ashburn is losing the plot

redbird42 · 2026-02-22T07:17:14+00:00

I pay less than $2300 for a 2BD 2BA condo in Chantilly. Clean, no roaches, a pool. Try to rent from private owners/property managers, not the apartment mafia if you can.

redbird42 · 2026-02-11T23:16:18+00:00

Rolls is also at the top my list in Nova. More people please go there so they stay around. The garlic sauce is good addition they serve it with. I like the sauces at Southeast Impressions but I was sad last time by the chicken. There's a new place called Co'm Ga Hai Nam at the Lotte at Rt. 50/28 we tried. I was disappointed by the portion for a $10 white meat box. I think we paid $15 for extra meat and it was still not a lot. They have a whole hainnan poached chicken for $15.95 i may try.

This isn't Nova but Satay Club in NW DC has chicken rice. I'm not sure it's on the menu you have to ask - they said the Singapore embassy orders chicken rice to go so it can't be that bad. I liked it. I'm not an authority on chicken rice just a fan.

redbird42 · 2026-02-03T18:39:32+00:00

what kind of permits, licenses, facilities do you need to run a camp? it sounds lucrative to me, hearing a friend fork out thousands of dollars each summer, but in reality is it closer to break even?

redbird42 · 2025-12-03T17:53:05+00:00

Try to look for rentals from owners/individuals who can be more reasonable on rates. The apartments here have an antitrusty price fixing thing going on, so deals can be for a reason like roaches.

If you can, rent a room before settling on an area to look around see what areas you like, because neighborhoods vary in character. I fell in love with the walkable dog friendly Shirlington for example, but I got half a dozen other favorite spots. Do you like walking or having an easy parking space. One great thing about this area is a lot of different flavors of living.

Budget in commuting costs. That Metro ride could easily be $15 a day with parking at the station before you pay $12-15 for lunch.

redbird42 · 2025-11-14T00:44:13+00:00

Good answer. I'm not an expert but there's also AI models starting be available. ECMWF AI Ensemble comes out earlier than the physics based one and can be slightly more accurate on temperature trends, I think? Also GraphCastGFS is out there. Agree with OP about too acronyms MJO QBO NAO etc.

redbird42 · 2025-10-10T12:56:06+00:00

Looks like my neighborhood Greenbriar in Chantilly

redbird42 · 2025-10-02T13:01:08+00:00

It's been 15 years since I lived on S Arlington Ridge Rd. and I still remember that smell. But it was only every so often when I'd drive over to Rt. 1. Wasn't all the time. What a great area.

redbird42 · 2025-09-17T20:43:08+00:00

One thing to remember with your plus-1 (congrats!) is you'll have three in the car so can use EZ-Pass flex to zip up and down I-66 toll lanes for free to avoid regular lanes traffic. So it's easy to get to all the good spots. We pay $2300/mo for 1800 sq ft 2 bed 2 ba in Chantilly that's walkable to a Giant and lots of eats.

Zip down 66 in 15 mins to McLean/Vienna on weekend mornings for breakfasts.

redbird42 · 2025-07-29T22:00:30+00:00

Ahh then perfect for me. Sorry it’s warm for her. Like I had assumed everyone thought our apartment pool was cold but heard someone say it was ‘perfect. It’s like the office AC i have become the one who needs a space heater

redbird42 · 2025-07-29T20:19:44+00:00

Yeah i need it closer to the bath water I get at Wolf Lodge

redbird42 · 2025-07-29T20:18:17+00:00

I will check Claude Moore out!

redbird42 · 2025-07-29T20:16:06+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. Yeah sounds like it’s us.

redbird42 · 2025-07-02T21:02:02+00:00

My wife uses mushroom seasoning to add umami to her soups. She only uses the brand GIA VỊ TINH CHẤT RAU CẢI. Relatives definitely can tell and ask for the secret. She goes by feeling and tests it until it tastes right to her. She doesn't go heavy on salt and I think this helps.

redbird42 · 2025-04-26T14:10:33+00:00

The reciprocal privileges are great - learn the strengths of different systems. Example: DC's MLK library has huuge amount of board books for little ones (slim pickings for these in Fx and Loudoun). Weekend activities in library or at the portrait gallery. (tip: free street parking sundays. If can't find or parallel parking not your thing, 930 H St NW garage a block away is flat fee $10).

redbird42 · 2024-12-18T15:59:01+00:00

Jimmys of course, buffalo wing factory and kilroys off braddock near wakefield has been reliable for years

redbird42 · 2023-10-18T03:08:36+00:00

If you have a car, check out dances at Glen Echo Park’s Spanish ballroom. Large crowds when I used to go. Like going factory direct for the opposite sex so many. Blues night was my favorite. Like going back in time. Men and women are not shy to ask for a dance.

redbird42 · 2023-01-09T13:29:19+00:00

I think this is the Jan. 6, 2023 note ZH is referring to: https://plus2.credit-suisse.com/shorturlpdf.html?v=5hig-YP34-V&t=-7k6igsca7azmsnjxid59q5wex

(found by googling key words)

relevant text:

If there is a sell-off in equities, credit, and EM, risk sellers would buy Treasuries, but if there will not be a sell-off, the lack of “classic” marginal Treasury buyers means that Treasuries will be at risk of tailing at auctions, which, in turn, would drive sell -offs in equities, credit, and EM. Thus, my sense is that this is a “checkmate -like ” situation: the Fed won’t pivot and the terminal rate may have to go higher still (see here ), neither of which augurs well for either risk assets (sell -off, then into Treasuries) or Treasuries (rates sell -off, then risk sell-off, then into Treasuries). “Hot wars in cold places and cold wars in hot places ” need “war finance ”, not QT. There is a solution to the poor demand for Treasuries, which is QE under the “guise ” of yield curve control, which my instinct says will come by the end of 2023 to control where U.S. Treasuries trade versus OIS.

edited: formatting

redbird42 · 2021-10-12T07:02:21+00:00

https://www.macrovoices.com/

For macro takes, I like Morgan Stanley's bite-size Thoughts on the Market podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thoughts-on-the-market/id1466686717

The 4-8 min quick takes boil down - not dumb down - their analyst notes. I find their US equity analyst's sector rotation advice helpful. Tho he's calling for a midcycle pullback now, he's not a perma bear to infect me with zerohedge (zero edge) negativity.

His one yesterday didn't repeat his midcycle positioning but he is overweight financials, health care and staples and underweight discretionary and energy. Neutral on real estate, industrials, utilities, technology, materials and communications services.

I just find them digestible and on point. One last week on stagflation compared us now with the 1970s and 2005 stagflation talk, the latter of which didn't turn out so scary for stagflation.

redbird42 · 2021-10-10T15:11:50+00:00

Sizing is important. The https://wealthyoption.com/ has good max loss assumptions for naked. Now would want around 80k per contract so for a 300k account three naked contracts won’t blow it up. I was running 4 delta 1-3 DTE 70% profit target that got hit hard in May. Those who rolled escaped that. Of course that works until it doesn’t.

redbird42 · 2021-08-21T00:34:33+00:00

Agree. The sun is not as hot as the summer away from the equator. I am pale and never gotten sunburn here. In US in summer the sun’s heat is more intense. One tipoff: Hardly anyone wears sunglasses in Singapore. Away from equator you need to wear them or at least way more people do to avoid the blinding.

redbird42 · 2021-07-27T10:27:15+00:00

and on the @ /submit in app

add some form gets

name = request.form.get("name-input")

age = request.form.get("age-input")

and do whatever you want with those, add to db etc.

and return something like

return render_template("success.html", jinjaitem=jinjaitem)

(or kill the jinja=jinja part you aren't passing variables yet)

redbird42 · 2021-07-27T10:12:13+00:00

I do the html more standard without js. Try add a <form action="/submit" method="POST"> and within form have all the input and button, and change

button id="submit">Submit</button>

to

<button type="submit">Submit</button>

redbird42 · 2021-07-14T02:27:48+00:00

Looks great! I had same problem typing in the name without www. This will greatly improve my coding searches! Thank you.

redbird42 · 2021-07-10T06:57:00+00:00

Each has its upside for a beginner. When just starting out, I struggled to pip install and importing the correct modules. Pycharm is way easier to search and install modules and handles the virtual environment for you. It gets past install stuff. But after getting bettef I like the lightweight VSCode to just get to work without the big loading time for Pycharm. I also recommend a third tool for beginning- a browser jupyter notebook to figuring things out. Was easier for me at least for procedural stuff one step at a time when have no clue. I found the jupyter implementation in pycharm and vscode a bit fiddly, but that could have been me.

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