No, I have not taken up yoga and will not proceed to spend all of my time extolling the virtues of Bikram vs. Ashtanga.  Nope, not going that way.  Rather, I’d like to use this entry to explain about a place I visited that might look familiar:

This is the obelisk George Washington toiled to build with his bear hands, until he died and they buried him under it.  No, that is totally false.  But this is the man’s monument and like most of Washington contains lots of information that make olde George sound like a combination between Bruce Willis and the Jimmy Stewart character in “It’s A Wonderful Life.”  I mean Bruce Willis in the Die Hard movies.  Not the actual guy.  Both made up of course.  Anyway, so there is a lot of Washington stuff on the inside of the big stick.  And some great views from it onto the outside: