Category: Washington, D.C.

Upgrade

I’ve been on a bit of a Spring Break hiatus (thanks for SSW for holding down the fort). I’ve upgraded to WordPress version 2.5 on the back end, which is actually quite nice. Will make some changes to the template. In the interim, I’ve been doing the following:

Seen Rent – the musical (have seen the movie, have the cast album, and played out the song book, but finally got around to seeing it in real life). Its run has been extended to September.

Was in Washington, D.C. for a couple of days for a conference, coincidentally when the Spitzer story broke.

Seen Patrick Stuart in BAM’s rendition of Macbeth. Awesome, and has been carried over to Broadway.

Overdid Brooklyn Restaurant Week, visiting

  • Blue Ribbon Sushi (awesome as usual – sushi/sashimi combo the best value)
  • Queen (excellent Italian)
  • Park Slope Chip Shop (2 for 1 was awesome, cod and chips cooked to perfection)
  • Dhaka Indian on Atlantic Avenue (2 for 1 also a value meal)
  • Taze (great food, but cheaper to order off of the regular menu)
  • Mediterra (had brunch, hard to figure out what was Turkish about the cuisine).

Hope for an awesome week ahead…

Conference

I’m on day 3 of my DC trip. Quick recap:

Uneventful flight, although coworker did not make the flight thanks to the MTA not having A train service on the weekend. He ended up being on standby for about 6 hours. My hotel reservation was screwed up also – they put down February instead of March, and they were totally sold out of rooms. I ended up staying at the brand new Westin in Arlington for about 3x the cost. Arlington feels like Hoboken, and it is about half an hour out of the city, but thankfully near the Metro.

Sitting in on a conference session on CMS’s – user created websites.  Will make a separate food entry later on today.

Chinatown facade

Made a quick run to DC’s Chinatown during a break Tuesday. The traditional gate is very impressive – it’s at least 5 stories tall. However, there was a definite dearth of Chinese people around. There were about four blocks of quasi-Chinatown, but apparently someone told these people that everyone has to have Chinese on their signs whether they are actually Chinese or not. So the Irish pubs, the CVS, and the brick oven pizza all have Chinese signage. It’s nice but it’s kind of just trying too hard.