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Saw Bob Boilen at another show tonight in DC

It must be autumn given how the streets are covered in fallen energy gels from the Marine Corps Marathon.

I am declaring Oct 25 as Bibimbap Day because this is the third year in a row I have gotten takeout from the local takeout on this date.

Calling all Spirits #washingtonspirits #nwsl

I gave it a shot, but I could never figure out #tumblr as social media. I think I am too old and normie. However, Tumblr works for me as a place to post photos. If you pay for a reasonably priced custom domain, they don't even insert ads. My phone photos go on https://ckrposts.net I follow […]

This skeleton at 9th & C St NE on Capitol Hill has a rotation of topical commentary.

"Officer calling for backup!"

At work, our desk phones are being replaced with Avaya Workplace calling on our computers. This has involved 9 pages of instructions to be carried out by each employee and subsequent tickets to the help desk to enable voicemail and external calling. I would like to punch someone in their soft […]

It is time to drown my sorrows in a burrito.

My new Teams status message

Tried koshary, an Egyptian street food, for the first time today. I guess I liked because I ate it before I could take a photo. The vendor called me habibi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshary

For some reason, all the images in the "RunWithHal" app are upside down.

I have to wonder if the discounted Rodman jerseys at Dick's mean they are expecting new kits, a transfer, or both. #nwsl #washingtonspirit

Trin spin-ding some time with the fans.

Saw Gelli Haha last night in New York. Highly recommend checking her out. The live show and album are super fun.

I have been plotting for approximately two months to find and consume spicy cumin lamb biang biang noodles, really ever since reading Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. Tonight is the night. https://sf.gazetteer.co/do-androids-dream-of-biang-biang-noodles

Beautiful day to be riding Amtrak up to NYC.

No whistling past the graveyard in the Quiet Car

I was considering going to see the Reality Winner book talk, but my couch made a good case for watching the livestream instead. https://www.youtube.com/live/QjX7cJo3viQ?si=yhG99Cy26WRgepFa

I don't always drag my spouse to shows, but I did to this one. She says the crowd is "multiple Unabomber suspects."

White Ford Bronco draws a big office crowd at Federal Triangle. I can't complain about multiple covers of the Cranberries. The dream of the 1990s is alive.

Here in DC trying to pick up the Jimmy Kimmel broadcast from the Baltimore station like it's Radio Free Europe.

Alley dwellings will help solve affordable housing. The alley dwelling. . . https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21-Overbeck-Aly-NE-Washington-DC-20002/182995717_zpid/

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I wonder if traffic will be lighter on Father Hurley Boulevard tomorrow.

Ripped my shirt sleeve and scraped my arm on the bottom edge of the toilet paper dispenser at my office job. Still punk rock.

The Hand Habits show tonight in DC was criminally underattended, but Bob Boilen was there so I guess that counts for something.

I wonder if the National Guard will get a campaign medal for their DC tour. Maybe depicting a soldier leaning against a wall in the shade or bayoneting a hoagie.

Dogs must be getting better, because the treats in the Good Dog boxes are bigger tonight.

A neighbor kid made and sold these signs to donate to #freedc. Now every time I come home I catch it out of the corner of my eye and think the city has given us a "stop work" order.

Audi Field is rocking the classics. And by classics I mean "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim. #thatsthespirit

It's really weird to bike up to the UPS store on H St NE and see 12 National Guard on a single block. I talked to 4 guys posted up outside Ben's Chili Bowl. They are from Mississippi. I hope they can return home soon tell their people that DC didn't need to be occupied.

Overheard on the elevator: "I had my whole team do the Harry Potter quiz so I could see what house they would be in." That is cursed, child.

New pieces of flair

A lovely day in DC for biking to work and sending the kids back to school. They could have posted some of these troops as school crossing guards and they probably wouldn't even have needed firearms. Probably. #freedc

Happy Chuck Brown's birthday (actual) to all who celebrate. #freedc https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZjeheDR3tA

Added a #freedc whistle to my keychain courtesy of a kind soul who is 3D printing them. Let's make more noise! https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1mw70qz/free_free_dc_whistles_at_mlk_library/

Neighbor, I would recommend a more robust chain. #BikeDC

#washingtonspirit and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) are having a bike to the game day on Sunday, August 31. I always use the excellent, free bike valet at Audi Field. #nwsl https://www.gofevo.com/event/BIKETOGAME0831

If I wanted to keep my term life insurance at the upcoming end of the 15 year term, the premiums would be 12x higher. I'm not sure I enjoy the implication for my mortality risk. Kids, buy your term life early.

Hair metal.warmup.music for the #washingtonspirit vs Alianza match on the Paramount+ broadcast from El Salvador.

It is infuriating that part of my kid's high school orientation in DC is be aware of poorly trained dipshits cosplaying urban warfare with live ammo as you make your way to school. #freedc

My spouse's cousin is bringing us the plastic goose that my late MIL used to dress in seasonal outfits. He is driving back from Wisconsin and sending photos along the way.

With all the increased federal policing presence in DC, they are probably going to get me on a Panera Sip Club violation.

As a #washingtonspirit fan, I am thinking that some good add-ons for my tombstone would be "Go Spirits!" And "Rise Up, DC!"

[somewhat spicy vase] Free giveaway by local fertility cult

Single file, please

Headed to NYC on the train with my kid to visit my brother in Queens and see the Washington Spirit play Gotham FC tomorrow.