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a cautionary tale in three haikus:
last week's stories sit
mocking attempts to find them
forever hidden
frustration mounting
my "older posts" suggestion
greeted with laughter
"you're such a user!
navigation? ha! besides
this is not a blog."
The new Indiana Jones movie is far better than The Temple of Doom. Digest.
I think a great many Democrats were idiotic about Obama's support in states like PA. The point many of us kept making was simple: Obama puts Virginia, Colorado and many other states into play that simply weren't there before. HRC did not, choosing to play defense.
Now we can see the real numbers.
Obama beats McCain by 8 points in PA, by default. That's huge.
i'll admit that i'm particular about the way things look. maybe that's why i'm surprised by the ridiculous condo developer decisions i've seen during our housing search ... but i kind of don't think so ...
some of my favorites so far:
chopping up modern-looking loft-style condos into a rat warren of tiny rooms ... and then adding colonial finishings
believing that you're going to get $1.2M for a third-floor walkup with mediocre appliances, a bunch of itsy-bitsy rooms, and no view
building the unit such that there's a giant streetlight right outside the floor-to-ceiling living room window ... and bizarrely featuring a closeup of a small, unremarkable microwave in the listing photos
designing a living room that it would be impossible to situate regular-sized furniture in ... and then putting the kitchen under the stairs
doing a poor job of covering for recent water damage in several units
see above on the water damage ... and also creating a "private" roof terrace surrounded on three sides by a wooden fence, with the open side directly facing - and right next to - the public roof deck - i know i love spending $900k to feel like a zoo animal!
claiming that a platform raised up three feet from the floor of the main condo is a "loft"
advertising "soaring 9-foot ceilings" (this one's so common, I can't really call any specific location out for it)
In a financial nutshell:
MRIS has released its data for sales of existing home sales in April 2008. Fewer units sold, lower dollar volume, condo prices down, single family home prices up. The severity of the downturn in the District is striking. The condo market appears to be in free fall.
Craziness.
so without yet cracking open the bottle i procured online, i finally tasted hou hou shu!
this time at ps7 - which on a side note, is home of edward's beloved lavender gimlet and a few other tasty drinks. at $20 for a 175 mL, the price was double what i paid online, but possibly worth it, if just for the bizarre candle-holder-like glasses that it was served in.
but that's not important. what is important is that it was everything that i was hoping it would be ... and then some. i think it's safe to say it's my new favorite drink.
so what's it like?
insanely awesome - not like anything else.
refreshing and light - a little bit fizzy; a little bit milky; sweet, but not overly so. the taste is slightly reminiscent of horchata, which i also love, but there's also a little bit of fruit (melon? strawberry?) in there.
in the words of our dinner companion, "i could drink this for breakfast".
finally, lest anyone accuse me of rampant alcoholism, i will point out that hou hou shu is a mere 6% alcohol by volume.
from the annals of "i'm-trying-to-convince-myself-this-is-a-good-thing", edward and i stopped by de vinos on 18th last night to find not one but two varieties of hou hou shu (pink bottle is supposed to be slightly sweeter than blue) newly stocked!