Thoughts & Experiences from the Mile High City
It has been a crazy week for me and it is finally starting to wind down. I am in Washington, D.C., for work and I have been quite busy.
I have been working late into the evenings on projects and spent a good part of the day up on Capitol Hill. I am ready to head home.
Hopefully this weekend I will be able to get some more posts put up. I have some ideas on what to develop, but just not enough time to put it all together.
Have fun everyone.
I would like to say that Nationals Stadium, home to the Washington Nationals, is a hit with me. It is a really nice ballpark.
It is easy to get to on the metro. In fact, I don’t know why anyone would want to get their any other way. It is that easy. There are some parking garages right next to the stadium and they weren’t even full. Now I don’t know what they were charging though.
Some suggestions in just my first look and experiences.
This is a pretty interesting lip dub by the folks at Revision3. They do a pretty good job at it.
Lip Dub - Need You Tonight by INXS from sarahlane on Vimeo.
I was fortunate to spend nearly a week in Cambridge, Maryland. For those of you who don’t know where it is located, it is located on the eastern shore of Maryland, on the southern shore of the Choptank River, about 2 hours from Washington, D.C. It is definitely a fun area and I hope to have more time to go back and explore.
Cambridge is a wonderful eastern town located amongst rolling fields of small family farms that is trying to find a way to grow its economy. It has a great history and was once a bustling hub of agriculture (Tobacco), and fishing (Oysters).
The drive out was beautiful on Sunday, March 30. I landed in Washington, D.C. about 5 P.M. and headed east through the twilight past Annapolis and over the Chesapeake on the Bay Bridge. I stopped for a quick dinner at the Harris Crab House (see my separate review) and then continued through the darkness to Cambridge. Continue reading “My week in Cambridge. Maryland not England.”
Well Frontier Airlines has done it to me again. The flight back toDenver from Washington, DC, does not have TV again.
It may seem minor, but this is one of the reasons why I fly Frontier. If
they can’t have a plane that works with a service the advertise, “All
Airbus’ have Direct TV,” then they shouldn’t be in the air.
I am extremely disappointed in Frontier!
Wohoooooo!
It is opening day for Major League Baseball. It doesn’t get any better
than this!
Ever since the World Series was over last October I have been waiting
for the new season to begin.
I am really encouraged by what the Colorado Rockies have been doing by
building the core team and building through the minor league system.
What the did last year was amazing and there are a bunch of expectations
this year.
I hope that they can live up to those expectations.
The season has gotten off to a great start with two games in Japan and
the opening of Nationals Stadium in Washington, DC. A walk-off homerun
is a really good way to open a stadium.
I just hope the rest of the season is this good throughout baseball.
Well it was a fun day for my family. We were taking it easy and I hadleft to run some errands.
My wife and son were upstairs and my daughter was dancing ballet
downstairs when something went crash and my daughter was pinned by a
crendenza.
How this thing fell, I don’t know, this thing is heavy and we can barely
move it. We haven’t been able to get it out of here.
Well now we are at Childrens Hospital of Denver Urgent Care Center
getting her leg checked out. She is moving it around and can walk on it.
It is just sore.
She is even laughing and sitting up on her knees. I don’t think much is
wrong.
Needless to say that I will be securing this thing to the wall. What a
way to end a weekend.
We are getting to know the Urgent Care Center in Broomfield to well. Our
son knew too well where to go.
I have been dealing with a crisis at work the past couple weeks and it has been causing me 10-12 hour days and working some on the weekends. It has been crazy!!!!
I hope things will start settling down now and I can have a quiet weekend with no calls from the media.
It is going to be a crazy weekend here in Colorado. On Saturday it is supposed to be near 70 degrees in the Denver area and then by Sunday it is supposed to be snowing. Another crazy day in paradise.
Let’s have a nice quiet weekend so I can get caught up on sleep and then be ready for another week.
I just had to sneak a post out today. It is only once every four years you can post on February 29.
It was a beautiful day in our Nation’s Capital and I took it all in.
I had never been to the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery before so I decided to take that in. When I got there I realized that Georgetown was playing Seton Hall at the Verizon Center, but it was halftime already, so I passed.
But the museum was amazing and there was a lot of art. I especially liked the Katharine Hepburn’s special collection and the portraits of the Presidents. This is quite a collection that they have there.
The folk art was kinda quirky and the hip-hop art collection coming soon looks like it will be interesting. Too bad I am going to miss it.
But the most interesting thing was the line to see Stephen Colbert’s portrait. More on that in a later post, but most of the people interested in seeing that were a lot younger than me.
Following that, I headed down to the National Archives. I hadn’t been there in a while and they had made some significant upgrades since I had last been in the late 1980’s. While I like the new open records area, there is a lot of good information and have provided a lot of access to photos and videos that were previously inaccessible, the line to see the important documents was quite long and slow moving. I had seen these before so I just skipped them.
I then went for a casual stroll on the mall. It was a beautiful day and quite enjoyable. As you can see from the photo how nice it was. There was a lot of people out walking around, playing football and soccer, or out enjoying the afternoon on the National Mall like me.
It was a beautiful day and I am glad I got to spend it in our Nation’s Capital.
I am traveling for work and had a few thoughts.
My first one is to never sit in the row just in front of the exit row.
That row doesn’t recline and the person in front of me reclined their
seat into my face. To make matters worse, the guy is only 5′ 6″ and is
lounging in his chair like he is sitting in his recliner at home.
That brings me to my second thought. Seats should not recline in coach
on flights. The rows are already narrow enough, don’t make them
narrower.
The next thing is that Denver International Airport has Clear, the
pre-screen option that allow travelers who pay $128 can get a background
check and be able to speed through the security. One thing, I don’t see
the need. I am a Ascent member on Frontier and it allows me to bypass
most of the line. That is all I need. Why do I pay? From what I saw, it
was only to pay the Fly Clear employees to staff the Fly Clear scanning
machine. Now if one of my frequent flyer or hotels wanted to give it to
me like others are doing, than I might consider it. Otherwise it is not
for me.
Haven’t watched the Ellen show that much, but it was one of the only
things on the DirectTV on Frontier Airlines. It was pretty funny and
enjoyable. Definitely worth watching.
That is it for now. More later…
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