Been working in DC for over 8 years, glad to live south of the city (used to live in Mt Vernon and shirlington). Am a GS14, hoping to get the GS15 job I just put in for with the Navy

6/17/2012 10:30:22 PM

ERRBODY SURVIVE THAT SHIT?

6/30/2012 12:00:43 AM

it was kinda nuts... but my power only flickered once

6/30/2012 10:22:29 AM

my Verizon signal doesn't exist this morning

6/30/2012 10:50:19 AM

Knocked out my power. Hopefully it'll come back on today.

I'm posting up from the mall, where I escaped to find food and a/c

6/30/2012 3:24:52 PM

didn't lose power at my place in ballston, but i tried to pick up a pair of pants that were being tailored at a place on 29 about 1.5 miles away, and all the stop lights and stores were closed on that road, including the one where i had to get my pants. now i have to go to san diego for 3 months on monday and get one of my roommates to ship them to me. damn storm

i drove down to NC yesterday afternoon and places as far south as stafford didn't have power. it was bad.

[Edited on July 1, 2012 at 10:16 AM. Reason : .]

7/1/2012 10:14:44 AM

must be some nice pants

7/1/2012 12:38:31 PM

well now i'm down a pair of pants for work and would like to wear them since i just had them tailored, so

7/1/2012 1:57:25 PM

first world problems

7/5/2012 8:39:40 PM

Quote :

"NC STATE VS TENNESSEE - FRIDAY, AUGUST 31If you will not be traveling to Atlanta to watch NC State take on Tennessee - Plan to join area alumni to watch the game and cheer on the Wolfpack. We have reserved the back room -10 foot screen and several other TVs in the room and guaranteed sound for the game! Location: Buffalo BilliardsAddress: 1330 19th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 (located directly across the street from Dupont Circle (south exit) metro stop on the red line.) Date: Friday, August 31, 2012 Time: Game time is 7:30 PM (but several of us plan to be there early) Join the area alumni as we watch the Wolfpack win their first game of the season."

anyone going?

8/27/2012 12:14:16 PM

Buffalo Billards...

8/27/2012 12:18:31 PM

i will take that as a no for agent 0....anyone else going?

8/27/2012 2:28:25 PM

i would go if i wasn't in san diego for the next month. buffalo billiards is fine when we get that room reserved for nc state games. it's isolated and has its own bar. plus, since there's so many other alumni groups in DC that have bars staked out, we kind of have to take what we can get. and more people make it to the game watches at buffalo billiards because it's much easier to get to than the saturday game watches at union jack's in ballston.

8/27/2012 5:17:55 PM

Any of you old people going to the football game next week?

[Edited on October 11, 2012 at 11:41 AM. Reason : btw if anyone was wondering, i moved to annapolis for now....thanks for all the advice ]

10/11/2012 11:40:32 AM

annapolis? Might as well be living in Russia.

10/11/2012 5:13:14 PM

my team moved to the annapolis office and i guess it is better than 'middle of freakin nowhere bowie'

10/15/2012 10:20:35 AM

it is.

10/15/2012 10:25:29 AM

^^ aww, I'm just kidding man. Glad you're in the general area. We will have to get up sometime.

10/15/2012 6:49:04 PM

I saw EMCE tagged all over a railroad in Baltimore this weekend. You have anything to do with that?

10/15/2012 10:50:30 PM

not sure if any of you are beer geeks, but cantillon zwanze day is december 1 and churchkey at logan circle will be one of 16 bars in the US getting a keg and will probably have some other cool beers that are difficult to come by. i don't know if they do it this way every year, but last year they did a simultaneous worldwide tapping.

10/16/2012 2:24:36 PM

^^ nah, not me. My tagging days are behind me

10/16/2012 7:53:05 PM

Hope everyone is nice and dry tonight with electricity.

10/30/2012 1:56:54 AM

mine only flickered a little yesterday afternoon, glad it never went out

10/30/2012 11:05:06 AM

I never lost power. Nice and dry here. I've been working from home for the past two days

10/30/2012 11:28:10 AM

Old Town is flooding tonight with high tide apparently

10/30/2012 11:24:20 PM

No power loss, no flooding for me in Annapolis and my apartment complex is by the water

10/31/2012 12:00:37 PM

i think georgetown was flooding earlier today

10/31/2012 3:24:11 PM

i was thinking of going to Georgetown for halloween bar crawl tonight...oh well

10/31/2012 3:41:07 PM

i don't know how bad it was. be careful though. either last year or the year before there were a lot of shootings on halloween, and i think 2 of them were around M street/georgetown. i don't know that every halloween is like that, but events like this tend to attract opportunistic scum.

10/31/2012 4:04:01 PM

thanks for the heads up, i will hangout with old people in annapolis

10/31/2012 4:22:02 PM

Haaaa, Fairfax County government was closed for two days so no work for me. It was really only rainy and windy on Monday evening. No flooding, no power loss. The derecho was worse.

10/31/2012 10:47:58 PM

Picked up three refugees from Lower Manhattan.

11/1/2012 5:31:58 PM

snow Wedesday?

[Edited on November 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM. Reason : w]

11/5/2012 7:27:14 PM

im in falls church as of monday last week. was in a shitty part of arlington a few weeks before

11/6/2012 1:32:30 AM

EMCE, metro is hiring if you need another job.

11/7/2012 7:51:20 PM

going to accept a job in vienna. my wife works in Fort Meade. I want to get rid of my car and metro it to work (office has a shuttle from vienna metro station).

where are some good places to live? we've been looking silver spring and crystal city. anyone have good places around there?

we need 2 bedrooms

11/8/2012 4:52:00 PM

commuting from silver spring to vienna via metro will suck ass and won't be cheap. i commuted from vienna to crystal city for a month when i first lived here. it's about 45 minutes on the metro alone, which isn't too bad, but you might want to look for a place somewhere in arlington or in falls church on the orange line. if night life is important to you then i'd recommend arlington just so you're more convenient to bars (though there aren't many good ones in arlington) and are closer to DC if you want to go out there. i've lived in ballston for the last 2 years. i really like the area, but i'm probably going to be moving to DC within the next year.

11/8/2012 7:22:31 PM

Quote :

"Our NCSU Alumni Association representatives are joining us in DC tomorrow for our football game watch vs. Clemson. Together we will cheer on the Pack AND celebrate the 125 birthday of our university. Be sure to come out, as this will be a game watch party unlike the others! 3:30pm, Buffalo Billards in Dupont. See you there!"

anyone going?

11/16/2012 3:54:52 PM

crystal city is fucking garbage. if you want good spots, check out court house, rosslyn, and bolston - all on metro and in VA (better taxes)

11/16/2012 11:55:35 PM

^, ^^^i agree. Anywhere along Rosslyn-Ballston corridor will be much more fun than Crystal City. If you don't go out as much and need more space, you can be between Ballston and Courhouse. If you will be working in Vienna, might as well be on the same metro line. Your wife's drive to Ft. Meade is gonna suck either way. Might want to check how far is your office/jobsite from the Vienna metro station. Most offices are not exactly walking distance, and you'd have to catch the bus. At that point, assuming you are keeping your car, it is almost easier to drive from Arlington to Vienna, since you are sort of going against the traffic (traffic will still suck though)

From Silver Spring her commute will be much better, but yours will become much worse. Silver spring has come a long way in the last decade or so, but it is still not as lively as north Arlington or some of the DC proper neighborhoods.

11/17/2012 1:20:04 AM

Difficult situation for the two of you. You could look into areas like Rockville, but that commute is going to be utter hell for you. Bethesda may be another good alternative. Again, a crappy commute for both, but it won't be nearly as bad as others. Neighborhood isn't bad either.

11/18/2012 2:08:19 AM

What you know about dat Mumbo sauce?

11/25/2012 7:03:42 PM

After spending a long weekend there a couple of months ago, I'm now looking for jarbs in the DC area.

11/27/2012 12:53:05 AM

the murder rate is on pace to be under triple digits for the first time since 1953

11/28/2012 8:06:21 AM

we ended up getting a place a few minutes walk from the silver spring metro. we wanted to go further into the city, but the need to make sure she had a decent commute to ft. meade kept us out of the downtown area. hopefully she catches on with SAIC or a different "government agency" that would allow us to upgrade next year. we'll move in Feb. gonna miss living on the bay, but being a short metro ride from downtown will be great

[Edited on December 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2012 3:30:50 PM

extra day off every 4 years

12/16/2012 2:45:14 PM

its on MLK day this year though, so not really.

12/17/2012 2:10:09 PM

A friend of mine just opened up her law practice so if anyone in the DC, NOVA area needs help with a ticket, wills, estate planning or some type of criminal charges let me know and I'll pass along her info.

1/10/2013 7:08:12 AM

ready for the winter storm tomorrow?

1/16/2013 4:06:53 PM

My husband and I are moving to Arlington. My husband is moving tomorrow, I will be moving (hopefully) in a few weeks.

1/16/2013 4:54:26 PM