16 feb 2010

federal government open today so Elizabeth is going into the office. south hill is still not plowed. parts of kelly are still in rough shape. this should be fun.

south hill was pretty icy. so glad i didn't encounter anyone on that stretch.
kelly had some bad spots as well. someone had an accident at kelly and broad run church. didn't look like anyone was hurt but the cars were pretty heavily damaged.

we had to detour around the accident so we thought we'd probably miss the VRE ... and we did. we missed the key turn at nokesville rd by about 10 seconds. amazing. we would normally go to manassas and catch the amtrak train but it was running about 90 minutes late. so i drove e to the vienna metro.

the metro was insane. it took nearly 30 min to get away from the station. what fun!

went to breakfast at IHOP

steak omelette
pancakes (3)
iced tea

not bad. i really wanted to go to the good old Pan Am but they don't serve breakfast during the week. traffic around the metro was insane. otherwise the traffic was not bad.

lunch

bologna and cheese sandwich
chips
iced tea

ate half my sandwich. stomach was not happy with me.

dinner

grilled chicken sandwich
waffle fries
side salad
iced tea

at Chick-fil-a. The best thing i've had a cfa lately. pretty tasty.

dessert

mineola orange

not my favorite thing. to me a mineola orange tastes like an orange in the same way that cherry-flavored aspirin tastes like cherry. i looked up the mineola orange on-line. actually a cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit. i used to love tangerines. never seem to get good ones at the store any more.

watched the sporting dogs and part of the working dogs on Westminster. remaining groups are terrier (which i like) and best in show (waste of time).

winners so far

hound: whippet
toy: toy poodle (i'd like to see the toy piano win one year)
non-sporting: french bulldog (you just hear an old stereotype british guy saying "say hear now that's simply not sporting")
herding: puli
sporting:brittany

so far, i'd go with the brittany for best in show

it's a good thing most software on the internet is free. almost everything you use has a jury-rigged feel about it. twitter is so fluky it's not funny. blogger routinely tells me it has a problem with my cookie settings when i never change them. you get what you pay for.