Cops have always made OT. But instead of deploying them to places where there is actual violent crime, they’re deployed to the highest bidder. How does this protect and serve? You get police protection, if you can afford it? Will MPD be able to deploy more cops to neighborhoods experiencing high levels of violence? Or will they be restricted by having a contract to rent them out to someone else? You gonna go tell a neighborhood that has had a dozen murders this year that they can have more cops, it’s just $2k a night.

Amazing. MPD constantly says they don’t have enough officers to cover areas, but when you’re willing to pay the OT, all of a sudden they got you covered. $100/hour to sit in your cop suv and play candy crush? Not too shabby. Also fun fact! The BID is responsible for all the OT from any activity these police are involved in. Make an arrest? Four more hours of OT to take the person in and do the paperwork. Goes to trial? Paying to meet the prosecutors and testify? On the BID.

Well now we know why they don’t talk to their neighbors.

Peak bloom on a 75 degree Sunday? That’s a couple times a century.

A week. Give or take a storm.

I think this does not exist.

Well interest rates for escrow accounts have been almost nothing for years. But yes. You must open an escrow account at a bank in DC. You must tell your tenants what bank you are using, and every six months what the interest rate for the previous period was. Just remember that the security deposit is the tenant’s money, not the landlord’s

For a small landlord, or for any individual tenants, it’s a small amount of money (my last security deposit in DC was $500 (I lived there for 13 years so it’s been a while) even over that time at .25% it’s not much. But imagine being bozzutto, and having $2000 from each of 5000 tenants. The temptation to use that $10m for an investment must be high.

Have you considered Watts Branch Creek? Seriously though, the last time I moved, I paid the movers a couple hundred bucks to get rid of a bunch of stuff. They said it was going to Ft. Totten, but I’m guessing it didn’t.

As a 30 year old he’d never heard of an otherwise healthy person just dying? Lucky guy.

Your landlord holds your security deposit in a separate bank account (and it has to be a DC bank account) after one year whatever interest your account accrues is yours when it is returned to you. It’s not a lot of money, but it helps keep landlords honest about

Previous administrations had brought waves of bright eyed young people in. Clinton did. Bush did. Obama really did. Trump just didn’t. And Biden brought a small wave, but not a change level one (probably a combination of COVID and Joe) trump just didn’t fill a couple thousand political appointed jobs.

One hopes. Construction is a dangerous job though.

Thank you for Page’s name. And I did forget McPeake.

It’s actually amazing that it’s so few people. You’d figure someone would have had a heart attack, or something.

Don’t forget the Anacostia Community Museum.

I know of four people who died in the Castle. James Henry (the first curator who lived there as well) his young son) who died before his father, Fielding Meek, paleontologist, who lived in the castle with his cat and a construction worker who fell to his death (I’m ashamed I don’t know his name off the top of my head, he’s just as important as Henry or Meek)

You’re thinking about Philz. Peet’s are the old Caribou Coffee, and there are only four, none in navy yard.

Sonny’s. They have a wine club tasting first Wednesday of every month. St. Vincent has a nice selection as well. I haven’t been through Le Mont Royale’s wine list yet, but since it’s Chas, it’s gotta be pet nat heavy.

I was at st A three days ago, if you go, get the biscuits. Any decent steakhouse will have a passable whisky collection. But if you want a 25 year old Laphroig aged in rum casks blessed by the arch priest of Triest, you gotta do jack rose.

If you want whisky, you want Jack Rose. One of the best whisky bars in the world. Bring your Amex, they have stuff you won’t find anywhere else and a staff that will help you find it. (Remember those four digit COVID payments? I spent all mine at Jack Rose on stuff I’ll never see again) (I was an ‘essential’ worker, so my income was actually higher during COVID, so whatever). As for steak, yeah, St Anselms.

That was really just through Tyson’s corner. Where an underground makes total sense, since the land is so valuable. They were never going underground any farther than that, iirc.

Wait, cars will stop in a travel lane forcing people into an unsafe merge? Why in all my years on a bike I have never seen such a thing happen!

There are several on the south eastern side of the Anacostia. The Naval research labs has a couple, the Secret Service has a couple. The ones on Hummers are mostly Avengers (basically two four packs of stinger missiles) the others are NASAMS (a Norwegian anti-aircraft missile system) for all the money the US spends on weapons, we don’t have a natively developed SAM capability, so we use the Norwegian system to defend our capital. If you look closely, you can sometimes see Avenger systems scattered around town. I know the Naval Observatory has them, there are at least two on rooftops near the White House.

Free pools! Also, you live here now. Be from here.

Just any 5k on the freedom plaza route, I’d think. Used to be every other weekend. Even the cherry blossom next year is that boring old route.

There are localized Comcast problems in Park View. They have some sort of routing issue that they promise, pinky swear, they are working on, now that I have brought it to their attention (total of 12 hours with multiple techs the other week troubleshooting)