Weekend as a lock in

Didn't do much..

Cooked a delish cassoulete for dinner for the week. The use of a whole chicken will make it last for a week if not more...

discovered that there are limited funds in the bank... DAMN SEASON TICKETS.. it's tough, after a year at a job where you are paid $4000 less a year....than your previous job and with more expenses due to driving 22 one way five days a week..

soon i will be in Chicago, living off a per diem...
YEAH! note the sarcasm...

the pic is of Josh at our wedding (the Nif and mighty!)

I lied actually, made if out early saturday to have a lite lunch with Mella at Matchobx (yum)..... On my way back home I spied DC blogger Jimbo crossing the street in Chinatown....i only know him from the photos he posts, on his site, of himself.... can't say i have ever talked to him online or in reality.... of course it might not be him at all... and just some bearded dude that looks awfuly similar to the doode in the pictures on Jimbo's bloggggggggg

Crocodile Watermelon

Introducing Ninjamonkey300 Video.

Check it before it is banned!!!!

meeting of the striped shirt collective

All is well in Croatia!!

Been a while

here is a chicago deep dish pizza for you......
... and iggy...


and more iggy


thats a lot... can you handle it?

Practice what you TALK! JACK!

"The time is to stop talking and get things done!"
- Jack Evans, at the Stead Park announcement (as seen on the NBC 4 morning news cast 5/24/08)


TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK

How about the 9th Street Corridor?
SHot Spotter (editor's note: I don't agree with shot spotter, but if my neighbors feel safer with it in Shaw than I won't push for no shot spotter.)
O Street Market?

Name that stain!! The Hotel Edition...

These were found in one of the most expensive hotels in America, the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN. Probably the worst hotel chain I have ever stayed in.

So I ask you my loyal NINjamonkey's, what is the stain?

Happy Birthday in Korean

Kim was Korean, straight from Korea. His english was limited, I'd find him some times downstairs with the Korean Moonie who ran the lobby shop. CHips, sodas, klondike bars, and my favorite Mike & Ike's. Just talking in Korean, both looking miserable and lonely, the shopkeeper always looking bored.........
Sharlleen was my direct super, Duke graduate, so we had North Carolina in common. She was younger than me but was not naive to the Bossman's ways. She tried to warn me as best she could:

"He doesn't understand technical terms, so when possible use technical sounding terms so as to confuse and silence him. You'll be set if you do."

The Bossman liked to be as spontaneaous as he thought he could, never plannning to leave at a certain time, meetings never planned, everything just as last minute as possible.

This one morning, a birthday morning, probably my second or third week there , he hatched a plan to help celebrate Sharlleen's birthday. This morning he called Kim and I to his office.

I think it would a good idea if we sing happy birthday to Sharlleen. In Korean!

After a few minutes of convincing KIm, using various tones of

"The song you sing on someone's birthday????!! on the day someone was born"

Questioning ourselves whether or not he understood what we were trying to say.........Kim taught us the song you sing to those on the anniversary of their birth. Then on the bosses lead we burst into Sharlleen's office, one over eager spontaneous guy, one confused Korean and one embarrassed new hire, singing a half assed version of Happy bIRTHDAY IN Korean..
Asweome..

some names have been changed to protect the unwilling participants!

Edited Madness

I posted a really ugly rant about out part time councilman (JACK EVANS if you didn't know works for a lobbyist), our ignorant neighbors, the idiot children and adults with guns and other stupid idiotic crap that infests our lovely neighborhood. Problem is, I was not in a proper state of mind....so when I awoke the next morning at 6 I immediately erased the post. My apologies to all those who thought they were going to read a post about jack evans other job as a whore's vulva.

Apologies!

HUH!!!??!?

What???