Afternoon, Gentle Friends and Family!

I have had a busy day attempting to organize a modest week of activity that in more ordinary times could- oops, BP: 110/66- normally be accomplished with a couple calls or texts before breakfast.

Some of the stuff is differentiated by proximity and chronology. Some is legitimate “old news” masquerading as new, or old becoming new after being covered up so long. I read several notes with names once familiar but with new, lurid claims that I won’t pay attention to unless barrel and cartridge are still warm.

But either may be due to having an oven handy. What’s clear is I am going to have a walk-through of the last remaining one-bedroom apartment at the Trillium Assisted Living Center, a well-appointed posh new building at 1620 Boro Place, in chrome and glass-clad Tysons, VA.

I would not normally have looked out so far, preferring the more granular asphalt closer in, but these are not normal times. The tumult in Big Pink’s Clarendon neighborhood has increased with faire-hoppers at the /Metro since I moved into the grand old place in 2001. The new and better health network around Trillium calls out and the less time driving around in it the better.

This includes rumors of fine dining and other amenities, so I will take the lessons-learned in country living down in Culpeper and attempt to apply them.

The formal tour is hoped to result in an invitation to sign the lease, but that there are a couple thousand as-yet unspecified details that may determine the pace and local of the rest of the week. So, hopefully with a cheery executive demeanor abd cheerful amenities we will move out of out relived Big Pink and attempt insert into Fairfax with a manageable number of dramatics personal appearances.

Those include modest happy hour whiny the current professional gang on Thursday, a majestic Red Tie Luncheon by the Naval Intelligence Professionals at the Army Navy Country Club with a calm retreat held later in the Afternoon at Kilroy’s, a burnished merry brass button on the belt of fun bars in Arlington.

With luck there could be a truckload ot two of assorted goods rolling across town to improve my current incarceration in Alexandria! More on specific elements in that as they occur. So with that announcement, we hope to begin our transition to more dignified circumstances, /or at least ones with more manageable mayhem!

V/R,
JR