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Happy Hallowe’en & welcome home! How did the cats do?

And a happy Hallowe’en to you, thank you, Enas.

Nobody was home when I got here, which was gloomy. He showed up after I’d been asleep about an hour and stood in the doorway meowing breathlessly, like, “ohmigod! Ohmigod! Ohmigod! It’s YOU!” and then hogged the pillow all night.

She was downstairs curled up on the radiator in the morning and had to be thawed with flattery. Charlotte was feral for the first three months of her life, so she’s a tetchy beast. She’s got a bloody lump on her ear the size of a pea, which probably means she was fighting with her mother…but I’ll want to see it in the light.

Anyhow, they’re fine. Nothing too awful in the mail or the answering machine or at work. My downstairs machine won’t boot, which is the biggest drag of all…but if that’s the worst I get out of a 3500 mile journey, I can’t complain.

“My mind is a perfect and absolute blank. Into which I shall now pour alcohol.” -Weasel-

Most wise, madam! Very healthy.

Welcome back, Weas! You were missed….

Just ignore the crime scene tape and the construction equipment here on your site. Our explanation will be forthcoming as soon everyone makes bail and we think up an excuse.

Oh, good. I know cats are pretty good about taking care of themselves, but still – you know. Hmm – I’ve got watercolor class tonight but I’m really not feeling like it today. I do, however, have Army of Darkness netflixed at home. Decisions, decisions.

Glad to see you made it home and have had at least a few hours rest.

If anything’s broken around here, it wasn’t me. I was a good Princess while you were gone.

Welcome back, Sweasel.

The dog ate my homework. That’s my excuse.

Glad to see your back safely weasel.
I am headed to DC for a week for a fabulous public health conference. I get to take my teenager this time so she can see our capital. I will say hello to Laura and George for ya’ll.
McGoo, did your old bum say anything about flights tomorrow?

Elijah the Stew Bum and Part-time Prognosticator cleared the whole week through the weekend. I checked because I’m also outa here for a few days. Going to S. Mo, again.

He did hint to stay away from McDonald’s chocolate shakes, but he might have been remarking about the unsightly spill on his trousers.

I bought him a fifth of the Old Shoe Leather to tide him over and keep him out of trouble.

Welcome Home Weasel! We did our best to destroy your readership while you were gone…. but the faithful are coming back despite my best efforts!

Dawn – Hope you have a wonderful trip! I loeve visiting all the museums there. My favorite secret place to eat on the Mall is in the underground restaurant between the National Gallery and the Modern Art museum. No one knows it’s there so it’s never crowded, and the food is good AND it was designed by I.M. Pei so it has a cool waterfall.

Silly me and bad spelling – I loeve should have been I Louvre visiting all the art museums there

Sure it’s a bad pun but until Akismet starts flagging puns, I’ll keep waving them around!

No Chuck Taylors up on the desk? Glad you made it back Weasel. Sorry it so sucks to be back.

woo hoo – free wi-fi! We are staying in a cool hotel right by the capital.
I made it here safe. Lokki, I swear to goodness if I ask someone for help to get to this underground restaurant and I end up in some Pee Wee’s big adventure looking for the basement at the Alamo – I will kill you – or send Gibby to make up some horrible death fantasy for you.
I will let you know tomorrow if I made it.

oops – my bubby was the last to comment from this laptop

woo hoo – free wi-fi! We are staying in a cool hotel right by the capital.
I made it here safe. Lokki, I swear to goodness if I ask someone for help to get to this underground restaurant and I end up in some Pee Wee’s big adventure looking for the basement at the Alamo – I will kill you – or send Gibby to make up some horrible death fantasy for you.
I will let you know tomorrow if I made it.

bubby – doh! I meant my hubby not my grandma. I must have jetlag?

DC is my favorite vacation spot. In my twenties, I used to go every year and hang out at the Smithsonian for a week.

I had duck à l’orange at the Watergate one year. Just to be able to say I’d had duck à l’orange at the Watergate. I think I know the restaurant Lokki is talking about.

Dawn –

I think I know the hotel you stayed at next to the Capitol Building – I’ve stayed there too. Very nice. Another place to go for a variety of places to eat is Union Station. Although they still run trains through it, of course, it has really become a very nice shopping mall with a pretty fair food court. Since it also has a metro station, we’d usually start our day there, have breakfast and then metro freely about the city.
Here – Akismet willing – is a link to the National Gallery Restaurants.
http://www.nga.gov/ginfo/cafes.shtm

Garden Café
West Building, Ground Floor

“Fall in New England” is the current theme of the Garden Café menu, to honor the region where Edward Hopper lived and painted for the last part of his life.

Hours
Monday–Saturday, 11:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Sunday, noon–4:00 p.m.

Sunday, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. (concert dessert menu only on performance days)

Terrace Café – Opens September 16
East Building, Upper Level

Overlooking the atrium and National Mall, the Terrace Café offers a relaxing atmosphere with a selection of salads, sandwiches, and desserts.

Make sure if you’re in DC, that you carry some mace with you at all times, Dawn. You know, in case you encounter a Code Pink, uh pinko, Truther or Paulistinian (though they apparently stay away from the capital because there’re too many Jews there; controlling US foreign policy, starting ‘illegal’ wars of ‘aggression’ against ‘innocent,’ ‘peaceful,’ ‘people,’ in order to ‘steal’ their oil; conjuring worthless paper fiat money out of thin air with their Jew Magik; and generally reading sheeple’s minds with their mindrays).
Missouri sounds more like my sort of gig.
Oh, and if you see Mitt Romney, tell him I like his hair will you? Thanks.

Gibby, much like there are no English people in London, there are no Americans in DC. Not that I ever saw. Oh, sure, there’s Congress…and the occasional Junior High tour group. But for cabdrivers and shopkeepers and gas station attendants, they’re all colorful gibbering foreigners.

I understand the outer circle is all solidly home-grown Persons of Color, however.

I can count the number of times I’ve been to London on one hand, but it never stuck me as being devoid of English people. One thing I do seem to recall is that all of the bar staff seemed to be Australian. Maybe it’s changed significantly in the past nine years or so. Mind you, the last time I was there I wasn’t exactly compos mentis, so maybe I was mistaken.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d be very interested in visiting DC, it’s just activists do my head in. And if C-Span is anything to judge by, Washington is swarming with the bastards.

Oh, yes. London has definitely, drastically changed in the last nine years. Bend forward and I shall whisper in your ear the forbidden words white flight.

Lokki, I had lunch in the cafe today. Neat place – thanks for the recommendation. My favorite museum – American History is closed for renovations – bummer! I really enjoyed the art museums though. I like Hopper, but I loved the classical works. There was a beautiful stone chalice on display that took my breath away.

Gibby – I have had a few activists tell me exactly what they thought of me as a human being today and it was not pleasant. No dialouge. Just hurled insults. Did I say it wasn’t pleasant?

I miss my family, too.

I’m glad you like the cafe, Dawn. It’s a good place in the summer too, because almost no one ever finds it, so it’s not too crowded. Too bad about the American History Museum; it’s my favorite too,although I admit to a weakness for the Air and Space Museum. So many toys there that I’d love to own!