mdguy's blog post - Weekender Blog

So, how did I spend my weekend?

Saturday: napped, did fuck all. I liked it.

Sunday:
1) Went and got my most expensive medication, and pleasantly surprised by how much I actually had to pay. But there was a dark cloud to this silver lining: I will have to claim the out of pocket expense for it with my "flexible spending" money. Grrr. A trade off;
2) After that, I went downtown and saw two things. I will mention the second place first: the Museum of Natural History. It had been such a long, LONG time since I'd been. It was NOT the mouldy, oldish museum I had been to countless times as a kid. They completely updated and modernised a lot of exhibits, and it was really nice to visit. (No, Ben Stiller wasn't there.)

The first place I went to, however, was the National Archives (one block away). I had read that they were to ban all photography in March of this year, so remember at the last minute, I decided to go. (The reason they were banning all photography is that the founding documents they have, the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, as well as the Bill of Rights, were being damaged by dumbasses who don't turn off their flashes; non-flash photography is still allowed.)

I hadn't been there in more than a decade, and it was nicer than I remember, if dimmer (they renovated about ten years ago, and made the main rotunda much darker, with better display cases).

One thing annoyed me, though. As I was looking at the Constitution, this woman (with her son) kept calling it the Declaration of Independence. *sigh* Her son, thankfully, knew the difference. He couldn't have been older than eight or nine.

I took this photo (gussied up with Photoshop, but it's my photo).



It was a good day. Now on to the week.

Thanks for reading.