Citizens UNinvolved

As promised my guest blogger, sparow, and I went to the Citizens Involved meeting Wednesday. And, just as I had thought this meeting was utterly pointless. Somehow more pointless than the first meeting we attended. Ms. York was very happy to trot out her little guest speakers. The same guy from the Public Service Commission came back for what I'm sure he thought would be another round of bashing—this time with back up however. It should be noted that one person in attendance attempted to ask a question of the speaker from the PSC. However, no sooner had the gentleman opened his mouth than he was rudely interrupted by Ms. York who stated that all questions will he held till after the speakers had finished. This man then walked out of the meeting in disgust. Ms. York: would you kindly inform me and the readers of this blog how in the hell you expect any citizen to be involved if you do not allow them to question your speakers?

Again, Ms York proved her inability to run a meeting when, instead of informing speakers that they had exceeded the time provided them, she allowed them to go on with their spiels while sitting back and beaming at them like a proud little puppy. (Jesus woman you drafted the damned agenda!) Oh yes and these speakers....why was a State rep that DOES NOT REPRESENT THIS DISTRICT even invited?? Much less allowed to droll on about how great he is for 45 minutes? Ms York was very proud of him though. She was quite the proud little puppy.

In closing, I can only determine that this Citizens Involved group is utterly pointless and will accomplish nothing. This really is too bad as they could be very helpful to East County. They will not be though...at least not with Ms. York at the helm.

With that I turn this post over to my guest blogger , SPAROW for her insight.

Guest Blogger and DBTR Kicks M$ to the curb

Okay, so many things to cover so little time. First there's the Down Town SS Photo Walk, the Fourth of July, my new guest blogger.....damn!! Okay, for starters, Dan of JUTP pointed something out to me today at the aforementioned photo walk (great thing more later). It seems that this part of East County is more or less the bastard child of MoCo. A lot goes on up here but for some reason it's like this part of the county doesn't exist in the minds of those in Rockville. That said, I have realized that I owe the few people that read this blog updates on life, news, whatever in east county. To that end, my fiance Sparow, of www.suburbangard.blogspot.com has kindly asked to be a guest blogger here on Down by the River. This is good as I have less time lately to devote to this than I like. She is also my editor because as some noted today, I can't spell. I am glad to have her here and feel that her insight and feelings on all things East County will benefit this blog (and I hope the few people that read it) well.

That said, I will post more on the Photo Walk later. Tomorrow I hope. I would also like to note that this post comes to you from Ubuntu Linux. Yes, I'm a geek. I have kicked Microsoft to the curb. It's a very liberating feeling. You should try it. As always, please leave your comments.

Happy Fourth Of July!!

Steve

Oops

Thanks to my fiancée I have corrected my blog profile. She mentioned that for some unknown reason I was listed as a girl. This led to a rather interesting discussion that I will not share all of — but let it be said that I am not a girl.

WOW glad that's fixed. In other news, not that anyone is yet reading this blog nor gives a shit, I have a new job. This will, I hope, afford me more time to blog.

Okay more to come as I am trying to come up with a witty topic. I will possibly address crime in east county later today. Please check back and tell your friends (assuming you have any) to check out my blog.

Peace out for now

All about this blog

HI There:

Somehow you found this blog. Whether by actively searching for blogs or while randomly typing different URL's into your browser while in a drunken stupor it matters not, YOU ARE HERE.

This is my blog. First, a bit about me. I'm 22. I live near the Burtonsville-Silver Spring line (ok, that would imply that Silver Spring is an incorporated city. It is not. However if you are in the least bit familiar with eastern Montgomery County (AKA East County) you know the area I'm talking about.) I hope that I am able to use this a a bit of a "fill in" blog...for lack of a better term...for this rather forgotten area of east county. While others (namely Just Up the Pike) do a wonderful job of covering this area, I felt that the perspective of someone living in the RT29/Briggs Chaney Road area is missing and, thus, needed. This blog will ( I hope) cover a myriad of topics from crime (a topic all to familiar to this area it seems) to politics to development to the ICC to totally off-topic rants by me (mainly about traffic). I hope you read it, enjoy it, and please email me or post here if I've said something totally off the mark. This is my first blog so I will try to update it as often as possible, but there will be times that I am trying to come up with something witty to say or times that I am just too damned busy to mess with it.

Anyway please check back often and feel free to leave tips, words of encouragement, suggestions, etc.