I was in a bar at the Marriott Renaissance Capital View Hotel in Arlington VA last Saturday night. That’s a pricey damned place, let me tell you, and I’m acquainted with Waikiki hotels. If you park for three hours or more in their lot, cough up $29. If I had a smart phone I’d have called Uber to go the 1.6 miles between my motel and this place.

That’s just an annoyance, though. The dinner was good, the people were fun to see for the first time in nearly fifty years, and it wasn’t snowing. Unfortunately the trees weren’t turning yet. Oh well.