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I only had two real revelations today, and only one is about DC.
Any building you might want to go into, as a tourist, requires a full security screening. Metal detectors. No knives.
Of course, I carry knives and other sharp things as standard operating procedure. Carrying a knife around a post-9/11 DC roughly 30 hours before we got to war with Iraq... is kind of dumb. I'm an idiot. In my defense, I was going to the Library of Congress. The only 'what has he got in his pocketses' concern I'm used to is magnetic media that would set off the theft prevention in the Spokane libraries.
So today had a very poor walking/tourism ratio. But I did get a surprise present for someone... and if you're worried I'm talking about you, I'm not.
- I am an idiot.
- DC is like a giant airport.
Any building you might want to go into, as a tourist, requires a full security screening. Metal detectors. No knives.
Of course, I carry knives and other sharp things as standard operating procedure. Carrying a knife around a post-9/11 DC roughly 30 hours before we got to war with Iraq... is kind of dumb. I'm an idiot. In my defense, I was going to the Library of Congress. The only 'what has he got in his pocketses' concern I'm used to is magnetic media that would set off the theft prevention in the Spokane libraries.
So today had a very poor walking/tourism ratio. But I did get a surprise present for someone... and if you're worried I'm talking about you, I'm not.
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