Today I looked out my window down onto 16th St NW to see a parade of thousands of inauguration protestors parading down the center of the road. I grabbed something to eat and took a shower in time to catch up with the parade a few blocks down the street.
Good thing my class was canceled and I decided to go somewhere with a view. Also it was lucky I had my recently-purchased star filter attached.
Today I had the idea to purchase a used starburst filter. I got it at Pro Photo on "Eye" Street for the great price of $15. This photo reminds me of my birthday last year (early morning Jan 16) when I drank too many rum and Cokes and couldn't remember.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day I left my apartment and walked down to Lafayette Park aka "The Peoples' Park." The wind blew all the clouds away. The view of the White House was blocked by the Inauguration Booth and the Media Scaffold. The park grounds are covered with several different types of security fences.
Veteran of Non-Violent Protest
This is Concepcion or "Connie" feeding the animals that surround her throughout the day at Lafayette Park. She is originally from Northern Spain. She has been protesting the United States' (and the World's) use of Nuclear Weapons since the Reagan Administration. She has been here, outside the White House nearly every night since August 1981. The four-story media stand for the Presidential Inauguration can be seen behind her.
Today I thought I could get through a large part of Ulysses. Reading all day I only covered 70 pages and had to use Sparks Notes to understand what I was reading.
Today I turned on my television and all four of my channels were each in a different language. Then I discovered that my cable had been turned on. This must be the work of the devil. To retaliate against the evil of my television I'm going to read as much of James Joyce's Ulysses as possible. This book was banned in the United States before 1934, which had nothing to do with my initial desire to read it.
This is the International Monetary Fund's new building at 1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW. While I was searching the internet for information on this building I found a page of interesting information containing the building's value and tax assessment.
Yesterday the government decided to foot the bill to pay the DC Metropolitan Police Department out of Homeland Security funds instead of making the tax payer of the District of Columbia pay the bill. Here is a picture of the Old Executive Office Building or Eisenhower Office Building decorated for the inaugural ceremony. This is a great building but it wouldn't be very comfortable in downtown Washington in the middle of the summer. If you could zoom out you would see that every other window has an air conditioning unit.
I turned on the television earlier today and to my surprise it was another live feed from President Bush. He is making a lot of appearances his second term. He was at a Falls Church, Va., school speaking at a ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of the Department of Education's "No Child Left Behind" act. Of course different reports say very different things. It would seem that the most powerful country in the World could produce better schools to create more well-educated students. What would it mean if Americans concerned with education no longer had to move to a better school district?
It may be obvious that this photo was not taken through a microscope, it is a bird nest. When I took a closer look at the nest I noticed the birds had woven a lot of plastic into their home. I wouldn't like to live in a plastic bag (like a vagrant), but I would like to take pictures through a microscope.
I remember doing some funny things when I was younger. In high school I would give my friends a ride home. At times, I would circle their house again and again singing "Take the long way home!" Until they threatened to jump from my vehicle at the next pass. A couple times I let people jump but then realized it was dangerous. Tonight instead of taking the Metro train home from Capitol Hill, I walked. It took me 90 minutes.
