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The More Things Change
Waiting and Waiting
A little over four years ago, I wrote what I think was my first “popular” post – insofar as it got picked up by a couple of local blog aggregators. It was called “Rockin’ the Red, Restroom-Style” and was most notable for the photo above of an immensely long line before overtime in a Caps playoff game. A playoff game that the Caps ultimately lost.
(Sound familiar?)
If you’re thinking it sounds like last night, minus a couple of overtimes, that’s correct.
Right down to the line for the restroom:
The men’s room line before OT2.
Of course, I now know that a single overtime game is nothing. Nothing at all. I mean, last night’s game clocked in just about five minutes short of being two whole games. It was exhausting to watch; I don’t know how any of the players on either team will ever move again.But they will, because unlike four years ago, last night was only game three, so the Caps playoff hopes continue for this year.
Let’s Go Caps!
Wayback Wednesday: Siblings in the City
Today’s picture – of me with my sister and brother back before I moved to DC – is in honor of the fact that tonight, for the first time in years, I’m going to a Caps game with both of my siblings. Back in the day, after both Jen (Brian’s now-wife) and I had moved to DC/NoVa, we used to buy the family four-pack tickets and sit way up high, with our free hotdogs and screaming eagle caps, in a fairly empty arena. Eileen moved away five or six years ago, and she’s only been back for a game a few times in the “Rock the Red” era, but never for the playoffs. I can pretty much guarantee that the atmosphere tonight will be 100% the opposite of our family four-pack days. (Go Caps!)
Anyway, I am not 100% sure when this picture was taken – it’s either 1996 or 1997, in November, because my then-roommate Shannon and I came down for Veteran’s Day weekend for a couple of years before I moved here, which I did in February 1998.
Me, Eileen, and Brian near the Washington Monument, November 1997. (Or maybe 1996.)
