Inside the Beltway

We did just about everything you can do in D.C.: Visited the Smithsonian (we actually went in only the Museum of American History), White House, Capitol building, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and Vietnam War Memorial.

I have to say that the WWII memerial going in now really disrupts the flow of the Lincoln to the Washington Monumant. Considering how overdue the WWII memorial is, you'd think they would have had the time for some better planning.

It was pretty awesome to think that so much power is concentrated into such a small geographic area. I know, I know, the power actually comes from scattered votes of the country. But so much decision-making occurs is this small niche of a city. Pretty amazing, if you ask me.

And the train stations are just so cool in the East -- little airport-like malls that overwhelm with size and architectural history.

Off to Baltimore / Washington D.C.

Andrea and I are taking Friday off to visit the Capitol. Will blog.

More Bush lies.

This time, they're about the tax cuts.

Arizona may ignore next orange alert

This ought to do wonders for tourism.

Productive weekend

I finished version 2.0 of my "Awesome Calculator" for work, with changes that include a smaller interface, rounded results, the ability to leave some fields blank, a currency exchange rate converter and automatic copying of results to Windows' clipboard.

I also updated my resume, researched this weekend's trip to Baltimore / Washington D.C. (no, I'm not going to protest) and saw "Finding Nemo," which was excellent.

And best of all, I'm all caught up on my reading.