It is 83 degrees yesterday at The Trillium, home of “Vibrant Senior Living” in the posh new building that looks down on what was Farmer Tyson’s Corner. Miles had Boomrs, Zoomers and Tweeners down on the benches greeting residents and their visitors with Springtime cheer.

Concierge Christian and Old Jim were on patrol around the group. Christian does not carry a instrument of authority, though we suspect there may be something in his big black podium near the transient sedan parking near the main entrance sliding doors. Old Jim just waves a stout stick he claims is from Yellowstone a long time ago. It is richly burnished with the oils from his hands and the residue from his encounters down through the years.

Topic of conversation was naturally about the war overseas that may be nearing some sort of conclusion. The Domestic partisan landscape has one of the parties incongruously supporting the Mullahs in the interest of securing victory in the coming Mid-Term elections, which leaves some of who were stalwarts of the Worker’s Party now refusing to vote Commie. We all worked to overthrow the Soviets and according to recent polling, see no reason to welcome their children’s current lunacy here.

That is how we got around to something that startled all of us who at one time or another worked in that massive five-sided building over in Arlington by the River they say is not running in raw sewage like it was last week. It was a story about an incident just across the Shirley Highway from the Pentagon, next to the Amazon HQ2. There are plans for a remarkable spiral-shaped replacement, but that project is reportedly on hold to see how people will navigate the upward spiral.

This story was enough to startle all of us except the Interns who actually walk in our Fifteen Minute Counties:

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