930.