RSS FeedPenn Quarter Breakfast Meeting On Thur, Jan 23 (Speaker: O’Dell, Events DC)
By e-mail we were notified of the next Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association breakfast meeting. RSVP by Noon Tuesday, January 21 is requested. Please indicate if you heard of this meeting from Penn Quarter Living:
Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association Breakfast Meeting
Thursday, January 23, 8:30 amLocation
Carnegie Library
801 K Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Pl-Chinatown, exit 7th and H streets or Mt Vernon Sq/7th St – Convention CtrAgenda
Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 8:55 am
Announcements 9:00 am
Speaker 9:15 amSpeaker
Greg O’Dell – President and CEO, Events DC
There Is Not A Moment To Be Lost!
Fans of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series (aka Master & Commander) will recognize the famous words often spoke by Jack Aubrey (and less often by numerous other characters) throughout the popular books. Many of us rather than reading those words, might hear Simon Vance speaking them aloud, if you’ve listened to the Blackstone Audio series instead.
We started the series in print, but after a couple of books switched to the Vance read audiobooks and have never looked back. We also didn’t pay a penny for the privilege (DC taxes aside) because both the majority of the books and audiobooks are available at the DC Public Library (901 G ST NW).
We’ve mentioned the library’s download options many times, initially not available on Apple devices, then limited availability on all devices, and now a reasonably large collection on a variety of formats. We use our iPhone and have listened to almost the entire Aubrey/Maturin series over the last couple of years. Near the end of the series DC’s OverDrive was missing two books in a row (“The Wine-Dark Seas” and “The Commodore”) and we had to seek those elsewhere (Worcester County, MD public library).
We’ve used the DC system for more than just this Master & Commander series, however, listening to a wide range of books from classics, to mysteries like the Nero Wolfe series, period pieces such as Stone’s Fall, westerns, sci-fi, ghost stories, etc.
Audiobooks are not for everyone, but if you are interested and not aware, the DC Library has an enviable collection available to library patrons free of charge.
Cozy Cups: Poste
The frigid temps provided the perfect excuse to pop over to a neighborhood favorite, Poste (555 8th St. NW), and try some of their warm beverages. I highly recommend either the house made hot apple cider with calvados or the mulled wine. Just the thing to take the bite out of the cold night air.
PAUL Revered
We thought we would be writing a post about the newest PAUL location in Penn Quarter when we saw this sign the F Street side of Columbia Square (555 13 St NW). When we came home to write up the post however, we discovered that PoPville was way ahead of us, having blogged about this sign back in July of 2013 (we really need to get out more on F Street, apparently).
So our “look what’s coming to our neighborhood!” post has become a “what’s taking PAUL so long to open this location?” post. PAUL didn’t end up being all we had hoped when they opened their first DC location by the Navy Memorial (801 Pennsylvania Ave NW), but it is a good fit for the space and we’re happy they are in that spot. This Columbia Square location seems like a good fit as well, but since we’re not on F Street often we don’t know if there has been activity in the space to work towards an opening.
Right now there is no mention of the location on the PAUL website, but we’ll contact the corporate office to see if we can get an update on the opening.