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- Snowpocalypse shenanigans.
The DC metroplex is still snowed under, so it's been a pretty slow day for everyone. Around the time that the snowfall slowed to a manageable level (near the end of it, ac
- Visibility? What's that?
A few more shots of Snowpocalypse, these taken just before I got in the shower this morning. Hopefully something other than a blizzard will be happening because I could re
- We're stuck.
Dangerous winter weather conditions have paralyzed the DC metroplex. In other news, this was Baltimore's weather forecast for last Friday. Enjoy. I'm off to take a shower.
- ...another ten to twenty inches???
If you haven't heard by now, the National Weather Service has predicted another blizzard headed for the DC metroplex, this time with up to twenty inches of snow in store f
- More Snowpocalypse II pictures.
A second batch of Snowpocalypse II pictures, taken while Lyssa and I were out with Hasufin and Orthaevelve this afternoon stretching our legs. Strangely enough, Amphora wa
- Snowpocalypse II pictures.
Edited and uploaded at last (the power failure this morning notwithstanding), here are the first round of Snowpocalypse II pictures. While many of the people in our comple
- Restaurant review: The Virginia Restaurant
I got up earlier than usual this morning to join Hasufin and Mika for breakfast on our day off. The restaurant we were going to visit wasn't open today (it usually isn't o
- I have no desire at all to find out how these fountains were contaminated.
There's really no way to start off an article about this other than to lay it out up front: Soda fountains in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia were found to be contaminated
- Genetic drift always keeps life interesting.
H1N1, the disease that's kept supplies of vaccine low, doctors' offices and emergency rooms packed, and way too many people feeling like crap this season has thrown the me
- If only the private sector got turnaround times like this.
Not too far away from where I live is Tyson's Corner, Virginia, a veritable hotspot of commerce, .com site headquarters, overpriced stores, and shopping malls of assorted
- EDIT: All-ages goth night starting in Virginia.
While talking with Lori-Beth at Spellbound last weekend she brought up something that had been bumping around in the back of my head for a while, which was that northern V
- A week after the VPMP deadline.
A little more information on the recent compromise of the VPMP and subsequent ransom demand has hit the wires since Wikileaks.org broke the news almost two weeks ago. It w
- Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program compromised - 8 million records held for ransom.
Yesterday morning, word got out through the Internet Storm Center that the web server of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program was compromised by an unknown attacke
- Birthday weekend in review.
Lyssa and I started off our Valentine's Day by getting up far earlier than should be allowed by law on a Saturday morning to go to our local H&R Block office to finish get
- At last, photographs from the honeymoon.
At long last, the photographs I took while Lyssa and I were on our honeymoon at the Wintergreen Resort. You can see the gallery here.
- 'tis the season once again...
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, sapient lifeforms of all ages: welcome to the holiday season. I just wish that it didn't involve so much road rage in the DC metrople
- "Don't bury me! I'm not dead!" (take two)
For unknown reasons, I just lost the previous draft of this post, and so have had to start over. That includes a number of edits that made the text more coherent to read.
- Drawing in customers: you're doing it wrong.
- Restaurant review: Jaipur
One of the reasons that I haven't been updating much lately is because I've been doing a lot of running around after I get home from work, usually to take care of errands.
- Restaurant review: Red, Hot, and Blue BBQ
Last Friday afternoon, the guys from work and I went for one of our infrequent lunch trips offsite because our PM is leaving for another project in a few weeks, and it's t
- Restaurant review: Burrito Brothers, Fairfax, VA
While out and about running errands last night, Lyssa and I found ourselves running dangerously low on blood sugar but trapped in a Whole Paycheque that just didn't have a
- Hot, humid, and bored.
One thing about writing posts with Google Docs: You can't divide posts into a header and the part-behind-the-cut with it. With the advent of June in the DC area comes summ
- Indian in Chantilly: Dishes of India
This evening while going walkabout after work, Lyssa and I happened upon a new Indian restaurant in Chantilly, Virginia that chanced to have opened just last week called D
- View from a crappy hotel room.
Taken during the rainstorm last Sunday night.
- Regarding the "Virginia Remedial Fees" bill that snuck through a few weeks ago.
Late last month, a bill snuck through the Virginia general assembly that adds considerable fees onto even trivial traffic violation tickets. If you are convicted of a driv
- Adventures in automobile insurance.
Yesterday afternoon my automobile insurance bill from Progressive came in, after wondering when it was going to arrive and whether or not it was going to get there before
- One of life's little mysteries - insurance.
Lyssa and I are having new and exciting adventures in the world of health insurance this week. Lyssa needs to see a specialist for her eye, but unfortunately the nearest o
- It's not just (going to) a job, it's an adventure.
The good news is that Lyssa is all right; as I alluded to yesterday, she's been in a considerable amount of pain over the past couple of days. Rialian was nice enough to d
- "Burn me at the stake, and I will return with a new handle." -Anonymous BBS user, circa 1994
Wow.. the most outspoken anti-homosexuality priests and preachers are falling from grace^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hin droves. This time the reverend Lonnie Latham of Oklahoma was
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