January 14, 2012
Halfway Through January? Are You Kidding?

Man does time travel like an arrow, fruit flies like a rotten banana (sorry, I love that joke). Last weekend Jackson and I drove to Rocky Mount and caught the train to DC. Had a great hotel with an upgrade to a suite. Thursday evening was simple, Five Guys. Hard to beat although the Occupy DC encampment did obscure the view from our luxury hotel (joke made by Jackson)
Got up Friday and found our way on the Metro to Arlington for a couple of meetings with some industry guys. Jackson is thinking of a DC internship some time in his college career. Afterwards we went to the George Washington Masonic Memorial (http://gwmemorial.org/) which obviously has some new meanings to young Jackson. That night we went to the Bullets, uh excuse me, Wizards NBA game.
Early on it looked like we were the only ones there but by halftime the arena was pretty much filled

I could care less about basketball these days, especially the NBA; however I was very much entertained by the Knicks and John Wall of the Wizards. Great game, but my oh my, the halftime............................the Red Panda! Watch if you dare, really you must watch this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSB4O_p6pxw
Keep in mind that before this video she already flipped one, then two, then three and then four big old Jethro Bodine cereal bowls onto that little saucer on the top of her head. I got the idea she'd done it before..................
Another picture of Jackson at a presidential assassination site, I'm starting to see a pattern

Saturday we spent most of the day on our first trip to the Holocaust Museum. I am a history geek, or maybe just a geek............. and learned much about this period of German history.
This in front of the National Archives

Later we went to our mandatory Air and Space Museum visit (the planetarium what the kids call sucks) and then to the Natural History Museum for the i-Max Mission Impossible movie. I don't spend very much time in movie theaters but after they showed a ten minute preview to the Batman movie I wanted to just stay and wait for it. Still pissed off that I didn't get to see Senna, especially in an I-Max. If anyone knows where I can see it at an I-Max I'll send you a silver dollar, but as usual I digress...............Oh well, great movie followed by a good dinner at the Old Ebbitt Grill. I've eaten there a few times and it is always a true DC experience. One of these days I'm going to try to eat in the dining room...............
And of course on our walk home, and no, Barry couldn't see us. Still a beautiful home at night, so much history within the lens of the camera

Home Sunday afternoon, quick pickup at Bill's BBQ and back to Morehead by dark-thirty. Jackson enjoyed his first train ride; great little getaway weekend. Trying to come up with a musical score for this film shown below but it keeps going back to That Lonesome Highway from Then Came Bronson, but that involves another transportation mode of which I have grown to become very fond..................OK, who remembers Then Came Bronson? Seriously, anybody? Maybe you can see an underlying theme here, if not then Google it

And this my friends is in here because I like this picture; did I mention a third is on the way?

Anonymous reader question: the fishing trip was on Hancock Creek off the Neuse near MCAS Cherry Point
In the office all week; clean up, fix up, start up week. What adventures lurk on the horizon?