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@czapary DC government does not want smart capable people. Only people who will play the game

DC has no shortage of smart, capable people, it’s always impressed me. City government should really tap into them more. Makes me think that we need a DC Ideas Festival where candidates sit down and listen to residents pitch solutions to real problems. Should we plan it?

@MrLGroves What went wrong lol

Passive income #CRE

@MrLGroves Right there where the pipe is with the flange. Tie in on the other side too. All went well.

@_dustyj Where is the main?

Water main tie in today. Supposed to have a thrust collar on the existing line but screw it lol

@chacaranda It's someones ROW and they should maintain it. Same thing happened when it snowed. Sidewalk along power companies utility easements never got shoveled even if it was between a school and shopping center.

This is a non-space. No one feels any sense of ownership over it. Not the businesses around it, not the city, certainly not the people who only drive past it. No one will ever walk along it, and therefore no one will ever care about it. Our country is filled with non-spaces.

@Bsobiecki Rockville

@_dustyj Where this?

A lot of dirt to move this month..

So cute when the office guys comes to look at something in the field and it's muddy

@btimoreupdates I'm so over this. Snow panic last month, acting like it's going to be the Twister movie this week.

People are really gonna lose trust in us a lot after today.

Even the weather has been turned into click bait hysteria. Like they really had us thinking it was about to be the Twister movie in Maryland.

@StefanGeorgi This doesn't fit the doomer narrative lol

I always see people on here saying how the idyllic childhood of their generation doesn’t exist anymore. That kids don’t play outside, or go on adventures with friends, etc. My “hot take” is that they’re wrong. This childhood still exists in tons of places: in neighborhoods and communities all over the U.S. It just doesn’t exist where the ones complaining live. That could be a city-wide problem, or it could be a neighborhood specific issue. But it’s specific to them. So if you care about your kids, you really want them to have that idyllic childhood, and you have the means, then you should probably work hard to move. That’s what we did. It took us multiple moves to find the right place for us, but now that we have we’re so happy. And I’ll give you a breakdown of this past weekend, which was awesome and fulfilling, but not at all “unique.” Instead, it was a pretty typical weekend for us: Friday after school: 8 year old gets home. Runs to the cul-de-sac that’s 5 houses down to see if her friend is available. Her friend is. They play outside for an hour or two. Then her friend’s parents take both of them to a local gymnastics studio for an open gym. They’re out until about 9 pm having a blast and get home. Saturday: 8 year old wakes up and hangs out until softball practice (which I’m an assistant coach for). Practice is great. Run into several dads I know through softball whose kids aren’t on the team this year. We chat for a bit and talk about getting our girls together soon. After softball we go home. 8 year old decides she wants to set up a stand outside to sell bracelets and necklaces she’s been making. So she posts up a table + folding chair and makes a little sign: bracelets $5, necklaces $10. At first it’s slow, but over time, people walking their dogs or just other neighbors coming by stop by. More importantly, her friend from down the street sees her and joins her. They post up together in two folding chairs, chatting and occasionally selling to customers. My 8 year old makes $39 and is pumped. In the evening, my wife and I take my 8 year old, her friend, and our 11 month old to the clubhouse pool. They swim for about an hour and we all hang out. When we get home, my 8 year old’s friend runs home to change then comes back to our house to join us for dinner. While we’re eating dinner, we all play some board games. Then eventually it’s time for her to go home and bedtime. Sunday: 8 year old has a playdate with a friend from softball. Her friend comes here and we go to the pool at the club again (everyone, including my wife and 11 month old. I take our 11 month old in the pool with me for an hour or so, and she’s in heaven. My 8 y/o and her friend swim for an hour or two as well, and then run around the pool area trying to find and catch frogs/lizards. They actually do catch a small frog and are fascinated by it. After the pool, when we get back to the house, the girls want to keep trying to catch lizards. So they run around outside for the next hour or two looking for lizards. It’s actually crazy to me how much time they spend doing this, but they are outside and having fun, so God bless them. Eventually they come inside, and they play all these games with their imagination. Finally, it’s time for my 8 year old’s friend to go home, so her dad comes and picks her up. They asked about doing a sleepover and the dad says “not tonight” because his wife won’t be there (she is a pilot) but that tomorrow works. Girls are pumped. Monday: I’m writing this at 7 am. My 8 year old is on spring break as are all her friends in the neighborhood and at softball. So she’s doing a nature camp this week (which another softball friend’s dad originally told me about). Her softball friend is too, as well as another neighborhood friend. So this morning my wife and 8 y/o are picking up the neighborhood friend, then picking up the softball friend, and driving them to the nature camp. Then one of the other parents is driving all the girls back this afternoon…at which point we’ll hang with my 8 y/o for a bit before taking her back to that friend from yesterday’s house for a sleepover. — I know this is a long and maybe kind of random post. For some of you, probably ZERO percent of this seems unique or notable. But then others will act like I’m describing the most alien thing ever. But again, my whole point is that where you live makes a HUGE difference. We’ve moved too many times in my 8 y/o’s life, but the whole time and whole reason why was to find a place with a community like this. And I’ve got to tell you that once you find it, it makes a MASSIVE difference in your quality of life. P.S. I know people are going to ask where we live. You can snoop around a bit and find it. I don’t really want to put it explicitly here, but let’s just say South Florida, and not Miami :)

@chrispapst This area is big on grifting the government. Options include helping kids, the poor, the environment and my favorite "supporting the war fighter". All viable careers.

HOW is this possible? Comparing Miami-Dade & Baltimore Schools. What is Maryland doing wrong? 4th grade math/reading scores (NAEP) Miami 246/218 Baltimore 209/186 8th grade math/reading Miami 268/255 Baltimore 245/240 Cost per student (Census) Miami $13,138 Baltimore $22,977

@aussieflya If no sister, interchangeable with cousins husband.

There’s only one financial metric for a happy life: Making more money than your wife’s sister’s husband. Nothing else matters.

@TheNolanGore Guy did this to me and I paid lol

A customer won't pay - won't respond. Should I drive to knock on the door? I run a residential landscaping company. It's $357. Let it go?

If I was an acquisitions guy I would be looking for these sites near every urban core. My company is currently redeveloping the first Topgolf location in VA. Aside from cemeteries or parks, I don't see much green on the map.

@_britmonkey What she does now is less humiliating

@secretsandlaws Everyone thinks they're a fuckin undercover cop backing in their Ford

I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but we need to talk about back-in parking. It's become a national crisis.

@NewsLambert United States of asia

Housing affordability remains so strained that giant homebuilder Lennar continues testing how willing buyers are to go smaller Price: $174,990 3 beds 2.5 baths Sq ft: 1,360 Houston metro (Huffman, TX)

@MarinasHammer Sounds GTA vice City

Los Angeles is so bad that you will get stabbed charging your car at the city library by a homeless man, and when an ambulance comes to save you, ANOTHER homeless man steals the ambulance while they’re tending to you at the scene leaving you no way to get to the hospital, and you die. Sounds like South Africa…