After posting (blogging) since 2007 as dcspinster, over 1400 posts, and losing my ability to import pictures into the blog earlier this year, google finally caused me to lose my old blog and create a new one. Who knows why or how, that's just the way it is, so here it is, back at square one 14 years later. (I voted, in the very first hour I was able to back in September at City Hall.)
So anyway, I was starting to list things in summation of the Year That Wasn't. I remember two standout events, aside from the one trip I took out of town in September to go visit a friend 450 miles away for a few days who broke his leg. (Jimmy was chipper in his North Carolina backcountry bachelor's pad, even with a broken leg.)
I remember going to the wedding of the daughter of a friend of mine (my mentor at work when I became a lawyer in 1990) at a hotel on the new DC waterfront at which no expense was spared, and for a few hours after the ceremony we all danced the night away as if there was no pandemic coming at warp speed out of China to hit us all a staggering blow right between the eyes. I also remember stepping out my back door on July 4th and looking up in response to a loud rumbling noise that was rattling the house and there flying majestically 500 feet overhead, heading towards Dulles enroute from a National Mall flyover, was an armada of perfectly restored World War II airplanes, a sky-filling B-29 Boeing Superfortress escorted by four P-51 Mustang fighters, one on each corner of an imaginary square drawn around the huge four-engine bomber, a sky-filling river of liquid silver flowing west at 400 miles an hour. (No fireworks in Falls Church this July 4th.)
Other than that, this year has sucked. But at least the dangerous faux president was voted out last month by a landslide of over 7 million votes and he will be leaving the White House next month, hopefully before he does something reckless or vengeful that could get us all killed. (Goodbye, Chump Trump.)
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