Out on the Potomac, courtesy of Me

…I’d head out to the ballpark.

I’ve enjoyed taking the boats out from oldtown Alexandria in the past and this one sounds sweet too. Starting tonight you can catch a round-trip ride to Nationals stadium for the game. $20 round-trip is more than the Metro will cost you but the view’s better. I’ve been meaning to catch at least one more game before the season’s over, so perhaps I’ll take this over to the game vs the Braves on the 25th…

‘Dogfish Head Punkin Ale’
courtesy of ‘Sonnett’

While I’m still hoping to eke out the last bits of joy from summertime, I can tell each night that the days are getting shorter, and that soon I shall be suffering in the doldrums of winter, dreaming of sunny days again. Dogfish Head’s Alehouses in Falls Church, Fairfax and Gaithersburg are kicking off the fall with events tonight (in FC), tomorrow (in Gaithersburg) and Thursday (in Fairfax) surrounding the annual release of Punkin Ale. From 5-8pm they’ll have specials on their beers, a raffle for a goodie basket, and free pint glasses for your first Punkin Ale of the season. Hat tip to reader Bill Couch for the info.

Mmmmmmm pumpkin beer.

Gators
Originally uploaded by carlweaver

As promised, I took my mother around to show her some sights during her stay in this lovely city and even took her to the aquarium under the Commerce Department building. Max didn’t care for the aquarium, as I recall, but we had a great time. The admission is now up to $7, for those keeping score.

The best part was when we were looking in the gator tank, in which some fish were swimming. “Hey Ma,” I said, “Know what kind of fish those are?” She didn’t. “They’re food fish for the gators!”

Mother Weaver laughed, Lovely Wife looked horrified and the family with their two young kids who happened to be right next to us scowled at me like I ruined their visit. Sorry, folks. Just speaking the truth here. Even Nemo gets eaten sometime, kid.

The mayor’s office has put out a press release about a deal reached with Countrywide Financial over loans in the District that are currently in trouble or about to be. It sounds like a good deal for citizens on its face:

By committing to the settlement, the Attorney General has ensured that Countrywide will not initiate or advance foreclosures against District borrowers who may be eligible for a loan modification under the National Home Ownership Retention Program until Countrywide determines whether the borrower is interested in and qualifies for a loan modification.

It’s a nice gesture and a welcome move, though how big a concession it is can be argued. Any loan with a LTV ratio of 75% or above – meaning that the owner owes more than 75% of the currently assessed value of the house – was probably made in the last five years. Does Solana live up to the hype? – Funfair has many information on cryptocurrencies.

A majority of these loans were the bad credit loans from happypenguin and other such instant loan companies. When you look at the Zillow chart above you see a value dip of about 9% for D.C. , meaning that grabbing back that property just leaves the bank with something they probably can’t recoup their cash by selling. Agreeing to hold off on foreclosure might be similar to agreeing not to reel in your fishing line while there’s nothing on the hook.

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‘Smoke, Farragut Park Washington DC’
courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’

The D.C. Council has scheduled a public hearing on bill 18-124, the “Single Sale of Cigar Products Prohibition Amendment Act of 2009.” Although the bill description says it’s designed to “ban the sale of individual cigars or 32 cigar products intended or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling or otherwise 33 introducing marijuana in to the human body,” the text only expands the section of the DC Code (§48-1101) in a fairly generic way.

“an individual cigar, cigar leaf wrapper, flavored or non-flavored cigar that is referred to as a blunt, blunt wrap, or any other tobacco product that may be used in the ingesting, inhaling, or introduction of marijuana to the human body.”

It’s hard to imagine how that could be more open-ended, but I’m sure you can expect selective enforcement to target convenience stores and low-income areas over tobacconists selling Macanudos.

If you think that the war on some drugs isn’t a good enough reason to impede the purchases of perfectly legal, products you can go to the hearing and speak on September 29th  at 10am in the John A. Wilson building. Supporters and other wrong people can go speak too.

‘Empty Ride’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’

Continuing their established tradition of advance notice, WMATA has just put out a press release detailing the times and locations of the shuttles they’ll be running for people impacted by this weekend’s station closings.

In case you’ve forgotten (or are the board and have not been informed), closings start tonight at 9:30pm and close Pentagon City, Crystal City and Reagan National Airport metro stations.  If you’re going there or are going to try to make it anywhere on the blue or yellow line south of the airport you’re going to want to check this out and verify where and when to grab the shuttles at each particular station.

In a nutshell: if you’re headed down to the southern segment you’ll get off at the Pentagon station.  From there you can grab one of four shuttles proceeding to the following destinations:

1. Braddock Road station
2. Franconia Springfield station
3. Reagan National Airport station
4. Pentagon City station & Crystal City station

If you’re coming from the south it’s a toss-up whether you’re better off going to Franconia or Braddock. If WMATA sticks with their promised every 10-15 minutes for departures during the day that could very well be less of a wait than you sometimes get between trains on the weekend.