Texas Boy in a DC World
Texas Boy in a DC World

Texas Boy in a DC World

The adventure of moving from Houston, Texas to Washington, DC, and all the shenanigans that take place!


Return to Work

11 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95 $0.20

Today was my first day back to work since last Monday when I was informed my roommate had tested positive for COVID. Since I had been out of town and had only been back in town for ~12 hours when it was discovered I have been staying at a hotel room...

Stir-crazy

4 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Cje95 $0.01

Today is the beginning of a tense few days here in the Capitol. According to the last reports we, DC staffers, received today through the 6th are all possible days for a protest/attempted occupation of the Capitol again. While I am not overly concern...

New U.S. Capitol Threat Puts Capitol Hill on Edge

4 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Cje95 $0.10

Yesterday I wrote a post about what the Sergeant at Arms had sent out to the staff about possible security issues tomorrow due to the QAnon belief of March 4th is the "true Inauguration Day". Well after being told that the chatter among the far-right...

Security Situation in the Capitol on March 4th

3 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Cje95 $0.12

With March 4th rapidly approaching the Acting Sergent at Arms for Congress has sent out an alert to all Members and their staffers. Given the rioting that occurred at the Capitol on January 6th the thought of further QAnon protests occurring is rathe...

Quarantine

2 Mar 2021 1 minute read 5 comments Cje95 $0.17

Well.... Life done hit me upside the head today sadly! Last week my roommate's dad tested positive for COVID a few days after my roommate came back to DC. I then left a couple of days later and while I was done he began to feel bad but not really COV...

Just Hold on We're Going Home

25 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Cje95 $0.14

After leaving my friends, family, and the state I had ever known at the end of last year I am finally able to get time off and head back home. When I first moved to DC I had not yet secured a job however I had a ton of opportunities lined up. January...

The Rumor of March 4th Washington DC Riots

20 Feb 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95 $0.08

Since the beginning of the month, it has been known that at least 5,000 National Guard soldiers would stay in Washington, DC until the end of March at a minimum. It has only been recently that the reasoning for that has started to make itself public...

Wacky Weather: DC Warmer than Texas and Michigan!

16 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95 $0.27

The last 24 hours or so I have been shocked by my mom. I have received several photos of my baby boy Rusty, he's my dog but has been there for me since my second severe TBI, walking in the snow! My parents live outside of Houston, Texas and the chanc...

Blue Origin Suffers a Huge Loss and SpaceX Putting 120 New Satellites in Orbit

15 Feb 2021 1 minute read 8 comments Cje95 $0.59

Blue Origin, the company founded and funded to a tune of $1 billion a year by Jeff Bezos alone, suffered a pretty significant setback at the end of last year that I do not think a lot of people where likely aware of. Back when The Air Force was in co...

Security?

13 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Cje95 $0.12

Yesterday for lunch I went on a walk around the Capitol for the first time since all of the walls went up around it. For those of you who do not know there are now two layers of unscalable fencing surrounding the area. The first wall or line of it wa...