5 Rapid Fire Blogs

Gotta get these off before the week is out. Got 4 more blogs that follow this one that I just posted.

Yes this is blog #5 and yes its a cop out. But you know what...?

%&()%^&#(#&$#)$#$) you.

Chea!

Cheers.

Jack Thriller is Hilarious

Tried to embed it but I can't find the code (guess its cause he wants you to do to his youtube page).

So here's the link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqDjr3KYexY

Cheers.

12 Weekends in D.C.

I've always said, "New York is a great place to visit." And I mean that because despite the multitude of things you can do year-round in the Big Apple, you can still get jaded with not only the city itself, but also other cities you visit when you realize they don't have the same level of amenities and hours of being open that New York does. I think living in D.C. as opposed to N.Y. appeals to many a people for the small fact that N.Y. is just a 3 hour's trip away when you just want to get away.

Got me to thinking, how do people feel about occasionally visiting D.C.? And see, therein lies a difference. Let's just say for an entire year you visited N.Y. once a month for a weekend. N.Y. is so large that even after this year, you would still feel like you only scratched the tip of the iceberg of what you could do, or what you could have done each weekend. Put another way, there is no one best thing to do in N.Y. on a given Saturday. There are a number of things you could do that you would have a riot of a time at. I'm not sure the same can be said for D.C. Given 12 weekends in D.C. (one a month), I feel that not only would you pretty much have a grasp on what there is to do in the City, but also target the best thing to do each weekend you're there. So, of course I made a list. Tell me what you think.

(in no particular order)

• Cherry Blossoms & Monuments/Museums
• Early Nationals Game; Late Lunch on Barracks Row; Walk though historic Capitol Hill to H Street for dinner & nightlife
• Georgetown & Waterfront Cruise (show at the Kennedy Center?)
• D.C. Nightlife - Adams Morgan/U Street/Dupont Circle/Penn Quarter (Wizards or Caps game?)
• Trip out to a couple of the wineries in Virginia
• Trip out to Baltimore
• Weekend doing stuff in the MD 'burbs (Bethesda, Silver Spring, Wheaton, Rockville, etc.)
• Weekend doing stuff in the VA 'burbs (R-B-C corridor, Tysons Corner, Falls Church, Annandale, etc.)
• Historic Anacostia & Smithsonian overstock warehouse in Suitland
• Biking/walking the trails (Rock Creek, GW Parkway, Capital Crescent

...and that's my point, I could only come up with 10. I'm sure spur of the moment things/events might come up to fill the void, but even after that, you pretty much get the idea of D.C.

Like I said, if ya'll know anything else that should be included, Let me know.

Cheers.

I'm on a Horse

We were talking about this commercial yesterday. Aside from the fact its utterly hilarious ("...two tickets to that thing you like"), supposedly it was done all in one take with no CGI. Something like it involved a lot of cranes, moving platforms and a lot of takes.

And I already use Old Spice (High Endurance; I haven't bought the original scent in like forever).

Cheers.

Biergarten Haus on H

I've been waiting forever for this to open. And finally, it seems with the Spring comes new beginnings.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep my Hofbrauhaus stein there.

Cheers.

Who Said you Can't Learn Anything from an Online Class...

And in this Episode of Fred's Metro Musings...

Should I ever become a photographer of enough status to have showings/exhibits in galleries...I should do an exhibit called, "The Look of Lust" where it's pictures (some in black and white) of people's faces (close-ups) as they're caught in the rapture.

Cheers.

Question of the Day

Is there any feeling greater, than the satisfaction of a want that is the result of an addiction?

Cheers.

Hiatus, Explained

For those of you tuned into my blog (i.e. there you go talking to yourself again Fred), it appears as if I broke my New Year's resolution. Yes and no...?

So, last week I was at NBS, also known as National Black Summit, in Winter Park, CO. In a nutshell, a large number of black people primarily in their 30's and 40's descend upon a ski resort for a week (more on that later). Anyways, due to the facts: 1) I figured I'd be out of the loft for most of my time there, and 2) I knew I wasn't going to be jogging or doing push-ups/sit-ups during the week (read: altitude and skiing would be enough fitness), I wasn't planning upon blogging either for the week. As it turns out, two things happened, one that should have allowed me to blog and another that precluded me from blogging anyhow. As for the former, I broke my wrist my second skiing day out there (Thursday), and spent pretty much all of Friday and Saturday indoors. As for the latter, the Internet wasn't working in the loft and I didn't bring my computer (so I couldn't relocate to a wi-fi area in the base village).

So there it is why you haven't heard from me. And yes, I feel like shit and that my two successful resolution months are almost for naught.

...I'm going jogging now.

Cheers.

On today's Metro ride home, I literally choked up reading this article.

Just as much for the reminiscing (i.e. Frankfurt) as for the fact it made me feel how much I don't want to be here now.

Truthfully, I felt more myself and happy with who I am over there than over here.

Cheers.