• Taxicus Interuptus! Difficult to do taxes at the last minute when you are missing W2s and there may not be enough time to get a duplicate. #
• Coworker on the phone dealing with teenager… Sounds like procreation has a bad cost/benefit ratio. #
• ugh. training the IT "trainer" #
• upgrading blogs to WordPress 2.5, now with more pretty #

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• tonight i came to the realization that in many ways Midtown is like a big gay trailer park #
• If I was Mormon I would take Golden Wraps as my second wife. #
• rickrolling… wow how cruel! #
• Riding my bike to the licence bureau to renew my jeep’s registration. #

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I know it’s evil that this makes me happy, but I can’t help it.  Apparently there is an Emo backlash in South America.

• Chefburger… Priciest beer in the city? #
• seems like every creative person i know has had a dry spell the last few months #
• whoa, new KCTA web site. Metro 2.0? #
• Can’t believe some women still think shorts and pantyhose count as business clothes #

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• Asian Calzone… If I had just thought about it first, I would have known that it was gonna taste like veggie stir fry wrapped in pizza … #

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Last night I was coerced into firing up Photoshop and creating a new header for the old lady’s web site. I didn’t do the artwork, but I still think it turned out OK, minus some tweaking that still needs to be done on the WordPress template.

The trip to DC was awesome. The National Bike Summit was a great experience. I got to meet several of the folks I’ve been following online for a while, including Jonathan Maus of BikePortland.org, Ben Fried of Streetsblog, and Noah Budnick of Transportation Alternatives. We spent a whole day in meetings on Capitol Hill.  I was honoroed to briefly meet Senator Claire McCaskill and get a photo taken.  A couple of us also got to spend about 15 minutes with Congressman Kenny Hulshoff of Mid-Missouri, who is now running for Governor.

And of course there is DC, an awesome city.  It worked out really well for six of us to share a rented townhouse in the Shaw neighborhood, just one Metro stop away from the great U Street neighborhood. Much time was also spent in Dupont Circle and Adams-Morgan.

Food/Drink Highlights:

• Brickskeller - awesome beer bar in Dupont Circle
• Unknown Ethiopian - forgot the name but there is a great hole in the wall in Shaw.  It’s on the southwest corner of Florida Ave. and T St. NW, really close to the Shaw-Howard Metro station.
• Sala Thai - several locations in the city, including Dupont Circle
• Burma Restaurant - My first time eating Burmese food at this great find tucked upstairs in Chinatown.
• Seafood and Crab - As bizarre as it sounds, this a seafood/soul food joint run by Asians on 14th St. NW in the U Street area.