Hey, if anyone knows why helicopter gunships would be making low flights in the Arlington/Alexandria area, lemme know. I’m used to seeing helicopters of all varieties, but not usually gunships and not usually really low.
My roommate has a new job that requires her to get up at some ungodly hours. She’s mouse-quiet, but I still woke up the first morning, and I can’t tell you how much it sucked.
But this isn’t about Monday; this is about today. You see, Tuesday I didn’t wake up and it was much improved. So today when I was purposefully awakened at 5, I was not exactly thrilled.
I became less thrilled - though I’m sure not less than my roommate - because she was telling me that someone had smashed her driver-side window.
DOH!!!!
Man trades paper clip for house
I admire his power of persuasion. That’s impressive. I mean, a camping stove for a generator? I can actually see some if not all of the other trades in the article, but that one really seems like it took a good sell.
So I thought it noteworthy that a man was walking down the street with a cross.
And equally noteworthy is that everything (except restaurants I guess) is closed today. And 7-11s, they’re open too.
Are they aware that not everyone is Christian? That in the DC metro area there are quite a few other religions?
So I was driving back from lunch and spotted this person walking along the sidewalk. Not normally photo-worthy, admittedly (nor even attention grabbing). But it looked like he was wearing a burlap sack or something, which is why I had a “WTF?” moment.
I got a little closer, and it looked like he was carrying something so “Ah ha, just something goofy looking that he’s carrying!”
Oh how right and wrong I was. Yes, indeed he was carrying something.
A cross.
A man, in a burlap tunic dragging a full-size wooden cross down the street.
Wow.
[For those not putting today’s date, Christianity and the man with the cross together; today is Good Friday on the Christian calendar.]
And kicking. Sort of.
The good news (nay! Great News!) is that we won’t be working this weekend. WOoooooooo!
Woooooooooooooooo!
No. I’m not excited at all.