Oh my god. Sick. They're all sick.

Gulf of My Favorite James Taylor Song

She should get roses every day, and you mortals know it.

Then we got a drink and did what everyone here's doing this week -- shared stories about all the shitshows and insane fires at various fed workplaces right now.

Fun loot (I wore my original 2004 Vote for Pedro pin).

Also: Bobba, Coristine and Shaotran haven't graduated from college yet. I don't know any civil servants who could qualify for their job without a college degree or 3-5 years of equivalent experience.

Biden's head of OPM has been calling Trump out to several news orgs, which is exactly who I want to hear from. Cabinet randos have no idea what's going on with the civil service.

Oh, c'mon. The Wash. Post Fact Focused his first week, his inaugural speech, called out his Davos b.s., etc. -- all stories published this week. NYT also fact-checked his speech, and called Patel a liar. (Well, it's NYT, so they said "demonstrably spurious claims.") And so on.

Whaaaaat! I knew about the hotel (we thought about staying there), but not that it reopened the Belvedere. I'll have to see if the gang will go; they've become hardcore Pocahontas fans in the wake of B.'s closure.