July

July passed pretty quickly. Here I start getting very boring, so feel free to tune out.

An anecdote for the month of July:
We set off for Independence Day in the Capital and arrived just ahead of a storm with Tornado Warnings (?!) We sat it out for an hour or so under the healthy overhang of a federal building with a lot of other folks. We got a hot dog and watched the rain pour and considered the state of the grass for sitting and watching fireworks... we anticipated a muddy experience. We paraded ourselves onto the Metro and went home, getting a video to watch.

In July we spent our Saturdays in a most mundane way. I worked overtime and Clinton wrote papers. We did laundry. We did not visit museums, monuments, or sites of interest on our Saturdays.

We did get a midweek appointment to visit the Pentagon. Like the rest of July, it was somewhat anticlimactic and less interesting than you might expect. It's a really big office building with some nice hall art and artifacts. The windows are energy efficient, laser-proof, bullet-proof, camera-proof, spy-proof, and even airplane proof. Each pane costs in excess of $10,000 and so after the 9/11 crash they scrubbed off the jet fuel, and any windows still intact were refitted into the new window casings.

Let's all hope for a more exciting August.