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bunrabRecent reading: Roman Dusk by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. I had started this months ago, and then it got buried under piles of stuff; I finally found and finished it. It's another in the St. Germaine series, filling in the spaces - takes place in Rome, 3rd century CE, after Marcus Aurelius and into the really crappy emperors, so it's a few centuries after Blood Games. In this volume, for most of the book Roger is off elsewhere looking after St. Germaine's business interests. The Christians are still newish at being Christians, but already Yarbro, and St. Germaine, don't like them (although she briefly mentions the Peterine Christians, who lived quite differently from the Pauline ones, which became the Catholic church we've got; compare the Peterine ones to the odd Christian group in China in, which was it, Path of the Eclipse? I don't remember for sure.)
Concert: we went down to Fort Myer to hear the Army Blues do a concert celebrating Women in Jazz. Good concert. Fort Myer, FYI, is an Army base which is a self-contained entity, with its own ZIP code and all, entirely surrounded by the city of Arlington, VA. One can walk from Fort Myer to Arlington National Cemetary, or to the Pentagon for that matter. Getting out of there to return home involves a different route from getting to there, because of the peculiar one-way-ness and lack of matching east-west entries to several area highways. So, after we ate supper at a diner about a mile from the base, here's how we got back: follow Washington Blvd to I-395; when I-395 sort of veers off to the right, keep going straight, which means you're suddenly on I-295 South. Get off I-295S at the Pennsylvania Ave exit, which actually takes one onto a long exit ramp that goes over a bridge, and just as you're about to reach the actual Pennsylvania Ave, at the first traffic light, instead you turn left onto DC-295 North, which after a while turns into the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (no highway number, despite that it's still a limited-access 55-mph highway connecting important points), and then take the exit from BW Parkway that leads to I-495/I-95 North. Then when I-495 and I-95 split apart, follow I-95 back to Baltimore. Would those of my readers not from the US like a digression on how our highway systems are numbered? Like, what's the difference between a US Interstate Highway, and a US Route, and a State Highway, and how some roads can be all three at once, with a different number for each one? Or why there are several completely separate roads named I-495? Just ask, and I'll bore you to tears with the details.
Concert: we went down to Fort Myer to hear the Army Blues do a concert celebrating Women in Jazz. Good concert. Fort Myer, FYI, is an Army base which is a self-contained entity, with its own ZIP code and all, entirely surrounded by the city of Arlington, VA. One can walk from Fort Myer to Arlington National Cemetary, or to the Pentagon for that matter. Getting out of there to return home involves a different route from getting to there, because of the peculiar one-way-ness and lack of matching east-west entries to several area highways. So, after we ate supper at a diner about a mile from the base, here's how we got back: follow Washington Blvd to I-395; when I-395 sort of veers off to the right, keep going straight, which means you're suddenly on I-295 South. Get off I-295S at the Pennsylvania Ave exit, which actually takes one onto a long exit ramp that goes over a bridge, and just as you're about to reach the actual Pennsylvania Ave, at the first traffic light, instead you turn left onto DC-295 North, which after a while turns into the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (no highway number, despite that it's still a limited-access 55-mph highway connecting important points), and then take the exit from BW Parkway that leads to I-495/I-95 North. Then when I-495 and I-95 split apart, follow I-95 back to Baltimore. Would those of my readers not from the US like a digression on how our highway systems are numbered? Like, what's the difference between a US Interstate Highway, and a US Route, and a State Highway, and how some roads can be all three at once, with a different number for each one? Or why there are several completely separate roads named I-495? Just ask, and I'll bore you to tears with the details.
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Date: 2007-03-17 01:13 pm (UTC)DC has always been a driver's nightmare. It's just getting worse.
But Army Blues are the best, definitely worth a drive. (I want to hear the President's Own on the Capitol Steps this summer. We'll see.)