r|trip (soon) ... this week into next week

in the coming 2 weeks ... i'll be reposting, regurgitating, and revisiting blog posts of the past (and maybe with some sprinkles in between of fiber breaks).

this is a bit of another cross-post after catching-up with a friend back in MD this morn (via fbook) about my little vacation last year around mid-october (less than a month after starting my job in cuebopolis).

... i anchored my northeast trip by visiting my friend (on the left) in northampton, MA, a few days before and a few days after sandwiching my visit to/stay in montepelier, VT, to hang with billn & jenm & sr, & jr ... and the turning (and already turned) leaves. last year's posts ...

• prepping for my trip (w/my new nano)
• drive up from ma to vt
• winding road drive back from vt to ma
• heading back home for a little more fun
  

this upcoming visit back east ... i'll be heading to boston, MA, for a weekend trip. victim of my stay-over? silver lining whom i've not seen for quite a spell (perhaps since when i was still in SD, actually).

meet silver lining ...
a la post-pedi with the black flip-flops.

r|psa: oh behave, already

last week ... you likely have heard about the scandal at the interior department ... from the l.a. times, this article. and a few tidbits from the article:

"Employees of an Interior Department group had sex with industry contacts, accepted gifts and used drugs, investigators say.
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It involved more than a dozen current and former employees of an arm of the Minerals Management Service, which takes in more than $8 billion a year in royalty revenue from the leases and is the U.S. government's largest nontax source of revenue.
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Among the allegations (... go to the article for the bullet list - unbelievable)
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(excerpt from bulleted item #2) One employee said she didn't disclose the contact or consider it improper because "she did not consider a 'one-night stand' to be a personal relationship" and didn't think it would affect government business. (note to silver lining - yet another definition of a "sexual relationship" - or not)
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Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said he would hold a hearing on the matter next week. (checked the committee issues over here; nothing yet)
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Lawmakers immediately condemned the "hanky panky" at the agency."
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and then in the second to the last sentence closing this article, for whatever reason, i find this precious ...

Environmental groups said the reports raise questions about whether Congress should allow more offshore drilling.

(snicker) offshore drilling. (snicker)