Why Do I Hate Metro Buses again?

Oh ya, that's right..
They are always running folks over and doing things like this...
Metrobus was involved in a collision with a MARC train and another Metrobus!
All I can think to say is wow.

The DC Home and Garden Show - OR - An Excuse To Go Out

So This Saturday K and I went on down to the H&G show at the convention center near the Mt. Vernon Metro stop.

Ahh, where to start?

I say that because I'm really having trouble, there was so little there worth commenting on that I feel like I should move on to the later evening events.

But I shall say some things.

First, it was more then a little disappointing. I was really looking forward to getting some ideas for my place, seeing some really well done exhibits and interiors. unfortunately there were only about 5 and this was the best.Not much to see here folks.

For the most part it was like reverse door to door salesmen. And by that I mean you were going to do door trying to get crap sold to you. that's the gist. here's what the majority of the place looked like...

Ya, that good.

Although there where a few high points, for instance there was the very reasonable and obviously effective newfangled exercise machine. This new device exercises every mussel in the body with the force of an earthquake! that's right! it's guaranteed to jiggle the fat away!

Just stand on the two vibrating pads and the machine will do the rest for you!







Seriously in real life it was shaking the crap out of her, I think it may cause brain damage and spinal dislocations....


Also I got a little scare when K decided to grab a pare of pruning shears...
seriously, She is always cutting herself or coming very close to cutting me. We keep a good stock of band aids and Neosporin in the house for just that reason and I couldn't see a first aid kit anywhere near that display!

so this is scarier then it looks...






Final note? it was a great big room filled with people trying to sell you crap that should only be sold in those "As seen on TV" stores with a spattering of gutter and door salesmen, landscapers and remodelers and people trying to avoid them...

What else can I say?
I won't be going back next year?
I want that hour and a half back?
Though they did have a cheese box....

On another note, we went to Matchbox afterwards. I was very happy there, good beer on tap and good pizza.
I had a Delirium Tremens. A sweet Belgium style blond ale. Tasty and got me thinking about summer... that paired nicely with the "Fire and Smoke" pizza and I must admit for once something I ordered in a restaurant that was listed as spicy was actually spicy! very good, not for those who are afraid of spicy red pepper, but very good indeed. K ordered a stake... K will only eat a steak if it is burnt beyond recognition. After ordering a well done steak she received a medium... so I ate most of a steak too, it also didn't help that their standard steak sauce is rather sweet, another thing K does not like, sweet food that is not desert.

But she did really like my pizza, so not a total loss and we are both in agreement that we will go back and BOTH have pizza.

Cheers!

Weekend Event

This weekend promises to be either

a: Entertaining and chalk full of ideas.
or
b: frustrating and disappointing.

*note, both choice a and b contain copious amounts of wine, the great equalizer.

Why?

We're going to the DC home and Garden Show at the Washington Convention Center. Why would this fall into category b? well it may be crap and just make me think that other folks just have a lot nicer things and are a lot better at doing things then I.

No use on dwelling though, I am convinced it will be well worth the trip (plus, afterwards we're going to actually eat at a restaurant that is NOT within walking distance of the house! and of course theirs always the drink!). I usually find these shows at least good for inspiration and an education on the new products on the market. Also it's a cheap day out at 9 smackers to get in (per adult) it's less then a movie! (food and booze not included of course) With saving the green being a good thing, I like the sound of that. Also winters over and it's time to get out there, time to start that garden (which I have decided to chronicle on a new blog "Growing Indecently, A Bad Seeds Gardening Stories") . I am also addicted to home improvement (which if you ask K she'll probably insert the word unfortunately in there somewheres) so anything to do with fixing or improving the old abode and I am there.

So This Saturday we're going jump on the old Metro for a short trip to Mt Vernon and see what can be seen. Then off for little fun downtown somewhere. It's been so long I can't even think of a decent place to go for dinner and drinks...

I'll pass on my thoughts after the show (if I don't wash them away shortly afterwards that is...)


Cheers!

A New Friend And Some More Of The Same

Ahh, Cheers to a new friend, I will call you delicious. My new friend is a wonderfully full bodied, delightfully aromatic, smooth, french Buzet. And I couldn't be more happy to have made your acquaintance.

Sorry for the Crappola picture, but that is the hazard of spending too much time with my new friend. crappy pictures, losing coherence, falling over the dog (she does not like that so much and will often give you this look after being stumbled upon, needless to say she is not fond of my new friend) and general all round placidity... But I digress. As for an official scoring I will award the coveted "a wonderful new version of reality" award, with 8.5 whole points of perfectly smashed grapes! it would have been a 9.5 but unfortunately I have discovered two flaws. One; tastes like 2$ wine if imbibed after a stronger, bolder wine. Two; Causes sever brain hemorrhages is imbibed with any other form of alcohol. Really it does! or at least makes you think that it does, but that may have been my fault for having two glasses of my Beloved Buzet AFTER sampling 4 other wines.... but who's to blame me, certainly not I.

As for the more of the same?
I have been scraping paint all day.... Again... But Besides the front door seen below the whole first floor is done! DONE DONE!!!!!!!!!!! off the the second.... And as you can see the paint is just practically falling of the trim in the hall. After the hall? then the bed rooms, the bath window, the basement hall, and all sorts of touch ups...
But I must admit I do love the results! pictures to come, I'm still to focused on the pre to look at the post and due to the timely arrival of spring, the garden is a calling!

All is good.


Cheers!