During that time I spent a lot time in that coffee shop. I made friends with many of the baristas. I made friends with the owners. And I spent a lot of money. A friend of the blog calculated that I was on pace to spend over a thousand dollars at that coffee shop by the end of the year, and I was fine with that, because it was my favorite local business. If that shop hadn’t been friendly to me bringing my laptop into the store, I still would have gone their occasionally but would have stuck to making most of my coffee at home.

As you can see from this photo, the light had a glass “bulb” that hung below the hood. It lit up fully, so it gave the effect of a hanging bare light bulb in an otherwise unlit room.

Despite the free-for-all conservatism of this year’s General Assembly, the legislature only gets about a “C-plus” grade. The big reason? Lack of progress on improving roads.

So I was not surprised to see today’s Express cover story on the issue, which also appeared in the full Post. But I did laugh when I got to the end of the story. It’s a perfectly good piece, but it closes with some nay-saying from American Studies professor Michael Marsden, of Saint Norbet College. He says:

This is a simple Google Maps utility that allows you to zoom down into any property in the District and quickly find out useful information.