McDonald’s Sighting!
I reached the 11 month mark over the weekend. I’ll take this opportunity to give myself the ol’ JimmyT pat on the back. I’ll be home for about 11 days, then I only have to suffer another two weeks to reach the 1 year mark. Woohoo! Quite the milestone for me. Well, having said that, I was sitting around on my ass over the weekend, flipping through a little booklet on stores and eateries in my neighborhood. I came across the listing for McDonald’s and this really surprised me because I hadn’t seen it since I moved here. Many moons later, I finally found it, and I feel kinda dumb cause it is only three blocks from the Metro station and totally in sight at night. I just wasn’t looking in the right direction. In my defense, it’s totally out of my way to go to McDonald’s, so it’s really not a big find since I will probably never go. I guess it was just a surprise cause I always thought it was weird that such a big town didn’t have one nearby.
This past weekend, we had our company Holiday party. It was at another museum and the venue wasn’t as swanky and big as last years, but I thought it was a lot better overall. With a smaller place, the event seemed a little more intimate and it was way easier to find people. Here’s a picture of me and two of my office mates,
Aaron and Kwaun.
I thought that the food was actually better, mainly because it was hot. Last year, the food was cold and craptacular. I’d say that there was a little bit more variety last year, but given the choice between shitty food and hot food, I’d take tasty food over cold food any day. They had pasta, beefy boneless tender short ribs, mashed potatoes, sushi, a bunch of little appies, and a couple desserts. They didn’t spend a lot of time on the display of the food either; it was very no frills. It was fun though. I stayed for the whole event and went out to the after-party at the 18th Street Lounge.
So I was heading home from the party and I was riding the Metro with Mike Siegel, and we spotted a piece of poo on the first seat of the train. Fricking disgusting! It wasn’t a piece of chocolate and it wasn’t a truffle. I didn’t taste it or get up close-and-personal with it, but I’m pretty confident with my visual evaluation. Mike would agree with me. I’m just glad he spotted it before I sat down on it, otherwise I’d have a real poo on clothes story to tell **shudder**.
Yesterday, a few of us decided that to try out the Maryland crabs. I hadn’t tried the famous crabs here and it was long overdue. We went out to this place called Steamers, just 2 blocks away from my apartment. At first glance of the restaurant menu, it looks like it might be a decent, semi-classy place, but in reality, it’s just a bar that happens to sell a lot of seafood items. It wasn’t anything I had expected. For one thing, it was just the foundation and some walls. It was kinda like sitting on a giant covered patio. The floors were basically concrete and the roof wasn’t even a roof. They had a giant tent-like canopy for a roof. It started to rain and hail, and you could really hear it hitting the plastic roof. I’m surprised it didn’t fly off with the gusty wind outside. Anyway, we were sitting at our plastic patio furniture and we 
ordered a dozen large crabs. This is what a dozen crabs looks like. After I finished my first one, I wasn’t sure if I really liked it. It was a lot of work to get a few morsels of crab meat and it was covered in Old Bay Seasoning which I didn’t care for. I ended up shaking off the seasoning on the other ones. By the end of it though, I thought it was quite enjoyable and a pretty decent way to burn an afternoon.
Last weekend, we went out to the Outlets and I saw some guy wearing a Vancouver Giants jersey. I was pretty surprised cause I didn’t think I’d see anybody wearing one of those out here. I figure he probably wasn’t really a fan of the team, but more likely to be just a fan of the jersey’s logo and colours. I felt like asking him, but I didn’t think it was appropriate. Alright, I’m gonna shower and get ready for bed. I’m coming down with something and I wanna be better by the time I am home this weekend. Cya’ll soon!
