Holy crap, I watched this show as a kid and had no idea that this was supposedly set DC (the play it's based on was set in Chicago). And now I've got the "No Place Like Home" theme song stuck in my head and Jackée's nasal voice saying "Maaaaaary!"

Yup! I used it the about a month ago for registration renewal on a car with the necessary plug (whatever that thing is that they plug into, I have no idea). It looks like it is in the parking lot of a school building, which I think it is.

You drive up, and the instructions on the screen are pretty comprehensible. You run your car for a few minutes and it was pretty painless and I didn't need amazing automotive skills to understand and get it done.

The registration sticker arrived in my mailbox a little while later. Super easy and Covid-Approved!

We even have a self service emissions inspection kiosk which is basically open 24-7.

https://dmv.dc.gov/page/self-service-vehicle-emissions-inspection-kiosk

No more trying to beat the line at Half Street SW.

So many references to the movie 'Clue', but awesome idea. Posting to see responses.

The Michigan Avenue/McMillan Reservoir level is one of my favorites. I squeed when that came up. I've always loved McMillan Reservoir since the days of me working at Children's Hospital. That and I've been told the level in the WH through the staff area is on point too.

Would recommend reading Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation, where she chronicles revisiting famous sites around the US where presidential assassinations occurred or were planned.

I reread it again recently after visiting where McKinley was shot in Buffalo and her takes on touring the morbid side of Washington DC and the surrounding areas are so funny and interesting.

Love Slash Run and does fit all the requirements except isn't really close to Cap Hill. Their burgers and fries tho...

If my mom had made a piece like that, I'd sure talk about it. I think the marcrame stuff my mom had was probably the 1980's equivalent of the "Not All Who Wander are Lost" / "It's Wine-o-clock somewhere" / "Live, Laugh Love" AirBnB 'art' stuff.

Haha, not an owl, but I think it was an abstract macrame woman with odd lines forming her general shape, and weird beads in obvious places like eyes, nose, nipples and such. It was nailed to the wall and when I was a kid, I was fairly certain it ripped itself off the walls and walked around the first floor of the house when we slept, only we couldn't hear it move because it was shuffling around on shag carpeting. Nightmares....

Wow, props to your mom! That's really cool. Not like the crappy macrame art my mom had hanging up in our house in the early 80s. I hate thinking that as styles and trends changed this might have ended up tossed out.

Really don't think there's much of a bias against tattoos here in DC anymore. I have a neck tattoo that comes right up to the lower part of my neck, barely peeks out when I wear a collared shirt or tie and lots of folks have no idea. Granted, I do consulting work for a major software company, so tattoos kinda go with the general IT thing so maybe the field of work may matter.

I used to run my own consulting business and my hiring philosophy was if you are good at what you do, tattoos add cred. If you aren't good at what you do, tattoos can be a negative.

Now I am often front-of-the-room presenter to CIOs of many government and commercial entities and no-one minds at all. I have never been told, "we can't put alex3m3ti8 in front of such and such CIO because he has tattoos." because everyone knows I do an awesome job, am laser-focused on-message and really good at what I do. I've even started to push the boundaries a little bit since pandemic and have a colored Mohawk and don't bother wearing a tie anymore so my tattoo is pretty visible.

I will say that I do have to travel for work occasionally, and I do my best to read my audience. So if I'm traveling to Deep South, I will pack a tie and baseball cap, etc. But here in DC, nah... don't get a sense that anyone cares anymore. Even some of our well-known espionage agencies...mostly not a disqualifier anymore.

Love Showtime. They also opened a sister bar around the corner from me in Brightwood called Neptune Lounge. Great bar.

LOVE Dumplings and Beyond and have turned so many of my friends onto them. One of our favorite traditions is getting a crap ton of their stuff delivered for New Year Day or Christmas Day. When I fell outside their delivery radius and it was the worst of times. I've begrudgingly gone back to delivery service.