About 15 years ago, I was in Zion National Park hiking up the narrows in March. It was not crowded because it was freezing (water was fresh snowmelt, thigh+ deep in some places). It was incredible. We only met one other couple, two older folks, the guy with a very nice canon slung on his neck. We chatted, and he gave me a piece of advice I’ve never forgotten. I mentioned how he was brave for bringing his camera, that I had left my Nikon in the car. He said, “a camera left at home for safe keeping is no better than a broken camera.” It’s going to break someday anyway, might as well take the risk of that happening while you’re doing something exciting, and get some great pictures along the way. Put your camera to work and then carry it in a backpack rest of the day.

More info: https://wtop.com/dc/2023/03/firefighters-battling-significant-brush-fire-in-dcs-rock-creek-park/

They don’t know the cause.

There’s a Chuy’s pretty nearby in Virginia and I think it does pretty well. It’s not even the best tex mex but I’m from Texas and it tastes like home haha.

Lol what ocean?

It’s a building. It’s the job, not the location, that matters and determines whether it’s exciting or dreadful.

Lol I definitely felt like it was too mean!

At the restaurant I worked at back in college, our manager superglued a quarter to the floor in the lobby. Similar vibes. The cruel part was that the quarter was only a few paces from the quarter machines that sold gum balls, stickers, and mini toys. So many confused and sad children.

Three for the first 8 months I lived here, then one for the next 2.5 years, then 0 for the last 4 years (now in my mid-30s).

Might be for utility line access. DC’s electric distribution lines are underground instead of on poles.

It’s not a dumb question. For federal government, they should be mostly posted online on USAjobs (listed as internships or specifically as a “pathways” internship. Those will rely a lot less on who you know than a Hill internship.

Once you are on the train at Gallery Place, 8-10 minutes depending on rush hour (more time as stations to allow more people on/off). Gallery Place, Archives, and L’Enfant are all very close together. The longest parts of that trip are loading/unloading at L’Enfant and then crossing the bridge.

Never experienced anything like this, but please update when you get a resolution (or don’t). I have increasingly had problems with Free2Move and feel like their time in business is limited, and I suspect they will offer increasingly less support for issues like this as they go down.

I stopped frequenting Pho 14 in about 2018 because it seemed like the quality of their meat cuts just kept deteriorating. I used to usually get the Pho Chin and then they started running out of it at random times and then the cuts were increasingly fatty and/or gristly. Can you or anyone else report on whether they’ve improved things since then, especially with the Pho Chin?

Might be worth investing in one of those one-way parcel boxes. Porch piracy is low-effort crime of opportunity, so mild deterrent would likely go a long way.

I would guess metro proximity correlates with wealth because being near metro is convenient and desirable and drives up the price of nearby housing, creating pockets of relative wealth.

r/calmhands

Google Maps to/from DCA is messed up right now because the yellow line bridge is closed, but you can take the blue line from the DCA station to Smithsonian or L’Enfant Plaza stations, it just takes a lot longer. It’s probably 30-35 minutes not including walk time. Google was giving me the same weird instructions last week.