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Why some people should be taken out behind the barn and shot:

Somebody decided while I was in the Borders in Warrenton that they should dump what smells like barbeque sauce all over the driver's side of my car. Since there was absolutely nobody parked in the lot anywhere near me and the placement for maximum PITA when trying to clean it off, I'm tending to lean towards "it was intentional".

Lovely.

weekend in review, the quick summary version

Visit from friend: great fun. Very glad it worked out.

Weather: glorious. In the 70s and sunny most of the weekend.

Udvar-Hazy annex of the Air and Space Museum: nifty. They've got a shuttle ("Enterprise") and an SR-71 Blackbird, among many other things.

Pogues show on Friday night: kickass. I cannot remember the last time I had such a good time at a show. Shane was even sober enough to stay upright and mostly comprehensible. I have fuzzy cameraphone photos to email myself eventually. Gin: the wonder alcohol -- after several reasonably stiff gin and tonics at the show (I did not drive home, don't worry), I was pleased to wake up without a hangover and was miraculously able to see perfectly clearly when I woke up! Oh wait, that's because I fell asleep with my contacts in. Oops. You can tell I don't wear them very often.

Zoo on Saturday: nice, but should've gone earlier because winter hours have the buildings all closing up around 4:30 and the zoo closing at 6. Saw several adorable capybaras though.

Lounging around and not doing much most of Sunday: a fine plan.

Beth Orton show last night: fabulous. Even with it being the first night of the tour, with a dying guitar and a lung infection, she was great. I forgot how adorable she is with her banter and fondness for telling bad jokes on stage.

Livejournal since sometime Friday morning: ha! Likely not catching up since even on my smaller filters it's already at skip="several hundred", although I'll try. If there's something you want me to see, please send me a link.