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Been taking a bit of a break this long weekend, and it’s been nice.  Hope all of you enjoyed your 4th of July celebrations.  The photo above is a Washington Post one, but the view is virtually identical to the one my minivan enjoys from the parking deck at the Concord Coalition every day (including last night)–I just don’t have the camera technology to capture shots like this.  I may have complained here about how Concord practices what they preach (fiscal responsibility), in that I take out my own trash at the office (among other things our staff does on our own where other offices have hired help)–and that it is my first job since Burger King (when I was 15) where I’ve had to take out the trash.  But my parking spot at Concord is a wonderful perk of working at Concord, with what I believe is the most spectacular view around DC for watching the fireworks.  My office doesn’t have the same view, but that’s ok.  When I worked for the Council of Economic Advisers at the end of the Clinton Administration (and first 100 days of the Bush Administration), I would tell my friends and relatives who visited my very grand office in the Old Executive Office Building that yes, this was surely the best office I’d ever have in my career.  But my parking spot at Concord (on a deck in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, VA next to the Iwo Jima memorial) is surely the best parking spot I’ll ever have in my career. 

Happy 4th (belatedly)!