After waiting all afternoon for the heater guys to show up and view/test/fix the fan heater unit, they tell me they’re not coming until tomorrow. Even after I talked to the dispatch at 1:30 and they said he was finishing up at a site and would be right over. I’ve had cabin fever all day but couldn’t leave because they said they were coming over and now I’m pissed. Actually I was pissed off earlier because of Facebook’s software update (which created just as many new bugs as it fixed) and this just sent me over the edge.

I’ve got to get out.

I can’t walk north for too far because after H St it becomes ghettoland (and also murderville); south is too familiar and short and eventually ghettoland, too; east becomes freeways & rivers); so it’s west I go. Again.

I figured I’d walk to Union Station and back, maybe come back down on H (if it’s not too dark) or maybe see if they’ve blocked off the entire Mall for quarantine yet, which I’m sure they have so I avoid that route.

When I get to Union Station though, I keep walking up Mass Ave. The next thing I know I’m crossing the 395 underground freeway, the convention center, Thomas Circle and Scott Circle. Dupont’s next. I figure I’ll hop on the D6 and ride it back but when I get there I realize it’s rush hour (for those employed folk) and I could probably walk home quicker than it would take to take the bus through downtown. 

So I spin a loop about the Circle and head back down Mass, headed back east. Once I get back to Union Station I’m really starting to feel my legs getting tired and my feet too.

All-in-all it was a pretty quick walk, quicker than I thought it would be: the roundtrip taking about 2.5 hours. I think the bitter cold kept me going at a pretty good pace. Distance: 7.25 miles.