<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2021, at 14:40, <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" class="">paulz@ieee.org</a> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydp5e64ab79yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><div class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" class="">Since then I have
been contrasting the pictures on the television with my memories of a
trip in 199?. The first morning, the family wanted to see the White
House. We should have contacted our Representative to get tickets
before hand. With a little effort we were able to get tickets for
that afternoon. Next day, among other places, we toured the Capitol
Building. The only “security†I recall was not being allowed to
take pictures inside the Senate Chamber.</p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I’ve been contrasting them with a trip I took in 1998 whle working on a project for my employer (then a backbone ISP). It was in July, and one of my coworkers said that the only *real* July 4 experience in DC was visiting the “smokeout†zone.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Which…had excellent Rastafarian music and a contact high that went along with. Fireflies in the night. I remember lying there on a blanket, enjoying the music and fireworks.</div><br class=""><div class="">The event is called the Smoke-In, and it has been annual:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://mashable.com/2016/04/19/1970-smoke-in/" class="">https://mashable.com/2016/04/19/1970-smoke-in/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So yeah, rather a different experience than this month for sure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deirdre</div></body></html>