Good Samaritan of the Day Award!

It is sweltering in DC today.  There were promises of thunderstorms, but they have not yet materialized, and to step outside is to begin to melt like butter, or candles, or lard, or anything greasy that melts in a sufficiently unpleasant way.  I had to run a quick errand for the sake of Personal Development, and as I passed the house of a charming family I chat with near-daily, my heart melted — but in a super-awesome-pleasant way, like chocolate for fondue or ice in a stiff happy hour beverage.

I knew these were Good People ever since I met their pugs, but this clinches it.  In front of their gate, and lining their (beautiful) garden pathway, they had stacked coolers filled with bottled water, and put a big sign up saying “Postman, UPS, FedEx, couriers, friends and neighbors — It’s hot outside. Please help yourself to some water.”

SEEEEE?  This is going straight on my list of why humanity still has some good left in it!  I think it is #4 or 5, but someday I’ll actually put the list up and we’ll know for sure.

Congress, I will turn this car RIGHT AROUND

Watching the Health Care debate.  The main attraction: Rep. Sessions is yelling “I object” “I object” “I object” unremittingly, like a nerdy Tourrettes patient, while everyone tries to make their little statements.

Nothing comes to mind more than two kids in a backseat of a car playing the “I’m not touching you” patience-testing game.  Except multiplied by a few hundred and played by adults on C-SPAN.

I’m frankly amazed that no one has been slapped yet.

Explosions and Unrelated Arrests

First, they snuck the “simulated explosion” in around 3 PM so I didn’t even see it (I checked in the morning a lot, because they said it would be before noon)! Boo again! But here are pics.

But just as I was sulking because I missed the explosion, the Saudi Embassy (across from the Watergate) was suddenly surrounded by the Secret Service and a bunch of police cars.  Sounds like some guy refused to leave the embassy (why???) so they went in and took him out.  Removed him, I mean, not like “let’s take that fucker OUT!”.

Here’s the pic from my cell phone.

Well, this is disappointing

I liked the wrong version better.

Explsion Email v2

Click on the image above so you can actually read the email — basically nothing explodes.  Just a flash and a puff of smoke.  BOOOOOOOOOOO.  I HAD been going to watch their pilot as a reward for the lunchtime entertainment, but if this is all they’re giving me, I’ll stick to Bones and NCIS.  And Veronica Mars, of course.

(To my sister, who will read the above and say I watch too much TV for a child raised by hippies: I play online scrabble all the while, to keep my IQ from dropping too much.)

“Simulated” explosion by my workplace…

I can’t WAIT.

Explosion Email

UPDATE