The 80’s, missed them raising kids. I can sing Sesame Street songs, play Zelda, but I don’t have adult references to that decade, so here’s the 80’s, my experience with elementary school.
2/20 - Manic Monday
“Have to catch an early train
Got to be to work by nine
And if I had an aeroplane
I still couldn't make it on time
'Cause it takes me so long
Just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train
But the boss is already there”
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Originally Posted by LeftyLaura
2/20-Manic Monday & the 80’s
The 80’s, missed them raising kids. I can sing Sesame Street songs, play Zelda, but I don’t have adult references to that decade, so here’s the 80’s, my experience with elementary school.
Trust me, I can relate! I started my career as a lawyer with a big firm in 1980 and had one kid in 1982 and one in 1983. I have no idea what happened during the 1980s!
Dark Star Park in Rosslyn VA. Each year on Aug 1 (my birthday!) at 9:32am actual shadows caused by the poles and spheres align with permanent forms in the shape of the shadows on the ground beneath them. The date marks the date that William Henry Ross purchased the land that later became Rosslyn.
2/21/23 - Timeless Tuesday
There were lots of signs that it wasn’t my time (yet) at the intersection of Constitution Ave & 15th St NW during my commute today.
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Time it passes, it changes us, it comes back around.
Crystal City is named for Crystal House which was built in 1963. By Charles E Smith. The benefactor of Charles E Smith Jewish Day School, in Maryland. We briefly considered sending POTM to school there in 1996, when I worked in Maryland. She is now 30.
When I visited my brother who lived in DC in the late 70s, the terminus of the metro was in Crystal City. I wanted to go visit the end of the line, imagining buildings shimmering with crystals, like Emerald City. My brother laughed. Did not manage to get there.
In 1997 or so I went to CC for a business meeting. Eh.
Now CC is for me the home of coffee clubs and bike to work week. Many memories.
Went to the garage races once. Then they shut down. Now I hear they will be revived?
I now live in a building in Alexandria managed by JBGSmith, which still owns most of Crystal City.
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