<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>