The adventure of moving from Houston, Texas to Washington, DC, and all the shenanigans that take place!
26 Nov 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Cje95 $0.22
This is from last Thursday and I guess I just forgot to hit post and lost it in my tabs. Anyway I wanted to share since it was a pretty wild thing that was rapidly sensationalized and made to be a much bigger thing than it turned out to be. Yeste...
14 Nov 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Cje95 $0.27
WHOOP WHOOPPPPP with the deal passed signed and delivered the paychecks are on there way for House employees! It is going to be funny to see two months of pay hit in back to back weeks hahaha. Guess that comes with the territory of only being paid on...
12 Nov 2025 2 minute read 3 comments Cje95 $0.43
For years now the calls to get rid of the Penny have been growing louder and louder but since Congress failed to pass legislation to phase out the Penny it kept on grinding along. That was until early this year when the Trump Admin announced that the...
29 Oct 2025 2 minute read 16 comments Cje95 $0.53
While I have talked about the government shutting down first time was in March, which we avoided, and now with our current shut down what has unfolded is beyond what I ever imagined. If you were going to tell me last month that we were gearing up for...
24 Oct 2025 3 minute read 5 comments Cje95 $0.19
This morning while I was reading emails at work I noticed that Speaker Johnson was on Squawk Box this morning. Given that ya know I am still coming to work and not getting paid I unmuted the TV to see what he had to say about what was going on and po...
21 Oct 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Cje95 $0.17
Prior to the government shutdown the clean continuing resolution (CR) that the House passed was only going to extend funding for an additional 7 weeks. Well now we are 3 weeks in to those 7 weeks and talks for the full year spending bills have ground...
16 Oct 2025 4 minute read 1 comment Cje95 $0.37
We are now two weeks into the Government shutdown and as someone working in DC on The Hill I do not see an end in sight. At the moment Senate Democrats, who have dug in their heels, no longer have an off ramp that in previous shutdowns has been aro...
7 Oct 2025 6 minute read 2 comments Cje95 $0.44
This was a post I had written and posted last Tuesday on SN and it provides some key insights into what is going on right now with the US Government. I have to admit yesterdays White House meeting was much less eventful than I figured it would be...
1 Feb 2025 3 minute read 2 comments Cje95 $0.25
I wrote this a couple of days ago when I was trying to process the tragic midair collision at DCA. In all honesty I am still dealing with trying to mentally hash it out. Being a frequent flyer into DCA at night.... typically landing between 9 and 10...
7 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Cje95 $0.13
Federal Office Closures I am sure this is going to drive some people crazy but like the title says the Office of Personal Management or OPM last night announced that Federal Offices would be closed today. Well they said that "maximum telework was in...
