What I've learned since moving to D.C. (some of which should be obvious): 0133

6601.  Your imagination is the source of all that has yet to manifest for you.  By staying only with what your senses tell you is your reality, you place a barrier to letting your imagination create all that you wish, all that you desire.  Your imagination is unlimited.  What is today, is restricted by just that: what is today;

6602.  Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere.  Your logic, that is, the facts that you’ve accepted as true, have gotten you to point B.  Now you’re going to reprogram your imagination to take you everywhere, everywhere that you are brave enough to envision for yourself;

6603.  Elizabeth likes to be kissed/licked/bit/touched on her lower back;

6604.  Jon Bon Jovi has very white teeth;

6605.  Bon Jovi had a lot of hits;

6606.  The average employee attends 62 meetings per month;

6607.  An executive spends 23 hours per week (on average) in meetings;

6608.  An executive spends 34 percent of his/her time in poorly run meetings.  That equals 2 months of productivity down the drain;

6609.  Failure is an illusion.  No one ever fails at anything.  Everything you do produces a result.  If you’re trying to learn how to catch a football and someone throws it to you and you drop it, you haven’t failed.  You simply produced a result.  The real question is what you do with the results that you produce.  Do you leave and moan about being a football failure or do you say, “Throw it again,” until ultimately you’re catching footballs?

6610.  Failure is a judgment.  It’s just an opinion.  It comes from your fears, which can be eliminated by love, love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others and love for your planet.  When you have love within you, fear cannot survive;

6611.  When you love and respect yourself, someone’s disapproval is not something you fear and avoid;

6612.  Amazon lets you bring your dog to work;

6613.  Intellectual Ventures wrote “Modernist Cuisine: The Art & Science of Cooking;”

6614.  Moz lets you bring your dog to work too;

6615.  Candy walls at work are a thing.  (Just) ask Moz and Zillow (Group);

6616.  Merchant’s Café (& Saloon) (MerchantsCafeAndSaloon.com) is Seattle’s oldest bar/saloon;

6617.  Glass containing manganese will (eventually) turn purple after being exposed to enough sunlight (i.e., ultraviolet light);

6618.  At one point, brothels accounted for 87% of Seattle’s (city) revenue over a nine-year period;

6619.  Back in the day, prostitutes in Seattle had to pay a $10.00 monthly “entertainment tax” at a time when the average lumberjack made $20.00 a month and the average prostitute made $400.00 a month;

6620.  They give out free bananas (to anyone) at Amazon’s “Community Banana Stand” at their headquarters in Seattle;

6621.  Apparently, seagulls eat/like French fries (specifically the seagulls by “Ivar’s Fish Bar” on the waterfront in Downtown Seattle);

6622.  Buying items at an “Amazon Go” store (kind of) feels like shoplifting;

6623.  Sous vide steak is very flavorful and tasty;

6624.  The (sous vide, )flat iron steak (with salsa Verde, asparagus & potatoes) at “Amazon Go” is really good;

6625.  The spicy goat taco at Mezcaleria Oaxaca in Seattle reminds me of an Arby’s roast beef (sandwich);

6626.  The Mole’ Negro (i.e., black mole’ with pork ribs, chicken or skirt steak served with white rice & corn tortillas) at Mezcaleria Oaxaca (in Seattle) is really tasty;

6627.  Only in Seattle, will a (perfect) stranger, walking down the street, offer you to try her ice cream (and spoon-feed you too);

6628.  The Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Seattle maybe the nicest Starbucks in the world;

6629.  Starbucks’s “Nitro Milk” (actually) doesn’t upset my stomach;

6630.  Apparently, it takes about 3 hours for an edible to kick in;

6631.  Food is more pronounced while “under the influence;”

6632.  I hate time dilation;

6633.  I had the longest 30-minute dinner at Poppy (PoppySeattle.com) (in Seattle);

6634.  I don’t understand the appeal of marijuana;

6635.  The color in scallops is affected by gender.  Male scallops are grayish white, while female scallops can take on a rosy coral hue when spawning. . . . Who knew?

6636.  Pat Sajak has been a (Washington) Capitals season ticket holder for thirteen years/seasons;

6637.  I can say I’ve been to a Stanley Cup Finals game;

6638.  I’ve watched a hockey game with “Wonder Woman” (i.e., Lynda Carter);

6639.  I’ve watched a hockey game with Bradley Beal (of the Washington Wizards) too;

6640.  I can say I was at the (Washington) Capitals’ first home win ever in the Stanley Cup Finals;

6641.  Apparently, you can apply wax with a paint roller. . . . Who knew?

6642.  Your beliefs create your reality.  What you believe plays out in your outer reality;

6643.  Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate;

6644.  I can (finally) say I’ve watched the (Washington) Capitals win a Stanley Cup (championship);

6645.  (As of June 8^th, 2018,) the (Washington) Capitals have played 3,701 games(, including the regular season and the playoffs,) in franchise history;

6646.  (Since joining the NHL in 1974-75,) the (Washington) Capitals have played 3,701 games(, including the regular season and the playoffs,) in franchise history;

6647.  You should say “thank you” when someone cooks you dinner;

6648.  You should (also) say it’s (i.e., dinner) “good” (when it is);

6649.  Alexander Ovechkin is (now) the second-oldest player on the (Washington) Capitals(‘ roster) behind (defenseman) Brooks Orpik;
6650.  Jay Beagle (of the Washington Capitals) is the only player to win a championship in the ECHL, AHL and NHL;