And I’m back!<\/p>\n
I’d really like to write about the trip, but my travel journal is missing, sorta. I mean, it’s there<\/a>, but only sorta<\/i>. So I’ll wait til the domain-transfer and reconfiguration process are complete. And here I was thinking this internet was easy!<\/p>\nOur Nation’s Capitol was, well, something. You see, it’s east coast, so I think, EAST COAST!<\/i> And I forget about the south part. It’s totally south of the Mason-Dixon line. DC is too preoccupied with money and politics and interest groups to be cultured and artsy, or to even have good shopping, at the bare minimum.<\/p>\nI did a lot of shopping, which meant like three different H&Ms*, none of which had Scotty’s hoodie at all. Sigh. I spent a lot of money at this Japanese gift shop in Dupont Circle. I managed to find some good falafel a couple times. I went to the new Air & Space annex (awesome) and the Hirschhorn and botanical gardens, which suck for having removed their zen garden. The Spy Museum ruled; my favorite part was when I got to climb through an air duct in the ceiling. Apart from and amongst that stuff, I walked. It’s what I do. For about 8 hours on both Thursday and Friday, and lesser amounts of time after that, when I discovered that Vans aren’t made for walkin’.<\/p>\nIt was fucking cold out there. It was like the same temperature as here, but windy and that damp near-water cold. I spent three days the bright pink of a spring-breaker in Daytona Beach because of windburn, and I learned the very literal meaning of ‘freezing my ass off’. There were times I wondered how I could still be moving when I couldn’t feel my limbs at all.<\/p>\nHopefully soon I will have some typing on runawaytruck.com for you, and some photos as well!<\/p>\nIt was not so great to get back to work, but I did write some badass code involving PDF-rendering and saving, which reminds me of just how very easy it is to write viruses. I thought that technology was supposed to be beyond that by now, but no. Huge vulnerabilities. Yuck.<\/p>\nI’ve been meaning to mention this forever: the do campaign. I kept seeing these billboards with little blurbs about being more active. The messages and design are great, and it took me way too long to track down this site<\/a>. (Maybe put it on the billboards? Just a thought). Anyway, I really like this campaign. It’s aimed at adults over 30, trying to get them moving. Here’s the state’s website about the program<\/a> as well. I think the first line says it all:<\/p>\nPhysical inactivity and diet combined are the second-leading causes of preventable death and disease in the United States.<\/i><\/p>\nAlso, this is the second good thing that a health insurance company ever did, the first being the $20-a-month discount on health club memberships. Which unfortunately only applies if you have<\/i> health insurance. Sigh again.<\/p>\nOne thing I had forgotten about apartment-living is that you accumulate more clothes. This is due to the fact that laundry is a pain in the ass. Since it’s $3\/load in my building and the dryers don’t work very well, I exercise two options: if I’m out running around, going to the Y and such, I take my laundry to my house in Richfield. If I want free dinner and to sit around knitting, I take it to my mom’s.<\/p>\nSince it had already been a while and then I went on a trip, I now have such a giant bag of laundry in the back seat of Chico that I had to shift it around so I could see out the rear window. I’m reduced to wearing the way-too-big jeans (uncomfortably scrunched with a belt around the hips) and gym socks. Tonight I will wash it all, drive it home, and lug it back up to my home a la laundry sherpa. Which is the other thing about apartment-living: all of a sudden, it’s like you grew a few more arms, rather than have to make another trip.<\/p>\nI have more things, but it seems most of them involve photodocumentary evidence, and I’m quite Photoshopless at work. Therefore I will defer those, and wish you a very good afternoon.<\/p>\nJenni<\/p>\n* Once Minneapolis has H&M and Trader Joe’s, we will officially have all the good shopping here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And I’m back! I’d really like to write about the trip, but my travel journal is missing, sorta. I mean, it’s there, but only sorta. So I’ll wait til the domain-transfer and reconfiguration process are complete. And here I was thinking this internet was easy! Our Nation’s Capitol was, well, something. 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