FCC to Citizens “No Comment”

So the FCC want’s to change the intercarrier compensation levels without public comment on Election Day (Nov 4).  It looks like they are trying to slide a regulation change in while the hub-bub is about the presidential race.  The proposed change would, so far as I understand it, burden the little guys so much many … Read more

Bailout not really bailing

I don’t mean to be the typical indignant blogger, but I thought I’d express my frustration with our government oversight given that according to this article with the new york times, we just gave these banks a 700 billion dollar blank check. This blank check business enrages me, as there are only so many straws … Read more

Keeping perspective on the economy

I just read both the NY Times and Washington Post reporting on the weekend’s big Wall Street story, and–espeically after reading this story in the Times about The Heart of the Problem— I find myself remembering This American Life episode on the “Giant Pool of Money” which is floating around the internet and is by … Read more

What a day… what a life!

It’s 8:30pm Eastern Standard Time and I’m writing a quick post before I walk out the door for home.  It’s been an amazing time lately and I haven’t said much about what’s going on in my life. Two big deals today were that I submitted a website I created to the popular blog BoingBoing.net as … Read more

Mini housing update

4 truck loads of stuff later and lots of physical soreness and 1019 furniture mostly moved to our new house 3 blocks away.  (It’s a small moving truck and some tight alleys.) That’s what I call a long weekend.  Now we scrub, patch, paint, and de-bedbug the boxes, kitchen things, and sundries before it heads … Read more

Trials and tribulations of a house

Man-o-man, housing drama is not fun! For those of you who don’t remember I live in a row house nicknamed 1019 with 8 other people inside the district, within walking distance of the Columbia Height Metro. I’ve now lived in the same house for the nearly 2 years I’ve been in DC, which I think … Read more

Visiting Polyface farms

I got out of DC yesterday and spent several wonderful hours wandering around polyface farms in the Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia. 3 hours of a drive from DC, it was well worth the trip as we managed to shuttle past the persistent rainstorm settled atop DC for the beautiful weather at Polyface Farms. For … Read more

In between the doom and gloom springs hope

My life right now is a tunnel vision of DC, governed mostly by living in a district where national policies are decided, but feel handed out. As I was laying in bed moments ago, I was prompted to arise by a thread of thoughts which reminds me how much we as a represented people need … Read more